Retired janitor, locksmith, banker, attorney, lifeguard. RT ≠ endorsement. While orthodox in (Anglican) faith, I love heterodoxy. All my followers are bots.
Introduction to me. I'm an old, retired janitor/locksmith/ banker/attorney. I love my one & only wife and my 4 adult kids. I'm a USMC brat. I swim and go to church. I lean center/left politically but don't hate the right. I've had 4 different "X" accounts since 2009.
I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.
It was by design.
The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.
I gave them the contact information for five friends.
They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.
They simply did not call the other three.
I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.
I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.
I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.
As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.
My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.
Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.
Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.
But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”
Erling Haaland — the giant on the pitch who dominates like a beast, but off it? Pure class. Tough guy, incredible soccer player, and someone who treats everyone with the same respect. A true giant with a massive heart. ❤️
#Haaland#Soccer#Respect@ErlingHaaland
In middle of large research project. Will be a few weeks before publish, but this is trend:
Over past 30 years, here's % of apartment buildings (100+ units) with certain amenities:
Swimming pools: Constant at ~75%
Pet Wash Stations: 10% to 50%
Golf Simulators: 0% to 10%
Playgrounds: 50% to 20%
In the full results, I'll include pickleball, which is even more interesting :)
@Seanarchy@TheCinesthetic I recall reading that she held it - I don't recall where. It may have also come up in the documentary 78/52. The camera also had to be refocused as it pulled out.
Really well done.
I never heard of this guy until @Benedicta_Bee posted something the other day. (no I don't follow "futbol.") Now I can't stop watching - he got both goals today against Brazil.
@TheCinesthetic BTW, I highly recommend 78/52. (The scene contains 78 camera setups and 52 cuts, which is why the documentary is titled 78/52.)
https://t.co/JYjSHv0Tqm
@bethanyshondark@ShabbosReads@AaronBMacLean@TheFP I would like to know if you or any of your follower's have read Wouk's "The Lawgiver" - my library has it in audiobook format and I'm interested. (Alas, they do not have either of the Winds books in audio.)
Thank you