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bisexual-horror-fan · 3 years ago

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Hey, hey, hey!

So I am finally biting the bullet and doing some commission work! I am really excited to do this, I feel like I am in a really good place at the moment and am really confident in my ability and I am sure I can put out some really stellar stuff. Don’t worry! I am still going to do requests for free as well and my own personal projects alongside commissions.

You might be wondering what is the point of doing commissions if you can get my writing for free? Well let me tell you! When it comes to commissions you can get way, way more specific outside of just vague body descriptors and pronouns and a basic request description. I turn down requests for being too hyper specific but commissions? You can write me a whole script to follow if you want. You can have all sorts of particulars, your preferred name and whatever terms of endearment you like, clear defined description of what you look like, what-the-fuck-ever you like!

Plus, in addition to you getting the EXACT fic you want is that you get to support me! I have put out over 800K of writing for free and that is just the confirmed number on my ao3, it is for sure more here on tumblr. That is a lot of content for nothing and if you’ve been here that whole time or half that, a few months or weeks or days and you wanna thank me for all I’ve done, this is a great way to get something for yourself while giving something to me.

So now with that let’s talk!

Rules!

I need a regular way of being in contact with you for this process. Whether that is tumblr dms, discord or e-mail so we can thoroughly discuss what you want and I can communicate with you if I have any questions or want to send you little snippets to make sure I am on track. It is important. Shoot me a message on tumblr first and foremost and we can work it all out. I am here for you to make sure you get whatever you want!

My rules for writing are basically the same as my request ones outlined here. I am down for almost anything! The list of kinks/things I won’t write is short. My character list can grow whenever I get struck with the inspo and love for a new character so you never know, it can totally get longer!

I mostly do smut. It is what I am best at, what I am known for and my bread and butter but I will write angst, I will write fluff, I do have the range I promise. I do however still have the right to refuse any request for any reason but I don’t turn down many people even for the shit I do for free so if you are paying, don’t worry that much. Also feel free to pick out something on my Masterlist and point to it if you want your piece to be similar in tone, vibe, or be an outright part two! That is a-okay with me!

Boiling down my no’s: Mommy kink. (Biggest no. Please do not ask.) Outright Non-con. Bathroom related kinks. Underage. Beastiailty. Incest. Pregnancy. (Breeding kink is fine!)

Characters I will write: Freddy Krueger. (OG 80s and New Nightmare. Robert Englund Freddy ONLY in this house.) Billy Loomis. Stu Macher. (Solo or Poly!Ghostface!) Danny Johnson/Jed Olson/DBD Ghostface. Herbert West. Dan Cain. (Solo or Poly!DanBert) Leslie Vernon. Doc Halloran. Bo Sinclair. Vincent Sinclair. Lester Sinclair. (Poly! Is an option with these three. HINGE ONLY! Brothers not involved with each other, only the reader. Do not try me.) Buddy Swanson/Metal Killer. Sam Wescott/The Wood Carver. (Solo or Poly!Camping Boys!) Ash Williams. (Old movies or TV Show.) Stuart Llyod. Warwick Wilson. The Driller Killer/Johnny. Nancy Downs. Bonnie. Rochelle. (Solo or Poly!Coven.)

Now let’s talk!

Pricing! So you’ve decided you want a commission, you’ve planned it out, picked your characters and are ready for me to murder you via writing, beautiful! But how much do you want to spend? Let’s figure out how long you want it to be for the answer to that. I did a lot of thinking on this part and think these prices are pretty fair based on what other people charge and for my skill level and time. These prices include my time for writing, editing and corresponding with you.

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-500 words. $10.

-1k to 1.5K. $15.

-1.5K to 2K. $20.

And you can add 5 dollars for every 500 words after that with a max of 5K words. For now.

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But! As we all know, especially if you are a longtime fan you know that I cannot shut the fuck up to save my life. So if the request goes over the limit of what you paid for? You get that for free! I promise you will not be charged extra because I have a problem and can’t stop writing.

You will not be charged extra for polyam ships either and there is not limit on what I will strive to include for you, keep in mind that trying to squeeze 5 to 10 kinks on a 500 words little piece will be a challenge and might not flow that well but it’s your money and I will do my best for you and THAT is the Triple X Bexxx guarantee.

Thank you so much for your time and I am looking forward to serving you all!

To start I will have three slots open and take it from there so get in while you can! Commissions will take priority over requests and will take my attention whenever I have them. I will try my best to have a quick turn around time while still giving your commission the proper attention it deserves.

#It's about DAMN TIME #WOOOOOO #Here we fucking go everybody!#BHF writing #BHF Commissions #Hope that you have fun with this!#I know I will!

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toongrrl-blog · 5 years ago

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The Mommy Myth: Mouthing Off to Dr. Spock (Part Two)

Another guy who made a living lecturing Moms about how to raise their kids and how they knew it all despite not being Moms or even so involved with their own kids was Bruno Bettelheilm who had a column called “Dialogue with Mothers” in Ladie’s Home Journal where the scenarios describe him in a circle with imaginary dumb-dumb moms talking about their kids and their issues. Here are a few pieces:

One thought that she would give her jealous older child deal with the new baby arriving by giving him a picture of the newbie to throw darts at.

Moms in these set-ups were never right, he always was.

It ended in 1973 the column.

There were others: Joyce Brothers (Good Housekeeping) and Lee Salk (McCall’s), they told moms to always be calm and rational (easier said than done) and the worst she could do is lose her cool (very hard for Latina and Black mamas, let’s face it if you see your kid doing something destructive, you will freak) and they always recommended getting professional help (therapy isn’t bad but one can’t help but feel they were recommending them a lot). I always want to say that access to mental health care is impossible and a mess especially if you cannot afford them, health care is a mess in this country and we really are doing disservices to families with children and those with mental health issues.

Of course Salk said the worst you can do is over psychoanalyze....once again Moms are either too much of this or not enough of that. His answer to one mother who had kids who liked to squirt each other with toothpaste was to “Before becoming critical of your children it is important to examine your own behavior”, some gaslighting huh? Isn’t he righteous Joan?

Oh yeah....also working moms damaged their kids’ self-esteem according to him, “I think that children who have working mothers may possibly feel that their mothers’ work is more important than they are” and could become defiant as they grow older (I’m sure teenagers with doting stay at home moms are defiant). Also reverting to baby talk “indicates some unfulfilled need” so that child needs undivided attention (BTW kids do that a lot) and how dare you leave your kid with a sitter and a kid cheating on a test is truly resentful of their parents? Also leaving kid with Grandma for a week while you and hubby go on vacay? Bad! Because, as Salk warned, the kid will turn away from you and become attached to Grandma (well kids get attached to grandparents a lot...) and become depressed and have bad behavior issues.

I wanna note that the author of this post is in favor of date nights and nookie and what Bridget Jones called “minibreaks” for couples, I read that a man whose friends had parents taking the kids with them on date nights ended up divorced while his parents who had a special night for just the two of them are happily married. Also “me time” is crucial.

Womens Magazines didn’t know what to make of the Women’s Movement and their attacks on the Victorian image of Motherhood that put moms on pedestals (you know what they said about pedestals...) and took Gloria Steinem seriously for her remarks that housewife’s work had marketable value. Magazines told women that their skills for running bake sales can be used for fundraising and mediating kids during their fights would be suitable for human resources management and the magazines started taking stay at home moms’ loneliness seriously

In 1972, McCall’s featured an article titled “How to Go to Work When Your Husband Is Against It, Your Children Aren’t Old Enough, and There’s Nothing You Can Do Anyhow” by Felice Schwartz where she urged housewives to recognize the market worth of their skills: “You have run a home, which requires the combined skills of purchasing agent, time-study expert, dietitian, interior decorator, and personnel manager” and their experiences haggling and negotiating with plumbers, butchers, and the babysitter can “be translated into personnel work, sales, administration, or any other job that involves dealing with clients or the public”.

In Ladies’ Home Journal, Letty Cottin Pogrebin (check out her work, she’s a sweet lady and fabulous) wrote a column called “The Working Woman” where she urged women to enter the workforce if they wanted to and wanted to be identified as more than so and so’s wife and mother and provided info about the first women to take on high-powered new positions and where to seek help should one encounter job discrimination. In August 1974, she interviewed children of working mothers and concluded “None of the children said they resent their mother’s jobs and none feel envious of kids whose mothers are at home” and in 1979 quoted psychologists who asserted there are not negative effects to be traced to Mom working. Some of these kids said learning to help run the house was fun and they liked being more independent, said they admired their moms, and daughters said they’d want to be working moms too. Contrast with a 1978 McCall’s article titled “How Children Feel About Their Working Mothers” where kids said they got mad when mom came home late from work, fights happening over that, and moms too tired to answer questions or play games.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin was proud of her column where she reached out to women who wouldn’t read Ms. magazine and it helped initiate changes in households and she received letters of gratitude. “Here’s what jumped off the pages in this corner of the media: Mothers were in it together, and they needed to work together to help each other out and to promote policy changes, like a national day-care system, that would help all mothers”, Meredith Michaels and Susan J. Douglas.

Redbook magazine featured an article titled “Double Jeopardy: The Working Motherhood Trap” where two working moms talked about how important it was to compare notes and devise ways to balance home and career as they had no books or role models to turn to. This wasn’t to offer a rosy glow of working motherhood or put it down but to discuss the good, the bad, take them all and then readers would have the facts of the life. They dealt with employers that wanted them to prioritize the job before the kids (reminds me of Hustlers when Ramona asks her retail manager to have get out early to pick up her kid and he said he never needed to worry about picking up his kids because he had someone to watch them while he was at work), or that they were unnatural mothers for wanting to work and they wrote for hopes of part-time work for both parents and long maternity leaves and equal pay.

Another article titled “Someday I’d Like to Walk Slowly”, the magazine brought 12 young working mothers to talk and compare notes with Bess Myerson (first Jewish Miss America from 1945). The women worked because they didn’t want to be financially or emotionally vulnerable and if you worked you enjoyed more equality in the home. They talked about the huge efforts it took to get husbands more involved in the household and sometimes they had to leave chores to the wayside and there were articles insisting working made moms better parents with one former stay at home mom of two kids confessing she “gained 70 pounds and...was watching 8-10 hours of television every day” and figured that when she quit work, she forgot about her needs in service of her family and “this self-sacrifice was unhealthy and unnecessary” and realized to be more patient as a mother, she needed time away from her kids.

By 1978, McCall’s was offering $1000 for “Working Woman” stories that reflect problems, conflicts, and opportunities confronting women who worked outside the home. In “New Ways of Taking Turns” Jane Adams talked about groups of working mothers in different cities who set up collective grocery shopping groups and even one for errands and car pooling for Little League and appointments. There was even one article about four single mothers who shared a house with a recent divorcee looking for a roommate which allowed them to save money from their paltry salaries and hire a sitter for all the kids and share in food preparation.

Now I have more from the authors of this book:

What is so striking about these various articles is how they gave voice to the experiences and concerns of everyday mothers, and provided the reader with a range of different attitudes and reactions to identify with. Here we heard mothers wrestle, explicitly, with the norms of intensive mothering, regarding many of them as unnecessary and overly demanding, yet getting pulled into their riptides through the specter of the hurt, lonely, damaged child. Some mothers cried when they left their children at day care for the first time; others didn’t cry at all and, in fact, couldn’t wait to drop the kid off. Some felt guilty about working; others believed it made them better mothers. We saw mothers going through their own thought processes and sometimes reaching dead ends: solutions that simply weren’t going to work. So they tried again, and found another solution. Because these magazines so actively invited mothers to submit pieces about their own experiences, there were also articles by older working women whose kids had grown up just fine, putting the lie to the work-equals-ax-murderer equation spouted by Spock, Salk, and others. There was no one, all-commanding opinion of the expert, no “I’m-the-best-mom-in-the-world-and-you’re-not” pap from some actress. So, for a brief time in the media, there were multiple personas for mothers to connect to, try on, reject. And, in these features, mothers were doing things, trying things: active agents in search of solutions. They forged ahead, together.

The Feminist Movement gave women the permission to speak their truths about their own experiences, even if it tipped over sacred cows, which led to more mouthy mothers being depicted. In the 1976 “A Bill of Rights for the Mother Person” had conceded that there was a taboo against discussing negative experiences with motherhood and the most taboo reaction was anger but “anger is inevitable” and normal and Moms would lose it with one mother confessing: “When Sarah bit me yesterday, I kicked her and said, ‘You dirty little animal.’” Moms talked about the noise of living with children, how they were mentally fatigued, always felt guilty, and like they lost their sense of selves. Lynn Caine, author of the bestseller Widow where she encouraged single moms to do what it took to take time out of the house on their own and told off the discrimination against single-parent families, who were considered “broken” and not invited to outings with traditional nuclear families.

Maternal humor pieces admitted raising children was not always spiritually elevating and was a antidote to the idealized families on television. Georgia Lee Cox wrote “Confessions of a Wicked Stepmother” where she married a man with four children and stated she was always afraid of children and now she knows why. There were jokes about spanking, stuffing pillows in their mouths, and martinis and when one sibling fought with his sister and said to his stepmom “I’ll die before I’ll play with her” and she answered “Prepare to die then” and got a martini. Judith Viorst (she wrote Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) wrote “The Confessions of a Mean Mommy” where she proposed telling a kid to clean his toys up by warning: “You are inches from death.”

In 1975, One Day at a Time, premiered on CBS and starred Bonnie Franklin as single mother Ann Romano who moved to Indianapolis with her two teenage daughters. Ann dealt with a low-paying job, power struggles with her ex husband, her teenage daughters’ feuds, and the come-ons of building superintendent Schneider. There was also the film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) which starred Ellen Burstyn (who won an Oscar for her performance) where Alice’s abusive husband gets killed in a car accident and she had to fend for herself and her young son; they head out for Monterey so she can resume her old singing career and had this reaction to her son’s laments of boredom: “Well, so am I. What do you want from me, card tricks?” This was spun off into a sitcom called Alice where she and Flo (”kiss my grits”) challenged their boss’s sexism to his face and behind his back. Good Times offered a portrait of a struggling African-American family with the (later widowed) Florida Evans who was loving but offered one-liners to her children and husband. ADLHA and An Unmarried Woman (1978) featured their suddenly single mom heroines meet cute and supportive men who wanted to make them happy (like Stan Rizzo and Peggy Olson, I miss my late boyfriend) and then The Turning Point (1977) where Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine were peers in ballet unit Shirley got pregnant and had gotten married where Shirley’s daughter aspires to be a ballerina while Anne is aging out of the profession. The implication being that you could age out of a career but never motherhood (what about when the kids leave and don’t call you on the phone?), probably got Karen to have Holly.

Then came the Supermom figure, as featured in the ad for Enjolie perfume where the mom shimmied singing “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never, ever let you forget you’re a man” which just added another narrow ideal for real and flawed women to make themselves sick to fit into. Oil of Olay targeted mothers going back to the workplace (or starting there for the first time) where they brought up fears of aging and competing with young people out of college (trivializing the too-real issue of women seeking work after 40).

By 1979, with the inflation and the Soviets invading Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis left mom’s issues on the wayside and Kramer vs. Kramer starring Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer, wife of Ted and the adorable Billy (soon to be Molly Ringwald’s bratty brother in Sixteen Candles), who leaves them for the other side of the country to find herself. The film revolves around Ted, probably for the first time, learning how to bond with his son and become involved in his life and left no sympathy for Joanna (who spent seven years of child-rearing and we never see what it was like to be trapped with a kid and a group of catty moms from his class, ever notice that stay-at-home moms or school mom groups seem to function like the Plastics?) who came back with a career and wanting to claim custody of Billy. Before I head into the 1980s media panics, I will leave the authors’ conclusion to this chapter here:

Tearjerker movies, mouthy moms on sitcoms, kid advice columns all exerted their pull on mothers, showing them how to thumb their noses at intensive mothering while reminding them that rejecting intensive mothering meant their kids would be screwed up forever--and would blame them for it. But there were two camps, especially in the early 1970s, and feminists had pointed out that putting intensive mothering all on the mother prevented female equality with men. The kid shrinks said that mothers who failed to read and study everything---especially the shrinks’ own columns and books--were in danger of producing a future generation of permanently scarred psychos or deeply pathetic, unloved wretches. Advertisers, often paving the way, had a solution: be a supermom. Embrace feminism and intensive mothering. This was not quite what feminists had in mind. But this was exactly the fusion--between two ethics impossible to reconcile---that the media, and millions of mothers, began to go with as the Gipper took the helm.

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tabloidtoc · 5 years ago

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Life & Style, December 30

Cover: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West divorce turns nasty

Page 1: Photo Flash -- Reese Witherspoon with husband Jim Toth and kids Ava Phillippe and Deacon Phillippe

Page 2: Contents

Page 4: The Top 10 Red Looks -- Kat Graham, Camila Cabello, Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld, Elle Fanning

Page 5: Lily Aldridge, Lili Reinhart, Lea Michele, Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria

Page 6: Twinning! Emily Ratajkowski vs. Rochelle Humes

Page 7: Laura Marano vs. Delilah Belle Hamlin

Page 8: Katie Holmes’ heartbreak as Jamie Foxx is engaged to Dana Caprio

Page 9: Luann de Lesseps back on the bottle, Throwback -- Matthew McConaughey, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- The Weeknd, Kylie Jenner, Rita Ora, Beyonce, Rihanna

Page 10: Anne Hathaway has welcomed her second child, Matthew Perry’s sober companion

Page 12: Halle Berry aggressively plumped her cheeks to disastrous results, Kyle Richards’ out-of-control ego, VIP Style -- Alessandra Ambrosio (pictured), Paris Hilton and Joan Smalls, Wayne Brady (pictured), 2 Chainz, Billy Porter (pictured), Timbaland, Jennifer Aydin, Loren Ridinger and Swizz Beatz (pictured)

Page 14: The Week on Photos -- Jennifer Aniston and Ellen DeGeneres

Page 16: Billie Eilish, Gal Gadot, James Corden and Eddie Redmayne deliver a singing telegram

Page 17: Chris Hemsworth films a commercial

Page 18: Happy Hour -- Kate Hudson

Page 19: Kristin Chenoweth and Rosanna and Elaina Scotto, Brittany Snow and fiance Tyler Stanaland and dog

Page 20: Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, James Van Der Beek and wife Kimberly and kids Olivia and Joshua and Annabel and Emilia and Gwendolyn in matching PJs

Page 22: Season’s Greetings -- Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen, Jenny McCarthy, Katy Perry and Ryan Seacrest

Page 24: Stars Behaving Badly -- Kourtney Kardashian puts kids Penelope and Reign to work massaging her feet, Kate Moss goes topless shooting a Dior ad

Page 25: Timothee Chalamet photobombs Greta Gerwig

Page 26: Say What?! Tiffany Haddish, Kate Beckinsale, Patrick Schwarzenegger on Chris Pratt, Dax Shepard on Idina Menzel, Kim Kardashian

Page 28: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom postponed their wedding because Katy wants a baby but she doesn’t want to walk down the aisle pregnant

Page 29: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s surrogacy hopes, Cody Simpson moves in with Miley Cyrus

Page 30: Cover Story -- Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at war

Page 34: Jessica Simpson finally tells all -- Nick Lachey isn’t the only famous ex who should be worried, other exes like Jeremy Renner and Jensen Ackles should too

Page 36: Queen Elizabeth to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Get back to work!

Page 38: Inside Christina Anstead‘s first Christmas with baby

Page 40: Age is nothing but a number for these Hollywood men -- Shayna Taylor and Ryan Seacrest, Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone

Page 41: Katharine McPhee and David Foster, Sofia Richie and Scott Disick, Dennis Quaid and Laura Savoie

Page 42: Who Lives Here? Awkwafina

Page 44: Entertainment

Page 45: Star Review -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson, As Seen On-Screen -- Idina Menzel’s Veronica Beard’s Helmond Dickey Coat in Grey that she wore during NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center

Page 46: Fashion -- Haute Holiday Looks -- Olivia Wilde

Page 47: Victoria Justice

Page 48: Reese Witherspoon

Page 50: Style Crush -- Lea Michele

Page 52: Diva or Down-to-Earth? Diva Prince William, Diva Camila Cabello

Page 53: Down-to-Earth Charlize Theron, down-to-earth Kendall Jenner

Page 54: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, Reese Witherspoon, Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin, Adam Devine

Page 55: Jennifer Garner gets a surprise phone call from Julie Andrews, Orlando Bloom and his dog Mighty, Katie Holmes, Simone Biles and boyfriend Stacey Ervin Jr.

Page 56: Horoscope -- Capricorn Alison Brie, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Aquarius Taylor Lautner and Taurus Gigi Hadid

Page 58: Made Ya Look! Billie Eilish

Page 60: What I’m Into -- Kaitlin Olson

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cosplayinamerica · 5 years ago

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Stuntwomen for Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly, Sarah Michelle Geller and Candice Paton talk a changing industry. Get to know Renae Moneymaker, Heidi Moneymaker, C.C. Ice, Ingrid Kleinig, Rochelle Okoye, Zoe Bell and Sydney Olson, the real women of action!

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newhologram · 6 years ago

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Stuntwomen for Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly & More | Women of Action | THR

Get to know Renae Moneymaker, Heidi Moneymaker, C.C. Ice, Ingrid Kleinig, Rochelle Okoye, Zoe Bell and Sydney Olson, the real women of action!

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junker-town · 3 years ago

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Dalvin Cook’s domestic violence allegations, explained

Little is know at this time, but here’s what both sides are saying.

Warning: The following contains details of domestic violence, as well as graphic photos.

Little is known at this time about the allegations of domestic violence filed against Vikings running back Dalvin Cook. However, in the hours since the last 24 hours there has been a coordinated effort on the part of Cook’s lawyers to present his narrative of events before the plaintiff. This side of the story posits that Cook was the victim. Cook’s side was prematurely, and irresponsibly boosted on social media without vetting, and accepted as fact.

Today we will look at the allegations of both sides ahead of the ensuing court case, and discuss everything we know so far.

The allegations against Dalvin Cook

Sgt. 1st Class Gracelyn Trimble, a U.S. Army officer currently stationed in Italy, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Minnesota accusing Cook of assault, battery, and false imprisonment. In addition Trimble alleges that Cook gave her a concussion, and left her with a facial scar after he hit her.

The suit alleges that on the night of November 19th, 2020 Trimble went to Cook’s home to retrieve some belongings from his garage after the couple had broken up. After asking Cook for help moving her things he allegedly became enraged and “grabbed her arm, and slung her whole body over the couch, slamming her face into the coffee table and causing her lower forehead and the bridge of her nose to bust open.”

The suit then alleges Trimble attempted to us a can of mace on Cook, but was overpowered. After being assaulted again in the bathroom she grabbed Cook’s gun and called her friend.

As part of the suit, photos of Trimble’s injuries were submitted, as well as a copy of a message exchange between Trimble and Cook in which Cook appears to admit to hitting her, adding that he would “accept what he did” if she went to the police.

