Cindy Maxwell-Ostdiek
@cmaxwellostdiek.bsky.social
Mom / Small Business Owner / Volunteer / VOTE!
Independent for Nebraska Legislature / District 4 / west Omaha
Follow @cindyfornebraska.bsky.social for Campaign Updates
Independent for Nebraska Legislature / District 4 / west Omaha
Follow @cindyfornebraska.bsky.social for Campaign Updates
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As I have been talking with District 4 neighbors this week, many have been sharing their concerns about the impact of the government shutdown on the economy and federal government services, including the pause of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan) funding.
#neleg
#neleg
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As I have been talking with District 4 neighbors this week, many have been sharing their concerns about the impact of the government shutdown on the economy and federal government services, including the pause of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan) funding.
#neleg
#neleg
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After Nebraskans and the people of District 4 overwhelmingly approved medical cannabis, Brad von Gillern voted against providing patients access to care. Now, the commission in charge of providing access won’t even show up to their public hearings.
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#neleg
October 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
After Nebraskans and the people of District 4 overwhelmingly approved medical cannabis, Brad von Gillern voted against providing patients access to care. Now, the commission in charge of providing access won’t even show up to their public hearings.
#neleg
#neleg
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Another trip around the sun.. .and I am grateful for amazing family, friends, and neighbors!
#cindyfornebraska
#grateful
#neleg
#cindyfornebraska
#grateful
#neleg
October 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Another trip around the sun.. .and I am grateful for amazing family, friends, and neighbors!
#cindyfornebraska
#grateful
#neleg
#cindyfornebraska
#grateful
#neleg
Call all of your elected officials and tell them we don’t want to spend taxpayer money on prison camps.. .Not anywhere and not in Nebraska!
August 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Call all of your elected officials and tell them we don’t want to spend taxpayer money on prison camps.. .Not anywhere and not in Nebraska!
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You're invited! I am excited to join with family, friends, and neighbors as we kick-off this campaign for Nebraska Legislature District 4.. .Please join us:
Saturday, August 9
9:30-11:30am
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
13655 California Street
#cindyfornebraska
#nonpartisan
#neleg
Saturday, August 9
9:30-11:30am
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
13655 California Street
#cindyfornebraska
#nonpartisan
#neleg
August 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
You're invited! I am excited to join with family, friends, and neighbors as we kick-off this campaign for Nebraska Legislature District 4.. .Please join us:
Saturday, August 9
9:30-11:30am
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
13655 California Street
#cindyfornebraska
#nonpartisan
#neleg
Saturday, August 9
9:30-11:30am
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano
13655 California Street
#cindyfornebraska
#nonpartisan
#neleg
You are invited to my upcoming campaign kickoff for Nebraska Legislature and make sure to bring a friend!
Follow my campaign account on Bluesky at:
@cindyfornebraska.bsky.social
#nonpartisan
#neleg
Follow my campaign account on Bluesky at:
@cindyfornebraska.bsky.social
#nonpartisan
#neleg
Please join me for my campaign kickoff!
Enjoy light refreshments and learn how you can get involved. With your help, we will win this seat!
Saturday, August 9
9:30-11:30am
Biaggi's
13655 California Street
#cindyfornebraska
#nonpartisan
#neleg
Enjoy light refreshments and learn how you can get involved. With your help, we will win this seat!
Saturday, August 9
9:30-11:30am
Biaggi's
13655 California Street
#cindyfornebraska
#nonpartisan
#neleg
July 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You are invited to my upcoming campaign kickoff for Nebraska Legislature and make sure to bring a friend!
Follow my campaign account on Bluesky at:
@cindyfornebraska.bsky.social
#nonpartisan
#neleg
Follow my campaign account on Bluesky at:
@cindyfornebraska.bsky.social
#nonpartisan
#neleg
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Pediatricians do not profit off vaccines. In fact, most pediatricians either break even or even lose money when they offer vaccines. Misleading parents about doctors' motivations puts children's health at risk and sows distrust in lifesaving vaccinations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...
July 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Pediatricians do not profit off vaccines. In fact, most pediatricians either break even or even lose money when they offer vaccines. Misleading parents about doctors' motivations puts children's health at risk and sows distrust in lifesaving vaccinations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...
