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St. Patrick’s Day parade set for downtown Cedar Rapids Musicians make their way down Second Avenue SE, during the annual SaPaDaPaSo parade on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (photo/Cindy Hadish) CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- March weathe...

This upcoming parade in #CedarRapids #Iowa looks like it could be a wee bit chilly! ☘️❄️☃️ homegrowniowan.com/st-patricks-... #StPatrick #SaintPaddy #MarchMadness

Volunteer nonprofit advances renovation of former Zastera Pharmacy into community hub An all-volunteer nonprofit focused on preserving historic properties is moving forward with renovations of a longtime neighborhood building it plans to convert

Our thanks to #Iowa's News Now for covering our upcoming Brick-by-Brick fundraiser for the #historic Zastera Pharmacy building in #CedarRapids! ❤️ cbs2iowa.com/news/local/v...

Save CR Heritage moves into next phase for historic Zastera Building project in Cedar Rapids Two Save CR Heritage board members thanked the Linn County Board of Supervisors on March 4, 2026, for their Economic & Community Development Grant awarded last fall. (photo/Cindy Hadish) CEDAR RAPIDS,...

Making progress with our #rehab project on this #historic building in #CedarRapids #Iowa! ❤️ www.savecrheritage.org/save-cr-heri... #history #preservation

How #Google circumvented new #data #center rules and backed out on paying for a #water study in #Iowa homegrowniowan.com/google-backs...

Extending our thanks to the @linncountyiowa.bsky.social Board of Supervisors for the Economic & Community Development Grant awarded to our Zastera Pharmacy building project! ❤️ #history #sustainability #Iowa

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

Why does this puppy only have 40 reposts?

It’s not like he’s on Dateline or anything…

I need an East Coast foster for him- he’s 2-

It’s free 2foster! Why not save a life?!

Pls repost! Urgent 🚨

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Proposed fence that would block #immigrant advocates at the #ICE office in #CedarRapids #Iowa reviewed by a city commission unaccustomed to heated debate: homegrowniowan.com/historic-pre...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Excited to see these windows and lovely door make the trip from #CedarRapids #Iowa to their "new" home in the #historic city of #EurekaSprings #Arkansas! ❤️ #Preservation #sustainability

Documents detail plans for fence where #ICE #protesters gather in #CedarRapids #Iowa: homegrowniowan.com/details-reve...

Winter #Gardening Fair lived up to its name today in #Iowa! 😎 homegrowniowan.com/photos-winte...

Iowa three-bedroom farmhouse offered for free; must be moved This rural Solon home is being offered for free to anyone able to move it. (submitted photo) A three-bedroom farmhouse in rural Solon is being offered for free to anyone who can move the home by this ...

Farmhouse offered for free in #Iowa; must be moved! www.savecrheritage.org/iowa-three-b...

February 14 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) Remembrance Day.

Community members gathered in Minneapolis to honor these relatives and bring attention to the ongoing crisis of violence and unresolved cases affecting Indigenous communities.

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Thanks to all who supported us during our #Valentine's Day sale today. We could feel the ❤️!

Bild von Vladislav Heraskevych mit Helm von gefallenen ukrainischen Soldaten

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🇺🇦 Zelensky: Remembrance is not a violation.

I met with Ukrainian skeleton racer and member of Ukraine’s National Olympic Team, Vladyslav Heraskevych, and his father, coach of Ukraine’s skeleton team, Mykhailo Heraskevych. I presented Vladyslav with the Order of Freedom.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Not sure why someone would swap out a vintage beauty like this for a more modern version, but we're glad to accept the donation and search for a new loving home for this door. ❤️ Let us know if that's you!

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

It’s Groundhog Day and #nycacc is only giving Otter until noon tomorrow before!

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Preparing for, Protecting Against, and Treating Tear Gas and Other Chemical Irritant Exposure: A Protestor’s Guide - PHR Deceptively known as “less-lethal,” these weapons can in fact cause severe injuries and even death when used with excessive force. Physicians for Human Rights has worked extensively on the health impa...

If you are exposed to tear gas, immediately move away & towards higher ground if possible.
Cool water is the best treatment. (Dilution is the solution.) Avoid using oil based cleansers as they will trap the irritants.
Preparation is key. Follow this guide for greater safety.

High turnout for legal #observer training in #CedarRapids #Iowa: homegrowniowan.com/hundreds-gat...

We ❤️ seeing the doors we rescued from Iowa's Queen of Hearts mansion (sadly demolished Sept. 2025) going to new loving homes! Stop by our #Valentine's Sale 9-11 a.m. Feb. 14 in #CedarRapids #Iowa if you need a solid vintage door for your home! ❤️

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Art Cullen (@artcullen) Dear friends, we don’t have $ to spread the word so we are counting on you to share our documentary on Iowa’s rising cancer rates. Thanks!

#iowa #cancer

Sad lesson from Renee Good: this country’s leaders don’t care Legal observing training for ICE check-ins just got dicier, but more are needed

Sad lesson from Renee Good: this country’s leaders don’t care
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Hundreds protest ICE during Cedar Rapids vigil Demonstrators hold signs along Eighth Avenue SE during a silent vigil protesting ICE on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (photo/Cindy Hadish) CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Demonstrators braved the cold to peacefully protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent this week. Most wearing black, nearly 300 people...

Photos from today's #ICE protest in Cedar Rapids, #Iowa homegrowniowan.com/hundreds-pro...

Documentary underway on the stained glass window by #artist #GrantWood in #CedarRapids #Iowa: homegrowniowan.com/piecing-hist...