nebraska

#Nebraska legislators block a late effort to change how the state allocates its Electoral College votes, despite public pressure from #Trump to shift to a winner-take-all system that would likely benefit him in the fall - NBC

this is for all the cynics on the left. all those toxic idealists who go "if it's not perfect i'm not playing"

you have to fight for everything in this world. never sit on the sidelines

the enshittification of our world is not automatic. unless enough of you sit things out

the first #gay Senator in #Nebraska just gave a speech so powerful, the #conservatives who cosponsored anti-#transgender legislation abandoned it

fight. show up. win.

AND #VOTE

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/conservative-co-sponsors-abandon-their-own-bill-after-gay-politicians-powerful-speech/

Watching the tape of #Walz campaigning in #Nebraska today. Seeing the Nebraska crowd - a crowd that in many ways looks and sounds very different from the crowds in places I’ve lived - so happy and enthusiastic for #HarrisWalz gives me hope for this country. People all across the country are fighting for a Democratic administration this November. Let’s gooooo!

Exec at #Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied #GOP Lawmaker
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A former aide to Rep. Don Bacon, a #Nebraska #Republican, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was inappropriate.

“It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”

#News #Immigration #Politics #Government #Business #TrumpMedia

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-foreign-executive-us-visa-don-bacon

Via Dave Wasserman:

If the #Nebraska winner-take-all push fails and Harris ends up winning exactly 270 EVs (MI/PA/WI + #NE02), she'll have a different Walz to thank: Fremont state Sen. Lynne Walz (D), who holds a Trump +33 seat (nonpartisan elections) and could be difference-making vote to block it.

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Via Scott MacFarlane:

ALERT: #Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announces he will NOT call a special session prior to November to attempt to change Nebraska to winner-take-all in the electoral college

ADDED: Via every news outlet: "In a blow to #Trump..." #WompWomp

👀👀 👏🏻Mike McDonnell, the #Nebraska state senator who Republicans hoped would help ease Donald #Trump’s path to the White House by agreeing to change how the state allocates its Electoral College votes, said on Monday that he would not do so.—NYT

“GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who represents one of House Republicans’ toughest battleground districts, has decided not to run for reelection next year, according to three people familiar with his plans – opening up a critical seat in #Nebraska for Democrats in the 2026 midterms.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/politics/don-bacon-congress?cid=ios_app