Arkansas Times retired senior editor Max Brantley (radical leftist/keyboard warrior emeritus) follows Little Rock news, Arkansas news and Arkansas politics.

maxbrantley@arktimes.com
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This is a massive own goal, @SarahHuckabee, and you should fire the consultants who made this ad Do not portray your core voting bloc as losers, period
You pay taxes to cover welfare for people who just choose not to work. That’s why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement. If you’re young, healthy, and get government assistance, you should work, go to school, or volunteer.
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The truth about Trump's economy. Trump took office in 2017 with a $655 billion deficit and left with $2.78 trillion, a 317% increase. Biden inherited that and left in 2025 at $1.85 trillion, down 33%. In 20 months Trump has already added $150 billion. KMI ow.ly/u81B50ZS5xE
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Show this to anybody who still denies the genocide.  These were all people's homes. Completely and totally destroyed. These images should haunt those who enabled Israel's crimes against humanity - and we will never give up until there is justice for the Palestinian people.
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Sarah doesn’t understand Brad wasn’t just sitting on the couch. Brad applied to hundreds of jobs in Bentonville. He made it through round after round of interviews and still didn’t get hired. He’s sitting on $40,000 in debt for the education he was told would give him a future. Meanwhile, the biggest employer in Bentonville is laying off and reorganizing corporate workers while continuing to file thousands of H-1B labor applications. Maybe the story isn’t as simple as “young American man is lazy and refuses to work.”
You pay taxes to cover welfare for people who just choose not to work. That’s why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement. If you’re young, healthy, and get government assistance, you should work, go to school, or volunteer.
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Yesterday Sarah Huckabee Sanders was at a football game in Miami. Today she’s in Ohio with Vivek Ramaswamy. Meanwhile, her campaign ad is getting absolutely bodied back home.
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It’s absolutely hilarious that Nepo Governor will probably for the first time be forced to apologize for something, simply because her party is so full of avowed racists.
Some critics online don't like my welfare work requirement ad. Next thing you know they’ll say I should have used cookies instead of cheese balls. If you are able-bodied you should not collect welfare simply because you choose not to work. Period. WATCH->
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Republicans in the comments are furious that Sarah Huckabee Sanders dared to depict a white man on welfare and are blaming "jews." The Republican Party has a massive racism and antisemitism problem.
You pay taxes to cover welfare for people who just choose not to work. That’s why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement. If you’re young, healthy, and get government assistance, you should work, go to school, or volunteer.
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Racists and other rightwing nuts are big mad that Sarah Sanders' new ad uses a white man as the punchline buff.ly/6rdGB9g
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How can doctors save the lives of pregnant women in distress in states where abortion care is banned? The question is particularly poignant as the first hearing in Waldorf v. Arkansas challenging the state's abortion ban is underway. No paywall. buff.ly/e2SkeCx
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RT @JessicaBRiedl: Right-wing Twitter is nuts. Note the 17,000 (!) furious replies across two tweets attacking one of their own party leade…
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Dang. Sarah made fun of a white guy and Republican mouthpieces are NOT amused.
White guy was used here for the same reason white guys are also used in home security commercials as the robbers even though it’s statistically inaccurate. We all know demonizing white men is more brand safe. An unfortunate reality.
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But not for state subsidized private schoolers.
Latest un-conservative, oxymoronic idea springing from the fertile minds of Arkansas Republicans: Mandatory volunteerism. #arpx #arnews #arleg arkansasonline.com/news/2026…
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Horrifying. Now we know why Netanyahu continues to ban international media from Gaza.
Google Earth updated the images of Gaza. It's devastating.
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Ryan Garton told AP he saw immigration enforcement agents pinning down a man on the side of the road in a Chicago suburb as he was driving home. He pulled over to document what was happening on video. One agent had his knee on the man’s back and was “beating up on him,” Garton said. An agent told local police that they mistook the man for a fugitive and released him after realizing he is a U.S. citizen, according to a police statement.
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He goes to the airport to greet (1) a communist dictator and a (2) Russian imperialist who has slaughtered hundreds of thousands, and (3) praises a ruthless autocrat in North Korea, but... Canada is one of the best countries in the world. This is not normal. I find it hard to understand how anyone could still support this foreign policy. It does not advance American nationalist interests or American values.
Trump on Canada: "They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world"
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Donald Trump's war and tariffs have driven farmers to their knees. Brooke Rollins' solution is to tell them to pray while they're there ...
Whatever this week holds, put it in His hands. Trust His timing, seek His direction, and walk faithfully in the path He puts before you. Have a blessed Sunday! 🙏
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When you’ve lost Bequette …. BTW this ‘work for welfare’ Sarah talks about applies to health insurance coverage. No one is getting paid not to work.
Years ago, Democrats abandoned young white men and turned them into enemies for political purposes. It was only a matter of time until Republicans explicitly did the same. That time is now. The crown is in the gutter for anyone who unapologetically fights for young white men.
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The new @SarahHuckabee ad is going great. 🤡
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