It’s amazing how we’re supposed to call the police to de-escalate situations such as these and these guys came in to finish the job that WASN’T supposed to happen.

Except that storytelling is purposeful and you do consider how your characters look, what their cultural context is, and why they do the things they do. So they’re only making excuses for why they AREN’T being purposeful when it comes to race because then they’d have to explain how they’re able to construct such…

I’m reading it now and it is staggeringly awful.

That’s pretty amazing. Wow. Just. Wow....

And why wouldn’t the emergency manager agree? I’m just confused by why any of this happened in the first place. Did they just want to save money? What was the benefit of switching the water?

But why did they do it...? To save money?

I’m confused by how City Officials did not immediately try and change this. Did they not also live off of that water? Or do they somehow get special water pumped to them from somewhere else and it’s JUST for their houses? How does that work?

It’s also just astounding how this has gone on for so long with it just NOW…

Yeah. Agreed. Kids don’t lose anything by having a good relationship with both their parents.

It reminds me of Nicole Kidman’s estrangement from her kids with Tom Cruise. It always seemed like maybe she didn’t WANT that to happen but then it happened so now what...

It doesn’t sound like Madonna is a toxic mother... it just sounds like she’s uber strict and that doesn’t fly with Rocco the way she’d like. By all reports her other kids, including her teenage daughter who is currently away at college, are doing quite well and are not getting themselves into stupid things and all…

Uh.... no necessarily true. A 15-year-old is probably going to pick the parent who lets them eat ice cream for breakfast and go out to all the parties they want without flipping out at them. One might argue that’s not TERRIBLE but it’s a really critical age where some sense of self-discipline should be taught.…

So...it’s like Slings and Arrows but with musicians?

A very interesting observation. Perhaps he felt that yes they fought and yes they had some hard time but NO he did not BEAT her. Which.... whoever did the stuff that they did in those pictures wasn’t just fighting with her.

It’s true. He probably saw it as angry consensual sex, the bruises as them physically hurting each other, the sad signs of a legitimate fight.

I mean I’m sure she wants the best for them. She doesn’t seem like a neglectful or mean mother. But I can imagine how most teenagers would want to start eating things they want and do what they want. She just wants them to eat well and focus on stuff outside of media screens but I’m imagining most kids don’t have the…

“’My 14-year-old son is absolutely not satisfied with all my accomplishments,’ she told Entertainment Weekly last year. ‘He just wants me to cook for him.’

“My flower ended up looking suspiciously like a vagina. I threw it away once I got home.”

“I’m going to Joshua Tree for New Year’s Eve and I’m thinking it would be quite nice to wear white lace out in the desert. I have a vintage Mexican wedding dress that is embroidered with brightly colored flowers that I’ve been wanting to pull out again.” -Chioma Nnadi, Vogue.com Fashion News Director

But he’s not....? He’s got a wife and 2 other kids with his new wife.

But isn’t that a mom’s whole thing? Oh let me instagram my kid in diapers throwing up. HOW CUTE. And you’re just like, “OMG MOM STAHP”

Unfortunately, this kid’s mom is Madonna and there’s like millions of followers checking it out.