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Peacetrain

(23,640 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:11 PM Mar 2023

Don't give up on Iowa!!

https://stories.uiowa.edu/lgbtq-plus-milestones-university-iowa

1996:The University of Iowa adds gender identity to its nondiscrimination policy, making it the first university to do so

It was Iowa that sent President Obama out to lead the country.. It was Iowa

How the right has taken over everything and people holding on to Trumpism makes no sense to me either.. the only thing that I can even begin to figure out, is that the republicans concentrated on land, while the Democrats concentrate on people.. and the land won.. this is not us.. people are terrified in little towns of the bullies on the right.. they are scared of being the outsider in the community and the right is puffing around like they own us with their screams and threats and black flags..



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Don't give up on Iowa!! (Original Post) Peacetrain Mar 2023 OP
I wasn't aware of a lot of that history at the U of I. progressoid Mar 2023 #1
I wasn't either till someone filled me in about 4 years ago.. Peacetrain Mar 2023 #2

Peacetrain

(23,640 posts)
2. I wasn't either till someone filled me in about 4 years ago..
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:27 PM
Mar 2023
I was reading the post about the Greg Brown concert.. we were there for the Thursday night one.. plowed through all that snow and sat there with everyone.. knowing this is who we really are.. not the craziness that is going on in Des Moines
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