Heartland POD on Twitter - @TheHeartlandPOD Co-HostsAdam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85Rachel Parker @RaichetPhttps://heartlandpod.com/“Change The Conversation” TRUE OR FALSECompetent state leadership is NOW a luxury itemGov. Parson recent media love fest toward teachers will result in something realhttps://twitter.com/BigElad/status/1582717235486785536?s=20&t=iXXjg7vynQpeRr7xogemrwhttps://missouriindependent.com/2022/10/18/commission-recommends-salary-increases-to-address-missouri-teacher-shortage/https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1582170175624728576 You don’t F***ing saySteven Bannon is going to prison & You don’t get to have privilege with your lawyer when your lawyer is helping you do crimesBannon https://www.npr.org/2022/10/21/1130327514/steve-bannon-sentencing-jan-6-committeeTrump and Lawyer: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/invoking-attorney-client-privilege-fails-donald-trump-john-eastman-n1300095Trump singed the law suit knowing it was falsehttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-says-trump-knew-voter-fraud-numbers-false-orders-ex-lawyer-give-rcna53047Girl…this, too: https://news.yahoo.com/judge-expects-steve-bannon-wall-154713375.htmlBuy or Sell The real silver lining of the Dobbs case is the way it has changed the conversation around women’s health in generalhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherRE: images of fetal tissue that measure less than an inch: “I have been in the training field, and medical students and clinicians who see it are also shocked. That is how pervasive this misinformation is,” Fleischman says.https://myanetwork.org/the-issue-of-tissue/ BOLD PREDICTIONS!Biggest surprise WIN for dems in midterms (for rachel) Leaving my notes here, for both a and b:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/michael-moore-democratic-party-win-midterm-interview“Reached by telephone last week, Moore, 68, told the Guardian that his purpose, in effect, is to puncture herd-thinking. He points to three recent examples where political norms were wrongly interpreted.“If I said to you six months ago, ‘you know Kansas, right? It’s a huge pro-abortion state and this summer by a margin of 60% they’re going to keep abortion legal’ you’d think I had made a crazy statement,” he says.”Biggest surprise LOSS for dems in midtermsWhat is the thing that no one sees today that will be crystal clear on November 9th? (For rachel: people will start giving all the fucks about governor’s races even more than they are right now in preparation for 2024; to wit, check out the date I wrote this, and look how far we’ve come since then: https://www.imadeyoulook.net/look/governorscheckandbalance)It seemed revolutionary to me anyway to write articles like this in 2019, and now I’m on a reasonably popular podcast about this very type of thing. If these states were up in 2020, they’ll be up in 2024. And we will give way more fucks than we did in 2020.LAST CALLThe Media Trump Darling ComplexKari Lake https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/kari-lake-arizona-governor-trump-2022-election/671679/“Trump has been laying the groundwork”...is a drinking game now?Tulsi is backThe great Taylor Branch gets it: https://twitter.com/taylorbranch/status/1583807655067324418