Ok now we know what Kate is doing. Sharon is headed to the medical field. Clark we knew.

But I probably missed it: what are Marshall and Mollys plans?

Murray with 14 points in the first quarter in play in playoff game against warriors

These girls are good but freshman year means freshman things. Then do their real talents get handcuff to play too conservatively so to get on the court.
Big hype on Stremlow. I see Callie Levin as likely the more ready and maybe better ceiling prospect. Callie has GREAT flow. Taylor is a grinder.
Callie can shoot from downtown and looks natural. I cant find a video of Stremlow making a bunch of 3's. Callie can shoot and score and can pass to.
CALLIE .... I think if given the real opportunity on ability will be a star. But we have seen talent sit on bench because someone gets over hyped.
Ask Lauren Jensen and Taylor McCabe.
I hope we get Lucy Olsen shes a great overall fit and with chemistry. Maddie Scherr would be a great add also.
My post is towards PGs this season. Guyton injured.
Give Callie her look!!!
just look at her highlights on youtube

A left-wing dark money group funded by billionaire George Soros will provide bail and legal support for the anti-Israel activists arrested after blocking major roads and highways nationwide this week, according to an online fundraiser.

The traffic-snarling stunts, which took place in several major cities Monday, were said by protesters to be a response to the United States' continued support for Israel during its war with Hamas terrorists.

The demonstrations were largely organized by A15 Action, a recently created group that said it would "coordinate a multi-city economic blockade on April 15 in solidarity with Palestine."

Under the group's "resources" section on its website, users are pointed to a "bail and legal defense fund" hosted by ActBlue, the leading fundraising platform for Democratic campaigns and groups nationwide.

The contributions "will benefit Community Justice Exchange," a project of the Soros-funded Tides Center, according to the fundraising page.

"Donate here to support community members who are criminalized in the U.S. for their solidarity with Palestine," a fundraising page, which was first reported by The Washington Free Beacon, states. "Should the actions of the state result in the need for it, these funds will be used for bail, legal defense, and support for defendants."

The Community Justice Exchange has a self-described mission to provide "money bail, court fees and fines" to "community-based organizations across the country that are experimenting with bottom-up interventions that contest the current operation and function of the criminal legal and immigration detention systems."

It was revealed last November that the Soros-backed Open Society Policy Center had given $13.7 million, through the Tides Center, to groups that have reportedly expressed support for Hamas or justified attacks on Israel, with a total of $15 million donated since 2016.

Hundreds of anti-Israel agitators stopped traffic and created havoc, sending Americans scrambling on Monday in major U.S. cities like San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia.

Traffic on both lanes of California's Golden Gate Bridge was shut down Monday, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) told Fox News Digital, as images emerged showing anti-Israel agitators holding banners with messages like "Stop the world for Gaza" and "End the siege on Gaza now!"

CHP said 38 people were arrested for involvement in the Golden Gate Bridge demonstration and later warned that tactics used by the "unlawful" protesters there and along Interstate-880 in Oakland "will not be tolerated."

Some demonstrators in California attached themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with concrete.

In New York City, nearly 300 protesters gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange Monday morning.

Protesters were heard chanting "free, free Palestine," "Palestine will never die," "from Wall Street to Palestine … intifada" and "Israel bombs. USA pays. How many kids did you kill today?"

Many of the protesters were also carrying watermelon balloons, a symbol of Palestinian solidarity.

Demonstrators also took to the Brooklyn Bridge, where police quickly intervened in an attempt to prevent the protest from growing in size.

In Chicago, protesters blocked traffic to Chicago O'Hare International Airport, causing delays that lasted several hours after the protest was broken up by police. Chicago Police told Fox News 40 people were arrested and that charges are pending.

Anti-Israel agitators also gathered outside Philadelphia's City Hall, drawing a noticeable police presence. The protesters there blocked the intersection at Market Street and Schuylkill Avenue in Center City.

NBC 10 Philadelphia later reported police "arrested 41 people while Pennsylvania State Police arrested 27 for a total of 68 arrests."

Protesters also flooded downtown Miami and downtown Tampa, calling for a cease-fire in the ongoing war in Gaza.

In Texas, a group of protesters also demonstrated outside the Valero headquarters in San Antonio to express their opposition to Israeli military action in Gaza.

The protests continued into Monday evening, with pro-Israel agitators taking to Washington's Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, shutting down traffic along the expressway.

Just confirmed with a source. Tony is in the portal.

Working on a story now.

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Five words I thought I would never type in a post title, but here I am. Who do we (the fever) take in the second round?

It seems like everyone, the McCaffreys included, needs a fresh start.

Why prolong the inevitable?

I don’t get it.

May 11 at 8 pm on ESPN 2

May 14 at 1 pm on ABC

Since the first round worked out so well for him and our country!:

President Trump vowed to once again punish China with tariffs if he won re-election, claiming his strategy of heavily taxing Chinese products had forced Beijing to make trade concessions and helped American farmers.

“I’m going to use tariffs on China,” Mr. Trump said during an interview on Fox Business Network Thursday morning, saying that the strategy had helped bring “billions of dollars” into the United States.

“I gave all of the money to the farmers and we had tens of billions leftover which goes into the Treasury,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Trump pointed to record purchases of corn and soybeans that he said had been made “two weeks ago” as evidence that his aggressive approach toward China was working.

China did make a series of record corn purchases in July, and in August made a record purchase of beef. Some analysts have said that Chinese soybean purchases are likely to hit new highs this year. Those purchases are required by an initial trade deal that the United States and China signed in January, in which Beijing agreed to buy $200 billion of additional American products by the end of 2021.

“They want to keep me happy because they know that I’m a hair trigger when it comes to them. And I’m sick of them,” the president said.

The Trump administration has raised plenty of funds from its China tariffs — $64 billion since those duties went into effect in July 2018, according to government statistics. And the federal government has channeled much of that to American farmers, who were badly hit when China responded to Mr. Trump’s tariffs by placing its own levies on American pork, soybeans, corn and other products.

But economists say that most of those funds have actually been paid by American consumers and other businesses, not China, as the president insists.

Chinese purchases of American agricultural products have been trending sharply up in recent months. But American farmers also have a long way to go to recover from the damage they sustained in the trade war, and so far, the purchases still remain far behind the pace necessary for China to meet its commitment of purchasing $36.6 billion of American products this year. According to tracking by the Peterson Institute of International Economics, China’s imports of farm products covered by the trade deal totaled $11 billion through August, compared with a year-to-date target of $24.4 billion.

Financial institutions operating in the state would be prohibited from using a merchant code for credit card transactions at gun retailers meant to detect suspicious firearms and ammunition sales under a bill headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk — even though lobbyists have said credit card companies don’t plan to use the codes in Iowa.



The Senate amended the bill last week and sent it back to the Iowa House for final passage. House lawmakers concurred with the Senate amendment Tuesday, sending House File 2464 to the governor to be signed into law.


The bill would prevent banks and credit card companies from using a merchant code that would differentiate a firearms retailer from any other retailer.




And it would bar state and local governmental agencies from keeping a record or registry of privately owned firearms, except for records kept during the regular course of a criminal investigation, a prosecution, any court case or as otherwise required by law.


The bill also makes an exception for law enforcement agencies maintaining a list or record of firearms that have been stolen or reported stolen.


The Iowa Attorney General’s Office would be authorized to investigate alleged violations, and bring civil action in district court to enjoin further violations.


Individuals would have 60 days to cease violations. Those who fail to comply with an injunction would face a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation.





Supporters of the bill have said it aims to prevent financial institutions from creating a de facto gun registry.


Major credit card companies were moving to make a merchant code available for firearm and ammunition retailers to comply with a new California law that will allow banks to potentially track suspicious gun purchases and report them to law enforcement.


Gun rights advocates said the code is an infringement on privacy and Second Amendment rights.


Democrats questioned the need for the legislation.


“What is the problem we’re trying to curb … and is it occurring today in Iowa?” Rep. David Jacoby, D-Coraville, asked bill floor manager Rep. Ray Sorensen, R-Greenfiled.


"Not that I’m aware, but it very well could and that’s what we’re preemptively trying to stop,“ Sorensen responded.

Ban on guaranteed income programs passes​

After a lengthy debate that centered on the role of government in lifting people out of poverty, Iowa Senate Republicans approved legislation that would prohibit guaranteed basic income programs in Iowa, sending the proposal to Gov. Kim Reynolds.


