Brook

Former wushu dad, pole vault dad, now sprint dad. Iowan in spirit. X was my water cooler. Gone if they charge.

[Jane Angel @janelvis77]

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[Brook @Brook39293211]

@Lcnvart I choose only high end theatres that enforce quiet. Like the paragon chain.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Dennis Hastert died this morning.

For 16 years, while he was a coach and government teacher at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois, Hastert sexually abused at least four boys (and likely more).

He was still sexually abusing students when he began his political career and ran for the Illinois State House.

He was elected to the U.S. House in 1986 and became Speaker of the House in 1999. He would become the longest-serving Republican Speaker.

Despite his long background of molesting children, Hastert positioned himself as a "family values" social conservative.

His downfall came when the FBI discovered structured "hush money" payments he was making to one of his victims to keep them quiet.

Incredibly, Hastert had publicly called for life sentences for child molestors.

He retired from Congress after making a fortune and joined a lobbying firm.

He would eventually be convicted of a charge related to his "hush money" structured payments to the victim he molested but not charges for the molestation because the statute of limitation had passed.

Interesting note on his plea deal that landed him only 15 months in prison: 60 people submitted character statements on his behalf, but 19 were withdrawn when it was ruled the statements would be made public.

Nineteen people--whom we'll never know--were going to defend a serial child molester until they realized it would be public knowledge.

Anyway, the bastard got to live the rest of his life in relative comfort after serving only 13 months in prison.

He died today. Rest in piss.

[kyama @kyamawebb23]

Here's what's going to happen. Trump loses the midterms. He declares massive voting fraud, calls supporters to attack immediately. GOP refuses to accept results. FBI seizes ballots and voting machines within days. Results stall for weeks. Republican officials cancel results in lost districts, order new votes. Protests erupt. Troops deploy under the Insurrection Act. January 3, Congress refuses to seat the Democrats. This isn't prediction. It's pattern. They've already done each of these things.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Want to know how popular trump is?

He’s speaking in a high school gym in Ohio today.

[soph!✰ @sophstcrs]

they try so hard to dehumanize her and make her out to be this evil, despicable person. meanwhile? she’s watching the football game from the children’s hospital with all the kids who are sick. because THAT is who caitlin clark is. proud as ever, 22.💛🖤

[Average Joe Iowan @AverageJoeIowan]

I can't believe Iowa Republicans are willing to bet over $1B dollars without actually vetting the project first.
We went from "It's a done deal" to Iowa taxpayers coughing up big bucks in 24 hours.

[Brook @Brook39293211]

@buettner_garry @DMRegister Would rather have more windmills.

[Brook @Brook39293211]

@madebyolah Wife and I had to cobra 30 days for gap between jobs. Total cost, $3,600. It also covers the daughter and it is very good coverage. But dang....single payer please!!! Stop tying health care to employment.

[Sharon S Brown @MySharonaBrown]

Not to alarm anyone, but a religious department at the Pentagon is bad. Like, really bad. It was bound to happen b/c he thinks he's fighting a holy war and his religious mentor thinks slavery should make a comeback. Good times.

[KWQC TV6 News @kwqcnews]

The White House called a $15B Iowa steel mill a "done deal," but TV6 Investigates discovered no permits, no property sales, and a location that's still a secret. Here's what we found:

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

That new steel mill in Iowa will break ground right after the Foxconn plant in Kenosha opens.🤣

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

🤡 Eric Schmitt beclowns himself during Jack Smith hearing 🤡

Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atlanta to go to a Hawks game and collude with Fani Willis, and briefly displayed his "evidence" on a poster board before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- Schmitt's facts were totally wrong. Smith was actually in Maryland at a Hawkeyes (not a Hawks) game and never met Willis. As Klobuchar told him, "You have your teams wrong."

Here's the whole deeply embarrassing sequence:

[Brook @Brook39293211]

@Not_In_ThisLife @ZachLahn @IowaGOP Thank you for reminding us all. I was just looking this up. Another con job.

[Brook @Brook39293211]

@CJHawkeyes We can pass!

[David Doak @SouthPoint1000]

What I hope is being planned for: If we win control of the Senate, I expect Alito and Thomas to resign during the lame duck session and for R's to try and push through 2 new Trump appointees. We must have a strategy to stop it.

[Delina DiSanto @delina4az]

The U.S. Government is now paying for commercials promoting Trump and his capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro?
THIS IS PROHIBITED BY FEDERAL LAW!
Is our Congressional members awake on this?

[Brook @Brook39293211]

@CJHawkeyes @ScottRoberts Ya. I’m not a big knitter or golfer and I suck at video games. So what’s left up there?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all."

TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.