New York is not alone. Determining who of their members is the smelliest shit in the leakiest sack is how police unions pick their leaders.

Astrology believers in the West, unlike believers in religion or QAnon as mentioned in other comments, generally have no interest or ability to applying their beliefs to civic governance. Which means I *don’t* actually need to understand or care about what they believe.

Her name’s in the headline, her face is up top, and you reproduced her tweets word-for-word. She couldn’t have paid for a better “deplatforming” than that.

The bit from the sub-head, “Black people are ... threatening to avoid watching the Tokyo Olympics at all” doesn’t seem to have made it into the article. Editing error?

“In this case, the policies that resulted in Richardson’s suspension are the creation of a single body, the USADA, whose officials have the power to change them—but only if they want. In the case of Black athletes, exceptions are rarely if ever made; empathy can be equally hard to come by.”

She didn’t meet the Pope, she’s just wandering around the public parts of the Vatican as a tourist.

This one advertises her PhD in English in her author bio; she’s presumably on the upper end of language competency here, and I wouldn’t now bet on her or her editor. Who’s that leave that might be better?

What a relief. If we’ve learned anything from the last few years, it’s that when the Republican leadership decides they don’t like a candidate, we never hear from that person again.

It’s a rewrite of a Vulture story about a Reddit thread to which Jezebel’s only original contribution was the paragraph two description of the loan applicants as having “earned” this money. I wouldn’t encourage them to try to realize anything on their own, given how poorly that weak attempt went.

In the early years of the schools, the death rate was roughly 50 percent. You had a better chance of living if you volunteered to serve at the front in WWI. Over the entire history of these schools, the death rate was slightly worse that of the Canadian Army in WWII.

“I realize that in my hurry to get down here and break this story...”

This is so provincial. How could a nearly 150-year-old tournament possibly succeed without a person who’s famous in America in it?

Definitely the response of someone who is certain they have a point.

How delightfully classist. I’m sure no one in Jezebel’s target audience does any of those things.

Correcting it would require some kind of journalism (like, sending an email to a Cartoon Network PR person). I tried to track it back to the source, and apparently it is a quote from some Cartoon Network exec (who, I am guessing, misspoke) that a bunch of other click bait sites from which Jezebel took this story ran…

“the cheese puffs Harris allegedly cooked herself”

Mall-pop chanteuse Alanis Morrisette.

If you remove the musical performances from Saturday Night Live, it would still be Saturday Night Live. If you remove the comedy sketches from Saturday Night Live, it would not be Saturday Night Live. 

“Primarily” is right there.

It’s primarily a sketch comedy show. Variety shows normally have other types of acts - dancing, magic, acrobats, ventriloquists etc. They’re also seen as embarrassingly old fashioned, which I’m suspect was what was underlying Joan’s word choice, so as to convey maximal contempt.