Text message between Vikings Dalvin Cook and ex girlfriend who filed assault complaint against him from alleged November 2020 incident. pic.twitter.com/wwjUDoPYRi

— Rochelle Olson (@rochelleolson) November 10, 2021

First reported by Rochelle Olson and Ben Goessling of the Star Tribune, the pair learned that lawyers representing Trimble contacted Cook’s lawyers to seek a settlement prior to the suit being filed, but the sides could not reach an agreement.

Dalvin Cook’s version of events

Cook’s representation released their version of events from November 19, which is starkly different than that of the suit.

In the statement it alleges that Trimble unlawfully entered Cook’s home using a garage door opener she stole. At this point she held Cook and two guests hostage with a gun and can of mace.

The response asserts that Trimble was knocked to the ground during the altercation while Cook was trying to protect one of his guests. It adds that in the defense’s belief they have two independent witnesses confirming Cook’s account.

“We are confident a full disclosure of the facts will show Mr. Cook did nothing wrong and any injury Sgt. Trimble may have sustained that evening was the result of Sgt. Trimble’s own unlawful conduct,” Valentini wrote in a statement.

What happens now?

The NFL are aware of the allegations against Cook, but neither the league, nor the Vikings have made a statement on the lawsuit at this time.

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grapesodadarkchocolate · 3 years ago

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Do I Dance?

COVID-19 this week:

How do I dance with the unvaccinated? How do I follow a tune I can’t even hear?

Impacting my world. Shortening my stance. Forcing me to ask questions that aren’t mine to commence. Doing the hard work I don’t want to enhance.

Should I dance with the unvaccinated? Should I follow a tune I can’t even hear?

With energy forgone, not giving me a chance, to breathe in the new air this pandemic has unleashed. Caught in a trap, all I seek is release. “What do I do?,” is all I can ask.

Must I dance with the unvaccinated? Must I follow a tune I can’t even hear?

A choice has been made that leaves me askance to mumble and grumble, throwing it all to chance. I heave and I sigh, scratching my head ‘till it’s bald. Sending out queries, hoping answers will unfold:

Will I dance with the unvaccinated? Will I follow a tune I can’t even hear?

Patience wearing thin, with little rope to hold. Falling from the ledge, leaning too far and low. Placing my worn sneakers at the edge of the creaky wooden gymnasium floor —

taking my leave as I push with purpose on the massive gray metal doors. +++

Resources:

“Chauvin sentenced to 22 1/2 years for the murder of George Floyd” by Rochelle Olson, Chao Xiong and Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, June 26, 2021: 22 1/2 Years 📰

EJI Calendar Entry: “Supreme Court Invalidates Key Provision of Voting Rights Act at Southern States’ Request”, June 25, 2013 📅Sounding so much like today and yesterday. Will it also sound like tomorrow?

“COVID warning was his last wish” by Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, July 4, 2021, Rob Tersteeg 📰

On My Reading Shelf: 📙

Catching the Moon by Crystal Hubbard, Illustrated by Randy DuBurke: Toni Stone 📽⚾️

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raftaar24 · 4 years ago

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CDC says 'avoid travel.' Experts say warning won't deter people with holiday weekend plans

CDC says ‘avoid travel.’ Experts say warning won’t deter people with holiday weekend plans

CDC says ‘avoid travel.’ Experts say warning won’t deter people with holiday weekend plans CDC director Rochelle Wallensky is encouraging Americans to avoid traveling during the COVID-19 epidemic. (Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Image) As the US is coming down from a postholyd surge in COVID-19 cases, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a message for the public:…

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bisexual-horror-fan · 4 years ago

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RULES FOR ASKS AND REQUESTS. Who/What I Write For.

Up top let’s break down what is and isn’t okay!

What I Absolutely Will Not Write:

It is my biggest no! Please do not send me any asks for writing or in general about mommy kink or character’s mommy issues. If you are gonna send me an ask with the word “mommy” in it, just stop! Do not pass go! Thank you so much in advance for respecting this very important boundary of mine.

I also do not write the following:

Outright non-con. Dub-con is the furthest I will go.

Bathroom related kinks (y’all know what I mean).

Underage.

Beastality.

Incest.

Pregnancy kink. (Breeding kink is fine tho. MORE than fine.)

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Current Request Status: CLOSED.

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What I Will Write!

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Now as for what I do write. While requests are not open, I am more than willing to talk to people and hear ideas, sometimes if lightning strikes I will write it, but don’t count on or expect it. I mostly write smut but I can do funny, fluff, angst, whatever, my range is huge. Very comfortable writing for male readers, GN! Reader and trans readers, most comfortable writing from an AFAB! body perspective since that is the body I possess but I myself am not cis. Queer stuff is very at home here, as is sex worker positive fic.

Kinky Fucker Encouraged here! This is the place to come and experience no judgment for your sexual stuff, live and let live, we don’t yuck other people’s yums here.

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Here is my writing masterlist.

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Characters I Write For:

Freddy Krueger.⭐(A Nightmare On Elm St.) OG Robert Englund one and New Nightmare.

Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. ⭐ (Scream 1996.) Single is fine but Poly!Ghostface IS my jam.

Sidney Prescott. (Scream 1996.)

Tatum Riley. (Scream 1996.)

Randy Meeks. (Scream 1996.)

Mickey Altieri. (Scream 2 1997.)

Ethan Landry. (Scream 6 2023.)

Danny Johnson/Jed Olson/ DBD Ghostface. (Dead By Daylight.)

Herbert West. (Re-Animator.)

Leslie Vernon.⭐ (Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon.)

Doc Halloran. (Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon.)

Bo Sinclair. (House Of Wax.)

Lester Sinclair. (House Of Wax.)

Vincent Sinclair. (House Of Wax.)

Buddy Swanson/Metal Killer. ⭐ (Stage Fright 2014.)

Sam Wescott/The Wood Carver.⭐ (You Might Be The Killer 2018.)

Gabriel May. (Malignant 2021.)

Ash Williams. (Old movies or the tv show.)

Charles Lee Ray. (Human only for NSFW)

Tiffany Ray-Valentine. (Also human only for NSFW.)

