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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 5h

you can show people side by side images of second empire grand hotels and commie blocks all you want. When the rubber hits the road people like walk-in closets, modern farmhouses, and .4% higher ROI on capital investment

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 6h

Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded.

Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 5h

We're living the 21st century version of the redemption era.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.

It's resegregation in real time.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6h

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

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Chicago Critical Mass @chicritmass.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago Street vendor buyout bike ride. Chicagoland bicyclist stepping up. 🙌🏻

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trick-or-treat 🍬 spider 🕸️ echo 🎻 @echolaleah.bsky.social · Mar 22

we are all stray dogs- no one will claim us unless we claim each other

deep solidarity can come from the knowledge that everyone is on the chopping block

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Mar 22

i think about this william gibson quote a lot

Gibson's later fanzine articles convey his natural flair for travel writing, since the best pieces are his description of an unpleasant encounter with Span- ish police on Ibiza ("My Life under Fascism; or, Franco Killed My Dog"), an amusing account about observing a mirror spontaneously explode in a Turk ish restaurant ("Anecdotal Evidence"), and a 1984 report on a visit to Mexico ("On the Surface," Wing Window No. 7); these pieces would not have seemed out of place in Distrust That Particular Flavor. In the first article, he explained that the policemen, after asking if a stray dog belonged to Gibson, cruelly shot the animal, provoking this rare excursion into political commentary:
So the next time you hear someone say that Heinlein or Bianca Jagger or Anita Bryant is fascist, I've given you one little yardstick of the genuine, the histori- cal article. They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars. (18)

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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 6h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 4h

They assume they have permission

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 5h

It's really weird all the legacy outfits deciding complete surrender is play against a patchwork movement with cratering popularity and only held together by an 80 year old man whose brains are rapidly turning into rice pudding.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 5h

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8h

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Aug 7

We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v

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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 5h

Now that our current regime has said DEI = bad corporations are showing their true colors. They want white hires, pure and simple.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 13h

Republicans could override the filibuster and reopen the government with only 51 votes.

Any other solution requires the House, and Johnson is refusing to bring it back into session.

Republicans completely control the shutdown. They don't want to reopen the government.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 6h

It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc.

A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 8h

The authoritarian takeover of X was a harbinger of the regime’s strategy for America at large.

Bluesky is a perfectly adequate refuge for X exiles. The biggest problem with Bluesky is that so many political and media elites are still on X. That’s not Bluesky’s fault—it reflects poorly on the elite.

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 9h

I'm doing a big Bluesky column today! Hit me with your where-Bluesky-is-at-this-moment-in-2025 takes

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Proven Winner @provenwinner.bsky.social · 5h

The irony is that professionalizing architecture and securing its place in the market economy inevitably resulted in architecture moving away from this idealized form of practice simply because the market economy doesnt have much demand for that kind of practice.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 5h

Getting hit in the chest from point blank range with a footlong sub and an enormous Peckinpah-style squib of sweet onion teriyaki sauce explodes from my chest.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 8h

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 11h

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6h

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 8h

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 11h

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent

www.nytimes.com

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 5h

TV was the place I knew I could go with pitches that other outlets DIDN'T want to cover - e.g. the China Initiative.

There was always a priority of helping readers understand the true impact to our country first, and their staff never backed away from doing the work to make it happen.

How the U.S. Unfairly Targeted Chinese Professors

The controversial China Initiative only formally ended in February.

www.teenvogue.com

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 5h

This is devastating, and I say this as someone who has written for Teen Vogue.

TV did a tremendous job helping Americans understand politics during the first Trump term.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 10h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 10h

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Screenshot text from the Atlantic

Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

I actually love this person, low key. They force people to get clear.

Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 10h

I’m often proudly the dumbest person in the meeting asking the most basic common sense questions

Questions that much smarter folk have hypnotised themselves out of being able to answer clearly

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”

Elon Musk: Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!
Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.
VOTE CUOMO!
11:45 AM • 11/3/25 • 1.2M Views

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck Conde Nast for firing Teen Vogue's entire political reporting dept. I encourage all of you to cancel your subscriptions.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

vogue’s coverage of the news is such absurd gaslighting.

“career development” and “cultural leadership”?

is that why teen vogue has gotten mentions and awards in recent years? no.

www.vogue.com/article/teen...

Chloe Malle, Vogue's head of editorial content, who was appointed to the role in September, will now oversee Teen Vogue.
Editor-in-chief Versha Sharma will be leaving the company.
"I remember when Teen Vogue launched, I read every page on the bus home from cross-country practice. I loved it then and I love and respect it now and am committed to continuing and supporting its point of view and sensibility," says Malle.
As a dedicated pillar on Vogue, Teen Vogue will focus its content on career development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people, according to the publication.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 8h

Hmm — what a great day for Teen Vogue to kill the politics coverage that helps young people navigate and understand how quiet moves such Idaho's rejection of family planning funding directly affect their lives.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Idaho’s health department quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding in April, leaving patients statewide without any access to the family planning program.

One Idaho health district no longer offers contraception at all.

From me:

While some states fight to restore Title X family planning funding, Idaho chooses to forfeit it

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly declined the entirety of its annual $1.5 million federal Title X funding, leaving patients statewide without free and low-cost contraception and repr...

www.newsfromthestates.com

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