I think half the attendees at the Great American State Fair are journalists doing stunt essays.

I’ve been working on something new for a few months and I’m excited to share it with all of you. Fine Lines is a new publication about culture, politics, media, and power. Read more here and please consider subscribing - I’d love your support: open.substack.com/pub/versharm...

“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

tomorrow!

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

The Washington Post news is awful. Since I’ve been laid off, I’ve had so many conversations with people who want to organize, create, FUND and support real journalism. I’m not giving up. I know things seem dire, but we have to join forces and collaborate. Time to get more organized.

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

The Post layoffs are an incalculable loss for local journalism, and one that we won't recover from anytime soon. But as billionaires destroy beloved institutions, it’s our job to build new ones. The @51st.news can't fill this void alone, but I think we owe it to DC to try. 51st.news/dc-bezos-was...

The Washington Post Guild just set up a GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump. organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68

✨NEW EP✨ Our Heated Rivalry coverage has begun! @joeorgana.bsky.social + @ianxcarlos.bsky.social talked Ep1 w/@johnnysibilly.bsky.social + @versharma.bsky.social + got to briefly chat w/actor Benjamin Roy (Shane's teammate JJ) YouTube: youtu.be/f2zP0txvQHg Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6jvd...

Feels like the first rational explanation for what's actually going on.

if you can go sit in a cafe packed full of like-minded people right now, it’s definitely the thing to do and many thanks to @karenattiah.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @versharma.bsky.social and @busboysandpoets.bsky.social!

This event is the capstone of the first year of the Resistance Studies Series taught by @karenattiah.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social of @zeteo.com, @versharma.bsky.social formerly of @teenvogue.com Fantastic panel.

Happening now! Pivoting to the People: @karenattiah.bsky.social, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, @versharma.bsky.social and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social are in conversation about the need to build platforms that serve the masses when institutions refuse or fail to do so.

For those not in D.C.-- there will be a livestream! RSVP for it here: www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...

This Wed, Dec. 3rd 6 pm EST at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social : Join me, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social of @zeteo.com, & @versharma.bsky.social formerly of @teenvogue.com -- as we discuss building power outside of institutions. RSVP: www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

I remember watching older movies and the FMC being a writer and being like "I don't wanna write about makeup and fashion. I wanna write about real issues" and just thought it was so cool that Teen Vogue *made* a place where writers and readers could get both. Thank you, staffers, for your hard work

Hi. I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold. I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)

my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

new @teenvogue.com: students at the 9 colleges invited to Trump's "college compact" have been pushing their universities to reject it. + a bit of a scoop: @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social tells us that they're launching a national coalition to support students pushing their schools to fight the Trump admin

Joy is good & builds long-term power! www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...

Subscribe to The Onion. I want to have more subscribers than The Free Press as soon as possible. This is achievable. In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says: "Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

rare good news! @teenvogue.com Arkansas is the 2nd-most climate vulnerable state: extreme heat, tornadoes, and low investment in climate adaptation from its Republican legislature—not to mention home to Walmart's Walton family and Tyson Foods. these young ppl launched a group to make the fight fun

“These narratives around young people in ‘starter jobs’ or doing sort of superfluous work, or just work to get them through, can often function to lower young people's bargaining power and reduce the power that they have in the workplace. Unions can obviously help with giving them back that power.”

One thing the DC occupation drives home is how many types of federal cops there are.

100%, all of this. It's what we advise @runforsomething.net candidates to do (and with the exception of point 10, which wasn't relevant, is basically what Zohran did in NYC.)

I’m going to be hosting on msnbc with @ayman.msnbc.com & @elisejordan.bsky.social tonight from 6-9 and tomorrow night from 6-9pm Please join us

Going on @msnbc.com at 8 pm ET to talk about Trump’s rapidly increasing authoritarianism, JB Pritzker’s response (which sets him apart from other Dem leaders), and the young activists organizing and joining protests across the nation

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

over 50 Texas Dems fled the state to block Greg Abbott and Trump's push to redraw Congressional districts. Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com

The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Nothing I can say could come close to summarizing these words, these photos. Just read it. “Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."

My campaign manager is IN IT TO WIN IT

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

“Authoritarianism doesn’t stop at the first target,” - Kat Abughazaleh www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

We only get results if we fight and take action. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen. Now it’s time to bring Kilmar home.

Credit where credit’s due, this is the most meaningful thing a Dem politician has done since Trump slithered back into office. Now bring him home!

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Book launch alert! If you're in NYC, come join me to talk all things 🤝 WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE 🤝 with @versharma.bsky.social at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social on May 15 at 7:30pm. I promise to make it worth the cost of the babysitter. Tickets are free but pls RSVP: greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal