Chris Dunker
@chrisdunker.bsky.social
Human reporter on the Great Plains | Dad | If you ain’t up on things | “History is just old journalism.” — Dave Bundy | Signal: ChrisDunkerLJS.25
Genuinely curious what the process is for hiring more conservative faculty.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoTime to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Since, somehow, America still can't come to grips with COVID I just want to say that I saw very real, very sick patients being cared for by very real, very dedicated doctors, nurses, therapists when I spent a day in a COVID ICU ward in December 2020: journalstar.com/news/local/a...
'They don't see how bad it truly is' — Lincoln ICU doctors, nurses bear the brunt of the pandemic
The Journal Star was granted exclusive access and spent a day inside the ICU for coronavirus patients at Bryan Health's East Campus. Find out what it's like for the medical
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Sen. Deb Fischer on Democrats: "They want to demilitarize the police. It's everybody's worst nightmare on what this society would become ... people have deep knowledge of what happens in countries that say they are democratic socialist ... look at Russia"
Oh to be able to write a letter to the editor as poetic and cutting as Local Treasure Ted Kooser.
“One of the signs of a great society is the diligence with which it passes culture from one generation to the next.” — Winston Churchill
Ms. Chen 56 is the reigning GOAT of Chinese food in Lincoln
Deloitte Consulting will look at the University of Nebraska's organizational structure, academic and research offerings, as well as finances and offer recommendations, President Jeff Gold said.
NU hires Deloitte to look for areas of improvement across system
Deloitte Consulting will look at the University of Nebraska's organizational structure, academic and research offerings, as well as finances and offer recommendations, President Jeff Gold said.
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Buglarian correspondent Ivo Ivanov, who happens to live in Lawrence, reveals his favorite moment of the World Cup to Bulgarian TV viewers. Watch this if you need a reminder about what, or actually who, really constitutes the United States of America. (auto-transcribed & translated as usual)
Tom Osborne will finally get the recognition he has been unrightfully denied for the last 30 years. journalstar.com/news/state-r...
Tom Osborne unanimously selected as first living Nebraska Hall of Fame inductee
In a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission selected former Husker football coach Tom Osborne as the first living Nebraska Hall of Fame inductee.
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Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts says he wants to reform birthright citizenship, which was guaranteed by the 14th Amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Tuchel going to park the bus in the second half just to prove a point
The alternating in and out of third person is really strange
England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup
The oceans are, sadly, no longer battlefields
ABC 10News@abc10news.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Maritime Museum of San Diego will permanently close its 18th century replica frigate the HMS Surprise on Aug. 1, 2027, following an assessment that keeping the ship at the museum is no longer financially viable.
Lindsey Graham came to Nebraska in fall 2024 to push for changing how we award Electoral College votes. One R senator did not go to the event arranged by Gov. Jim Pillen & told me another senator called & asked if they wanted to talk to Graham and they refused. Then the issue died on the vine.
May we all one day be as lucky as Argentina is on every VAR review
Nebraska is facing a $172 million budget deficit 9 days into the fiscal year.
Glad the U.S. forgot how to pass and defend for this match. Great timing.
