Glad Ty Thompson didn't end up at Iowa.

He's a really bad passer.

the ceiling is pretty high. Bummer that they've dropped two very winnable games against power conference teams

Is this legal?

I've been debating on what to make, I don't want a ham or turkey. Might try a brisket or prime rib this year.

We've been arguing about the age of the school shooter in another thread. This thread is just to get an idea of how many students start kindergarten at 6 rather than 5. Please share the age your child started school and their birth month (no need for SS numbers or their mother's maiden name ).

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

I’ve seen numerous comments about how Iowa sports is in for a world of hurt when Fran and Ferentz move on. Iowa State has found two coaches that have brought them a lot of success, especially in basketball . Considering where they were in football Campbell has done a pretty amazing job. So if another school in our state with less conference money coming in, can get it right, what are we so afraid of? Sure, we could fail with a hire or two but eventually don’t you have swing for the fences? I am happy with the job KF has done but the end is near. Fran has us as a bubble or worse program with no hope of any Sweet 16. I just think we can be better than that once in a while.

Convince me he’s not an All Big player. Because you’re wrong. Most complete player in the Fran era.

Iowa didn't need to pass much today; they ran it 58 times for 268 yards.

But when they did need to pass, Shaggy slung it and was accurate (there were balls that should have been caught).

Jackson's stats: 10-14, 76 yards, 0 INTs.

The color commentator said it best; Shaggy never made the same mistake twice.

Iowa (7-4) wins 29-13.

GO HAWKS!!!

Prime time basketball. Big event with Tennessee and UCONN. Iowa's chance to show the nation they're a big time program even without Clark. WUFF!!

Not a big deal to lose, but Iowa just looked lost. It was embarrassing to watch them try and handle the basketball. Explain Iowa offense tonight? It wasn't even the full court pressure but the lazy passes in the half court that baffled me.

And where were the freshman in the second half? Could Jan have gone small on spurts to help handle the ball and get something going on offense? Seemed like she didn't make many adjustments.

WHY IS THIS POS STILL GETTING A PAYCHECK?


President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week.

Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies were the ones wrestling with lawmakers over a continuing resolution as a government shutdown appeared increasingly inevitable.

The White House on Friday blew off a host of questioning over Biden’s absence from the talks, insisting they were staying out of it in part because it was Republicans who had to clean up a “mess” they created. But, Biden’s silence, with no indication that administration officials were heading to Capitol Hill as the funding deadline approached, could prove damaging to the president’s final days in office.

“We’re just not seeing them. And he’s completely disappeared,” GOP strategist Doug Heye said of the president. “Biden is AWOL and it’s reasonable to question whether some of that is because he’s just not up to the task.”

When peppered with questions about why Biden has made no public statements or appearances regarding the funding fight, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was part of a “strategy” to make it clear that “this is for Republicans in the House to fix.”

That did little to deter more questions in similar veins about what Biden’s plans were if the government shutdown over the holidays, why Biden himself wasn’t speaking to reporters, with some reporters asking if Americans deserve to hear from the president hours before a shutdown.

Others also asked about Biden’s leadership position at the moment and why Biden doesn’t want to counter Trump and Elon Musk’s messaging on government funding.

Some Democrats took note that, on the flip side, lawmakers aren’t pleading with the president to jump in and help reach a funding agreement, pointing to a larger issue that his party is ready for the Biden years to end.

“The bigger story is that no one is asking him to be involved. Democrats in Washington just want the Bidens and their people to get the hell out of town so we can move on from them,” a Democratic strategist told The Hill.

If Biden had been more involved with continuing resolution negotiations, former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) questioned if he would even be listened to considering how absent he has been.

“President Biden has been in lame duck status for most of this year. Even if he had something to say, it doesn’t seem there would be anyone listening,” Curbelo said. “His only strategy is to let President Trump, Elon Musk, and the Speaker own the chaos, since it was their decision to torpedo that bipartisan agreement [Speaker Mike] Johnson had built.”

The White House did release two written statements on the matter during the week. On Thursday, the administration bashed the Republicans’ plan B as a “billionaire giveaway” before it failed on the House floor. It has yet to weigh in onHouse Republicans proposals since, other than insisting that the only way to fund the government is for lawmakers to pass the first spending agreement that was negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and that Democrats were on board for.
The White House approach is in stark contrast to that of Trump, who injecting himself fully in the fight, at one point even torpedoing the initial agreement and asking for the debt ceiling to be negotiated before he takes office.

Trump then warned Republicans who voted for that measure that they would be primaried if they support legislation that doesn’t tackle the debt limit.

When questioned about tackling the debt limit as part of the CR, Jean-Pierre said Biden’s “focus right now is keeping the government open” without addressing that subject matter. Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) negotiated a debt ceiling hike during Biden’s term after weeks of back-and-forth negotiations that the White House was much more involved in.

Former Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), a former House Democratic caucus chair, argued there was no need for Biden to get involved in inter-party chaos among Republicans.


“I really don’t see how this is the president’s issue,” said Crowley. “Clearly Johnson, he can’t govern with the majority he has. How’s he going to do this when he has less of a majority?”

Other Democrats agreed, saying that the struggle to fund the government is the Republicans’ problem.

“This seems like an inter-party squabble, and I’m not sure that Biden or any Democrat has a role in solving it,” said Ivan Zapien, a former Democratic National Committee official.

Meanwhile, a former Democratic leadership staffer said that the negotiations are the problems of Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.), not Biden’s, considering he is on his way out.

“These negotiations will shape next year’s legislative and political dynamic on multiple levels, so by definition, the center of gravity for Democrats is with Jeffries and Schumer,” the former staffer said. “Unified Republican control next year will inherently be constrained by narrow margins, so Jeffries and Schumer will continue to ensure that Democratic votes are not taken for granted.”