Mayor Buckman. (2001 Maniacs)

Stuart Llyod. (The Last Showing. 2014.)

Warwick Wilson. (The Perfect Host 2011.)

The Driller Killer. (The Slumber Party Massacre 2 1987.)

Nancy Downs. Bonnie. Rochelle. (The Craft 1996.)

The Grabber. (The Black Phone. 2022)

Gus. (The Ref 1994.)

Edward Porris. (Anti-Viral 2012)

I will write for any and all on this list but the boys with a ⭐ are my top tier babes! My ultimate faves that I have endless love for!

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That’s all, thanks so much for taking the time to read this before sending me in asks and/or requests.

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Tishan Hsu at Hammer Museum

Anna Schachinger at Sophie Tappeiner

Michael E. Smith at Secession

Judith Bernstein at Karma International

Lily Wong at Kapp Kapp

Rochelle Goldberg at Miguel Abreu

Luchita Hurtado at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Darren Bader at The Journal Gallery

“Creative Beginnings. Professional End.” at Villa Vassilieff

James Benning at O-TOWN HOUSE

Josh Kline at Various Small Fires

Sung Tieu at Nottingham Contemporary

Christine Sun Kim at MIT List Visual Arts Center

Luisa Kasalicky at Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder

Alex Olson at Feuilleton

Anne Minich at White Columns

Keith Farquhar at Neuer Essener Kunstverein

“Kasten” at Stadtgalerie Bern

Leila Hekmat at Bortolozzi

Anne-Lise Coste at Dortmunder Kunstverein

Sam Falls at Franco Noero

Michael Rey at Philip Martin

Petra Cortright at Team Gallery, Inc

Andrea Bowers at Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst

Andrea Bowers at Museum Abteiberg

Have an excellent week.

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CHICAGO — R. Kelly, the R&B star who has been trailed for decades by allegations that he violated underage girls and women and held some as virtual slaves, is due in court Saturday after being charged with aggravated sexual abuse involving four victims, including at least three between the ages of 13 and 17.

In a brief appearance before reporters, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Friday announced the 10 counts against the 52-year-old Grammy winner, whose real name is Robert Kelly. She said the abuse dated back as far as 1998 and spanned more than a decade. She did not comment on the charges or take questions.

Kelly was driven to a Chicago police station in a dark colored van with heavily tinted rear windows around 8:15 p.m. Friday. He did not respond to questions from gathered reporters as he walked inside the building.

R. Kelly surrenders to authorities at Chicago First District police station, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. . (Tyler LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted a short time later that Kelly was under arrest. He was expected to be held overnight before an appearance Saturday in bond court.

For clarification on the CPD arrest process: Mr. Kelly will be fingerprinted, photographed & processed tonight. He will remain in Chicago police custody. Tomorrow morning he will take a prisoner transport to Court where custody will be transferred to the Sheriff of Cook County.

— Anthony Guglielmi (@AJGuglielmi) February 23, 2019

Kelly’s attorney, Steve Greenberg, told reporters following the singer’s arrest that one of the charges he faces appears to be tied to a decade-old child pornography case.

“Double jeopardy should bar that case,” Greenberg said. “He won that case.”

Kelly, who was acquitted of child pornography charges in 2008, has consistently denied any sexual misconduct.

Greenberg said he thinks prosecutors rushed to judgment Friday in charging Kelly, calling the singer “an innocent man.”

“Mr. Kelly is strong,” Greenberg added. “He’s got a lot of support and he’s going to be vindicated on all these charges.”

The arrest sets the stage for another #MeToo-era celebrity trial. Bill Cosby went to prison last year, and former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein is awaiting trial.

Best known for hits such as “I Believe I Can Fly,” Kelly was charged a week after Michael Avenatti, the attorney whose clients have included porn star Stormy Daniels, said he gave prosecutors new video evidence of the singer with an underage girl.

At a news conference earlier Friday in Chicago, Avenatti said a 14-year-old girl seen with R. Kelly on the video is among four victims mentioned in the indictment. He said the footage shows two separate scenes on two separate days at Kelly’s residence in the late 1990s.

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During the video, both the victim and Kelly refer to her age 10 times, he said.

Avenatti said he represents six clients, including two victims, two parents and two people he describes as “knowing R. Kelly and being within his inner circle for the better part of 25 years.”

“I don’t know what the tape is,” Greenberg said of the video Avenatti gave prosecutors. “We haven’t seen it. No one’s showed us the tape.”

The new charges marked “a watershed moment,” Avenatti said, adding that he believes more than 10 other people associated with Kelly should be charged as “enablers” for helping with the assaults, transporting minors and covering up evidence.

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The video surfaced during a 10-month investigation by Avenatti’s office. He told the AP that the person who provided the VHS tape knew both Kelly and the female in the video.

The jury in 2008 acquitted Kelly of child pornography charges that arose from a graphic video that prosecutors said showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. He and the young woman allegedly seen with him denied they were in the 27-minute video, even though the picture quality was good and witnesses testified it was them, and she did not take the stand. Kelly could have gotten 15 years in prison.

Charging Kelly now for actions that occurred in the same time frame as the allegations from the 2008 trial suggests the accusers are co-operating this time and willing to testify.

Because the alleged victim 10 years ago denied that she was on the video and did not testify, the state’s attorney office had little recourse except to charge the lesser offence under Illinois law, child pornography, which required a lower standard of evidence.

Each count of the new charges carries up to seven years in prison. If Kelly is convicted on all 10 counts, a judge could decide that the sentences run one after the other — making it possible for him to receive up to 70 years behind bars. Probation is also an option under the statute.

Greenberg said he offered to sit down with prosecutors before charges were filed to discuss why the allegations were “baseless.” But they refused, he said.

“Unfortunately, they have succumbed to the court of public opinion, who’ve convicted him,” he said.

