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Account of Max Brantley, retired senior editor of the Arkansas Times. Have covered Arkansas news for 52 years. Louisiana native.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Good piece & thread about DHS’s flagrant dishonesty.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

A week ago I was in Alabama surrounded by some of the finest people I have ever had the pleasure to know. Folks from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and West Virginia who are as sick of this shit as any Californian or New Yorker.

We may be outnumbered some places, but we are everywhere.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

It is a carefully footnoted piece; I hope you will give it some consideration. www.findinggravity.net/media-elites...

3. Forgive my lack of collegiality, but just who the fuck did David Broder think he
was?

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 1d

Antifas galore in Little Rock for a No Kings rally and, for good measure, a Pride Parade.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 5d

Report: 88% of last year’s Ark. voucher recipients didn’t come from public schools arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Report: 88% of last year’s Ark. voucher recipients didn’t come from public schools - Arkansas Times

A new annual report contains more info than in years past, but it’s still impossible to make apples-to-apples comparisons between schools.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 7d

Out-of-staters misrepresent Arkansas voucher data to champion school privatization arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Out-of-staters misrepresent Arkansas voucher data to champion school privatization - Arkansas Times

More families already in private schools are collecting LEARNS vouchers, but that doesn't indicate public school families are jumping ship.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 10d

The race is (almost) on: A look at 2026 federal, constitutional and legislative elections arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

The race is (almost) on: A look at 2026 federal, constitutional and legislative elections - Arkansas Times

One-stop shopping for info on all of the contested U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state constitutional and state legislative races in 2026.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 12d

Bear likely responsible for fatal attack in Newton County has been killed arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Bear likely responsible for fatal attack in Newton County has been killed - Arkansas Times

A bear that authorities believe to be responsible for the recent death of a 60-year-old Missouri man who’d been camping in Newton County has been killed.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 15d

Mysterious phone poll gauges interest in Little Rock mayoral candidates arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Mysterious phone poll gauges interest in Little Rock mayoral candidates - Arkansas Times

While we can't say for sure who's funding this quaint little poll, we can tell you who we've ruled out.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 23d

Questions abound as ICE officials and ousted corrections secretary spotted at Franklin County prison site arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Questions abound as ICE officials and ousted corrections secretary spotted at Franklin County prison site - Arkansas Times

Is this a backdoor way to fund a new prison, even if it doesn't solve the problem it's supposed to, or simply an attempt to protect the governor's fragile ego?

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 23d

MAGA’s martyred saint gets a memorial at the state Capitol, and you better not touch it arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

MAGA’s martyred saint gets a memorial at the state Capitol, and you better not touch it - Arkansas Times

Ode to a Hatemonger will be displayed on the second floor of the Capitol rotunda through October.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 24d

Sec. of State lets staffer use Capitol lights in gender-reveal party arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Sec. of State lets staffer use Capitol lights in gender-reveal party - Arkansas Times

Call it another perk of the $117K job she's held for nine months.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 24d

'Blindsided' by child care cuts, advocates urge the state to slow down arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

'Blindsided' by child care cuts, advocates urge the state to slow down - Arkansas Times

A child advocacy group slams the state for cutting payments to child care providers who serve low-income families.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · 25d

Care about animal welfare? Call Sen. John Boozman.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Sep 16

Vouchers for all: LEARNS expands to cover all students, and the road ahead is grim. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Vouchers for all: LEARNS expands to cover all students, and the road ahead is grim - Arkansas Times

Arkansas’s experiments with charter schools, vouchers and school choice laws have morphed into political tools, rather than educational innovations.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · Sep 13

I was wondering how long it would take before someone on the right said this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just like the Trump family!

He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him.

www.nytimes.com

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Loblolly teams up with Maryam’s Grill on Palestinian-inspired ice cream flavors to benefit World Central Kitchen arktimes.com/eat-arkansas...

Loblolly teams up with Maryam’s Grill on Palestinian-inspired ice cream flavors to benefit World Central Kitchen - Arkansas Times

Central Arkansas ice cream dream team Loblolly Creamery has collaborated with downtown Mediterranean restaurant Maryam’s Grill on two ice cream flavors to honor Maryam’s owners’ Palestinian heritage. ...

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Aug 27

Vouchers leave public schools behind arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Vouchers leave public schools behind - Arkansas Times

Communities overwhelmingly support their public schools, but how we’re funding schools doesn’t reflect that.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Aug 27

On Little Piney Creek, locals clash over access to a beloved local swimming spot arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

On Little Piney Creek, locals clash over access to a beloved local swimming spot - Arkansas Times

When can Arkansas landowners legally block access to a stream? The answer is more complicated than you might think.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Aug 27

May I use a LEARNS voucher for cotillion fees? Why yes, you may! Tax dollars pay for exclusive dance group. Does that mean they’ll accept all comers? arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

May I use a LEARNS voucher for cotillion fees? Why yes, you may! - Arkansas Times

Perhaps it's gauche to point out that letting private school and homeschool families spend public education dollars on cotillion fees gives the “school choice” game away entirely.

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Aug 27

Designer of Arkansas Capitol’s upcoming ‘monument to the unborn’ sets fundraising goal (Money is not exactly rolling in for this monument to Republican Christian nationalist ideology) arkansasadvocate.com/2025/08/26/d...

Designer of Arkansas Capitol’s upcoming ‘monument to the unborn’ sets fundraising goal | Arkansas Advocate

Commissioner Tony Leraris said he was “cautiously optimistic” that the effort could raise $75,000 in just over two months.

arkansasadvocate.com

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Aug 26

Will theASU game be the last Hog football game in LR? But for politics, it should be. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

The war for War Memorial - Arkansas Times

Could the Razorbacks’ long-awaited matchup versus Arkansas State be the team’s last game in Little Rock?

Arkansas Blog @arkansasblog.bsky.social · Aug 25

Advocates raise alarms over ICE harassing family at Ozarks swimming hole arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Advocates raise alarms over ICE harassing family at Ozarks swimming hole - Arkansas Times

In the video, officers can be seen detaining at least two men and forcing them into a van. They were later released.