Elizabeth Anne

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”. Ronald Reagan 🇺🇸

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If the Republican Party is smart, it would turn this into an advertisement for all of the swing districts.

[Blastbeat Industries @BlastbeatATX]

Garza is responsible for another death in Austin. #GarzaBodyCount

[Dr. Báez For Congress @ThePhDLawyer]

Standing at the Bexar County Jail.
This is where we house some of the most dangerous criminals — and, at times, illegal immigrants.
What I don’t understand is why my opponent, Congressman Joaquin Castro, fights so hard for people who entered this country illegally. That’s a crime.
Meanwhile, constituents here in the 20th Congressional District have been shot by an illegal immigrant… and Castro is nowhere to be found.
He’s been in power 13 years. He could have changed the laws. Instead he asks us not to enforce the ones that are already on the books.
Congressman Joaquin Castro — it’s time for you to go.
I’m Dr. Edgardo Rafael Báez, Republican nominee for TXCD-20. Veteran. Criminal defense attorney. Husband, father, grandfather. Leading with Vision, Grounded in Values — By Faith.
Paid for by Dr. Baez For Congress
#TXCD20 #BaezForCongress #SecureTheBorder #SanAntonio #Texas LawAndOrder

[Audit Austin City Council @saveaustintx]

There were 3 separates homicides in Austin the past 24 hours but you never hear a word about it from @KirkPWatson or City Council about the violence. You only hear about it from them when they can grandstand and gaslight you blaming republicans or Trump.

[Mick @MickCo8]

If this doesn’t wake you up
You’re dead inside 👀

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Me: "May I please have the package insert for the flu vaccine?"

Rite-Aid Pharmacist: "Why?"

Me: "So I can read it."

P: "Which one?"

Me: "The one advertised with the little banners on every aisle."

P: "I will print you the information sheet."

Me: "No, that's not the same thing."

P: "What do you want to know? I can tell you."

Me: "I would just like to read the whole thing before I consider getting one...side effects, contraindications, effectiveness, ingredients like mercury."

P: "I don't think I have any. Let me check. (checks) Sorry, I can't give you one until the box is empty, because it has to stay in the box. And there isn't any thimerisol in the single dose flu shot any more. I can print you the information sheet."

Pharmacy co-worker with big smile at me: "Hi, I found one." (hands insert to me)

***

Here are some things in the insert not on the store's sheet:

1. The single dose vial contains mercury at ≤1mcg (This is called a "trace amount" by the industry.) The multi-vial contains 25 mcg.

2. People with egg allergies are contraindicated.

3. "Safety and effectiveness have not been established in pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under four. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. This vaccine should be used during pregnancy only if clearly needed. It is not known whether fluvarin is excreted in human milk."

4. "Fluvarin has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility."

5. "Antibody response is low in the geriatric population."

6. "Serious reactions, including anaphylactic shock, have been observed."

7. "There are no data to assess the concomitant administration of flu vaccine with other vaccines."

8. "The vaccine has been associated with an increased frequency of Guillain-Barre syndrome."

9. "In some studies, fluvarin protected up to 50% of subjects."

With love to those who read this far. Please share. 👊🏼

No one needs a #Flu shot!
(It unalived my mom…)

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[Broken Clock @skymac2]

@libsoftiktok NOT killing your kids has strangely become purely a conservative view these days.

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

Austin residents are killed or attacked by repeat offenders EVERYDAY, but the only time our leaders care is if it’s an ILLEGAL who gets hurt.

A look at the performative officials who have made Austin increasingly unsafe:

-Congressman Greg Casar: (former ATX city council member) voted to defund the police by $150 million and get rid of 180 police positions. He is now crying about an illegal who got shot, meanwhile he has nothing to say when Austin residents are hurt or killed by the very policies he passed.

-DA Jose Garza: Back in 2020 criminally charged 21 APD officers for using non-lethal munitions to disperse unruly BLM crowds who were shutting down the interstate.

Instead of prosecuting the rioters, the DA went after police who were trying to protect residents (big reason why we see lawless protesters taking over the streets with minimal pushback, police literally cannot do their job without fear of the DA prosecuting them).

-City councilman Mike Seigel: DSA-aligned council member, who gave CBS news false information immediately after the shooting of Wilber Perez, stating that he was shot “five times through the windshield”.

The information was out for hours, continuing to stoke rising tensions and was later quietly deleted when it was found out to be false.

This city is a mess and it’s disgusting that our elected leaders care more about illegals, over the Austin residents who are unsafe everyday.

[Lindsay Wright @l1nzwright]

@bluelivesmtr This GoFund me was started by his aunt to help the family fight this travesty.

https://t.co/LB4FYoOSCJ

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

STOP what you're doing and let's HELP THIS KID by MAKING NOISE. He's a licensed EMT and volunteer firefighter - and Fremont, Nebraska just told him he can't have a paid fire job BECAUSE HE WAS HOMESCHOOLED!

Coates is 22. He already rides with Cedar Bluffs Fire as a volunteer and holds a Nebraska EMT license.
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"Make a career out of it would be the goal, to get paid to do what you love," he told WOWT.
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The April posting he applied under asked for "graduation from high school." The city said his diploma did not count because Nebraska treats homeschool as unaccredited.
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Fremont later rewrote the description to "graduation from an accredited high school." HR director Jennifer McDuffee said accreditation was already implied.
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"I would say it's a standard understanding that when someone requests a high school diploma or GED that they're asking for an accredited diploma," McDuffee said.
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Homeschools in Nebraska operate as Rule 13 exempt schools. Parents file annually and meet hour rules without state accreditation.
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"We understood that our homeschool operated legally under Nebraska's Rule 13," his father, Seth Coates, told the Omaha World-Herald. "What we never imagined was that the City of Fremont would treat the absence of accreditation as a basis for disqualifying Andrew from public employment."
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JoAnn Coates taught Andrew and his five siblings at home. About 30 homeschool families packed the Civil Service Commission hearing.
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Cedar Bluffs Fire Chief Chris Lichtenberg told the board the city is passing on a firefighter he already trusts. "I feel the city of Fremont's really missing out here, and in my mind, because of his home schooling, you guys are discriminating against him."
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Commissioner Doug Backens rejected that word. "I don't think there was any discrimination against him, and when they use that word, I don't care to hear that word out there."
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Chairman Steve Tellatin noted the original posting's ambiguity. The commission took no action and said city policy is not theirs to rewrite.
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Seth Coates said the family now has 30 days to file in court. Andrew said the fight is no longer only about his application.
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"We're not mad about one applicant, my application. I think now it's turned into we want to make sure that every homeschooler has an equal opportunity."
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#Nebraska #Fremont

@HarmeetKDhillon is this something @CivilRights can look into? @jbinnall and @AndrewOllis - the @TheKashFdn ??

[LaNinibella @l_ninibella]

@KirkPWatson Many constituents are angry YOU harbor ILLEGAL ALIENS:

[Homeless DOGE ATX @TX89898989]

@KirkPWatson Andrew Wimsatt was murdered two weeks ago 10 miles away, no press conference:

[Infinity @Badger9451]

@larry_mcwethy These are the very people democrats protect. Let that sink in.

[Mike Bales™ 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Y’all were quiet at $5.02 a gallon and 9.1% inflation. Now gas is $4.06 and inflation is 3.4% and suddenly it’s a crisis. The numbers didn’t change sides. You did.

[ATXPolitico @PoliticoBurner]

This one isn't going away folks. We aren't going to let it. And it's ultimately going to land on your doorstop, @JosePGarza and every other activist, passive, pro-criminal DA anywhere in or near Austin.

[El Grande Americano - Tier 1 for Life @_cruzctrl1]

The tragic murder of Andrew Wimswatt occurred in Round Rock, Tx - a small suburb just 15mi north of Austin. I threw the bike in the truck and headed up to find the small, neighborhood park itself was head and shoulders above anything in Austin. Nestled in an older, but nice neighborhood, it's home to the tranquil Compass Rose Veterans Memorial where Andrew likely sat after visiting his mother in the nearby Alzheimer's care facility. A groundskeeper blows debris. It's clean. Not a homeless vagrant in sight.

As I pedaled through the park from the basketball court towards the Memorial maybe 200yds away, I ran into 2 locals that workout in the park daily and new Andrew from his daily walks (as stated in the reports). The confirmed his daily routine and they clarified that the entire park has video surveillance (you can see them at end of the video atop poles).

What struck me is that I would never have pegged this tranquil, pristine park with cedar-chipped trails, a pool and an elementary school only yards away as the location for the next tragic and preventable murder of a harmless, good person. In Austin? Yes. This is the bellwether moment for you, Round Rock. Follow in Austin's footsteps and achieve the same results. Now is the time to make sure your City Council, your DA, your judges and your ISD don't follow the same blueprint that has decimated all of Austin's parks and culture as well as taken the lives of some good people at the hands of the mentally ill the justice system lets free to roam the streets.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

30% of Christians are NOT registered to vote.

Faith is good, but faith without works is dead.

If every Christian in America voted, we would transform our country for the better overnight.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

We are not nearly angry enough. Not nearly frustrated enough. Not nearly vengeful enough. How much longer is this going to go on? A civilized society can only exist if the monsters are put away; if the monsters are not allowed into your midst; if the monsters know that there are astoundingly severe consequences for their monstrosity. Please stop swimming in the infinitely pool of suicidal empathy. The line between a civilized society and barbarity is very thin.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Andrew Wimsatt spent his life figuring out how to make things last longer.

