Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has seen the largest decline in popularity among the nine governors elected in 2022. However, despite a 13-point decline in her net approval rating, 56% of Arkansas voters approve of Sanders’ job performance, compared with 35% who disapprove. #SarahSanders#Arkansas#GOPLoser#NeverVP
BREAKING: #Arkansas Supreme Court reinstates four voter suppression laws ahead of the 2024 elections, reversing a lower court's ruling that the laws violated the state constitution.
🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484
"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."
Why does Josh Marshall think Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders might be on Trump's short list as a v-p candidate?
"She’s an effective bully. She’s nasty. She’s not nice. …
In other words, SHS is really the worst American politics has to offer: crooked, a big liar and an enemy of all accountability. But that’s what Trump likes."
The Lt. Gov of #Arkansas is another far-right stooge. She was previously the Attorney General, pushing/defending the right-wing agenda against everyone not white, male, Christian, straight, or cis.
#RIP “Former #Arkansas governor and U.S. Sen. David Pryor, a #Democrat who was one of the state’s most beloved political figures and remained active in public service in the state long after he left office, has died. He was 89.”
"Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' office potentially violated state laws on purchasing, state property and government records when it purchased a $19,000 lectern for the Republican governor that’s prompted nationwide attention, an audit requested by lawmakers said Monday."
There are Primary Elections today in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. Wisconsin also has primaries today along with ballot measures to vote on.
Arkansas and Mississippi voters have runoff elections today to decide a handful of legislative seats that were sent to runoffs after primaries held in March.
"Experts say a saltwater, or brine, aquifer under the #Smackover Formation may contain enough #lithium to produce batteries for 50 million EVs.
Umberson said this new process, dubbed Direct Lithium Extraction (or #DLE), will benefit south #Arkansas and the lithium industry as a whole because of its high lithium recovery rates and minimal environmental impact.
[But] Umberson and Donnelly say further independent research must be done on DLE and its long-term impacts."
As Christa Brown, who has followed the Southern Baptist Convention's evasions of truth and political machinations for years, when it comes to dealing with sexual abuse of vulnerable people, says, we'd never have gotten the truth about Paul Pressler without lawsuits.
Because the SBC was determined to resist at all costs letting the truth be known.
Brown concludes: Let the lawsuits continue and proliferate.
To wit: "Just last week, in Arkansas, clergy sex abuse survivors filed a lawsuit naming not only First Baptist Church of Benton but also the SBC, SBC Executive Committee, Arkansas Baptist State Convention, and Central Baptist Association. It’s a dreadful case involving allegations that scores of boys were sexually victimized over the course of 20 years…."
The word that should stand out for us as we look at states like Arkansas, which are now dominated by one-party Republican rule, is the word corruption.
The corruption we see on full display among Republican leaders in states like Arkansas or Texas now is unparalleled in recent history and points back to the corrupt 1890s.
And it's going to get worse. They want absolute impunity from the law — for themselves, that is.
Marine Glisovic reports that after Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed Jamol Jones to the state Board of Corrections, it was found he had been fired by the Benton, Arkansas, police department for having sex with a 17-year-old girl.
As Austin Bailey reports, Sanders' spokesperson Alexa Henning is defending the appointment because Jones talks about God and family.
And speaking of Arkansas and matters of sexual abuse: Benjamin Hardy reports,
"Three additional lawsuits were filed last week against Ted Suhl and others associated with the Lord’s Ranch, alleging staff at the now-defunct northeast Arkansas behavioral health facility sexually and physically abused dozens of children and teenagers entrusted to their care over the course of several decades."
"Suhl was released by President Donald Trump in 2019 after serving less than half of his sentence, due in part to lobbying by Mike Huckabee — a friend of Suhl’s since at least the ‘90s, when then Gov. Huckabee appointed Suhl to a board that oversaw facilities such as his own — and former federal prosecutor Bud Cummins."
I've been finding myself getting wrapped up in the world behind my screen lately and need to touch some grass.
I've not been out in nature as much as usual due to several life changes. While I'm hoping that changes soon, I can post more landscape photos here in the meantime.
Here's a photo from Flatside Pinnacle in the Arkansas Ouachita Mountains, captured in late 2016.
"According to QuoteWizard, there has been $59 billion worth of natural disasters statewide in the last 20 years, and now people are just cutting [#HomeInsurance coverage] where they can.
“It has gone up so high now people are just having to knock it to the bare minimum,” Kelly said.
Kelly stressed this is a dangerous game because if something does happen to these people, they’re basically out of luck."