JEM@Ruraldogs

@ruraldogs

Borderline GenX/Boomer. Flash frozen in the Grunge era. Retired Art & Journalism teacher. Coined the phrase "Dog Rescue Facilitation." AR by way of TX by way of Chicago. Democracy 🌊 NOW! 🚫Authoritarianism⛔Totalitarianism🚫

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JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Jul 3

I am thrilled to see this happen! Charlie Kirk's death was a convenient way to introduce and implement an authoritarian control tactic meant to dehumanize the masses as well as amplify division.

Definition and purpose of "selective mourning" -am autocratic control tactic.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· May 19

American Pandemic Care

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· May 5

#FredLove #Arkansas #Governor #Candidate #2026 #WhiteCounty Senator Fred Love will speak at the Janett & Larry Crain Public Library in Searcy on May 7th at 6pm. Following his visit, Dr. Dara Gaines will train volunteers for AR ballot petition signature collection. Free event. Everyone welcome!

Senator Fred Love discusses his candidacy for Arkansas Governor and Dr. Dara Gaines delivers live training to all volunteers wanting to help collect signatures for the Educational Amendment and the Ballots Rights Amendment (paraphrased), which now has a 2-month deadline covering 50 counties. Volunteer help is needed! Event will take place Thursday, May 7th at 6:00 p.m.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 22

That and this makes Alex Karp the Austin Powers villain of the week. Oh wait! This is America! Who the fuck knows what's coming before Sunday.

Photograph of Alex Karp, by Kevin Dietsch, Getty Images.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 22

#EarthDay. No one should have the option to choose "freedom & liberty to destroy the planet," regardless of wealth or power status. Oligarchs prep to live in underground bunkers for life in order to keep the dollars rolling in on Earth. 🚫💡Not very bright💡🚫!!!

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 21

Accurate assumption www.hoganmag.com/blog/charles...

These remarks are from the talk Charles Schulz delivered at the 1994 National Cartoonists Society convention and are reprinted from Hogan's Alley #1.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 20

Arkansan tax dollars at work! Arkansas AG decides open carry is permissible at the Little Rock Zoo because it is a city park rather than building. Deems zoo's "no guns" signs as illegal and demands they be removed.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 13

#Arkansas #Comment #DataCenter #Google The #LittleRock data center, planned for the Sweet Home area of LR, is projected to use 100 megawatts of power per second -the equivalent of powering 80k/100k homes per second (=all of LR) around the clock (24/7/365). Facts & talking points in screencaps below.

#Arkansas #Comment #DataCenter #Google The #LittleRock data center, is planned for and around the Sweet Home area of LR -a small, rural feel community of low income to impoverished #Arkansans who are objecting to the center infiltrating their town.

This particular Google data center is considered a job-poor investment that will have an economic and social impact on the citizens of the Sweet Home community of Little Rock.

This particular Google data center will create habitat loss, redirection of streams, potential for flood plains and threats against local wildlife In Little Rock.

This Google data center, as all data centers do, create noise pollution as well as the strong potential for significant air and water pollution. The potential increase in utility costs will heavily impact the small, Little Rock community of Sweet Home, which currently holds a poverty rate of 25 plus percent.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 7

#ARKANSAS #NationalGuard Sending in the guard is a "quieter" way of increasing combat troops In this illegal war that nobody wants. It's much easier for Trump to deploy them as "support" than trying to hide a large, Army ground invasion from public scrutiny.

Arkansas National guard being deployed to the Middle East for operations connected to Epic Fury

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 2

1.) Are we talking health restrictions or personal preferences? 2.) Either way, it sounds like a guest's duty to notify in advance issue. 3.) With advance notification, an informed host is not obliged to provide more than one special dish at an event feeding a group of non-restricted people.

How to communicate your dietary restrictions without causing drama and stress at a dinner event or other party.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 1

Twas a good day.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Apr 1

What the rest of us see.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 31

The soundtrack alone makes this one worth its salt. This film did for spaghetti westerns what Bonnie & Clyde did for gangster films one year later. Both broke strict censorship codes and brought a stark, complex realism to film and its characters that changed the industry. Two longterm favorites.

Still from Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968
Spaghetti Western

Still from Bonnie & Clyde, 1969 gangster film.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 29

#NoKings #LittleRock #Arkansas #28March26 Thanks to all of you drummers for enhancing the march!

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 29

#NoKings #LittleRock #Arkansas #28March26 The palpable vibe of being part of a group of thousands of both disparate and congruent strangers harmoniously coming together for one, unified purpose was genuinely moving and deeply emotional for me.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 29

The random drums leading the march along really enhanced the good vibes.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 29

Hi Ainsley! We chatted for a moment about your journalism career at this spot, just before the March got moving. So glad to have been there! --Joy

#NoKings #LittleRock #Arkansas #28March26

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 28

#NoKings #LittleRock #Arkansas 28MAR26

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 28

#NoKings #LittleRock #Arkansas I bumped into #ChrisJones on the March. #FrenchHill was nowhere to be found 🤷‍♀️ 😂

Our future US Representative, Chris Jones, at the #NoKings March in Little Rock, Arkansas.

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 27

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 23

Also adding my favorite viewer comment that was posted on this video. This is the way we should all be departing this mortal coil. #Bernie vs. #Claude #YouTube

This is the way we should all be departing this mortal coil.

#Bernie vs. #Claude #YouTube

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 20

We are paying for the U.S. Mint to produce this"commemorative" atrocity of a vanity coin that will undoubtedly come with a hefty, collectible price tag + congressionally mandated surcharges that traditionally funded entities such as the Vietnam War Memorial. Now? Trump Presidential Charity?

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 15

(1/2) "Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come

Saturn photo of earth taken from Cassini spacecraft.

Pale blue dot taken by Voyager 1, furthest human made object in space.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

JEM@Ruraldogs@ruraldogs· Mar 13

The problem is that there are only 43 actual companies listed here. I took a moment to look at the foundation behind the claim, which is confirmed as valid, but more complicated than a simple boycott, per Perplexity AI. Hope this summary detail helps.