Dan Bowen

@bowendc.bsky.social

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Political scientist and Public Policy Graduate Director @TCNJ.

A gooey pork roll, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich on an egg everything bagel.
Selection from Dante's Inferno that reads: "here, too, I saw a nation of lost souls far more than were above: they strained their chest against enormous weights and with mad howls rolled them at one another. Then in haste they rolled them back one party shouting out: why do you hoard? And the other? Why do you waste?"
A bag of candy called Shaq-a-licious with three pictures of a smiling disembodied Shaq head in gummy colors.
A table showing the current size of the lower chamber of the state legislature, the ideal size of the chamber based on the cubed root law, and the change in seats needed to get there by state.
In addition to eliminating legal protections granted by the inclusion of gender identity in the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the bill, if signed by Reynolds, also would: Strike the definition of gender identity in state law; Create a new section in state law to define “sex and related terms,” and define “female” as an individual who has, will have or would have “but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident,” a reproductive system that produces ova and “male” as an individual who produces sperm; State that the term “equal” does not mean “same” or “identical” and that “separate accommodations are not inherently unequal.” The language echoes that associated with the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which declared segregation on the basis of race to be legal; Require all state and local government data collection to identify individuals as either male or female; Eliminate the ability for transgender Iowans to change their birth certificate. Current law allows this if the person’s doctor certifies that their sex has changed due to surgery or other treatment.
Line graph shows the price of a dozen eggs rising from $6.5 to $8 since Trump's inauguration.
Yellow traffic warning signs that read: "correlation is not causation" and "but it sure helps"
An image of The Verge's homepage, with the lead article titled: "A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles"
A view of the field at Citizens Bank Park with Philadelphia in the background.
A picture of a hallway in an arena with a large Case's Pork Roll advertisement hanging from the ceiling.
Picture of NJ sample ballot with Democratic primary candidates clustered by office sought and Republican candidates in row/column grid. Party-favored candidates fall under the same column for Republicans.
A picture of a sliced baguette.
Picture of cartoon person fixing a sink and getting sprayed by green sludge.
A picture of Trader Joe's Thanksgiving Stuffing Seasoned Kettle Chips.
Picture of dog playing tug of war while falling asleep.