This is from across the pond but similar attitudes exist all over America, who think progress, building things and new competition should stand still.
If the US had the NIMBY attitudes the first 200yrs it existed that it has now, we’d be a 3rd world country. Let things get built!
There’s mud slinging and then if you go 10x lower you get this. I could see Vivek was an opportunistic slime ball in the last pres debates but spending $4mil to air this ad across Ohio to win Gov race is as low as it gets.
BOMBSHELL:
Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s own mother urges voters not to vote for her daughter.
“My name is Donna Arthur and I’m Amy Acton’s mother. I worked at Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America.
I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent—and it’s not easy for a mother to say this—but Amy has a serious problem.
She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She’s lied her entire life.
My daughter needs help, and she can’t help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth, and my daughter still isn’t doing that.
Don’t vote for people who lie. Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.”
That’s one hell of an October surprise.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Acton’s stepfather abused her from age 9 to 12 and was criminally charged, and the family lived in a tent in winter. Her brother confirms they were removed from their mother’s custody. Acton’s stayed married to the stepfather until he died.
sources:
vindyarchives.com/news/2019/aug/…
wkbn.com/news/elections…
justthenews.com/politics-polic…
mediaite.com/politics/vivek…
Your home being paid off has zero to do with paying property taxes. You being old has zero to do with paying property. Services need to be funded, and prop taxes are the most sensible, stable and fair tax there is and no one needs special exemptions.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
The president below admits Russia is helping Iran, a country we are basically at war with and who has killed US troops, but he will suspend sanctions on them and we are buying their oil regardless.
President Trump said he will not sign a document right now that could push Russia away from the negotiating table.
Trump said real progress is being made on ending the Russia Ukraine war, including hostage talks.
Trump noted that Russia is currently doing very little to help Iran and he wants to keep it that way.
He criticized Zelenskyy for targeting Russian diesel refineries that are driving up fuel costs for American farmers and businesses.
Trump said Zelenskyy does not appear to want the war to end and that Ukraine is in worse shape than it was two years ago.
Alternative headline: NGO that is almost impossible to measure its outcomes wants more of your tax dollars.
Oklahoma lawmakers considered a tax credit that incentivises businesses to donate money they would otherwise pay in state taxes to nonprofits supporting families. kgou.org/health/2026-10-13/o…
Interesting, football locker rooms and offices but made to look like Main Street retail space.
Sapulpa Public Schools opened an 8,000-square-foot stadium building with locker rooms, coaching offices and sports medicine facilities. bit.ly/4hNVcfi
ALT Sapulpa unveils 8,000-square-foot facility at football stadium
The automatic car wash and O'Reilly's next door, or the auto shop across the street apparently are acceptable, but a Brakes Plus was just too much. Gotta love NIMBY logic.
Edmond Council unanimously denies Brakes Plus after neighbors revolt oklahoman.com/story/news/loc…
Half filled cups left in parking lots, brought to you by some of the laziest and worst people on the planet.
How problematic of a candidate is Paxton? Having to spend this kind of money in Texas problematic
🚨BREAKING NEWS:
TEXAS PAC, the super PAC run by leadership-backed SLF, will have $100M in TV reservations by tomorrow in the LONE STAR STATE.
they are currently at $65M.
That means they are adding another $35M plus.
@punchbowlnews text subscribers had it first.
How bad, how long and how expensive of a process is it to build big projects in America right now? So much that people want to build data centers in space instead of on the ground.
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell on data centers in space:
“There is an expense to put data centers on the ground. You have to buy real estate, and as soon as someone finds out a supercompute center is going in, real estate goes from $3,000 an acre to $180,000 an acre. The time lag is incredible. Permits and licensing are pretty stifling. People are talking about generators in three years.”
“We need compute now. The demand is insatiable right now. People need compute now. We need it now. So why data centers in space? We own launch. We have great launch capability, and that path is very well known. The real estate in space is infinite. It’s free.”
“The cooling is there. The radiator looks at deep space, the coldest thing ever out there, so free cooling. You can put satellites in orbit that always face the sun. We’ll be making our own solar panels too. We’re building a factory outside Austin.”
I’ve been told all my life by republicans that the govt doesn’t create any wealth, they only take. Vance says they do, and they’ll mail it out to us 🤷♂️
Side note, I love seeing people forced to put a positive spin the spontaneous insane ideas of the President
Baier: $5000 for every adult citizen, that's about $1.3 trillion. The critics will say the president is bribing voters and he's bankrupting the country.
Vance: Tariffs have generated a lot of revenues. The president is saying, if you keep us in power, then you will share in some of the benefit of this incredible wealth that we are creating
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Annual tariff revenue (under $300B) cannot fund a $1.3T payout, and distributing funds requires congressional approval. Previous cash dividend promises were also never delivered, including the 2025 DOGE dividend and proposed $2,000 tariff rebates.
taxfoundation.org/blog/tariff-di…
cbsnews.com/news/trump-div…
Govt contractor and drone start up hired Eric Trump as an adviser, he'll earn $12mil. Put another way, Hunter Biden would have to be a Burisma board member for 20 years to earn the same amount. Its just one of many paid adviser roles for Eric and Don Jr. wsj.com/business/drone-defen…
How low of a bar is it to be mayor of LA? So low that you crow about taking at least 9 months to paint stripes on a road. Amazing this is a real tweet.
Jr., an investor in prediction markets, tells us there is no conflicts of interest though. So nothing to see here…
Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. tells Republican state attorneys general to “back off” on prediction markets
Via @yaffebellany and @SharonLNYT for @NYTimes
What a picture. These are the people trying to block new housing in their area because they think cities don’t change or something. Many of these same people also want politicians to give them and only them a property tax break too. 🤦♂️
Hundreds of #SanFrancisco Marina residents turned out this evening for townhall on controversial @Safeway housing plan, which would place what for many is an uncomfortably tall, 22 & 18 story project at the low-slung neighborhood’s waterfront.
@sfchronicle
And similarly to SanFran, in Boulder, seniors wanted to block the sale of a parking lot (the city would receive $5.8mil for it!) for a hotel to be built. A hotel on a parking lot and NIMBYs want to block it 🤦♂️
teapawt.net/boulderrl/status/20919…
City officials voted to develop over the Spruce St. parking lot, saying nearby garages can absorb the displaced parking and the hotel could bring new economic activity downtown.
boulderreportinglab.org/2026…
Proof that no matter what anyone or any party says, we do not care about the deficit.
Can’t wait to be watching a Mich football game this fall and one of their university commercials comes on saying something like “At Michigan, we are preparing the next generation for the world” and then chuckle 🤦♂️
Oh wow 😬
University of Michigan will HIDE first-semester grades on transcripts for students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
It’s to “curb the mental health crisis”
AND
The policy is mandatory for all students bc “covering an individual’s grades will inadvertently become equated w/them not doing well in a class”
