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Expand Medicaid Now. No More Excuses.

Ok, we are just going to make this one super quick. If you tuned in to the Governor’s Costco ad, I mean press conference, on Wednesday and managed to make it through the CEO of Costco’s talk (whyyyyyyyy) without turning it off, you may have noticed that someone finally asked the Governor about Medicaid expansion. […]

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Governor Ricketts “Asses” the State

This accurate screen shot was from about a year and ten days ago when Nebraska was in the midst of another crisis, the devastating floods of 2019. It popped up in my digital memories on March 14 and I have been trying to write this article ever since, but things have been …. wild. As […]

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Investigating Four Rapes Out of 353 is Not An Accomplishment to be Lauded

Yesterday the Lincoln Journal Star published an article stating that the LPD is finally getting around to testing just a few of the almost 400 untested rape kits in their backlog going back to 2004. This backlog update is super interesting to me considering the Lincoln Police Department previously claimed to have NO backlog of […]

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No, Actually, It Is Not Ok To Be Racist Just Because That Cop Is

We all know one of the favorite rallying cries of a certain section of the US population is BUT HER EMAILS. They know they can’t possibly excuse the bad behavior by their own, so they engage in deflection: Hillary’s emails, Bill’s blowjob, Obama’s deportations, Biden’s … everything. As we found out this past Sunday in […]

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The Ricketts Family is Bleeding Nebraska Dry

When even Tucker Carlson is complaining about a billionaire, you know we have reached peak capitalism. As Tucker Carlson (just typing that name makes me want to puke) rightfully pointed out, billionaire Paul Singer, before he bought Cabela’s and decimated the town of Sidney, gave Joe Ricketts’s “Ending Spending” (LOL) superPAC 3.7 million dollars between […]

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Candidate Statements: Angie Philips and Ben Sasse on the Planned Parenthood Summit in Grand Island

Last week Planned Parenthood held a policy summit in Grand Island, as they have done for the past four years. The first I heard of it was when I read this Letter to the Editor in the Grand Island Independent filled with already disproven lies, and published by the paper without fact-checking or disclaimer. The […]

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It’s time to hit the streets

Okay, so it’s actually long past time to hit the streets, but now it is absolutely vital that every single person reading this take to the streets and do not stop until this fascist regime has been unseated. Do not wait for impeachment or the next election. Neither one of those things is going to […]

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Government Clean-Up Plan

As the impeachment three-ring circus continues in Washington and there is hope we might finally evict the white supremacist misogynist in chief from the White House, it’s time to get really serious about how we are going to clean house in Nebraska to ensure that we also evict Tr*mp‘s (and Ricketts’s) complicit lapdogs and that […]

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Fuck You Friday: Separation of Church and State Edition

In today’s edition of Fuck You Friday, we will be raising two hearty middle fingers to Peter Ricketts, Matt Schulte, and the stupid “Serving Hands” sculptures that are being auctioned off today to further enrich a Christian organization with the help of the Governor and other elected officials. Peter Ricketts himself has placed one of […]

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Open letter from Senator Ernie Chambers to Governor Peter Ricketts

Presented in full, Senator Chambers’s open letter to Governor Ricketts. Also available as a pdf download here: https://seeingrednebraska.com/ecletter/

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