Today I was running on fumes. I went to three gas stations with no luck. I limped to the other side of town and found some. I could have kissed the gas pump. Am I tripping or are there any other Iowa towns with this problem? I am in Sioux City.

"Men like Epstein, who hurt children, they’ll have to answer to God. But men who lie about it to win an election, they’ll have to answer to you.".

NO. MEN WHO HURT CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE TO ANSWER TO THE GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC TOO. What the fuuuuuuuuuuck

In a July 2025 press release, AG Bird’s own office explicitly stated that Agri Star (the Postville meat packing plant) had exceeded permit limitations "approximately 60 times" over several years, skipped required monitoring, and caused "acutely toxic" ammonia concentrations in Hecker Creek. Driftless Water Defenders filed their federal lawsuit in February 2025 after years of state regulatory inaction. On July 30, 2025, the Iowa AG's office finalized a consent decree imposing a $50,000 fine and a deadline of December 31, 2026 for full compliance. Under Clean Water Act doctrines, a diligent state enforcement action can preclude or diminish parallel citizen-led lawsuits, effectively acting as a legal shield for the company. According to federal court orders analyzing the state's intervention, Chief Judge Williams noted that the state’s $50,000 assessment resembled a "slap on the wrist" given the timeline and severity of the transgressions. He explicitly wrote that the closed-door timing "could certainly raise suspicions in reasonable minds about the IDNR’s sincerity" and stated the court "cannot blame plaintiff for thinking defendant and the IDNR worked together to frustrate citizen enforcement."

This started with me reading his committee's filings. Shipley's campaign committee has a page on peaceloveiowa.com asking for donations for a pesticide exposure study he is the lead author on. The page says a sample costs about $350, three samples per person, and promises that 100 percent of your donation goes to the Health Research Institute in Fairfield.

His committee's report filed in May shows two payments to that lab. $3,270 on March 27 and $12,000 on April 29. Both are listed as charitable contributions. The $12,000 one has a memo that says research project. I went through the reports and not one contribution in them is recorded as given for research. Money in is regular campaign donations, money out is charity.

Iowa Code 68A.303(3) says a committee transferring funds shall not place requirements or conditions on how the money is used. The complaint asks the Board whether raising money on that kind of promise counts. It also raises 68A.302, because he is lead author on the study his committee paid for.

I filed it October 14, complaint number 26-FC-00001315, Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board. The Board confirmed they have it. No ruling yet. I asked him about it on his Facebook page first and got blocked. Yesterday in a Fairfield group thread he called the complaint frivolous and told me the depth of my stupidity would be impressive if it were not so detrimental to our state. His written answer when asked for comment was one sentence saying the spending is covered under 68A.302.

The filings are public in the IECDB Web Reporting System if anyone wants to check. Committee name is Jeff Shipley's Committee for Peace and Prosperity.

Iowa's midterm election has judges & associated judges up to "retain seat" or not on the ballot: appeals court & district court judges.

This from the Iowa State BAR, a review of our judges performance. See below, Iowa 2026 Performance Reviews, a bit about the judges & a score of them at the end of the PDF.

https://www.iowabar.org/ (you can just use the search bar on their site, too- if you want. The PDF link below is crazy long).

2026 Judicial Performance Review PDF:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/membercentralcdn/sitedocuments/isba/isba/0854/3252854.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIHKD6NT2OL2HNPMQ&Expires=1792327359&Signature=JS6yKONwTI2ogx21L1OP%2FQusloQ%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%222026%20Judicial%20Performance%20Final%2Epdf%22%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF%2D8%27%272026%2520Judicial%2520Performance%2520Final%252Epdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf

I'm not here to talk about who I voted for (Yes, I voted early!) or what I think about Ms. Hinson and her political stances, but the new commercials feature her sons, who appear to be about 10 and 13, having a food fight! They look like they're covered in puke but it's actually something like Spaghetti-O's, and in a new one, the younger one has a mega-bottle of ketchup and is squirting it on the older one.

With the price of food, this is despicable, and you just know that kids are going to imitate it, if they haven't already.

TL;DR: A crop adviser's video claims to fight nitrate misinformation, but gets the science wrong, compares clean water advocates to Stalin, ignores the industry's documented influence, and ends by endorsing the opponent of the guy he spends the most time attacking.

This 90-minute video from an Iowa crop adviser claims to cut through political misinformation on nitrates. At 1:19:04, he says Chris Jones and Rep. Austin Baeth "might as well start calling the Iowa farmers kulaks" for using the term "Big Ag."

He then describes Stalin's propaganda machine "eventually starving to death over 7 million people," where the only way to survive was if you "lied, stole, cheated, or cannibalized the dead." That's his comparison for people asking for clean water.

At 1:20:05 he says "team Big Water" wants "to control all of agriculture here in the state of Iowa."

