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Creep of Fascism Education LGBTQA+

Keep it up – Clearing the Pollution One Site at a Time

We asked and you responded and the hate group’s feelings are super hurt. And we couldn’t be more thrilled. Last weekend, we asked you to start making some phone calls and emails to shut down the bigoted, anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-human garbage that is The Mind Polluters. So far, we have crossed a few off of […]

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Creeping Fascism Education LGBTQA+

Call to Action: Stop the Real “Mind Polluters”

It should come as no surprise to regular readers, or hell, anyone who hasn’t had their head stuck in the sand for the last two years that a bunch of really terrible people are trying to take over our public schools. We have reported on the extremist, Kirk Penner, that was recently appointed to the […]

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Education SRN Boos the News

Seeing Red Boos The News: No, That’s Not What the Legislature is Deciding

Well, the local press is at it again and we are here to boo them. This time, our teachers are the victims. Let’s start with the headline. The point of a headline is to summarize the article so the reader knows what they should take away from the piece. The problem is, the article buries […]

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Creeping Fascism Education SROs

A Wolf in Dog’s Fur

The data has been clear for some time that cops in schools do not make children safer; particularly children of color, autistic and disabled children, and LGBTQIA+ children. These children are more often injured or killed, face harsher school punishments, and are placed squarely in the school to prison pipeline. School Resource Officers are significantly […]

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Shitshow of a Shootout

There was a shootout in Lincoln on Saturday. Not a “shooting,” but a literal shootout, during a car chase, and exactly zero of the “heroes” involved deserves an Oscar for their performance. It started simply enough. There was a mid-morning robbery at a hotel near the interstate in NW Lincoln. Police were called to the […]

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COVID-19 Education LPS

LPS Needs to Cancel Its New Communication Course

In the last couple of weeks residents of Lincoln may have noticed that Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) has rolled out a new master class in poor organizational communication. Although we didn’t ask to be enrolled, the pedagogy appears to be sound, the content diverse, and our chances to practice the concepts frequent. This organization containing […]

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actual science COVID-19 Education

It Is Not Safe to Open Lincoln Schools

Public schools are one of this country’s biggest assets. Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) in particular is known to be a forward-thinking school district. I often tout our ability to remain “one” district, despite having over 40,000 students from a variety of backgrounds. This has allowed for an equitable education for all students, whether your zip […]

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Fuck Pete Ricketts racism SRN Boos the News

SRN Boos the News: This Gloss is full of Whitewash

Another day, another local news whitewashing from the local media. Let’s back up a bit. Omaha pastor Jarrod Parker and other black leaders in Omaha met with Governor Ricketts, Mayor Jean Stothert from Omaha, and the Omaha police chief about the death of James Scurlock at the hands of a known white supremacist, and the […]

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Ricketts Press Conference: Recap 5/13

The Governor started today by explaining why it’s totally expected that we would have a delay in getting any test results from TestNebraska to our public health departments: Whenever we bring on a new lab, we need to integrate it into our system. As of 5/13, it’s integrated and now, 3 weeks after signing the […]

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Peter’s Plague: A Story on Racist Scapegoating

We, here at Seeing Red are committed to continuing to watch Ricketts’ daily racially coded press conference so that you don’t have to. You’re welcome. It is absolutely detrimental to every viewer’s mental health, but we will gladly shoulder that burden so you don’t have to. Today he made it 32 full minutes before turning […]

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