Everyone's favorite sportscaster, Joe Buck, will be hosting several episodes this summer and is a candidate to get the job full-time.

https://sports.yahoo.com/joe-buck-w...-the-running-for-permanent-job-142206896.html

Caliendo or Kennedy and either will be a high AA.

From today.

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I can't remember if a loss in the semis requires another win to be an AA.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) announced Friday he will resign effective April 19, further narrowing Republicans’ already razor-thin House majority.
Gallagher, who had already announced he would not seek reelection this year, said he made the decision to resign after conversations with his family. He currently chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Gallagher said in an interview with The Washington Post that he considers himself to be going out on a “high note” because of that assignment.


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“I’ve worked closely with House Republican leadership on this timeline and look forward to seeing Speaker [Mike] Johnson appoint a new chair to carry out the important mission of” the committee, Gallagher said in a statement.

Republicans currently have a five-seat majority after Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) resigned Friday, leaving the House earlier than he initially anticipated because he found his majority to be unproductive. Buck’s early departure has also narrowed the majority.


Currently, only two Republicans can defect to pass any conservative legislation through the chamber on party-line votes. Once Gallagher leaves mid-April, that margin of error goes down to one.

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The majority will narrow even further once a Democrat is elected to replace former Rep. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.), who also resigned earlier this year. Republicans will not get a reprieve until a Republican is sworn in following a May runoff election to assume the seat former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) held for more than a decade.

Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District since 2017. The district in northeastern Wisconsin is solidly Republican.
Gallagher announced in February he would not run for another term, saying in a statement that “electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old.”


Earlier in February, Gallagher upset fellow Republicans by opposing the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which narrowly failed on the first attempt.
Gallagher said in the Post interview that he made his decision to not seek reelection “long before” the Mayorkas vote.
“We have two young daughters and we want to have more kids, and this lifestyle sucks for a young family,” Gallagher said. “That was the main thing.”

Here we go again! YAF doubling down on wingnut talking points. :

The University of Iowa chapter of conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom next week will welcome to campus the former teammate of transgender NCAA Division I national champion swimmer Lia Thomas for a talk titled, “Men do not belong in women’s sports.”



Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan’s lecture and question-and-answer session “will highlight the importance of protecting women’s spaces — including sports, bathrooms, and prisons,” according to a news release from Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Iowa.


“Scanlan will share how radical gender ideology is destroying women’s sports, in addition to championing freedom and the challenges she has overcome to share this message.”




The 7 p.m. lecture on Monday will occur in the Blackbox Theater of the Iowa Memorial Union on the UI campus, where the same student group a year ago hosted conservative commentator Matt Walsh as part of his nationwide “What is a Woman” documentary tour.


Scanlan starred in Walsh’s documentary before testifying in July before the House Judiciary Committee about “The dangers and due process violations of ‘gender-affirming care’ for children.”

I'm disagreeing with people on Threads who are freaking out about this, threatening to boycott MSNBC. Literally acting like babies about it. You know she's a liar so let her colleagues make her look foolish. It could be a fun watch.

Was it yet another waste of a season?

You got all 4 classes being won by evil empire programs for their level.

1A- North Linn
2A- Western Christian
3A- Davenport Assumption
4A- WDM, Valley

Much like the criticisms with high school wrestling in this state, da fuq are we doing in basketball in this state that we allow it to come to this?

Do better, Iowa........

And yes those 4 schools, fans, parents, players, coaches, and mascots (especially the mascots) should apologize.

Hmmm. Where there’s smoke there’s fire?

Reportedly 40 dead

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Pat McAfee Show is coming to Iowa City next Friday for the women's first-round game.

The place better be LIT. 🔥

Pretty impressed with the number of Iowa fans there given the snow.

Dallas Clark ripping Nebby was pretty funny

How long is this going to continue?

Thanks a lot asshole Republican reps:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

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The bipartisan border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last week would have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. The bill’s demise has led ICE officials to begin circulating an internal proposal to save money by releasing thousands of detainees and cutting detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000 — the opposite of the enforcement increases Republicans say they want.

The budget crunch and the proposal also present a difficult scenario for the Biden administration heading into the spring, when illegal crossings at the southern border are expected to spike again. On Tuesday, House Republicans voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his border record, and immigration remains President Biden’s worst-rated issue in polls.



Former president Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican front-runner in the presidential campaign, boasted of his role in influencing lawmakers to block the border bill, which he said would have benefited Biden politically.
DHS could try to cover the funding gap at ICE by reprogramming money from the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration or other agencies within the department. But such moves are contentious, and ICE officials say the $700 million deficit is the largest projected shortfall the agency has faced in recent memory.

I think the two party system we have has served the country well for the vast majority of our countries existence.

Provided some stability as opposed to a parliamentary system until recently.

Pretty obvious it's degenerated to a point where a viable third or fourth option would be desirable to a lot of voters.

For the life of me I can't think of a way we could break this two party monopoly. The two parties have pretty much rigged the system so that a third party option is somewhat of pipe dream.

Seems more relevant this election cycle then ever.

Just created this thread to throw around options, because honestly I don't have any.

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Oh you just love to see it.. just another massive L the branch Covidians get to own..

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I wonder how many people died or suffered because of the lies told by the FDA here.


Full article by the starts of the epoch times for those who like reading.

