I love that she called out the “graffiti” bullshit, too. Like, if your neighborhood’s biggest problem is bored teenagers with spray-paint then you have it pretty good...

But what the editorial board and certain other reporters have done is nothing short of thinly veiled racism and preference for the status quo past. Something this city has had enough of.

This movement is all about breaking teacher’s unions & turning our education professionals into uncredentialled, at-will service sector employees. “Welcome to Hardee’s Academy — can I teach you long division today?”

The amazing thing about the teachers union thing is this, by all metrics states with a strong union out perform states considered “right to work”.

Bitching about teacher’s union is a thing because it, I dunno, people are pissed we still get benefits or something.

Please, cruel world, do not chew up and spit out these child stars like you have so many others.

I don’t think it’s like that. She started on TV and has the HBO miniseries premiering soon.

Nothing wrong with TV, but there are logistical aspects that have to be considered. She is likely in negotiations for other feature films that can’t be scheduled around a longer-term TV shooting schedule. I’m sure money is also a factor.

Why is this article trying to imply she’s a bitch for turning them down? I wouldn’t want to make a long term commitment when I signed on for a much shorter one either.

If the move to TV gave her some contractual out to jump off that steaming pile of a franchise, more power to her, I cannot blame her for taking it. I only made it through 20 minutes of the second movie and that was on a plane. I opted to listen to engine noise and the guy next to me coughing instead.

Lord, yes. Dear designers: I sweat. I sweat even more in polyester. I smell in polyester. I smell horrible. I would like to buy 100% cotton tshirts in the women’s section. You can make them for fucking men. Why can’t you make them for women?

Can we talk about how damn near every item of clothing these days is made of polyester/man made materials? I was at Target yesterday looking for some black cotton underwear and fuck me if it wasn’t all straight nylon. WHY.

There’s a difference between Breitbart (populist/conservative) and the Daily Stormer (Neo Nazi/ White supremacist).

In my county, back in the dark days of the late ‘90's, there was a thing called “Teen Court.” Underage jabrones who got caught doing dumb, non-violent stuff could choose regular family court or Teen Court, which was run entirely by teenagers (but supervised by a judge).

I think jail time would be much more likely to hurt than help. We should be focused on rehabilitation in our justice system, not retribution.

It’s called Restorative Justice. I used to volunteer at at program in Colorado. Look at police or community departments in your area, they offer comprehensive mediation training.

But moving them into a racially segregated prison system will teach them something? Even non-racist people come out of prison aligned to hate groups because hate groups in prison also keep you from getting beat up or raped.

I’m fine with this, honestly. It sounds like they’re actually going to be forced to sit and think through the dumb shit they did, rather than just be punished blindly and have their prejudices and ignorance fester and possibly deepen. After all, it’s not like sending them to prison would make them any less likely to…

“Born This Way” literally says every word in LGBT. It’s not even a metaphor. If he can’t figure out “no matter gay straight or bi, lesbian transgender life/ I’m on the right track baby/ I was born to survive,” he might actually be too stupid to implement Trump’s autocracy.

She and Pink, both miraculously able to sing well live even when doing extremely athletic routines. Very rare ability, and impressive.

I am by no means a Lady Gaga fan. I would never buy her music, as I don’t care for “pop”.