#testamony

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Testamony

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 22, 2022

Heather Cox Richardson

Already there are revelations from the documents being released this week. Among the transcripts released by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S Capitol is one from Cassidy Hutchinson, the former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows. In it, Hutchinson tells the interviewers that what she calls “Trump world” set her up with her first attorney, Stefan Passantino. He refused to tell her who was paying the bills—it was Trump’s political action committee—and she worried that “they will ruin my life… if I do anything that they don’t want me to do.” Emphasizing repeated references to “loyalty,” and “Trump world,” Hutchinson told the committee that Passantino urged her not to tell what she knew, prodding her to say she didn’t recall events she clearly did. “If you don’t 100 percent recall something, even if you don’t recall a date or somebody who may or may not have been in the room, that’s an entirely fine answer, and we want you to use that response as much as you deem necessary.” “Look,” he told her, “the goal with you is to get you in and out. Keep your answers short, sweet, and simple, seven words or less. The less the committee thinks you know, the better, the quicker it’s going to go. It’s going to be painless. And then you’re going to be taken care of.” “We just want to focus on protecting the President,” Passantino said. “We’re gonna get you a really good job in Trump world. You don’t need to apply to other places. We’re gonna get you taken care of. We want to keep you in the family.” Hutchinson told of being scared of what they could do to her. “I’d seen how vicious they can be. And part of that’s politics, but…I think some of it is unique to Trump world, the level they’ll go to to tear somebody else down. And I was scared of that.” Mark Meadows, too, sent Hutchinson a message through a mutual friend saying “he knows you’re loyal and he knows…you’re going to protect him and the boss. You know, he knows that we’re all on the same team and we’re a family.” She also received notice that Trump was aware of her testimony. After two interviews with the committee, Hutchinson reached out to a former White House colleague, Alyssa Farah, to become a back channel to the January 6 committee to clear her conscience of testimony she felt was not fully truthful. In a third interview, committee members asked questions that clearly shocked Passantino, who kept asking how they knew what to ask. When, afterward, he insisted on talking both to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and his Trump world law partners against Hutchinson’s wishes, she realized that he was working for Trump, not her. When he suggested she should risk a charge of contempt of Congress, along with jail time, she cut ties with him and began working with new lawyers. In her newer, clean testimony to the committee, Hutchinson recounted a number of conversations in which it was clear Trump knew he had lost the election, as well as some conversations that suggested the planning for January 6 was well underway weeks ahead of time. On December 12, for example, when Trump tried to cancel a trip to the Army-Navy game, Meadows told Hutchinson, “He can’t do that. He’s gonna tick off the military, and then he’s gonna be ticked off at me in a few weeks when the military’s ticked off at him….” Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) asked Hutchinson what she thought that exchange meant, and she answered: “Looking back now, I can speculate.” The transcript is not just a damning portrait of the Trump loyalists, it is a window into the struggles of a clearly very bright young woman who was under enormous financial and emotional pressure to please her former boss and yet could not accept the erasure of her moral values. After two sessions with the committee in which she felt she had not been forthcoming, she realized she had to “pass the mirror test.” She told the committee: “[Y]ou know, I did feel like it was my obligation and my duty to share [what she knew], because I think that if you’re given a position of public power, it’s also your job, your civic responsibility, to allow the people to make decisions for themselves. And if no one’s going to do that, like, somebody has to do it.” There will no doubt be more information from the January 6 committee documents forthcoming. (The committee released its 845-page report a little before 10:00 Eastern time, but I will not have time to read it before posting this letter tonight.) Hutchinson’s moral reckoning stands in stark contrast to a court filing yesterday that revealed Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity pushed the idea on air that Trump had won the 2020 election even though, as he said under oath, “I did not believe it for one second.” Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit against the Fox News Channel and its parent company, Fox Corporation, for defamation after its frequent declarations that voting systems rigged the election. Testimony like Hannity’s makes a strong case that the outlet knew it was lying when it pushed the story that Trump had won the election. Other documents, released from the House Committee on Ways and Means concerning Trump’s taxes, suggest corruption was widespread under Trump. By law, the Internal Revenue Service must audit a president’s tax returns. It audited President Barack Obama’s taxes while he was in office and has audited President Joe Biden’s taxes as well during his term. But it did not audit former president Trump’s taxes for the first two years he was in office and finally began an audit on the same day the chair of the Ways and Means Committee, Representative Richard E. Neal (D-MA), asked for information about the returns. Charlie Savage and Alan Rappeport of the New York Times reported that the IRS began to audit the tax returns Trump filed during his presidency only after he had already left office, and then assigned only one person to the job. But, Michael Schmidt of the New York Times reported earlier this year, Trump repeatedly talked about using the IRS to investigate his enemies, and the bureau did, in fact, launch invasive audits on former FBI director James B. Comey and his deputy, Andrew G. McCabe, both of whom Trump believed to be his enemies. The numbers released show that Trump declared he lost money in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020, so that he paid no income tax, and that he paid a total of $1500 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) said there is “no justification for the failure to conduct the required presidential audits until a congressional inquiry was made.” He called for additional funding for the IRS, noting: “These are issues much bigger than Donald Trump. Trump’s returns likely look similar to those of many other wealthy tax cheats—hundreds of partnership interests, highly-questionable deductions, and debts that can be shifted around to wipe out tax liabilities.” He also said: “I have additional questions about the extent to which resource issues or fear of political retaliation from the White House contributed to lapses here.” This afternoon the House passed a bill requiring the IRS to conduct annual audits of the president’s tax returns. Five Republicans joined the Democrats to vote in favor of the measure, but 201 Republicans voted against it. For its part, the Senate this afternoon passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill to fund the government through next September 30. Among other measures in the bill, the Senate included a reform of the Electoral Count Act to make impossible another attempt to overturn a presidential election the way Trump tried. The bill clarifies that the vice president’s role in counting electoral votes is purely ceremonial, makes it clear that there is only one slate of electors per state, and increases the number of congress members required to launch an objection to a state’s electoral slate. Today, the Democrats elected Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) as the top Democratic member (the top member of the party out of power is called the “ranking member”) of the House Oversight Committee. This is an enormously significant election because the Republicans have already announced they plan to use their majority to investigate a wish list of targets, and many of those investigations will likely come from the Oversight committee. Because Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has decided not to put together committees until after the election for speaker takes place on January 3, it is not clear what Republicans will be on that committee, but Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) currently sits on it, and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has said she expects a seat on it. Jordan’s role for the Republicans in Congress is to shout and hector witnesses to establish a narrative (he is famously ineffective at passing legislation), while Greene’s role is to parrot right-wing conspiracies. Clearly, the Republicans plan to use the Oversight Committee largely for propaganda before the 2024 election. This makes Raskin’s new position key: Raskin is a brilliant constitutional law professor who is cowed not even a little bit by the likes of Jordan and Greene. He tweeted: “I was recruited to [the Oversight Committee] by Representative Elijah Cummings on my first day in Congress & it is overwhelming to think I will now become one of his successors. I thank my Caucus colleagues for entrusting me with the awesome responsibility of being Oversight Ranking Member.”