What a disgrace:

Since 2020, a foundation has honored prominent women with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award, named after the late Supreme Court justice who championed women’s rights and liberal causes. But this year’s lineup stands out: Four of the recipients are men. Two of them have done prison time for financial crimes. One founded Fox News. Another is Elon Musk.


Musk, Martha Stewart, Michael Milken, Rupert Murdoch and Sylvester Stallone are the “five iconic individuals” who will receive the Ginsburg Leadership Award next month at the Library of Congress in an exclusive ceremony and gala, according to a news release from the award’s organizer, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation.
Musk will receive the award for entrepreneurship, Stallone for being a cultural icon, Stewart for industry leadership, Milken for philanthropy and Murdoch for being a media mogul, the news release said.


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Stewart was on Ginsburg’s “original wish list of potential honorees,” the news release said. But the foundation, which did not say how the honorees were picked, decided on a dramatic change this year.
“Justice Ginsburg fought not only for women but for everyone,” said Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation and widow of the foundation’s namesake, in the news release. “Going forward, to embrace the fullness of Justice Ginsburg’s legacy, we honor both women and men who have changed the world by doing what they do best.”
Irin Carmon, co-author of the book “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” said Ginsberg did champion gender equality but said Opperman’s characterization is at odds with Ginsburg’s views on the topic.

“I think it’s worth clarifying that the cases [Ginsburg] brought on behalf of male plaintiffs in the 1970s with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project were about challenging gender roles and stereotypes,” Carmon said. “They were men who were engaged in caregiving, or being supported by breadwinning spouses. They were not men who were fulminating about how birth control makes you fat,” she said, referring to comments made recently by Musk.


“When she said that she wanted men and women to be partners in gender equality, I do not think this is quite what she had in mind,” Carmon said.

In announcing this year’s awards, the Opperman Foundation praised Musk for being a free-speech advocate. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, certainly grapples with free-speech issues. But this week he was lambasted by Don Lemon for canceling a deal on X with the former CNN star a few hours after being interviewed by him.

“His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me,” Lemon wrote in a statement.
Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court when she joined in 1993. The X owner has been accused of contributing to the rapid increase in antisemitism on his social media platform by amplifying anti-Jewish tropes. Some major brands have fled the platform after seeing their advertisements placed next to antisemitic content.


Murdoch, whom the Opperman Foundation’s statement called “the most iconic living legend in media,” was a trailblazer in conservative media.

Federal Election Commission records show that Julie Opperman has donated more than $200,000 to Republican politicians and organizations since 2014.
Milken has been a major philanthropist for cancer research and public health — after he served prison time in the 1990s on six felony counts, including securities and mail fraud. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020. Stewart, the beloved lifestyle personality, served five months in federal prison after being convicted in 2004 of obstruction of justice, conspiracy and lying to federal investigators.
Stallone will appear in the upcoming action thriller “Armored.”
The honor was originally called the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award when it was first awarded in 2020. Its first recipient, philanthropist and arts patron Agnes Gund, was presented with the award by the justice herself, and subsequent awardees were Barbra Streisand, Queen Elizabeth II and Diane von Furstenberg.



Ginsburg was longtime friends with Dwight Opperman, who served as president of West Publishing Co., which created the online research service Westlaw. He died in 2013.
Matthew Umhofer, the Opperman Foundation’s president, told The Washington Post that “the RBG Award celebrates the achievements of individuals in their chosen fields without regard to politics.”

A disaster waiting to happen:

Teachers and other school staff could obtain a professional permit to carry guns on school grounds under a Republican-backed bill that passed the Iowa House Wednesday night after a tense debate.

House lawmakers voted 61-34 to pass House File 2586 Wednesday night. The bill would also require the state's largest districts to employ security officers or school resource officers in high school buildings unless the district's school board votes against it.

Private schools, as well as colleges and universities, would also be allowed to arm staff.

Lawmakers shared emotional stories on the House floor, recalling recent school shootings in Iowa and instances when they'd been notified that their children's schools had gone into lockdown.

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Teachers and other school staff could obtain a professional permit to carry guns on school grounds under a Republican-backed bill that passed the Iowa House Wednesday night after a tense debate.

House lawmakers voted 61-34 to pass House File 2586 Wednesday night. The bill would also require the state's largest districts to employ security officers or school resource officers in high school buildings unless the district's school board votes against it.

Private schools, as well as colleges and universities, would also be allowed to arm staff.

Lawmakers shared emotional stories on the House floor, recalling recent school shootings in Iowa and instances when they'd been notified that their children's schools had gone into lockdown.
"This bill sets a very high standard," Thompson said. "Because we’re talking about the safety of our children, the bar must be high. We recognize that this responsibility must be taken very seriously."

Democrats and those opposed to the measure say more armed personnel won't make students safer, raising concerns about lacking mental health resources and school security infrastructure while blasting Republicans' priorities on the issue.


Republicans proposed the legislation weeks after a shooter who was a student at Perry High School killed sixth-grader Ahmir Jolliff and principal Dan Marburger and wounded half a dozen others. Supporters have touted the measure as a key step in preventing future shootings and upping security in Iowa schools.

The bill's floor manager, Rep. Phil Thompson, R-Boone, outlined the training that school employees would have to complete in order to obtain a permit to carry a weapon on school grounds.