Forward Nebraska

Education and Heartland Values, a newsletter of the Nebraska Education Coalition

[Greg @BrowngaGreg]

@ForwardNebraska was kind enough to publish my thoughts on the recent SCOTUS decision on women’s sports.
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@Peoples_Pundit @WhiteHouse Could you be any more of a Debbie Downer?

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Wow

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

The Iran war effectively destroyed every nation outside of the Americas as a rival to the U.S.

Iran is broken as a contender for power; they can't even sell their oil. Tankers are ignoring the IRGC and transiting via Omani territorial waters, protected by the U.S. Navy. Iran is too cowardly to commit acts of war off the Omani coast. Oman has also made it clear that they will never support Iran's delusional plan to toll the Strait.

Iran can't get a single tanker to dock at its ports. Their economy is in a tailspin. Iranian inflation is approaching pre-Milei Argentine numbers. A famine is a very real possibility; Iran imports half of its food and no one is willing to sell to a pirate state that keeps shooting at commercial traffic.

Iran has failed to uphold its end of the MOU and thus hasn't received a single dollar in unfrozen funds or Gulf development aid. The MOU was a test to see if they could behave rationally when their military leverage is gone and their economic leverage is fast eroding. They failed.

Demand destruction has been concentrated almost entirely in Europe and Asia. China and India are crippled. The Chinese will be faced with the choice of switching off their data centers, stalling "development" of the AI they stole from xAI and Anthropic, or forcing starving Chinese citizens to eat babies.

Europe, already deindustrializing thanks to the Ukraine war, has been dealt a death blow. They won't recover for decades, possibly generations. Denmark might end up selling Greenland to us to stave off a depression.

The war has forced countries reliant on Strait oil flows to accelerate their plan Bs in the same way that the 70s oil embargo forced the U.S. to begin oil extraction in Alaska. The UAE will complete the new Gulf of Oman pipeline, rendering the Strait obsolete, much like how the discovery of the Americas allowed Europe to circumvent the Middle East when trading with China, turning the region into an irrelevant backwater.

The country that benefited the most from the war was America. Iran has been severed from the global economy and even from BRICS. Buyers now have to go to America or her allies. Refineries in Texas and Louisiana are booming thanks to Venezuela realigning with the U.S. and sending its crude to our shores. China will have to do what we say if they want energy.

Energy prices in the U.S. are now so substantially lower than in Europe and Asia that offshoring and outsourcing are no longer financially prudent. Turns out that the way for manufacturing to compete with cheap labor countries like India is to make the cheap labor expensive. Jobs and investment are coming back to America, the only sure bet. With demand destruction creating an oil glut, Americans will be enjoying $2.50/gallon gas or lower by next year while the rest of the world starves.

The Iran war has even crippled Russia. A combination of demand destruction and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries has sparked off an energy crisis there. We might actually see the Mongols driven out of Donbass and total Ukrainian victory.

In one stroke, Trump cemented American dominance over the world. Iran, China, India, Europe, Russia, Africa...all crushed. He pressed the "fix everything" button and all it took was paying 50 cents more at the pump for a couple of months. I'd say that was more than worth it.

The American Empire rises.

[Scott Petersen for Nebraska Secretary of State @PetersenForNE]

🇺🇸 For the 6th straight year, Lincoln’s Stan Roberts and a team of great neighbors hand-painted Old Glory across his backyard!

This year’s flag measures an incredible 60’ × 31.59’ up from 47.5’ × 21’. Go BIG or go home! 🇺🇸

If you’re in SW Lincoln, stop by via the sidewalk off 32nd Street and grab a photo in front of this amazing community display.

Happy Independence Day! ❤️🤍💙 #LincolnNE #Nebraska #FourthOfJuly

[Mary Jane Truemper @MJTruemper]

Do not sign.

[Grassroots Matt @rightcheer]

Who is behind the push for a new “Nebraska Working People Party?” The @Plains_Sentinel has more details here, including the person who filed with the Secretary of State to form the group.

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@RiseOfAlberta They are really worried the US will protect Alberta

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@SteveBakerUSA I just watched free on X tonight. Still available as of now

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@gatewaypundit They can house swap with all the white South Africans

[Rhule-Aid @RhuleAid]

Is LGBTQ+ literature in public libraries and schools, along with transgender sports policies, really more important than property tax relief, school choice, and basic economic relief for Nebraska families?

Are shutting down factories (Kellogg’s, Tyson), blocking AI data centers, and pushing minimum wage hikes worth the pain — all while diluting our culture of hard work and self-reliance?

Step back and look at who’s actually driving the problems in this state: the legacy media, radical politicians, unions, and billionaire dark money networks that shape the narrative and keep us stuck in this loop of dysfunction.

Time to prioritize reality over ideology.

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@deannkh10 The problem is generally the bad neighborhood. That house is selling for 100,000 in my safe town.

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@AwakenedOutlaw Sarah is engagement farming

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@WallStreetApes Realize that most Boomers spent 50 years voting against the things they are being accused of. What choices in any of it did we have?

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@ZeekArkham The RNC did try to recruit him in 2024 but that was Trumps RNC

[Rhule-Aid @RhuleAid]

Clarifying the real issue in this thread (did a poor job articulating):

The attack ad was paid for by Trust Nebraska Teachers (NSEA PAC), but the core problem is the conflict of interest from overlapping leadership.

Jessica Lathrop is a Partner at Women Who Run Nebraska (Co-founded by Denise Powell) and the Designated Filing Agent for the NSEA’s Trust Nebraska Teachers PAC.

This structure—outside money flowing through Women Who Run into NSEA PAC channels with shared personnel—creates serious questions about transparency, quid pro quo, and how resources tied to Nebraska teachers are being used for targeted political hits.

It’s the lack of clarity and trickle-down of these funds against local control and parents that’s the abuse of power.

Women Who Run should be ashamed. This is a poor reflection on the NSEA. Nebraskans deserve full accountability, not hidden networks.

Full trail in the thread above.

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@gc22gc @TimJDillon @maggieNYT He never promised no wars. He promised no forever wars. He is using military might to solve the problems that cause forever wars

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@yoalexrapz RFK Jr says it’s the Tylenol. I’m a retired Pediatrician. About 20-25 yrs ago there was a big push to pre medicate baby boys before circumcision. It tracks w the autism epidemic in boys.

[Rhule-Aid @RhuleAid]

NSEA collects roughly $10 million a year in dues. They just funneled $5,000 through their PAC (Trust Nebraska Teachers) to run this “TOO EXTREME” hit piece on school board candidate Angie Eberspacher.

Your dues are being used to attack parents and conservatives who want more local control, school choice, and transparency in education — while NSEA endorses their preferred candidates and coordinates with out-of-state money.

Nebraska is right-to-work. You’re not required to fund their political machine. Opt out. Keep your money. Starve the grift.

Who else is tired of their dues being weaponized against Nebraska parents?

Side note: Can someone find me one hit piece from NSEA on Left-Wing candidates?

[Mary Jane Truemper @MJTruemper]

Those Democrats are still out there but they don’t feel like they can speak out and that their party has left them. 🤷🏻‍♀️