Joe Pick
@DadofPicks
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Dad, husband, 4 kids, 3 dogs, Farm grown. Coached & played football. Youth safety & public school advocate. Joyful Warrior. Opinions are my own.
Joined May 2008
Really wish we could start living in precedented times, because this unprecedented BS is terrible.
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Nebraska = ACCESSNebraska.Iowa = IA Health Link. Medicaid for the states with my family that will be affected. Please let your representatives know.
This is a really important point. Most Medicaid recipients likely have NO idea that they’re about to lose their coverage.
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Illegal v citizen imprisonment has gone sideways, & will only get worse. “If they would just do it legally” - now it becomes, how recent was your citizenship? How long until it becomes generational? What will they decide is a “crime”? FL concentration camp will fill quickly.
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When your local paper’s editorial board either:.A) Doesn’t live in or understand Nebraska.Or .B) Doesn’t understand what the word “pragmatic” means.…unless as @AngieLauritsen put it, they think it means—
The World-Herald editorial board argues that the 2nd congressional district needs a pragmatic problem-solver like retiring Rep. Don Bacon.
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While an actual CONCENTRATION CAMP in Florida and ICE has mountains of cashed dumped on them, the deficit ⬆️, 🔁 billionaires & corporations enjoy colossal tax benefits. Where are our actual patriots with history knowledge and courage? Answer: it’s We, The People. Get. Loud.
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Nebraska’s big burning bill pain: Medicaid cuts so big, Leg will have to cut K-12 $$ to make up the diff, steeper for higher ed. Next: 📈 property taxes ⬆️ tuition just to stay even. ~15 rural hospitals are expected to have to close, community health centers will take a huge hit.
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RT @DeniseForNE: 🚨My Republican opponent just announced he’s not running for re-election. This is HUGE news: #NE02 is one of the closest ra….
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I may be the old man, but this girl’s fierce independence has me seeing her as my hero. Bolder and better at that age than I ever was. Love ya kid @PickJohnna
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Core memory, with my favorite people
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This was one of the reasons we fought in Nebraska - lack of public $ and imbalance to private schools. Vouchers are a long walk off a short pier for public education - now the Big Beautiful Bill has federal programs ready to do the same. Let your lawmakers know, in every state.
🚨 🚨 . A huge ruling in Ohio yesterday: universal vouchers struck down as unconstitutional . A 🧵 on some of the damning facts:. 1/
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RT @JayMallow3: It’s kind of like vouchers are simply a bad idea that are being promoted by people who have no real interest in the health….
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We worked very hard and repealed Nebraska vouchers- now it’s snuck in at the federal level. Please Rep. Bacon & Sen. Fischer. We need them to know where Nebraska stands, as so many of us voted against this very thing in November:
The House version of OBBBA includes provisions of the ECCA, introduced by @RepAdrianSmith. It creates an almost three-fold greater incentive for giving to private school scholarship programs over other types of charitable giving. Learn more: @iteptweets
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Note- Private schools are exempt. So a kid gets a voucher (paid for with public funds), that has never attended a private school (like 75%+ in every voucher state) - they don’t do the ASVAB, but public school kids are required.
Project 2025 includes requiring all students at federally funded high schools to complete the military’s entrance exam.
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We’re on the precipice of this being a nationwide approach & places like NC or my home state of Iowa, private schools are the old man in the store with the fishing pole, dollar extended out of arms reach, teasing accessibility but just hoarding control.
NC made vouchers open to any family, then many private schools raised tuition #nced .
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Thanks for the birthday wishes! What a year : supporting public schools, getting elected, and core memories built. Grateful for a year that included my family’s constant love, the new friends I’ve made, and the joy I’ve experienced that will continue to sustain me to keep going!
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