Chris Dunker

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Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· 19d

“One of the signs of a great society is the diligence with which it passes culture from one generation to the next.” — Winston Churchill

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· 19d

One of the funniest things I’ve seen www.reddit.com/r/lincoln/s/...

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· 21d

Can't shake (conspiratorial) belief Gov. Jim Pillen pushed so hard for Osborne this time because the last inductee to the Nebraska Hall of Fame was Malcolm X and Pillen got "mogged," as the kids might say, by former Sen. Ernie Chambers at the ceremony. journalstar.com/news/local/a...

Wednesday also was declared as Malcolm X Day by Gov. Jim Pillen, who read a proclamation inducting Malcolm X into the Nebraska Hall of Fame and directing Nebraskans to recognize his achievements.

Chambers, who will turn 88 in July, wasn't included in Wednesday's program, but he took to the podium to celebrate the occasion and point out that he never thought the day would come when Nebraska would recognize Malcolm X's life and contributions.

"I never thought I'd live long enough to see a white, conservative Republican governor from a white, conservative Republican state like Nebraska participate in the induction of Malcolm X," Chambers said.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· 23d

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."

Ricketts Announces Support for Reforming Birthright Citizenship
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) announced his support for reforming birthright citizenship:

“Birthright citizenship was included in the U.S. Constitution to reconcile an incredible error in America. It was added to ensure those freed from slavery were granted American citizenship. This made our nation better.

Today, birthright citizenship is being exploited by bad actors and our adversaries. We are one of the only nations that lacks commonsense guardrails on birthright citizenship. This incentivizes illegal immigration and promotes birth tourism. Illegal immigrants and non-citizens are crossing our borders and having children, who are then given American citizenship automatically. Our current policy also allows bad actors to game the system with birth tourism. Unrestrained birthright citizenship hands Communist China an opportunity to infiltrate our country. We must reform the system.

I am proud to be an American. I understand why others want to be a citizen of our great nation. But becoming an American is a privilege, not a right. It is about more than being born on our soil. It’s about committing to our nation’s promise and holding to our values of freedom and democracy. I support reforming birthright citizenship in America.”

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· 23d

Hot story tips coming into Journal Star dot com today.

“Tyrese Haliburton, okay if I buy my village, a bunch of jerseys, and player cards, and then I hand them out, like 25 some women’s basketball players, and nfl guys, and a Reggie miller jersey, I hand these out, to my villagers, and then “snap my fingers”. Alright, what happens? Bro they automatically, become your fans man.. if I myself buy rookie cards, and then a bunch of these player packs pop up hella hot, because I bought some Wembys, and some coopers and drakes and Bo nix, and I gave them to the highschool, and o bought them like three years ago, and they see these c Supporting Audio: Supporting Video: Supporting Photos: Supporting PDF: Source: journalstar.com

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Jul 14

Lindstrom quietly changed the Nebraska outline on his campaign website, but a colleague points out it shortchanges the Panhandle.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Jul 14

Help Nebraska keeps shrinking

Nebraska Territory, which includes Nebraska as we know it as a state as well as parts of Colorado, S. and N. Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

Long Nebraska, where the Panhandle extends well into Wyoming.

The Nebraska of today, ~500 miles from Omaha in the east to Scottsbluff in the west.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Jul 1

Badlands? More like Coollands.

A picture of a basin at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. There are layers of different sediments visible from millions of years of erosion.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Jun 17

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Jun 6

A NBA ref whose favorite movie is Minority Report?!

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 30

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said Palestinians "are born to kill Jews and Christians" before signing an executive order public school boards and postsecondary institutions to adopt a discrimination and harassment policy that includes antisemitism. journalstar.com/news/state-r...

He added that in the Israeli village he visited, more than 400 people had been slaughtered who had tried to help Palestinians.

"Everybody, whether it's in the Gaza Strip, or elsewhere, they want to kill every Jewish person on the planet,” Pillen said of Palestinians. “Anybody that wants to stand up and talk about Palestinians, they’ve got to understand that those people are born to kill Jews and Christians.”

When asked if this generalization of Palestinians was harmful rhetoric, Pillen said all he can go by is what he saw, learned and heard.

"I sat with 25 other governors 30 days after the October attacks. A couple of governors had to get up and leave after seeing dead bodies being dragged through the streets in Gaza," Pillen said. "I don't think I need to go into any more of what actually took place. That's not a generalization."

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 29

A conservative faculty member at the University of Nebraska at Kearney admits he is not being discriminated against but is mad because his colleagues avoid him.

UNK does not have a campus climate that is hostile to Christians or conservatives. Each student, faculty member, and student organization was asked whether they experienced intimidation or academic or employment consequences because of their beliefs. No individuals described any occurrences nor offered any evidence. Two individuals described it as a “perception.” The faculty member who claimed that the campus culture was not welcoming, and that voicing conservative ideas could have negative impacts on a person’s career, said in an interview that no administrator had ever intimidated him or caused negative impacts on his career because of his political views, and added that campus leadership is accepting of his viewpoints. The negative reaction, he said, came from individual colleagues who he felt were not accepting of his views.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 28

Woman shoots dog = not news Dog shoots woman = hell yeah print it babyy

Scottsbluff Police investigated an apparent accidental shooting on Saturday.

Scottsbluff Police responded at about 12:07 p.m. to Short Stop, a convenience store and gas station located at 2002 Ave.

Police received a report that an individual had been shot by a BB gun. While officers were en route, updated information indicated that the incident involved a shotgun, Cpl. Stefan Yocum released.

At the scene, Yocum said, officers located a truck with an attached camper.

