I don’t know why you posted all of that to my comment, but I thought this was all a Russian op from the first time I heard about this story, because who else was going around reading random ass blog posts from 2006? I read that same Twitter thread this morning and it was very illuminating.

They’re not THAT rich thus the desperation.

My sister and I have a pact that if whichever one ends up in a hospital unable to take care of herself, the other will do her facial hair removal.

It’s not a mischaracterization. You said it yourself: they want their kids, who already have every advantage, to continue to hoard privilege and deny upward mobility to those who have no advantages. They want to increase the gap between have (white) and have-not (non-white), simply based on arbitrary circumstance of…

Those kids have parents spending thousands on tutors and the like, their kids will be fine. The argument you’re making didn’t work in Little Rock (seriously, they said the exact same thing, check the comments here), and they won’t work now.

These parents can afford to send their kids anywhere though whereas the under performing children have no choice.

“But because space is limited, roping off 25% of the seats for disadvantaged kids means that 25% of the current students will be forced to attend a different, likely worse performing school.

The behavior of the parents is why I laugh when folks try to tell me a public school education is equal regardless of if you live in the city or the suburbs.

Good on the principal for directly calling the parents out on their BS.

Bright spot: Henry Z

More principals Henry Zymeck, please. He really told them parents in their face.

Chrissy Teigen honestly comes off as the most charming human being on earth with virtually every single tweet. To the point that I almost want to resent her for it, but I can’t because I really want to be her BFF.

Goddamn Angela Bassett is so fucking beautiful

How does one go from “Bush doesn’t care about black people” to supporting the most overtly racist president in US history?

Bret Easton Ellis is trash.

There’s a pretty big difference between St. Peter’s Basilica and those shittyKevin Sorbo movies in the awe-inspiration department.

Cool that the guy who got high and mighty about “taco chips” straight up mangled the word “bupkis”

Look, I know we all aren’t supposed to like Taylor Swift or whatever, but making jokes about men doing incredibly creepy things to terrorize her seems a little...much?

Younger Reform Jews have been increasingly critical of Israel over the years. There is so much social justice wrapped up in Reform Judaism’s messaging, it was really only a matter of time before people started seeing the double standard. One of the quoted tweets in the article was right: this is definitely emblematic…

.And the thing is, those evangelicals don’t really care about Jewish people. They just think y’all need to be in Israel for the rapture to happen