A deer carried out of my local Menards? Hard to think of a more #midwestern news story. https://www.kwqc.com/2025/12/16/customers-safely-remove-deer-menards/
#Midwestern
A deer carries out of my local Menards? Hard to think of a more #midwestern news story. https://www.kwqc.com/2025/12/16/customers-safely-remove-deer-menards/
From the article: "A new #Drug has been saturating the fentanyl supply in #Philadelphia and moving to other cities throughout the East and #Midwestern #UnitedStates: medetomidine, a powerful veterinary sedative that causes almost instantaneous blackouts and, if not used every few hours, brings on life-threatening withdrawal symptoms." :blobfrowningbig:
The University Press of Kansas is having a 40% off sale with code UPKHOLIDAY25 through December 26.
Lots of great #Midwestern and related #history. And UPK has an important series on the history of #law and #SupremeCourt cases.
Wong Kim Ark's Supreme court cases is a landmark decision about #BirthrightCitizenship, which #Trump is seeking to overturn.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700634217/
#USPol #histodons @histodons #LegalHistory #bookstodon #WongKimArk
The Midwest whispers goodnight beneath autumn’s glow, Superheroes, ghosts, and ghouls roam chilly streets. Candy traded and laughter rises. A #Midwestern #Halloween Night by Paula Frew #Midwest #AutumnNights #Poetry #TrickOrTreat
https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/ghouls-midwestern-halloween-night/
During the hot months when I'm working outside sweating my butt off, I get really excited about autumn. And every year I forget that here in the #KC area we don't really do that season like everyone else.
Case study: 6 days ago I tooted about it being in the high 80s and loathing to turn on the AC. This morning? My car was frosted!
In this episode, Megan shares the secret-not-so-secret queer history of their hometown, #KansasCity . Whether on the #Missouri or the #Kansas side, you might be quite surprised at just how much queer history can be found in this mid-size #Midwestern city in what a lot of people consider a " #flyoverstate ."
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images:
1 outside the Jewel Box Lounge
2 collage of queer Kansas City life - Savannah Hawley-Bates/Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America
3 Drew and Phyllis Schafer
4 Drew and Mickey Ray
5 Edye Gregory, 1977
6 Edye Gregory, 1977
7 Ray Rondell
8 cover of the Kansas City Town Squire featuring the Boys at the Jewel Box
9 Womontown resident Beverly Powell carrying a Womontown flag - Photo from Sue Moreno
10 Andrea Nedelsky with filmmakers Emily Woodring and Brydie O'Connor of Kansas City PBS film Nedelsky discussing Womontown's history
#queerKansasCity #gayKansasCity #lesbianKansasCity #dragKansasCity #LGBTQIAKansasCity #queermidwest #KansasCityHistory
Find us where you get your podcasts, and check us out across the web!
If you're into what we do, please share/like/subscribe/contact us and share! It really helps us out.
images:
1 outside the Jewel Box Lounge
2 collage of queer Kansas City life - Savannah Hawley-Bates/Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America
3 Drew and Phyllis Schafer
4 Drew and Mickey Ray
5 Edye Gregory, 1977
6 Edye Gregory, 1977
7 Ray Rondell
8 cover of the Kansas City Town Squire featuring the Boys at the Jewel Box
9 Womontown resident Beverly Powell carrying a Womontown flag - Photo from Sue Moreno
10 Andrea Nedelsky with filmmakers Emily Woodring and Brydie O'Connor of Kansas City PBS film Nedelsky discussing Womontown's history
#queerKansasCity #gayKansasCity #lesbianKansasCity #dragKansasCity #LGBTQIAKansasCity #queermidwest #KansasCityHistory
Ran 9.5 miles today, raked dirt, then cut down a privet tree the old-fashioned way - an axe, some physics and some geometry to keep it from falling on my house or my fence. Also didn’t eat much except some high-protein low-everything-else stuff.
Today I don’t feel so bad about making hot dish and having a couple beers at night.
Joe Town Bound
#PhoenixReal #beverlylandersonbooks #beverlylanderson #phoenixvoicespublishing #books #bookseries #newbooks #reading #amwriting #series #contemporary #darkromance #smalltowrnromance #queerromance #gayromance #nonbinarycharacters #stjosephmissouri #midwestern
Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy
"It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.
Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025
"After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'
"'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.
"'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.
"The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.
"Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.
"#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.
"'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-donald-trump
#Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism
Throwback to a hot #Midwestern summer at the park. #DaisyDoo
Today at "Tales from Progress City," the blog about my #experimental #storytelling #project, where I'm creating 200 years of history for a #fictitious US #Midwestern #city: A deeper look at the Turtle Bay neighborhood, ground zero of a style of architecture that combined the clean lines of the #PrairieStyle with the surreal curves of European #ArtNouveau. A deeper look at history mashups and using #AI to get images that don't actually exist in the real world.
https://write.as/tales-from-progress-city/neighborhood-focus-turtle-bay
My Midwestern dad (MMD) in 1998: *buys a nice fishing boat*
MMD, 1998-2019:
"The two best days of a sailors life are the day he buys the boat and the day he sells it."
"A boat is just a hole in the water you throw money into."
MMD, 2020: *sells boat*
MMD, June 2024: *retires*
MMD, October 2024: *buys a boat*
Such a stereotypical rural Midwestern dad (except he'll definitely #voteblue )
Revisiting ‘#Iowa,’ #PatrickMoore’s #neglected #gay #novel
Patrick Moore’s #book is a prime example of overlooked #Midwestern #literature that deserves renewed #attention. Set against the #conservative #backdrop of #Smalltown #Iowa, the #novel explores the #life of a #closeted #gay #teenager navigating #desire, #repression, and #identity in the 1990s.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://littlevillagemag.com/plain-spoken-revisiting-iowa-patrick-moores-neglected-gay-novel/
[03:42] Walz and Vance face off in only vice presidential debate
Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance, two sons of America's Midwestern heartland with deeply opposing views on the issues facing the US, shook hands ahead of the only vice presidential debate of the 5 November election.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1002/1473091-us-vice-presidential-debate/
#Democrat #TimWalz #Republican #JDVance #two #America #Midwestern #US #5 #November
Turns out my #midwestern “things you bring to a potluck picnic” category wasn’t good enough for the coastal elites at #NYTGames.
#Connections
Puzzle № 437
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#Kansas #Gov. #LauraKelly says "#TimWalz is the #epitome of the #Midwestern #dad"
"You could put him at any #statefair, on any #MainStreet, and certainly in any #Fridaynight #football #game in #rural #Kansas, and he would fit right in," Kelly said of #Minnesota #Gov. #TimWalz on "#FacetheNation with #MargaretBrennan" Sunday.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-governor-laura-kelly-tim-walz-midwestern-dad/
You could tell the #Trump campaign was thrown off by the #Walz pick when the #GOP’s VP pick, #JDVance, attacked the #camo-wearing, #gun-owning, #smalltown #Midwestern #schoolteacher as a “#SanFrancisco-style #liberal.”
Never mind that #Vance lived in the #BayArea for about 4yrs while Minnesota’s Walz visited the place for the 1st time only last month. The tired misfire speaks to how dependent the GOP is on stereotypes about who “#liberals” are & what “#liberalism” means.
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