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David Mastio

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Fmr. National Columnist for McClatchy/The Kansas City Star -- Lumina Extingue Finivimus

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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 18m
This on Trump plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon was fun to write: www.nysun.com/article/nasa...
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Omaha World-Herald @owhnews.bsky.social · 3h
Get ready for Grand Island's day in the spotlight Monday with the United States president in town. The route hasn't been publicized, but streets may be closed suddenly without notice.
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Expect sudden road closures in Grand Island with the president in town
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 18h
I have a somewhat different take than the NYTs on the dangers of nuclear power in space www.nysun.com/article/nasa...
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 19h
The old Huskers would have crushed Maryland 50-0.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 20h
totally nerding out working on a story about the history of nuclear power in space.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026
What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We had the party for the five year old and her best friend (who just had her last preschool day) brought her a framed picture. A picture she made from the pressed flowers she had collected on her walks home from their school days together
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 21h
That seems little lite.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 23h
WTH? eh, now that I think about BlueSky ... never change. I love you just the way you are.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 23h
WTH
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Omaha World-Herald @owhnews.bsky.social · 23h
Leslie Lynch King Jr. was born to Leslie and Dorothy King of Omaha in 1913, setting off events leading to their divorce following the "mother-in-law injunction" regarding Gerald Ford's grandparents.
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President Gerald Ford's parents' divorce was front-page news in Omaha in 1913
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ICYMI: My latest -- www.nysun.com/article/trum...
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Donald Trump has been talking to chatbots. What could go wrong? From today's "To the Contrary" Podcast.
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 03/10/2026
The public will have a shot at buying pieces of unclaimed property ranging from a diamond ring, a 1961 Topps No. 2 Roger Maris baseball card and a 1934 $500 Federal Reserve note. From Cindy Gonzalez buff.ly/CwclhaA
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Nine-year dry spell ends Tuesday when state treasurer resumes unclaimed property auction • Nebraska Examiner
A nine-year dry spell ends Tuesday when Nebraska's state treasurer resumes unclaimed property auctions with an online eBay event.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New data show a predicted Trump-era targeting of trans people failed to materialize, even as LGBTQ leaders warned of an ‘epidemic’ of ‘danger,’ ‘violence,’ ‘murder’ and even ‘terrorism.’ www.nysun.com/article/trum...
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 03/10/2026
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: GOP pumps $8 million into Kansas to prop up flailing Roger Marshall. We have a race on our hands. #ksleg
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Opinion: GOP pumps $8 million into Kansas to prop up flailing Roger Marshall. We have a race on our hands. • Kansas Reflector
Opinion editor Clay Wirestone writes: National Republicans are racing to the rescue of U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, diverting millions of dollars in advertising from North Carolina to Kansas. At least, t...
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am really going to hate the new Senate I am voting for.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not fair to call it treason but absolutely accurate to call it treachery.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump's tough on crime policies might have been a civil rights triumph for trans people (gift link) www.nysun.com/article/trum...
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.
Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza
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Omaha World-Herald @owhnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
While Dan Osborn's comments became a rallying point for Sen. Pete Ricketts and his supporters, it was not an explosive issue during Osborn's town hall in Red Cloud.
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Dan Osborn apologizes to Red Cloud residents in subdued town hall
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 01/10/2026
Incumbent state Sen. Loren Lippincott is seeking reelection against challenger Ben Blodgett, for Legislative District 34. Read the candidates' positions in their own words here: buff.ly/lFSmcVL
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Nebraska Legislature, Legislative District 34 | Voter Guide: 2026 General Election • Nebraska
From Nebraska Examiner | Dogged. Principled. Dedicated to Nebraska news.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am working on a story about a possible solution to the data center crisis sweeping America. I am wondering if anywhere in my network is someone who knows about data center siting and building from the inside technical perspective or someone who is a geologist. Can you help me find them? Reach out.
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(((Steve Chapman))) @stevechapman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dartmouth provost got busted for using AI to write an op-ed on student use of AI to cheat. He issued a statement of apology -- which was found to have been composed by AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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College Leaders Are Using A.I. Students Call It Hypocrisy. (Gift Article)
Dartmouth said it would investigate its provost over A.I. accusations. Similar controversies on other campuses have prompted frustration among students.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More than 100%? www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...
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Donation pledges to Kennedy Center fell by more than 100% in months after Trump’s name added, internal documents show | CNN Politics
For much of the past year, the financial alarm bells at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have been going off among the stewards of the iconic art institution.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turkey is trying to erase LGBT people. www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/16/t...
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Turkey arrests protesters amid ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown
Authorities in Turkey have arrested dozens more people amid an ongoing crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and organisations in the country.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I offered, but they think someone has to be in Washington to do a job that means communication with opinion folks everywhere. Too bad.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My kids will be happy @bendoody.bsky.social
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICYMI: I have the deets on all the doings inspired by NY Socialist Mayor Mamdani's stupid government grocery store plan from San Francisco and Seattle to Chicago, Kansas City and Atlanta (gift link next) www.nysun.com/article/mamd...
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People have heard about the phonics vs triple-queuing fiasco but there is a similar issue in math where ed school ideologues have stigmatized the normal and necessary work of drilling novice students in the fundamentals. www.slowboring.com/p/math-needs...
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Math needs a phonics-style reckoning
Teachers should teach students how to do stuff correctly.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A useful political rule: don't design the rules assuming your team will always be in charge.⁣ ⁣ Eventually, the big red button changes hands. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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My Libertarian Friends Were Right
Do economists have a political bias? What should we do about that?
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/09/2026
Smart piece by @joshuatait.bsky.social pointing out something I haven't seen anybody else notice: Vance has positioned himself as the key post-Trump figure among each of what we might think of as the "five families" of MAGA.👇
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s Where Media Insiders Actually Get Their News www.culturedmag.com/article/2026...
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Here’s Where Media Insiders Actually Get Their News
There’s a glut of information, entertainment, and everything in between out there. We asked 10 media-savvy people how they stay on top of it all.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My first op-ed for the @NewYorkSun just posted. I hope you'll take a look. My hed was better -- Could Gavin Newsom Kill the Press President Trump Loves To Hate? www.nysun.com/article/coul...
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would be really dumb. She needs time to work and for her new approach to break through. What she is doing is strikingly different than the characature.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t get cocky
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 27/09/2026
Looks like Gov. Healey and Mike Minogue have one thing in common: pandering on the gas tax. @jimaloisi.bsky.social explains. #mapoli commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/susp...
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Suspending the gas tax would be a shortsighted election year stunt
The state gas tax is the price we pay to ensure that we have safe and reliable ways to get where we need to go, with sufficient funding to build, operate, and maintain the essential transportation inf...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can confirm.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 25/09/2026
Cindy Johnson and Rebecca Rens are seeking to succeed incumbent state Sen. Wendy DeBoer of Omaha (2019-present), a term-limited Democrat, for Nebraska's Legislative District 10. Read the candidates' positions in their own words here: buff.ly/HVTFRZb
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Nebraska Legislature, Legislative District 10 | Voter Guide: 2026 General Election • Nebraska
From Nebraska Examiner | Dogged. Principled. Dedicated to Nebraska news.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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Omaha World-Herald @owhnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Diesel fuel historically was cheaper than regular gasoline, except during exceptionally cold winters when there was greater demand, but that trend started reversing around September 2004.
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Why are diesel prices so much higher than regular gas?
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Christian Schneider @anti-knowledge.com · 24/09/2026
The FCC is a relic from the old days of public airwaves. It's time to get rid of it. (Me today at @nationalreview.bsky.social) link.nationalreview.com/click/6ab533...
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Who Needs the FCC? | National Review
Profanity has won, and we shouldn’t have a bureaucracy to police it.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alexa, whose votes are going to turn the 2026 election in a Democratic landslide? Answer: Well, if the saner party gets enough Repugs, Trump's allies will be crushed.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Repug” lets you know that you’re dealing with someone who thinks very seriously about politics
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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