--- title: Ben Sasse Was Subscribed to Nickelback Newsletters description: Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse discovered that someone signed him up for a bunch of Nickelback newsletters canonical: https://time.com/4822418/ben-sasse-nickelback-newsletter/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-16T20:54:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:11:52.995Z article:section: Politics og:title: Someone Signed GOP Senator Ben Sasse Up for Nickelback Newsletters og:description: The Senator frequently tweets about his hatred of Nickelback og:url: https://time.com/4822418/ben-sasse-nickelback-newsletter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95d67d365a4b1e27/6988d2230b72e345e96ee494/ben-sasse-nickelback.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sen. Jeff Sessions Testifies At His Senate Confirmation Hearing To Become Country's Attorney General og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Signed GOP Senator Ben Sasse Up for Nickelback Newsletters twitter:description: The Senator frequently tweets about his hatred of Nickelback twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95d67d365a4b1e27/6988d2230b72e345e96ee494/ben-sasse-nickelback.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Someone Signed GOP Senator Ben Sasse Up for Nickelback Newsletters by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jun 16, 2017 8:54 PM UTC  Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) questions Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) during his confirmation hearing to be the next U.S. Attorney General in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) questions Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) during his confirmation hearing to be the next U.S. Attorney General in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jun 16, 2017 8:54 PM UTC Nebraska Sen. [Ben Sasse](http://time.com/4775453/senator-ben-sasse-anti-trump/) had a nightmare come to life on Friday when he discovered that someone signed him up for a bunch of Nickelback newsletters. The Republican senator, who frequently [tweets about](https://twitter.com/bensasse/status/865025602327334912) [his hatred](https://twitter.com/BenSasse/status/861584819070705668) [of the Canadian rock band](https://twitter.com/bensasse/status/857742382741192704?lang=en), did not find receiving Nickelback’s several newsletters to his multiple email accounts to be very funny. According to Sasse, the person who subscribed him to the newsletters signed up the Senator’s family, work and “obsolete” email accounts. “It’s. Not. Funny,” Sasse wrote on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/BenSasse/status/875808140544966656) It appears something similar has happened to the Senator before. > [](https://twitter.com/bensasse/status/826975847194181632) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4822418/ben-sasse-nickelback-newsletter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4822418/ben-sasse-nickelback-newsletter/"},"headline":"Someone Signed GOP Senator Ben Sasse Up for Nickelback Newsletters","datePublished":"2017-06-16T20:54:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:11:52.995Z","description":"The Senator frequently tweets about his hatred of Nickelback","url":"https://time.com/4822418/ben-sasse-nickelback-newsletter/","keywords":["Senate","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95d67d365a4b1e27/6988d2230b72e345e96ee494/ben-sasse-nickelback.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95d67d365a4b1e27/6988d2230b72e345e96ee494/ben-sasse-nickelback.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sen. 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