CEO & Founder of neighborhood bridges Retired announcer for Ohio State University Softball, Women's Soccer, Baseball, and Women’s Ice Hockey
Westerville, OH
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Rick Bannister retweeted
Amy Acton letting Vivek Ramaswamy go to voicemail is a lesson for women. You don’t owe people who mistreat you reconciliations, forgiveness or platitudes. You certainly don’t owe people who enable your abuser anything. You owe yourself peace. 🥺
Rick Bannister retweeted
Canada just lit up Niagara Falls Blue showing their solidarity with Democrats and it feels so good to know that they stand with us.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Niagara Falls was lit teal on Nov 3rd for Alzheimer awareness, as per their illumination schedule.
niagaraparks.com/events/falls-i…
Rick Bannister retweeted
this is the first post tonight to bring actual tears to my eyes
Gina Hinojosa walks out on stage and begins by addressing her two young children:
HINOJOSA: In the past year. You have been so supportive. You have been so supportive and gracious, and I am so proud of you.
Even though neither you or Matteo ever asked for this, my fight comes from my deep love for the both of you and my desire to make this world safer and better for the both of you.
You have been so understanding and encouraging, and I thank you both so much
Rick Bannister retweeted
Real problems now for JD Vance.
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.”
Rick Bannister retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed TROLLING Trump and JD Vance After Winning Michigan’s Senate Race
To JD Vance: “Habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in, in January.”
To Trump: “I know you struggle with my name, so after JD swears me in, you can just go on and call me Senator.”
Rick Bannister retweeted
Senator-elect James Talarico and Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa visit a Whataburger after their victory rally.
ALT James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa smile and clink large orange-striped Whataburger cups across a booth table as a crowd behind them takes photos with phones.
Rick Bannister retweeted
#MichiganSenate
(Semafor) El-Sayed’s new ad pitch: Republicans love me
The new ad will get a six-figure buy, according to details shared first with Semafor. It features El-Sayed saying that “free speech is under attack, and we should be making America healthy again,” before pointing to a screen that plays laudatory words from Fox News host Jesse Watters (“he beat the machine”), Tucker Carlson (“I wouldn’t vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint”), and others.
Rick Bannister retweeted
In 2022, Mike Lawler said: “Before you vote tomorrow, fill up your tank and go grocery shopping — it will inform your decision.” So we took him up on that.
Before early voting starts tomorrow, try it. Then tell me if the system’s working for you.
It shouldn’t be this hard. You deserve better.
Rick Bannister retweeted
Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
Rick Bannister retweeted
Here are the revealed court records from Amy Acton's stepfather's case — where he was charged with rape and indicted by a grand jury.
Vivek Ramaswamy is truly disgusting
Rick Bannister retweeted
“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.
Rick Bannister retweeted
.@elonmusk please tell me these overnight disruptions to Starlink terminals in Ukraine were unintended - that @SpaceX is doing everything it can to fix a temporary glitch.
I'm confident this does not reflect a change in SpaceX policy because if so, intentionally degrading Ukraine's ability to defend itself might be construed as aiding and abetting a mass murderer. Can you confirm that's not SpaceX’s intent?
Ukrainians simply want to live in peace. They did not ask Putin to bomb their homes, schools and hospitals. They do not want Putin to kidnap and brainwash their children. They are not interested in destroying energy infrastructure - in Ukraine or in Russia. They only want to defend their country and live their lives.
Supporting Ukrainian sovereignty - or at the very least, allowing for it - should not be a gray area for the U.S. government or for American corporations. Can you clarify the SpaceX position?
nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/uk…
Rick Bannister retweeted
It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in prices that obviously began with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to the price of fuel.
If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.
Rick Bannister retweeted
US mortgage rates soar to a new high for the year, closing in on 7%
cnn.it/4yhNWxy
Rick Bannister retweeted
Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
