At The New Yorker, Doreen St. Félix writes—The Rush of Seeing Harvey Weinstein’s Perp Walk:
Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood used to be Harvey Weinstein’s territory. He conducted his ugly business in its glossy environs. His company’s offices were on Greenwich Street, above the Tribeca Grill, where he was known to hold court. When the annual Tribeca Film Festival descended, Weinstein was there, snaking through the glitterati. One day in March of 2015, Weinstein invited the model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez to his office for a morning meeting. That night, Gutierrez went to the New York Police Department’s First Precinct, off Varick Street, to tell officers that Weinstein had “lunged at her, groping her breasts, and attempting to put a hand up her skirt while she protested.” The next day, as Ronan Farrow reported last October, Gutierrez, wearing a wire, confronted Weinstein at the Tribeca Grand Hotel. The recording captured Weinstein, in a hotel hallway, pressing Gutierrez to go into his room to take a shower with him.
To see Weinstein turn himself in on Friday at the same precinct where Gutierrez made her report, in the same neighborhood where he caused so many women anguish and pain, was simply cathartic. For all the handwringing about the mob power of #MeToo, the fact is that most men who have assaulted women will not face criminal charges for doing so. In the months since reports about his behavior first appeared in The New Yorker and the Times, Weinstein had spent time hiding out in Arizona. On Thursday, when law-enforcement officials’ announced that an ongoing investigation by the N.Y.P.D. had resulted in sexual-assault charges against Weinstein, the news elicited a response similar to the “galvanizing shock” produced in April, when Bill Cosby was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault. [...]
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2013—NRSC makes itself and Gomez ridiculous in Massachusetts Senate race:
This is just stupid. A super PAC created by California billionaire Tom Steyer, NextGen PAC, is talking about launching a campaign against Republican Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts Senate race with Ed Markey. Markey doesn't want anything to do with it and "has called on Steyer to stay out of the race." That's because Markey has signed a pledge (that Gomez has not signed) to limit outside spending in his campaign—the "People's Pledge."
With that established, enter the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which sent out a press release whining that Markey "is the first to violate the 'People’s Pledge.'" You know, the pledge that isn't in effect because Gomez hasn't signed it. Which Markey couldn't technically violate because it isn't in effect, and because he's asked Steyer to stay out of it, and because it hasn't actually happened anyway because Steyer hasn't spent any money yet.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Some claim Trump is a child rapist. Others claim that 1,475 migrant kids are "missing" after being detained by ICE. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Paula Apynys (aka Paula Writer) has thoughts on your obligations, re: tolerance. Plus, your weekend news readiness roundup.
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