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‘Not A Way To Live’: AI Is Fueling Violent Threats Against Women Judges

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 10/03/2025 - 12:00am

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A Nebraska Inmate Went On His Girlfriend’s Podcast. Then The Prison Cut Off Their Contact.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/26/2025 - 12:00am

Montpetit and Ely regularly video chatted in the fall and winter of 2024. Montpetit said he was proposing marriage in the final screenshot.
(Courtesy Julie Montpetit)

Julie Montpetit didn’t see it coming. Not her newfound passion for criminal justice reform, and certainly not her current predicament: blocked from talking to the man she loves, a man locked in prison thousands of miles away.

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Sin, Debate, And Killings

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/26/2025 - 12:00am

The best way to defeat a person’s ideology is to lay its defects bare before them – as well as to set out and arrange them in front of everyone else. The most well-functioning tool for exposing flaws is public debate; anything else will ultimately have the opposite effect.

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As ICE Partnerships Spread In The Midwest, Incentives Rise And Civil Rights Concerns Deepen

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/26/2025 - 12:00am

Two federal officers stand outside the Cedar Rapids ICE Field Office during a rally on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Neither the Cedar Rapids Police Department nor the Linn County Sheriff's Office has a 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. However, the Iowa State Patrol does.
(Naomi Delkamiller / The Midwest Newsroom)

Since President Donald Trump began his second term, agreements allowing local law enforcement agencies to perform federal immigration duties have surged from 135 in January 2025 to more than 1,000 in September.

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Voting Advocacy Group Sues To Block Nebraska From Giving Voter Data To Feds

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/26/2025 - 12:00am

LINCOLN — A voting advocacy group has sued to block Nebraska’s secretary of state from sharing voter registration data with the U.S. Department of Justice.

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New York Judge Tosses Terrorism Charges Against Luigi Mangione, Lets Murder Count Stand

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/19/2025 - 12:00am

Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025.
(Curtis Means / Pool Photo via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state's case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state's second-degree murder charges against him.

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Deaths Prompt State Lawmakers To Consider New Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Rules

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/19/2025 - 12:00am

Just before 8 a.m. on Jan. 31, an explosion rocked a nondescript one-story office building in an affluent suburb of Detroit.

The building was home to The Oxford Center, a health clinic that provided hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat a variety of disorders.

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Harvard, Like All Americans, Can’t Be Punished By The Government For Speaking Freely – And A Federal Court Decision Upholds Decades Of Precedents Saying So

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/19/2025 - 12:00am

Students, faculty and members of the Harvard University community rally, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.
(AP Photo)

When the federal government threatened to cancel billions in research funds from Harvard University – as it has also done to other research universities – the message was clear: Institutions that speak or think in ways elected officials dislike can expect to pay a price.

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Pillen Adds $20 Million To Nebraska Property Tax Relief Funds From Casino Revenue, Unused Credits

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/19/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (center) addresses the new School Financing Review Commission during its first meeting on Aug. 12, 2025.
(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen this week directed about $20 million in unused property tax relief funds and higher-than-expected casino revenues to instead be distributed to taxpayers.

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Nebraska Says It Values Rehabilitation. So Why Trade It For ICE Detention?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Fri, 09/19/2025 - 12:00am

Nebraska and the federal Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 19 announced that the state’s Work Ethic Camp in McCook would be converted into a federal immigration detention facility, which Homeland Security branded the “Cornhusker Clink.”

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