Bob and the Wasters
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The Curse of the Zombie Zoo, Bob and the Wasters, archaeologist, geology is fun, Buffalo National River in AR is where it is at
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President Donald Trump's administration will reportedly begin seizing wages from up to 5 million student loan borrowers who are behind on their payments.
Trump admin to seize wages of up to 5 million defaulted student loan holders
President Donald Trump's administration will reportedly begin seizing wages from up to 5 million student loan borrowers who are behind on their payments.On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed the plan to CNBC.Borrowers' paychecks have not been at risk since the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
President Donald Trump's administration will reportedly begin seizing wages from up to 5 million student loan borrowers who are behind on their payments.
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Wishing a blessed Winter Solstice to all!
December 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Wishing a blessed Winter Solstice to all!
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PBS officials dispute Carlton Wing's assertion that internal deadline justified sudden & antediluvian decision to disaffiliate Arkansas PBS. Network also has enough money to fund PBS programming until 2028, allowing time to find solutions for loss of federal funds.
#Arkansas #arpx
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#Arkansas #arpx
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Arkansas Educational Television commissioner criticizes vote to sever ties with PBS | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
An Arkansas Educational Television commissioner is taking issue with the commission's decision to sever ties with the Public Broadcasting Service.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
PBS officials dispute Carlton Wing's assertion that internal deadline justified sudden & antediluvian decision to disaffiliate Arkansas PBS. Network also has enough money to fund PBS programming until 2028, allowing time to find solutions for loss of federal funds.
#Arkansas #arpx
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#Arkansas #arpx
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Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This should come as no surprise to anyone. The Trump Cult is killing jobs, farms, education, research, healthcare, and most of all hope. All they care about is control. #Arkansas is a failed state. #arpx #arnews
Nearly 1 in 3 Arkansans reports symptoms of depression
The Arkansas Health Survey provides a detailed description of the state's mental and physical health, mapping conditions in more than 800 census tracts.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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Here is a member of the Arkansas PBS Board (and Arkansas Legislator) saying the quiet part out loud. "La carte selection" (sic) means they don't want to pay for programming that includes racial, religious, or LGBTQ minorities. Arkansas has a $367 million dollar surplus. #arpx
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Here is a member of the Arkansas PBS Board (and Arkansas Legislator) saying the quiet part out loud. "La carte selection" (sic) means they don't want to pay for programming that includes racial, religious, or LGBTQ minorities. Arkansas has a $367 million dollar surplus. #arpx
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All archaeologists should be aware of how our discipline is being used in Palestine right now 🏺
Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Israel preparing largest ever ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
All archaeologists should be aware of how our discipline is being used in Palestine right now 🏺
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Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
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NPR: “Head Start early childhood programs are being told to remove a list of ~200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied— "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" "women…” www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
NPR: “Head Start early childhood programs are being told to remove a list of ~200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied— "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" "women…” www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
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Everyone who opposes ending PBS in Arkansas should contact: Arkansas PBS (800-662-2386), our governor's office (501-682-2345), and their state lawmakers. (Find contact information for your state lawmakers at www.arkleg.state.ar.us.) #arpx
SAY SO LONG TO SESAME STREET: Arkansas' statewide public TV broadcaster - Arkansas PBS - ending contract to air PBS programming; will brand itself as ATV and air locally produced programming instead. Arkansans will need streaming services to get PBS content.
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews
RIP, Arkansas PBS - Arkansas Times
The end of federal funding for public media demolishes Arkansas PBS. The station will rebrand as ATV and feature mainly local programming.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Everyone who opposes ending PBS in Arkansas should contact: Arkansas PBS (800-662-2386), our governor's office (501-682-2345), and their state lawmakers. (Find contact information for your state lawmakers at www.arkleg.state.ar.us.) #arpx
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Possible consequences of Arkansas Supreme Court's torching of direct democracy: Recreational cannabis & legal abortion are dead; legislators can come after medical cannabis & higher minimum wage; Pope Co. casino could get revived or casinos banned entirely.
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews
The Arkansas Supreme Court just gutted direct democracy - Arkansas Times
Now, even in a hypothetical scenario where someone gets a proposed amendment on the ballot and that measure passes with 95% of the vote, the Legislature can simply gut that amendment with a…
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December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Russell Vought came from Heritage Action — the Heritage Foundation’s dark money division. Vought is now Trump's shadow president, director of OMB.
After today’s vote in Indiana, serious fissures in Vought’s diabolical plans.
www.propublica.org/article/russ...
After today’s vote in Indiana, serious fissures in Vought’s diabolical plans.
www.propublica.org/article/russ...
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Russell Vought came from Heritage Action — the Heritage Foundation’s dark money division. Vought is now Trump's shadow president, director of OMB.
After today’s vote in Indiana, serious fissures in Vought’s diabolical plans.
www.propublica.org/article/russ...
After today’s vote in Indiana, serious fissures in Vought’s diabolical plans.
www.propublica.org/article/russ...
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The Arkansas Supreme Court today overturned its 1951 Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. Edgmon decision that said legislators could not change citizen-initiated constitutional amendments without another vote of the people.
#ARballot
#ARballot
Case Loading • Arkansas Judiciary
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December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Arkansas Supreme Court today overturned its 1951 Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. Edgmon decision that said legislators could not change citizen-initiated constitutional amendments without another vote of the people.
#ARballot
#ARballot
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December 10, 1938
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
December 10, 1938
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt
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Turns out it didn't have legs
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Turns out it didn't have legs
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The reason I liked the movie Civil War, and thought some missed the point, was that it depicted the miserably chaotic societal breakdown of a civil conflict, in contrast to fantasists’ imagination of what a civil war would look like.
Just about anyone who thinks they’d like a real one is wrong.
Just about anyone who thinks they’d like a real one is wrong.
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The reason I liked the movie Civil War, and thought some missed the point, was that it depicted the miserably chaotic societal breakdown of a civil conflict, in contrast to fantasists’ imagination of what a civil war would look like.
Just about anyone who thinks they’d like a real one is wrong.
Just about anyone who thinks they’d like a real one is wrong.
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This could be any masked men chasing her. How scary!
I can’t believe this is America now.
I can’t believe this is America now.
A 22-year-old woman was chased back to her home by 6 masked ICE agents in Louisiana but backed down after being confronted by her stepfather.
Chickenshits…
#Pinks #ProudBlue #ICE #FuckICE
Chickenshits…
#Pinks #ProudBlue #ICE #FuckICE
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This could be any masked men chasing her. How scary!
I can’t believe this is America now.
I can’t believe this is America now.
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Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA
Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA
Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia blew hole in painstakingly erected €1.5bn shield meant to allow for final clean-up of 1986 meltdown site
The protective shield over the Chornobyl disaster nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was hit by a drone in February, can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced.
In February a drone strike blew a hole in the “new safe confinement”, which was painstakingly built at a cost of €1.5bn ($1.75bn) next to the destroyed reactor and then hauled into place on tracks, with the work completed in 2019 by a Europe-led initiative. The IAEA said an inspection last week of the steel confinement structure found the drone impact had degraded the structure. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA