A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...
What this all boils down to – why we will win – is utter insecurity. "We must use the power of the state to defend our culture," uh, no, it's a marketplace of ideas, and yours suck. Sorry not sorry.
This @covingtonedu.bsky.social piece applies as well to the situation in New Hampshire, where criticism of right-wing policy engenders a knee-jerk response that the critic "go back to Massachusetts."
How about democratic discourse in the Live Free state?
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As the apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians (5:14–15), “For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.”
Maybe there's a deep irony about our image of white suburban nativism in America built around the maintenance of non-native lawn grasses, or maybe that particular display of waste and dominance is the point.
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New post by Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social: Iowans today find their rights limited by private, partisan, and parochial interests, where the in-group gets the freedom to flourish and the out-group is free to leave.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/06/12/f...
"More than 100 Iowa school districts were put on a watch list by S&P Global — a financial information company that provides credit ratings to some Iowa school districts — to monitor their credit rating following the passage of property tax reform by the Iowa Legislature last month."
Memento Mori
CVS: for when you want to pay airport prices for everyday items.
Nick Covington explores the limits on Iowans' rights: the in-group gets the freedom to flourish, and the out-group is free to leave.
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Iowa schools are losing out on millions of dollars being redirected to property tax relief, putting some schools at risk of defaulting on bonds taken out to fund facility projects.
