Caitlyn Clark Wears #4
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- Iowa Men's Basketball
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Good to see her back in action tonight
Insane.
Insane.
Iowa vs. Army and Princeton...
- Iowa Wrestling
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Hi all,
I just received an email from Journeyman Wrestling. Seems like there are a ton of available seats for the duals taking place in St Charles, MO on December 6th. Hope to see some of you fellas there!
We currently have 500 paid spectators for the Iowa vs. Army and Princeton double dual, which falls well short of our goal of 2,500 attendees. Securing top-tier programs to wrestle off-campus is no easy feat, and for it to continue being an option, it needs to be a viable opportunity for the teams. Filling the seats is the minimum expectation they look at when deciding to participate.
We’d greatly appreciate your support in helping us build momentum for December 6! Group sales are available for teams bringing 15 or more people. Let’s showcase the strength of our wrestling community and make this an unforgettable event!
Event Details
December 6, 2024
Francis Howell High School
7001 Highway 94 South
St. Charles, MO 63304
I just received an email from Journeyman Wrestling. Seems like there are a ton of available seats for the duals taking place in St Charles, MO on December 6th. Hope to see some of you fellas there!
We currently have 500 paid spectators for the Iowa vs. Army and Princeton double dual, which falls well short of our goal of 2,500 attendees. Securing top-tier programs to wrestle off-campus is no easy feat, and for it to continue being an option, it needs to be a viable opportunity for the teams. Filling the seats is the minimum expectation they look at when deciding to participate.
We’d greatly appreciate your support in helping us build momentum for December 6! Group sales are available for teams bringing 15 or more people. Let’s showcase the strength of our wrestling community and make this an unforgettable event!
Event Details
7001 Highway 94 South
St. Charles, MO 63304
Trump Has a New Favorite Foreign Leader. He’s Known as ‘the Madman.’
- By cigaretteman
- Off Topic
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Javier Milei, the wild-haired Argentine president known by his supporters as “the madman,” has lately edged out Hungary’s Viktor Orban as the MAGA movement’s chief international inspiration.
Donald Trump has called Milei his “favorite president,” and Milei was the first foreign leader to visit him at Mar-a-Lago after his victory. Last week, the Conservative Political Action Conference, which has increasingly sought to build a global network of right-wing activists and politicians, held its first-ever conference in Buenos Aires. Lara Trump, the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, gave a speech lauding Milei’s relentless budget-slashing, and vowed that, with help from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency, “we’re going to do the same thing in the United States.”
The ascendence of Milei in Trumpworld is a sign of an important ideological shift on the right. Trump first ran for office railing against corporate America and rejecting the sort of entitlement cuts long dreamed of by Republican wonks like Paul Ryan, the former House speaker. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump said in 2015. After Trump won, Orban became an icon to a group of rising right-wing intellectuals less interested in fiscal discipline than in using the power of the state to remake culture, reward friends and punish enemies. Conservatives like JD Vance often speak admiringly of the subsidies Orban’s government gives families to encourage them to have more children; such spending is more than 5 percent of Hungary’s G.D.P.
Milei is a very different kind of right-winger. He’s an arch-libertarian — except when it comes to abortion — who has four cloned mastiffs named after conservative economists. He believes that drugs should be legal, as should the sale of organs, and sees marriage as a contract that should exist outside of state regulation.
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Since taking office a year ago amid devastating hyperinflation, he’s undertaken a campaign of economic shock therapy, slashing government spending by around 30 percent. In doing so, as Jon Lee Anderson wrote in a recent New Yorker profile, he’s changed “the compact between the Argentinian state and its citizens — cutting cost-of-living increases to pensioners, funding for education, and supplies for soup kitchens in poor neighborhoods.” In some ways, Milei is succeeding; inflation has plummeted. But the poverty rate rose by around 11 points during his first six months in office, to almost 53 percent, and the country has fallen into a recession.
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In the American right’s admiration for Milei, you can see the rebirth of old-fashioned small-government conservatism in feral tech-bro form. Campaigning for Trump in October, Musk argued that Americans need to accept “temporary hardship” to reduce spending, and Ramaswamy recently called for “Milei-style cuts on steroids.” It’s far from clear how much policy influence Musk and Ramaswamy will actually have; the Department of Government Efficiency is just an advisory board, not a real department. But while Paul Ryan may be banished from Trump’s Republican Party, some of the most unattractive elements of his politics have come roaring back.
Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, has long dreamed of pulling up Social Security “by the roots.” In social media posts last week, he compared it to a “Ponzi scheme” and called for “real reform.” “Interesting thread,” wrote Musk, boosting it. On Fox Business Network, Representative Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, said legislators need to have the “stomach” to make “hard decisions” about entitlements, while his fellow congressional Republican, Mark Alford, called for raising the Social Security retirement age.
