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Christine Blasey Ford's ACLU ‘Courage Award’ Speech Is A Must Watch


Dr. Christine Blasey Ford made a rare public appearance to accept the ACLU of Southern California’s Rodger Baldwin Courage Award over the weekend, explaining in more depth and detail what motivated her to come forward against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in September 2018. (Almost 14 months ago Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her when both were in high school in 1982. He has denied the accusations and was later confirmed to the bench.)

“When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous,” Blasey Ford said in her acceptance speech. “I was simply doing my duty as a citizen.” So much so, she added, that she felt certain anyone in her position would “of course do the same thing.” But what seemed to her to be an essential and obvious move had a greater impact—and came at a greater cost—than she could have anticipated.

After her appearance before the Senate committee, Blasey Ford and her family were faced with threats, forcing them to move from their home and enhance their personal security.

“I was prepared for a variety of outcomes, including being dismissed,” she said over the weekend of her decision to speak out. “I was not prepared for the venom, the consistent attacks, the vilification, the loss of personal privacy, and the collateral damages to my friends and my family. I was not prepared to be physically threatened, or forced out of our home for over three months. I have learned a lot over the past year. I have learned there’s a well-financed attack machine out there ready to flood the internet and the media anytime I raise my head. And I know it’s not going to go away.”

In coming forward, Blasey Ford faced greater scrutiny and cruelty than most of her critics can imagine. But, she went on, even in the face of relentless attacks, she found strength. “Though I underestimated the pain, I also underestimated the love and the support that I have received,” she said.

You can watch the entire speech below:

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Tom Ford's $58 Liquid Eyeliner Is Absolutely Worth the Money


No hate on Dry January, but why does the New Year have to be all about self-deprivation? After months of spending our time, energy, and money on everyone else, we’re ready to treat ourselves. Welcome to our series To Me, From Me.

I’ve always been a sucker for eyeliner. When I first started wearing makeup, I didn’t get the memo on any other eye products. Mascara? Can’t tell a difference. Eyelash curler? Torture device designed for ants. Eyeshadow? Too complicated.

I got everything I wanted out of eyeliner, like easy definition, a little drama, and a whole lot of look. By high school, my signature makeup was a 10-minute application of the following: emerald-green liquid liner from the inner corners to the center, blue liquid liner from the center to a slight wing, and a healthy sweep of silver glitter liner over both. It looked great with my Catholic school uniform. (In my defense, this was 2004, the same year Britney Spears released Toxic—so, really, I’m just a product of my environment.)

Now, as an adult, I know better. So while I’ll still mess with a cobalt wing, my daily go-to is black liquid liner—specifically, Tom Ford’s Eye Defining Pen. If I ever have to testify for anything, they’d have to swear me into the proceedings with my right hand on this thing. It’s a dual-ended liquid liner; one end has a shorter, finer stroke, like a calligraphy pen, while the other is a longer brush. I use both ends indiscriminately (whichever cap I happen to pop off first) and the result is always good.

First, it deposits so much ink that there’s never any skipping or uneven spots that force you to double up on applications. And the pigment itself dries down to this rich, satin-y black that looks luxurious and won’t budge, even if your eyelids are oily (a real thing, folks). The color is so impactful that with a single sweep, you don’t need any other eye makeup. To be fair: It is high-maintenance, since it’s so pigmented that you have to wait a few seconds for it to dry before blinking. But hey, so am I.

What I used to achieve in three separate liners, I can now get in one. It makes all the difference between looking like I just woke up and looking like I’ve been awake for hours and, in that time, have gone for a run, showered, and enjoyed a breakfast date with my husband, Dev Patel. It makes me look and feel…ready. For the day. For anything.

And the best part? That $58 isn’t going to waste, because this won’t dry out for years. (Years!) I’ve been using the same pen since 2014, and only now is the ink starting to look half-hearted. And when I can’t get any more out of it? No sweat: I’ll put all the money I’m not spending on other makeup towards it. For me, it’s a worthy tradeoff.

Tom Ford Eye Defining Pen, $58, sephora.com



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President Donald Trump Openly Mocked Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony Against Brett Kavanaugh


President Donald Trump may have stooped to a new low Tuesday night when he decided to openly mock Christine Blasey Ford and her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a rally in Mississippi.

And honestly, the only thing that’s surprising is that it took this long to happen. Gone are the headlines that touted the president’s “restraint,” like CNN’s, which read “Aides quietly stunned by Trump’s respectful handling of Kavanaugh accuser.” In the piece, two sources quoted Trump as saying, “Why would I attack her?”

But last night, that’s exactly what he did, going so far as to imitate Ford.

