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'Tears My Heart to Pieces': North Carolina Braces for Medicaid Cuts (Eduardo Medina/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/north-carolina-medicaid-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p3#a250706p3

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/openai-chatgpt-north-korean-it-workers
OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud

OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud
OpenAI blocked accounts used to create resumes that are likely tied to the long-running scam.

DOJ moves to claim $7.74 million tied to North Korean IT worker scheme https://therecord.media/north-korea-it-worker-scams-doj-civil-forfeiture-claim

"After 6 new cases over the weekend, #NorthDakota has nation’s highest measles rate"
https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/…

After 6 new cases over the weekend, North Dakota has nation’s highest measles rate
The state’s measles outbreak is the worst since 1978 and leads all states in cases per 100,000 residents.

Stereotypical Polish person: should I go to the mountains (to the south) or to the seaside (to the north)?
Me: should I go to the mountains (to the south) or to the hills (to the north)?

Calamus 26 We two boys together clinging
This is one of the gayest of the Calamus poems, a fantasy of two men against the world, full of life and ardor. I should be all over this in my gay reading!
Instead I see a darker form of Americanism here. "Power enjoying ... Armed and fearless ... No law less than ourselves". It's classic American individualism fantasy, a repudiation of community and law. Armed, at that.
On top of that I trip over the "North and South" part every time I read this. In 1860 when this was published we were just steps away from a Civil War after 10 years of enormous tension. I don't blame Whitman for wanting unity, his whole program in Leaves of Grass is American unity. All I can think is how there's no moral equivalence between the North and South. But Whitman wasn't an abolitionist and this poem reflects that.
Sorry for not reveling in the gay, maybe it's the ICE and California National Guard news affecting my reading today.

Mississippi, Mississippi Coordinated Access Network (MississippiCAN)
Missouri, MO HealthNet
Montana, Medicaid
Nebraska, ACCESSNebraska, Nebraska Medical Assistance Program (NMAP)
Nevada, Medicaid
New Hampshire, NH Medicaid, Medical Assistance
New Jersey, NJ Family Care
New Mexico, Centennial Care, Medical Assistance
New York, Medicaid Managed Care
North Carolina, NC Medicaid Managed Care
North Dakota, North Dakota Medicaid Expansion Program
Ohio, Medicaid
Oklahoma, SoonerCare

Russia tribunal advances, and North Korea trains soldiers for the Kremlin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russia-tribunal-advances-and-north.html

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I'd like to send a message to whoever is planning CCCamp in 2027. Since I don't know how to reach them, I figured I'd try the trusty Chaos Post!
Attn. camp planners: avoid the first week of August 2027! There is a monster solar eclipse on the 2nd of August that no eclipse nerd can miss!
"An eclipse of epic proportions …

Total solar eclipse 2027: A complete guide to the 'eclipse of the century'
An eclipse of epic proportions will occur on Aug. 2, 2027 across North Africa it will be the longest totality on land since 1991 and until 2114.

North Korea to send up to 30,000 more troops to aid Russia's war against Ukraine, CNN reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/north-korea-to-send-up.html