Gary DiSilvestro

Journalist, writer, media and political consultant.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@4nsmiley I missed this event for many reasons, foremost I wouldn’t be caught dead in Wheatfield’s.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@PeteRicketts Start with rescinding the gift of forgiving PPP loans for billionaires and large corporations. They certainly don’t need that grift and they most definitely don’t deserve it. If your bill doesn’t address this, you can become useful by firing your dill drafters.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

Mitch looks great, if he can talk this will prove he’s just fine.

[Geoff @GeoffBrown82]

You want to send MAGA spinning out of control today? Show them this and let them know that Bad Bunny's amazing Super Bowl halftime show was nominated for 9 Emmys (a record). Then ask how Kid Rock is doing 😂.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

Remember this as you follow the World Cup.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

"The success of the US mens national soccer team comes in spite of Trump, not because of him. Half of the roster is made up of dual citizenship holders, foreign-born players, and children of immigrants. Coach Mauricio Pochettino is Argentine. This team is a repudiation of everything Trump stands for and is working towards. It could never exist in the world that Trump has tried to bring about with his brutal immigration crackdowns and isolationist foreign policy. You can’t take credit for the success of the team while simultaneously trying to eliminate the conditions necessary for it to exist."
https://t.co/1JdKUoAvQo

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

If you’re running for regent and support this annual tuition hike at our public university, don’t bother asking for my vote. This is one of the times politicians travel from useless to harmful, which seem the default modes for Regents.

[KETV NewsWatch 7 @KETV]

Students attending the University of Nebraska will pay more for tuition this fall after the Board of Regents approved a 4.25% average increase across the university system, marking the third consecutive year of tuition hikes.
https://t.co/Y8KkztS85r

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@TulsiGabbardRVQ Cabinet.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@BrinkerHarding Good message, but let’s also remember many of these folks have crushing student debt, and if we can subsidize tycoons the ilk of Bezos and Musk, we can make our economy fairer for working people who made men like those two wealthy beyond their merit.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

I’ve written a few campaign ads in my day.

But holy shit.

This ad from @ossoff might be one of the best I’ve ever seen.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

Artemis reminds us what can happen when science is celebrated and not denied.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

As many of us celebrate Easter, let’s remember all of us are called to be good stewards of our environment.

[Nature Is Nonpartisan @NINP_org]

There's an underground ocean beneath the Great Plains.

It took thousands of years to fill. We're draining parts of it in decades.

The Ogallala Aquifer sits beneath 174,000 square miles across eight states, from South Dakota to Texas. It holds enough water to cover all 50 states in a foot and a half.

It's one of the largest freshwater reserves on Earth, and most Americans have never heard of it.

It supplies 30% of all groundwater used for irrigation in the U.S. and supports roughly 30% of the nation's crop and livestock production. 

Most of that water is ancient.

It accumulated over thousands of years during ice ages. Recharge today is less than an inch per year in most areas.

Since the 1940s, pumping has dropped water levels more than 100 feet across parts of Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

In Texas, the aquifer has declined 36% since the 1950s. Scientists say parts of western Kansas and the Texas Panhandle may not support irrigation within 20 years.

In northwest Kansas, farmers created the Sheridan 6 LEMA, a voluntary agreement to cut water use by 20%. 

The result was pumping dropped 32%, the aquifer's decline rate fell by about 65%, and farmers actually reported higher profits from reduced input costs.

That model is now spreading. More conservation areas are being established across Kansas and other states.

Researchers are developing drought-tolerant crops and precision irrigation that delivers water directly to roots. Farmers are returning to dryland techniques in some areas.

The Ogallala took thousands of years to fill.

Once depleted, scientists estimate over 6,000 years to refill naturally.

The choices communities make now will determine whether this water lasts for generations or disappears in one.

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

BREAKING: Donald Trump meets privately with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth to assure them their jobs are secure, amidst swirling rumors that they may be the next cabinet members to be fired.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@Mavpuck @OmahaLancers Mike West is a class act.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@RealJessica This clown president is dropping in the polls and the best you do is make fun of millions of people protesting his authoritarian, narcissistic regime.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@PeteRicketts The fact you think ICE behavior represents police standards… nice try, but you are in a mighty struggle with facts.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@PeteRicketts Americans don’t want to be required to show a passport or birth certificate when they vote. Hope you don’t support that voter suppression nonsense. That would be certifiably insane.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

Let them try to steal the midterm election, shred the Constitution, and attempt to ban mail ballots. It’s all grist for articles of impeachment against these grifters.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump officials caught at secret summit with election deniers plotting to STEAL the midterms in a ‘national emergency’ power grab!

ProPublica just dropped a huge bombshell: High-ranking Trump administration officials – including a White House lawyer tasked with ”reinvestigating” 2020 and the DHS official in charge of “election integrity” – attended a shady summit last week where 2020 election deniers begged Donald Trump to declare a national emergency and TAKE OVER the 2026 midterms.

Yes, the same Michael Flynn – the disgraced former national security adviser and certified coup enthusiast – convened the whole thing.

Attendees included Kurt Olsen, the White House lawyer spending our tax dollars digging for 2020 dirt, and Heather Honey, DHS’s election ratfu**er. Cleta Mitchell was there too, the same one pushing baseless fraud claims through her Election Integrity Network.

These MAGA insiders and outside agitators are pushing Trump to go full authoritarian: declare an emergency, ban mail-in ballots, ditch voting machines, and hand federal control over state elections.

A draft executive order is already reportedly circulating among these circles. Courts have blocked similar schemes before, Congress won't pass their voter suppression wishlist, so now they're trying the nuclear option – emergency powers to rig the vote in November.

Election experts are sounding the alarm loud: This is the same crew that tried to overturn 2020, now embedded INSIDE the government, better organized, and breaking every guardrail.
As Brendan Fischer from the Campaign Legal Center put it: “The same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

Let’s call this what it is: a deliberate plan to reshape elections ahead of the midterms or ignore the voters entirely if things don't go Trump's way.

This is what MAGA “election integrity” really looks like. Subverting votes, not securing them. While Trump slurs through wars abroad, his team is scheming to sabotage democracy at home. The U.S. isn't a democracy under this crew, it's a regime teetering on the edge of authoritarian takeover.

If this makes your blood boil, like and share. American democracy is under attack from within. Trump will steal the midterms if he can.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@NEGOP And why is the NE GOP running Pete’s wife for Regent as a Democrat? Whatever you are smoking a party strategy sessions must be rather potent.

[Gary DiSilvestro @OmahaModerate]

@EricTrump_News @FoxNews January 16.