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Unclear why Arkansas wants to send taxpayer money to people who clearly don’t need it, to pay country club dues for people too fancy to mingle with us in public parks. But here we are. Vouchers are a welfare scam for wealthy people.
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The surreal moment when Republican Arkansas state Sen. Matt McKee asks a trans pharmacist if she has a penis.
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“I find it really challenging to be back in my home state, where I have fewer rights than I did as a 12-year-old.” Dr. Chelsea Clinton in town with her momma for the women’s summit, along with the smartest pack of ladies you ever saw. Arkansas is down but not out.
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@RashidaTlaib
Apologies that begin with explanations and excuses always ring hollow. Disappointing.
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So weird how one kid with a peanut allergy means no one in class can bring a PB&J for lunch all year but when every under-12 in school is susceptible to COVID we’re like, welp, guess they’ll all get sick then, nothing we can do about it.
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Guys. GUYS. Little Rock
@MomsDemand
turned out tonight! And we’ll keep turning out until we have laws that protect our families over the gun lobby. Just go ahead and
#ExpectUs
!
#arleg
#arpx
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UPDATE: every single school in Arkansas🔥 that planned to offer AP African American Studies is sticking to it despite ed department's threat that the class may violate state law against indoctrination and prohibited topics. via
@arktimes
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Hey, motherfuckers. AT got a new lectern, it cost like $80.
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Arkansas elected Republicans seem game to go along with any policy Gov. Sanders wants. The politics of that make sense I guess.
They would even have passed Sanders’ government secrecy bill had citizens not bowed up, teamed up and dug deep to prevent it.
BUT! 1/5 🧵
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One-in-five chance (or better) Chris Jones shocks the world tomorrow by claiming the W. You heard it here first.
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There's more coming, but it's hard to wrangle. Sit tight.
Whistleblower says governor’s office illegally altered, withheld records related to podium purchase via
@arktimes
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Fired by the Saline County Quorum Court over her refusal to remove books with LGBTQ+ characters, sex ed and racial themes from the youth section, former librarian Patty Hector is now running for office herself.👑 via
@arktimes
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This Central High sophomore just outsmarted the whole of the Senate Education Committee.
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Kirsten Sowell just burned everybody's eyebrows off, called Sen. McKee to task for asking a trans woman if she has a penis: "Even if you have a penis it doesn't mean you have honor or that you're a man."
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The smiles are big when you know you’ve just signed your ticket to unlimited free travel on the public dime with no way for anybody to ever know about it.
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Under the Arkansas LEARNS school privatization bill, students in public schools have to log 75 hours of unpaid community service to graduate. Number of service hours required for private and charter students to graduate is ZERO. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
@gelderbailey
@dunekacke
@umikomorebi
Then it's just punishment. It's a penalty for being a public school student. It's extra labor for kids whose families aren't sufficiently well off to send them to go to private school. Those kids have to rake leaves and work for free for small businesses in the community.
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Rep. DeAnn Vaught really tried it! Her motion to suspend the rules so they could rush through their government secrecy bill before anyone could say boo elicited a cacophony of NOs. Even some of her Republican counterparts were bellowing.
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We’re paying country club dues for people who don’t want to mingle with the rest of us in public parks.
It’s fine for families to choose private schools, but they should pay for it.
School vouchers are being used mainly by families whose children are already in private school—and it's draining state budgets.
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Huh, looks like a whole lot of Arkansans care a whole lot about our public school educators. Republicans, take note.
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Why is the gov blocking all info about her taxpayer-funded travel?
Bc experts told her sharing it is a security threat, Sanders told reporters today.
When asked for names of those experts or documentation of their recommendations, Sanders got a little surly. 1/3
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Did Arkansas voters really just elect a twice-bankrupt man who has been fined repeatedly for faulty campaign finance records as their STATE TREASURER??? I'll be damned! Here's your guy I guess
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I’m going to vote with so much rage and passion that the voting machine will almost certainly burst into flames.
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Here they come. Up to 1,000 students expected to participate in this walkout at Gov. sanders’ alma mater in protest of the Arkansas LEARNS school privatization bill.
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It takes a special person to turn Arkansas's new status as the worst state in the nation for food insecurity into a photo opportunity for herself.
Sanders refused to sign a bipartisan bill to help families on food stamps save $ and still be eligible for assistance.
Gov.
@SarahHuckabee
talks with
@haydens_k8
about Capital for a Day at Walnut Ridge First Baptist Food Pantry while her and members of her cabinet distribute groceries.
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Let’s keep asking.
Because if Sanders is holding a press conference to start a Chinese seed war over 160 acres in Craighead County and claiming that this is actually what Arkansans care about more that government malfeasance with our tax money, she’s on the ropes.
