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Texan now living the good life in NWA Let's turn Arkansas blue ... link tree https://linktr.ee/NTX_AR_Progressive
Just making #arkansas a racist maga waste land
Emily Suski, named last week to be the next dean at the UA--Fayetteville law school, is already out after conservative officials found Suski’s opinions on transgender athletes' rights distasteful.
Culture warriors cancel new U of A law dean before she started - Arkansas Times
Culture warriors claim the scalp of Emily Suski, the would-be law school dean whose legal opinion on transgender athletes seems to have offended Arkansas officials.
arktimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Very good by @hanaleegoldin
January 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I think you're on to something Dave ! Like "Hey don't be a Dokoupil"
Can we make "Dokoupil" a word like "Hey don't be a dokoupil just because you are meeting JD Vance." Dokoupil = a sniveling, fascist-bootlicker in way over his skis. I'm work-shopping it but I think "dokoupil" could be a perfectly cromulent word.
January 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
there it is
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
If you never wrote a word (book or substack) your 1/2 hour every week with @themts.bsky.social Mark Thompson is worth at least $2 a week - @sarahkendzior.bsky.social here sarahkendzior.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Food Water Watch is one of the national groups working on data centers nation-wide www.foodandwaterwatch.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:22 PM
There is a Stop Grant County Data Center Facebook group working on the site near Sheridan #arkansas (S of Little Rock) no local group working on this one that i know of www.facebook.com/groups/14898...
January 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Must read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social makes everything free on her substack but you certainly can drop her a few bucks or subscribe for as little as $8 a month (which you need to do-if you can )
January 15, 2026 at 5:13 PM
#Missouri not sending their best
Missouri’s Billy Long, who is President Trump's pick to become ambassador to Iceland, is facing backlash for joking that the country should become the 52nd U.S. state (after Greenland) and he should serve as governor. #moleg #mogov
Missouri’s Billy Long apologizes after joking Iceland should become 52nd U.S. state • Missouri Independent
Billy Long’s was forced to apologize for saying Iceland should become a U.S. state, with him serving as governor.
missouriindependent.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Make sure you are registered to vote in #Arkansas District 2 & 4 elect new House and choose someone to run as Democrat to challenge Republican/Tom Cotton statewide. People bitch about the lack of choices or the candidate-the PRIMARIES are where you get to choose arkansasadvocate.com/voter-guide/...
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).
Mother Jones sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell records
Why was Jeffrey Epstein's procurer transferred to a cushy prison?
www.motherjones.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 AM
#Arkansas doing what it can to destroy its public institutions
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Don't forget Supreme Court and billionaires
Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos. His success could have dire consequences for American democracy, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. (From November)
The Coming Election Mayhem
Donald Trump’s plans to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos are already under way.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…

hartmannreport.com/p/why-has-ic...
Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield?
Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…
hartmannreport.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Barnstaple in England ? (Devon)
not a big family genealogy person but in the course of book research dipped in and anyway today I’m thinking about the guy on my grandmother’s side who was a sheriff of some kind in Barnstable in the early 1700s and my grandfather’s dad arriving in New York from Italy in 1904 to live in Brighton
January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
You'd have to be crazy to send your kid to #Texas A&M University it's just a Texas style Maga university now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Texas Sends Plato Back to His Cave
Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Greenland: new shipping routes, hidden minerals – and a frontline between the US and Russia?
Greenland: new shipping routes, hidden minerals – and a frontline between the US and Russia?
Key maps show the growing strategic importance of Greenland as Arctic ice melts under global heating
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.

And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
The "training " and "reform" are ridiculous - does the Democratic leadership really think that we buy any of this? Are they this isolated from reality? ( I can answer my own question : Yes )
You can't "significantly reform" fascism
Hakeem Jeffries: "Clearly, significant reform needs to take place as it relates to the manner in which ICE is conducting itself. ICE is using taxpayer dollars to brutalize American citizens and to unnecessarily and viciously target law-abiding immigrant families and communities."
January 15, 2026 at 2:05 PM