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Robert Leonard

@RobertLeonard

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Author of "Deep Midwest." Bylines in @nytimes, @TIME, and more. I also write at Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture. https://t.co/ockrtPLH6Z

Marion County, Iowa
Joined March 2009
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@RobertLeonard
Robert Leonard
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I'm moving to Bluesky to post, but will likely continue to lurk here. Here you go: @robertleonard.bsky.social
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@LyleMuller
Lyle Muller
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#Immigrants are Welcome Here rally in Des Moines. @RobertLeonard was at the Iowa Statehouse again. https://t.co/QHdUhPDdUz #immigration #Trump
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@amandacarpenter
Amanda Carpenter
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Wow. *Alan Dershowitz* had the audacity in 2019 to demand @jkbjournalist be denied a Pulitzer for her Epstein work. https://t.co/10st6hnhFf Julie was right. The victims were right Julie's relentless, heroic journalism should be recognized. Give her the damn Pulitzer.
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@RayBake
Raymond Baker
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Here are the current Iowa House Representatives serving on the House Environmental Protection Committee this session. Call and email them. Ask why this committee has done NOTHING to clean up Iowa's 70+ polluted and impaired waterways. https://t.co/qqQTEJP1BW
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@igorbobic
Igor Bobic
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Talarico says FCC “colluded with corporate media executives at CBS” to keep his Colbert interview off air: “I think it's safe to say that their plan backfired. The same people who ran against cancel culture, now they're trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read”
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@turek4iowa
Josh Turek
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Happy to have Nathan on #TeamTurek!
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@sageforiowa
Nathan Sage for U.S. Senate
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I'm grateful for Josh - now it's time go win this thing for Iowans!
@turek4iowa
Josh Turek
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Happy to have Nathan on #TeamTurek!
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@cenkuygur
Cenk Uygur
8 days
Here's another unbearable legacy media move. They'll weirdly promote some corporate Democrat all at once, as if trying to will him into popularity. And they'll declare him a frontrunner. But they'll barely talk about @RoKhanna, when he's obviously the only real leader we have.
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@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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We exposed the global far-right’s playbook at Munich, and how to stop them. Right on cue, Rubio beelined from his revisionist MAGA speech at MSC to boost Orbán in Hungary’s elections. We must wake up before it’s too late. A working class politics can defeat authoritarianism.
@samstein
Sam Stein
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Marco Rubio endorsed Viktor Orban this morning. Here's a 2019 letter signed by Marco Rubio to Donald Trump sharply criticizing Orban and "Hungary's downward democratic trajectory" https://t.co/TxupVWgCnE
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@LauraRBelin
Bleeding Heartland
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New post by Linda Schreiber: While Iowa’s public universities support one in every ten jobs and generate billions of dollars in economic impact statewide, Republicans are pushing for yet another layer of oversight on the Regent institutions. #ialegis https://t.co/Tlat9RhMrV
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bleedingheartland.com
Linda Schreiber: While Iowa’s universities generate huge economic impact, Republicans are pushing for yet another layer of oversight.
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@Acosta
Jim Acosta
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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@JessicaLBurbank
Jessica Burbank
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when u try to distract from being a pedophile by being more racist https://t.co/hfilsCStYo
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@RoKhanna
Ro Khanna
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Breaking: I have launched an investigation as ranking member of the Select Committee on China into a $500 million UAE investment in the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company. This is about public trust and transparency.
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World Liberty Financial said lawmakers are “harassing a private American business to score political points.”
@rebeccaballhaus
Rebecca Ballhaus
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The top Democrat on a House committee overseeing U.S.-China competition has launched an investigation into a $500M investment by an Abu Dhabi royal in World Liberty Financial and is urging a U.S. attorney to probe the deal, too. More than a dozen Dems have condemned the deal,
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@DrNeilStone
Neil Stone
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Mark Twain would have been absolutely brilliant on Twitter
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@GabiSchulte
Gabi Schulte
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Let's go Ro
@RepRoKhanna
Rep. Ro Khanna
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I am calling for Congress to haul in every person who emailed Epstein about visiting his island. I will not rest until those who committed these crimes are held accountable.
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@mcsquared34
MC Squared
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@RepRoKhanna
Rep. Ro Khanna
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I am calling for Congress to haul in every person who emailed Epstein about visiting his island. I will not rest until those who committed these crimes are held accountable.
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@peterbakernyt
Peter Baker
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Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
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@RayBake
Raymond Baker
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The number of Iowa's elected officials, including @ChuckGrassley, @SenJoniErnst, @IAGovernor, @RepMMM, @RepAshleyHinson, @RepFeenstra, @ZachNunn, and @AGIowa who have expressed outrage at Trump's sexual abuse of children is zero. They don't care about Trump raping children.
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@RepAOC
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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When Jeff Bezos bought WaPo, he immediately took control of the opinions section. Now, he's laying off hundreds of journalists, including those covering Amazon. This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of billionaires with vested political agendas taking over our media.
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@RayBake
Raymond Baker
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The U.S. government wants kids to skip college and go right into the work force. They also want folks to work till you die. Because building the economy is your national responsibility, you serfs and peasants. @DrOz says “let ‘em eat cake!”
@TheTNHoller
The Tennessee Holler
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They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
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