#midwestern — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #midwestern, aggregated by home.social.
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Cincinnati’s Midwestern Lesbian celebrates anniversary, expands pop-up events to other Ohio cities
Cincinnati LGBTQ+ events company announces plans to expand while celebrating the second anniversary of their ’Sapphic Sips’ series.
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https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/02/24/midwestern-lesbian-celebrates-anniversary-will-host-pop-up-events-in-other-ohio-cities/#caitlin-chrisenée #cincinnati #cincy #cincy-gay-agenda #culture #gay #kelsey-ference #midwest #midwest-lesbian #midwestern-lesbian #rhinegeist #rhinegeist-brewery #sapphic-sips -
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
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@petergleick Why does #Ohio always stand-out among #Midwestern states - as if it is a sibling of #Mississippi , #Arkansas and other ‘redneck states’? 🤔
Could it be lingering abundance of a #DeplorableGene 🧬 from when the ‘Ohio pen’ housed the worst of the worst from across the Wild West for 150 years, releasing them locally (to reproduce) if they didn’t die in prison? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Penitentiary
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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
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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/
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[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 -
#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/
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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. -
#TimWalz’s 23-Year-Old #Daughter Is Making Him a #GenZ #Hit.
The #Midwestern #teacher is bringing major “#dadvibes” to #VicePresident #KamalaHarris' #campaign, to the delight of many. But he’s getting some help along the way.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-walzs-23-year-old-daughter-hope-is-making-him-a-gen-z-hit
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As the son of a #Midwestern public school teacher and coach, I earnestly hope that Gov #timwalz goes a step beyond "weird" and consistently refers to Vance as "JV" 🤡
@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews
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#Minnesota #Governor #TimWalz is #VicePresident #KamalaHarris' #VP #pick: #Minnesota #governor named #runningmate: Live updates
#Harris selected a #prounion #Democrat who can speak to the #concerns of #bluecollar #workers in #Midwestern #states – and beyond.
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#VicePresident #KamalaHarris taps #Minnesota Gov. #TimWalz as her #VP #runningmate.
The former #highschool #geography #teacher and #NationalGuard #veteran, who helped green light a slate of #progressive #policy #priorities in #Minnesota, could help win over #voters in #Midwestern #swingstates.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5057604/tim-walz-harris-vice-president
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Classic strategic #VP choice for VP Harris:
" #KamalaHarris has decided on Minnesota Gov. #TimWalz as her running mate..
"It would be hard to find a more vivid representative of the American heartland than Walz..
"In his first race for Congress, Walz upset a Republican incumbent. That was in 2006, when he won in a largely rural, southern #Minnesota congressional district against six-term Rep. Gutknecht..
"He could help the ticket in key #Midwestern states"
https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-harris-vice-president-walz-minnesota-006bca6e18be7ce39ef4bfd97547c3b5 -
#Midwestern computer builders be like, (screwing a PCIe card into the back of the case or ziptieing cables down) "that's not going anywhere".
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Wisconsin economic news
#Wisconsin's #economy has shown solid #job and #wage growth, outperforming other #Midwestern states in income growth. But, annual earnings and income growth rates lag behind the national average, partly due to slow population growth and an aging workforce. Despite a #labor shortage, significant wage growth has been observed, but rising #housing costs pose a challenge for the future.
https://wisconsinui.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/wisconsin-economic-news/
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#Gay #Midwestern #Documentary ‘#WeLiveHere’ Had #Trouble Finding #Families to #Film
‘Many of Them Were #Concerned About Their #Jobs’
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia https://variety.com/2023/film/columns/we-live-here-the-midwest-hulu-1235824911/
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It's super warm 🌞 here for December at 50° before noon in my #Kansas #Midwestern town. The #Catio is open & us felines are taking turns playing outside. There are lawn services out mowing in our neighborhood. Crazy! #CatsOfMastodon
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(painfully Midwestern accent) Be sure to get in some Thanksgiving reps in. A great one is the "Nog Lift" where you lift a full half gallon of eggnog vertically by the handle using one finger. But you've probably already drank some of it, or no?
#food #Thanksgiving #Midwestern #Midwest #US #eggnog #exercise
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It's 🌧️ raining here in my small, #Kansas #Midwestern town on this #Sunday. It smells like #Fall 🍁🍃outside. Mom is having her 🎃#PumpkinSpice coffee and I've had breakfast with broth. Belly full. All is well. #SheltieLife #DogsOfMastodon #DaisyDoo
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#Midwestern Z be like, "O you, who drives in the roads. You must yield. Abandon all you are. And watch out for deer."
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I miss these fluffy #clouds during summer from my #midwestern childhood. I didn’t grow up next to corn fields, but the clouds I definitely remember. 🙂 https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/110788095917847140
