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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Trumpslains the President's Mocking of Christine Blasey Ford
Both Donald Trump and his proxy, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, continue their public defense of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In the latest White House press briefing, Sanders also goes so far as to say defend the president’s mocking of Christine Blasey Ford during a rally in Southaven, Miss., Tuesday. Sanders opened…
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Trump Mocks Christine Blasey Ford at Rally as He Continues to Campaign as the President of White Men
Rallies are a safe space for President Trump. The crowd is filled with approved and confirmed, card-carrying, MAGA hat-wearing, Trump supporters who would follow him over a cliff. I used to believe that Trump scheduled these rallies to boost his ego; now I think his staff plans them to get him the fuck away from…
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Revisiting Anita Hill: On Racism, Stereotypes and Respectability Politics
“The more things change. The more things stay the same.” My 7th grade English teacher, the black woman who taught me how to write, said that quote in class on a cool spring day in March 2006 and looked at us to explain what she meant. Loads of us scratched our heads in that, “Well,…
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Sexual Assault Survivors Confront Sen. Jeff Flake: 'Look at Me and Tell Me That It Doesn’t Matter What Happened to Me'
Sen. Jeff Flake, the spineless Arizona Republican who has mastered the “Look, I’m really conflicted about this decision” face yet votes almost 90 percent of the time with President Trump, was confronted Friday morning by two women claiming to be sexual assault survivors. The confrontation happened shortly after Flake announced he will support Supreme Court…
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Rate These Kavanaugh Faces: From Boofed to Let Me Speak to Your Manager
It must be nice to be a white man. Thursday was arguably one of the whitest white-man moments in the history of white man-ism. It was white mantastic. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a white man, literally walked into the jar of mayonnaise called the Senate Judiciary Committee and told the interviewers to go fuck…
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Brett Kavanaugh and America's Insistence on White Male Virtue
Let’s start with the laughter: how it was the thing that Christine Blasey Ford remembered best. During a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, in a marathon session that ran more than three hours, Blasey Ford recounted how Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, then a 17-year-old, sexually assaulted her at a…
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What Black People Should Take Away From the Kavanaugh Hearing: A Lack of Due Process Will Always Hurt Us the Most
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was the perfect witness. She was credible. She had taken the time during a brutal, agonizing attack to study her rapist’s face, to make sure she would later be able to bring him to justice. She remained strong through an agonizing rape kit—twice, because the first attempt was botched; through a penicillin shot;…
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The Delicious Salt of Brett Kavanaugh’s White Tears
When watching Brett Kavanaugh—a man whose job interview is quite a bit harder than he anticipated it being—break down during Supreme Court confirmation hearings today as he denies the charges levied against him by Christine Blasey Ford, it’s natural to assume that he’s acting, that the tears he’s struggling to hold back is a dance…
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White Republican Men, Yet Again, Hid Behind a White Woman. And It Backfired, Bigly
Once again, white Republican men hoped a white woman would save them. Maybe Republicans will continue rallying behind Brett Kavanaugh and appoint him to the Supreme Court despite the credible accusations leveled against him, but the GOP’s gambit to use a woman to speak for the all-white male Republican panel during today’s massively important Senate…