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Midwest Midwit The Great Bumpkin

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 21h

A similar feeling

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fun facts about the Biggest Steel Mill in the United States: 1. It’s really expensive. 2. It doesn’t exist. 3. It’s in Iowa! 4. We had to suspend some representative democracy to pay for it.

Des Moines Register Live Updates

• 6:46 pm CT
lowa Senate passes expanded MEGA
incentives
Marissa Payne
The Iowa Senate voted 28-19 to pass the expanded MEGA tax incentives, with Republican Sens. Dan Dawson, Charlie McClintock, Jason Schultz, Dave Sires and Jeff Taylor breaking from their party to join Democrats in opposing the bill.

• 6:46 pm CT
Senate Ways and Means chair criticizes incentives
Stephen Gruber-Miller
Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, who chairs the Senate Ways and Means Committee, criticized the legislation in a fiery speech on the Senate floor.
He said it could be more than 10 years before Mesabi Metallics pays any taxes in Iowa and the incentive package would amount to roughly $880,000 per job produced.

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The cult demands you give over a billion dollars of public money to a bankrupt company to appease dear leader the demented rapist president.

Des Moines Register
Senator decries 'dirty politics' after 2
GOP peers removed from key committee
Marissa Payne

Sen. Dave Sires, R-Cedar Falls, decried Republican leadership's removal of two of his colleagues' from the tax-writing committee as "dirty politics" to advance the steel mill project.
Sires issued a statement Friday saying Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Klimesh, R-Spillville, removed Republican Sens.
Jeff Taylor of Sioux Center and Dawn Driscoll of Williamsburg from the chamber's tax-writing Ways and Means Committee Oct. 2 after they told him they would vote no on the incentives.
Members of the Iowa Senate Ways and Means Committee early Friday afternoon voted 10-8 to advance the MEGA incentives bill to full committee, with two Republicans, Sens. Dan Dawson of Council Bluffs and Jason Schultz of Schleswig, joining the committee's six Democrats to oppose the legislation in subcommittee.
"In other words, the bill would have died in committee today, but it was saved by dirty politics," said Sires, who opposes the legislation. "Whether you are for or against the bill as it stands is irrelevant. Every Iowan should be concerned with this strong arming."

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The state is so deep we can hold two of these.

Two health department bureaucrats look at a computer with the BLOOD WORK episode art on it, one smiles and the other looks concerned

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Make it your mission to listen to @bloodwork.show (and watch Utopia)

Shot of Channel 4 series Utopia (2013). Health Department bureaucrat Michael Dugdale wears a suit and pushes documents onto a soldier armed with an assault rifle at a quarantine zone guard station.

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Note from the editors: make the mail-in ballot look ominous, evil

KCRG article with a thumbnail depicting a mail-in ballot envelope with a high contrast monochrome filter which makes it look spooky.

Article thumbnail text quoted below:
Absentee ballot requests begin in lowa for Nov. 3 election
Updated: 5 hours ago | By Robin Opsahl
lowans were able to begin requesting absentee ballots for the 2026 general election on Tuesday, even as the Trump administration continues to fight in court for changes in the process of voting by mail.

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Undoing a Mysterious Structure

"MYSTERIOUS STRUCTURES"
SECE PILOT (EXT.)
NO CAMERA
I WENT THROUGH THREE OR FOUR ELEMENTS WE HAVE AT THE BEGINNING WE HAVE FIRE, WE HAVE AIR, WATER, AND SAND. SO I ELIMINATE THE FIRE.

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

listen to @bloodwork.show

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Freedom of Speech painting with caption: “Every naked body of woman is gorgeous”

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rob Sand googling “frighteningly large nude people”

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I knew it.

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m willing to bet more Iowans know somebody who died of COVID. Who wants to go back to 2020?

Year
2020

State: lowa
Death Rate: 99
Deaths: 4,336

COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 total population (age-adjusted mortality rate)

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Scene from Ghostbusters (1984). Dan Aykroyd’s character getting head from a ghost. It says a lot about society.

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Christian Bale Batman from Chris Nolan’s Batman

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alex @johnbadman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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