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The governor thinks that giving wealthy folks, who mostly live in NWA and LR, a tax break will solve the problems facing rural and small town Arkansans.

Interesting piece at NYT on Medicare spending decline (or at least leveling off) and possible reasons (Affordable Care Act, COVID, and others)
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Austin to host “hipster eugenicsts” as part of conference of forced-birthers, great replacement theorists, and white nationalists. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s…

Totally thrilled to learn that Pushing Cool has received the Hughes Award from the BSHS!!

One year ago, President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act to expand health care for veterans.

These Republican senators voted to block it.

No. One. Voted. For. LEARNS.

She knows this.

I don’t know why someone asked the mayor about the cop who fell down the slide but I’m really glad they did

Great turnout at The filing station in North Little Rock to sign the petition to get the “Learns” act on the ballot. One more day to sign Citizens for Arkansas Public Education & Students

How your email finds me…

Well, thanks god it’s not called Z now, yeah

1) Failed eVersity
2) Spent $174 million on Workday mess
3) Mismanaged UAF Chancellor search
4) UPhoenix debacle

Not a good record for dude making $633,000 per year. Arkansas citizens & UA students, staff, faculty, parents all deserve better.

Threads has so many of the accounts I used to follow here. A much better interface than this has become.

Russia tested its Isolatenet last night, cutting Russia from the rest of the Internet.

It did not go well.

Joined the newest of the replacement drones…haven’t stuck with any of the others — let’s see how this one works out.

threads.net/@tricia.starks

A conference for female historians this weekend was plunged into turmoil when a prominent white academic speaking at the main event said her professional life would have been easier if she were Black. trib.al/E9vs0Ot

Enjoy fireworks on the 4th? Thank vaccines for making them safer. Before routine childhood vaccination for tetanus (aka lockjaw) in the 1940s, the patriotic spirit every July in the early 1900s was tempered shortly thereafter by deaths from tetanus. 1/5

Non blue ticks collecting their daily tweet rations, 2023 (colorised)