Tania Themmen

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

WOW. CNN’s Nicole Wallace completely fire bombs Pete Hegseth from space:

WALLACE: “Pete Hegseth may be the most glaring human encapsulation of everything the American people rejected on Tuesday. Incompetent, insecure, vindictive, vain, and wholly enamored with his authority to wage an unpopular war in Iran that has driven up the price of gas, fertilizer, diesel and groceries.”

[Busby 🏁 @MrBusby4o8]

This dude really broke it down in laymen’s terms. We really did watch the party die..

[Reilly Belle Air 💙🚺🌈💪 🌊 💙 @ReillyBelle57]

Jimmy Kimmel - “You are on the ballot, you are like dog hair, all over everything..” His opening tonight was hilarious:

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

Help me choose the Biggest Loser from last night:

1. Trump
2. JD & Marco
3. Ramaswamy
4. Haley Stevens
5. Elon Musk

You can only vote for one!

[Tania Themmen @bflat67]

@tedcruz You’re lost

[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.

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

For the first time in US history, a gay man, a Black woman, a Muslim, Native American woman, Palestinian, and Latina have won their respective midterm elections.

[Tania Themmen @bflat67]

@MittRomney Too little too late

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Zohran Mamdani: “It’s not enough for us as Democrats to win power. We have to use that power to deliver change that Americans can feel in their wallets. When you look at these campaigns, if we want to speak about James Talarico, he campaigned on a vision for universal childcare. If you want to talk about Keisha Lance Bottoms, she campaigned on a vision of cutting red tape to build housing. If you want to talk about Jocelyn Benson, she campaigned on a moratorium for data centers. What I’m excited to see now is a recognition that the work is only just starting and this has to be delivered for working people across the country”

[The Big Red Lie @TheBigRedLie]

Liberty lives! 💙🇺🇸🙏

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

This all started on day 1 when he pardoned J6ers who beat cops and continued from there with one disgusting, corrupt thing after another day after day after day while Republicans in Congress either remained silent or agreed with all of it. Today they pay for that.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

After two years of enduring this dumpster fire shitshow, #ElectionDay is FINALLY here.
This is a battle for the soul of our nation.
This is our chance to finally stop Trump.
This may be our LAST chance.
#vote
#VoteBlue
It’s time to take our country back.
LFG

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

@nytimes

[Tommy Johnson @TwoPuttTommy]

@IlhanMN Republicans only hate fraud when Republicans aren’t in on the fraud.

Just ask Republican @SenRickScott - Republicans love the guy…

[Tania Themmen @bflat67]

https://t.co/3jIeGhfSM8

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

To my MAGA friends: Enjoy this weekend. Seriously.

After Tuesday, your movement is finished. That feeling of powerlessness you remember? It’s coming back.

And you’ll spend years looking back at this moment, furious that you had power—and flushed it down Trump’s golden toilet. Never to return

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I had a few tears watching this.

I used to be an addict. Nearly took my life.

This should be mandatory watching in every school.

[Enrico 🇩🇪🇺🇲🗽💙💙💙💙💙 @ANY151161719021]

BOOM 💥 💥 💥

MAGA'S LISTEN UP THIS LADY IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ❗️❗️❗️☝️💙💙💙🗽🇺🇸

SPOT ON ❗️

[Acyn @Acyn]

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name. 

I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.

[John Downs @AdvisorJohn]

Addiction comes in all different forms, but this definitely lands. I’ll be sharing this one with my kids as it’s a perfect illustration of how it unfolds.