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Notes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/trump-irs-investigations.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/politics/comey-mccabe-irs-audits.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/us/politics/trump-irs-taxes.html

https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-statement-on-ways-and-means-investigation-of-presidential-audit-program-

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/21/us/house-ways-and-means-trump-tax-report.html

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-is-time-to-reform-the-electoral-count-act/

https://raskin.house.gov/press-releases?ID=5815D12C-4BE5-41EE-9311-D76B97DA1803

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2021/03/university-study-deems-jim-jordan-ineffective-at-passing-legislation-says-other-ohioans-get-better-results.html

https://www.congress.gov/member/jim-jordan/J000289?q=%7B%22bill-status%22%3A%5B%22passed-both%22%2C%22law%22%5D%7D

Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskinI was recruited to @OversightDems by Representative Elijah Cummings on my first day in Congress & it is overwhelming to think I will now become one of his successors. I thank my Caucus colleagues for entrusting me with the awesome responsibility of being Oversight Ranking Member.

6:44 PM ∙ Dec 22, 202226,745Likes2,689Retweets

https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20220914_Cassidy%20J.%20Hutchinson%20REDACTED.pdf

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3785369-house-passes-bill-requiring-presidential-tax-audits-after-revelation-trump-skirted-scrutiny/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/business/media/sean-hannity-fox-trump-election.html

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/u-s-senate-passes-electoral-count-reform-act/

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/21/trump-income-tax-returns-detailed-in-new-report-.html

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[microposter]

2. Mose 36. Kapitel 7-8

7 - denn der bereits gelieferte Vorrat genügte für die Ausführung sämtlicher Arbeiten, es blieb davon sogar noch übrig.

8 - So stellten also alle Männer mit Kunstverstand von den Werkleuten die Wohnung aus zehn Teppichen her; aus gezwirntem Byssus, blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin, mit Cherubbildern in Kunstweberarbeit stellte er diese her.

[aidenknow]

At least people now know that the victim’s testamony isnt a lie

[hanzier]

not in love. not together. but a secret third worse thing (stuck with each other in a time loop)

[pomni-xddcc]

Pomni, as very and totally reliable person to trust your reputation with, I am now your lawyer. I will now be attending all your testamonies and such. Your welcome -ADHD!!

Go back to your mom.

[princeshilo]

give me blog reviews and testamonials to add to my pinned post please and thank you

[almea]

I sent you an ask a few days ago thanking you for your content with a Bumbleby testamonial. Just wanted to let you know that your content has made me make an entirely new blog for interacting with RWBY stuff lol

Awww, that's so sweet. I hope you have fun!

[somethingclevermahogony]

I'm coming in a bit late for that ask game but... Pirate, Knight, and God!

Oooh three of them well I'll try to keep them short. Thanks for the ask!

PIRATE - Pick one! Pirates or Royals?

I have both in my WIP! One of my two MC's is a (former) royal, as is one of my (sort of) antagonists. But, at the same time I have three pirates in a poly relationship (here they are below) who are tied for my favorite supporting characters (not including the villain).

Also the former royal actually ends up being a pirate for a bit. With that in mind, I choose Pirates!

KNIGHT- Pick one! Forbidden Love or Enemies to Lovers?

This is where I have to make a bit of a confession. I'm a bad tumblr writer, because I have never been particularly fond of Enemies to Lovers.

There are exceptions, if its a factional sort of thing like Romeo and Juliet thats fine, but if the two characters have canonically done crappy traumatic things to each other...ehhh not a big fan.

Forbidden Love on the other hand, whether that be inter-class, queer, or whatever else, I'm all for. And there are several relationships that I would consider somewhat forbidden within my WIP.

Forbidden love!

GOD- Is there religion in your world?

There are many many religions, most lands have their own religious/cultic traditions.

But they all share two things in common based on history and knowledge gained from Spirits.

All religions in Kobani believe in at least one god.

All religions in Kobani are aware of the existence of other mortal worlds (though not how many there are) and the Cycle of Reincarnation

Besides those two things they are all very different.

The Kishic pantheon has hundreds of deities. The Rechiru believe in only one god with many different forms which they call Joth.

The Kishics believe that in order to continue on the Cycle of Reincarnation to the next world you must testify to the Death god, Najal, that you lived a good life. The Apunians believe that you face a council composed of their dead kings who judge your piety and sense of duty.

The Kishics believe that the soul must successfully reincarnate in four mortal worlds before it reaches the true afterlife. The Korithians believe that its seven.

The Kishics believe that if you fail in your testamony, your soul is reborn on Kobani and you have to start over. The Namutians and Apunians both believe that if your soul is seen as unfit, then it will be tossed into the dark waters of creation to wander for eternity.

And those are just a couple from around the Green Sea. They can get far more complex and varied the further away you go.

