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By Yanqi Xu and Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press

There’s never a Black Friday discount when a piece of Nebraska farmland hits the market in 2023, be it a fertile field in the Platte River Valley or a vast swath of Sandhills pastureland.

The market’s hot. And corporate farms, both in-state and out, are dipping into their deep pockets to claim the increasingly pricey agricultural land they desire.

The nine buyers who spent the most money on Nebraska farmland in the past five years are all corporate farming operations, real estate developers or investment firms, an analysis by the Flatwater Free Press found.

Jeff Burnett runs one of them. He keeps his eyes peeled for listings of Nebraska ranch land from his home near Cheyenne, Wyoming.

His livestock and cattle operation recently paid $20 million for nearly 28,000 acres of ground in Keith County and Arthur County on the southern edge of the Sandhills.

That massive purchase made Burnett’s Wyoming-based operation the second-largest buyer of Nebraska land, by acre, in the past five years.

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He also learned that while many landowners may oppose a project crossing their land, a lot of those landowners are convinced it’s a hopeless cause. “We basically had to convince people that it was OK to stand up for themselves,” Jorde said. “Practically speaking, our country is currently by and for the corporations, and anyone who believes it’s by and for the people is misinformed. However, all we can do is chip away and chip away, and exercise our rights.”

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“It’s disappointing … that those we elect to help create laws are literally going to be breaking the law…,” Harrold said before the meeting. “The purpose of state preemption was to ensure that the state, cities and counties would not infringe on the law-abiding.”

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Lincoln Sen. Danielle Conrad, an abortion rights supporter, said that she hasn’t seen the proposed ballot language but that unless polling shows it has at least 60% support, she labeled it an “unserious effort.”

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Berry and others, including State Sen. Merv Riepe of Ralston, a former hospital administrator who serves on the committee, extolled the virtues of making it simpler and easier for women to give birth at home with the trained help of midwives.

Exactly. The simplest way to solve this problem is to stop criminalizing midwives and acting like pregnancy is a disease you need a doctor for.

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“One of the biggest offenses in eminent domain is not the use, but it’s the threat,” Cavanaugh said. “I appreciate folks saying, ‘We hardly ever use it,’ but that leaves out the point that you do threaten it.”

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"The media and other leftist talking heads are going to try to make this into an example of how evil conservative villains in red states are sending women to prison for having abortions."

See! What did I say?

He disputed some national observers who said the case was about abortion rights. Smith said the matter was about a “violation of the law,” involving performing an abortion beyond the legal bounds of Nebraska law, which banned abortion beyond 20 weeks of gestation, in effect in 2022.

The media and other leftist talking heads are going to try to make this into an example of how evil conservative villains in red states are sending women to prison for having abortions. But the fact of the matter is that this woman blatantly broke the law, enabled a grossly illegal and dangerous abortion, burned and buried a human body, got caught bragging about it, then tried to lie her way out of it.

It's also worth pointing out here that in Nebraska, the "good time" law means that prisoners are granted time off from their sentence for good behavior proactively, rather than having to earn it over time. As a result, even though she was sentenced to two years in prison, she will only serve one year before being discharged unless she commits an extremely severe act of misconduct while in prison.

Now as yourself this: Have you ever heard of a case where someone engaged in a pre-meditated murder of another human being, burned their body, hid the remains, bragged about the crime, lied to the police and ultimately went to prison for a SINGLE YEAR? Nope. If you do that sort of thing to an adult in Nebraska, you better expect a life sentence. But if you do it to a baby, apparently it's just a single year.

If this story proves anything, its how LIGHTLY abortion related crimes are handled. A year in prison for this is a slap on the wrist.

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He disputed some national observers who said the case was about abortion rights. Smith said the matter was about a “violation of the law,” involving performing an abortion beyond the legal bounds of Nebraska law, which banned abortion beyond 20 weeks of gestation, in effect in 2022.

The media and other leftist talking heads are going to try to make this into an example of how evil conservative villains in red states are sending women to prison for having abortions. But the fact of the matter is that this woman blatantly broke the law, enabled a grossly illegal and dangerous abortion, burned and buried a human body, got caught bragging about it, then tried to lie her way out of it.

It's also worth pointing out here that in Nebraska, the "good time" law means that prisoners are granted time off from their sentence for good behavior proactively, rather than having to earn it over time. As a result, even though she was sentenced to two years in prison, she will only serve one year before being discharged unless she commits an extremely severe act of misconduct while in prison.

Now as yourself this: Have you ever heard of a case where someone engaged in a pre-meditated murder of another human being, burned their body, hid the remains, bragged about the crime, lied to the police and ultimately went to prison for a SINGLE YEAR? Nope. If you do that sort of thing to an adult in Nebraska, you better expect a life sentence. But if you do it to a baby, apparently it's just a single year.

If this story proves anything, its how LIGHTLY abortion related crimes are handled. A year in prison for this is a slap on the wrist.

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Hein’s lawsuit describes how she struggled through her parents’ divorce in her early teens, how she was groomed online by predatory adults, struggled dramatically with her mental health, and ultimately was put on testosterone for four years, causing disruptions in her endocrine system, heart damage, her voice to deepen, pain throughout her body, and “permanent dysregulation of her reproductive organs.”  Represented by the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit legal group Center for American Liberty, Hein is accusing her doctors of causing her physical pain and mental suffering, both past and future, heavy medical expenses, permanent impairment of her earning capacity, inconvenience and loss of enjoyment of life, and permanent scarring, injury, and disability.  “As a proximate result of the actions of the Defendants, and each of them, Luka’s breasts were surgically amputated, leaving her physically and psychologically scarred,” the lawsuit says. “If she has not also suffered the loss of her fertility, Luka has lost her ability to breastfeed, thereby depriving her of the maternal benefits of nursing.”