Another Times report suggests that senators seen as swing votes—Susan Collins of Maine, for one—are aware of, and apparently comfortable with, the scope of the investigation: “Mr. McGahn shared the witness list with the F.B.I. but is working in concert with Senate Republicans, and senators considered key swing votes…

Yes. They’re lazy and pop out kids as an obligation and for someone to pass down their properties and assets to, not because they love or want to actually parent kids. I nannied in college in New York for extremely wealthy people and they had no idea what was going on with their kids. They’re never home and only care…

In addition to the racism, I’m just boggled that anyone would hire a nanny - not a one-time babysitter but a nanny who’s going to care for your infant day in and day out and *live in your home* - without actually meeting her first. This wasn’t a job interview. It was Maurice showing up for her first day of work (and,…

But would you put your children in the hands of someone you’ve been rude to, even if it was by mistake? Your newborn baby? Come on.”

Mark Judge (I know, I keep thinking it’s Mike Judge too) has resurfaced and lawyered up, so he seems to think they’ll be talking to him.

I wonder if “limited” is their code meaning they won’t go so far as talking to Mike Judge or any of the other 3? 4? women who have also accused him of assault/rape.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Flake did this while voting yes to move Kavanaugh out of committee and onto the floor. He didn’t even have the courage to vote no until after the investigation.

Good for them. No need to be in the room as a bunch of old, white dudes remind the country that only their word matters.

Ah, but you see, THIS IS THE REALITY.

I’ve yet to be stuck in this situation regarding this hearing, but my immediate thoughts:

I should be shocked that Kavanaugh won even more support after he crumbled at the microphone, but I’m not. Centuries and centuries of religious doctrine codified into law, into how society views itself and its constituents, into who is more or less equal. Women created “sin”. Women besmirched mankind’s perfection.…

Truth. I and the women in my life routinely use “it’s fine” as a phrase that means “it’s absolutely not fine, but it’s not worth the drama that the truth will bring up.”

As many people on Twitter point out, abusers cry. My abuser cried. Crying is sometimes what abusive men do because they don’t have a handle on their feelings or behavior; they’re angry and confused and scared. It’s so similar to when a child cries during a temper tantrum. They know enough to understand right from…

I feel like anything shy of South Africa-style Truth & Reconciliation Committees is just going to lead us right back here in another 10-15 years. I no longer things can get better with our current institutions in place.

Eventually, the bubble collapses. At some point, there will be a split so vast that it’s simply impossible to be a good believer and accept the evidence of your own eyes, and they’re either going to snap out of it or go completely insane. In Jonestown, the collapse of the bubble led to mass suicide. In Germany, it led…

And they’re still going to come out of all of this believing they’re the victims.

This happens everywhere, not just America. Point is, we are at a moment where it could tip any which way; that’s not not when you give up and go home, but rather become more ferocious and tenacious in fighting the good fight.

I hate to disappoint you, but I was married to a guy who would cry like this.

Can’t read the testimony because it’s all too triggering for me. As a survivor and PTSD sufferer, people really have no fking idea what they are doing or saying in this reality we now find ourselves. No awareness of how they might be effecting others

I want to see what Kamala Harris is going to do with all this when he testifies, but I have no confidence that Grassley and the other GOP members of the committee are going to let her. I fully expect them to object, interrupt, and argue her time away if it looks like she has any chance of doing any damage.