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Meet Tiffany Carter, a book banner in Library Commissioner’s clothing

Tiffany Carter has been a member of the Facebook group for local hate group Protect Nebraska Children since March of 2022

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Who is Buying Nebraska’s Elections?

Election spending in Nebraska initially made waves during the primaries, when Pete Ricketts decided he really didn’t want bull-spunk connoisseur Charles Herbster as the next governor (and I can’t blame him), and spent an eye-watering $1.375 million to get Pillen the nomination.  He didn’t send that money to Jim himself though – only $100,000 was […]

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Governor Ricketts just appointed an extremist conspiracy theorist to the State Board of Ed

Ricketts announced that he’s appointing conspiracy-theory loving anti-vaxxer (and anti- everything, really) Kirk Penner of Aurora to the State Board of Education vacancy for district 5. Some of Penner’s not yet deleted tweets are below. This is the kind of person who is going to be making decisions about the education of kids in this […]

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Sheriff Terry Wagner and Medical Marijuana

Imagine this scenario: You’re an elected official working in the state of Nebraska. One day you’re walking along the street and a stranger comes up to you and stuffs $30,000 into your pocket, then walks away. Do you think this constitutes a “gift”? If it is, then you would need to report it not only […]

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Joe Ricketts hired a P.R. Firm to Make You Like His Son

Instead of issuing a mask mandate or vaccine requirement, Governor Pete Ricketts has decided to throw a pizza party for EMTs, nurses, doctors, firefighters, and … cops? Let’s pretend for a moment that doctors, nurses, and EMTs even have a day off to go fuck off at the park. Does Pete really believe our medical […]

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Thank a Pharmacist, Nebraska

This week has been hell for any pharmacists who are distributing vaccines in Nebraska.  Why?  Because Pete Ricketts is a fucking asshole.  Pete decided that our vaccine rollout in Nebraska would focus on rural areas to the detriment of urban areas.  He also decided to fuck over people with pre-existing conditions.  So Pete had a […]

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Nebraska “Progressive” Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

This past Sunday, the first Sunday of the new year, I decided to take a break from cleaning my cat’s room to see what was going on on Facebook. This is typically a bad idea, but this time it was extra frustrating/hilarious/wtf. The first thing I saw was this post by Dennis Crawford, who claims […]

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Nebraska Child Welfare Workers Walloped by COVID as Political Appointees Fail

A Seeing Red Nebraska reader has informed us that today begins the third week that the entire Lincoln office of child welfare workers serving the southeast part of the state has been shut down. This reader reports that 20% of the 100 workers have tested positive for covid. (The Department declined to comment further but […]

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SRN Boos the News: No, Ricketts did not really “denounce white supremacist groups”

At his press conference on September 30, Governor Pete Ricketts made a statement that should have made local headlines. An AP reporter asked him two questions about white supremacist groups on the heels of President Trump’s comment that the Proud Boys should “stand back and stand by.” I don’t know about you, but if I […]

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Utah Tech Bros Behind TestNebraska Are Probably Failing to Catch Most COVID Cases

We have already covered the absurdity of Pete Ricketts awarding a 27-million-dollar no-bid contract to a couple of highly suspect Utah tech bros wanting to play doctor in our state. We have also mentioned that results in states where these bros are running the testing programs are coming back with far lower positive rates than […]

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