It had been a perfect day for Caitlyne Gonzales. The Uvalde survivor saw Beto O'Rourke, one of her gun-safety heroes, speak. She took a selfie with him, got free shirts, ate fried chicken after.
Then, on the way home, police lights flashed behind her family's car.
A thread:
In 1969 Tolkien sold the film rights of The Hobbit/LotR & was given a choice of ART (creative control) or CASH (more of it.) He chose CASH. After ~12 film/TV adaptations, the family obviously regretted this decision. So in 2017, the Tolkien Estate, which represents the family, /1
I’d always been confused as to how some SW fans could misunderstand the franchise they claim to love so much, but reading the work of historian Heather Cox Richardson really opened my eyes to the fact that the original movie served as a kind of Rorschach test for viewers in 1977—
There's a viral video on TikTok right now of Rebecca Latimer Felton in 1929, age 94, and all the comments are people gushing over how "sweet" and "kind" she sounds.
A perfect exemplar of how white supremacy weaponizes white femininity to endear itself.