6 pm CT tonight, with home opener this Sunday vs UMKC, and first Cy-Hawk game of the year here a week from tonight! Defender Sam Cary, forward Meike Ingles, and goalkeeper Macy Enneking all Pre-Season All-B1G:

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Why is it so hard to find info out about Iowa wrestlers? It seems like other programs have more wrestlers competing in the off-season or just have more coach/wrestler/player/parent info that gets out about off-season progress.
I find it hard to believe someone doesn't know if Ryder Block is going to try for 141 or if he is still injured? Ayala 125 or 133? Is Parco staying 149 like most think he will? Is Caleindo going for 157!! What's going on with Kennedy? Ferrari's? Cass?
It is amazing how many big story lines are out there.
No wonder it drives the Cesspool crazy.
Is Brands so tight lipped because he thinks it helps the opponents? I just don't see the harm and telling the public what weights some wrestlers are thinking about?

Didn't know this was a thing. Wordle for music. You listen to the isolated drum track, then layer the bass, guitar, etc until you recognize. Or not.


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Looking at the radar light up this morning, I can't help but remember how the June 2008 flooding began with a series of carpet bombing rain systems running over the same areas.

No, I highly doubt that's going to happen (we didn't have the over-saturated soils to begin the spring like we did in 2008) - and even though much of eastern Iowa is still technically in a drought - Iowa has been getting a lot of rain lately, and the forecast for this weekend is saying maybe a lot more is coming this weekend.

1993...2008...OK we've missed the 15 year window by a year, but still. I just have had this feeling that when the drought breaks, it's going to break big.

He has become the worse kicker in the league. WTF? Trade Mahomes for a kicker.

Paul Newman and Robert Shaw. All I have to say.

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Wife will enjoy it, too. Might be a tad racy for children. An iconic/legendary Vegas female comedian coming to crossroads in her career...

Please join me in congratulating george [fentanyl] floyd, on achieving 4 years of sobriety today!! Well done and well deserved!!! There will be riots and looting to celebrate this glorious event at a liquor store near you!!

...or ones I noticed today. @GOHOX69 , @NorthernHawkeye , @Whiskeydeltadeltatango , @Roncuba55 , @NoleATL . Conspiracy? Coincidence? Insecurity? Incognito? Incontinence?

Didn’t see one yet.

Get your Skims on, boyz.

9pm CT start, streaming on the W. Pray for @Moral. That’s a lot of adversity for that man.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

No,


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Another fighter has entered the ring in the fast food value wars.

Fast food giants like McDonald's and Wendy's are racing to win customers back with cheap deals after skyrocketing prices turned consumers away. Last week, Bloomberg reported McDonald's plans to release a $5 meal deal to attract more buyers after lackluster foot traffic in the first quarter.

Enter Burger King, one of Ronald McDonald's biggest competitors. According to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg, BK has plans in motion not only to launch its own $5 meal deal but to do so before the McDonald's campaign, which is reportedly set for late June.


"Burger King is accelerating its value offers after three quarters of leading the industry in value traffic. We are bringing back our $5 Your Way Meal as agreed upon with our franchisees back in April," Burger King said in a statement to USA TODAY.

The Burger King deal, called the $5 Your Way Meal, will include a choice between three sandwiches in addition to chicken nuggets, fries and a drink. The value meal is also slated to stick around for "several months," versus four weeks at McDonald's, Burger King confirmed in an email to USA TODAY.

Looks like Kueter stopped to get some work in with Dreshaun Ross, All-American wrestler and 2026 four-star linebacker from Fort Dodge.

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Have to think he did some recruiting here.

Life is good

Loire Valley

In light of Nikki’s announcement, I thought it would be nice to look at the good in these people. There’s a guy down the street who’s a Trumper. He keeps his lawn nicely manicured. Edges the walks and everything. He also does not hang balls from the hitch of his truck.

Watcha got?

Both Sides @binsfeldcyhawk2

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The NAACP on Tuesday led a group of civil rights organizations in calling for President Biden to pardon Marilyn Mosby, a former state’s attorney for Baltimore.

