Thanks for all this coverage! Can’t believe anyone or any veteran could react as Senator Ernst has to the Signalgate security breach. No way to run a nation, much less an ongoing war.
Yes, maybe we can just send suggestions directly to him but use Signal and claim it’s not classified. Terrifying. They really want to destroy America, and Congress is ignoring this.
She has hitched her wagon to his and doesn't seem capable of understanding that it is headed for a cliff. Maybe it's part of the motorcycle gang mystique? Just ride and call it freedom? I am as baffled as you are.
Good gravy. “The Iowa law said only “age-appropriate” materials can be in school libraries and classrooms, and “age-appropriate” doesn’t include any publication containing a description or visual depiction of a sex act.” What a terrible law. Let your children be inundated with adult sexual imagery in grade school. What could go wrong? I get it, Democrats constantly look to allow little children into our adult world whether it be thru pornography or the right to ask to be surgically mutilated. My goodness - what outstanding parents you’re encouraging.
You should read the judge's ruling. By excluding all books that contain even one description of a sex act, the law has caused hundreds of books to be removed from school libraries, regardless of any educational or artistic value. These are not "pornographic" books.
Excerpt from the judge's ruling:
This includes books and materials that: (a) are commonly covered on high school Advanced Placement exams, such as The Color Purple, Native Son, The Handmaid’s Tale, As I Lay Dying, Beloved, 1984, and Brave New World; (b) address bullying, racism, sexual assault, and other forms of trauma, such as Nineteen Minutes, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Speak, Shout, Push, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club; (c) are designed to help students understand the human body and human anatomy, such as The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body; (d) are designed to help people avoid being victimized by sexual assault, such as Sexual Predators and The Truth About Rape; (e) depict important historical events, such as Night and The Rape of Nanking; and (f) are widely recognized as classic works of literature or cinema, such as Ulysses, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, Forrest Gump, and Memoirs of a Geisha. The imbalance between the number of books identified by the State Defendants as justifying the restriction and the number of books identified by the Penguin House Plaintiffs as having been swept up in it show that a “substantial number” of the applications of Senate File 496 are unconstitutional when “judged in relation to the statute’s plainly legitimate sweep.” Stevens, 559 U.S. at 473. The Publisher/Author Plaintiffs and Student Plaintiffs are therefore likely to prevail on this aspect of their constitutional challenge.
No common sense parent would deny their children reading the title you obviously noted. Those were not the subject of my note. We have seen parents across the country being shutdown at school board meetings for simply reading - out loud in those public forums - graphic, highly-sexualized books available in elementary and middle school libraries.
Why are Reynolds and Bird threatening legal action over a Facebook post and then requiring The Sheriff to post something the AG wrote for him? Only your mother gets to tell you what to say--please, than you--stuff like that. She can even make you write out those graduation thank you cards. She's not a state actor. For the rest of us, the US Supreme Court has held with few exceptions we can say what we want and the state can't make us say crap we don't believe in. New Hampshire tried to require "Live Free or Die" on license plates. The Court said no can do. Aside from that, a whole lot of this immigration/deportation stuff doesn't look all that "Iowa Nice" to me.
In my opinion, he must know nothing about separation of powers….. or the actual remedies for contempt of court. Interesting that an Attorney General fails to educate him. She is supposed to uphold the justice system. But seems to prefer to tout powerful people who flip the finger at judges and juries.
Thanks for all this coverage! Can’t believe anyone or any veteran could react as Senator Ernst has to the Signalgate security breach. No way to run a nation, much less an ongoing war.
It's really amazing.
I see today in the Washington Post that Michael Waltz has been conducting official business over Gmail.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/
Yes, maybe we can just send suggestions directly to him but use Signal and claim it’s not classified. Terrifying. They really want to destroy America, and Congress is ignoring this.
Again, thanks for this exhaustive review of state legislation and legislators that all Iowans should be made aware of.
It is hard to imagine what complete control Trump has over Ernst that causes her to ignore national security issues in this way.
She has hitched her wagon to his and doesn't seem capable of understanding that it is headed for a cliff. Maybe it's part of the motorcycle gang mystique? Just ride and call it freedom? I am as baffled as you are.
Good gravy. “The Iowa law said only “age-appropriate” materials can be in school libraries and classrooms, and “age-appropriate” doesn’t include any publication containing a description or visual depiction of a sex act.” What a terrible law. Let your children be inundated with adult sexual imagery in grade school. What could go wrong? I get it, Democrats constantly look to allow little children into our adult world whether it be thru pornography or the right to ask to be surgically mutilated. My goodness - what outstanding parents you’re encouraging.
You should read the judge's ruling. By excluding all books that contain even one description of a sex act, the law has caused hundreds of books to be removed from school libraries, regardless of any educational or artistic value. These are not "pornographic" books.
Excerpt from the judge's ruling:
This includes books and materials that: (a) are commonly covered on high school Advanced Placement exams, such as The Color Purple, Native Son, The Handmaid’s Tale, As I Lay Dying, Beloved, 1984, and Brave New World; (b) address bullying, racism, sexual assault, and other forms of trauma, such as Nineteen Minutes, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Speak, Shout, Push, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club; (c) are designed to help students understand the human body and human anatomy, such as The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body; (d) are designed to help people avoid being victimized by sexual assault, such as Sexual Predators and The Truth About Rape; (e) depict important historical events, such as Night and The Rape of Nanking; and (f) are widely recognized as classic works of literature or cinema, such as Ulysses, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, Forrest Gump, and Memoirs of a Geisha. The imbalance between the number of books identified by the State Defendants as justifying the restriction and the number of books identified by the Penguin House Plaintiffs as having been swept up in it show that a “substantial number” of the applications of Senate File 496 are unconstitutional when “judged in relation to the statute’s plainly legitimate sweep.” Stevens, 559 U.S. at 473. The Publisher/Author Plaintiffs and Student Plaintiffs are therefore likely to prevail on this aspect of their constitutional challenge.
No common sense parent would deny their children reading the title you obviously noted. Those were not the subject of my note. We have seen parents across the country being shutdown at school board meetings for simply reading - out loud in those public forums - graphic, highly-sexualized books available in elementary and middle school libraries.
Why are Reynolds and Bird threatening legal action over a Facebook post and then requiring The Sheriff to post something the AG wrote for him? Only your mother gets to tell you what to say--please, than you--stuff like that. She can even make you write out those graduation thank you cards. She's not a state actor. For the rest of us, the US Supreme Court has held with few exceptions we can say what we want and the state can't make us say crap we don't believe in. New Hampshire tried to require "Live Free or Die" on license plates. The Court said no can do. Aside from that, a whole lot of this immigration/deportation stuff doesn't look all that "Iowa Nice" to me.
Not directly related to Iowa’s Book Ban Law, but, following along a similar vein:
https://thequillandmusket.substack.com/p/jenny-donovan-and-the-hypocrisy-of?r=4xypjp
Does Representative Wheeler's desire to ignore judges qualify him as an ignoramus?
In my opinion, he must know nothing about separation of powers….. or the actual remedies for contempt of court. Interesting that an Attorney General fails to educate him. She is supposed to uphold the justice system. But seems to prefer to tout powerful people who flip the finger at judges and juries.