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gaslighting (v.) -- to manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
Jennifer Bendery
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Jennifer Bendery
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Senior politics reporter for HuffPost. On Bluesky: @jbendery.bsky.social. Tips: [email protected]. Signal: jbendery.41
- This massive video of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony is playing on repeat in front of Brett Kavanaugh's dinner guests as they wait outside.
00:00 - she ain't comin over manCongratulations to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on winning the World Cup! Great and exciting play. America is proud of you all!
- Oh man. Rep. Ted Lieu now playing a tape of Candace Owens, who is sitting right there, saying it would have been fine if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great.
- A reader in Philly has flagged another mysterious new monument that has magically appeared in a public park to "honor" Trump. It looks a lot like the ones popping up in DC. Titled "In Honor Of A Lifetime Of Sexual Assault," it features Trump's "grab em by the pu**y" comment.
- This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
- WOW. San Juan mayor: "I am going to do what I never thought I would do. I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying.
- Hundreds of Indigenous voters and allies are walking miles together -- many in traditional Native attire -- to cast early votes in Navajo Nation today. Among the allies here: Mark Ruffalo.
- The Trump campaign is attacking Tim Walz for restoring voting rights to convicted felons. Who... wants to tell them.
- Here is Megan Rapinoe getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House right now. 🏳️🌈🇺🇸
- Kristi Noem testifying on DHS budget today, and Sen. Chris Murphy begins by eviscerating her record thus far. "You are illegally refusing to spend funds appropriated by this Congress... Routinely violating the rights of immigrants... Your agency acts as if laws don't matter."
- All three of the guys behind Project 2025 worked in the White House for Trump when he was president.
- My god did JD Vance lie and gaslight his way through last night's VP debate. About big things. So casually. Things that are so easy to call out. Like.... (1/x)