Mosby was convicted in February on a federal charge of making a false mortgage application in order to secure a lower interest rate. The conviction followed a November 2023 conviction on two counts of perjury relating to the withdrawal of funds from the City of Baltimore’s Deferred Compensation Plan. She faces up to 40 years in prison.

In a letter to Biden, the NAACP and 14 other groups argued Mosby was unfairly targeted and convicted “after enduring the political persecution and malicious prosecution of the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ).”

“We are deeply concerned that the last administration abused their power to advance a meritless indictment against Ms. Mosby and worse, the current administration’s U.S. Department of Justice ignored a clear political motive of the malicious prosecution against Ms. Mosby,” the letter states.

The groups allege that it was Mosby’s commitment to accountability and racial equity that drew the ire of federal officials, including former President Trump.

In February 2020, former Attorney General William Barr criticized prosecutors, including Mosby, in a speech before law enforcement.

Following the murder of George Floyd by police, Mosby appeared frequently on national TV and in newspapers as an authority on police misconduct and police prosecutions. When Trump threatened to deploy federal agents to Baltimore in July 2020, Mosby said she would prosecute any federal agents who engaged in unlawful actions against Baltimore citizens.

That August, the letter said, Mosby learned she was under federal investigation, “a move widely perceived as retaliation for her courageous stance in protecting her constituents’ constitutional rights.”

According to the letter, Mosby was wrongfully convicted in November. Though the DOJ argued she did not require the funds she withdrew from the retirement plan because she retained her full salary, the NAACP and other groups said she did meet an objective standard to qualify for the withdrawal.

Additionally, though 739 people withdrew funds from their retirement accounts without being charged for improper withdrawals, including three within her agency, Mosby was the only person charged. She was then denied due process and the opportunity to testify and present exculpatory evidence, the letter states.

Her February conviction was based on the misrepresentation of a $5,000 “gift” on a mortgage application. The letter to Biden argued that during the trial, expert testimony confirmed Mosby was improperly advised.


The letter concludes that the financial implications fall far below the Department of Justice’s usual million-dollar threshold.

“We expect that political persecutions and malicious prosecutions pursued during the Trump Administration would not continue in the Biden Administration,” the letter states. “Ms. Mosby’s case is not the only one — it is the latest and one of the most egregious cases. This matter should be corrected because it is a miscarriage of justice and an example of the last administration’s misuse of authority.”

The letter was also signed by Black to the Future Action Fund, Black Voters Matter, Black Women’s Roundtable, Color of Change, Fair and Just Prosecution, National Action Network, National Bar Association, National Black Justice Coalition, National Black Law Students Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Urban League, Until Freedom and World Without Genocide.
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, said Mosby’s conviction is an example of how Black Americans are targeted by the justice system.

“We’ve watched, decade after decade, as Black Americans have faced wrongful prosecution at the hands of those who seek to promote injustice,” Johnson said in a statement.

“The only thing Marilyn Mosby is guilty of is the desire to provide her family with a better life. The sad reality is, as Black women take their rightful places in positions of power, dark forces seek to tear down both their progress, and that of our community. The NAACP refuses to stand idly by as injustice takes the wheel, driving us down a path of further disparity. We are proud to stand alongside our partners in calling on President Biden and the Department of Justice to reemphasize their commitment to racial equity by pardoning Attorney Mosby. Enough is enough. It’s time to stand with Black women.”

Leading Democrat gets sentenced for crimes committed.

Former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby was sentenced by a federal judge to 12 months of home detention and three years of supervised release, both to be served concurrently, plus 100 hours of community service.

The 44-year-old decided not to defend herself before the sentence was delivered. She and her two daughters later spoke outside the courthouse.

US District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby said the defense's calculation of 12-18 months "is not appropriate in this case." She factored into her sentencing decision, speaking to Mosby, as she said, "the findings of two juries that you did something wrong ... breached a public trust ... that is very difficult to restore."

