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Jen Sinkler (she/her)

@jensinkler.bsky.social
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Make art, make change. Queer, neurodivergent. Writer, creative director at Progress Iowa. (Views mine.) For, in, and from Iowa. Formerly Philly, MN, & forever women’s rugby.🌎🌍🌏🌈

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Progress Iowa @progressiowa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“What good is abundance if it poisons our neighbors? What good is winning politically if we cannot hand our children a glass of clean water?” ruralroutes.substack.com/p/airing-iow...
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Airing Iowa's Dirty Laundry
How a text message, a water cooler, and three baby onesies changed the way I think about Iowa's water.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
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Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...
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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Spotted in South Philly 👀
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This has got to be the best time in 60 years to be organizing labor and tenants. Got to be. Got. To. Be.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
starting to think the MAHA movement only makes sense relationally... beyond a thin veneer of healthiness-as-beauty (thanks @tressiemcphd.bsky.social), their vision of health is only relative advantage over less-healthy poor people. See below where I apply this to schools. bsky.app/profile/loui...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 02/09/2025
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US. The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US
The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“Prolonged exposure to soaring temperatures can cause a deterioration in our cells and tissues and speed up biological aging, according to a new and growing body of research.”
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/25/climate/heat-speed-up-biological-aging
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
As you pump all the fresh water out of underground aquifers, the ground above it can sink. It's happening all around the world. Take the surface of California’s Central Valley, which is now nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. www.propublica.org/article/wate...
Illustration of an adult human standing in the country next to a 30-foot tall pole. a sign reads "San Joaquin Valley, California subsidence 1925-2025"

At the bottom of the pole is a 2025 marker, indicating the current surface level. As the pole goes up there are markers for the surface levels in 2000, 1975, 1950 and at the very top 1925.
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
PMS also post-menopausal syndrome or why am I crying about/watching The O.C., lmao
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Wobbologist @wobbologist.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Shark skin is made of lots of little teeth called dermal denticles!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2025
this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans
In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"...his words suggested he would do little to pressure Israel to pull back on its 21-month-long military campaign in Gaza, despite a growing humanitarian crisis that led one UN official this week to label Gazans “walking corpses.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...
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Trump tells Israel to ‘finish the job’ against Hamas weeks after suggesting ceasefire deal in sight | CNN Politics
Only a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump seemed confident a deal was days away that would end the fighting in Gaza, secure the release of hostages and allow aid to flow into an enclave where peopl...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The centrists and leftists can argue policy and ideological positioning all day long, but at its core this is a media environment and brand problem. Voters prefer Dem policies generally, but the brand itself is in the toilet. The only way to fix this is with new leaders and new rhetoric.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
“Data copied from devices during advanced searches at entry points into the U.S. gets saved for 15 years in a database searchable by thousands of CBP employees without a warrant.” o.canada.com/travel/us-tr...
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Travelling to the U.S.? Here's a guide to locking down phones and other devices
Worried about your electronics being checked when travelling into the United States? Here’s how to protect yourself.
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Katie C @spiffykt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” the author describes “inevitablism” as a tactic companies use to stop conversation about the amount of our private lives they are commodifying and selling.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This week on VIBE CHECK, we try to make sense of MAGA’s Epstein saga and we go all-in on James Gunn’s #Superman. I loved it! @zachstafford.bsky.social liked it. @samsanders.bsky.social has some notes. Listen here:
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Ladies and Labubus
Vibe Check · Episode
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Philly’s AFSCME DC 33 is officially ON STRIKE! Over 9,000 blue collar city workers who run our streets, libraries, sanitation, and more have refused the city’s lowball offers. They make an average of $46K while our mayor enriches herself, her cronies, and the cops www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
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Thousands of Philadelphia city workers are officially on strike
More than 9,000 city employees are on strike after contract talks fell apart between AFSCME District Council 33 and Mayor Parker’s administration, the first major city worker strike since 1986.
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
No Kings. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Des Moines-Central Iowa · No Kings
Details still coming together- respond via email if you want to be a part of planning! **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization...
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AJ Jones @ajjonesrox.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🚨 🚨 🚨 If any of this sounds repugnant to you the US Capital Switchboard 202.224.3121. If you hesitate it will be too late. Let others know what is on the line.
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AJ Jones @ajjonesrox.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
#Iowa #HandsOffMedicaid
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
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Jami Alene @jamialene.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
How is this making us healthier?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
As DOGE sucks up government data that Americans thought was confidential, RFK Jr. says people's privacy will be "protected" in his autism registry. I remember when Republicans pretended to be against big government. In fact, they just wanted it to be *their* big government.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/05/2025
Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
With increased awareness and improved screening, autism has been better diagnosed. This is a POSITIVE development that should be met with expanded resources and opportunities for all!🧡
Autistic people have always existed and always will.
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
But most importantly, there's no profit motive here. It's all about what's in the public interest. As the Trump administration impounds funds for key institutions and we all must look to alternative funding sources to stay afloat, let's think about how the power of the purse can be distributed. 5/
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Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yesterday's remarkable NYT piece by Larry Summers backs up my argument for wealthy universities to backstop Trump's cuts with their endowments. You can read it here. @epopppp.bsky.social @jeisinger.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Larry Summers: Endowments are "to be drawn down in the face of emergencies"
Former Harvard President and US Treasury Secretary joins the call for universities to resist trump attacks.
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you’re interested in writing poetry about issues you care about & can spare an hour 4/8 at 9:30 AM CT, this online session with legendary Caleb Rainey will be outstanding. Sign up here from anywhere☀️: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Hosted by Iowa Farmers Union & @progressiowa.bsky.social)
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Writers' Co-op: Poetry Craft Session with Caleb Rainey. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Want to learn more about writing poetry or sharpen your existing craft while focusing on issues you care about?  In this hourlong Zoom session, Caleb Rainey, instructor, spoken-word performer, and au...
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you’re interested in writing poetry about issues you care about & can spare an hour 4/8 at 9:30 AM CT, this online session with legendary Caleb Rainey will be outstanding. Sign up here from anywhere☀️: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Hosted by Iowa Farmers Union & @progressiowa.bsky.social)
us06web.zoom.us
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Writers' Co-op: Poetry Craft Session with Caleb Rainey. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Want to learn more about writing poetry or sharpen your existing craft while focusing on issues you care about?  In this hourlong Zoom session, Caleb Rainey, instructor, spoken-word performer, and au...
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Scott Carney @sgcarney.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We need to end energy subsidies for AI companies. Why am I paying tax dollars to support an industry that makes human labor less valuable?
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
There is a new democratic movement bubbling up underneath the surface. It is developing organically and being arrived at both individually and through networks. It is there, it just needs to keep getting tapped into and released. And people who see it need to coordinate and connect.
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If you want to write tonight, together online, join tonight’s Writers’ Co-op Zoom through Iowa Farmers Union & @progressiowa.bsky.social at 6 PM CT.📝 RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Writers Co-op Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Writers Co-op Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Douglas W. Burns @douglaswburns.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A powerful essay from Parker Williamson, a rural iowan with an urgent message "The Place I Call Home No Longer Calls Me One of Its Own" "What happens when the place you love stops loving you back?" @progressiowa.bsky.social @jensinkler.bsky.social theiowamercury.substack.com/p/the-place-...
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The Place I Call Home No Longer Calls Me One of Its Own
What happens when the place you love stops loving you back?
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Iowa has been a better place for people like me than other surrounding states, historically speaking.” Not anymore. Not right now. From Parker Williamson: ruralroutes.substack.com/p/the-place-...
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The Place I Call Home No Longer Calls Me One of Its Own
What happens when the place you love stops loving you back?
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Jen Sinkler (she/her) @jensinkler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
UPDATE NEW LINK: Attending events & rallies and looking for practical lessons to relay information on issues you care about? Tonight, Tues., Feb. 25, 6 to 7 PM on Zoom, Dr. @robertleonard.bsky.social will share strategies for reporting. Register from anywhere: us06web.zoom.us/j/83961668575
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Matt Russell @mattcrf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Today's post about the chaos caused by Republicans in their attempt to "save money". Very costly and unconstitutional power grab. Co-written with Robert Leonard. Here's the link to the story on Growing New Leaders: Perspectives from Coyote Run Farm.
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Ernst, Grassley, Miller-Meeks, Hinson, Feenstra, and Reynolds Own Trump’s Chaos
Efforts to Save Money are Costing Americans Dearly
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Matt Russell @mattcrf.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This morning's post. Support Federal workers. Fight Republicans. Pay attention to what Trump World is doing not saying. Push back against Democrats who say the fundamentals are strong for making Republicans pay in the mid-terms. That strategy is falling apart as fast as the economy under Trump/Musk.
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How Many Federal Workers Got Fired?
That we don't know is a wake up call to action.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/02/2025
PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Meanwhile, the Iowa legislator is preparing to pass a law stripping transgender people of their civil rights. One thing should be understood, when one marginalized group loses a right it once had, all others vulnerable. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
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Bill removing civil rights protections for transgender Iowans set for first House hearing
House lawmakers will hold a subcommittee hearing on the bill at 11 a.m. Monday, where they will hear testimony from members of the public.
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Boone County Iowa Democrats @boone08.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Leonard is a seasoned reporter. This should be a good session
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marioncountyiadems.bsky.social @marioncountyiadems.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121
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Progress Iowa @progressiowa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
1/ 🚨🚨🚨The bill to take civil rights away from transgender Iowans was pushed through a subcommittee this morning & will be considered by the full committee today at 1:30 PM.
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Progress Iowa @progressiowa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
2/ That’s why we must take action against HSB 242 TODAY. Find the House Judiciary Committee, and demand they oppose this hateful legislation, here: www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/c...
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Iowa Legislature - Committee Information
Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Today a sweeping transgender discrimination bill is scheduled to run through a subcommittee and the full Iowa House Judiciary Committee. My deep dive on what's in the bill and the many practical and constitutional problems: #ialegis #trans #iowa #LGBTQ www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/23/n...
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New post: John Kenyon takes on some proposed legislation that would affect Iowa libraries. "No one is being protected here. The real objective is to control what we access and how we think about the issues of the day." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/24/a...
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Anti-library bills seek to stifle thought, not protect children
John Kenyon: No one is being protected here. The real objective is to control what we access and how we think about the issues of the day.
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