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Lessons From An Off-Screen Character

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

Amid the recent roiling seas of public murder and on-purpose mayhem came the news that film star Robert Redford had died at 89. As one among millions who enjoyed his movies — whether acting or directing — I have always been especially struck by Redford’s persona … his off-screen character.

Or, more to the point, struck by the contrast between his persona and what we see too much these days on multiple screens.

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Judge Finds The Trump Administration Unconstitutionally Targeted Noncitizens Over Gaza War Protests

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

BOSTON (AP) — The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it targeted non-U.S. citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel, a federal judged said Tuesday in a scathing ruling directly and sharply criticizing President Donald Trump and his policies as serious threats to free speech.

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Nebraska Gets A Private School Tax Credit — Thanks To Trump

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

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen talking in front of U.S. Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood at St. Teresa Catholic School in Lincoln on Sep. 29, 2025.
(Juan Salinas II / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and U.S. Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood took a political victory lap Monday with a group of K-12 students at the capital city’s St. Teresa Catholic School.

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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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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.