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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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Kacen J. Bayless @kacen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New: KCK sues the state of Kansas, arguing that state rules overseeing a proposed Chiefs stadium violate the state Constitution. #ksleg www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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KCK sues to strike down parts of new Chiefs stadium sports authority law
The lawsuit came a day after the local government voted to withdraw from parts of the sports authority legislation.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 23h
New Colorado newspaper founded by political consultants, one of whom is a city council member, reports @coreyhutchins.bsky.social. coloradomedia.substack.com/p/new-colora...
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New Colorado newspaper launches founded by political consultants. One sits on city council.
The news behind the news in Colorado
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is posted as if I haven't been doing this since 2015. I realize that if you're new here, or new to politics, or new to this solar system, you might think this is my first midterm with Trump in power, but this is just, um, stupid
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
VP Vance says he won't watch.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 09/10/2026
Why the @nytimes.com lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft is the "Super Bowl" of AI copyright infringement cases. www.inma.org/blogs/produc...
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What The New York Times AI copyright case means for the news industry
During this week’s Webinar, INMA’s Robert Whitehead and Jodie Hopperton were joined by New York Times Assistant General Counsel Karen Chesley and Digital Content Next CEO Jason Kint to dissect the lat...
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Any way I can get you to comment for a story?
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'd be crazed if I were still an op-ed editor and had to examine all incoming pieces to discern if they were by human experts or AI imposters. 🤷‍♀️ My husband deals with this daily and it's nervewracking. Good analysis here from @columjournreview.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/fak... 🤷‍♀️
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Fake Caroline.
Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 09/10/2026
Nebraska farmers and trucking organizations say they are cautious about the use and impact of the temporary tax break. From Cindy Gonzalez buff.ly/mqcyB7t
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How big a deal is the red-dyed diesel directive?  • Nebraska Examiner
How big of a deal is the red-dyed diesel directive announced by Donald Trump and, on the state level, by Gov. Jim Pillen?
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 08/10/2026
Brier Dudley writes that changes to a bill that would provide assistance for local news in Washington State threaten the neutral, objective criteria needed to ensure independence. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/anot...
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Another complicated Washington effort to support local news - Editor and Publisher
Dee Anne Finken is too diplomatic to say so outright, but she’s gobsmacked by a new report on how to support local news in Washington. The Clark County grandmother spent much of the last five years wo...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sometimes, there are posts too stupid to argue with. This is one of them.
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Christian Schneider @anti-knowledge.com · 08/10/2026
In the 1980s, Jim Bakker did incalculable damage to the cause of organized religion, and his methods have been transferred to modern politics by another 80s icon. Bakker preached the prosperity gospel. America now practices prosperity politics: link.nationalreview.com/click/6ac7a9...
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Jim Bakker’s Long Con | National Review
The disgraced televangelist wrote the script for modern political corruption.
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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"I found even more newspaper columns, legislative notes, speeches, and arguments written about the girls by the adults around them. Once I began looking, newsgirls seemed to shout at me from everywhere. Extra! Extra! is the result."
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From the Desk of Autumn Linford: Giving Newsgirls their Place in History
Dr. Autumn Lorimer Linford is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. Her decades-long journalistic career spanned the United States from Wyoming to North Carolina and her award-winning historical research has appeared in top academic journals like American Journalism. Her book, Extra! Extra! A History of America’s Girl Newsies (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), was published in September. “Huh.” The word escaped me in a single puff of confused breath.
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 07/10/2026
Nearly all of the U.S. senators elected this year will be in office when Congress debates how to restructure Social Security to prevent an automatic drop-off in retirement benefits in 2032. buff.ly/5SimzaL
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US Senate candidates in 9 key races quiet about Social Security benefits cliff • Nebraska Examiner
Nearly all of the U.S. senators elected this year will be in office when Congress debates how to restructure Social Security to prevent an automatic drop-off in retirement benefits in 2032.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the United Nations "Year of the Rangelands" Nebraska tourism will be powered by $19 million in government boodle that will help tourist see the mating of prairie chickens. You can't make this stuff up.
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 08/10/2026
A nearly $19 million financial boost is coming to help rescue Nebraska grasslands. From Cindy Gonzalez buff.ly/35kLLXz
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Nearly $19M to help save Nebraska prairie, state bird, dancing chickens  • Nebraska Examiner
LINCOLN — A nearly $19 million financial boost is coming to help rescue Nebraska grasslands. “Unprecedented” is how the state grant coordinator, Laura Rubeck, described the investment by the U.S.…
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Christian Schneider @anti-knowledge.com · 07/10/2026
I can announce I am finally ready to move on with my life
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think the Los Angeles thing was just a garbled stupid thing that came out differently than he intended, but Jill is right in general that his jokes are not really jokes
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Supreme Court wrote that Trump's plan for reviving the firing squad is better than being embowelled alive, beheaded, quartered, publicly dissected or burned alive, so what the hell., why not? www.nysun.com/article/trum...
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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 · 05/10/2026
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 · 04/10/2026
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 · 04/10/2026
The old Huskers would have crushed Maryland 50-0.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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 · 04/10/2026
That seems little lite.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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 · 04/10/2026
WTH
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Omaha World-Herald @owhnews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So there's no facts you challenge? Good to know.
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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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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.hrc.org/resources/fa...
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Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender-Expansive Community…
The Human Rights Campaign is both saddened and infuriated by the deaths of at least thirty-two transgender and gender-expansive people whose lives were…
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
that story has been done
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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
Mostly it is their intimate partners that kill them. At least that has always been the case in past years.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile in the USA 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... Is the same thing happening elsewhere or is it a one-off?
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile 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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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile 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... -- featuring Juniper in concluding graf.
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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile 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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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile 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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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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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For sure, since too often our criminal justice system convicts the wrong man.
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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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David Mastio @davidmastio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Firing squads or maybe an ax would be better.
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