UpLift Iowa, a project involving four Central Iowa local governments and a number of businesses and nonprofits, is the only existing guaranteed income program in the state. The pilot program provides 110 residents with monthly payments of $500 that can be spent without restrictions.


The program was set up to research the effects of regular monthly payments to low-income people. It uses a combination of public funding and donations by businesses and nonprofits. The program uses no state tax dollars, but does use federal pandemic relief dollars awarded to Des Moines and Urbandale.


Uplift Iowa is set to last two years, ending in spring 2026. Under the bill, the project would be allowed to continue but no future guaranteed income programs could be started.


During Senate debate, Republicans argued that previous government programs designed to alleviate poverty have not been successful. Sen. Scott Webster, R-Bettendorf, referenced the proverb that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life.


“That’s the moral of this particular day and this particular bill,” Webster said.


Democrats criticized the bill for prohibiting local governments from experimenting with basic income programs, and argued Republicans were being hypocritical by opposing basic income programs while supporting taxpayer-funded subsidies for farmers.


“Whether you call it a subsidy or — when you don’t like it — a handout, what’s the difference?” Sen. Tony Bisignano, D-Des Moines, asked during debate.


House File 2319 passed the Senate on a mostly party-line, 35-13 vote, with all Republicans supporting and most Democrats opposing. Having previously passed the House on a similarly party-line vote, the bill moves to Reynolds for her consideration.

Lawmakers approve sheriff retirement changes​

State lawmakers approved changes to the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System for sheriffs and deputies, including increasing the applicable percentage for retirement benefit payments.


It also would provide that a person charged with the murder or felony assault of a law enforcement or corrections officer is not eligible for bail. And it would create a tax credit of up to $2,000 for public safety officers moving into Iowa.


House File 2661 increases the maximum IPERS retirement benefit from 72 to 80 percent of a retiree’s three-year salary average. It also establishes an annual 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment to the monthly allowance for sheriff and deputy sheriff members of IPERS for retirements on or after July 1.


Representatives for the Iowa State Association of Counties and Iowa State Sheriffs' & Deputies' Association say the legislation will help recruitment and retention efforts, and bring IPERS into better alignment with other pension systems in Iowa for law enforcement.


The pension increase will be split evenly between the county and retirees.


House lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously passed the bill as amended by the Senate, sending it to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to be signed into law.

House passes bill to publicize school vaccine exemptions​

House lawmakers passed a bill requiring schools and child care centers to publish information about exceptions to vaccination requirements in any communications about those requirements to parents.


Iowa law requires children in child care centers, elementary schools and secondary schools to be immunized against a variety of infectious diseases, but parents can obtain exceptions for medical and religious reasons.


The bill, Senate File 2196, does not change any exemption rules, but it would require schools and child care centers to provide information about exemption options to parents when they explain the required vaccines. The exemptions also would need to be published online.


House lawmakers amended the bill to require that schools have trained staff able to respond to seizures and require that schools create a “seizure action plan” for students prone to seizures.


The bill passed the House, 77-20, with all no votes being Democrats. It now goes to the Senate, which will need to approve the amended language to send it to Gov. Kim Reynolds for a signature.

When I work from home, I have no music, background noise or anything. It is totally quiet in the house all day. I enjoy it more than I thought I would. I try to also have quiet, solitary time for a little bit a couple evenings a week.

As hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones rained down on Israel this weekend, some far-right lawmakers saw an opportunity to use the attack to accomplish a separate goal: further delay U.S. aid to Ukraine — hurting both Israel and Ukraine in the process.

On Monday evening, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) finally announced his plan to address the need for emergency supplemental funding for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific. He is declining to simply call a vote on the Senate-passed $95 billion package, which would easily pass the House and reach President Biden’s desk immediately. Rather, he came up with a complicated and risky gambit to call votes on four separate aid bills and then try to join them together afterward on their way to the Senate.

Johnson is trying to strike a compromise. Splitting the bills into separate votes allows anti-Ukraine Republicans to vote against that funding and progressive Democrats to vote against the Israel funding — but both measures could still pass. That compromise, however, didn’t satisfy far-right members of Johnson’s caucus, who moved closer Tuesday to forcing a vote to remove him as speaker. He likely needs Democratic support to pass the legislation and to save his job.


