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Dexter Merschbrock

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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 16h
Still time to do the right thing and use your weight to kill the jail bond scam
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 16h
You see, we simply can’t not put the 100 million tons of manure produced by factory farms in Iowa directly on our land to run off into the water every year. There’s nowhere else to put it!
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Iowa Association of Railroad Passengers @iowarail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s a beautiful day to talk about trains.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Likely scam
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Asked Claude about US history. Turns out rich people controlling the government isn’t a new thing.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
First question in the Iowa Press Secretary of Agriculture debate is about water quality of course. Monsanto Mike Naig definitely has his finger on the pulse.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“We all know the problems in our country. Greedy corporations and their millionaire CEOs are behind the healthcare industry, oil industry, and banking industry. In Iowa, it’s the big agribusiness polluting our water and t our farmers. Out of state landowners…”@theswinerepublic.bsky.social
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Isnt this result with this sample basically in line with all the other recent results that have the R+10 samples? We basically know Sand is roughly 5% ahead of Turek and depending on how much of the Trump 24 electorate turns out and votes Republican determines the final margins.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My wife is a teacher and I’m a letter carrier. We both love our jobs and feel adequately compensated for the most part, but we also both have endless stories of how difficult providing service to 100% of the population is. Not the same as what private business is doing In my view.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So close
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With enough money you can just buy luck
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not sure who this is worse for
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Served on school board with a Hall of Fame Democrat in Linn County and I unfortunately had to tell her that complying with the letter of the law while in blatant contradiction to the spirit of the law was not something to be proud of.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Totally legal so long as they don’t say explicitly “you should vote for this” - but obviously corrupt in my view
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dead children: 😴😴😴😴 Upper middle class white people saving $500 less for retirement this year: 😡😡😡😡😡
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is literally why we should defund the police
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So thankful for these brave officers for arresting this woman
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s better and truer not unequivocally good and true
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump led all the other polls and all the ratings forecasters had Trump winning. Sand is going to lead every poll and all the ratings forecasters are going to have him winning.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The liberal base that has been turning out and losing in Iowa for the last ten years is not gonna stay home when Donald Trump is President and they finally have a chance to back a winner. And no one has a higher favorability rating with Iowa independents than Rob Sand.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Both every poll and past electoral results suggest there’s something different about Sand and his connection to the Iowa electorate
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not sure this analysis will hold up
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not great for Iranians either
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah when you think about it kids always have something new to say so talking is a lot of fun. Me? I havent had anything new to say for 8 years, probably closer to 18. No one wants to talk to me lol
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tbf the Democrats in Iowa are also running on it
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
(To the tune of “Respect”) R-O-B-S-A-N-D
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Only way to recover from the terrible Rob Sand and Josh Turek anti-trans rhetoric is for Chris Jones and Nate Willems to promote inclusivity in promoting new farmers and equal rights pursued through the Attorney General’s office
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Maybe I’m just too dumb to know better, but it seems super corrupt for a local government to be like “we HAVE to spend $100+ million dollars on fancy new buildings” and then right before the vote spend all their time doing videos of problems that supposedly prove it’s necessary
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Forgot I had this
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have covered this topic in my reporting
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m tired of having the anti-trans agenda shoved down my throat
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“I don’t blame the farmers. I blame Mike Naig.” Drop this line next time the media tries to play the blame the farmers card @theswinerepublic.bsky.social
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Alternatively a popular movement could take control of the Iowa Legislature in 2028 and force Governor Sand to do something meaningful asap
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Crews installing t mobile fiber in Cedar Rapids are obviously worried about it as well, they keep hitting the gas lines
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A million repeats of the line “an endless war in Iran” coming out of her stupid mouth
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
LIAR
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don’t worry, our chickens are fine and before you know it they will come home to roost ☺️
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every other issue is downstream of this
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Attention locals: area jail boosters are attempting to rebrand them as “public safety infrastructure“….
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Precious content 🙏🏻
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New post by Julia Rendon: Iowans deserve answers on the Joey Norris case Attorney General Brenna Bird should drop the charges against Joey Norris and explain why her office pursued this flimsy case. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/09/09/i...
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Iowans deserve answers on the Joey Norris case
Julia Rendon: Attorney General Brenna Bird should drop the charges against Joey Norris and explain why her office pursued this flimsy case.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Letter carriers are required to take obvious short cuts to save time when it is safe to do so
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They just want to win and feel good
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don’t use diesel at all so I havent noticed
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Need more pro criminal propaganda. Have to be countless examples of people committing violent or harmful crime of some kind and later providing invaluable service to humanity. Not that providing service to humanity has to be the condition, but people love a good story.
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vote person not party
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vote person not party
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Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Our workers”
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