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Things We Saw Today: Surely Something Happened Today Besides This Senate Hearing

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We’re sure there have been other things happening today, but literally all we can think about is Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing is now into its eighth hour and it is a lot. We find all of these women’s faces highly relatable:

If you’re having trouble thinking about anything but these hearings … I don’t know. Here are some cute cats to look at?

I don’t know what else to offer. Here’s a very happy baby goat:

This lad is doing very well:

This is the only institutional infighting I want to see now:

Okay, that all helped. There have to be other things happening out in the world, I suppose.

It’s almost Friday! Take some time for whatever self care you need today.

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Vivian Kane
Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.