Retired 40-year sportswriter in Omaha, but forever a journalist. Practicing self-defense against 1st Amendment attacks.
#JournalismMatters
#WillGolfForFood
In 40 years of covering
@Huskers
athletics, true fans only wanted 2 things from teams: 1, Act like you've been coached. 2, Play like you care. Mr. Bolt has delivered both, so enjoy
@Husker_Baseball
No, it's not. With national TV pregame show from Fox at Nebraska this week, Trev changed narrative from looking back. He's getting $20M in free advertising for looking ahead and selling NU. Very savvy.
The Nebraska athletic department is paying Scott Frost nearly an extra $8 million not to coach for 19 more days.
I realize football is life and money grows on trees and all that but that’s insane.
It’s insane.
Wondering how many Nebraskans cheering so loudly for Keisei Tominaga voted for the governor who wants to end NU's diversity, equity and inclusion?
@TeamPillen
idiocy
#Nebrasketball
#Huskers
football fans should give a long, loud round of applause to Trev Alberts for his work to hire Matt Rhule. Real hope now exists for Nebraska to stop the 20-year slide.
@huskers
I've known Trev Alberts for 30 years. Tough. Smart. Fair-minded. Loves Nebraska, yet thinks globally. And he HATES to frickin' lose. Best person for the job . . . finally.
Along with university budget cuts, and his stupid culture war bullsh*t. How that's Critical Race Theory crap working out in recruiting minority athletes?
#Idiot
#TeamPillen
I was honored to join other Nebraska leaders and strong conservatives in welcoming our outstanding VP nominee
@JDVance
to Omaha. His vision, and President Trump's leadership, will truly make America strong, secure, prosperous, and great again.
All nine Republican senators running for reelection this year voted against the Right to IVF Act:
John Barrasso
Marsha Blackburn
Kevin Cramer
Ted Cruz
Deb Fischer
Josh Hawley
Pete Ricketts
Rick Scott
Roger Wicker
(JD Vance did too.)
So much for the party of "freedom."
Serious point:
@jim_pillen
's crusade on CRT and banning abortion WILL DAMAGE Husker athletics. Recruits won't put up with racist/sexist laws states are passing.
@Huskers
@UnicamUpdate
There will be a mass exodus of college-bound kids from red states to blue. This generation isn’t tolerating hate and they are taking their tuition dollars (and brilliance) elsewhere.
At the southern border, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) defends Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) buoy barriers that are designed to drown migrants.
"[The buoys] don't cause abandonment. And if they do, I say what the heck, stay on your side of the border."
Head of AZ ESA voucher program resigns abruptly as well as the operations chief for the program. It is projected that the voucher program is going to cause a state budget deficit of $319M. Texas voucher legislation was based on AZ law.
.
@Teampillen
lashes out at the NU Board of Regents, saying the delay in naming a new president played a role in departure of
@TrevAlberts
'I am deeply disappointed,' Pillen said. ' Now is the time to act.'
“41% of the private schools that received vouchers have since failed. A grand total of $0 has been returned to the taxpayers after their failure but the kids were forced back to public schools, many times without a penny of funding to help them catch up.”
The
@KLINRadio
newsroom talked with Governor Jim Pillen this morning and got his thoughts on the departure of NU System President Ted Carter.
"He gave us his word. We changed things, improved things. Him bailing at this moment is very disappointing."
Want to blow a 900M hole in your state budget? Then a school voucher scheme may be right for you.
Schemes to siphon taxpayer money into private pop-up schools that close within a few years, and take the money and run, decimate public schools and budgets.
Watching my friend Kevin Steele coach Auburn today reminds me he MUST write a book. He has worked for Tom Osborne, Nick Saban, Dabo, Bobby Bowden, Jimmy Johnson, Johnny Majors, Les Miles.
I just ran away from a mass shooting at the Chiefs parade where I saw the Missouri governor (the gun lover below) running scared for his life next to me with an army of officers protecting him.
I am so sick of these NRA funded politicians.
#GunControlNow
91% of prospective college students disagree with DeSantis’ policies. 1 in 8 graduating high school students won’t attend college in Florida due to its education policy. 1 in 20 current college students plan to transfer. This is what brain drain looks like.
Don Bacon’s standing with the guy who’s fighting to criminalize abortion, ban IVF, and raise taxes on the middle class.
He can’t couch his support for the MAGA agenda.
#NE02
, we deserve better than a man who proudly endorses a convicted felon for president and his weird VP.
38,000 gun deaths a year . . . GOP opposes gun control laws.
2 cases of voter fraud a year . . . GOP passes 361 new voter suppression laws.
Fascist assholes.
#ItsTheGuns
#Maddow
#TheView
#TheReidOut
Allen,Texas Thoughts and Prayers Mike Pence Rachel Maddow
You've jumped the shark
@RepDonBacon
. Any goodwill you had from any previous service has vanished in the wake of supporting a convicted rapist/felon.
#BaconIsBadForYou
Why is Nebraska's Attorney General advocating against our neighbors' access to health insurance for themselves and their families? DACA recipients were brought to our country as children, have followed all requirements, and pay taxes too.
#FamilyValues
#NebraskaNice
#neleg
#Nebraska
Congressional delegation
1) I voted for none of them
2) one bought his Senate seat
3) one is a “moderate” which is a lie
4) one is a GOP nerd who was born in a little suit
5) one is a rancher who has zero charisma
6) one doesn’t matter( well they all don’t actually)
I look forward to working with President
@realDonaldTrump
to get our country back on track! Together, we will fight to secure the border, restore the American Dream, and keep our country safe. 🇺🇸
New York Jets QB Aaron Rodgers tells Tucker Carlson that he wishes Joe Biden knew as much about American history as Vladimir Putin knows about Russian history.
Hey, rural Nebraskans.
@TeamPillen
policies will close/diminish your schools, hospitals and nursing homes. And
@GOP
will take away Medicare and Social Security. So go behind the curtain on election day and
#VoteBlue
Rural America is vanishing because it has voted against its economic interests for decades in order to pursue a backward social agenda. It voted itself out of the middle class, and now wants to blame others.
#WhiteRuralRage
Nepo baby
@SenatorRicketts
and his puppet
@TeamPillen
have torn this state up. It is more divisive than it ever has been. It's not a mystery why anyone in the field of higher education would want to leave a state with anti-intellectual, anti-science, backwards leadership.
This also is a big blow to
#Huskers
athletics. Carter's savvy and smarts helped recruit Matt Rhule, and Carter had just been appointed the main overseer of
@Huskers
sports. His national gravitas is a loss for NU
EV drivers don’t pay for roads and bridges like other drivers do.
But the Biden administration is still lavishing more than half a billion on EV chargers— that only 4% of Americans can use.
It’s unfair to make hardworking American taxpayers subsidize EV freeloaders even more.
I've been saying this for months. Our Governor is used to walking into a board room & demanding folks do his bidding. I work for the people of Nebraska & owe them better than what's happening on property taxes. Seat of the pants policy is always bad policy. You deserve better.
Justice Sotomayor's dissent is one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I've ever encountered—she lists the criminal acts that presidents can now take with immunity and says "the president is now a king above the law."
Inflation is down to 2.97% but prices are still higher than they should be.
As we've screamed all along—the leading driver of high prices was not inflation, but corporate price gouging. And corporations fund politicians to prevent accountability. That is the problem we face.
Ten people shot at a fucking celebratory Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, including children. This uniquely American hell was created by every lawmaker who supports lax gun laws.
It’s time for Republicans to unite to elect Speaker
@Jim_Jordan
. We cannot afford further delays. There is important business to be done to keep America moving forward.
So, let me get this straight. Ohio Republicans destroy Public Education by siphoning funds away from them to pay for private charter schools and they are surprised public schools are failing? This is their national gameplan. Is this about right
@DavidPepper
?
Dems need to get to the bottom of the Arlington scandal. Big things are at stake: The casual designation of public servants as the enemy, the treatment of public procedures as thoroughly dispensable, and contempt for the ideal of an independent military.
Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, announced that in blue state Massachusetts, breakfast and lunch will be free for every public school student.
Republican-led red states like Texas and Florida, are defunding public schools, attacking teachers, banning books, and passing
Minnesota Senate passes free school breakfast and lunch for all students, regardless of family income, on a 38-26 vote with some Republicans joining DFLers in voting yes.
Feds will cover a portion of costs and state will pick up the rest: $388M in the next 2 years.
#mnleg
School vouchers just died in Idaho - in part because the sales pitch is colliding w/ the reality of what's happening in other states. These programs are budget busters that pick up the tab for affluent parents who already send their kids to private schools
A recent NBC News poll indicates that White, uneducated, rural men are the only group that collectively favor Trump in the 2024 General Election.
All other groups and demographics support President Biden.
If Donald trump somehow gets reinstalled, his Brownshirts are already in place. America stands on the brink of fascism. Vote blue like your life depends on it, because it does.
JUST IN: The open carry firearms law in New Mexico is suspended after a child was killed.
The governor says guns have become a "public health emergency"
“Big strong men, big burly football fans, with tears in their eyes, coming up to me saying, sir, I’ve never told a former president to fuck off before, sir, but …”
Fox host: What's wrong with Congress? Why can't you secure the border?
GOP Rep. Self: The problem is the Republicans, not the Democrats. My Republican colleagues are unwilling to vote to secure the border
Gov. Jim Pillen’s administration decides not to participate in a new summer child nutrition program worth $18 million to Nebraska kids.
From
@cgonzalez_NE
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." - Hubert H. Humphrey (Doc stopped in Omaha with his Southern Miss team on the way to play at South Dakota)
Congratulations to Rep. Mike Johnson on his election to be the next Speaker of the House. He is a principled, constitutional conservative who will do a fantastic job leading House Republicans.
The logical outcome to of Texas’s lax gun laws: Wes Smith, 21, a TCU student from Tennessee, was standing on a Forth Worth sidewalk when he was shot to death by another 21-year-old who didn’t know Smith and couldn’t explain to police why he shot him.
While Austin is booming, its 153-year-old daily newspaper is dying.
@Gannett
, a ruthless hedge fund posing as a newspaper chain, has slashed the once-great
@statesman
to the bone in a race to the bottom.
Republicans will hand a 6 year old a gun, force a 10 year old to carry her rapist’s baby to term, allow a grown man to marry an 11 year old and send a 12 year old to work in a meatpacking plant but they won’t give a hungry child a free lunch.