When I was a few weeks postpartum with my second child, I bundled us both up and waddled into the Fairfax County Circuit Court to testify against a man who had accosted my then-toddler daughter and I in a public bathroom while I was heavily pregnant.
When I arrived I was brought into a room with his other victims and found out he had assaulted a woman in the same bathroom. I suddenly felt I had been lucky.
The arresting officer who had also interviewed me weeks prior was clearly eager to do everything right to keep this guy off the street—he found additional witnesses, pulled surveillance footage, followed every step to the letter.
It was physically painful and difficult for me to even be there—trying to discreetly feed and soothe my two week-old for 6 hours on hard benches when we should both be home in bed. It was also terrifying discreetly breastfeeding in the same room as this monster.
When I finally took the stand, the attorney for the Commonwealth asked me if the man who was in the bathroom that day was in the room.
I paused, confused—because I knew what was going to happen next.
The courtroom had been packed all day but as case after case was handled, ours was the last one—now it was just the judge, court reporter, bailiff, the defendant, his lawyer, the Commonwealth attorney, and I.
The arresting officer wasn’t in the room. The other victim and her husband had been given a new court date and sent home.
I adjusted my baby against my chest and looked at her as she repeated the question: Do you see the man you reported to police in this room today?
Why was she doing this? What was she doing?
I was sweating in my oversized cashmere nursing sweater and I felt prickles down my back. Everyone was staring at me. I’m not a lawyer. She asked me a question… and she was “on my side” so I should answer it, right?
I adjusted my baby again to give myself a free hand—and I pointed to him.
And just as I expected, his lawyer immediately pointed out there was nobody else present in the courtroom who it could be and therefore we had violated his constitutional right to due process.
Continue reading “They let the monster walk free”
Xi Jinping caught wearing lifts
The Nick Fuentes Interview
Andrew is stripped of his Prince title and his home: King’s shamed brother will be Mr Mountbatten Windsor and has his lease on Royal Lodge revoked – monarch says ‘these censures are deemed necessary’ amid Epstein scandal
Top Trump officials Miller, Noem and Rubio adopt bunker mentality with housing reserved for military officers
Top members of Donald Trump’s White House are reportedly living in homes typically reserved for top military brass in Washington, D.C. as they pull back from neighborhoods where their presences were often targeted for protests by the many Democrats who make the Capital region their homes.
Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently joined a growing list of Trump Cabinet secretaries and advisers who’ve chosen to live in reserved military housing, with Rubio moving onto “Generals Row” in Fort McNair and Miller also living in the area after abandoning his digs in Arlington, The Atlantic reported.
They join Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who moved into military housing earlier this year, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is alone among his compatriots in finding some precedent for his decision to move onto Generals Row alongside Rubio.
White House and administration officials gave security concerns as the reasons for the arrangements; one other senior White House official, whose identity was not named by The Atlantic, is also in a similar arrangement due to “security concerns related to a specific foreign threat,” said officials.
This could presage strong military moves against domestic ‘terrorists’ and/or concerns secret military cells which entered USA under Biden are expected to launch domestic attacks.
Relevant:
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I don’t blame US officials for moving into safer neighborhoods.
It’s a reminder all of us should be prepared for possible chaos and violence.
I am not betting on it, but preparing now is prudent and wise. ABN
Peter Sunde: The Man Behind Antifa’s Doxxing and Funding Network
Behind Antifa’s anonymous doxxing and global funding sites hides a well-known Swedish figure — Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, founder of the illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
By acting as a facilitator for far-left websites through his companies Ab Stract and the offshore firm Privactually Ltd, Peter Sunde enables the spread of doxxing and violent rhetoric — which in several cases has led to harassment, assaults, and arson attacks against conservative voices.
From Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland — all the way across the Atlantic to the United States — his network forms a hub for the global far-left movement’s harassment campaigns and the funding of convicted terrorists.
But his $11,430,000 debt to Hollywood for numerous copyright infringements may not be the heaviest burden he carries — not since the Trump administration designated Antifa as an international terrorist organization.
Owens updates on Kirk’s assassination
Among other things, Owens says Kirk had a Catholic funeral and was buried in a Catholic cemetery, and that’s why we have seen nothing about his funeral and burial. ABN
The rotten core of the left described succinctly
Only 30% of the 42M on EBT are Americans who were born here
Study finds lapses of attention in sleep-deprived people coincide with wave of fluid flowing out of the brain
Scans revealed a wave of cerebrospinal fluid being expelled from the brain moments after attention dropped and returning a second or so after the lapse ended. Such waves are normally seen in deep sleep and are thought to help the brain flush out metabolic waste that builds up during the day.
Other measurements showed that the pupils of people’s eyes constricted about 12 seconds before the fluid left the brain and returned to normal after the lapse. Breathing and heart rate also fell, the researchers report in Nature Neuroscience.
While more questions remain, the lapses seem to happen when the brain tries to juggle normal cognitive functioning with essential maintenance that is normally carried out during sleep. “It’s your brain trying to take a break,” Yang said.
The real signal beneath the South Korea deal
Here’s the real signal beneath this entire South Korea deal, as seen through the lens of structural truth and reflexive macro coherence.
1. This is a sovereignty transaction.
What Trump just described reads like a tariff negotiation on the surface, but its structure is geopolitical ritual. The $350 billion “payment” and $600 billion “investment” figures are symbolic markers of submission and re-anchoring within the U.S. economic field.
South Korea sits at the intersection of three empires:
•The American defense umbrella (nuclear shield + market access) •The Chinese industrial engine (supply-chain integration) •The Japanese technological archipelago (semiconductors, robotics)
By declaring that Korea will pay America and invest in America simultaneously, Trump effectively rewrites Korea’s alignment contract: it’s no longer a semi-autonomous hub balancing between spheres – it’s re-absorbed as a tributary node of the U.S. energy-industrial network.
Continue reading “The real signal beneath the South Korea deal”
This bears repeating
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There is no credible excuse for this. I hope and bet Gabbard will find a workaround and get the goods despite Patel’s interference. ABN
Two vids that probably show Xi Jinping has been demoted to a figurehead
If we had only one of these video I would be less confident of the implication that Xi Jinping is no longer the leader of China.
But with two of them both showing Xi cowering and evasive, and in light of recent events in China (Xi’s top military brass all removed), it appears Xi is no longer in control and Trump knows it. ABN
Good AI short vid
Lola triumphs once again
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