Legally and professionally, the walls began closing in on Kelly after the release of a BBC documentary about him last year and the multipart Lifetime documentary “Surviving R. Kelly,” which aired last month. Together they detailed allegations he was holding women against their will and running a “sex cult.”

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#MeToo activists and a social media movement using the hashtag #MuteRKelly called on streaming services to drop Kelly’s music and promoters not to book any more concerts. Protesters demonstrated outside Kelly’s Chicago studio.

Police officers stand guard in front of R. Kelly’s recording studio in the West Loop as city inspectors go through the property on Jan. 16, 2019 in Chicago. A judge granted the city permission to inspect the property last week because the city suspected people may be living in the studio which was not zoned for residential use. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

As recently as Thursday, two women held a news conference in New York to describe how Kelly picked them out of a crowd at a Baltimore after-party in the mid-1990s when they were underage. They said Kelly had sex with one of the teens when she was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol and could not consent.

Latresa Scaff and Rochelle Washington were joined by lawyer Gloria Allred when they told their story publicly for the first time.

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In the indictment, the prosecution addressed the question of the statute of limitations, saying that even abuse that happened more than two decades ago falls within the charging window allowed under Illinois law. Victims typically have 20 years to report abuse, beginning when they turn 18.

The singer and songwriter, whose legal name is Robert Kelly, rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side and has retained a sizable following. He has written numerous hits for himself and other artists, including Celine Dion, Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga. His collaborators have included Jay-Z and Usher.

Rochelle Washington, left, and attorney Gloria Allred, right, look on Latresa Scaff speaks during a news conference in New York, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Kelly broke into the R&B scene in 1993 with his first solo album, “12 Play,” which produced such popular sex-themed songs as “Bump N’ Grind” and “Your Body’s Callin’.”

Months after those successes, the then-27-year-old Kelly faced allegations he married 15-year-old Aaliyah, the R&B star who later died in a plane crash in the Bahamas. Kelly was the lead songwriter and producer of Aaliyah’s 1994 debut album.

Kelly and Aaliyah never confirmed the marriage, though Vibe magazine published a copy of the purported marriage license. Court documents later obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times showed Aaliyah admitted lying about her age on the license.

Jim DeRogatis, a longtime music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, played a key role in drawing the attention of law enforcement to Kelly. In 2002, he received the sex tape in the mail that was central to Kelly’s 2008 trial. He turned it over to prosecutors. In 2017, DeRogatis wrote a story for BuzzFeed about the allegations Kelly was holding women against their will in Georgia.

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Kavanaugh hearing day four: Democrats still land no punches

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Kavanaugh hearing day four: Democrats still land no punches

Kavanaugh hearing day 4: Confirmation highlights

A multitude of witnesses testify on the final day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, including John Dean, Theodore Olson, Akhil Amar, Cedric Richmond, Elizabeth Weintraub, Aalayah Eastmond, and Rochelle Garza.

If the four long days that Judge Brett Kavanaugh spent before the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing for a seat on the Supreme Court are viewed as a contest of gladiators, he clearly came out the victor.

This was despite screaming protesters who jeered him and Democratic senators who gave the judge a thumbs-down before the confirmation battle even began and attacked him with everything they had.

Kavanaugh never lost his cool, even as several Democratic senators engaged in political grandstanding to please their most radical supporters. He demonstrated an almost photographic memory of the law and the decisions he had written in his 12 years as member of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, as well as the many important decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.

At one point, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, asked Kavanaugh to name his favorite one of the Federalist Papers (the essays written after the Constitutional Convention to convince states to ratify the Constitution). Without missing a beat, Kavanaugh rattled off the names and subjects of seven of the papers.

The nominee consistently educated senators on the law as if he had a legal textbook sitting in front of him. Anyone transcribing his answers could use them to write a treatise on constitutional law, including religious liberty, freedom of speech, separation of powers, executive authority, the regulatory state, and abortion and privacy rights.

Kavanaugh never made a substantive or procedural mistake, which is what his opponents on the committee were hoping to exploit. The judge showed beyond doubt that he is extraordinarily qualified to become an associate justice on the Supreme Court.

Democrats were also unable to shake him with their claims that he would just be a puppet of President Trump and should agree to recuse himself from any case involving the administration.

Kavanaugh responded: “My only loyalty is to the Constitution. I have made it clear, I am an independent judge” and vowed to stay “three ZIP codes away” from politics.

The senators didn’t come off nearly as well. The person who most embarrassed himself was Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., who put on a show to jump-start his expected presidential campaign. On Thursday, he compared himself to Spartacus, the gladiator who led a slave rebellion against the Romans more than 2,000 years ago. He also tried to manufacture a racial incident that turned out to be much ado about nothing.

Booker claimed he was “knowingly” violating the rules of the Senate, thus nobly risking expulsion, by releasing “confidential” emails from Kavanaugh when he worked in the White House during the Bush administration.

Booker claimed these emails “were about racial profiling,” clearly implying that Kavanaugh favored racial profiling.

But this was all a charade. Booker’s office had been notified before his histrionic performance that the Judiciary Committee had received clearance from the George W. Bush Library to release these emails.

Moreover, the actual emails showed the complete opposite of what Booker claimed. They were about the need to enhance airport security after 9/11. In one – dated Jan. 17, 2002 – Kavanaugh said he favors “effective security measures that are race-neutral.”

Booker was setting up a straw man that didn’t exist, obviously hoping that his false claims would get all of the media coverage – not the actual content of the emails.

In fact, the Civil Rights Division of the Bush Justice Department (where I was working at the time) issued just such guidance in 2003 barring federal law enforcement agencies from racial profiling.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking minority member on the Judiciary Committee, also made glaring mistakes. While questioning Kavanaugh about abortion and the Roe v. Wade decision, she cited a Guttmacher Institute report to claim that between 200,000 and 1.2 million women have died from illegal abortions.

That is actually the estimate of women who received illegal abortions, not died from them. The number of deaths, all of which are tragic, is actually estimated at only a fraction of that: 200 to 300 per year.

