Cyndi Rotter-Hansen

Son blocked me for criticizing his grammar. I used to make mixed tapes. Somehow, never on the path of least resistance. Human. Being. (personal account)

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

In 2023, Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked Scott Colom from becoming a federal judge.

In 2026, Scott Colom took her job instead.

Karma.

[Ossoff's Office @SenOssoff]

Sen. Ossoff welcomes Senator-elect James Talarico.

[Julius Kim @Julius_Kim]

I feel like Mitch McConnell being allowed to vote in the mental/physical state that he’s in should be a bigger story.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

CBS is reporting that Susie Wiles's old lobbying firm has made $186 million under the Trump administration. Tell me again how food stamps that help a single mother feed her child while she works a full time job are the problem.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Mitch McConnell voted 23 times to deny Americans sick leave. Then he took 92 days himself and got paid $45,000 for days he never showed up for. He's still being paid from his wheelchair. Nonverbal and he still gobbling up tax payer dollars. He voted six times against raising the minimum wage.

Take a good look a the Republican party.

[Kadott @Kadotttt]

You don’t hate socialism. You hate the version that was explained to you by someone who owns 4 houses and 3 yachts

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨JUST IN: A shocking MSNOW report reveals Donald Trump has made up to $5 BILLION while in office, while MAGA supporters who invested in his cryptocurrency have LOST $1 BILLION, with their investments now worth almost NOTHING.

This is unprecedented corruption.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

A rogue Corgi at the Panthers-Broncos game now has the Week 9 lead for missed tackles

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: Congressman Jamie Raskin says no one, not even Trump's family, is off-limits for the Judiciary Committee.

"The whole thing is a money-making operation."

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

JUST IN: A video is going viral showing a Mariachi band playing outside of Greg Abbott’s mansion after he lost. This is epic.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

So MAGA thinks Democrats cheated in Texas, a state run by Republicans, with a Republican governor, Republican legislature, Republican attorney general, and Republican secretary of state? Holy shit, these people are allergic to accountability.

[Cyndi Rotter-Hansen @rotterh]

@DanCrenshawTX @StephenM Do your best, Cringeshaw.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Unless RFK Jr. is interested in spending the next two years in front of Congressional committees, he should go ahead and resign now.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has worn the Confederate flag and made jokes about lynchings. She was just defeated by Scott Colom, the first African American to represent Mississippi in 145 years.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. 🇺🇸

[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.”

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Ossoff won his senate seat with one of the largest margin of victory of any democrats. Time to make him the face of the Democratic Party, the young and energetic, not the old and tired. Ossoff for Senate majority leader! I’m calling it.

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

Friendly reminder: The Big Beautiful Bill was written, passed, and signed by REPUBLICANS! 218 Republican votes in the House, 50 in the Senate, with JD Vance breaking the tie! NOT ONE Democrat voted for it!

Trump signed it into law July 4, 2025! So when the consequences hit…DON’T blame Democrats! Good day!

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Greg Abbott continued to get elected by fomenting fear that Mexicans and immigrants were going to take our jobs and destroy our way of life.

That he actually had his job taken by a Mexican woman is a level of poetic justice worthy of a Dickens novel.

[Lillian@mcocph @LillianVikingDK]

This is former USN Admiral Eileen Laubacher, I say former because in his purge of senior military ( mostly female) Hegseth fired her.
Yesterday she beat Lauren Boebert in the election and is now in the congress.
She will be on the select committee to interrogate him

[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.