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Bryan Dean Wright @BryanDeanWright
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Sexual assault is not a car accident.

Conflating your auto trauma with the experiences of rape victims is one of the most absurd pieces of psychobabble I’ve read on this Kavanaugh fiasco to date.

Bravo.
Most rapists target people they know.

Your auto accident, on the other hand, didn’t involve the horror of being stalked, physically tortured, or molested as a kid by a friendly face.
Folks who have suffered from sexual assault have HAD IT with pundits and latter day Sherlock Holmes who think they can divine what happened in 1982.

You can’t. So stop. Let the witnesses speak for themselves.

And no more car accident stories. Not relevant. And utterly offensive
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DC’s Clucking Class is up in arms over Trump’s decision on Syria.

Here’s why this former CIA officer thinks they’re all wrong (again).

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Our goals in Syria are to 1) materially degrade ISIS in order to 2) help restore governance.

Goal One has been achieved.

Trump’s gamble is that Russia, Iran, & Turkey will keep it that way, paving the path to Goal Two.

AKA Victory through their blood, their treasure.

Not ours
To minimize rollback of Goal One, Trump must:

1) Maintain network of informants
2) Monitor threats
3) Neutralize new threats

We do the latter with a mix of airstrikes, covert action, & alliance w/ Turkey & Iraq.

Trump & his team know this. Esp the importance of Turkey/Iraq.
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Dem opposition to Gorsuch was minimal because he was a conservative replacing a conservative (Scalia).

Kavanaugh, however, is a conservative replacing a moderate (Kennedy). He may well reverse key Dem priorities.

That’s a nightmare for Ds. And why we’re seeing the meltdown.
To be very clear, I’m not defending Kavanaugh. I’m looking at the evidence dispassionately.

Thus far, none of the allegations have merit. Some of the women may have been assaulted but not by Kavanaugh.

Still, they have the right to a hearing. America should listen. Fairly.
As a Dem, being dispassionate with Kavanaugh allegations is wickedly hard. I know his SCOTUS rulings will likely run counter to my beliefs.

But Dems have lost the Senate & Presidency. Elections have consequences.

Losing the Supreme Court will be the greatest.

Time to buck up.
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The NY Times just got a bunch of people killed.

All because of its hatred of Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress.

Here’s how. (Thread)

nytimes.com/2018/08/24/us/…
The Times wants us to believe our Russian intel sources have dried up.

Reporters @julianbarnes & @AllMattNYT shared classified details that speak of our struggling clandestine efforts against Putin & his regime.

Never mind that highlighting our weakness atrenghrens his hand.
To wit, this para:

“Informants close to Putin are very rare... The United States, in recent years, has had only a few, and at times been reliant on only one or two for the most important insights on Mr. Putin, according to former officials.”

Let that treachery sink in.
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Sexual assault is a crime and so is making a false allegation. Somehow, we always tend to presume innocence for men accused of sexual assault, but we never presume the innocence of women accused of making up a rape story. The due process argument is a sham.
What would due process really look like for all involved? A trauma-informed, sensitive investigation. We didn't get that with #Kavanaugh. We don't get it in most criminal cases of sexual assault.
But presuming that men accused of sexual assault are innocent? It isn't due process and it can't be. It threatens the due process rights of the women making sexual assault allegations.
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This is a key point to jurists that I think many "civilians" don't quite get. We've gotten used to conflating ideology with party affiliation in the US, in an intellectually lazy way — but in the judicial branch, the distinction is CRITICAL. It's the only branch where ideas… /1
…still matter. Honest. Judges can range from liberal to conservative, or have philosophies of jurisprudence that fall into various recognized buckets, but they don't identify in a formal way as Democrats or Republicans. Leaning conservative in a way that supports GOP… /2
…policies, values, and initiatives is one thing. That's not what #Kavanaugh displayed last week. He identified the Democratic Party as his enemy, accusing it of orchestrating a campaign to sabotage him personally, even naming names (Clinton, incredibly) — and vowed payback /3
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As we move into the #Kavanaugh investigation, I want to have a chat about false allegations. From my experience, this is the #1 topic that is misunderstood by the general public and I want to address some of that confusion.
It's worth knowing that academics don't take "false allegations" too seriously. The reason for that is that they're really rare. False allegations of sexual assault are no more common that any other crime--and some studies have found that they're rarer. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
And as a former victim advocate, I can say that false allegations are easier to root out than most people think. Details don't match up or stories are too perfect. The allegations fall apart easily and the accusers often come clean.
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#Kavanaugh REALITY CHECK:

Nominated by a president who may be guilty of federal crimes.

Credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women.

Repeatedly and demonstrably lied under oath.

Gave unhinged, belligerent, conspiratorial testimony.

AND NOT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED NO.
Here's a useful thread about why #Kavanaugh's outrageous demeanor is disqualifying:
If you want to understand why I haven't joined the pro-Flake chorus, read this and understand that #Kavanaugh may likely end up on the Supreme Court.
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I'm a sociologist who studies adolescent sexual violence. On this thread, I will be live tweeting the #Kavanaugh hearing, chiming in with sociological insights and research findings.
Full disclosure--I will probably step away for parts of it. While many conservatives have cast feminists as people who rejoice at allegations of sexual assault against powerful men, this is a painful process for us. We know survivors. We are survivors. And I will need breaks.
It does not bode well that the beginning of this hearing is starting with equating #Kavanaugh and #Ford's experiences with harassment following Dr. Ford's allegations. They are absolutely not the same.
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"Why would she wait until now to report the sexual assault?"

A Thread.

#Kavanaugh #RapeCulture #ContentWarning
I write a lot of poems about sexual assault and rape culture. I perform these poems at slams all over the country, and when I do, women come up to me after the slam to tell me their stories.

So I'm not merely speaking about my own experience; this is a collective femme Catch 22.
The pressure is on us to report quickly; but victims are emotionally compromised by the situation.

94% of women who are raped experience symptoms of PTSD in the 2 weeks after the assault.

-via RAINN
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