Friday, the last day of the hearing, was given over to 28 witnesses, consisting of two representatives of the American Bar Association, law professors, Supreme Court litigators, former Kavanaugh clerks, and representatives of various advocacy organizations.

Paul Moxley was there on behalf of the American Bar Association. The ABA’s rating of judicial nominees have generated great controversy in recent years over charges that it has been politically biased at times. Moxley told the committee the ABA had unanimously given Kavanaugh its highest recommendation of “Well Qualified,” which no doubt disappointed the judge’s Democratic detractors on the Judiciary Committee.

As one would expect, the other witnesses called by the majority and minority senators fell into two categories: Those who said Kavanaugh is an honorable, knowledgeable jurist who will make a great justice, and those who said that the sky will fall in if he is confirmed.

The latter group included a woman from Indiana who made the farcical claim that the ability of women to get birth control would virtually disappear if Kavanaugh is confirmed, and a 15-year old (one of three teenagers to testify against the nominee, remarkably) who complained about Kavanaugh’s decisions on environmental issues.

The oddest witness brought in by the Democrats was John Dean, the convicted felon, disbarred lawyer, and former White House counsel for President Nixon.

The only purpose in bringing the man who helped organize the cover-up of the Watergate break-in was apparently to assist the Democrats in trying to paint President Trump as another Richard Nixon.

Dean warned that Kavanaugh’s views were too “pro-presidential” – that he would help engender an “Imperial Presidency.” Listening to Dean’s advice on a Supreme Court nominee is like listening to the Devil tell you how to act in church.

But it was all to no avail. After four days, Democrats landed no punches, and Kavanaugh made no errors. His nomination will no doubt be approved by the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote, and unless there is some great surprise in the next three weeks, he will be confirmed by the full Senate before Oct. 1, the first day of the Supreme Court’s new term.

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WASHINGTON | Senate begins final day of Supreme Court nominee hearings

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WASHINGTON | Senate begins final day of Supreme Court nominee hearings

WASHINGTON — Senators began the fourth and final day of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday, but with the nominee finished answering questions the day they seemed unlikely to alter his path to confirmation.

Senate Democrats worked into the night Thursday in a last, ferocious attempt to paint Kavanaugh as a foe of abortion rights and a likely defender of President Donald Trump. But after two marathon days in the witness chair in a Senate hearing room, Kavanaugh appeared on his way to becoming the court’s 114th justice.

The 53-year-old appellate judge stuck to a well-rehearsed script throughout his testimony, providing only glimpses of his judicial stances while avoiding any serious mistakes that might jeopardize his confirmation. In what almost seemed like a celebration Thursday, Kavanaugh’s two daughters returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room for the final hours of testimony, accompanied by teammates on Catholic school basketball teams their father has coached.

On the schedule Friday are more than two dozen witnesses on both sides of the nomination fight. Democratic witnesses include John Dean, Richard Nixon’s White House counsel who cooperated with prosecutors during the Watergate investigation, and Rochelle Garza, the legal guardian for a pregnant immigrant teenager whose quest for an abortion Kavanaugh would have delayed last year.

On the Republican side, former solicitors general Theodore Olson and Paul Clement will testify in support of the nominee, along with former students, law clerks and the mother of a basketball player Kavanaugh coached.

Republicans hope to confirm Kavanaugh in time for the first day of the new Supreme Court term, Oct. 1.

Trump, campaigning in Montana on Thursday night, sought to elevate Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a political litmus test for voters, saying the judge deserves bipartisan support and criticizing the “anger and the meanness on the other side — it’s sick.”

Abortion was a focus throughout Kavanaugh’s two days of testimony. The Democrats’ best shot at stopping Kavanaugh — who could swing the court further to the right for decades — would be branding him as a justice who might vote to overturn the court’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Their hope is that two Republican senators who support abortion rights could break from their party and vote against him.

A newly disclosed email suggested Kavanaugh once indicated the abortion case was not settled law, though Kavanaugh denied in the hearing that he had been expressing his personal views.

The tone in the email from 2003 contrasted with his responses to questions on Wednesday, when he stressed how difficult it is to overturn precedents like Roe. In the email, Kavanaugh was reviewing a potential op-ed article in support of two judicial nominees while he was working at the George W. Bush White House. The document had been held by the committee as confidential but was made public Thursday.

“I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so,” Kavanaugh wrote, referring to justices at the time, in an email to a Republican Senate aide.

The document was partially redacted.

Asked about it by the committee’s top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein of California, Kavanaugh reiterated his previous testimony that “Roe v. Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court.”

Democrats also questioned Kavanaugh’s ability to separate himself from Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Throughout his testimony, Kavanaugh repeatedly stated the importance of judicial independence.

Kavanaugh refused to answer questions about Trump or commit to stepping aside from any case about the Russia investigation that might come to the Supreme Court. When Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut invited him to denounce Trump’s criticism of federal judges, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the nominee demurred.

“The way we stand up is by deciding cases and controversies independently without fear or favor,” Kavanaugh said.

Much of the debate among senators focused more on the disclosure of documents than on Kavanaugh’s record. Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey — who along with Harris is a potential presidential candidate in 2020 — said he was willing to risk fallout over releasing confidential documents about Kavanaugh’s views on race. Republican John Cornyn of Texas warned him that senators could be expelled for violating confidentially rules. Democrats and Booker responded, “Bring it on.”

In fact, some of the documents the Democrats wanted disclosed had been released hours earlier, in a pre-dawn disclosure approved by GOP attorney Bill Burck, who serves as presidential records lawyer for Bush.

The document battle stemmed from Kavanaugh’s unusually long paper trail following his years in the Bush White House. The panel’s process resulted in hundreds of thousands of pages of Kavanaugh’s documents being withheld as confidential or kept from release under presidential privilege by the Trump White House.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who released more documents Thursday, stood by his handling of the issue.

“My process was fair,” Grassley declared.

By MARK SHERMAN and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press

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