Update: 2 Kavanaugh classmates withdrew from a statement his lawyers issued disputing Ramirez’s claims. It is now signed by the 2 men whom Ramirez alleged had egged on Kavanaugh, the wife of the man she said told her to "kiss it,” and one other classmate: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news [...] ah-ramirez …

Laura Litvan @LauraLitvan
 
Actual headline that just ran on the Bloomberg terminal:    
 
*KAVANAUGH SAYS WAS VIRGIN IN HIGH SCHOOL AND MANY YRS AFTER:FOX

SAN MATEO, Calif. (KGO) -- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's roommate from Yale says he believes the second woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.
James Roche says he was Kavanaugh's roommate in the Fall of 1983.
"We shared a two-bedroom unit in the basement of Lawrence Hall on the Old Campus. Despite our living conditions, Brett and I did not socialize beyond the first few days of freshman year. We talked at night as freshman roommates do and I would see him as he returned from nights out with his friends," Roche said in a statement.
He went on to describe how Kavanaugh conducted himself while they shared a living space.
"It is from this experience that I concluded that although Brett was normally reserved, he was a notably heavy drinker, even by the standards of the time, and that he became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk. I did not observe the specific incident in question, but I do remember Brett frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk."
Roche says he became friends with Debbie Ramirez. "She stood out as being exceptionally honest, with a trusting manner. As we got to know one another, I discovered that Debbie was very worried about fitting in. She felt that everyone at Yale was very rich, very smart and very sophisticated and that as a Puerto Rican woman from a less privileged background she was an outsider. Her response was to try hard to make friends and get along."
 
Roche says he does not consider himself to be a political person and went on to say he has no political agenda.
 
 

Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro questioned whether hypnosis was involved in the allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
 
“I have never seen anything like this in my career over three decades,” Pirro said Monday evening on Fox News. “I've never seen so many repressed memory cases in my life. Especially against one guy.”
 
“So the question is if there is something awry going on, was there hypnosis? Are they using confabulation? And I don't want to get in the weeds here, but you know what? This is the kind of thing they have a right to true cross examination.”

Scott Stedman@ScottMStedman
 
NEW: Creative Response Concepts (responsible for pushing the ridiculous Kavanaugh doppelgänger theory and otherwise slandering his accusers) registered as a foreign agent in 2005 for the Putin backed Ukrainian politician Viktor Yanukovych. (h/t @thomasafine)

edit: bon, j'avais pas vu le message de Sylphide. Je n'irai pas sur le topic US, qui est à mes yeux une caricature du pire que peut produire HFR en matière de topic politique. Mais si cela gêne, j'arrêterai ici sur ce sujet.

Etats-Unis : la chasse aux ours de Yellowstone n’aura pas lieu

le juge Dana Christensen, du Montana, affirme que l’administration Trump ne s’est pas appuyée sur les « meilleures » données « scientifiques disponibles » en retirant le grizzli de la liste des espèces en danger, en juin 2017, dans le Wyoming et l’Idaho.

Los Angeles (CNN)Federal District Judge S. James Otero appears to be on the verge of dismissing Stormy Daniels's defamation case against President Donald Trump.
During a hearing in Los Angeles Monday, the judge said that Trump's tweet from April 2018 expressing skepticism about Daniels' claim that a man approached her and threatened her in Las Vegas in 2011 appeared to be well within the bounds of free speech.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the judge said the tweet appeared to be political hyperbole and opinion protected by free speech