Witness

Updated 5 May 2020

6 Oct 2018, 9:59 AM

No matter what happens with Kavanaugh, despair is not an option. Channel your angry energy into action. Call. Demonstrate. Register. Vote. There will be devastating losses along the way, and from them we recover and learn. We’re taking this fucking country back. Keep going.

6 Oct 2018, 10:59 AM

Older woman crying in photo: “How are we going to find the strength to keep fighting? Are we going to be out here for another 30 years? I don’t have 30 years left.”

Younger woman taking her photo: “I’ll be here. I’ll keep fighting.”

6 Oct 2018, 11:03 AM

NEW: Ramirez statement:
‘The other students … chose to laugh and look the other
way as sexual violence was perpetrated on me by (BK). As I watch many
of the Senators speak & vote … I feel like I’m right back at Yale where half the room is laughing and looking the other way.’

6 Oct 2018, 12:56 PM

Protesters have climbed the stairs of the Capitol chanting “November is coming!”. Hundred present here and across the street in front of SCOTUS.

6 Oct 2018, 1:12 PM

Thousands of anti-Kavanaugh protestors chanting “Vote them out!” Dozens being arrested on East Capitol steps now

6 Oct 2018, 3:46 PM

The screams from the protestors in the Senate are primal.

6 Oct 2018, 4:05 PM

https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1048665516699803649

There will be renewed calls for civility. Ignore them. They ask for civility as a way for you to grant them complicity in what they do.

Kavanaugh’s appointment isn’t a step backward. It’s a head-first plunge into an ugly past

6 Oct 2018, 5:48 PM

“What we are witnessing is not a step backwards for America so much as a headlong plunge into a punitive past. Adults must fight this future for the sake of the youngest Americans, who have already lost more than they ever got the chance to know.”

6 Oct 2018, 6:23 PM

What I hope people grasp is that the fight is not only about the win. You fight because it’s the right thing to do. You fight because if it alleviates suffering for just one person, it’s worth it. You fight because if you don’t, if you let them define you, you will lose yourself.

Updated 5 May 2020

I was reminded recently of another tweet Sarah Kendzior posted at the time of the Kavenaugh hearing. In his Washington Post op-ed Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers, George Will referenced the T S Eliot poem The Hollow Men. Skewering the Republican Congressmen, Kendzior posted verses from that poem along with images of those pretending to engage in the Kavenaugh accusations at hand, but were obviously not. This was the first time I had heard the poem and it was a moving introduction.

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