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[Tyler Jett @LetsJett]

Zach Lahn: “The Des Moines Register is not telling the truth on this. He's not under criminal investigation.”

Black Hawk County Sheriff: “I can confirm that we have an investigation open involving Derek Wulf.”

https://t.co/BHDiMq7vk2

[Iowa Starting Line @IAStartingLine]

Four days before a Dubuque County man was sentenced to lifetime sex offender registration for molesting a child, state Rep. Shannon Lundgren wrote the judge a letter on official letterhead vouching for his character.
https://t.co/xxoznQgnml

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3:

https://t.co/WXSo0zB6JF

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank diverted a spring that was a lifeline for the Palestinian village of Fasayil, cutting irrigation pipes in June and converting it into a tourist attraction, leaving nearby farms barren https://t.co/yzqIHVNnla

[Bleeding Heartland @LauraRBelin]

New post: Who is helping Derek Wulf pay his debts?
(what I've learned so far from researching the legal and financial entanglements of the GOP nominee for Iowa lieutenant governor) #IAGov
https://t.co/18VHESqoPr

[Kitty Eisele @RadioKitty]

WOW. DHS tracking this minister's husband, for his letter protesting the killing of two Americans in Minnesota. They even found him at a hotel w/his young daughter, returning from a vacation at Moominland. Surveillance? Harrassment? Overkill? https://t.co/zRA23oi13f

[Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff]

.@msk & I dug into what surgical assistants are earning in No Surprises Act arbitration. We found surgical assistants' earning:
—$50,000 for a prostate surgery
—$100,000 for a breast reconstruction (just right breast, not left)
—$210,000 for a facial feminization procedure
https://t.co/FUDj9uBwMK

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

SCOOP from @By_CJewett & me:

Markwayne Mullin urged @HHSGov to remove warnings from the @US_FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom.

Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited. https://t.co/rzkImei3VI

[Katie Smith @_ktmsmith]

Absolutely brutal side-by-side for @millermeeks in the @DMRegister

[Esteban @openedonce]

https://t.co/mLDhih7gmN

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

The Meredith family was forced to abandon their Oklahoma house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act like it would go away,” the family says.
https://t.co/XXyvOlFXz5

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

DOJ says it is taking on political violence with its new indictment of James Comey.

Meanwhile, DOJ is also seeking to vacate the seditious conspiracy conviction of Stewart Rhodes, who said “We should have brought rifles…I'd hang fuckin' Pelosi from the lamppost."

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

[Doug Bock Clark @DougBockClark]

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has been wielding its vast power to transform the midterm elections.

This is the untold story of Trump’s efforts to, as he has called it, “take over” the midterms.

[Vanessa Miller @VanessaMiller12]

Before an event debuting the Center for Intellectual Freedom @ UIowa - promising “greater viewpoint diversity on campus” - organizers sent email invites to ~100 lawmakers, all Republican, touting activist Chris Rufo, paid $34K to speak. https://t.co/HsQITkaEJF via @gazettedotcom

[Reese Gorman @reesejgorman]

New: Five different companies that have ties to William Walters, a donor to Kristi Noem, got hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from DHS.

Democrats in Congress are now probing Walters and his contracts

W/ @anna_c_kramer

https://t.co/yNR9pI5SHU

[Esteban @openedonce]

@writefelissa @DMRegister Appreciated your good work on important subjects.

[Eli McKown @Emckown23]

Iowa State and SDSU is over on Iowa PBS.

Awesome to have them back on the college wrestling scene, with their impact on the sport being as big as it is:

https://t.co/ToBmsM4AzR.

[Max Blau (maxblau.bsky.social) @MaxBlau]

Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with @zaydee_s to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

A woman in Manhattan reported to police that an Amazon delivery man, 5'6'', exposed himself to her.

Police did a face recognition search, showed her result, arrested the wrong guy, 6'2''.

What did the NYPD not do? Call Amazon.

https://t.co/FhA7ewLfgb