Call Senator Fisher and Senator Ricketts to oppose cuts to Nebraska Public Media!
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
July 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Call Senator Fisher and Senator Ricketts to oppose cuts to Nebraska Public Media!
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
Disappointed that our state and Attorney General is not listed as fighting to bring OUR tax dollars back to Nebraska's schools. #neleg
☎️ AG Hilgers
402-471-2683
From @edweek.org
☎️ AG Hilgers
402-471-2683
From @edweek.org
July 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Disappointed that our state and Attorney General is not listed as fighting to bring OUR tax dollars back to Nebraska's schools. #neleg
☎️ AG Hilgers
402-471-2683
From @edweek.org
☎️ AG Hilgers
402-471-2683
From @edweek.org
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This is monstrous.
250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns
Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.
www.miamiherald.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is monstrous.
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🇺🇸 This Independence Day, let’s remind ourselves:
The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
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The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
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July 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🇺🇸 This Independence Day, let’s remind ourselves:
The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
🧵(1/4)
The roots of modern American civilization began with the seeds of protests & speaking out against a tyrannical regime.
The Boston Tea Party? a protest. The Declaration of Independence? A list of grievances.
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A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.
The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.
The contrast of the celebration of fireworks while we worry for our family, neighbors, and country weighs on so many of us tonight.
Take time to acknowledge your grief, clear your head, charge your spirt.. .and then we come together and work for a better tomorrow.
Take time to acknowledge your grief, clear your head, charge your spirt.. .and then we come together and work for a better tomorrow.
July 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The contrast of the celebration of fireworks while we worry for our family, neighbors, and country weighs on so many of us tonight.
Take time to acknowledge your grief, clear your head, charge your spirt.. .and then we come together and work for a better tomorrow.
Take time to acknowledge your grief, clear your head, charge your spirt.. .and then we come together and work for a better tomorrow.
Nebraska's members of Congress are voting to gut Mesicaid funding which will impact everyone's access to healthcare when our community's clinics, hospitals, & nursing homes close.. .not to mention the impact to local medical professionals' employment. Have you called, yet? #neleg
Curtis is a small town of 900 people in rural southwest Nebraska. The Curtis Medical Center announced yesterday it is closing, after more than 30 years. It is the only health care provider in the community.
They blame Trump’s Medicaid cuts.
They blame Trump’s Medicaid cuts.
Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts
McCook-based Community Hospital said it is shutting down its clinic in Curtis, a town of about 900 people.
www.klkntv.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Nebraska's members of Congress are voting to gut Mesicaid funding which will impact everyone's access to healthcare when our community's clinics, hospitals, & nursing homes close.. .not to mention the impact to local medical professionals' employment. Have you called, yet? #neleg
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It is mechanically not possible to bankrupt Medicaid.
Unlike Medicare & Social Security, there’s no pot of money for the program where spending stops if it runs out. Cutting ppl off Medicaid doesn’t leave more for others.
Republicans are cutting Medicaid because they want it to cover fewer people.
Unlike Medicare & Social Security, there’s no pot of money for the program where spending stops if it runs out. Cutting ppl off Medicaid doesn’t leave more for others.
Republicans are cutting Medicaid because they want it to cover fewer people.
July 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It is mechanically not possible to bankrupt Medicaid.
Unlike Medicare & Social Security, there’s no pot of money for the program where spending stops if it runs out. Cutting ppl off Medicaid doesn’t leave more for others.
Republicans are cutting Medicaid because they want it to cover fewer people.
Unlike Medicare & Social Security, there’s no pot of money for the program where spending stops if it runs out. Cutting ppl off Medicaid doesn’t leave more for others.
Republicans are cutting Medicaid because they want it to cover fewer people.
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I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
July 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
Dear Representative Bacon, I woke up to a beautiful sunrise this morning and, for a moment, I forgot my dread and fear for our country.
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July 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Dear Representative Bacon, I woke up to a beautiful sunrise this morning and, for a moment, I forgot my dread and fear for our country.
