She was a working actress for a decade before Twilight, nominated for a Tony award and Drama Desk award at age 12 - I think her career was pretty well “kicked off”. Her first movie role was Camp which is a weird little movie but she’s fantastic in it and I think that basically laid the foundation for her long string…

Capitol Hill is exempt from all that. The Members set the salaries based on their office budget allowances. And they don’t have to use every penny they have on staff. I know Rand Paul refused and was proud of it. Some Senator's entire low level staff qualified for food stamps, but there was no recourse.

Your last paragraph really crystalizes one of the core aspects which is driving me nuts about the coverage here. It is this absurd situation where they instantly admit all the work that has been done in order to verify or independently support the accusation, but instead frame it as a negative as... how dare…

yeah, I agree with this read of the situation. Like you could get to the end of this Jezebel piece and feel reasonably sure she grew up dirt poor, even though there’s nothing to really indicate that. Like... she was working for Joe Biden very early on in her career. This isn’t a normal sign of being held back.

An awful lot of women grew up poor, didn’t have advantages, were treated poorly by employers, may have been in abusive relationships, and didn’t lie about being sexually assaulted by a US Senator.

I don’t understand why on earth anyone would try to set HER story up as one of oppression

There is definitely a “forest for the trees” issue here.

I’m a former Hill staffer, and this article is making me EXPLODE over the dress code bullshit.

“For months, journalists have worked to corroborate Tara Reade’s allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden in 1993. Much of that reporting has focused on the particulars of the allegation: journalists have interviewed 74 former Biden staffers and dug up tape appearing to show Reade’s mother calling into…

Having bits about two entirely different people named Stassie in this Dirt Bag confused TF out of me.

Jezebel promoted the shit out of Vanderpump Rules, and Jezebel is 100% part of the problem. I’ve been commenting here for years and people in the comments have been asking Jez to do something about the peak white feminism always dominating the comment section here. Why did you guys elevate such awful people for so…

I think Candice raises a valid point, but I still think what Stassi and Kristen did was disgusting and they deserved to be fired for that. But she’s right in that Bravo has to examine its own complicity in allowing this behaviour to exist. 

So what happens if the state just goes ahead? Do they have to give the land back? Replace it?

Land grants to the State cannot abrogate or interfere with the State’s inherent police powers. The statue meets the definition of an attractive nuisance and blight and it is the State’s duty to mitigate that public safety and health hazard.

You want the state to maintain your family’s property and your runner’s up shrine? Fine, that will be 130 years of property tax. COB Friday.

nothing in the bill calls for a reduction in police department budgets.

Sorry but I loved those books, and I was already pretty old when they came out and I’d basically stalk my little brother until he was done reading so I could start.

That’s irrelevant

Yes, it was very good. And, for that matter, so was Ender’s Game.

Oh, it’s definitely an insult to Palpatine. Mother fucker was evil and a planner. Even planned to come back from the dead!