At least in the immediate term, both Social Security and Medicare are probably safe, given the minuscule size of the House Republican majority. Plenty of other programs could, however, be on the chopping block.
A Republican Congress may cut federal matching funds that helped states expand access to Medicaid, which covers low-income people and people with disabilities. Republicans are talking about imposing national Medicaid work requirements and checking recipient eligibility more than once a year, potentially burdening people with more paperwork than they can keep up with. The G.O.P. is also looking at ways to cut food stamps and to make it harder to qualify for them. Affordable housing programs could be gutted, and Trump will probably roll back what he can of Biden’s student debt relief programs. New hardships, for many, may well be on the way. It remains to be seen how temporary they will be.
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For years, observers, including me, have attributed at least part of Trump’s success to his rhetorical break with the unpopular elements of conservative economic orthodoxy. His choice of Vance as vice president suggested he might be open to an expansion of the social safety net aimed at shoring up blue-collar families. But the American right’s lionization of Milei indicates a different Republican path, one more congenial to the party’s biggest donors.
Milei, with his defiantly vulgar, anarchically anti-establishment style, has managed to build a working-class constituency for economic austerity, and to maintain it even as his policies start to bite. (His approval rating is currently a relatively robust 55 percent.) He’s figured out a way to harness the insurrectionary energy of populism to the most elite economic program imaginable. This feat, such as it is, may not be replicable outside of Argentina, but it’s understandable that our plutocrats would want to try.
Donald Trump has called Milei his “favorite president,” and Milei was the first foreign leader to visit him at Mar-a-Lago after his victory. Last week, the Conservative Political Action Conference, which has increasingly sought to build a global network of right-wing activists and politicians, held its first-ever conference in Buenos Aires. Lara Trump, the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, gave a speech lauding Milei’s relentless budget-slashing, and vowed that, with help from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency, “we’re going to do the same thing in the United States.”
The ascendence of Milei in Trumpworld is a sign of an important ideological shift on the right. Trump first ran for office railing against corporate America and rejecting the sort of entitlement cuts long dreamed of by Republican wonks like Paul Ryan, the former House speaker. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump said in 2015. After Trump won, Orban became an icon to a group of rising right-wing intellectuals less interested in fiscal discipline than in using the power of the state to remake culture, reward friends and punish enemies. Conservatives like JD Vance often speak admiringly of the subsidies Orban’s government gives families to encourage them to have more children; such spending is more than 5 percent of Hungary’s G.D.P.
Milei is a very different kind of right-winger. He’s an arch-libertarian — except when it comes to abortion — who has four cloned mastiffs named after conservative economists. He believes that drugs should be legal, as should the sale of organs, and sees marriage as a contract that should exist outside of state regulation.
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Since taking office a year ago amid devastating hyperinflation, he’s undertaken a campaign of economic shock therapy, slashing government spending by around 30 percent. In doing so, as Jon Lee Anderson wrote in a recent New Yorker profile, he’s changed “the compact between the Argentinian state and its citizens — cutting cost-of-living increases to pensioners, funding for education, and supplies for soup kitchens in poor neighborhoods.” In some ways, Milei is succeeding; inflation has plummeted. But the poverty rate rose by around 11 points during his first six months in office, to almost 53 percent, and the country has fallen into a recession.
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In the American right’s admiration for Milei, you can see the rebirth of old-fashioned small-government conservatism in feral tech-bro form. Campaigning for Trump in October, Musk argued that Americans need to accept “temporary hardship” to reduce spending, and Ramaswamy recently called for “Milei-style cuts on steroids.” It’s far from clear how much policy influence Musk and Ramaswamy will actually have; the Department of Government Efficiency is just an advisory board, not a real department. But while Paul Ryan may be banished from Trump’s Republican Party, some of the most unattractive elements of his politics have come roaring back.
Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, has long dreamed of pulling up Social Security “by the roots.” In social media posts last week, he compared it to a “Ponzi scheme” and called for “real reform.” “Interesting thread,” wrote Musk, boosting it. On Fox Business Network, Representative Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, said legislators need to have the “stomach” to make “hard decisions” about entitlements, while his fellow congressional Republican, Mark Alford, called for raising the Social Security retirement age.
At least in the immediate term, both Social Security and Medicare are probably safe, given the minuscule size of the House Republican majority. Plenty of other programs could, however, be on the chopping block.
A Republican Congress may cut federal matching funds that helped states expand access to Medicaid, which covers low-income people and people with disabilities. Republicans are talking about imposing national Medicaid work requirements and checking recipient eligibility more than once a year, potentially burdening people with more paperwork than they can keep up with. The G.O.P. is also looking at ways to cut food stamps and to make it harder to qualify for them. Affordable housing programs could be gutted, and Trump will probably roll back what he can of Biden’s student debt relief programs. New hardships, for many, may well be on the way. It remains to be seen how temporary they will be.
