The media has covered the degree to which this trial has served as a referendum on the Me Too movement and a siren call to domestic abusers.
Huge endorphin rush.Īround the third or fourth time I logged into Twitter to find “#AmberHeardIsAPsychopath” at the top of the trending list, I realized that there was no longer any pretending that the Depp-Heard defamation trial was not a terrible, foreboding reflection of our culture’s worst impulses. When it unclenched it was total bliss for a few seconds. Getting upright took time, effort, and a crap ton of swear words. I was locked into a sitting position while trying to stand.
This was not “my back hurts a bit”, this was I cannot stand up straight. If I sat for a period my lower back would clench up again. I stood in my kitchen watching videos on my phone for hours, but eventually you have to sit. Once I was upright it was cool and painless. I resorted to slowly backing up to a wall and then slowly leaning back and extending up. Getting my lower back to unclench was damn nigh impossible. Bleeping ow! You bleeping piece of bleep! Ow! Ow ow ow!” I was locked into that position and standing in fully erect took a minute or two and many, many “Ow. I could stand, painfully, but I stood at about 60 degrees to horizontal. If I sat for more than about twenty minutes I could not stand erect. Ukraine and its Western allies reject these as baseless pretexts to invade a sovereign country.Couple weeks back I got muscle spasms in my lower back. Putin says the “special military operation” in Ukraine is necessary to demilitarise and “denazify” the country, and because the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia through NATO enlargement and Moscow had to defend against the persecution of Russian-speaking people. It has dismissed Navalny’s claim that Putin is corrupt as nonsense. The Kremlin has repeatedly dismissed Navalny’s claims about Putin, who it says has won numerous fair elections in Russia since 2000 and remains by far the country’s most popular politician. “When you will all be burning in hell, your grandfathers will be adding wood to your fires.” “What do you want to achieve – do you want short-term control, to fight with future generations, to fight for the future of Russia?” Navalny asked the court. Navalny cast the prosecution’s “facts” as “lies” – and compared them to the lies he said Putin, Russia’s paramount leader since the last day of 1999, had used to begin the Feb. Russia denies Navalny’s claims that Russia’s secret police poisoned him with Novichok. He earned admiration from the disparate Russian opposition for voluntarily returning to Russia in 2021 from Germany where he underwent treatment for what Western laboratory tests showed was an attempt to poison him with a nerve agent in Siberia. His appeal was rejected by the court.Ī former lawyer who rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning Putin’s elite and voicing allegations of corruption on a vast scale, Navalny has long forecast Russia could face seismic political turmoil through revolt. He denies all the charges against him and says they were fabricated to thwart his political ambitions. Navalny, by far Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, was appealing against a nine-year jail sentence he was handed in March for fraud and contempt of court, on top of 2-1/2 years he is already serving. The judge repeatedly interrupted Navalny. “One madman has got his claws into Ukraine and I do not know what he wants to do with it – this crazy thief,” Navalny said of Putin. “This is a stupid war which your Putin started,” Navalny, 45, told an appeal court in Moscow via video link from a corrective penal colony.