It's not that I am deeply ironic, overtly sarcastic, or obtuse, it's just that you don't get it because your minnow like intellect defies rational explanation.
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Not sure where *this* weird revisionism is coming from. Most people said and thought they were bad. They are!
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Simon Heffer’s final pars in his review of Liz Truss’ new book.
Of all the best examples of the Westminster unreality machine, where parts of the illiberal metropolitan elite and press build someone up clearly beyond their abilities, she was by far the worst. Zero accountability, of course.
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I'm very very sad tonight. I just learned that Stephen Biesty passed away in 2024 at 63... He is one of my favorite artist. Rest in peace.
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if you're posting shit like this about a child, there is no redemption for you
you are scum of the earth
Hey Amy, you’ve really confused me, and millions like me!
🛑 You said you were sexually abused between the ages of 9 and 12 by your stepfather!
Why didn’t you tell anyone for three years—a schoolteacher, your doctor, Why did you wait three years? Why did your own biological father allow that to happen for all three years? STRANGE!
🛑 You’ve said your mother knew about the sexual abuse. Why would she do that? I mean, what would she gain?
🛑 Your mother is a very well-educated woman with a master’s degree in public administration and worked at Children and Family Associates in one of the first few sexual abuse programs!
How did she end up getting that job helping victims of sexual abuse? I don’t understand!
🛑 Your mother gave an interview calling you a liar and disputing all your claims in June 2020. Why didn’t you respond publicly at that time?
🛑 This is very difficult for me to understand: you said you “did have food to eat.”
🛑 Was your stepfather convicted? Are there any court documents or police reports?
I mean court documents or police reports—NOT A COMMUNITY NOTE, PLEASE!
&
Strangely:
🛑 Where in that ad does your mother say anything about your sexual abuse?
She just denied your claim of living in a tent!
Why did you connect that to your claim of sexual abuse? She never used the words “sexual abuse”—at least in this video!
We all sympathize with any difficulties you’ve gone through.
BUT…
🛑 Why don’t you hold a press conference and explain all this to the people of Ohio and all of us who are concerned?
FINALLY:
🛑 Do you want Ohioans to vote for you just because of your unverified claim of a difficult childhood 50 years ago? 🛑
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Court records corroborate Amy Acton’s account. In 1978, her stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and indicted by a grand jury on charges of sexually abusing 12-year-old Acton.
politifact.com/article/2026/o…
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/20/dem…
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NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother.
“In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”
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When I met Angela Rayner to campaign for change to overly aggressive council tax debt collection, with its unprecedented rapid escalation to balliffs, she nodded like most politicians do.
I explained it was destructive for individuals, councils and the economy. She listened more then said she'd change it. I was sceptical. Yet a consultation was launched within weeks and delightfully the change announced within 18mths (its in place from next April) - bullet train pace for politics.
I've a rule that if I campaign for a politician (of any party) to do something, and they do it, I say thank you. Its important to recognise it. So thank you so much Angela Rayner for listening and more importantly acting. The changes coming are a great start.
I promised we'd make council tax fairer, and I’m getting on with the job.
Too many working people have seen council tax debt spiral before they had the chance to get help.
That's why we're introducing more time to pay, clearer warnings if you miss a payment and more support from councils.
Thanks to @MartinSLewis and @mmhpi for their tireless campaigning to make this change happen.
Here's everything you need to know ⬇️
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This company?
Negative P&L for years...
‘It’s impossible to run a business in Labour’s Britain – I’m closing my 150-year-old company’
Reginald Chester-Sterne took over Norris and Sons 15 years ago.
telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne…
Via @Telegraph
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"What do you mean it's bad learning design?"
Look. I fixed it for kindergarteners with parents helping at home. There's a way to do these things. Just because we as teachers are used to slop doesn't mean we have to insist that it continues.
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In Australia on an academic exchange program, was instructed to keep the snakes away from the house by opening the back door at 6am and clapping loudly six times while yelling. I complied diligently. A week later, a neighbour informed me I'd been pranked.
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The other panellists’ uncontrollable laughter at this Reform imbecile is a joy to watch.
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Fred West's inquiry Fred West finds no bodies and declares him an exceptional patio layer.
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Vince Clarke was a control freak, a loner, and not very communicative. He left after writing Depeche Mode's debut album. He left again after Yazoo's second album with Alison Moyet. But before meeting Andy Bell and forming Erasure, he had another project: ...
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As a 50 year old man I find it utterly cringe that my generation calls younger people snowflakes, when they themselves lose their shit at a slight design change to a bottle cap or the packaging on some mince.
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My favorite piece of Destiny lore is that the number following a Exo’s name is how many times their mind has been rebooted or wiped.
That btw is why Ada-1 is the goat 🐐
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It’s killing me - why is no one asking this woman how she would deal with the question of Frenchness or Spanishness given those countries don’t have a multi-national, civic extra identities to hide behind.
'If I was born in Japan I couldn't call myself Japanese.'
Suella Braverman tells Tim Shipman that the 'dogma of multiculturalism' is eroding the sense of Englishness, which in turn is having a bad effect on how Britishness is defined.
@SuellaBraverman | @ShippersUnbound