According to the judge, evidence has shown a pattern of dishonesty and that there are victims, though "not in the traditional sense." "You have an absolute right to maintain your innocence ... and should not be punished in any way for doing so," Griggsby told Mosby in the court, according to WBAL TV. The judge said the fact that Mosby is a mother of two daughters weighed heavily on the court.

Marilyn Mosby could have faced up to 40 years in federal prison​

Mosby could have faced up to 40 years in federal prison after the sentencing on Thursday, May 23. Defense attorneys had pushed for Mosby to serve no prison time while the federal government sought a 20-month prison sentence followed by five years of probation. The defense argued that Mosby's convictions are for victimless and non-violent crimes.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said incarceration would send a harmful message to the civil rights community.

Crump read a statement to reporters outside court before he delivered remarks to the judge, saying, in part, "To sentence her to prison being convicted for minor, non-violent offenses with no victims would be a grave injustice and it would magnify the trauma of her two beautiful daughters. The crux of the matter is (this is) ... a minor white-collar crime in which many others have been convicted of and sentenced to ... a slap on the wrist."

Internet lashes out at Marilyn Mosby for escaping jail time​

Netizens were disappointed and slammed Mosby after she escaped prison time. One X user commented, "Mosby is a disgrace to her city and the rule of law and had no business as a member of the Bar, much less as a minister of justice as Baltimore's DA. She's a political activist and exploited a tragedy at the expense of the careers of six police officers."

Another added, "DEI is coming along swimmingly…" One tweeted, "Biden replied with 'I'm not gonna pardon you. You never gave me my 10%.'" 'At the end of the day, Marilyn Mosby was just a grifter," one opined while another added, "Karma is a beautiful thing."


At the end of the day the usual Democrat clowns came out to give their support to Mosby, the clown show led by Ben Crump and the judge Lydia Kay Griggsby sided with the grifter (Mosby).

Wonder if Taylor can squeeze more than 3 points a match out of him.

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Trump isn't even President yet and were already acting like a banana republic.

Blinken willing to work with Congress on potential sanctions against ICC​

Republicans seek help from secretary of state after prosecutor Karim Khan requests arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu

The Biden administration is willing to work with Congress to potentially impose sanctions against international criminal court officials over the prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the Gaza war, Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, said on Tuesday.

At a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing, Republican Lindsey Graham told Blinken he wanted to see renewed US sanctions on the court in response to the move announced by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on Monday.

“I want to take actions, not just words,” Graham said to Blinken. “Will you support [a] bipartisan effort to sanction the ICC, not only for the outrage against Israel but to protect, in the future, our own interest?”

“I welcome working with you on that,” Blinken said.

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‘Crisis in dental care’: Bernie Sanders on his fight for better teeth for Americans​

Exclusive: senator condemns ‘dysfunctional’ system and says his bill would help tens of millions who struggle to afford care

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In 2019, more than 2 million Americans went to the emergency room for tooth pain, a 62% increase since 2014, and a crisis of affordability pushed an estimated 490,000 Americans to travel to other countries such as Mexico for lower-cost dental care.

One in five US seniors have lost all their natural teeth, almost half of adults have some kind of gum disease and painful cavities are one of the most common reasons children miss school.

Nearly 69 million adults and almost 7 million children lack dental insurance. For those who have insurance, costs are often opaque and high.

Sanders’ bill expands dental coverage by adding comprehensive benefits to Medicare; incentivizing states to improve dental benefits through Medicaid; and providing dental benefits to veterans through the Veterans Administration.

Additionally, the bill would attempt to tackle some states’ dentist shortage by creating student loan forgiveness programs for dentists who practice in underserved areas....

Expanding dental coverage is exceedingly popular – recent polls show 92% of voters support the proposal, including an overwhelming majority of Republicans.

Despite popular support and the poor state of Americans’ dental health, Republican lawmakers and conservative thinktanks argue the proposal is “a solution in search of a problem”.

The ADA has also opposed past efforts to add dental benefits to Medicare, arguing in part that the administrative burden of accepting Medicare would be too great for many dental practices.

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