Hi there!

I’m helping out my elementary school with possibly transitioning to an online store for Spirit wear.

It sounds like print on demand would be the best option.

I briefly browsed Printful and Printify but I’m out of my depth.

can someone please walk me thru some questions:

is POD the best option for offering an online store of school merch?

are there different types of printing and what should I look for?

these sites say you can “setup your store” - so would we still need to create a separate website a/o e-commerce site, cc processor, etc? Or is all that included?

do you have a better recommendation?

thanks!!!

I'm kinda obsessed with Stephanie Jones and her role. Does everyone agree that she was clearly working w/ Reynolds and Lively while still employed by IEWU? Does anyone believe the Ashely Avignone story?

There's two competing stories about What Stephanie Jones Did With The Text Messages From Jen Abels Phone:

BLAKE'S VERSION:

According to Blake, in late August 2024, Ashley Avignone, one of Taylor Swift's friends, was contacted by Stephanie Jones because Jones was trying to get in touch with Blake so she could share the infamous text messages.

Blake testifies about this event:

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And after the NYT article in December, there's a text thread between Blake, Taylor Swift, and Ashley (nicknamed "Roy Orbison" in the group text) that corroborates the Ashley Story:

ETA: Some folks are saying Roy is RR.

BALDONI'S VERSION:

According to Baldoni, Stephanie Jones gave the messages directly to Leslie Sloan (Blake's PR) the same day Jones acquired the phone from Abel. Melissa Nathan testified that "hours" after Abel's phone was turned over, she received a phone call from Leslie Sloan telling her "I've seen your text messages, prepare to be sued"

And it appears that Jones isn't really even denying that she handed the messages to Sloan:

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QUESTIONS:

Why would Stephanie Jones NEED Ashley Avignone?

Jones is an industry name. She has high profile clients and decades of experience. And we're to believe that her only way to Blake Lively is through some stranger?

• As PR for IEWU, she didn't have access to Blake's contact info??
• She didn't think of going through industry colleague and die-hard Blake Loyalist Leslie Sloan??
• Or leverage her HUSBAND, Jason Hodes, Senior Partner at WME - the same WME that reps Lively/Reynolds? the same WME who, at the same time, was facing constant pressure from Reynolds to fire Baldoni?

Why would Stephanie Jones TRUST Ashley Avignone at all?

She's sitting on a trove of highly sensitive, highly confidential, explosive information. She wants to get it into Blake Lively's hands. So she....entrusts some stranger as her intermediary? There's no evidence they were even acquaintances, let alone close enough friends that Jones would trust her to carry this message.

ETA: In this video, ExistingToThrive does a deeper dive into the evidence of AA & SJ's relationship

Kenz/ExistingToThrive shows both women follow each other on Insta and X, and that in the last four years, SJ has "liked" AA's posts about seven times.

(Keep in mind: SJ was the rep for Scooter B during the same time Swift was embroiled in a war with him)

Why would SJ pick a random "mutual" from her IG list to courier sensitive intel to Blake?
Why would AA ever entertain helping the woman who on the front line of taking down her best friend in 2019?

If the Ashley Avignone Story is Fake, what does it Coverup?

I think it covers up the fact that Jones had been in camp with Lively/Reynolds for some time already. I think Jones handed that info directly to Lively/Reynolds on the same day she got it, just as Melissa Nathan says. I think the only purpose of the Avignone Story is to create the illusion that Jones was so outside of the Reynolds/Lively Circle that she needed to source a way in.

As for the texts between Blake/Taylor/Ashley, I don't think they prove anything.

We know that by August, Blake's camp's State of Mind was "don't put anything in writing" so it's possible the text messages in December between Blake/Taylor/Ashley are just for show.

It's also possible that after Jones handed everything to Blake directly, then Blake and Steph workshopped a backchannel and Steph acted it out for show. (I really don't want to hate TSwift lol)

MOTIVES

Jones had plenty of motive to secretly work for Lively/Reynolds and Lively/Reynolds had plenty motive to approach her:

• Stephanie Jones (and her firm Jonesworks) had repped Baldoni (and WP) since 2017
• Though she was contracted as PR for IEWU, she was fairly "hands off" and the account was managed primarily by Abel
• In early August, when the first negative press about Justin surfaced, multiple people suspected Stephanie Jones was behind it.
  • She was blamed for the August 8th Daily Mail piece, which I think was the first to reference anything close to harassment
  • Jamie & Justin asked her to "stand down" on August 9th

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• By the 15th, WP had issued her a Cease & Desist and she had her lawyers involved
• Meanwhile her Firm had been going through some really hard times, with ex-employees allegedly starting anti-Jones websites and dragging her that year
• The year prior, in 2023, she lost her biggest client, Dwayne "the rock" Johnson
• Also on August 15th, Business Insider ran a negative piece on her, documenting the drama and downfall of Stephanie Jones, and highlighting how many clients she'd lost
  • From the Business Insider Piece "Who's afraid of Stephanie Jones?" Published August 15, 2024: "In addition to Johnson and Sánchez, Jeff Bezos, Julianne Hough, the country singer Lainey Wilson, and Chris Hemsworth (Jonesworks did the actor's social media but not his general PR) have all parted ways with Jones in the past year or so, former employees said, as well as the brands Wheels Up, Ocean Spray and Partake Foods."
• Meanwhile WME is well aware of the drama going on between Lively/Reynolds/Baldoni
• Lively/Reynolds are likely aware of the drama going on at Jonesworks
• She's being sidelined but still has full access (and knowledge of Crisis PR Team)
• Lively/Reynolds desperately want access and knowledge of Crisis PR Team
• Reynolds is working closely with Ari Emmanuel at WME
• Ari is Jason Hode's boss (Steph Jones' husband)
• She gets accused of leaking bad press against Baldoni
• She gets fired, sued, publicly shamed, and blacklisted
• BUT SHE HASN'T HIT BACK????

with all of that, i think it's impossible to believe reynolds/lively weren't already in contact with stephanie jones by the time she got jen abel's phone