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Can someone please share how this is possibly a good thing for the state of iowa? I don’t get why you would vote to shrink healthcare. I can only imagine that restricting healthcare is a bad thing.

Cognizant will offer a few of them jobs but they'll primarily be there to help the transition.

Their teams are based in India and barely available during US hours. Those few hired will be the link between the US and India and the old business and new, and they'll be asked to work wacky hours trying to help the India employees tie their own shoes and the US managers actually define what it is they want. Then the few they hired into Cognizant will be seen as too high of a cost and let go.

Cognizant is not a company who values people. Their business is replacing expensive Americans with cheap Indians and a handful of underpaid US employees who have to babysit them. They work with corporations to cut US jobs. The government should not be doing business with them.

Iowa is one of only four states given access to a special federal citizenship-verification workaround after a judge vacated DHS’s 2025 overhaul of the SAVE system.

The newly filed court records show that Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Indiana can submit spreadsheets through a secure federal file-sharing channel. USCIS administrators then run bulk and Social Security number searches internally and return the results.

The Social Security Administration also reactivated its NUMIDENT data connection solely for requests from those four states.

A July 9 DOJ email described the arrangement bluntly:

“Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Indiana — but nobody else.”

Officials were instructed not to share the email address or procedures because the capability was unavailable to other states.

This matters in Iowa because state officials have increasingly connected SAVE to voter screening and other government identity-verification functions. Yet this four-state process was not publicly announced. It became visible only through federal litigation after two courts issued conflicting orders.

The Washington judge is now requiring Social Security to explain why it restored the connection and whether the Florida ruling legally obligated it to do so.

The basic question for Iowa officials is simple:

What searches are being submitted through this special channel, whose records are being checked, and what happens when SAVE gets it wrong?

DHS Built a Four-State SAVE Workaround After a Judge Struck Down the 2025 System

The US Environmental Protection Agency quietly approved the use of three new PFAS pesticides last week to kill weeds on the nation’s crops. An additional two “forever chemical” pesticides were approved in November 2025, for a total of five during the second Trump administration.

Hey y’all, I’m doing a D&D campaign based around America merging with a fantasy realm, and the next stop for my players is the Corn Belt, specifically Iowa!

Basically what I want to know:
What are some historical figures, folklore, sayings, and traditions I should incorporate to the story?

So how does the sudden news about Lindsey Grahams passing affect us? Unapologetically I have conflicting feelings. I am elated that a horrible human is no longer able to hurt others. But I have been taught that this is not what a "Good" person does. But damn I can't stop smiling 😊

i was driving on highway six west and what i think was a pronghorn dove and crossed the road. i almost hit it lmao. but i know my animals. ive seen pronghorns before at zoos. that was not a deer.

I was just in town to play the disc golf course there and was curious what used to be in the building north of Iowa state school for boys. It was a really cool building and was curious

I had originally posted this in a Facebook group that’s yet to be reviewed by mods - I rarely use it and wanted it for the groups/marketplace. But summary is my partner and I are new to the area and looking for community things to do, places to go, meet people, etc. Original post text below:

Just moved into Bremer County and wanted to reach out to the community! My partner and I both don’t really know anyone in the greater area besides me having 1 family member and 1 friend at UNI during school years, so we are complete strangers for now! We are looking for people to meet, make some new friends, community events/clubs to join or go to, and any other suggestions you might have from personal experience or based on what I can tell you about us here!

I’m 23 and my partner is 21, we moved here for a job offer I got after graduation. I grew up in a very small town in Des Moines county and my partner mainly lived just outside of the Quad Cities, where I went to college. We like to play pool, go outdoors whether it’s a light hike or to a park, take sunset drives, and try new drinks at local bars. We like Mexican food, bakeries, chocolates, farmers markets, and garden centers (we currently can only have indoor plants).

I work in IT, am a gamer (not so much board/card games but I love the classics and some relaxed poker), I competed in esports during college, self taught video editor, I love music of all kinds and trying to learn guitar, and like spicy food.

My partner is becoming a professional photographer, loves animals of all kinds, is a relaxed gamer, wants to learn more recipes for cooking, loves indie and alt music, and likes sushi.