Kicking off 2024 with a YEAH YEAH…Court blocks Iowa's "staggeringly broad" book bans, teaching restrictionshttps://www.bleedingheartland.com/2023/12/31/court-blocks-iowas-staggeringly-broad-book-bans-teaching-restrictions/LAURA lead off True or False: Farmland issues are causing a shift in heartland politicsNebraska - who’s buying the land? https://flatwaterfreepress.org/whos-buying-nebraska-corporations-investors-grabbing-giant-chunks-of-nebraska-farmland/Missouri price issueshttps://missouriindependent.com/2024/01/01/boom-or-bubble-high-missouri-farmland-prices-encourage-investors-concern-farmers/Parson issues executive order, no foreign ownership of farmland within 10 miles of military installations, asking for administrative rules to be adopted, received with a resounding bipartisan popcorn farthttps://www.missourinet.com/2024/01/03/parson-executive-order-bans-foreign-ownership-of-ag-land-near-military-sites/You Don’t F***in SayVP Harris is out stumping for abortion rights as 2024 heats uphttps://www.missourinet.com/2024/01/03/parson-executive-order-bans-foreign-ownership-of-ag-land-near-military-sites/Florida ballot initiative on abortion is a sign for every other state to get moving and get it on the ballothttps://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/florida-abortion-ballot-vote-2024Buy or Sell: SCOTUS dumps Trumphttps://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-insurrection-2024-election-0baac5ba0c1868e437e365af17eeab24MissourinSOS to retaliate for Trump by taking Biden off the ballot, which is an oddly hilarious undercut of their entire argument https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/missouri-republican-secretary-of-state-biden-trump-ballot-rcna132600?taid=6598b42c6621b500019d8287&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterRetired Federal judge who advised Pence makes the argument on how clear the 14th applies to Trumphttps://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4393472-former-federal-judge-trump-14th-amendment-supreme-court-colorado/Big One: It is officially 2024Biden’s Valley Forge speech - quite a moment or just a quiet moment?Transcript https://apnews.com/article/biden-speech-valley-forge-trump-campaign-bda2293cac2b30e49157c2e6fb256d64Adam’s fave quote: In trying to rewrite the facts of January sixth, Trump was trying to steal history, the same way he tried to steal the election.Most satisfying quote: Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election. Every one, but the legal path just took Trump back to the truth, that I’d won the election and he was a loser.Trump responded by making fun of Joe’s stutter and then calling for a civil war and blaming Lincoln for the first civil war for failing to negotiate well. CHIPS act, and Inflation reduction act impacts are starting to hitJob numbers, good. Inflation: Down. Gas prices: Down. Unemployment: Downhttps://www.axios.com/2024/01/04/biden-factory-spending-manufacturing-chipsCHIPS act is building factories in America, american jobs!Trump camp attacking economy: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4390967-trump-campaign-biden-economy-democracy-jan-6/NY Times - comparing today to 1948?https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/upshot/2024-election-biden-truman-economy.htmlFrom article: If there’s a time that might make sense of today’s political moment, postwar America might just be it. Many analysts today have been perplexed by public dissatisfaction with the economy, as unemployment and gross domestic product have remained strong and as inflation has slowed significantly after a steep rise. To some, public opinion and economic reality are so discordant that it requires a noneconomic explanation, sometimes called “vibes,” like the effect of social media or a pandemic hangover on the national mood.But in the era of modern economic data, Harry Truman was the only president besides Joe Biden to oversee an economy with inflation over 7 percent while unemployment stayed under 4 percent and G.D.P. growth kept climbing. Voters weren’t overjoyed th