#Transphobia #Iowa #ChristianFundamentalism #CurrentAffairs #Atheism #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SecularHumanism
"Shame on you, Christians!": Iowa lawmaker rages against colleagues for ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ggxCMBfw2SM&si=f_lhEZmzrJJlb3ca
#Birds #BackyardBirds #Iowa #Aves
Red-winged Blackbird showing his colors, singing his song, and doing the splits!
Fort Defiance State Park
Emmet County, Iowa, USA; traditional territory of the Wahpeton, Yankton, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations / Original 360° photos at https://www.SouthernMinnesotaGuy.com
I came across this fungus while pruning a shrub. It’s dry and crumbly like styrofoam.
Source: Des Moines Register
From the article: "Singing "we shall overcome" and waving the rainbow hues of the Pride flag, LGBTQ Iowans shared a message of hope on the heels of legislation dissolving civil rights protections for trans Iowans as they rallied at the Capitol.
"Tuesday's LGBTQ Day on the Hill comes less than two weeks after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill removing gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the law that shields Iowans from discrimination in education, housing, employment, credit practices and public accommodations."
#Pride #AcceptanceMatters #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIAPlus #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender #Queer #Intersex #Asexual #NonBinary
#Iowa #Ignorance #Discrimination
#USPolitics #ThePoliticsOfHate
#Bayer has lobbied successfully to get #GOP legislators in #DJT era to sponsor #GagAct bills in Midwestern states #Idaho, #Iowa, and #Missouri to legislatively silence victims of #Glysophosphate #herbicides aka #RoundUp.
Those consumers who contracted cancers after exposure would be prevented from publicly voicing concerns or filing #legal actions to address a #toxic poisoning.
Possibility of severe weather tomorrow, March 14. Severe Weather Awareness Week doesn’t even start until March 24…
(I’m in the yellow zone, but just a few miles from the angry orange zone )
https://www.kmaland.com/news/nws-updates-severe-storm-potential/article_8925b268-001c-11f0-9492-1b1447aef957.html
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
-- Will Rogers
Give it up for the AMES VISIBILITY BRIGADE!
A group of people in Ames, #Iowa, stand around in a public park on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings to let everybody know we don't have kings in the US!
These people DGAF how red their state is!
#protests #fascism #resistance
https://www.storydems.org/main-calander/2025/3/15/ames-visibility-brigade-rl7ga-793yg
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-- Rudyard Kipling
Fort Defiance State Park
Emmet County, Iowa, USA; traditional territory of the Wahpeton, Yankton, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations / Original 360° photos at https://www.SouthernMinnesotaGuy.com
#Birds #BackyardBirds #Iowa #Aves #Grackle
The Grack is back! A Grackle perched in what looks like a box elder tree that's beginning to flower.
Family seeks justice as cold case arrest made 35 years after #Iowa mother's disappearance https://www.wmtw.com/article/iowa-cold-case-barbara-lenz-arrest/64172310
#Iowa troopers brave blizzard to deliver lifesaving blood to critical patient https://www.wmtw.com/article/iowa-troopers-deliver-blood-during-blizzard/64171985
Busy evening for jets flying overhead and leaving contrails.
@LvNoctva
#Bloomscrolling (CatkinScrolling).
The American Hazelnut shrub is loaded with catkins that are beginning to show yellow pollen.