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GOP congressional sources tell me that before Iran’s attack on Israel, Johnson was leaning toward moving the entire aid package with one vote, which would be much simpler. But beginning on Saturday afternoon, Johnson and his staff started receiving calls and texts from far-right anti-Ukraine lawmakers urging him to pass the Israel aid alone and delay the Ukraine aid yet again.
“It had nothing to do with protecting Israel, these guys were just happy to have a new excuse to oppose Ukraine aid and they jumped on it,” a senior GOP congressional aide told me.
On Sunday, these MAGA lawmakers went public with their push to shelve Ukraine aid. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who opposes any aid to Ukraine, posted on X, “It’s antisemitic to make Israeli aid contingent on funding Ukrainian Nazis.” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) posted on X, “If we send billions to Ukraine because of this Iranian attack, the terrorists win.”





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There’s a lot wrong with these statements. Passing the bills together doesn’t amount to “conditioning” the Israel aid — and it wouldn’t be “antisemitic” if it did. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish, not a Nazi. And Gaetz seems not to realize that the Iranians are also helping Russia attack Ukraine.


“The MAGA faction of Congress fundamentally misunderstands or does not want to understand the national security implications of how these conflicts are connected,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) told me. “They need to wake up and look at the full picture.”
This is not the first time far-right GOP lawmakers have tried to use Israel as an excuse to delay passing aid to Ukraine. In November, Johnson himself pushed through an Israel-only funding bill that ignored Ukraine, but the Senate didn’t take it up. He tried again in February to pass aid for Israel only, but failed. Interestingly, Greene voted no on the aid for Israel both times. That didn’t stop her from invoking Israel’s security to argue for a delay in Ukraine aid again this week.



Greene and Gaetz are now also out of step with former president Donald Trump, who came out in favor of more Ukraine aid (although he wants it issued as loans) during Johnson’s visit to Mar-a-Lago last week. Trump wants Congress to pass Ukraine aid because he sees it as in his personal interest, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told me. If Trump returns to office and tries to push a Russia-Ukraine peace deal, he needs Ukraine to be in a strong position militarily.
“President Trump understands if Ukraine makes a deal from a position of weakness, that will just invite another invasion and entice China,” Graham said.
Johnson’s current effort shows that he is still trying to placate his far-right base but is also genuinely trying to get Israel and Ukraine funding done. Democrats are right to support this effort, and the Senate should pass Johnson’s aid package quickly, if it gets that far. His plan includes additional items the White House should be willing to accept, including a bill that would seek to compel TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent ByteDance and a bill to authorize the administration to seize frozen Russian assets. If it fails, the MAGA drive to fully separate Israel aid and kill Ukraine aid will resurface and pick up more steam.



Even if it succeeds, a larger lesson must be learned about not pitting U.S. allies against each other. By pointing to Israel as a reason to abandon Ukraine, Republicans such as Greene and Gaetz are further politicizing the Israel issue, exacerbating the suffering of Ukrainians, and preventing U.S. leaders in both parties from finding the political compromises needed to ensure the security of Israel, Ukraine and the United States alike.

Everyone loves Bidenomics!

I was watching the news and Fanny Willis (an attorney in one of Trump's 700 court cases) said her Father advised her to keep 6 months worth of cash in her home at all times.

It seems like a risk to me.

I usually keep $80 in my wallet. That's about it.

How much cash do you keep in your home? Do you have a safe?

Just heard the third divorce from a friend or family member in two weeks. Is spring divorce season, mid 40s when peeps get divorced? What gives? Sad thing is all three involve kids.

When it rains, it pours.

Gary Lynch, a big, long time donor to ISU athletics has apparently been convicted of defrauding livestock producers by intentionally altering weight tickets and costing customers 100s of thousands of $$$.

Doing business as Lynch Livestock, this is apparently the 2nd time he was caught screwing customers.

Pollard might consider doing some background checks on boosters. Then again...maybe he knew and just didn't care.

FYI...Gary Lynch is also a huge Republican donor as well.

9 mill defended from the cops......



What a shithole.

We’ve been in our house for 8 years or so and have not gotten one before. Pricing it out is 700-1000 which isn’t the most exciting bill to pay.

Our upstairs has been feeling warmer the last couple summers and we have a cat. Our HVAC company said it might help with better airflow/distribution upstairs.

Anyone had this done lately? Worth it?