ellieshechet
Ellie Shechet
ellieshechet
Ellie is a freelance writer and former senior writer at Jezebel. She is pursuing a master's degree in science journalism at Columbia University in the fall.

i still don’t know

lol sir or ma’am I don’t know what that means and— to be honest with both of us —today is not the day I’m gonna learn Read more

“Non-essential” can cover things like meetings, conferences, etc. Things that are often helpful and in many cases incredibly useful for doing your job but not absolutely necessary for you to be able to do the minimum requirements of your job. Read more

He is a hardline conservative on most issues who is certainly more in favor of boots-on-the-ground interventionism than the mainstream, but he’s not a “shut down the government” guy, nor is he a bigot or a cretin. Yes, he holds Republican party line positions on every issue, and no, I don’t agree with any of them. But Read more

This morning on MSNBC, he said “If Trump wins, we’ll have to build a wall to keep people IN.” And then “John Kasich would beat Hillary by eleven points, so obviously he’s out.” Read more

“I remember looking at it right away and having a lot of likes and saying, ‘Huh.’” Huh. Read more

just when I thought kendall couldn’t get any more boring.

“’cause it’s so not real life—to stress out about a social-media thing.”

me trying to choose between carnitas or barbacoa