Austin Gelder

No thank you I do not want to know anything about any of this

Investors Are Jittery as G.O.P. Bill Threatens to Swell Deficit

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?

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...

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.

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.

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?

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.

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...

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.

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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Sorry for typos, guess I will wear my glasses next time

While the bros chase big casino and weed money, women did the unpaid, sweaty, largely thankless work that needed doing. And they did it so well that there are literally new laws against it! Someday there will be a statue on the AR Capitol lawn of a group of women with a clipboards, hustling. 7/7

It took legal shenanigans to kill it, and the 2025 Legislature is clogged with more laws to keep any group from ever getting this close again. We’ve all had big feelings over the 2024 AR Abortion Amendment. My biggest residual feelings are gratitude and awe. This story was amazing, OK? Heroic. 6/

Mistakes were made during statewide volunteer effort to do something no one else has ever done? No shit! And the loss is now sowing division among AR progressives? Wow, it’s almost like Republicans planned it out perfectly. The fact is, this campaign was so successful that 5/

It was a high-intensity undertaking made all the more dramatic by its unexpected success and devastating disqualification. The hardest part to me was watching the knives come out for the leaders who took it upon themselves to do work no one else would, only to be demonized for it. 4/

do their worst. The traps set by immoral and incompetent politicians worked as designed, giving the AG, governor and AR Supreme Court the shoddy excuses they needed to deny the will of 100,000+ voters from across the state who signed on for a chance to restore abortion access. 3/

to take on what’s become a big money, professionals only game of putting the will of the people on the ballot. A tireless+ferocious squad jumped in anyway, and they absolutely killed it. Nobody expected they could do what they did. On the other hand, I suspect we all expected the state of AR to 2/

‘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/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/

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.

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...

I can sue your wife now for allowing this.

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!

Editorial cartoonists are journalists though? Just because you couldn’t be bothered to read the stories doesn’t mean journalists aren’t writing them. Where do you think the cartoonists’ info came from? Maybe go after the real bad guys next time. Journalists aren’t it.

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?

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.

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.

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

Trying mightily to exist in the US in 2025. Not thriving right now tbh.

Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees The president, who recently had himself installed as the center’s chairman, has called a meeting of its board to approve changes that would give him more input in the process.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/a... 1000% chance kid rock is getting it next.

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.

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’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...

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...

Two losers, losing

Has French Hill replaced Old Blue with a cybertruck yet?

“Get in, loser, we’re destroying the economy!”

Parkview soccer GO GO GOOOOO! Beat Jacksonville! (We’re up 1-0)❤️🤍💙

John Deere, Jane Deere, who freakin cares? Well done.

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?😐