The passenger side door panel of the vehicle had sustained damage consistent with a shotgun blast.

Preliminary results of an investigation determined that the owner of the truck had pulled into the convenience store to purchase merchandise. While the truck passenger stood near the front passenger-side door, a dog in the back seat reportedly moved from one side of the vehicle to the other.

During that movement, the dog triggered a shotgun that had a live shell in the chamber, causing the firearm to accidentally discharge.

A shotgun pellet struck a woman stopped at the traffic light on Avenue I with her arm resting out of the window. Yocum said one pellet from the shotgun blast struck her in the upper right arm.

Her injury is not believed to be life-threatening, and a family member transported her to Regional West Medical Center for treatment.

Yocum said the incident remains under investigation by the Scottsbluff Police Department.

He reminded the public that per Nebraska State Statute, it is illegal to travel with a loaded shotgun in a vehicle.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 25

Getting mad because he can’t tell the difference between reporting and a letter to the editor

Poster on Twitter is upset a letter to editor does not share his obsession with the head of Nebraska’s Democratic party.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 20

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

The band Stillwater from the movie "Almost Famous." Russell Hammond (played by Billy Crudup) is the guitarist with mystic but is featured prominently in the photo where he is barely smiling. Jeff Bebe (played by Jason Lee) is the lead singer and is sitting behind him, 3/4 in view. Larry, the bass player (played by Mark Kozelek) is behind Jeff, about 1/2 in view, and Ed Vallencourt (drummer played by John Fedevich) is in the back, out of focus and only about 1/2 in view. They are all looking straight ahead, dressed as 1970s rockers.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 18

The feds are trying to give money to the wrong guy in this HOF photo.

A Capitol police officer facing to the left, right arm extended and barely in view of the shot, fires a pepper spray container at a man breaking into the Capitol through a window. The insurrectionist is leaping off a historical display with his left hand covering his face as the stream of pepper spray comes towards him.

The photo was published on Twitter by @CoachC___ with the caption "Hit his ass with the No Look like J Kidd."

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 18

Figured it out: Sirens alerting us to this stunning rainbow

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 15

Received the text every husband dreams of receiving

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 13

Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, who ran in 2018 on implementing voter ID in the state, is getting boat raced by challenger Scott Petersen, whose campaign has been focused on election conspiracy theories and trying to be the most MAGA.

As of 10:20 p.m., Scott Petersen is beating Bob Evnen 54-46% in the Republican primary for Secretary of State.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 12

Unacceptable forms of photo ID in Nebraska: Iowa, Missouri, Ivy League.

A poster at a voting precinct in Lincoln showing unacceptable forms of voter ID that include and Iowa and Missouri driver’s license and student IDs from UIowa and Harvard

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 7

Meanwhile, this candidate for Nebraska Secretary of State asked the office he’s running for to turn over a list of all voters who had been removed from the rolls and is complaining the office said it needs a month to review.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 7

I filed a public records request with Gov. Jim Pillen's office on Dec. 8 to search a small number of emails for 3 terms over a 1-week period. It's as simple as I could make it. The governor's office has delayed my request 9 times over a period of six months.

Your request asks for the following records:

Request for any communications, including but not limited to, emails, text messages, letters, or memoranda, containing the words “AltEn”, “Mead”, or “ethanol plant” sent or received by your office between Dec. 1, 2025, and receipt of this public records request, December 7, 2025.

Due to the current number of pending public records request and additional time needed to conduct final legal reviews, the Office of the Governor requires additional time to gather the documentation. We anticipate that the earliest practicable date for fulfilling the request is May 21, 2026.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 7

This piece from a conservative news outlet 1. doesn't identify the text in question except to say it is "lesbian pornography" 2. doesn't identify which course this student was taking 3. western "cannon."

Following our initial report, The Plains Sentinel spoke with more students who believe the university is actively creating an environment that forces students to keep their personal beliefs closeted and limits the academic rigor on campus. Allison Arens, a senior studying English at UNK, said she was shamed for asking for an alternative option to the required reading, which she said was the “equivalent of lesbian pornography.”

“Later that week, I was informed by another classmate of mine who had not initially joined in my boycott of the lesbian porn that the rest of my peers chastised me as being ‘simple’ and ‘ignorant’ for my unwillingness to read the grotesque text,” she said. “My professor and my peers saw me as sensitive and uncultured.”

Arens said she found a lot of the books required for class “intellectually unstimulating” as professors promoted poorly written political content over classics of the western cannon. She said at one point she asked the chair of the department to allow her to do an independent study of John Milton, the author of the epic poem “Paradise Lost,” but was told she was not allowed to.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 3

Nebraska mentioned (derogatory)

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· May 1

The expected to win percentage is extremely funny

Knicks are up 47 at half and have a 99.8% of winning

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Apr 9

The Nebraska Legislature is standing at ease because of a big distraction: the Husker basketball team is in the building.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Apr 6

Left side is Trump trying to explain the Iran War, right side is four humans who have gone farther than anyone in history

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Mar 27

Dr. Manhattan meme from Watchmen about Tiger Woods being involved in suspicious car crashes in 2009, 2021 and 2026.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Mar 25

The Nebraska Legislature failed to pass a budget bill on Day 50 as required by its rules. Could we be looking at this provision within the state constitution?

The duration of regular sessions held shall not exceed ninety legislative days in odd-numbered years unless extended by a vote of four-fifths of all members elected to the Legislature, and shall not exceed sixty legislative days in even-numbered years unless extended by a vote of four-fifths of all members elected to the Legislature.

Chris Dunker@chrisdunker· Mar 2

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