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For years, observers, including me, have attributed at least part of Trump’s success to his rhetorical break with the unpopular elements of conservative economic orthodoxy. His choice of Vance as vice president suggested he might be open to an expansion of the social safety net aimed at shoring up blue-collar families. But the American right’s lionization of Milei indicates a different Republican path, one more congenial to the party’s biggest donors.
Milei, with his defiantly vulgar, anarchically anti-establishment style, has managed to build a working-class constituency for economic austerity, and to maintain it even as his policies start to bite. (His approval rating is currently a relatively robust 55 percent.) He’s figured out a way to harness the insurrectionary energy of populism to the most elite economic program imaginable. This feat, such as it is, may not be replicable outside of Argentina, but it’s understandable that our plutocrats would want to try.
More than 900 people died in Jonestown. Guyana wants to turn it into a tourist attraction
- By cigaretteman
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Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.
It was the largest suicide-murder in recent history, and a government-backed tour operator wants to open the former commune now shrouded by lush vegetation to visitors, a proposal that is reopening old wounds, with critics saying it would disrespect victims and dig up a sordid past.
Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in California and was moved into the Peoples Temple commune at age 14, said in a phone interview from the U.S. that she has mixed feelings about the tour.
Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in California and was moved into the Peoples Temple Guyana commune at age 14, is shown in Richmond, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2018. She said recently that Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown, "… but I just feel like any situation where people were manipulated into their deaths should be treated with respect."
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She was in Guyana's capital the day Jones ordered hundreds of his followers to drink a poisoned grape-flavored drink that was given to children first. Her two sisters and two nephews were among the victims.
"I just missed dying by one day," she said.
Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown.
"Then on the other hand, I just feel like any situation where people were manipulated into their deaths should be treated with respect," she said.
Vilchez said she hopes the tour operator would provide context and explain why so many people went to Guyana trusting they would find a better life.
The tour would ferry visitors to the far-flung village of Port Kaituma nestled in the lush jungles of northern Guyana. It's a trip possible only by boat, helicopter or plane; rivers instead of roads connect Guyana's interior. Once there, it's another 6 miles via a rough and overgrown dirt trail to the abandoned commune and former agricultural settlement.
The Peoples Temple compound is shown in November 1978 after the bodies of the Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers were removed.
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Neville Bissember, a law professor at the University of Guyana, questioned the proposed tour, calling it a "ghoulish and bizarre" idea in a recently published letter.
"What part of Guyana's nature and culture is represented in a place where death by mass suicide and other atrocities and human rights violations were perpetuated against a submissive group of American citizens, which had nothing to do with Guyana nor Guyanese?" he wrote.
Despite ongoing criticism, the tour has strong support from the government's Tourism Authority and Guyana's Tourism and Hospitality Association.
Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond said the government is backing the effort at Jonestown but is aware "of some level of push back" from certain sectors of society.
U.S. military personnel place bodies in coffins at the airport in Georgetown, Guyana, after collecting the remains of more than 900 members of the People's Temple who committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978.
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She said the government already helped clear the area "to ensure a better product can be marketed," adding that the tour might need Cabinet approval.
"It certainly has my support," she said. "It is possible. After all, we have seen what Rwanda has done with that awful tragedy, as an example."
Rose Sewcharran, director of Wonderlust Adventures, the private tour operator who plans to take visitors to Jonestown, said she was buoyed by the support.
"We think it is about time," she said. "This happens all over the world. We have multiple examples of dark, morbid tourism around the world, including Auschwitz and the Holocaust museum."
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It was the largest suicide-murder in recent history, and a government-backed tour operator wants to open the former commune now shrouded by lush vegetation to visitors, a proposal that is reopening old wounds, with critics saying it would disrespect victims and dig up a sordid past.
Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in California and was moved into the Peoples Temple commune at age 14, said in a phone interview from the U.S. that she has mixed feelings about the tour.
Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in California and was moved into the Peoples Temple Guyana commune at age 14, is shown in Richmond, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2018. She said recently that Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown, "… but I just feel like any situation where people were manipulated into their deaths should be treated with respect."
Jeff Chiu, Associated Press
She was in Guyana's capital the day Jones ordered hundreds of his followers to drink a poisoned grape-flavored drink that was given to children first. Her two sisters and two nephews were among the victims.
"I just missed dying by one day," she said.
Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown.
"Then on the other hand, I just feel like any situation where people were manipulated into their deaths should be treated with respect," she said.
Vilchez said she hopes the tour operator would provide context and explain why so many people went to Guyana trusting they would find a better life.
The tour would ferry visitors to the far-flung village of Port Kaituma nestled in the lush jungles of northern Guyana. It's a trip possible only by boat, helicopter or plane; rivers instead of roads connect Guyana's interior. Once there, it's another 6 miles via a rough and overgrown dirt trail to the abandoned commune and former agricultural settlement.
