This is NOT the ranking we want to top. Highest % of food insecurity is the result of policy choices. We supply food to the world, have the smartest logistics minds in the country, and we have a multi-Billion $ surplus. We can make different choices. Arkansas deserves better.

Huge thank you to real-life scientist @Chenoa4AR for this #savethebuffalo piece. If we're going to protect the Buffalo National River, we have to listen to the ecological experts. Arkansans, read, share, and talk about this with your loved ones. forarpeople.org/save-the-buffa…

We would love to see this in Arkansas!

We are appalled that it has come to this. How many of those students now denied access to public library materials are living in poverty, too? We need to feed and house our citizens first before we worry about CALS access.

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the transgender Americans whose lives were taken this year. There is no place for hate or discrimination in America. No one should lose their life simply for being themselves.

We agree. He knows what he’s doing. Give it a read:

As Fox News does its usual sloppy scaremongering on the Rainbow Bridge story, I'll note that a couple of Tom Cotton's lies that I document in this newsletter started out as Fox News reports. Fox eventually corrected itself, but Cotton didn't. stopthepresses.news/p/15-ways-tom-…

Understaffed? AR lawmakers and administration don’t care.

What a difference libraries made for those of us who grew up without extra money to buy books. Free entertainment, knowledge at our fingertips, a safe place. And now libraries offer the world beyond the written word!

Ask Elaine residents what *their* priorities are. Hard to imagine bike paths would be at the top of their needs and wants.

Arkansas Governor puts Christian Nationalist on State Library Board. Gee, it's embarrassing not to mention horrifying to live in ground zero for #ChristoFascism. #Libraries #arpx #ChristianNationalism losangelesblade.com/2023/11/22/ark…

FOIA stickers!

This is awful!

PAWPAC's very own Bettina Brownstein has something to say about Jason Rapert’s latest statement in Arkansas Times about aiming to enforce Act 372. "He’s powerless to do anything right now. It’s all just bravado.” Thanks for telling it like it is, Bettina! The Indoctrinatrix

Bureau of Prisons report lists release date as January 13, 2027 for Capitol riot defendant Richard Barnett. He was accused of putting feet on desk, leaving vulgar note in office suite of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi He was found guilty one year ago justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/ark…

Kyle Griffin John Stewart nailed it.