If you want to read about what the residents of Red Cloud think of the Senate drama nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/10…

NEW: The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink. He made hundreds of millions, while countless people still don't have good internet. We went to Louisiana where kids can't do their homework, schools can't support their students, and businesses struggle without a reliable connection.

I have told people for over a decade that @DonJBacon is the worst of them all because he is just a grifter and puts on fake faces to try to dupe decent people, but he is a real vile POS. I wonder if all the Billy Bobber’s are going to write a letter about this?

This is what passes for leadership at the national level, particularly from the @NEGOP. For context, I have included the post he was responding to, to point out how @RepDonBacon had the opportunity to respond countless other ways, but this is the path he chose.

"When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, Amazon’s Viraj Chatterjee told Bloomberg, 'We haven’t thought about that.'" theverge.com/tech/1002766/am…

But I was told that @USRepMikeFlood was helping to make Nebraskan's lives better.

Low IQ is what cowards and idiots say...especially when they prevent you from responding.

Awkward

We shouldn't have to wait for an election to begin holding people to account. The recent reporting about Houchin isn't news - his abuse has been an open secret for the past few years. There's no way county leaders DIDN'T know his character. journalstar.com/news/local/g…

“To offend a strong man, tell him a lie, To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.” *- Marcus Aurelius

I love this for @PeteRicketts and his flailing campaign. I'm confident that having the second least popular President of all time on the stump will help.

Only certain people fall for this bullshit

By holding events at 88 Tactical @TeamPillen is showing his support for far-right extremism: splcenter.org/resources/hate… Pillen, Walz lean into conservative support in dueling endorsements for Nebraska governor nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/09…

I say a few mean things about the Democrats and get blocked. I'm just pissing off everyone.

In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond studied a dozen societies across thousands of years, from the Maya to the Vikings, to answer one question: why do great civilizations fall? What he found wasn't drought, war or bad luck. None of those were ever enough on their own. The one thing present in every collapse was how the people at the top responded to what was happening below them. The warning sign he found again and again was leaders who were completely insulated from the pain of ordinary people. When the powerful never feel the consequences, they stop seeing the problem, and when they stop seeing it, they stop fixing it. The Maya kings kept enriching themselves and building monuments while the farmers who fed them went hungry. Their civilization didn't fall because of one bad year. It fell because the people in charge had stopped living in the same world as everyone else. Diamond called them "distant managers." They are the people in power who live so far from the damage that they are the last to understand how bad it has gotten. By the time they notice, the fields are already empty. His most important finding was that collapse is a choice. Every society that fell had leaders who could have changed course and chose not to. The question for us is whether we will keep letting people who can't see us make that choice for us. Because we are there folks.

Just another quality account followed by @Plains_Sentinel.

So glad to see this story get the sunlight it deserves. Houchin is a monster who has no place in law enforcement. journalstar.com/news/local/g…

It's all collusion - these platforms will protect each other. hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

“Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Sometimes a photo taken just at the right millisecond can capture the true essence of the moment. We often think of Joe Rosenthal's capture of the rising of the American Flag on the summit of Mt. Surabachi once secured on Iwo Jima in February 1945. This photo captures the demon that is Trump, one can see the eternal black nothingness that is his soul by looking into his eyes, watched closely by his ever-stern bride with whom all of life's joy is gone having been replaced by a never-ending internal agony. Xi Jinping and Peng watching the spectacle and taking in and recording the ridiculousness and vulnerability of the current state of the United States of America.