The Peoples Temple compound is shown in November 1978 after the bodies of the Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers were removed.
Associated Press
Neville Bissember, a law professor at the University of Guyana, questioned the proposed tour, calling it a "ghoulish and bizarre" idea in a recently published letter.
"What part of Guyana's nature and culture is represented in a place where death by mass suicide and other atrocities and human rights violations were perpetuated against a submissive group of American citizens, which had nothing to do with Guyana nor Guyanese?" he wrote.
Despite ongoing criticism, the tour has strong support from the government's Tourism Authority and Guyana's Tourism and Hospitality Association.
Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond said the government is backing the effort at Jonestown but is aware "of some level of push back" from certain sectors of society.
U.S. military personnel place bodies in coffins at the airport in Georgetown, Guyana, after collecting the remains of more than 900 members of the People's Temple who committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978.
Associated Press
She said the government already helped clear the area "to ensure a better product can be marketed," adding that the tour might need Cabinet approval.
"It certainly has my support," she said. "It is possible. After all, we have seen what Rwanda has done with that awful tragedy, as an example."
Rose Sewcharran, director of Wonderlust Adventures, the private tour operator who plans to take visitors to Jonestown, said she was buoyed by the support.
"We think it is about time," she said. "This happens all over the world. We have multiple examples of dark, morbid tourism around the world, including Auschwitz and the Holocaust museum."
More than 900 people died in Jonestown. Guyana wants to turn it into a tourist attraction
Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.
3 Eastern Iowa fishermen drown in Mississippi River
- By cigaretteman
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Three Eastern Iowans drowned Sunday when strong water currents pulled their fishing boat on the Mississippi River too close to a dam and capsized it, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
The department identified the three Monday as Mitchell Thomson, 30, of Stanwood; Nicholas Thomson, 40, of Tipton; and Kirk Stout Sr., 61, of Marion.
They had been fishing in a restricted area close to a lock and dam near Jackson County’s Bellevue about 11 a.m. when witnesses saw their 20-feet-long, flat-bottom boat fill with water and overturn.
Some attempted to rescue the men, who were not wearing life jackets.
"Several of them raced up there, but what can you do without putting yourself in some serious danger?" asked Lucas Dever, an Iowa DNR conservation officer who responded to the incident.
The witnesses were able to pull one person from the water who had floated away from the dam, Dever said. Emergency responders retrieved the other two after they floated downstream.
Two of the men were determined to have died in the water. Another was taken by ambulance to a Dubuque hospital, where he died.
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The Mississippi River has a series of more than two dozen dams that create a staircase of water. At each dam site, there is a lock that acts as an elevator for boat traffic, raising the vessels up a step when traveling north or down a step when going south.
There are safety signs and lights that warn smaller fishing boats from getting too close, and those areas are off-limits for fishing, Dever said.
"Anytime being around the dams, it's important to have your life jackets on and to stay out of the restricted areas, because of the heavy, dangerous currents," he said.
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The department identified the three Monday as Mitchell Thomson, 30, of Stanwood; Nicholas Thomson, 40, of Tipton; and Kirk Stout Sr., 61, of Marion.
They had been fishing in a restricted area close to a lock and dam near Jackson County’s Bellevue about 11 a.m. when witnesses saw their 20-feet-long, flat-bottom boat fill with water and overturn.
Some attempted to rescue the men, who were not wearing life jackets.
"Several of them raced up there, but what can you do without putting yourself in some serious danger?" asked Lucas Dever, an Iowa DNR conservation officer who responded to the incident.
The witnesses were able to pull one person from the water who had floated away from the dam, Dever said. Emergency responders retrieved the other two after they floated downstream.
Two of the men were determined to have died in the water. Another was taken by ambulance to a Dubuque hospital, where he died.
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The Mississippi River has a series of more than two dozen dams that create a staircase of water. At each dam site, there is a lock that acts as an elevator for boat traffic, raising the vessels up a step when traveling north or down a step when going south.
There are safety signs and lights that warn smaller fishing boats from getting too close, and those areas are off-limits for fishing, Dever said.
"Anytime being around the dams, it's important to have your life jackets on and to stay out of the restricted areas, because of the heavy, dangerous currents," he said.
3 Eastern Iowa fishermen drown in Mississippi River
They were residents of Marion, Stanwood and Tipton and were fishing Sunday too close to a dam near Bellevue.
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Marine veteran to be charged by Manhattan DA in Jordan Neely subway chokehold death
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Marine veteran to be charged by Manhattan DA in Jordan Neely subway chokehold death
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is charging Marine veteran Daniel Penny with manslaughter in the second degree in the NYC subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely.