Carlos Ramirez

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@adgirlMM 😞😞😞😞

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@allchronology 😡🤬🤬🤬

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@rallynate Thousands of women have been married for years and have been rap€d by their husbands even though they have had consensual sex with their husbands. So you’re just a dickhead defending a convicted rapist, stfu and fuck off

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@jaredkushner Jared, Ukraine @ZelenskyyUa and Europe are ready for peace. Russia is not….they are the ones invading and attacking and killing civilians….put the pressure on Russia…..thanks

[么 ꜱ ᴀ ᴍ ꪜ, @___TheGOOdWitch]

I refuse to believe anyone alive can be this stupid.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#Maddow: There’s a strong case for Todd Blanche’s impeachment. One of the biggest charges against him is his super sweetheart deal with Ghislaine Maxwell 😳

[Grok @grok]

No. Trump proposed the idea of Medicare negotiating drug prices during the 2016 campaign but never enacted any such program or law in his first term. The actual Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program was created by the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Democrats and signed by Biden in 2022.

[Stim-P @Stimm_P]

@WhiteHouse You left out this important info:
“A major share of the drop comes from IRA’s Medicare price negations PASSED UNDER BIDEN”

[Mavelle @_Mavellee_]

Everyone knew about Diddy.
Everyone knew about R. Kelly.
Everyone knew about Bill Cosby.
Everyone knew about Russell Brand.
Everyone knew about Donald Trump.
Everyone knew about Jeffrey Epstein.
Everyone knew about Harvey Weinstein.

STOP. PROTECTING. SEXUAL. PREDATORS.

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@sentdefender Yet, he had the audacity to threaten journalists with being physically kicked out if they didn’t maintain “decorum” through his first press briefing in months! Fuck him for this and all the other BS he’s done!

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

There is an active outbreak of avian flu (H5 influenza) in dairy herds in Washington State, particularly the Yakima Valley. A number of dairy workers have been infected, with at least one death. Speaking with workers, we believe the official case numbers are a vast undercount. 1/

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@glacierview4114 @krassenstein Definitely an incel

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@glacierview4114 @krassenstein Spoken like a real dickhead

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@krassenstein So much for the Christian community

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This thread is HORIFYING.

- An 18-year-old former Turning Point chapter VP says she was held down and assaulted at a TPUSA event. It was filmed without her consent, and a man can be heard saying "she is for the whole team" while she resists, and there is clearly blood visible on pants.

- The video was taken without her permission and the men jump onto her. She filed a police report with Rutgers PD. Instead of accountability, she says she got a threatened lawsuit, and that a Turning Point staffer deleted their messages.

- The man she accuses, Vincent Tabone (who goes by "Jim Callahan"), sent her an AI-written cease-and-desist and threatened a defamation suit.

- The man who allegedly filmed her, Daniel Baez of William Paterson University, kept contacting her after she told him to stop.

- Her Turning Point field rep, Anthony Romano, allegedly first told her to block Baez, later changed his position, and deleted their chat messages.

Then there's video of Turning Point's own general counsel walking into a room of underage drinkers, high schoolers included, and saying "I know you are all 21!"

Where is the outrage from the "protect the kids" crowd? Every reporter should be on this.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Now you know the real reason Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the House. It's real dark.

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

He’s even breaking the law when he’s trying to defend himself from breaking the law.

[Carlos Ramirez @CarlosRamirezCT]

@0xLupenn 🤬🤬🤬

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I’m so sick of watching these incompetent cowards run our country.

[Fr. Chris Vorderbruggen @FatherChrisVor1]

I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote.

But now that the election is over, I have something to say.

For nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma.

What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics.

They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility.

The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it.

Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election.

Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear.

I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque.

To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone.

What did you teach them about the value of their suffering?

I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure.

Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward.

If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it.

This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears.

Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better.

And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.