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Could this be what they've spent the last 6 months trying to hide? Hmmmm ...

06.03.2026 23:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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University of Arkansas-Little Rock fires men’s basketball Coach Darrell Walker | Arkansas Democrat Gazette The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has fired men's basketball Coach Darrell Walker after eight seasons, it confirmed in a news release Friday. Walker's firing came two days after the Trojans lo...

UA-Little Rock men's basketball coach Darrell Walker fired after 12-20 season, loss in first round of OVC tourney.
#Arkansans #arpx #arnews
www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/ma...

06.03.2026 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dems aren’t sure whether to actually spend big to flip Texas National Democrats are worried the money it would take to compete in Texas could be better spent elsewhere.

If anyone thought the national Democratic establishment actually had a clue, this story should disabuse you of that notion. Gawdamighty ...
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

06.03.2026 19:34 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump's illegal war is going to "bring down the economies of the world" ...

06.03.2026 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are the chances that the actual number of casualties is higher and we are being lied to?

06.03.2026 18:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it started with the Village People ...

06.03.2026 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Some people will die" should be in every Democratic campaign ad this fall. Every damn one.

06.03.2026 17:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Well, this seems ... not good ...

06.03.2026 17:44 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Arkansas Supreme Court overrules decades-old pretextual arrest decision, setting new state precedent | Arkansas Democrat Gazette The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday overruled the state's defining pretextual arrest decision, rejecting more than 20 years of legal precedent in a 5-2 ruling.

Overruling a 2-decade-old precedent, Arkansas Supreme Court says it's OK for police offers to arrest suspects on lesser charges as pretext to investigate more serious crimes. Dissenting justice accuses majority of going out of its way to find a pretext to reverse precedent.
#arpx

06.03.2026 17:15 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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North Little Rock First Assembly of God, pastor deny former member’s claims of sexual abuse | Arkansas Democrat Gazette North Little Rock First Assembly of God and Pastor Rod Loy, responding to a lawsuit by a former member, "vehemently deny" that he sexually abused her, they wrote in an answer filed in Pulaski County…

Arkansas mega-church says charges that its pastor sexually abused a woman for nearly two decades "are fabricated in their entirety" & part of a "smear campaign." She says she was abused by Rod Roy, lead pastor of 1st Assembly of God church in N Little Rock, starting at age 16.
#arpx

06.03.2026 16:45 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Bryant man sentenced to 30 years in prison for child sexual abuse material | Arkansas Democrat Gazette A Saline County man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday by a federal judge who told him had he been allowed to impose the death penalty, "I would ... and I would sleep very, very well…

Arkansas federal judge goes off on 10-minute harangue at child porn defendant before giving him 30 years: "If I were allowed constitutionally to impose the death penalty, I would impose the death penalty, and I would sleep very, very well tonight."
#arpx #arnews

06.03.2026 16:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US House rejects war powers resolution to end Trump’s hostilities with Iran Democratic-backed measure that would have forced US to withdraw troops failed by a vote of 212-219

YOU OWN IT NOW, BOYS: Arkansas' 4 Republican House members all vote to support Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran.
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews

06.03.2026 15:40 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

We don't have a Secretary of Defense. We have a 13-year-old boy who thinks he's playing a video game.

06.03.2026 13:32 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich | Creators

05.03.2026 08:21 👍 704 🔁 209 💬 20 📌 5
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The nation’s dogs celebrate Kristi Noem getting fired.

05.03.2026 22:03 👍 4092 🔁 786 💬 146 📌 64
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Just once, I wish a politician caught with his pants down would leave without bringing God or his family into the conversation ...

06.03.2026 13:26 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Aged well!

06.03.2026 13:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And if the US govt. does find a way to assume financial responsibility for ships floating through the war zone it created, those ships instantly become juicier targets for Iranian missiles. The genius, it just never stops!

06.03.2026 13:22 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A potted plant was not available ...

06.03.2026 13:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She didn't see it coming ... just like Cricket ...

06.03.2026 13:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump taps Sen. Markwayne Mullin after firing Kristi Noem as DHS secretary Noem's chief adviser, Corey Lewandowski, will also leave his position at DHS, MS NOW reported.

So all the incoherent blathering we've been hearing from Markwayne Mullin recently on the TV was ... an audition? 🤔

06.03.2026 00:32 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Oh, for pity's sake, just change parties already ...

05.03.2026 23:39 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Me too. I blame the Jewish space lasers ...

05.03.2026 23:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Puppies!

05.03.2026 23:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump fires Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary The president said he would tap Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to replace her.

I'd like to think that somewhere tonight, Cricket is wagging her tail ...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

05.03.2026 23:29 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

With him and Tuberville both leaving, average IQ's going up 60 points!

05.03.2026 21:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty sure this wins Bluesky today ...

05.03.2026 20:54 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Mullin how bad it's going to be ...

05.03.2026 20:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Because he's not very bright?

05.03.2026 20:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump fires Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary The president said he would tap Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her.

Off to the gravel pit!
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

05.03.2026 20:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0