ashleyreese
Ashley Reese
ashleyreese
Jezebel staff writer and famed mint chocolate hater dedicated to the intersection of politics, pop culture, and weird internet shit.

The perks of bodegas is that they’re ubiquitous. I’ve lived in DC. There are nowhere near as many places to grab a quick, cheap breakfast sandwich on the go as there are in New York. Read more

Cheddar is the only other semi-acceptable option, even though it solidifies after like five minutes. Read more

On a bacon egg and cheese? Now THAT’S unamerican. Read more

I don’t know, I watched the video and was like, “Okay...sure!” Read more

American cheese is the ultimate cheese for bacon egg and cheese, periodt. Read more

For the record, putting commas between bacon egg and cheese felt WRONG but... grammar : ( Read more

I’m literally talking about this specific illustration project, not questioning whether Barnes and Noble has a special section of its website or a table in any one of its stores dedicated to blackity black books for blackity black month. Read more

Okay? But the cool illustrations—this real allure of this whole project—would have been cool if they were actually paired with black literary classics in honor of Black History Month. That’s the point I’m making. Read more

Right. And like...there were literally entire news segments dedicated to it even yesterday, and plenty of pundits, journalists, current and former campaign operatives, etc were chiding Tlaib about this online and off. Read more

People act like Clinton is the first female politician America has ever had. Shirley Chisholm whomst? Unfortunately I saw loads of comments like that. Read more

Pretty sure the racial component here is less, “Tlaib was specifically singled out because of her race” and more about how the ease with which Clinton stans turned on Tlaib (who was their Palestinian Queen after “Impeach the motherfucker”) is another exmple of how deeply performative and opportunistic their embrace of Read more

Ashley also does not source the most insane quote from a Clinton-Stan she uses to bolster her primary gist here, the “You wouldn’t be anywhere without Clinton” one. Read more

There is nothing more lame in modern online media coverage than the act of cherry picking a handful of completely batshit tweets from accounts with an extremely low number of followers to provide you a nice target to takedown. Read more

As soon as I saw this I was ready to throw my phone across the room. Not surprising coming from her but how annoying:

For those who are curious, canoe man: