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Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
We're with Mark Kelly on this one.
#SlavaUkraini
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Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
Broncos are now at three questionable wins courtesy of bad calls by the refs. All three, as of right now, could affect who makes the playoffs and seeding.
That the NFL continues to ignore it doesn’t reflect well on the league.
Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
And then they lay out the red carpet for Josh Simmons and let him do whatever he wants. Selective accountability.
Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
Then fine him. Hurt his pocket. Don't put the rest of the offense in jeapordy
Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
Has Reid been gaslighting fans w answers to the media more than usual as well this yr? Just give the fans straight answers and they won't think he just randomly chose to bench him. Just say it was punishment. Cloudy vague answers invite speculation. Reid is bringing it on himself
Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
Patrick Mahomes is a real life, football Super Hero man! Dude is so fricking tough.
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Just a friendly reminder as the right-wing has a collective freak-out over the first Muslim to ever win a U.S. Senate seat.
#ResistTrump
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Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
Former #Broncos Safety Justin Simmons has joined the conspiracy theorists, saying that KC has cheated & the refs have helped the #Chiefs since they've had #Mahomes. By the letter of the law, it was a false start, but calling that minimal of movement in that moment, you just don't see that often. Jamaal Taylor was the most penalized player in football when he was with the Chiefs & now he's on the Falcons, and the calls against him have disappeared. 🧐
Helene, Master of Dark Arts : Linguistics Division retweeted
the refs have thrown two flags this year that converted broncos losses into wins
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Congratulations on #Chiefs RB Emmett Johnson who was voted as the NFL Rookie of Week.
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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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HOLY CRAP BATMAN!
Two good days in a row!
BREAKING: SUSPECT! Pete Hegseth's wife under ethics SCRUTINY over consulting payments tied to a major Pentagon contractor.
While Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon (poorly, we must say), his wife reportedly has a front-row seat to all he does, and she’s been collecting consulting money from a firm that works for one of its biggest contractors.
According to POLITICO, Jennifer Hegseth disclosed that she was paid for consulting by Watchtower Strategy, an influential Trump-aligned public affairs firm. One of Watchtower’s clients is Lockheed Martin. Public records show the federal government paid Lockheed more than $66 billion during the fiscal year she was paid.
This wouldn’t matter much if she were just a Cabinet spouse staying out of her husband’s work. She isn’t.
The Daily Beast describes her as an unofficial adviser to her husband who has embedded herself in daily Defense Department operations. The New York Times reported that in late 2024, before his confirmation hearing, she attended closed-door meetings with Republican senators and sat in on interviews with people who wanted jobs under him. Some senior officials and politicians told the Times her closeness to sensitive defense conversations was “not normal.”
There’s a family connection too. Her father was a Lockheed Martin executive. He died in 2009. The Pentagon says everything is fine. They would, wouldn’t they?
Spokesperson Sean Parnell said the couple is “in full compliance with all ethics laws and regulations.” He called any suggestion otherwise “ridiculous slander.” He also said the department works to “ensure senior leaders are completely screened” from private interests. He did not say whether Jennifer has been screened for a security clearance, which is a strange thing to leave out about someone sitting in on Pentagon business.
A spokesperson for Watchtower told POLITICO that “it should be no surprise” a public affairs firm would want to work with a former Fox News star producer.
The reporting doesn’t show that the money influenced any Pentagon decision, and it doesn’t say how much she was paid. But it doesn’t need to. Conflict-of-interest rules exist to prevent exactly this situation: a defense contractor’s consultants paying someone with a direct line to the defense secretary.
It’s also part of a pattern under Hegseth. His department just handed a no-bid extension to Raytheon, a company that admitted defrauding taxpayers. It paid $533 million for an artillery plant that produced no shells. And it spends its energy chasing generals over supposed leaks instead of chasing contractors over fraud.
Jennifer Hegseth said on a podcast that once her husband got the job, “We were ready to serve in any capacity.” Apparently, that includes on a consulting payroll.
With Democrats about to hold subpoena power, the Hegseths may soon have to explain all of this under oath. Whether it will be before or after Pete Hegseth faces an impeachment motion remains to be seen.
Please like and share if you think that this is all too fishy to accept Hegseth’s denials!