#NEWS
:
@SarahHuckabee
response to not using the lectern (which is currently under audit said to be welcomed by the governor) in today's press conference:
@KARK4News
@FOX16News
@CapitolViewAR
#arpx
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I cannot fucking believe that the pathetic R supermajority AR legislature actually made it illegal for schools to protect students from COVID. It is literally illegal to require masks in AR. Are we really this stupid?
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Excuses, excuses.
The governor used state funds to pay a friend $19k for a $3k lectern. Then she got caught.
Doesn’t matter that the RPA swooped in with a check, or that defenders say SHS doesn’t have to follow rules anyway.
This looks bad bc it is.
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Hearing Sarah Huckabee Sanders fled the scene before the press conference portion of the debate, while other candidates spent time answering reporter Qs, including from student reporters. Of course. SHS continues her bunker mentality, refusing to interact with constituents. Wild.
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Not only will eStem continue to offer AP African American Studies, but students who complete the course will be honored with a Medal of Historical Pursuit and Honor. Well done.
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So weird to me that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has spent her entire life having her bills paid by government and political jobs, is pretending to be anti-government so that she can secure for herself yet ANOTHER government job. It's amazing, really.
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Chris Jones is leaving it all on the field. Go see for yourself if you like, his first campaign appearance tomorrow is in Stephens at 6 a.m. This man has done the work.
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Santa is real, but a lot of kids know him as Uncle Willie. Arkansas
@MomsDemand
honored to help him fill the sleigh this year.
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Appalling. To all the Arkansans who know SHS personally and tell us she doesn’t really mean what she says, she’s just playing to her base, I ask you: How does that make it better? I’d argue that calculatingly weaponizing division makes it worse.
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Asa Hutchinson had $146 million coming to Arkansas to help people, it was automatic, he didn’t have to do a thing to get it. It took more effort for him to turn it down. Plenty of Arkansans would gladly distribute this money for him if he can’t be bothered.
#arpx
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If we’re going to have “school choice” in Arkansas, let’s make it fair. Any school taking public funding has to serve any kid who comes along. Free lunch, free transportation, special ed services, zero cost to the family. 1/3
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If your state rep or state Senator is a NO on teacher raises but a YES on tax cuts for the wealthy, he doesn’t work for you. He works for the highest bidder. Vote accordingly.
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Rep. Nicole Clowney is a mood:
Info the state has already withheld under the guise of security has since been exposed, and we now know none of the information that was hidden had any impact on the governor's safety. So ... ?
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Trans youth win in court, federal judge strikes down Arkansas ban on gender-affirming medical care. This is a big deal. via
@arktimes
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"If anyone finds out who rode on my plane to Jonesboro in Feb, my children will be killed." -Gov. Sarah Sanders, basically. 🙄
She just doesn't want you to know who goes on junkets with her.
Playing victim is smart, tho. Bonus points for using her children as human shields.
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If voucher supporters really wanted all kids to be able to go to private schools, vouchers would cover the full costs. They don’t.
Vouchers are just taxpayer-funded discount coupons for families who don’t actually need them.
Welfare for the wealthy.
Paid for by you and me.
The American public school system was created as an attempt to educate the overwhelming masses of Americans who were illiterate. It was seen as not only a way to help individuals but also an investment in the future of the country. And for many years, the public schools were the
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Does it matter if the Arkansas governor’s office meddled in podiumgate FOIA responses?
(Um, yes. Huge if true, actually.)
via
@arktimes
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How does a lectern that costs $771 on amazon run the state of Arkansas $19k? Why does it look so much like a lectern we already had? Why is everybody being so squirrelly?
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AR lawmakers are gearing up to run a school voucher bill in 2023 to steal from the poor and give to the rich. Schools are public goods, like parks. If you choose to join a country club instead, that’s fine. But don’t expect taxpayers to foot the bill. Same with private schools.
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Went to go peek at state procurement law in light of Alexa Henning’s explainer that it doesn’t apply to the governor anyway.
Why is the manual dated yesterday? Was it updated? Was something changed?
#podiumgate
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TFW those known radical left extremist Arkansas Razorback fans boo you and then call the hogs.
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Things the AR governor banned last week: the terms “pregnant person,” “womxn,” “chestfeeding.” Just words!
Things she should ban instead: teen pregnancy, maternal mortality, infant mortality.
Gov. Sanders did nothing to keep women+babies from dying at chart-topping rates. 1/2
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Sanders' all-out assault on AR FOI law will decimate your and my access to info about what elected officials are up to and how government agencies work.
Anyone who doesn't want the public to know what they're doing with public money shouldn't be a public servant. 3/3
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“Through this bill we have managed to insult, alienate, dislike, show disdain for every single person in this state that has anything to do with public education,” Rep. Jim Wooten said. via
@arktimes
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There’s a lot to this story, but calling minuscule frozen embryos “extrauterine children" is blowing my mind. As if you could just defrost them and they'd run and jump.
