#Iowa National

[captainmartin20]

she says the weirdest things sometimes...

the video

[lonestarbattleship]

"The battleship IOWA encountered the world's largest rubber ducky at the Port of Los Angeles during the Tall Ships Festival. The floating duck sculpture was created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman."

Date: January 13, 2014

U.S. Naval Institute: link

[queersatanic]

The Satanic Temple and Christian nationalists are on the same side

TST isn't engaging in "successful trolling" or undermining Dominionists; they are actively fueling a culture war that benefits both reactionaries and corporate Satanists

In general, people will call The Satanic Temple's activities “successful trolling” or “drawing attention to “the direct conflict between Christian Dominionism and the US Constitution”, claiming it’s the *reactionaries* who are falling for something every time.

In reality, the idea that the right wing is the one being hoodwinked assumes that they aren't benefitting from exactly this, and that these conflicts do not boost both sides taking part in it, each running their own grift for their own reasons.

Partially, this is because Doug "Lucien Greaves" Misicko and Cevin Soling (a.k.a. “Malcolm Jarry”) are fundamentally reactionary Gen X edgelords whose politics never go further left than right-wing libertarianism.

But the reason The Satanic Temple and the Christian nationalists are on the same side is that both of them materially benefit from pointing to the other as “the enemy”.

If Republicans didn't have TST, they'd want to invent them (and have). The Temple is their perfect foil.

These Satanic panics get both parties more attention, a higher profile, and more money as folk primarily motivated by anti-partisanship reflexively support something opposed by the groups that those folk hate.

“This’ll really piss off my conservative uncle/liberal niece.”

Yes, it seems like it’s fun and a good thing to watch The Satanic Temple piss off people you hate. But that feeling is exactly the lubricant that makes the grift work.

We've long said that the best way to describe The Satanic Temple to someone unfamiliar with them is "Scientology For Mall Goths".

So imagine instead it were Scientologists doing this.

Would you still root for them just because Republicans were the ones getting publicly mad?

If media only ever treated Scientology like merry pranksters, never getting into the front companies, treatment of former members, or histories of the owners of a corporate religion, would that be informing people of what’s going on?

Or would it be doing the exact opposite.

[feddy-34]

a national park for every state (2/5)*

hawai'i volcanoes national park, hawaii

craters of the moon national monument and preserve, idaho

shawnee national forest, illinois

indiana dunes national park, indiana

effigy mounds national monument, iowa

tall grass prairie national preserve, kansas

mammoth cave national park, kentucky

jean lafitte national historical park and preserve, louisiana

acadia national park, maine

assateague island national seashore, maryland

*DISCLAIMER: some states do not have national parks. instead they have national monuments, national seashores, national historical parks, etc.

[floridaboiler]

Happy National Siblings Day! This 1954 family portrait is from a rare occasion when all four sister Iowa-class battleships were together. From front to back is USS Iowa, USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri and USS New Jersey. All the ships are now museums.

source - https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute

[aukmodu]

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Lost Island is getting an RMC Raptor in 2025! Fire Runner will place guests in the midst of a Muran sports festival (previously alluded to in Kolvak's character video), with an indoor queue winding through a lava tube decorated for the event and custom cars decorated with the faces of past champions.

[fieriframes]

[You know that I am a barbecue junkie, and this pit master in Des Moines, Iowa, is so smoking, he's got a trophy wall to prove it.]

[goalhofer]

2024 IIHF Worlds Sweden Roster

Wingers

#9 Adrian Kempe (Los Angeles Kings/Kramfors Stad)

#12 Max Friberg (Frölunda Hockeyklubb/Skövde Stad)

#16 Felix Unger-Sörum (Leksands Idrottsförening/Leksand)

#19 Marcus Sörensen (C.D.H. Fribourg-Gottéron/Södertälje)

#23 Lucas Raymond (Detroit Red Wings/Göteborg)

#29 Pontus Holmberg (Toronto Maple Leafs/Västerås)

#71 Victor Olofsson (Buffalo Sabres/Örnsköldsvik Stad)

#82 Jesper Frödén (Zürcher S.C./Stockholm)

#90 Marcus Johansson (Minnesota Wild/Landskrona)

#91 Carl Grundström (Los Angeles Kings/Umeå Stad)

#95 André Burakovsky (Seattle Kraken/Malmö)

Centers

#14 Joel Eriksson-Ek (Minnesota Wild/Karlstad)

#37 Isac Lundeström (Anaheim Ducks/Gällivare Stad)

#49 Fabian Zetterlund (San José Sharks/Karlstad)

#59 Linus Johansson (Färjestad Bollklubb/Ljungby Stad)

Defensemen

#25 Jonas Brodin (Minnesota Wild/Karlstad)

#26 Rasmus Dahlin (Buffalo Sabres/Trollhättan Stad)

#28 Marcus Pettersson (Pittsburgh Penguins/Skellefteå)

#32 Lukas Bengtsson (E.V. Zug/Stockholm)

#65 Erik Karlsson (Pittsburgh Penguins/Landsbro)

#72 Tim Heed (C.D.H. Ambrì-Piotta/Göteborg)

#77 Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay Lightning/Örnsköldsvik Stad)

Goalies

#30 Jesper Wallstedt (Iowa Wild/Västerås)

#33 Samuel Ersson (Philadelphia Flyers/Falun Stad)

#35 Filip Gustavsson (Minnesota Wild/Skellefteå)

[maximumeffort]

cheers to all who celebrate

[a-moment-captured]

Give my girls their crown for beating Iowa and Caitlin Clark!

🖤🤙🏽🏀

[amalgamatedalcove]

Rolling Prarie Fields by cewoldt Via Flickr: Rolling Prairie Fields Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge Prairie City, IA September 2011 8 Photo Pano Click to View Large: HERE

[calicoadventures]

Enjoy this lazy Sunday morning by watching a nature video taken at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Harpers Ferry, IA!

[blogtaculous]

I see there’s no pretense this time around that Iowa will be gifted easy penalties while simultaneously not being called.

[repulsiveliquidation]

I want Iowa to win because ✨Caitlin Clark✨ but I also want South Carolina to win to get back at Iowa for the UConn game 😌

[commiepinkofag]

Trans Teen Receiving Award from Iowa Gov. Shouts “Trans Rights Are Human Rights”

A transgender student in Iowa used an award ceremony as an opportunity to protest Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who earlier this year signed two bills into law that attack trans kids across the state.

[ID: Transgender high school senior Clementine Springsteen stands onstage between Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg (R) and Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) during the Iowa Governor's Scholar awards on April 30, 2023. Clementine Springsteen wears a striped tie with pink, white and blue, symbolizing the colors of transgender pride, with two pins that read “Trans Rights are Human Rights” and “She Her.” ]