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Omaha born and raised.

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Protester struck by SUV displaying Trump flag at Fremont High School

The Nebraska federal delegation has weighed in on the video of the incident.

Via News Channel Nebraska

northeast.newschannelnebraska.com/story/534142...
Protester struck by SUV displaying Trump flag at Fremont High School
FREMONT, Neb. — A girl who was part of a protest against ICE taking place at a Nebraska school is injured after being hit by a vehicle displaying a Trump flag. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Thurs
northeast.newschannelnebraska.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Here's the really cool thing about this image:

It contains, for now, the farthest known galaxy, ever.

MoM-z14 is so far away, its light has been travelling for more than 13 billion years. We're seeing it as it appeared only 280 million years after the Universe formed.

I mean, holy shit.
January 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
"This point" meaning one of the biggest stars in the country (and the world!) being a Spanish speaker who hates Trump.
January 29, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Victim is fine per the story, but this dumbass just destroyed the next 3-5 years of his life, minimum.
Protester struck by SUV displaying Trump flag at Fremont High School
FREMONT, Neb. — A girl who was part of a protest against ICE taking place at a Nebraska school is injured after being hit by a vehicle displaying a Trump flag. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Thurs
metro.newschannelnebraska.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Not the point of the thread, but there's so, so much in the US that this could describe. We're decades behind on maintaining the roads, decades behind on upgrading our rails, decades behind on upgrading the electronic infrastructure that powers our bureaucracy.

It's a daunting task.
You also need to start just shoving buckets of money at readiness and maintenance accounts. The fleet is in horrific arrears vis-à-vis repairs because we push it so damn hard that we don’t put it away wet because we don’t put it away at all. That debt will also take until the 30s to 40s to fix.
January 29, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Coal causes no long term health risks and the completely unrelated reasons we concentrate coal-using industries in the poorest areas we can.

At least my board rep did the right thing, time to get a better board in 10 months.
New at Flatwater: Before delaying the long-planned conversion of its North Omaha coal plant, OPPD’s CEO shared some reassuring news: A study found the plant isn’t significantly harming human health.

That characterization is misleading, experts said.

Read more 🔗 buff.ly/qBGMBKb
January 29, 2026 at 6:35 PM
If you aren't in the top half of the economy, Trump hates you wants you to suffer. He wants most people to suffer in general, but especially the poor.
Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."
January 29, 2026 at 6:16 PM
We want them safe, which means no ICE traumatizing children they try and walk home from school.
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...
“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
"In theater" no. Fuck no. There is no such thing as "in theater" for these wannabe soldiers, but it is revealing that the admin does in fact think of this as a military operation.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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We’re just not a free country.

Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." https://to.pbs.org/3LRVzZd
U.S. cardinal urges defunding of ICE: 'We need to see what's happening in front of us'
One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." Card...
to.pbs.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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The reason Anne Frank's story has resonated with so many people over so many years is not because circumstances have to be exactly the same as her's for anyone to care, but because anything remotely like it is wrong, and societies moving in that direction should oppose it well before they get there.
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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He knows. So do we!
January 29, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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Jesus Christ you freak, they’re just my neighbors
January 29, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or
Congressional Budget Office: “Federal troop deployments to US cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month.” www.cbo.gov/publication/...
www.cbo.gov
January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Not to buy into the "X is just a distraction from Y!" politics.

But seriously, "bringing back captive farm labor" has been a big policy objective for the farm sector for a while!

And they're doing it right in front of us! And it's going right over our heads.
January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?

RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition

PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
It's nice of him to admit to be an unempathetic dill weed, but it's still odd that he thinks his lack of thought into using a slur makes it better?

It's like That White Guy from HS who thought using the n-word but at white people wasn't racist getting confused when Black people yell at him.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen's office comments to KMTV on the governor's tele-town hall last week and his comments about his critics. >> www.3newsnow.com/news/local-n...
January 28, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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We're not gonna win people who just want slavery back, and we shouldn't try.

We should also not take our eye off the ball as long as they're still rounding up undoc'd people
January 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Both threads are a good read, and highlights exactly why Dems in the 00s were right to refuse to create a residency status that explicitly barred citizenship. People who live in the US and is aren't citizens are easier to control and exploit because they have fewer options.
THREAD

H2A guest worker visas are finally a big enough program that farmers are ready to switch to that instead of undoc'd workers.

That's why they're rounding up undoc'd people.

Farms don't really need them anymore, & they're "too hard to control."

That hasn't changed!
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/

(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 28, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Bari Weiss has one tactic and it’s this tedious revolution from above. The complaint seems to be that institutions sometimes exclude people who are friends with billionaires, and need to be revolutionized by opening the door to the entire flock of pathetically inept nepobabies and mediocrities.
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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The Nebraska Examiner turned four years old last week. I have only been here for a short time, but my colleagues have built something that they should be proud of. (1/2)
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 AM