Alabama hospital pauses on IVF in wake of court ruling on embryos | AP News
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Can we propose a law that says any AR legislator who sponsors and passes an obviously unconstitutional bill has to personally pay all related legal fees when courts inevitably throw the unconstitutional bill in the garbage? AR taxpayers shouldn't be on the line for this.
#arleg
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Imagine being AR governor and a Central High alum, getting publicly called out by the Little Rock Nine but still pretending you’re in the right. Five of Little Rock Nine on Arkansas’ attempt to erase Black history
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Arkansas senators vote against Arkansas all the time. I'm glad they're getting called out for shamelessly taking credit for things they absolutely stood in the way of.
Senators Cotton and Boozman both voted against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Here they are celebrating its investments in Arkansas.
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Gotta say, the Arkansas Press Association really screwed the pooch on this. Nope, this new government secrecy bill that allows the gov and other state leaders to hide their expenses from taxpayers in perpetuity is NOT OK. Still hate it.
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LRSD superstar Ali Noland had bad news for state reps. The Arkansas LEARNS bill won’t pass muster on delivering equitable education as required by state law. The provision that sets up D and F schools to contract with charters or be taken over is coercion that won’t stand.
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We paid Virginia Beckett a $2,500 consulting fee to help her pal Gov. Sarah Sanders procure a $19K lectern. Turns out, the "custom" lectern is the same as off-the-rack versions you can buy on the internet for $7K. So shady!
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Arkansas’s FOI attack bill is so bad and so detested by everyone across the board that my usual trolls are popping into the comments to agree with me. This has never happened!❤️💙❤️💙❤️
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LOVING how AR got tired of waiting+fed up with Asa’s nonsensical+ineffective vaccine rollout and just decided to do what we want. Props to the bus stations, churches, pharmacies, etc setting up clinics and putting shots in arms indiscriminately. We have to save ourselves.
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I do not think Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to be the governor of Arkansas. I think she will settle for being the governor of Arkansas while she waits for something bigger and better to come along.
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Republican lawmakers will follow her orders, but it’s pretty clear they’re starting to resent being treated as mere yes men. Y’all heard any of them go out on a limb to defend her good name and character over
#podiumgate
? 🦗🦗🦗 No?
Why do you think that is? 5/5
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If Arkansas Republicans decide to turn away federal lunch money that keeps kids fed so that they can continue to discriminate against gay and trans children, that’s on them.
@AsaHutchinson
’s suggestion that the feds are the bad guys here is pretty outrageous.
#arpx
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Arkansas state government to give money directly to churches of their choosing. This is unbefuckinglievable.
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Did a Central High sophomore just say she wanted to thank Senate ed for the opportunity to speak, but she’s taking it back because they’re not giving them an opportunity to speak? She did. ☠️☠️☠️🔥🔥🔥
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Well, I’ll be damned. Looks like Conway has finally had enough of the book banning and attacks on trans kids from ideologue school board members. Congratulations to Franklin and Geier!
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I cannot wait to sign this petition, and then to vote for it! Let’s end these dark ages.
Arkansas’s misogynistic total ban on abortion is evil and cruel. The amendment being proposed would restore a woman’s right to make her own medical decisions.
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Y’all ready for this?
@MomsDemand
Little Rock is going to do this thing.
#endgunviolence
#lrpx
#ExpectUs
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@shannonrwatts
@NRA
@MomsDemand
If drinking boxed wine in my driveway is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
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Why would a governor who flits about on a state police airplane want to hide her expensive travel records from the public? There’s no safety issue here: the travel in question will have already happened. Maybe so taxpayers don’t know they’re getting fleeced? Watch out, Arkansas.
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Screenshots show governor’s office vetted release of podium records, whistleblower says. That's not really how this is supposed to work. via
@arktimes
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When they go low, you go high: MasterClass edition.
Little Rock Nine member celebrates a new scholarship for AP African American Studies students via
@arktimes
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Arkansas didn’t want any of that stuff. Nobody cares about calling moms-to-be “pregnant people.” She’s just using Arkansas as her casting call, trying to show what she can do. She doesn’t care a bit about the damage she’s doing, prob because she’s not aiming to stick around. 4/5
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Meeting just adjourned with no opportunity for
@MomsDemand
to speak. We signed up before the meeting and have been here for 3 hours. Wow.
#arleg
#arpx
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A federal judge was clearly aghast at Arkansas lawmakers’ attempts to erase First Amendment rights. Did your senator and rep vote to take away your freedom of speech? You might want to check, and then vote accordingly.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders and others for eliminating income tax fail to mention that if they do this, either your property and sales taxes will gazillion-tiple to make up the difference, or else the Republicans will effectively be defunding public education and the police.
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LRSD ain't skeered, sticks with AP African American Studies despite education department's insinuation the course violates state law. via
@arktimes
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Every time Tom Cotton derides student loan forgiveness, remember that he is fine with well-connected people like his own sister milking the system.
Poor Arkansans electing a guy who wants welfare only for the rich is a portrait of self-loathing.
@possum_oh
@BrenCas222
Tom Cotton's sister got $20,800 in government loans, and she didn't pay it back.
Does her brother complain at the Thanksgiving table that she is simply transferring debt to future generations?
Or is free government money OK for well-connected people?
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Gov. Sanders denies clemency to Charlie Vaughn, an innocent man who’s been in prison for decades via
@arktimes
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“Have any of you sheltered students in a live shooter situation? Because I have,”
@sassenachdarby
says. This
@MomsDemand
volunteer knows what she’s talking about, and what she’s talking about is that arming teachers is an awful idea.
#arleg
#arpx
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For normal people who have lives, just letting you know that testimony in House ed on Arkansas LEARNS is still going at almost 9 p.m. They've run out of people there to testify in favor, but there are still people speaking against.
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When you're in trouble for jet setting around on the state dime and refusing to hand over the records, plus your employees botched the War Memorial game so badly that people were in medical distress, it's very Trumpian to manufacture some outrage over something else entirely.
This is crazy.
Rest assured that as long as I’m Governor, Arkansas will not force our kids to wear masks in school.
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Shenanigans! Governor, prison board face off over staff shortages, and it’s quite a show.
Governing is hard and not always glamorous. That's why Gov. Sarah Sanders doesn't do it. She's just here for the clicks and cameras. Case in point: via
@arktimes
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People are often surprised that so many
@MomsDemand
supporters are gun owners. Don’t be. We’re here to support 2A in a responsible way. A Wild West free-for-all where we’re all scared to send our kids to school or the movies is NOT what the framers meant. Let’s fix it.
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Attn: Legislative Audit, FBI. 🚨🚨🚨
State government employees were instructed to write “to be reimbursed” on the podiumgate invoice but specifically told not to date the notation. 😱
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Disclosing that info would put her family's security at risk, she said.
See how this works? No one can know anything about anything because the governor claims she's in danger! Nah.
This is brazen ruse to keep us from seeing what our government is up to.
#arleg
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Sen. Clarke Tucker: So you have zero examples of someone who lost a FOIA case in court recovering legal fees from the state, but you want to block all plaintiffs from being able to have their legal fees covered even if they win because of potential for abuse?
Sen. Bart Hester:
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Gross. No one did this. No "bad actors" used FOIA to attack "heroes in law enforcement."
This isn't just spin. It's a lie.
After months of the bad actors weaponizing FOIA to attack our heroes in law enforcement, I was proud to sign a new law today with bipartisan support to empower our state police to do their jobs.
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Sarah Sanders’ haughty petulance, her obvious disdain for Arkansans and that pick-me desperation for FOX News+national attention so she can get the heck out of here asap, her assumption that Arkansans are chumps?
She’s overplayed her hand. 2/5
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Talked to Lil Matty with the Rona™️ this morning. He's got plenty of Gatorade, is feeling OKish and will re-file his FOIA suit next week.
@BlueHogReport
@DavidARay
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AR legislators passed a new law last week to let Gov. Sarah Sanders spend your $ with reckless abandon in secret, all for some vague “security” excuse that never made sense.
EuroDisneygate indicates the Arkansas Legislature is a pack of chumps.
Say you & your state-paid entourage were enjoying your $28k stay at Hotel National in Paris, & you wanted to take your kids to EuroDisney.
Would *you* make taxpayers pick up the $200 train cost so that state police could protect you from Chip and/or Dale?
@SarahHuckabee
did.
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WATCH THIS. Jon Stewart obliterates Rutledge, which is very easy to do re: gender-affirming care for youth because she goes against every respectable medical group in the country in her quest to harm innocents for personal political gain.
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Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a hand to local journalism. ❤️🇺🇸
We are continuing to share our coverage of the Buffalo National River land proposal outside of our paywall. You may read our latest story here.
Packed town hall meeting shows strong opposition to proposed land change
Complete recap in Nov. 2 edition
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Tone police are out here calling for you to be nice to the people who want to starve public ed and hoard tax dollars to pay their private school tuitions. NO WAY. If anything, get louder, bigger and more ferocious. It’s right to fight back when you’re getting pummeled.
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It’s Thursday in Arkansas, guess that means the Batesville
@momsdemand
group is kicking ass again.
#cantstopwontstop
#arleg
#arpx
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French Hill voted against giving you a $1,400 stimulus check. So if you voted for
@RepFrenchHill
you have to give your check to a
@xjelliott
voter. Elections have consequences.
#arpx
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