Still, Biden risks being blamed for a shutdown under his watch, some Trump is trying to take advantage of

Trump on Friday morning called for there to be a shutdown while Biden is president and not after he is sworn in in a month. Trump had also insisted that a debt ceiling hike also happen during Biden’s administration to avoid any blame that came with that.

When questioned about Trump’s comments, Jean-Pierre again blamed Republicans for sinking the initial measure.

Trump was president during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which occurred just before Christmas in 2019 over funding for his border wall. The second longest was under former President Clinton in 1995 over spending cuts, and the third longest was under former President Obama in 2013 over the Affordable Care Act.

At the time, those shutdowns had mixed public opinions over who was to blame.


After the 2013 Obama-era shutdown, Republicans expanded their majority in the House and won the Senate in the 2014 midterms. After the Clinton-era shutdown that lasted through December 1996, the president was reelected. Trump was reelected in November, despite the lengthy shutdown in 2019 and the House and Senate are both going to be controlled by the GOP in January.

Biden’s strategy to not give public remarks and not sending his staff up to Capitol Hill is one way the White House thinks he can stay above the fray, Crowley said.

college FB is ruined. who can afford this? who is buying tix at face value? such a sad state of CFB

A mass removal of undocumented workers could lead to a tighter labor market in Iowa, higher wage rates and higher production costs, potentially leading to higher prices for goods and services, according to an Iowa State University economist.



Iowa could lose $151.6 million in taxes and tens of thousands of Iowa children could be separated from a parent if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise of mass deportation.


Or the plan could be too unwieldy, logistically burdensome and costly to execute in full. Either way, undocumented immigrants in Iowa and their advocates say they are preparing for the worst.




Trump has vowed to conduct "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.“ He has tapped immigration hard-liners to serve in his cabinet, including Tom Homan to serve as “border czar” and Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary.


"It's not going to be a massive sweep of neighborhoods," Homan said in an interview with Fox News. "It's not going to be massive raids. It's going to be a targeted enforcement operation."


Homan, though, warned that does not mean deportations of other undocumented migrants living in the country “is off the table.”


“If you're in a country illegally, you've got a problem,” he told Fox News.





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An estimated more than 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States, according to Pew Research. There are roughly 52,300 undocumented immigrants living in Iowa, or about 1.6 percent of the state’s population, according to estimates from the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration advocacy group.


Vice-president-elect JD Vance has suggested 1 million people could be deported each year. Trump deported about 1.5 million people during his first term. Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration was on pace to match those numbers, in addition to millions turned away at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic.


More than 3 million people were deported during Democratic former President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, more than any other U.S. president.


The Gazette spoke with an economist, Iowa business leader, immigration attorney and legal expert as well as with leaders and advocates in Iowa’s immigrant community to get a sense of the potential impact of Trump’s plans on Iowa families, communities and businesses.

What’s the reaction from Iowa immigrants to Trump’s plans?​

Tens of thousands of undocumented migrants are working across Iowa, contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to the Iowa economy.


A 2022 report by the American Immigration Council about immigrants living in Iowa estimates that undocumented residents made up about 2.4 percent of the state’s workforce and paid $354 million in taxes, with $151.6 million going to local and state governments. Those immigrants spent a total of $1.3 billion, the report found.


An estimated 26.2 percent of the state’s immigrant population are undocumented residents.


Rogelio Lagunas, a member of the Cedar Rapids Latino community, said many Iowa immigrants lack criminal records and know their rights and the process involved if detained, which reduces the fear of mass deportation.


“We know if people is not a criminal, if they got detained, they got to go to through the immigration process. They got to go to immigration court,” Lagunas said. “So we're not afraid. The community is not afraid about mass deportation,” he said of comments made by Trump’s team.


Advocates and legal experts, however, said there’s no guarantee that undocumented migrants without criminal convictions would not be ensnared in deportation efforts.


While Homan has said undocumented migrants deemed to be national security or public safety threats will be a priority, he has also suggested workplace raids that took place under former President W. Bush’s second term — like the 2008 raid that occurred at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville — could return.


Lagunas stressed that while the community is not overly worried about mass deportations, they are concerned about the emboldening of racist behavior and increased bullying and discrimination against people of color.


Trump escalated his anti-immigration rhetoric on the campaign trail, saying during a rally in Iowa that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of America, echoing the rhetoric of white supremacists.


The president-elect also has falsely claimed that immigrants are “coming from prisons, they’re coming from jail, they’re from mental institutions and insane asylums.”


Lagunas, who immigrated to Iowa, encouraged the community to assert their rights and speak out against racism.


Jairo Muñoz of Iowa City has been a U.S. citizen for 35 years. Originally from Colombia, he moved to the country 42 years ago to pursue a master's and PhD in engineering.


Like Lagunas, Muñoz said he worries about Trump stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and discrimination and declining support for diversity and inclusion efforts.


“It is the impact on the fiber of the community, of the people on how now it's OK to mistreat others,” Muñoz told The Gazette. “Now how diversity and inclusion is a sinful couple of words we cannot say. We cannot do it, we cannot act on it. That is becoming the new fiber of our society, and that is what really concerns me.”


He said he does not believe mass deportations are likely.


“Mass deportations will not be possible in the same way that it was not possible to build a wall and have Mexico pay for the wall,” he said. “… I don't think there will be mass deportations. I think (Trump) is doing what he always does. He says things to reach down to the emotions of people and to get other individuals in the community to follow his lead. And that is what I'm really concerned about.”