No thank you I do not want to know anything about any of this

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/b... isn’t it wild that Republicans pretend to be about fiscal responsibility when really they’re just channeling more money to rich people? Am I missing something, or are they full of shit?

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u... Do Trump voters not know he’s for sale to the highest bidder, and you’re not it? He said as much many times, and he’s doing it. Tacky, globally humiliating, probably illegal. Only chumps still support Trump.

wapo.st/4cUc6F9 Deporting a 4-year-old citizen with stage 4 cancer? Wow, Trump voters. The child’s mom was in the legal process of attaining citizenship. Now, her child’s medications and treatments are out of reach. This is what you voted for?

LOLZ, what a poser. My money says Gov. Sanders had her pals at the Capitol leave this line in specifically so she could make a big stunt of vetoing it. Sanders issues meaningless veto of UA - Little Rock faculty role that’s been unfilled for years arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

I cannot get over Arkansas's new SNAP exemptions list. No soda or candy, but one very specific add: Rotisserie chicken!?! Guess we have to do something with all these Tyson chickens we can sell to China anymore. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... The final installments of a series about the Herculean efforts to restore abortion rights in Arkansas is up now, for your reading pleasure. This effort was undertaken by volunteers without much money, and without the good old boy connections that are all but required 1/

Arkansas Republicans' foaming+fevered obsession with your crotch continues. Show us your bits, I guess. Anti-trans bathroom bill that would open state up to lawsuits passes committee, constitutionality in question. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

The Trinity Tree Project reforested my yard today after the 2023 tornado wiped out all of our 85-year-old oaks. LR still recuperating, but getting there!

600 people showed up for a town hall in Little Rock tonight. None of AR's congressional delegation bothered, though. Sens. Tom Cotton and John Boozman were busy schmoozing with fat cats at a $7K/plate fundraiser at the Capital Hotel. Do Arkansans think this is all they deserve?

Rep. Mary Bentley's bill seeks to allow lawsuits against “any person who causes or contributes to the social transitioning of a minor” — including “changes in clothing, pronouns, hairstyle and name." A new low.

Rep. Mary Bentley, who once lamented that public schools are letting kids identifying as cats, is now pushing to make people legally liable for giving girls short haircuts or letting boys try on skirts. But Bentley has a tomboy haircut+fellow transphobe Rep. Wayne Long has a ponytail? #arleg

Trying mightily to exist in the US in 2025. Not thriving right now tbh.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/a... 1000% chance kid rock is getting it next.

What's really interesting here is that Rep. Dan Sullivan basically just said, "Bow down to me and I will stop trying to destroy you." A non-binding resolution does zero. This was nothing more than a bully, bullying. Lame. arkansasadvocate.com/2025/03/13/a...

Arkansas’s LEARNS voucher application asked if parents were seeking a voucher in hopes of moving schools for ‘a different racial mix of students.’ This answer option got pulled down on Day 1, which is a bummer. It would be great data to have. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Has French Hill replaced Old Blue with a cybertruck yet? “Get in, loser, we’re destroying the economy!”

Parkview soccer GO GO GOOOOO! Beat Jacksonville! (We’re up 1-0)❤️🤍💙

John Deere, Jane Deere, who freakin cares? Well done.

Do Trump voters care that Elon Musk is openly using his government role to fill his own pockets? Possibly at the expense of airline safety? Cybertrucks randomly catch on fire, but we should trust Musk’s air traffic control system?😐

AR lawmakers embrace ‘Baby Olivia,’ a cartoon anti-abortion mascot for 5th graders. “All this would do is let the children know it really is a human life, and that abortion really is murder,” Rep. Crawford said. Oh, is that all? OK then. #arleg #arpx arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.

To the holier than thou voters who sat this one out because you were mad at Biden:

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders to give her stay-at-home husband a taxpayer-funded bike lift to play with. We’re still last in maternal heath and infant mortality, but sure, let’s give the first gent a fancy new toy. #arpx

After the president-elect reportedly complained about Carter posthumously stealing his thunder with those doleful, low-hanging flags, MAGA nation made a change of plans.

A literary response from editor emeritus Max Brantley to Sanders’ anti-humanities bias and Cotton’s penchant for hypermasculine spycraft.

Where are we arsoning cybertrucks today, fam?

arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... What just happened? Here’s 2024 in a nutshell.

Arkansas Times top 10 news stories from 2024. I think the naked, masturbating doctor is my favorite, although eclipse trickery was also fun.

The First Amendment is, like, the very first one? It’s embarrassing to get it so wrong. Librarians=UNDEFEATED arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Phrases to ban in 2025: “time is running out” and “before it’s too late.” People glaze over. It’s been too late for years now, nobody budged. Climate change and democracy have jumped the shark! Can we get new words please?

Baby SOS here is 27 years old?! Jester's qualifications=he went to the same religious college as the governor, then went to work for her after law school. Now, thanks to Sanders' appointment, he will control elections and ballot initiatives in Arkansas. 🚨🚨🚨 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

My favorite stories from Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social food editor Rhett Brinkley @rhettybe.bsky.social are the weird ones. Looky here: arktimes.com/eat-arkansas...

We are thrilled to announce that City of Little Rock Chief of Staff Kendra Pruitt will also be joining us tomorrow night! Get your ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/e/where-do-w...

Just realized that if Gov. Sanders’ attempt to gut the state freedom of information law had been successful, we would not know about any of this. When she tries again, remember that hiding stuff like this is her goal.

Hiding the purchase from the public, willfully misleading people, making fun of constituents. Arkansas state government is maybe not the best.

Arkansas friends! Just a reminder you can still get tickets to our Dec 11 event, featuring @indoctrinatrix.bsky.social from the Arkansas Times, @shortle.bsky.social from OU, and @matthewrmoore.bsky.social from KUAF’s Ozarks at Large www.eventbrite.com/e/where-do-w...

Are you following @forarpeople.bsky.social yet? If you're interested in AR politics (#arpx) and/or the AR legislature (#arleg), For AR People is your go-to for what will impact you and yours. Spread the word!

A south Arkansas publication claims we’re stealing their readers. We’re not. We weren't going to even write about this, but have gotten some questions. So here's a thorough explainer of a very dumb thing that happened. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Every conservative columnist right now.

Tonight I drank too many cranberry margs and got overly animated about Pol Pot in public. As one does! In my defense, he was doing this insane Year Zero stuff IN OUR LIFETIMES.

Woot woot to NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben for visiting us in LRAR to chat about covering the Trump campaign trail. Learning so much (of not-great stuff). But thank you!

Income tax cuts pushed through legislature by Gov. Sanders trigger $103M drop in revenue in Nov. compared to last year; offset by $25M increase in sales taxes, which disproportionately impact lower income groups. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

I 🧡 holding parents legally accountable for school shootings when those parents supply the guns to clearly troubled kids. Honk if you agree.

Democrats bitching and moaning about the Hunter Biden pardon are the problem. Being a sanctimonious goody two-shoes is how you lose and lose and lose. Get over yourselves. Play the game. Jesus Christ.

People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.

Feel like my vibe is too strident for Bluesky? This is the Sesame Street version of Twitter, yes?

The truth: at their essence, vouchers are dressage lessons for the fancy few while the rest of us are playing kickball together in the school gym. But if this is the piece that gets your attention, great. Paying for private horse lessons for kids too good for P.E. with their peers is idiotic.