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“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kathleen shared. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

Ultimately, RFK Jr. said he had to go to a dinner that night, and he couldn't leave the bear in his car. So, he said he dumped it in Central Park. 

“It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence,” she said in a letter to senators ahead of his confirmation.