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As leaders debate action, gun reform advocates will don orange and demonstrate in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids (June 2)
“Gun control could never work.” So why does it work just fine everywhere else in the world? —John M.
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Well done, youths!! Y’all give me hope for the future of humanity. —Carrie R.
The Wesley Center ends its century-long affiliation with the United Methodist Church (June 5)
This is why after being a member for 72 years I withdrew my United Methodist Church membership. I realize that it is the southern conference members that are dictating this oppressive posture, but come on Methodists.....get your act together. —Nicki M. Southern conference has split the church. That saying WWJD, he’d welcome everyone. Good for Wesley Center. —Barbara W.
Pride month 2022 so strong already. —Kane K.E.
Reps. Hinson and MillerMeeks vote against raising the age to buy semiautomatic rifles (June 10)
Of course they did. Once a baby is born they don’t give a damn. —Becky P.
America is hopeless. Iowa is worse. —John M.
‘I should not be predicting my death’: Iowa City students lead march to demand action on gun violence (June 13)
Proud of these young people. [And no, I’m not interested in whataboutism, trolling,
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“There is evil that exists in the world. And if you’re determined to do something like this, you’re probably going to find the means to do it.” —Gov. Kim Reynolds, following the Uvalde, Texas elementary school massacre
“You aren’t talking to someone who loves guns, I don’t hate guns, but I do protect people’s constitutional rights.” —Sen. Chuck Grassley on his opposition to an assault weapons ban
“Frederick Douglass: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Juneteenth doesn’t mark the emancipation of the enslaved, but emancipation of the U.S. We should all rejoice and work toward our mutual liberation. —The 1619 Project author and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on Twitter (@nhannahjones) “fuck you say??!” —Questlove (@questlove) responding to this baffling tweet from former Rep. Steve King: “I spent Juneteenth all day in the hot sun hoeing and pulling weeds and thinking about what it would have been like to have been a slave. At the end of the day, I thought about what it would be like to be an aborted baby. I got to see the sunrise and the sunset.” “You can’t politely smile hard enough for the state to give you your rights back. You cannot be sweet enough to protect yourself from violence. You cannot dress in a dress pretty enough. You can’t be blonde or white enough to protect you from what is coming.” —Cedar Rapids writer Lyz Lenz, reflecting on the end of Roe v. Wade and witnessing a man drive through a group of abortion rights protesters on June 25
Nikole Hannah-Jones Briana Ladwig / Little Village “For too long those who now celebrate this decision have done so with a voice of ‘moral’ reasoning. As clergy persons, we find nothing moral about taking away a pregnant person’s right to bodily autonomy. Instead, the Supreme Court’s decision disregards the full humanity of pregnant people as living, breathing persons who have also been endowed with life, liberty, and responsibility to make moral decisions for themselves and their families.” —Excerpt from a letter to the editor signed by 37 Iowa City-area religious leaders context-shifting, or lack of compassion] —Lisa M.
No swimming at Terry Trueblood Recreation Area ‘until water quality improves’ (June 16)
I want to have rain tested but can’t even get lakes and rivers tested under the Republicans—Macbride, Terry Trueblood, Backbone State Park, Lake Darling—have to leave this state to camp somewhere with water clean enough to swim in. —Margaret B. Those aren’t farmers, at least not the family farms of my youth. They’re big business factory farms that spend a lot of money making sure no one takes video of the goings-on inside the buildings. I’m pretty certain that no one we knew in the 70’s had a manure lagoon. —William F.
‘let go, let God’: Sen. Grassley gets evasive about Jan. 6 during radio interview (June 23)
“Let go, let God...” apparently means no accountability on earth. —Robert L.
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