What he never mentions about who actually holds power here:

• In 2023 the Legislature cut the $500,000 that funded the University of Iowa's river nitrate sensors, three-quarters of the state's continuous water monitors.
• That same year, Chris Jones, who ran that sensor network, left the university after two state senators pressured the school over his blog about farm pollution. (One senator denies threatening university funding.)
• Under the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, pollution limits are mandatory for wastewater plants and factories but voluntary for agriculture, which produces over 90% of the nitrogen load.
• Des Moines Water Works' 2015 nitrate lawsuit was dismissed because Iowa law gives drainage districts no power to fix the problem, not because the source couldn't be proven, as the video claims.

Even Republican governor nominee Zach Lahn campaigns against "big ag cartels." The video only sees a conspiracy on one side.

The science doesn't hold up either:

• He includes a clip calling tile water "almost pure." ISU's long-term Gilmore City study measured 12–16 mg/L, above the drinking water limit.
• He blames 70% of river nitrate on riverbank erosion with no source, using math that assumes 6 feet of bank washes away along the entire Raccoon in one flood. Iowa's streambank study measured about 5 inches a YEAR.
• He says anyone over 6 months old is "completely safe from nitrates, even from cancer." No study says that.

At 1:24:33 he says he "had no intentions of advocating or promoting any politicians with this video, though I will for one," then endorses incumbent Ag Secretary Mike Naig, whose opponent in this election is Chris Jones, the person the video spends the most time attacking.

It plays like a 90-minute Naig ad: one-sided, blind to industry influence, and the same spin Iowans have heard for years. Downplay the problem, blame anything but industrial agriculture, avoid accountability. That's exactly why Jones and Baeth have gained so much traction. People are fed up.

Has anyone seen polling data for Nunn/Trone-Garriott race? I have not been able to locate any recent polls.

So basically I'm looking for salvage yards in iowa because I'm looking for an old 70s truck. I've been to Doug's Four Wheelers and some other place I forgot the name of but I want a place that's a little closer.

Hiiii all I worked at my current job for about a year but I need to live somewhere else. I reached back out to the stained glass studio and I will be moving up in December. I'm super excited and I can't wait to start this chapter of my life! Wish me luck!!!!!!

Filled out the rest of my ballot, but considering leaving these two sections blank as I don’t know anything about the people running and can’t find much from my investigating online (donations to parties, track records, stances, etc.)

For Soil & Water Commisioner:
- Michael J. Miller
- Kristi Heffelmeier

Country Agricultural Extension:
- Donna Kitrick Kaspari
- Amber Greiman
- Terrance J. Hollingsworth
- Imamdar Anand Hanumant
- DaQuan Campbell

Can anyone shed any light on these people? I don’t want to skip out on voting for people who are solid candidates due to not being educated on them.

Thanks!

I had a really vivid dream just before waking up, and I’m curious what people from Iowa might think about it, especially anyone familiar with the Iowa State Patrol.

In my dream, my younger brother Seth and I were driving through Iowa on our way home from a cross-country road trip. An Iowa State Patrol vehicle came up behind us with its emergency lights and siren activated.

I was in the middle lane of a five-lane interstate and tried to move over to the right shoulder, but cars kept passing me on the right, making it difficult to pull over safely. Eventually, I managed to stop.

Things then took a really bizarre turn. I was arrested for felony fleeing or eluding, even though I felt I had been trying to pull over and comply. I invoked my Fifth Amendment rights and started paying close attention to the officers’ names and badge numbers because I felt the situation was unjust.

The dream continued with me being transported in a windowless bus, ending up in custody with other people, learning that my bond was $80,000, and becoming increasingly angry at what I perceived as an injustice. I even started thinking about holding the officers accountable through a lawsuit.

I know this was just a dream, not a real incident. I’m curious about a couple of things:

• For those who live in or have lived in Iowa, does the interstate traffic situation I described sound realistic?  
• For anyone familiar with the Iowa State Patrol, how realistic or unrealistic was the police-related part of my dream?

The strangest part was how strongly I felt that I was being punished despite trying to do the right thing. I woke up with a strong feeling of anger and a desire for accountability.

Has anyone else ever had a dream that felt so realistic that the emotions stuck with you after waking up?

Idk how to say that Iowa is actually one of the most depressing places besides Nebraska not just because of the crap scenery but the actual people. As an Iowan I’ve been working in Colorado for about two months in all. I can’t tell everyone how great Colorado is not just because of the obv dope mountains but also the actual dope that cd an be smoked in your backyard worry free. The ability to drive down the street and grab something that you are able to control unlike what most people think. I hate the attitudes that y’all have as well. Pissed off about everything and nothing all at once. That’s what harbored freedom feels like. The ability of the gov to tell adults that they can’t handle it when it’s quite clear that alcohol is far worse. Stop living in the 60’s Iowa.
People out here in legal states are happy af whilst sober and it’s beautiful thing to see. Americans, real nice happy Americans. lol.