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Austin Gelder
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Middle-aged griper.
No thank you I do not want to know anything about any of this
May 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/b... isn’t it wild that Republicans pretend to be about fiscal responsibility when really they’re just channeling more money to rich people? Am I missing something, or are they full of shit?
Investors Are Jittery as G.O.P. Bill Threatens to Swell Deficit
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May 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u... Do Trump voters not know he’s for sale to the highest bidder, and you’re not it? He said as much many times, and he’s doing it. Tacky, globally humiliating, probably illegal. Only chumps still support Trump.
At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage
A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president’s son and his business partner, who promised, “This is only the begin...
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May 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
wapo.st/4cUc6F9 Deporting a 4-year-old citizen with stage 4 cancer? Wow, Trump voters. The child’s mom was in the legal process of attaining citizenship. Now, her child’s medications and treatments are out of reach. This is what you voted for?
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
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April 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
LOLZ, what a poser.

My money says Gov. Sanders had her pals at the Capitol leave this line in specifically so she could make a big stunt of vetoing it.

Sanders issues meaningless veto of UA - Little Rock faculty role that’s been unfilled for years arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Sanders issues meaningless veto of UA - Little Rock faculty role that’s been unfilled for years - Arkansas Times
Why is Sanders taking an axe to a “DEI administrator” who’s no longer there? It's more of the same culture war virtue signaling as in ACCESS, her higher ed bill.
arktimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I cannot get over Arkansas's new SNAP exemptions list. No soda or candy, but one very specific add: Rotisserie chicken!?!

Guess we have to do something with all these Tyson chickens we can sell to China anymore.
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Trump and Sanders move to restrict junk food purchases with food stamps but allow rotisserie chicken - Arkansas Times
Sanders makes a move to open up one hot food to SNAP recipients, while banning food assistance from covering junk food.
arktimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... The final installments of a series about the Herculean efforts to restore abortion rights in Arkansas is up now, for your reading pleasure. This effort was undertaken by volunteers without much money, and without the good old boy connections that are all but required 1/
‘We had to be perfect’: The story of the 2024 Arkansas Abortion Amendment - Arkansas Times
A detailed history of the triumphs and heartbreak of the citizen-led push to put abortion on the 2024 ballot in Arkansas.
arktimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Arkansas Republicans' foaming+fevered obsession with your crotch continues. Show us your bits, I guess.

Anti-trans bathroom bill that would open state up to lawsuits passes committee, constitutionality in question. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Anti-trans bathroom bill that would open state up to lawsuits passes committee, constitutionality in question - Arkansas Times
The bill targets transgender people and would open up government entities to lawsuits from anyone who “encounters a person of the opposite sex” in public bathrooms.
arktimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Trinity Tree Project reforested my yard today after the 2023 tornado wiped out all of our 85-year-old oaks. LR still recuperating, but getting there!
March 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
600 people showed up for a town hall in Little Rock tonight. None of AR's congressional delegation bothered, though.

Sens. Tom Cotton and John Boozman were busy schmoozing with fat cats at a $7K/plate fundraiser at the Capital Hotel.

Do Arkansans think this is all they deserve?
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Reposted by Austin Gelder
Rep. Mary Bentley's bill seeks to allow lawsuits against “any person who causes or contributes to the social transitioning of a minor” — including “changes in clothing, pronouns, hairstyle and name." A new low.
Legislator seeks crackdown on boys wearing girls' clothes, tomboy haircuts and more - Arkansas Times
Targeting "social transitioning" is a new frontier even for hardcore anti-trans conservatives like Rep. Mary Bentley.
arktimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Rep. Mary Bentley, who once lamented that public schools are letting kids identifying as cats, is now pushing to make people legally liable for giving girls short haircuts or letting boys try on skirts.

But Bentley has a tomboy haircut+fellow transphobe Rep. Wayne Long has a ponytail? #arleg
Good morning Arkansas. We're posted up in House Judiciary this morning, which has at least 2 bills we don't like.

First, HB 1615, which prohibits "religious discrimination" (already illegal). The bill in fact allows people to discriminate against queer folks. arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocu...
arkleg.state.ar.us
March 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Trying mightily to exist in the US in 2025. Not thriving right now tbh.
March 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
What's really interesting here is that Rep. Dan Sullivan basically just said, "Bow down to me and I will stop trying to destroy you." A non-binding resolution does zero. This was nothing more than a bully, bullying. Lame. arkansasadvocate.com/2025/03/13/a...
Arkansas State Library Board approves proposal aimed at keeping it alive • Arkansas Advocate
The state senator who proposed to dissolve the board is also proposing to forbid the State Library from funding ALA-affiliated libraries.
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March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Arkansas’s LEARNS voucher application asked if parents were seeking a voucher in hopes of moving schools for ‘a different racial mix of students.’ This answer option got pulled down on Day 1, which is a bummer. It would be great data to have. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Arkansas’s school voucher application asked if parents were seeking ‘a different racial mix of students’ - Arkansas Times
In the roughly six hours the original response options were available, 110 applicants representing 129 students clicked to indicate that accessing “a different racial mix of students for my child” was...
arktimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Has French Hill replaced Old Blue with a cybertruck yet?

“Get in, loser, we’re destroying the economy!”
March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reposted by Austin Gelder
March 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Parkview soccer GO GO GOOOOO! Beat Jacksonville! (We’re up 1-0)❤️🤍💙
March 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
John Deere, Jane Deere, who freakin cares? Well done.
February 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Do Trump voters care that Elon Musk is openly using his government role to fill his own pockets? Possibly at the expense of airline safety? Cybertrucks randomly catch on fire, but we should trust Musk’s air traffic control system?😐
February 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
AR lawmakers embrace ‘Baby Olivia,’ a cartoon anti-abortion mascot for 5th graders.

“All this would do is let the children know it really is a human life, and that abortion really is murder,” Rep. Crawford said.

Oh, is that all? OK then. #arleg #arpx

arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Lawmakers embrace computer-generated ‘Baby Olivia,’ an anti-abortion mascot for 5th graders - Arkansas Times
The Arkansas House approved a bill Thursday that would require fifth graders to watch an anti-abortion propaganda video of an animated fetus.
arktimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Reposted by Austin Gelder
Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.
February 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
To the holier than thou voters who sat this one out because you were mad at Biden:
February 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders to give her stay-at-home husband a taxpayer-funded bike lift to play with.

We’re still last in maternal heath and infant mortality, but sure, let’s give the first gent a fancy new toy. #arpx
February 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM