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Remember when Brett Kavanaugh was embroiled in controversy during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing and we all thought the powerful and seismic testimony of Christine Blasey Ford would move the needle, but then Lindsey Graham started screaming his head off like an absinthe-besotted wood elf, Kavanaugh did his whole oppressed...

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  • March 16, 2021

Received this e-mail today from Rep. Adam Schiff (D. CA-28) in support of Sara Gideon’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: Rep. Adam Schiff (D. CA-28) Brett Kavanaugh should not have been confirmed to the Supreme Court. Almost one year ago, we heard the courageous and gut-wrenching testimony of Dr. Christine...

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  • September 17, 2019

The long knives butter knives Play-Doh knives are coming out for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who had the temerity to take a DNA test incontrovertibly proving what she’d always said was true, but which our pr*sident has still refused to accept: One of her ancestors was a Native American. Of course, Donald...

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  • October 17, 2018

It would make sense — or a lot more sense, anyway, than Haley’s own tortured explanations for stepping down. (She believes in term limits? She’s been on the job for two years!) Haley’s resignation came out of the blue, and it caught everyone who knows anything about politics or international...

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  • October 10, 2018

Here’s a little-known fact. It is technically possible to get drunk on so-called “nonalcoholic” beers like O’Doul’s or Sharp’s, because they both contain a trace amount of alcohol. The calculus is something like 10 cans of Sharp’s delivers the same buzz as one can of Miller High Life. So you’d...

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  • October 8, 2018

What was that old Goebbels quote? Something like “Fuck you, Donald Trump, you rancid fuck-faced smegma golem”? Remember when Christine Blasey Ford said she was 100 percent certain that Brett Kavanaugh had tried to rape her? Well, you can throw that out now because the most dishonest person on the planet says...

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  • October 7, 2018

You had the grace to hold yourself, while those around you crawl    Candle in the wind    Elton John Dear Dr Blasey Ford, After more than a month of intense emotional turmoil, I hope this letter finds you and your family in a better place, back safe and sound in...

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  • October 6, 2018

It’s Shakespeare in the Park with Flake, Murkowski, and Collins, and they are performing scenes from “Hamlet.”  I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted watching those three act like they are deeply conflicted about Kavanaugh or the process by which he is being rammed onto the Supreme Court.  And...

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  • October 4, 2018

This op-ed from veteran journalist Connie Chung is a must-read. Shocking, but in light of everything that’s happening right now, not really that surprising. It may bring you to tears, it may make you shake with rage. I can almost guarantee it will elicit some kind of strong emotion. Republicans have no...

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  • October 3, 2018

Well, you know there are details to work out and such so you can produce a phony report to your boss’ order for a sham hearing into the molestation of a child. Might as well knock back a few brewskis while you work… Raw Story She was laughing and tossing...

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  • October 2, 2018

For the record, I’m very afraid for Jr.’s sons and daughters, but it has nothing to do with sexual assault. From The Daily Mail: Donald Trump Jr. says that in an age when lives can be ruined on both sides of he-said, she-said sexual misconduct claims, he fears more for...

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  • October 1, 2018

The Truth Is Out There   The X-Files Good afternoon Senators. I’d like to begin my opening statement with a question. Do you people have any idea of who I am? I’m Brett fucking Kavanaugh! I was so pure in high school that my name was put forward for sainthood...

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  • October 1, 2018

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D. CA) on behalf of MoveOn.org in support of U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly’s (D. IN) re-election campaign: Sen. Joe Donnelly (D. IN) Dear MoveOn member, I walked out. Republicans rushed Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation with a sham hearing yesterday morning, less than...

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  • September 29, 2018

Amanda Litman is the co-founder of Run for Something, a political action committee that helps young progressives interested in running for office. The PAC launched on inauguration day in 2017, clearly as a response to the toxic orange gas cloud that was seeping into homes across the country. Well, something...