“’I had one beer.’ Well do you think it was… ‘Nope. It was one beer.’ Oh good. How did you get home? ‘I don’t remember.’ How did you get there? ‘I don’t remember.’ Where is the place? ‘I don’t remember,'” Trump said, prompting laughter from those in the crowd. “How many years ago was it? ‘I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.’ What neighborhood was it in? ‘I don’t know.’ Where’s the house? ‘I don’t know. Upstairs. Downstairs. I don’t know. But I had one beer that’s the only thing I remember.'”

“And a man’s life is in tatters,” Trump continued. “A man’s life is shattered.” Then, echoing his comments from earlier in the day when he expressed fear for young men in the age of #MeToo, he claimed that he had many “false allegations” against him, adding that the crowd should “think of your son” because men are “guilty until proven innocent.”

Perhaps even more jarring than Trump’s own outrageous words is the laughter and applause of the crowd. Many social media users made the astute connection between the reactions at the rally and Ford’s poignant testimony about her memory of the alleged attack: “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two,” she said of the one thing she remembers the most about that night more than 30 years ago.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)—who helped request the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh which delayed the confirmation vote—appeared on the Today show Wednesday morning and condemned Trump’s speech. “There’s no time and no place for remarks like that,” he said. “I wish he hadn’t have done it. It’s kind of appalling.”

Twitter agreed—and many wonder how this type of rhetoric will affect senators like Flake, Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) who are thought to be on the fence regarding their Kavanaugh nomination votes.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said that the Senate will vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination this week.

MORE: Christine Blasey Ford Cites ‘Uproarious Laughter’ as Strongest Memory of Alleged Kavanaugh Assault





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Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony Is a Detailed Account of Brett Kavanaugh's Alleged Assault


Christine Blasey Ford, a professor, mother, and former childhood acquaintance of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. There, she will recount her side of the story for Senators, and the world at large, sharing in great detail the night she says Kavanaugh assaulted her.

Ford’s prepared opening remarks were released Wednesday, in which she shared just how deeply the alleged event from 1982 affected the rest of her life.

“I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school,” Ford wrote. She explained how she and Kavanaugh attended nearby schools—hers an all-girls academy and his an all-boys. Their social circles intersected. As she recounted, they weren’t quite friends but knew of one another well enough. But, in the summer of 1982 their worlds would collide, and for Ford, Kavanaugh would from then on become an ever-present figure in her memory.

“One evening that summer, after a day of swimming at the club, I attended a small gathering at a house in the Chevy Chase/Bethesda area. There were four boys I remember being there: Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, P.J. Smyth, and one other boy whose name I cannot recall,” she wrote. When Blasey Ford walked in, Kavanaugh and Judge were already visibly drunk. She had only one beer throughout the night.

When she made her way up the stairs to the second floor of the house to use the bathroom, that’s when Blasey Ford said the attack began.

“I was pushed from behind into a bedroom. I couldn’t see who pushed me. Brett and Mark came into the bedroom and locked the door behind them. There was music already playing in the bedroom. It was turned up louder by either Brettor Mark once we were in the room,” she wrote. “I was pushed onto the bed and Brett got on top of me. He began running his hands over my body and grinding his hips into me. I yelled, hoping someone downstairs might hear me, and tried to get away from him, but his weight was heavy. “

From there, she alleges that Kavanaugh attempted to take off her clothes, but had trouble due to his intoxication and the fact that she was wearing a one-piece bathing suit.

“I believed he was going to rape me. I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from screaming. This was what terrified me the most, and has had the most lasting impact on my life. It was hardfor me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me,” she said.

During the assault, she writes, Judge jumped on the bed, which made all three of them tumble over. That, Ford wrote, was the moment she escaped. From there, she ran into the bathroom and locked the door until the boys left. She then ran down the stairs and out the door. As she explained, she has thought of that event frequently as it was “seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult.”

In the remarks, Ford explained how she tried every avenue available to her to warn the committee about Kavanaugh and her allegations against him. She first called and met with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo and her staff, and finally sent a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein promised to keep the letter confidential, but it soon leaked, prompting Ford to tell her story herself, which she did to the Washington Post earlier this month.

Her testimony, along with the answers to questioning will be heard in full on Thursday. They will also be heard alongside Kavanaugh’s own testimony. The conservative judge released his prepared remarks, which read in part, “There has been a frenzy to come up with something — anything, no matter how far-fetched or odious — that will block a vote on my nomination,” adding he unequivocally denies the claims brought by Ford.

However, she won’t be the last woman he has to answer for. Since Ford came forward, two more women have joined in with their own accusations against him. On Wednesday, Julie Swetnick, a woman who also knew Kavanaugh in high school, alleged that Kavanaugh and Judge were both present at a party where she was drugged and “gang raped.” A third accuser, Deborah Ramirez, is a former Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s. As she explained to The New Yorker, Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in college and “thrust his penis in her face,” causing her to “touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.”

Still, none of these accusations against Kavanaugh will stop him from pursuing the highest court in the land. As he will tell the committee tomorrow, “The efforts to destroy my good name will not drive me out.”

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