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

I just find it disingenuous that we’re talking about Biden not being consistent on what exactly he’s been saying he’d do for almost a full year at this point. Read more

According to Lending Tree as of January of this year, $10,000 cancellation will wipe out 35% of all current student debt and knock off at least 40% of another 27% — which accounts for 62% of all debt. Read more

As the numbers show, public university tuition can rival private university tuition these days. Plus... as someone who attended a historically black college (private, like most of them are) and represents the countless black women who are having a disproportionately harder time climbing out of student loan debt... Read more

gotta let the ladies know he’s all about the organic tamps right off the bat, tho Read more

So I get the issue with him. Some of the people in the comments standing up for him are saying “well we live in a capitalist world and he needs to pay for rent and food, etc etc” except he’s a student, so he doesn’t need to be doing this to survive, especially because business starts require many thousands of dollars Read more

Thanks, I thought I was pretty measured too but... welp! Read more

Yes, we all have the right to have an opinion about something a public figure does. Read more

Fellow survivors were critiquing him as well. I thought their points had some salience, and I wrote about it. There’s really nothing more to it. Read more

This is not pitting two people against each other, it’s making a comparison. David’s decision to have a more public facing life is fine, as is our right to critique some decisions he makes in public.  Read more

I don’t know, I think there’s a lot of space between David Hogg Should Be Homeless Because Capitalism and Hmm Is It A Little Goofy That David Hogg Is Using His Massive Following Derived From His Position As The De Facto Spokesman Of A Senseless Tragedy To Build A Profitable Pillow Company That Relies On Tired Read more