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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 3h
Crazy scenes in central #LNK tonight
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It played during Nebraska's game against Michigan State last weekend and several times since.
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SaysBen @saysben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wtf was that paid for by the U.S. government commercial that aired on Big Ten Network?
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said the state will reimburse farmers for the tax they pay on diesel fuel, but his office declined to say how the reimbursement will be funded. Economic forecasts say Nebraska could be facing a $1 billion (with a B!) deficit come January. journalstar.com/news/state-r...
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Pillen touts relief for farmers. The Nebraska Farm Bureau hasn't endorsed him.
Agricultural producers will be exempt from tax on diesel and interstate weight limits Gov. Jim Pillen announced Thursday in an effort to provide some relief ahead of the fall harvest.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dan Osborn put an ad on social media today where at the end Sen. Pete Ricketts annihilated some kids with a Kamehameha-like energy blast.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Recruiting update: Czech President Petr Pavel is “N.”
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Interim Chancellor Katherine Ankerson (left) and University of Nebraska President Jeff Gold present a red Nebraska Cornhuskers football jersey to Czech President Petr Pavel.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The street finds its own uses for things.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There’s a guy sitting in the third row second seat to the right behind the scorer’s table in John Cook Arena wearing like a red and white striped shirt, blue jeans, and dark aviator shades. He has a mustache, looks like a cop from a 70s movie. What’s that guy’s story?
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Security for a Turning Point USA event at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln today includes rooftop snipers overlooking the heart of campus.
Tweet from @LNKScanner:

#LincolnNews - Happening now: Turning Point USA’s “Pick Up The Mic” event is underway on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City Campus.

Security has been heightened across campus, with a significant law enforcement presence, including rooftop snipers and numerous officers conducting foot patrols. Multiple law enforcement agencies are involved in providing security for the event.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thought Butker was going to blow that lol
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We got it: One Battle After Another
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We as a country need to ban dual team shirts. Nobody needs to have a split Nebraska-North Carolina getup.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Incredibly bleak to be 1) ending rules limiting the amount of carbon power plants can belt into the atmosphere 2) throwing a few dollars at states to "recover from disasters and to protect infrastructure from future events."
Trump's EPA is ending one of the nation's biggest climate protections.

