During his inaugural address in 2019, Zelensky told lawmakers: “I do not want my picture in your offices: the President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang your kids' photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.”
@JStuartAdams did this in the first place with his dirty little back room deals. He didnt see a problem with his corruption. Then he did another dirty little backroom deal to gaslight us. These 2 conmen cut another nasty deal & the image guys shined it up for them.
Christian ‘Pastor Tommy’ pleads guilty after sexually abusing boys in his youth group. He framed some contact as ‘how Jesus greeted disciples’…”
Thomas Pinkerton Jr., 52, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of sexual abuse of a minor under a plea deal. He was a youth pastor at Central Christian Church in Rossville, Baltimore County.
Between 2006 and 2010, Pinkerton sexually abused teenage boys ages 12 to 17 at the time at the church and at his Baltimore County home. At least six men in Maryland (and reports of a seventh in Georgia) came forward describing a clear pattern: he showed favoritism to certain “athletic, good-looking, popular” boys he called his “favorites,” gave massages, held hands, touched them inappropriately, and even shared beds with boys during out-of-state mission trips while his wife stayed with the girls.
Victims described him as a “spiritual father” figure who crossed every boundary. He was arrested in Georgia in August 2025, extradited to Maryland, and initially faced 24 charges.
Under the plea, Pinkerton faces up to 4 years in prison, followed by 5 years of probation and lifetime sex offender registration.
Prosecutors plan to present accounts from additional victims at his December sentencing.
Another predator in a position of spiritual authority preyed on vulnerable boys for years.
How many more churches and communities will fail to protect kids until these “spiritual fathers” are finally held fully accountable?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”
Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) faked a phone call for roughly 90 seconds after being asked about Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding potential Social Security cuts.
The phone's screen remained visible, with his cheek inadvertently tapping different parts of the display.
@DougWahl1@lotusgirl59 Mike complained that Congress salary and benefits were not enough. They should be paid like social security benefits. Stop politician benefits and retirement plus health care. Let them live like regular people.
BELIEVE WHAT YOU HEAR WHEN ITS RECORDED BY A HIDDEN MICROPHONE
It doesn't appear that Mike Johnson knew he was being recorded today when he admitted that if they hold on to power, Republicans will cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security next year.
Vote Blue in November!
Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.
When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.
They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.
A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.
They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”
You can make risk disappear on paper.
The cancer does not disappear.
The birth defects do not disappear.
The infertility does not disappear.
The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.
The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.
Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick
https://t.co/5DwXgxBybt
Um homem de 25 anos mandou mensagem para uma menina de 13 anos.
"Oi, gatinha." "Meu sonho é ficar com você." "Seria uma honra tirar a virgindade dela."
O que ele não sabia: era a mãe quem respondia.
A mãe perguntou diretamente: "Isso não é pedofilia?"
Ele deu risada. E marcou o encontro.
Chegou lá — e encontrou a mãe.
Sete dias sem dormir. Conhecia o homem há 20 anos. Viu a filha crescer.
Ela bateu nele. Depois acionou a polícia, fez o boletim e entregou o celular como prova.
Ele foi à delegacia, prestou depoimento.
E foi embora. Não ficou preso.
Uma mãe passou 7 dias em colapso, montou uma operação, colheu as provas, entregou tudo — e o Estado soltou o homem na mesma noite.
Ela fez o trabalho da polícia, do MP e do judiciário.
E mesmo assim, não foi suficiente para mantê-lo atrás das grades.
Democrats just forced a vote to put an end to Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund.
Every House Republican rejected it & voted to support your tax dollars going to cop beaters & right wing extremists. Despicable.
OMFG!
Trump literally just celebrated a massive increase in our trade deficit.
He doesn’t even know what a “widening of our trade deficit” means. He thinks it means that we are exporting more than we’re importing, which would be good, but it means the exact opposite.
Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years.
He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender.
https://t.co/V9XqCfrZXv
I’ll say it again and again. They are all criminals. If they are doing the crimes they’re enabling and/or protecting the criminals. Republicans are filth.