Abortion crushes every time the public gets to vote on it. The reason is these polling numbers showing evangelicals being strongly against abortion are a bunch of baloney. Of course evangelicals will answer an abortion rights poll in the negative, but the truth is they’d rather not have their daughters get knocked up o…

Daniil and Aryna deserved to have their national flags displayed by their names on the American television broadcast. The flaglessness was offensive and contrary to the spirit of good sportsmanship. Chinese players were not subjected to this humiliation. The Chinese flag was proudly displayed, as was proper.

Deja vu. Just six weeks ago Crystal Jewell was telling us about her Adderall habit and having to go cold turkey after she lost her job in high finance. It’s too bad we can’t hear Crystal’s take on Sam Bankman-Fried’s Adderall withdrawal. Crystal certainly didn’t think it was funny when it happened to her.

No definitive links were established, but Hamilton Nolan was believed by many regular Splinter posters to be TomatoFace. I always thought that was a ridiculous conspiracy theory, but I’m not so sure anymore in light of Laura Bassett’s moonlighting as Crystal Jewell. Yes, I believe Hamilton could have been TomatoFace.

Is the neckbeard Hamilton Nolan? I remember there were accounts that made lots of folks wonder if they were Hamilton’s.

I think we can all agree that Crystal was Laura Bassett. Laura resigned on Monday and decided to take Crystal with her. It’s a shame. Who knew Laura had such a flair for creative trolling?

Great news! It looks like Crystal Jewell was finally banned. All her old threads have been removed. It’s like they never happened. Unaborted daughter Julia has been aborted. Our long national nightmare is over.

Sorry, but Crystal was banned today. All her old threads have been taken down. Pity. Some of them were quite entertaining. I too was looking forward to finding out more about Julia’s budding tennis career, but now Julia’s tennis career will exist only in our imaginations.

The national abortion debate is already over. Abortion consistently crushes every time it’s put to a popular vote, even in red states. Smart Republican presidential candidates can see which way the wind is blowing. They’re ready to declare abortion a states right issue and move on to other topics, and so am I.…

You’ve forgotten your history. Everyone knew RBG was gambling with Roe by refusing to retire during Obama’s presidency. At the time we liberals cursed RBG because we thought the stakes were too high to gamble, but in retrospect, they really weren’t. And RBG had a damn good reason for rolling the dice: she wanted the…

The loss of Roe is turning out to be no big deal. We all panicked for nothing. I’ll eat some crow and admit Ruth Bader Ginsburg was smarter than I gave her credit for.

Nancy P and Hillary Clinton are kinda bland. Unfortunately Randolph and Liberal George were banned long ago. They were the good guys.

Yes, it was a failure of imagination by Thiel, and by every other wealthy media interest. These sites plus the Kinja commenting system can be popular and socially relevant again, and they wouldn’t be expensive to acquire.

But the free market is exactly why I believe Crystal would succeed as editor. Nobody generates reader engagement like Crystal. She doesn’t even post very often yet she’s still the superstar of this site.

I don’t think he’d lose money, not with Crystal in charge.

It’s mean-spirited snark like this article that will provoke Elon to buy the G/O Media sites and hire Crystal Jewell as editor-in-chief of Jezebel. Maybe it’s for the best. I think Crystal might be a good editor.

Russian trolls have been suppressing voter turnout in Iowa. Iowa is perceived as this hotbed of rabid conservativism, but that’s a false perception created by Russian troll interference. Iowa is really quite moderate.

Meh. Back in 2019 the common theory about TomatoFace was that he was a staff invention to drive reader engagement. He wasn’t. I researched Tomato’s comment history and discovered that most of the regular commenters on Kinja don’t know jack shit about the history of this place.

I wouldn’t hold it against the staff if it’s they who are ungreying Crystal. Crystal has astonishing star power given how infrequently she posts. Even during her busiest periods Crystal will post only 2 or 3 times per week. Most weeks she doesn’t post at all. She’ll go a month or two without posting. And yet she…

Crystal’s post is actually good news. It means the Ukrainian counteroffensive must be enjoying great success, otherwise Putin wouldn’t be so desperate to diminish the supply of much-needed 155mm howitzer shells for the Ukrainian Army.