Roads, bridges, tunnels, pavement, friendships.

He held three civil engineering degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, spent 18 years at TxDOT, ten of them as Fort Worth District Pavement Engineer, and in 2006 joined the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, where he eventually ran the Materials and Pavements Division and its $9 million annual research program. He worked on ground-penetrating radar, nondestructive testing, asset management.

Describing the work once, he said the real challenge wasn't building new things; it was making what we already have last longer.

Andrew made what we already have last longer.

He was an obsessive live-music fan who would fly across the country to see a band. He loved Slowdive. In 2023 he was recommending "Souvlaki" and "everything is alive" to anyone who'd listen, singled out their cover of Syd Barrett's "Golden Hair," and admitted that when he heard them play it at FYF in 2014, he teared up. In 2016, when bad weather killed Levitation and Slowdive threw together a surprise show at the Scoot Inn, Andrew happened to be sitting at his computer and grabbed two $7.50 tickets in the roughly two minutes before it sold out. Then he recorded the entire set on his iPhone for a friend.

He made music too. He'd been in bands with Karl Rehn since high school, engineered their home cassette recordings in the early 1980s, and in 1990 released "Reflections" under the name the Andrew Wimsatt Ensemble, cut at Sixth Street Studio. He and Rehn made music videos that ran for years on Austin's ACTV, and contributed to the score of a 1994 documentary about Barton Springs.

Then there was the archiving, which is maybe the most Andrew thing about him. He clipped television. Constantly, expertly, for free, for people he admired. The Fifth Column crew (@wethefifth) called him "Busty Wimsatt" and, in their newsletters, "ever-alert," "indefatigable," and at least once "American hero." @MattWelch called him their most devoted cliphawker. Andrew painstakingly uploaded old episodes of "The Independents" so they wouldn't disappear. He clipped @KatTimpf's Fox appearances for her Locals community. He sent @walterkirn clips of Kirn's own jokes.

"Boy did I feel special," Kirn wrote today. "Not many strangers will go out of their way to give another that kind of encouragement."

He was not, for the record, employed by any of these people.

He contributed old photographs to @iowahawkblog's Dave's Car ID Service. He was a fixture in Austin's science fiction community and once drove Howard Waldrop home from Worldcon. He was an executive producer of Penn Jillette and Adam Rifkin's "Director's Cut," and appears in it, briefly, as "Greeting Cop." He hosted a regular libertarian beer gathering at the Johnny Cash-themed bar Mean Eyed Cat. He was, per @JTLonsdale, one of University of Austin’s (@uaustinorg) original small donors. He bought a camouflage "No Step on Snek" hat at a Texas gun show this summer and his friends heard about it.

The man lived.

He lived in Cambridge Towers, a 1965 midcentury modern building near the Capitol. Punk rock, pop surrealism, midcentury furniture, a gentle Southern manner. He loved salt to a degree his friends used as a unit of measurement.

He was, by every single account, one of the kindest people anyone had met.

@greggutfeld: supremely gentle, willing to do just about anything for another person.

@PlanetTyrus: always positive, physically slight, with a monster laugh.

@NancyRomm says he once gave her the jacket off his back when she was getting hypothermic.

A friend of 13 years and dozens of concerts tells me he never once heard Andrew say an unpleasant thing about anyone.

Both his parents were English professors. His father, James, was a Chaucer scholar at UT Austin who died in 2023 at 96. His mother, Mary, took her doctorate at Duke, ran the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, held an endowed chair as McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at South Carolina, wrote the first full-length study of a nineteenth-century novelist almost nobody remembered, and spent five years on a public radio project designed to get ordinary people reading Faulkner and Welty.

His parents spent their careers recovering things other people had stopped reading. They taught their son to make things last longer.

His mother now has Alzheimer's and lives in a nursing home in Round Rock. Andrew helped care for his father at the end, and then her. His routine was to drive out, walk with her, and then take a second walk alone.

He photographed what he saw on his walks. His Instagram is herons -- wading, fishing, one caught mid-wingspan over the water -- plus hawks in bare branches, a squirrel wedged in a tree hollow, a snail on a brick wall, bluebonnets, and a lot of Texas sky at the second it went orange.

Two days before he died, he was at a friend's house for movie night, watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 do "The Crawling Hand."

He spent his whole life trying to make things last longer, and he was good at it, and he was doing it right up to the end -- the second walk of the morning, until he sat on a park bench in the morning sun.

He is survived by his siblings, Alison Ross and David Joseph Wimsatt. And by his mother, who he walked with that morning, and who does not know he isn't coming back next week.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It’s all about Jesus.