[ge]

hello just wanted 2 drop by and say that over the course of the past month ive marathoned the entirety of rotmhs comic and up to latest novel ch translation and its been Such a fun journey thank u for advocating for it !!! I tend to burn out on rly action-focused stuff but both the comic and the novel have such a unique way of going abt it that I couldnt stop till finishing both,,,, Ik its been said a billion times but it genuinely is one of the funniest stories ive ever read like I was wheeze-laughing in front of my ma over it at points its such a delight<3 And while I adore the comic and cannot wait to see how it handles everything upcoming the novel rly truly stunned me with how emotionally hard-hitting it gets bc yeah its mainly sillay times and cartoon violence and scheming plotting but the little glimpses scattered thruout of how deeply the world was impacted by the war chung myung lived thru and how absolutely vital martial arts are to him and how others r inspired by him(whether thru his own willpower or just beating the hell out of them lol).. its genuinely whiplash-inducing and im in awe of it a bit. Also think its incredible how even tho the cast gets So Large everyone feels so vibrant and refreshing and almost everybody gets their own moment 2 shine and show off how theyre growing or changing their viewpoint (my faves so far have been Baek Cheon(he is like a baby alligator to me I love him sm) and Yoon Jong(his whole thing during the Nanman arc is Incredible) and Yu Yiseol(my favorite girlie in the world whos backstory Gets me sobad) and way more besides but I will digress 4 now...... Anyways! Apologies for the essay but tysm again and feel free to take this as extra testamonials to anyone considering giving rotmhs a shot u shant regret it♡

U HAVE NO IDEA HOW WIDE I SMILED READING THIS.. YOU GET IT YOU GET IT i truly couldntve put my feelings about rotmhs' intricacies into words better than u have just now u have no idea how happy it makes me seeing people enjoy this novel prompted from my crazy incoherent recommendations alone.... IF ANYONE who hasnt started rotmhs at the time of reading this ask right now, take this testimonial as a sign from a higher power and HURRRYYYY PLEASE

[oozequest]

All of those satanic panic videos have at least one (1) testamonial from a "former satanic high priest" and they always, fucking always, look like an aging youth pastor.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 28, 2022

Heather Cox Richardson

Today’s testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol was explosive. It tied former president Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows directly to a plot to overturn the U.S. government. The witness was Cassidy Hutchinson, a 25-year-old aide to Meadows and congressional liaison who was well known on Capitol Hill. She was a staunch Republican who had worked for Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA), the second highest Republican in the House, and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). An aide to former House speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Brendan Buck, tweeted that “when Meadows was on the Hill he always insisted that she be in *every* meeting he had, no matter how small. It was odd then, and doesn't seem to be working out for him now.” Hutchinson testified that leaders in the Trump White House planned the attack on the Capitol. On January 2, 2021, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani met with Meadows and others in the White House, and as Hutchinson walked him to his vehicle, Giuliani asked her if she was excited about the sixth, saying, “We’re going to the Capitol! It’s going to be great!” When she asked Meadows what Giuliani meant, Meadows told her, “There’s a lot going on…things might get real, real bad on January 6.” On January 4, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien called Meadows to warn of violence on January 6. The Secret Service and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato, who was in charge of security protocol to protect anyone covered by presidential protection, also warned of coming violence. Hutchinson connected Trump to the insurrection attempt when she noted that on January 5, Trump told Meadows to contact Trump confidants Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, both of whom Trump had recently pardoned after they had been convicted of crimes, to talk about the next day. Hutchinson says Meadows did that. At the time, Stone was in Washington, D.C., where he was repeatedly photographed with members of the Oath Keepers who were acting as his bodyguards. A number of Oath Keepers have been charged with seditious conspiracy; at least two have pleaded guilty. That night, Meadows wanted to go to the “War Room” that Giuliani, Trump lawyer John Eastman, and others had set up at the Willard Hotel, but he ultimately decided to call in rather than to go in person. According to Hutchinson, by about 8:00 on the morning of January 6, intelligence reports were already coming in that some of the people near the Ellipse, where Trump was to speak, were dressed in body armor and armed with Glock-style pistols, shotguns, and AR-15s, along with other weapons. At 10:00, Hutchinson, Ornato, and Meadows talked of the weapons, but Meadows brushed it off, asking only if they had told Trump, which they had. That made Hutchinson’s next revelation seismic. Text messages between Hutchinson and Ornato show that Trump was “furious” before the Ellipse rally because he wanted photos to show the space full of people and it was not full because law enforcement was screening people for weapons before they could go in. Trump wanted the screening machines, called magnetometers, to be taken down. Hutchinson testified that Trump yelled, “They’re not here to hurt me. Take the F’ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.” Then, knowing that some of the people in the crowd were armed, Trump repeatedly urged them to “fight,” using language his lawyers had warned against. Hutchinson testified that Trump was determined to go to the Capitol with the crowd despite the desperate efforts of White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to make sure it didn’t happen. Cipollone told Hutchinson that Trump’s appearance there would open the White House up to being charged with “every crime imaginable” because it would look like Trump was inciting a riot. Nonetheless, Trump was furious that Meadows had not been able to persuade the Secret Service to make it happen, so furious that Cassidy heard from others that when he found that the SUV in which he was riding would not take him to the Capitol, Trump had lunged at the agent refusing to take him there. Hutchinson did not know what the plan was for Trump’s trip to the Capitol, but there was talk of an additional speech there, “before he went in. I know that there was a conversation about him going into the House chamber at one point,” she said. The president is only supposed to go into the House chamber when specifically invited, so perhaps he expected to be invited in, or perhaps he was going in without an invitation, or perhaps those talking about it were just tossing out unworkable ideas. Back at the White House, as the rioters breached the Capitol, Hutchinson went into Meadows’s office between 2:00 and 2:05 to ask if he was watching the scene unfold on his television. Scrolling through his phone, he answered that he was. She asked if he had talked to Trump. He said, “Yeah. He wants to be alone right now.” Cipollone burst into the office and said to go get the president. Meadows repeated that Trump didn't want to do anything. Cipollone “very clearly said this to Mark—something to the effect of, ‘Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood’s going to be on your f-ing hands. This is getting out of control.’” When the rioters began to chant, “Hang Mike Pence,” Cipollone tried again to get Trump to stop the rioters, and Meadows again said, “You heard it, Pat. He thinks Pence deserves it. He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.” Then, rather than calming the crowd as it threatened the vice president, at 2:24, Trump put out the tweet further blaming Pence for letting him down. By 3:00, White House personnel, Ivanka Trump, and various members of Congress were begging Trump to release a statement telling the rioters to go home, making it clear they all knew he could make the violence stop if only he wanted to. But he didn’t want to. Not until 4:17, after Biden had already made a statement, did he speak up. Trump told the rioters to go home and that “we love you.” The next day, as Cabinet officers talked of invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and removing Trump from office, advisors convinced Trump to make a video. Even then, he refused to say that the rioters should be prosecuted—instead, he wanted to talk of pardoning them—and refused to say that the election was over. In the aftermath of the insurrection, both Meadows and Giuliani asked for a presidential pardon. What emerged from today’s explosive hearing was the story of a president and his close advisors who planned a coup, sent an armed mob to the Capitol, approved of calls to murder the vice president, and had to be forced to call the mob off. Two of the president’s closest advisors then asked for a presidential pardon. While they did not get those pardons, Trump’s PAC later gave $1 million to Meadows’s Conservative Partnership Institute. That, right there, is enough to make today stunning. But there was more. Hutchinson described an angry and violent man who threw plates at the walls when he was frustrated. The committee revealed that when it interviewed Michael Flynn, he took the Fifth on whether violence on January 6th was justified either legally or morally. He also took the Fifth on whether he believed in the peaceful transition of power in the U.S. Vice-chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed at the end of the hearing that witnesses said they had been pressured by Trump’s people to remain “loyal” when testifying, and having just tipped their hand about just how much information the committee has, Thompson urged those witnesses to come back and revise their testimony. He urged others to come forward as well—perhaps a nudge to Cipollone, who has been portrayed positively in the hearings, both today and in the hearing covering Trump’s attempt to install Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general, when Cipollone stood against that corruption. CNN journalist Jake Tapper concluded: “It was devastating testimony, a portrait of a president who was completely and utterly out of control and, without question, knew of the danger of his supporters that were going to the mall…. This was obscene.” It was. And yet no one in the White House either spoke up to warn us before January 6 or testified at Trump’s second impeachment trial, where he was charged with incitement of insurrection and, thanks to Republican senators, acquitted.

