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Author Archives: Dave Bradley
Blog Interrupted By Storm
As with many Iowans we are cleaning up after the storm. Power is in the process of being restored. Our postings may be sporadic for a while yet. We will post as possible and when a story may warrant it. … Continue reading
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August 9th, 1945: Nagasaki
Video: 1. minute 13 seconds Have been using this space to talk about candidates for the statehouse. However, I read a short but very thought provoking article by Helen Caldicott, world renowned activist against nuclear weapons, on the dropping of … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Nuclear Abolition, Nuclear Disarmament
Tagged Helen Caldicott, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, nuclear winter
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Sunday Funday: Low Grade Depression Edition
30 seconds: Rita Hart for Congress During the week Former First Lady Michelle Obama said she was in a kind of low depression. Hit home immediately with me and I am betting most Iowans and Americans. We are now in … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Humor
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Walk A Mile In His Moccasins
A TED talk on empathy – 12 minutes The title is supposedly an old Native American saying. Research points to it as the title of an 1895 poem by Mary Lathrap. Whatever the source, the sentiment expressed in that saying … Continue reading
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Stuart Stevens: It Was All A Lie
Republican strategist Stuart Stevens has written a new book “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.” In the following interview with PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Stuart discusses what the Republican Party has become under Trump. 8 … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa, Joni Ernst, Trump
Tagged It was all a lie, Stuart Stevens, tweets
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WOW! List of NY AG Charges Against NRA
The corruption of the NRA is almost unbelievable. When you stop and think that they have considered themselves to be kingmakers in the political arena for a couple of decades now, maybe their attitude toward silly things like laws is … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa
Tagged corruption, Letitia James, New York AG, NRA, Wayne LaPierre
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Kelcey Brackett – A Good Pick Up Opportunity in HD 91
Kelcey Brackett for Iowa House District 91 MtcSatpyuuonsorel 1id · I am proud to share that today I received notification from the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO President Ken Sagar that I have received their endorsement. This is of particular significance … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa, Iowa Legislature
Tagged HD91, Iowa House district 91, Kelcey Brackett, Muscatine, Muscatine County, potluck insurgency
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Sunday Funday: Get An Absentee Ballot Edition!
From progressiowa – 1 minute: Let the above video remind you that even though it is only early August, it is definitely time to be sending in a request for an absentee ballot for this year’s election. Most of you … Continue reading
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Killing The “Public” Entity
“Never let a good crisis go to waste” the old political saying goes. Lord knows we have a huge crisis in front of us. Had we had any kind of even substandard leadership, the US may have been able to … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa, Farming, Joni Ernst, Medicare, Obamacare, Social Security
Tagged medicaid, public education, public housing, USPS
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Pandemic Shows How Important Unions Are
AFT Leader Randi Weingarten discusses reopening schools: (6.5 minutes) Thursday we got this email from the Abby Finkenauer campaign: I’m Ken Sagar, retired president of the Iowa Federation of Labor. But today I’m not here to give you an update … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby Finkenauer, AFT, American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingrten, reopening schools, teachers, unions
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