Republicans have long sought to undercut Hutchinson's testimony regarding a story she said had been relayed to her secondhand about President Trump lunging for the steering wheel of his presidential limo following his speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6.

Trump has vehemently denied the account and other White House employees did not corroborate the specific detail about Trump lunging.

The Washington Post first reported that a grand jury refused to indict Hutchinson.

As a way to stem boredom on the exercise bike (so I'll actually use it) I decided to paint while biking. The one below is 40 minutes on the bike. I finished it with 20 minutes on the couch. That was fun!

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3myvejr7rts2e

All water comes from somewhere. Researchers who want to know where it comes from rely on water isotopes, variants of water molecules with slightly different masses, as location identifiers. In particular, the specific ratio of heavy to light water isotopes is unique to the water's origin and processes it has undergone and can provide information on how water travels across the globe.

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One melts in front, he doesn't have a care,
He rests in peace. Disturb his calm. You wouldn't dare.
The other sits with eyes that say,
“the end of calm is moments away.”

One has surrendered where it's soft and warm,
The other clearly brings the storm.
Two cats, one couch, one picture perfect as a psalm—
Behold the fragile balance and please meet Chaos and Calm.

Lawyers working for the Met police told a detective who had been raped by a colleague that she could not have severe trauma because she was only attacked once.

AI WILL NEVER REPLACE THE JOB OF MAKING CARDBOARD SIGNS AND BRINGING THEM TO THE TRAIN STATION TO INJECT THE FUNGAL SPORE INTO THE VORTEX OF THE ESCHATON!

San Jose, CA – On October 22, students from San Jose State University rallied at the Smith and Carlos statues to demand an end to sexual assault, justice for Jane Doe, and justice for survivors. The rally was organized by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at SJSU as part of National SDS’s week of action.

The week of action was called in light of the Cornell 7 case, in which seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University gang raped Jane Doe. Protesters chanted, “Cornell is corrupt, expel the rapists, lock them up!”

Cici Liu from SDS noted, “Cornell can turn a blind eye when it comes to rapists. None of the seven students named in the sexual assault case at Cornell have been arrested. Only two of the seven have been expelled, and a number of them were assigned essays and workshops as part of their ‘punishment’ for their participation in this heinous assault.”

Ethan Maruyama from SDS stated, “A federal Title IX investigation also found that SJSU failed to properly handle reports of [Scott Shaw’s] misconduct dating back to 2009. You mean to tell me it took 11 years for a sexual abuser working at our university to be investigated and tried in court?”

Maruyama went on to expose how the university administration is complicit in sexual violence by inviting military recruiters onto campus. “In the Republic of Korea, where the United States stages 80 military bases, Korean women are being forcibly trafficked, prostituted and raped by U.S. military soldiers.”

“This morning, I got news that a military recruiter in Sunnyvale, just a few miles away from here, was charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl,” Maruyama continued. “By allowing military recruiters onto campus, our administration is complicit in these crimes.”

Mateo Deal from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) ended the rally by highlighting how the Trump administration is weaponizing Title IX against students, which was used against a transgender women’s volleyball athlete at SJSU. “The Trump administration has further entrenched women’s and LGBTQ oppression by rolling back Title IX protections. The legal ruling now only relates to biological sex, making it effectively legal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity on college campuses that don’t have statewide protections against these forms of discrimination.”

Deal noted how the rollbacks on Title IX harm LGBTQ students while protecting rapists, saying, “The ruling makes it impossible for there to be a real legal pathway to hold fraternities accountable, perpetuating sexual assault on campus and letting rapists know they can commit their crimes with little to no accountability.”

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