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  • September 29, 2018

The NBC affiliate in Lexington reported this statement — issued about 18 hours ago – from McConnell on Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Judiciary Committee: The Senate and the nation heard two witnesses testify under oath to completely conflicting recollections. What we did not hear was any evidence whatsoever to bolster the allegation...

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  • September 29, 2018

Iowa’s Steve King is a despicable human being, and not just because he is an unapologetic white supremacist. When he’s not posting propaganda from neo-Nazis, he’s sharing vile memes. Like the current president, he somehow always has time for a hateful post on social media. He has been in rare form this year, picking...

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  • September 29, 2018

This is how I know the rapture isn’t real. If it were, God would have beamed Pat Robertson’s shrunken Gollum head into a Piper Cub 20 years ago. Because he says shit like this. From Right Wing Watch: “The Supreme Court of the United States is the power center of...

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  • September 29, 2018

In the darkness of this immoral political epoch we find ourselves in, two women — Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher — have shown us what real courage is.  I am convinced that we now have an FBI investigation of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh because of...

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  • September 28, 2018

This just in: x Read Joe's statement on the Kavanaugh nomination: pic.twitter.com/JvjTOKEDyF — Senator Joe Donnelly (@SenDonnelly) September 28, 2018 Here’s a close up on the full statement:   That you, Senator Donnelly. You did the right thing. Of course, the GOP will really be hitting him hard on this...

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  • September 28, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford acted as she was expected to. She was unfailingly polite and deferential to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the hired gun they trotted out to poke small holes in her testimony. She held her emotions in check, though she often struggled to, because women and minorities in...

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  • September 28, 2018

The Jesuits, a religious order in the Catholic Church, were understandably ecstatic when Donald Trump picked one of their own for nomination to the Supreme Court. (If confirmed, Brett Kavnaugh would be the fifth Catholic judge.) Kavanaugh has repeatedly and prominently highlighted his Jesuit Catholic faith, and even quoted the former Superior General of the...

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  • September 28, 2018

Yes: x YouTube Video As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faced senators Thursday about an alleged sexual assault, North Dakota Democrats are criticizing Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer for his comments about those allegations and other remarks relating to women. The North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party is launching a new digital ad Thursday...

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  • September 28, 2018

From NBC News: Fox News on Thursday fired contributor Kevin Jackson after he called Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and other women “lying skanks” for accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Jackson, who has 67,000 followers on Twitter, posted a string of highly offensive tweets over a period...

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  • September 28, 2018

Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: This morning, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford described herself as “terrified” as she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, including an all-male set of Republicans who simultaneously hid behind and towered over a female prosecutor they appointed to do the questioning....

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  • September 28, 2018

I only got to read about Chrisinte Blasey Ford’s testimony today while I was at eating lunch, but I got to listen to parts of Kavanaugh’s testimony on the drive home after 4 P.M. on NPR.  And even the NPR reporters and commentators were stunned by Kavanuagh’s belligerence.  If I...

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  • September 28, 2018

Rage level — orange. (It’s always orange, but whatever. Let’s just say it’s a Pantone number we don’t ordinarily see.) According to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, even the dough-brained Donald Trump can see this morning’s SCOTUS testimony isn’t going well for Republicans: x Person close to Trump says Trump is...

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  • September 27, 2018

As I type this blog post, Prof. Christine Blasey Ford is currently testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in regards to Brett Kavanaugh’s act of sexual assault against Ford. However, if you live in the same local television market that I do, the Champaign-Springfield, Illinois local TV market that...

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  • September 27, 2018

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono’s (D. HI) re-election campaign: Sen. Mazie Hirono (D. HI   I am angry, team — a third woman just stepped forward to credibly accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Yet, Republicans still want to rush forward with his confirmation. That’s not...

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  • September 26, 2018

I don’t know if this clip of Charles Blow talking about his own childhood sexual assault has shown up on DailyKos.  I haven’t seen it. It floored me. More important it put what Christine Blasey Ford is going to do on Thursday in a whole new context.  It is of course...

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  • September 23, 2018

Patti Davis, Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s daughter, has written an op-ed for The Washington Post in which she recounts being sexually assaulted in the office of a prominent music executive four decades ago. An aspiring songwriter at the time, she was hoping to get her songs in the hands of...

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  • September 23, 2018

Adam Jentleson was Harry Reid’s Deputy Chief-of-Staff. x This is intentional. Ford holds enormous power & Grassley can't stand it. This tweet and McConnell today saying they'll “plow right through” are meant to make her feel powerless. They know Kavanaugh's nomination won't survive her testimony and they're trying to intimidate...

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  • September 22, 2018

This is huge! Kavanaugh and the W.H. have both denied conspiring with Ed Whelan on his bullshit hit piece but… Washington Post “On Sunday, Ford noticed that — even before her name became public — Whelan appeared to be seeking information about her. That morning, Ford alerted an associate via...

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  • September 21, 2018

As Laura Clawson noted in her diary earlier this week, Sen. Orrin Hatch has suggested Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is simply “mixed up” when it comes to her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. One problem with that: x x YouTube Video Actually, there are plenty of problems with that: It’s despicably patronizing. It’s...

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  • September 21, 2018

Chuck Todd and his panelists — George Will for one — cannot answer a rather obvious question:  why doesn’t Kavanaugh ask for an FBI investigation of Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations?  Todd and the rest step right up to the precipice, but they only glance over the edge and say, “Dunno.” ...

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  • September 21, 2018

The list of people Donald Trump has made look foolish begins with his grandfather Friedrich Trump and ends with anyone who bought Nintendo stock or mushroom futures late Monday afternoon. Of course, he’s been slow-cooking Kellyanne Conway’s immortal soul like a Circle K rotisserie chicken for the past two years,...

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  • September 21, 2018

Rachel Maddow is reporting that she was supposed to have someone who represented Professor Christine Blasey Ford on her show tonight, but those reps called to cancel because they are concentrating on “negotiations” with Senate Republicans on when to testify about Kavanaugh.  Maddow did not think this was a blow...

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  • September 21, 2018

The Phoenix New Times rips Jeff Flake a new one for his weak response to a stupidly offensive Donald Trump Jr. post on Instagram… “Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, the anthropomorphized loaf of stale bread resigning after this term, made clear his disgust over an Instagram post from Donald Trump Jr. mocking Christine...

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  • September 20, 2018

The following article was written jointly by the five prosecutors shown above. NBC News “What’s next? The latest proposal is for Ford and Kavanaugh to testify under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. However, these allegations are extremely serious and we — five former federal prosecutors with a combined experience...

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  • September 19, 2018

She deserves a standing ovation: Sen. Mazie Hirono said her message to men in this country is to “just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change” following the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Asked Tuesday about being one of just four...

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  • September 19, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford will not be showing up on Monday for her public burning at the stake by Republicans.  Her lawyer released this letter rightlfully explaining that THERE HAS TO BE AN FBI INVESTIGATION FIRST!  But Republicans do not want this “hearing” in the first place.  Blasey Ford’s logical refusal...

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  • September 19, 2018

It’s worse than you’ve heard. CNN July 30 2018 CONFIDENTIAL Senator Dianne Feinstein Dear Senator Feinstein; I am writing with information relevant in evaluating the current nominee to the Supreme Court. As a constituent, I expect that you will maintain this as confidential until we have further opportunity to speak....

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  • September 17, 2018

Somehow, Republicans managed to produce a letter supporting Brett Kavanaugh almost instantly after attempted rape allegations against the Supreme Court nominee surfaced. Gee, it’s almost as if they’d heard this accusation before … and anticipated the reaction. Anyway, the letter proved that there are at least 65 women on the planet whom...

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  • September 17, 2018

CNN is reporting that Corker appears to have joined Flake in calling for the Judiciary Committee to hear from Kavanaugh’s accusser — Ford — before having any vote on Kavanaugh: Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker both say the Senate Judiciary Committee should not vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination...

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  • September 17, 2018