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Notes:

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/06/28/jan-6-committee-former-white-house-counsel-cipollone/7762146001/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-gave-1m-meadows-nonprofit-weeks-after-jan-6-panel-n1288334

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095538077/a-second-oath-keeper-pleaded-guilty-to-seditious-conspiracy-in-the-jan-6-riot

https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jun/28/what-cassidy-hutchinsons-background/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/23/meadows-jan6-secret-service-committee-testimony/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/20/trump-secret-pardons-validity/

Laura Rozen @lrozen🧵Did not absorb it until rewatched today’s hearing, but Hutchinson testified that there were discussions she witnessed between Meadows and Scott Perry, and Meadows and Giuliani about Trump holding a second speech on Jan. 6 at the Capitol Opinion | Bombshell hearing raises a question: Why was Trump’s lawyer terrified? https://t.co/A7CUKil0cU

Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy

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June 29th 2022

CNN panel, June 28, 2022.

January 6th Committee @January6thCmteTrump was furious the Secret Service was screening people at his rally for weapons. "They're not here to hurt me. Take the F'ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here."

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June 28th 2022

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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KR (OH)

While I do admire Hutchinson’s courage in testifying, I am so angry that not one of these people came forward at the time or in the immediate aftermath, especially during the second impeachment. These are not heroes. What other stories will trickle out about TFG’s instability while in office? The nuclear codes were in the hands of a childish psychopath, and that is terrifying.

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KEM

3 hr ago

A few hours after Hutchinson's testimony had ended, I realized I felt uneasy about it, but could not identify why. It occurred to me that we have a hard time accepting powerful testimony from women--Anita Hill comes to mind, along with others. When a man testifies, we accept at face value (or not) their stated reasons of patriotism, conscience, or even just seeing the handwriting on the wall. But when a woman testifies, we wonder about her relationship with her boss along with all the other questions Nathan noted about political ambition, book deals, etc.

In the end, I am left with two thoughts: First, her description of Trump's mental state confirms what we have known in abstract. The painful detail she provided makes facing our blindness inescapable. That part is truly terrifying on many levels. Yet, men do not seem to have thought to mention it; they didn't really mention Trump in descriptive terms. It confirms that they were willing to ignore the inhumanity of his actions for the hollow glory of his promises. Second, the only part of her testimony that was hearsay was the incident in the car. I wish she had not mentioned it, because it made her vulnerable to contradiction, and it is already being disputed.

As one of the network commentators mentioned, men are often more forthcoming with female subordinates because they unconsciously do not see them as an equal who might become a threat in the future. The commentator further said they often are not even aware of the women's presence. In my own career I saw that fact many times and on occasion had bosses savvy enough to take advantage of it by sending me to represent them...and to listen. Plus, a quick mind coupled with a pleasant demeanor and an assistant's role would likely have been viewed as a welcome audience in the tension and terror of the Trump White House. In short, I do not doubt her testimony.

[constellatory]

some trivia about the Starkeeper.

✩ ˖°  —  its character and world setting are inspired by the claim that we are made of stardust and is set mostly in space.  it plays with the tangible existence of stardust and souls both, though the certainty of this is rare.  there are a lot of cultures whose faith has brought them closer to this, while for some it was merely happenstance.  tragically, the more death surrounds you, the more likely you are to witness Stardust — and with it the Starkeeper.  

✩ ˖°  —  not entirely decided on the size yet, but definitely on the smaller end.  somewhere around a maine coon, though the artwork does not convey such.  

✩ ˖°  —  it is most often spotted around recent ship graveyards; the aftermath of a battle.  it does not appear bothered by the lack of atmosphere at all, using debris and its wings to bounce from one wreck to the next.  however, this one is not the only of its kin, and certainly not the only keeper of death.  there will always be someone — or something — coming for the dead, whether or not ordinary people can see it, no matter how long it takes. 

✩ ˖°  — its reputation varies greatly, particularly because there is very little confirmed information on it.  few have seen it, and even fewer have interacted with it.  many stories come from people who saw it minutes after they survived a traumatizing tragedy, making it a dubious testamony.  sometimes even to themselves, given its mystical appearance and task.  some say that after it was done with its collection, it stayed with them until help arrived.  fur soft as silk; a voice of lullabies.

