POLL: Jones 46%, Hill 43%. AR-02 is officially a 'District in Play.' The gerrymandered firewall is breaking. Arkansas is ready to flip the House. 🚀 #AR02 #BiggerTable #DistrictInPlay #ChrisJonesForCongress goodchange.app/donate/suppo...
LAWSUIT ALERT: Several Arkansas voters filed a lawsuit today asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to step in and order that signatures submitted last month for the Arkansas Ballot Measure Amendment be counted.
A few states have enacted laws to limit surveillance pricing, which uses a customer's personal data to set prices. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/stat...
States begin banning ‘surveillance pricing’ that uses personal data to charge more
Three states this year became the first ones to enact laws restricting companies from using personal data such as browsing history or shopping habits to set individualized prices on goods and…
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Just thinkin' about the best film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_M...
Sesame Street: Making Crayons
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Here’s a PDF. Worth a few minutes of your time. users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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Galaxyrise Over Horseshoe Springs - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iW4iTN
COMMENTARY: Immigrants helped shape Arkansas. The state shouldn’t forget that history. arkansasadvocate.com/2026/08/02/i...
Immigrants helped shape Arkansas. The state shouldn’t forget that history. | Arkansas Advocate
COMMENTARY: Some of Arkansas' communities and traditions exist because earlier generations chose to welcome immigrants rather than shun them.
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Super excited to see Rhys Darby and Steve Wrigley with @luiscarazo.bsky.social and ZachtheBold! tomorrow at #GenCon.
With an Army directive ordering the shutdown of hundreds of MWR-related social media accounts, families fear they are losing one of the most vital resources connecting them to their communities: "I hate that they took that away." From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:
‘It’s just really crappy’: Army families disappointed by MWR’s social media shutdown
Military families fear they are losing out on one of the most vital resources that connects them with their communities.
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In December, I sent 115 requests to see if any of them had contracts with Palantir. 114 said no. The one that did... it took four months and a lawyer to get my hands on the contract. And yes, they used the firm to crunch student data. www.foiaball.com/p/public-uni...
The one university that contracted with Palantir
And yes, student data was involved.
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Jay Kuo is a composer, lyricist, Tony-winning producer, appellate lawyer, CEO of The Social Edge, and the Chair-elect of the HRC. Kuo tells how Colorado governor Ralph Carr stood firm in defense of Japanese Americans during WWII internment, even as it cost him his political career. #WeAreAmerica250
Atheists consistently show up, organize, donate, protest and participate. Imagine what we could accomplish if even more secular Americans got involved.
Kate Barr and her Can’t Win campaigns exposed gerrymandering; now YALLvote and the Can’t Win Victory Fund support down ballot candidates fighting rigged maps across the South. Barr celebrates Betty Ford, the outspoken First Lady who transformed the role to fit her own voice. #WeAreAmerica250
Fark really is what's left of the good old internet. I was just poking around there on the STEM tab and enjoying myself.
Drew Curtis@drewcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.
The attorney general's office is putting up $1.8 million to help a woman get a restaurant going in the building the state leases.
AG helping private restaurant get off the ground in his new office building - Arkansas Times
The attorney general's office is kicking in $1.8 million to help renovate space that will be used by a new restaurant.
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I don’t know if it’s sad or funny that any time my immediate family calls another one of us the conversation always starts with “No one’s dead yet.” The anxiety runs high in our genes.
President Donald Trump promised to put veterans first. Current and former VA hospital workers: Help us investigate whether he’s doing so 👇
Is Your Veterans Affairs Hospital Short-Staffed? Have You Seen Setbacks in Care? Help ProPublica Investigate.
We want to understand the consequences of cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. If you have firsthand information about conditions at your local hospital, we want to hear from you.
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The admin's bigoted trans ban is costing us dedicated, highly qualified warfighters, while we are at war. We cannot demonize anyone who is willing to serve our nation in uniform. And handing trans servicemembers less-than-honorable discharges is a dishonor to their service. We owe them better.
Have you heard of Eightfold AI? According to a lawsuit, if you applied for a job at a major corporation - like LG, Bayer, CITI, or HP - Eightfold has scraped internet data to score your potential success from 0 to 5 You're rejected from a job based on a secret algorithm and data you didn't submit
When someone is already burned out, and has told everyone repeatedly this is the case, adding additional tasks, especially just before a long-scheduled vacation, don’t help that burn out. Just saying.
these kinds of "task forces" have long been cover for police overreach and corruption - read @bsoderberg.bsky.social
NPR@npr.org · last wk.The influx of federal agents into the city last fall led to widespread immigration arrests – a majority without criminal convictions. President Trump has said he wants to replicate it elsewhere. n.pr/44QjbTY
Be sure to check out this great read by @grajeda.bsky.social in today’s @arkansasadvocate.com An Arkansas community founded by Italian immigrants becomes a flashpoint over ICE arkansasadvocate.com/2026/07/27/a...
An Arkansas community founded by Italian immigrants becomes a flashpoint over ICE | Arkansas Advocate
A festival started by Italian immigrants who migrated to Arkansas in the late 1800s is being boycotted by an immigrant advocacy group over Tontitown Police Department's involvement in a federal immigr...
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CHURCH & STATE NOT SEPARATE: The top 10 schools getting taxpayer subsidies from Gov. Sanders' school vouchers scheme together received more than $61M last year. Only one (Pulaski Academy) doesn't have religious affiliation. #Arkansas #arpx #arnews #arleg buff.ly/hJGodp5
