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License Plate Readers In Nebraska Help ICE Conduct Immigration Enforcement Efforts

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am
Authorities have conducted at least 20 immigration-related searches of the Flock Safety surveillance networks in Nebraska’s two largest counties since January. The systems, traditionally used by local law enforcement to investigate car thefts and other crimes, are being used in immigration-related cases across the U.S. (Illustration by Hanscom Park Studio)

When federal immigration agents arrested Melvin Varela Perez in the Omaha area on July 9, they were quick to thank the local cops and other federal officials who helped crack the case.

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Blink Twice If You Are OK!

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am

Visitors to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. have made some stark observations about our nation’s legislative body. One visitor pleaded with the Daily Record’s handsome interviewer to remain nameless out of fear that people might associate his name with anyone in Congress, or, just anyone in D.C.

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Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman, First Woman To Serve On Nebraska Supreme Court, To Retire

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska Supreme Court justices Edward Hannon and Lindsey Miller-Lerman look over shared evidence during the Hergert impeachment trial in the Nebraska Supreme Court, Thursday, May 11, 2006, in Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Regent David Hergert was called by prosecutors to testify Thursday in his impeachment trial. (Robert Becker / The Lincoln Journal Star / AP Photo)

LINCOLN — Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman, the first woman to serve on the state’s high court and its longest-serving current member, announced her retirement effective Oct. 31.

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CDC Director Susan Monarez Is Fired And Other Agency Leaders Resign

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am
Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arrives to testify before the Senate HELP Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) — The director of the nation's top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned.

Susan Monarez isn't “aligned with” President Donald Trump's agenda and refused to resign, so the White House terminated her, spokesman Kush Desai said Wednesday night.

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Nebraska Lawmakers Seek Legislative Hearing Into Nebraska-ICE Detention Center Plans

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 09/01/2025 - 12:00am
State Sens. from left: John Cavanaugh of Omaha, Machaela Cavanaugh of Omaha, Terrell McKinney of Omaha, Victor Rountree of Bellevue, Danielle Conrad of Lincoln and George Dungan of Lincoln meet off the floor of the Legislature, March 26, 2025. (Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Thirteen progressive state lawmakers called on the chair of the Nebraska Legislature’s Judiciary Committee to host a public hearing into a federal-state plan to morph a state prison into an immigration detention center.

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Nebraska’s ICE Facility ‘Symbolic’ Of State’s Support For Immigration Enforcement Push

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen meets with troops at the southern border in Texas. (Courtesy of the Governor’s Office)

LINCOLN — The media spectacle of Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen unveiling plans for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the southwestern part of the state follows a political playbook from the Trump administration.

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How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance To Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am

How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance to Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Kogan: Schools' dysfunction is hard-wired into a governance model that puts adults' political agendas ahead of students' educational interests.

By Vladimir Kogan

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How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance To Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am

How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance to Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Kogan: Schools' dysfunction is hard-wired into a governance model that puts adults' political agendas ahead of students' educational interests.

By Vladimir Kogan

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RFK Jr. Vowed To Find The Environmental Causes Of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying To Do Just That.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am
Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division. (Nate Smallwood / ProPublica)

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

by Sharon Lerner

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.

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The Orwellian Echoes In Trump’s Push For ‘Americanism’ At The Smithsonian

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 08/25/2025 - 12:00am
A supporter of Badar Khan Suri holds a sign saying "It's the 1984 George Orwell Warned Us About!," while attending a rally in opposition to the Georgetown University scholar's arrest and detention, outside of the courthouse, at the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign.

It usually characterizes an action, an individual or a society that is suppressing freedom, particularly the freedom of expression. It can also describe something perverted by tyrannical power.

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