Anyone know where I can get an audio stream today? I wish I was working from home, so I could have the tv on.
Channel: Take your pick. All the major broadcast networks plan live coverage, including ABC, CBS and NBC. PBS will offer live coverage to its member stations, but it's up to those individual stations as to whether they want to carry it.
Additionally, all the major cable news networks plan to carry the hearings live, including CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. C-SPAN will also host its traditionally frills-free coverage.
Streaming: Again, there are multiple options when it comes to live-streaming. C-SPAN will air the hearings via its website. Other outlets that have said they will stream them live via their websites include Fox News, ABC, CNN, NBC, PBS and CBS.
Additionally, NBC News and "PBS News Hour" also have announced plans to stream the hearings via their respective YouTube channels.
Also when you click through it says they also spoke to a classmate who explains the yearbook captions as "insensitive but innocent" jokes.
So to recap: anyone who speaks out against Kavanaugh: lying, confused, and/or politically motivated Anyone who speaks in favor: totally credible, correct,nonpartisan. Nothing here you guys. This has just been one big misunderstanding.
Related: if anyone has tips for how they are handling the anger/sadness and prevent it from impacting your daily life/general worldview I would welcome them. I am having a really hard time with it, moreso than before.
I would too. I cried and shook for almost two hours last night. I've obviously hit my breaking point and don't even know how to go on. My birthday is tomorrow and I want nothing more than Kavanaughs confirmation to go down in flames.
Happy birthday, birthday twin. And hugs to you as well.
I also haven’t decided if I am going to listen today.
I’m a little stressed out because there are several advisories circulating that ask for no demonstrations inside the hearing chamber today in order to ensure that Dr. Ford has optimal conditions for testifying. I don’t know to what extent she was involved in this request but the organizations circulating it are well-respected in the sexual violence field. I’m super scared people are going to blow them off and it’s going to set the whole thing off kilter.
Usually I’d be the first to stoke the protest flames but today just feels different. It doesn’t need to be any more of a circus than it already is. Let the testimony speak for itself.
I read that she specifically requested small room, with just one camera. So it wouldn’t surprise me if she also made requests about outside protests. I really hope people respect that.
I didn't go to high school in DC but I did go to college there and even in the 90s these stories were known, at my college, about these private high schools in the DC area. None of this is surprising at all.
Also when you click through it says they also spoke to a classmate who explains the yearbook captions as "insensitive but innocent" jokes.
So to recap: anyone who speaks out against Kavanaugh: lying, confused, and/or politically motivated Anyone who speaks in favor: totally credible, correct,nonpartisan. Nothing here you guys. This has just been one big misunderstanding.
Related: if anyone has tips for how they are handling the anger/sadness and prevent it from impacting your daily life/general worldview I would welcome them. I am having a really hard time with it, moreso than before.
I would too. I cried and shook for almost two hours last night. I've obviously hit my breaking point and don't even know how to go on. My birthday is tomorrow and I want nothing more than Kavanaughs confirmation to go down in flames.
Hugs.
The thing that has helped me most when I've felt overwhelmed by all of this is to step away for a day or two. Can you do that? Even if not today, maybe tomorrow and through the weekend?
The resistance isn't going to end if each of us take some time for ourselves, as long as we come back.
USA Today reporter covering protests today on twitter for anyone interested.
This just sent me into a sobbing mess. It's like this one lone dude standing with women while inside there's gaggle of men prepared to do the exact opposite. I know there are certainly other men on the side of giving a shit, but damn if this picture didn't feel like a representation of that not being the norm.
I would too. I cried and shook for almost two hours last night. I've obviously hit my breaking point and don't even know how to go on. My birthday is tomorrow and I want nothing more than Kavanaughs confirmation to go down in flames.
Hugs.
The thing that has helped me most when I've felt overwhelmed by all of this is to step away for a day or two. Can you do that? Even if not today, maybe tomorrow and through the weekend?
The resistance isn't going to end if each of us take some time for ourselves, as long as we come back.
Agreed with this! Self care is important at times like these, and stepping away is a good way to do that. Read a book, take a bath - whatever it is that will take your mind off of it.
I am with you that this is really overwhelming at the moment and I'm not sure how much I'll be able to watch
Post by seeyalater52 on Sept 27, 2018 9:04:11 GMT -5
I have to watch the hearing and take notes because almost everyone is away at our annual conference right now. I'm dreading it. I'm an emotionally depleted nutbag this week and I just don't know how I am going to make it through the day.
I just...cannot believe the callousness of those “anonymous” men claiming they were the ones who assaulted her. I’m assuming they weren’t taken seriously but the GOP decided to release the info to muddy the waters. I shouldn’t be shocked. I shouldn’t.
I’ve had one panic attack this week and cried on my way to work. So. I’m no help in how to cope with this.
Post by cattledogkisses on Sept 27, 2018 9:11:51 GMT -5
I'm right there with everyone having a hard time. I'm battling between the need to stay informed, because I know that I can't fight back if I'm not informed, and the need to care for my own wellbeing. Mostly I'm just really fucking angry about everything.
I haven't been on much but I wanted to say thank you for all of your updates (and in advance of all of today's comments.) I know I won't get any solace from my alternating feelings of rage and grief, but hopefully after today "hope" can rotate in there as well. It's been a rough 2 weeks.