Agency chief Lee Zeldin had planned the repeal of carbon emissions limits as part of a slew of proposals he called "the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history."Trump Administration Delivers More Than $33 Million Through FEMA to Help Communities Recover from Recent Disasters and Strengthen Their Resilience Against Future Disasters in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska
KANSAS CITY, MO — Today, FEMA announced the approval of more than $33 million in post-disaster funding for Public Assistance and the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program projects in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. These programs empower states, local communities, tribes and territories to recover from disasters and to protect infrastructure from future events. With this funding, President Donald J. Trump is keeping his promise to reform federal disaster support and ensure that taxpayer money is spent only on projects that deliver safety and security to the American people.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
First 60 Minutes segment was slop but Leslie Stahl giving Jacob Wohl a wedgie made for good TV
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that Lincoln must put three petitions (setting term limits, changing city election dates, & allowing voters outside the city) before voters this November.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nebraska AD Troy Dannen pitched to Gov. Jim Pillen and others locating a convention center at Memorial Stadium -- and potentially redirecting state tax dollars from another project to pay for it: journalstar.com/news/state-r...
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Nebraska Athletics proposed relocating convention center to near Memorial Stadium
The Athletic Department pitched the idea of a convention center adjacent to Memorial Stadium to Gov. Jim Pillen, and explored using a turnback tax to finance it.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has aligned himself with Trump's hardline stance on immigration. But Pillen Family Farms, one of the largest pork producers in the U.S., employed undocumented immigrants as late as a few years ago. From @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social: flatwaterfreepress.org/gov-pillen-b...
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Gov. Pillen backs ICE crackdown. His company employs undocumented workers. - Flatwater Free Press
Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks reelection, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have long take...
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Give whoever’s idea it was to film Nathan Fielder questioning Elizabeth Holmes a blank check.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is a disaster.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looks like the Huskers and Tigers are playing on ice out there.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Welp good season guys
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Rewatching the Sopranos (again) and want to issue this blazing hot take: Joey Pants can freaking act
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fighting with a coworker who doesn't think Taylor Hanson of Hanson is famous enough to be on Dancing with the Stars.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you took a drink every time Sen. Pete Ricketts called Dan Osborn, who is running as an independent, “Democrat Dan” at this senate debate at the Nebraska State Fair, you would have been dead a long time ago.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Laurel, Nebraska’s own!
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Conservatives seeking to break Lincoln's Democratic stronghold submitted thousands of fraudulent signatures on 3 petitions. They were thrown out, but now, Nebraska's AG suing #LNK to short-circuit the process & expedite putting the group's 2nd effort on the ballot. journalstar.com/news/local/g...
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Nebraska AG sues Lincoln after city attorney says charter petitions will go on May 2027 ballot
Lincoln City Attorney Yohance Christie said Thursday that Good Government Lincoln's election-related petitions will go on the May 2027 ballot.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#Huskers #SpikeUnderTheLights
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Peter Cullen voiced Optimus Prime in a series of sleep stories that my kids liked listening to when they were younger. In one of them, he talks about how nice it is to talk with such an attentive listener and good friend. It made me feel warm inside to hear it.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Max Country 104.9 in eastern Nebraska just announced they are going to start a Dolly marathon starting at 2pm.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Whoever writes for this show understands the reverence Nebraskans hold for Tom Osborne, even if he’s become something of a political sideshow as of late. Had a hunch @sepinwall.bsky.social was going to highlight that line…
A review of this week's Lanterns, "Trust Fall" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I swear on the life of former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne...
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The 6yo just challenged me to a push up-off? I’m not about to lose to my kid but he threw a perfect roll perception check on my weakest move.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The creek where anthropologist, naturalist, and writer Loren Eiseley collected fish, insects, and crustaceans near his boyhood Lincoln home will now bear his name: journalstar.com/news/local/a...
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Childhood escape for renowned Lincoln naturalist now bears his name
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which is responsible for designating the names of geographic features, approved an application to name the stream for the naturalist.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Someone is going to win a major acting award reciting these verbatim someday
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Eerie skies looking north from the Journal Star Mothership in central #LNK
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Right up through the end of the school day. Great!
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dipped into the other spot for a second and this was at the top of my feed.
Rep. Don Bacon telling a Twitter user who tagged him randomly they are responsible for John Wayne Gacy.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Green Lantern looking for aliens in Nebraska I HAVE SOME SUGGESTIONS
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
For the real Abe Heads out there:
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Hard to beat this #LNK Marathon poster
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"A number of the submitted petition pages containing fraudulent signatures had been circulated by three of the individuals who were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of circulator fraud," Secretary of State Bob Evnen said. journalstar.com/news/state-r...
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Signature issues knock Brett Lindstrom off Nebraska governor's ballot, state says
Secretary of State Bob Evnen said Brett Lindstrom submitted 5,765 signatures, and the secretary's office validated 3,358. To make the governor's ballot by petition, a nonpartisan candidate must have 4...
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My kindergartner was slow to get up this morning. “I’m extra tired because I had a really long day of school, OK?” Dude, it was your second day.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will drink a beer on behalf of Cooper Lutkenhaus.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Gov. Jim Pillen said the Legislature screwed up when it repealed the prohibition on paying petition circulators in 2015. Fun fact for the Real Nebraska Heads: The bill (LB367) that lifted the ban was introduced by Sen. Mike Groene of North Platte.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is a mess. Five people (unnamed so far) were accused of falsifying thousands of signatures on three petitions that sought to make big changes to Lincoln's city government. journalstar.com/news/local/c...
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Five arrested on suspected fraud in Lincoln ballot campaign
Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon said his office was working to bring the five suspects back to Nebraska. They were arrested in Florida, Missouri, Nevada and Washington, D.C.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Huh. How about that. journalstar.com/news/local/g...
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Most rejected Lincoln charter petition signatures flagged as suspected fraud
Newly obtained records show most rejected signatures on three Lincoln charter petitions were flagged as suspected fraudulent. The group behind the measures plans to regather signatures.
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No #LNKdome, you were supposed to protect the city, not destroy it!
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Chris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Genuinely curious what the process is for hiring more conservative faculty.
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