Trolling drives engagement, which is very good for site traffic (I should know). Spanfeller himself probably sent out a memo instructing writers not to ban commenters. Trolls and sponsored content from Disney are probably G/O’s biggest revenue drivers.

Grooming children and violent assault is ‘curious’? I wonder what word you would have chosen if Ezra wasn’t non-binary?

We should probably just burn all the museums. I mean, we have Instagram, duh! What the fuck do we need artists for?!?

Drag queens reading children stories to children is not raunchy or adults-only. You and others seem to be conflating official drag shows with basic storytelling. Get your shit straight.

I have mixed feelings about the attention Jezebel is giving to this. I feel for the Griners, but the regular articles about how upset Cherelle (understandably) is while paying little or no attention to not-famous people in similar circumstances AND ignoring the realities of trying to deal with Russia right now reminds…

I am also a major pothead, and the anxiety I felt when flying cross-country with a tiny medicine bottle of flower was barely worth it - and I only flew with it because I was moving and wanted to have a small supply until I could find a dispensary in my new hometown. I cannot imagine what was going through Griner’s…

The main thing to me is the drug charges, and this is coming from a Big League pothead. It’s their land, they get to make their own laws, and she broke them. People are acting like she is the first American arrested overseas on minor possession charges. In reality, thousands of Americans are arrested abroad every…

It’s because they want us dead and they’ll use any excuse to attack us and take back our hard won rights. The “other is coming for your children” accusation is the oldest one in the book and it’s also the most dangerous. At first I thought this was a retread of the early 2000s panic about gay marriage manufactured to…

I have to agree with this take. Look it’s a horrible situation to be in, but I have to ask:

“If I can’t trust you to catch a Saturday call outside of business hours, how can I trust you to actually be negotiating on my wife’s behalf to come home?”

Reading Jezebel you would think this is the only conflict of any consequence the US has with Russia at the moment.

“Ultimately what I think is truthful was that they were both abusive to each other.”

The most frustrating part of these online hate campaigns is how damn effective they are. The woman needs photos, videos, and a signed confession (which are all just going to be dismissed even if she has it) and all an abuser needs is to say “Nope I didn’t do it” and people go welp he said he didn’t do it, she must be…

Gtfoh with this bullshit. You know damn well that this story (assuming it’s true) isn’t simply about someone “changing their mind about something.” You also know damn well that if Boebert simply had a “personal opinion” about abortion, there wouldn’t be a problem. Guess what, everyone has a personal opinion about…

“As a parent, I oppose abortion” is nonsensical, plenty of parents have both given birth and had abortions.

It is absolutely infuriating.  Any discussion about this issue on Twitter just gets flooded with Depp stans and their pirate flags, repeating the same thing over and over again, because heaven forbid anyone discusses any issue surrounding this case, even it isn’t about the case itself - proving without any doubt that…

How are such basic ethics questions, much less journalistic integrity issues not easy to get right?

There are a lot of people calling her out for possible ethics violations... but too many are bashing Amber Heard and it's infuriating. 

Did NBC literally have no one else to do the interview?

Yeah, I get it’s a happy ending, but yes, can do without the “do better.” So snotty and superior, that I can do without.