✩ ˖°  —  in some cultures it is a benevolent keeper of the dead, to others an omen of death.  among ship captains it serves as a very simple warning: death.  wherever the Keeper goes, the deceased are waiting.  some stay clear, others try to follow its trail, but few are successful.  it does not like being followed, lest it risk interference.

✩ ˖°  —  there are crews with whom the Starkeeper has forged a certain bond of trust.  people it knows are selfless and good at heart.  the ones that will follow it into the remains of a tragedy and safe those that yet remain, while the Keeper tends to those that did not.  on rare occasions it will deign to stay on their ship for a while, but it is always gone by the time they make port. 

✩ ˖°  —  despite its somewhat mystical appearance and reputation, it has often simply been named a “pretty rodent” or “space ferret”.  it is a very elusive creature that very few have managed to study.  you will be lucky to observe it from a distance.  a very quick and flexible critter, able to fit in surprisingly small crevices despite its wings and accessories.  curiously, the moment you loose sight of it, its noises cease and all that is glimpsed is a quickly dissipating trail of stars. 

✩ ˖°  —  an integral part of the spatial ecosystem.  the flora that blooms from the Stardust it collects will eventually cycle back to become new souls, thus perpetuating the cycle.  though this will happen on its own, the Starkeeper quickens the process and ensures a safe environment, away from natural disasters and those who would collect Stardust for their own gain. 

✩ ˖°  —  the Starkeeper is equally driven by duty, desire and instinct.  it takes pride in its Garden of Stardust Flowers, and is always looking to collect more.  the flora that will blossom varies from person to person, based on the life they lived, and the Keeper can tell the result with haunting accuracy the closer they are to death.  as such, it will prioritize collecting from those who will blossom into the desired flora.  but no Stardust will be shunned or left behind. 

✩ ˖°  —  although it cannot entirely predict death, it does have a good nose for impending disaster, and has a habit of hovering around the people whose Stardust it wants; this is where it gets its reputation as an omen of death from.  though it is rarely spotted, such sights do accummulate over the millennias ( the Keeper itself is not as old, but its species is ).

✩ ˖°  —  the Starkeeper has a very particular sense of individuality, but those details are still being hashed out, as is the significance of the accessories.  As a whole, it is a very... softly morbid? creature.  being so closely connected to the cycle and constantly surrounded by death, it has a very particular approach to it that more sentimental beings might struggle to comprehend.  the Keeper is not callous, per say, but its care is for the Stardust and the living, not the cold, empty corpses left behind.  

✩ ˖°  —  ‘ Starkeeper ‘ is not its true name and more so used for the species as a whole, but truthfully is a placeholder name until I decide on something else, ssshh.  in some circles it is also known as the Caretaker.

[upthewitchypunx]

I was just listening to a podcast that played part of that Descendents shirt guy's testamony and he said "thank the Gods..." is not only a punk but also a pagan?

[cle-news]

Does J. R. R. Tolkien should be forgive ?

Does J. R. R. Tolkien is just stupid enough to name the great land of the Devil Moria 100 years after the Mormon Church creation and 10 years before the WW2 ... In a book that takes your brain, makes it turn 100 times and then tells you : "this is the road... can you see it ?" ("Ummm all this turns makes me a little bit queasy, but... Yes I think I can see the Matrix here ... Ho no that's just my head that fells like I drink 20 bottles of vodka...")

And therefore should be forgive ? The answer is yes, as long as you don't kill Mormon and (All) Necromancer, exept this one with a strange mustache... All prophets was more than just Necromancers... You'll finaly see that, this book is against some of the most important testamony of most Religions. And therefore... Who's a Necromancer ? Jesus, Moise, Napoléon, ... Some of them are good. Most of them are visctims of Sapiens Stupidity. I don't put Hitler and Jesus on the same plate. I just fell like J. R. R. Tolkien did it ...

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[actualrealnews]

Trump broke his gag order by telling Tuberville what to say in his testamony, and giving his other cronies attending the trial talking points like "this trial is a scam".