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Education Nebraska Politics Published

Lou Ann Is Lying: How Nebraska’s Senators Disguised a Tax Scheme as “School Choice”

LB 753 is a tax scheme that was pushed through the legislature this year, despite being unpopular with over half of Nebraskans. Support Our Schools is successfully collecting signatures to put LB 753 on the ballot for voters to decide in 2024, and conservative senators are losing their minds over the idea that their constituents […]

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Creeping Fascism Legislature Protect Trans Kids

“LB574 and other anti-trans bills like it have shown him that Nebraska does not want him here”

As the Legislature continues to try to pass anti-trans legislation as part of a nation-wide scripted effort by a national anti-LGBTQ hate group to erase trans people, we are continuing to share the stories of the children and families they are directly harming. Many of these families were denied their right to testify on this […]

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Education LGBTQA+ Nebraska Politics Published

Furry-tales: The Organized Hate Effort Against LGBTQ Youth

Last Monday, Nebraska Senator Bruce Bostelman stood on the legislative floor – just a few blocks away from the school I teach at – and voiced his concern about “furries” in schools. He described students who dress as dogs and cats, communicate with their teachers in barks and meows, and demand to use litter boxes […]

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Legislature Nebraska Politics

Misogyny is not a game

On the same day as the Lie to Women bill LB 209 was passed to its final reading, we once more got to enjoy another open display of in how much, or rather little, regard some of our male senators hold women in general and their female colleagues in particular. It is not enough to […]

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Nebraska Politics

Seeing Red Editorial Cartoon Number 1: Chauncey

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Bills Legislature

Brewer’s Latest Bill to Kill Clean Wind Energy

Brewer’s Latest Bill to Kill Clean Wind Energy This Thursday, January 31, the Committee on Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs will hear testimony on LB 373, Senator Tom Brewer’s latest effort to kill the development of clean wind energy in Nebraska.  Why is Brewer so hostile to wind energy?  We refer you back to our […]

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