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The Senate voted to advance the budget reconciliation bill today, which is likely to cut health insurance coverage for more than 150,000 Nebraskans, close at least 6 rural hospitals, and increase healthcare costs and premiums for all of us. 1/2
July 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The Senate voted to advance the budget reconciliation bill today, which is likely to cut health insurance coverage for more than 150,000 Nebraskans, close at least 6 rural hospitals, and increase healthcare costs and premiums for all of us. 1/2
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BREAKING: Republicans just blocked my amendment to ensure Veterans, foster kids and the homeless aren’t denied SNAP benefits.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
July 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
BREAKING: Republicans just blocked my amendment to ensure Veterans, foster kids and the homeless aren’t denied SNAP benefits.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
There is no one Republicans won’t betray to ram through tax cuts for their billionaire buddies.
The Administration is withholding education $ due to the states as of July 1. What are Nebraska's elected officials doing to ensure our federal tax dollars are correctly deposited to fund critical school services? #neleg
Ask:
Governor Pillen
Representative Bacon
Senator Fischer Senator Ricketts
Ask:
Governor Pillen
Representative Bacon
Senator Fischer Senator Ricketts
July 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The Administration is withholding education $ due to the states as of July 1. What are Nebraska's elected officials doing to ensure our federal tax dollars are correctly deposited to fund critical school services? #neleg
Ask:
Governor Pillen
Representative Bacon
Senator Fischer Senator Ricketts
Ask:
Governor Pillen
Representative Bacon
Senator Fischer Senator Ricketts
Nebraskans must understand the ways the federal bill will decimate our local communities and struggling state budget! Call your Members of Congress to vote NO on the reconciliation bill: #neleg
☎️ Rep. Don Bacon
202-225-4155
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
☎️ Rep. Don Bacon
202-225-4155
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
The GOP Tax Bill is a disaster for working families:
❌ Increases the deficit
📈 Drives up interest rates
🥣 Kicks families off SNAP
🏥 Rips Medicaid from those who need it
💰 Hands billions to the ultra-rich
Don Bacon is backing this mess.
#NE02 #GOPTaxScam
❌ Increases the deficit
📈 Drives up interest rates
🥣 Kicks families off SNAP
🏥 Rips Medicaid from those who need it
💰 Hands billions to the ultra-rich
Don Bacon is backing this mess.
#NE02 #GOPTaxScam
June 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Nebraskans must understand the ways the federal bill will decimate our local communities and struggling state budget! Call your Members of Congress to vote NO on the reconciliation bill: #neleg
☎️ Rep. Don Bacon
202-225-4155
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
☎️ Rep. Don Bacon
202-225-4155
☎️ Senator Deb Fischer
202-224-6551
☎️ Senator Pete Ricketts
202-224-4224
Who is still up tonight? Plz call Senators Fischer & Ricketts to vote NO on this harmful legislation.
Senator Scott's amendment is in addition to already devastating cuts in the reconciliation bill.. .Plz remember Nebraskans voted at the ballot box in 2018 to expand Medicaid in our state.
#neleg
Senator Scott's amendment is in addition to already devastating cuts in the reconciliation bill.. .Plz remember Nebraskans voted at the ballot box in 2018 to expand Medicaid in our state.
#neleg
June 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Who is still up tonight? Plz call Senators Fischer & Ricketts to vote NO on this harmful legislation.
Senator Scott's amendment is in addition to already devastating cuts in the reconciliation bill.. .Plz remember Nebraskans voted at the ballot box in 2018 to expand Medicaid in our state.
#neleg
Senator Scott's amendment is in addition to already devastating cuts in the reconciliation bill.. .Plz remember Nebraskans voted at the ballot box in 2018 to expand Medicaid in our state.
#neleg
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"It shocks the conscience that Senate Republican leaders saw the impacts of the House bill — 16 million more people uninsured and millions losing help buying groceries, including families with children — and chose to double down." -
@sharonparrott.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
@sharonparrott.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
June 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"It shocks the conscience that Senate Republican leaders saw the impacts of the House bill — 16 million more people uninsured and millions losing help buying groceries, including families with children — and chose to double down." -
@sharonparrott.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
@sharonparrott.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
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I miss having a human president.
June 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I miss having a human president.
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In May, personal income dropped by 0.4%, the first month-over-month decline in almost 4 years.
June 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In May, personal income dropped by 0.4%, the first month-over-month decline in almost 4 years.