Deanna Holcomb

[Fyre 🔥 @ValhallaX_]

Morning! 😂🔥 Cats!?!? 😺

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This guy is spot on. This is why Trump lost. He is a disaster and robbing us all.

[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.

[Deanna Holcomb @DeannaHolcomb14]

@SheriSpain @MAGACult2 🙌🏼

[Deanna Holcomb @DeannaHolcomb14]

@MAGACult2 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Great tit and Blue tit clash over the prized top spot on an orange mushroom

The unusual encounter was captured by British wildlife photographer Paul Sawyer in Suffolk, England

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: The first bill I want to vote on in the Senate is comprehensive political reform

Undecided voter: What is that specifically?

Talarico: I want to ban Super PACs. I want to cap campaign contributions. I don’t think members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell stocks. We have to end insider trading in both political parties

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Last night Trump said he could have won Vietnam in a week. His plan was “going after Ho Chi Minh City.”

Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Our ally. The enemy’s capital was Hanoi. We bombed it.

He called the presidents who fought that war stupid, then explained how he’d have won it by attacking our own side.

58,220 Americans died in that war. Trump got five deferments. Now he’s telling the rest of us how easy it would have been.

He’s had more than fifty years to learn which side we were on. He still hasn’t. That alone should disqualify him from sending anybody else’s kids to war.

Instead, he’s weighing more strikes on Iran after Tuesday. His administration has reportedly considered using the “mother of all bombs,” the one he calls “like a tiny nuclear bomb.”

The man who thinks we should have bombed our ally’s capital gets to choose the targets.

[The Meow Cats @TheMeowCats]

A photographer's shots of a kitten that wouldn't stand still for a minute during the shoot have garnered likes.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

This one goes out to all the anti-Talarico "Christians" out there.

Got a question for you and was hoping you could help me out.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

That pretty much sums it up. #MAGACult

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1953, Salvador Dalí created “The Royal Heart,” a gold jewelry piece with 46 rubies, 42 diamonds, and a hidden mechanism that made it beat like a living heart.

[Deanna Holcomb @DeannaHolcomb14]

@elonmusk Do you honestly believe that?

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

OMG

Todd Blanche is now being accused of witness tampering and obstruction of justice

Tick Tock

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HAH! Vivek Ramaswamy's disgusting ad featuring Amy Acton's evil mom BACKFIRES as the Democratic candidate sees a massive surge in donations amidst the backlash.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot...

The ad in question features the Democratic gubernatorial candidate's estranged mother Donna Arthur warning Ohio voters not to support Acton. The horrifying element is that Acton has accused Arthur of siding with her stepfather, who abused her when she was a child.

Ramaswamy's decision to pour $4 million into spreading the ad, despite the allegations, is unfortunately in perfect keeping with the ethos of the party of the Epstein. If you're a Republican you apparently have only three options when it comes to child abuse: you can downplay it as "not a big deal," you can engage in it yourself (as Trump appears to have), or you can ignore it entirely.

Unfortunately for Ramaswamy, Ohioans don't share his fondness for enablers of abuse. Thanks to the ad, Acton surged up into second place on ActBlue, the Democratic Party's fundraising platform, trailing behind only the incredibly popular James Talarico.

Rather than hurt Acton's electoral prospects, Ramaswamy has injected rocket fuel into her campaign and she is taking full advantage—

"We need to send a clear message: this kind of hate and vitriol has no place in Ohio,” Acton wrote in a fundraising email. “But I’ll be frank – we’re still being outspent by a large margin, and if we allow him to dominate the airwaves for these final 12 days, we’ll be at a real disadvantage on Election Day.”

“Vivek Ramaswamy has unleashed attack ads against me that have gone too far,” she added. “He’s stooped so low that even Republicans are calling him out. He’s showing Ohio exactly who he is: a man willing to go to despicable lows to win.”

Please ❤️ and share if you can't wait to see her kick Vivek's ass!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

While Kushner Negotiated for America, the Screen Showed Something Far More Sinister

Jared Kushner's hacked phone exposes secret billion-dollar money trail and possible crimes of federal bribery and foreign agents laws if he promised anything in return.

In an excerpt published by Vanity Fair from his upcoming book Princes and Thieves, investigative reporter Matthew Cole describes how Dutch military intelligence flipped a Russian GRU hacker in 2017 and used him to access a Russian server holding screenshots from Jared Kushner's iPhone. By early 2018, according to Cole, the Dutch had cracked the device themselves and could watch Kushner's screen in real time.

What they observed, Cole reports, was Kushner logging into a UAE bank account containing hundreds of millions of dollars that had been routed through a bank in Azerbaijan. Cole's reporting further alleges that Saudi and Emirati royals ultimately directed at least $2 billion into accounts tied to Kushner. That sum includes roughly $750 million at First Abu Dhabi Bank — where Kushner was allegedly a signatory on an account owned by an Emirati charity — and about $1 billion held in Israel's Central Bank.

Jared Kushner is far too compromised to negotiate on America's behalf. His self-enrichment, while pretending to prioritize the country's best interests, is an unconscionable betrayal.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

I trust these two men 💙💙

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Whoever did this… 10/10 no notes 🤣