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Author x 4: Saving Private Sarbi (K9 war hero); 18 Hours; Beyond Bad; The Promise. Journo, commentator, wife, pooch pal, believer in old fashioned common sense

Australia
Joined May 2009
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What a night: my fave Aussie singer @troycassardaley with the brilliant Ian Moss, and young Dingo to launch the gig. Encore song, the amazing Dan Penn’s Dark End Of The Street. And seriously, the best merch ever - tea towels. Who’d have thunk it?
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2 tea towels - best Aussie merch ever! - and a t-shirt, Troy! Can’t wait to see you both, and how good is Dingo!
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We can’t wait to play Sandra 🙏🏾 and you have your tea towel 🤣🤣
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Oh happy day, you have made it to our slice of paradise @troycassardaley welcome, welcome, welcome.
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This is excellent. Via @cnn “Newsom commutes sentences. Grants clemency to all 548 inmates on California’s death row, reducing penalties to life without parole.”
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Sandra Lee retweeted
But enough about your devastating electoral losses, MAGA. I’m gonna need to see those Epstein files now.
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Amen, Fr Chris, amen. Take the time to read this.
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.
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Reposting this for no particular reason Liz Cheney: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
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Amen. Thank you for your service, said from a proud child of an Aussie military family. Your integrity is solid gold.
It says “Make Russia Pay” And we wanted to share with you Hi @RusEmbUSA
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Sandra Lee retweeted
Chris Christie UNLOADS on Vivek Ramswamy losing the Ohio governor’s race... “You not only have to question the judgement of a man who would take a woman — an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in out of the parking lot in a church in Pennsylvania with her cats and put her in front of a video camera, and make that a TV add in the gubernatorial race. We know what Vivek Ramswamy is, and voters have judged him as such. But here is the real problem going forward. J.D. Vance stood 100 percent with Vivek Ramaswamy. Not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that advertisement. And Vivek Ramaswamy will be forgotten. He is going to be sent to the dustbin of history. But J.D. Vance is going to be remembered, I think, for this campaign, for more than anything else, David, that he stood by that ad, a man who wrote a book on Catholicism, stood behind that ad. It’s a disgrace.”
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Our party abandoned everything it previously stood for to bind itself to a petty, vindictive, anti American fool, who also abandoned his key promises to the American people (low prices, drain the swamp, no wars of choice). We deserve every bit of this. – at Brookmont, MD
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Good.
BREAKING: Democrat Amy Acton wins Ohio’s gubernatorial race, defeating Trump-backed Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, VoteHub projects.
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Sandra Lee retweeted
Wow.
Hundreds of Minnesotans are leaving their "I voted" stickers at the site where Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE agents.
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If you ever thought that was a possibility……oy!
I'm starting to think we won't all be getting $5000 checks.
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We are all Talafreakos now. The @gop politics of hate, corruption and cruelty lead by convicted felon trump and aided by his lickspittles and trillionaire musk, has been well and truly routed. Now for real justice. #ThisIsAllTrump
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Best candidate.
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms creates history. The first Black female Governor in US history. The first Black Governor of Georgia, the home state of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and John Lewis. The first female Governor of Georgia.
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🇺🇦 with love and respect from Australia. #SlavaUkraine
Good morning! 💙💛 If Ukraine is still on your mind, leave a 🇺🇦 I want to see how far our voices reach. #ukraine #ukrainian #ukrainians #war #ukrainerussiawar
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The great American and @GOP descent into utter inanity and self-abasement. Seriously unserious people.
What is happening
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The Great American Embarrassment.
This is an actual social media post from the president of the United States. tiktok.com/t/ZPLUb1LYH/
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