Versha Sharma
@versharma.bsky.social
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@teenvogue.bsky.social
, trying to figure out how to be a good person in this chaotic world
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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)
about 2 months ago
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Musicology Duck
about 1 month ago
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
!
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Amy Torres
about 1 month ago
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.
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Resistance Studies Series
about 1 month ago
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.
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Karen Attiah
about 1 month ago
For those not in D.C.-- there will be a livestream! RSVP for it here:
www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...
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Pivoting to the People: Karen Attiah, Mehdi Hasan, Olufemi Taiwo and Versha Sharma | Busboys and Poets
Join Karen Attiah, Mehdi Hasan, Olufemi Taiwo and Versha Sharma for a panel conversation about the need to build platforms that serve the masses when institutions refuse or fail to do so. Speakers Meh...
https://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-evt-53689052/
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Karen Attiah
about 1 month ago
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...
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Tim Onion
about 1 month ago
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
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Fellowship
https://theonion.com/fellowship
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about 2 months ago
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
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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)
about 2 months ago
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
about 2 months ago
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"
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Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide
LGBTQ+ group Human Rights Campaign ended sponsorships from arms firms Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, who profit off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/11/human-rights-campaign-weapons-israel-genocide/
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Jenée Desmond-Harris
about 2 months ago
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!
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 months ago
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
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College Students and Faculty Resist Trump’s “Free Speech” Funding Scheme
Nine universities across the country were given a test of loyalty from the Trump administration. Now, students are demanding their schools not sign the president’s 10 point compact agreement.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/college-students-and-faculty-resist-trumps-free-speech-funding-scheme
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Amanda Litman
3 months ago
Joy is good & builds long-term power!
www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...
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Tim Onion
3 months ago
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.
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Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
https://membership.theonion.com/
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 months ago
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.”
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Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-thunberg-accuses-israel-of-violating-international-law-flotilla
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
4 months ago
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
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Young People Are Using Parties and Free Menstrual Cups to Fight Climate Anxiety
A 2024 survey of 15 to 25 year olds found that 60% are "extremely worried" about the climate crisis; more than 40% say climate anxiety affects their mental health.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/young-people-fighting-climate-anxiety-in-arkansas-parties-menstrual-cups
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Rainesford Stauffer
4 months ago
“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.”
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What Are Your Rights at Work As a Young Person?
Exploitation of young people on the job is way too common.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/young-workers-rights-labor-protections
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Marc Elias
4 months ago
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
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Michael Derby
4 months ago
One thing the DC occupation drives home is how many types of federal cops there are.
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Amanda Litman
4 months ago
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.)
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Molly Jong-Fast
4 months ago
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
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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
4 months ago
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Greg Sargent
4 months ago
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...
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Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
https://newrepublic.com/article/199853/trump-cdc-pritzker-public-health
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
5 months ago
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
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This Texas Democrat Fled the State to Block Trump and Greg Abbott's Redistricting Effort
"It's one thing to fight against my community and try to silence us. It's a whole ‘nother thing if we just lay down and take it."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lauren-ashley-simmons-texas-democrats-qa
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
6 months ago
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.
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All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-epstein-news-steve-bannon.html
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Rainesford Stauffer
5 months ago
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."
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Kat Abughazaleh
8 months ago
My campaign manager is IN IT TO WIN IT
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Daniel Laurison
9 months ago
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...
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement
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Sehr Langsam
9 months ago
“Authoritarianism doesn’t stop at the first target,” - Kat Abughazaleh
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Don Moynihan
9 months ago
Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
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6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling
In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip
https://www.aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/secure-phone-returning-from-trip.html
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Aaron Rupar
9 months ago
Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime
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jamelle
9 months ago
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
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Kat Abughazaleh
9 months ago
We only get results if we fight and take action. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen. Now it’s time to bring Kilmar home.
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Kim Kelly
9 months ago
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!
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
9 months ago
"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."
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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/17/photojournalist-fatima-hassona-killed-in-gaza-day-after-documentary-selected-for-cannes
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Amanda Litman
9 months ago
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...
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Maxwell Frost
9 months ago
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
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Asha Rangappa
9 months ago
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Saeed Jones
9 months ago
*looks directly at camera*
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Josh Marshall
9 months ago
initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt
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Eric Umansky
9 months ago
After masked agents snatched Rümeysa Öztürk in Mass., they took her that night to NH, then VE that same night. Then, to Louisiana in morning All in less than 24hrs "Immigration attorneys say the late-night hopscotch was an ICE tactic to complicate jurisdiction"
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Carl Quintanilla
9 months ago
NYT page one:
@nytimes.com
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Teen Vogue
9 months ago
The Senator made a speech ahead of Clairo’s Coachella set, urging people to make this revolution with joy. “We're going to sing and dance our way to victory against hatred and divisiveness.”
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Bernie Sanders Makes Surprise Appearance at Coachella
“Turn away at your own peril.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bernie-sanders-coachella-2025
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Trump’s ICE Is Detaining a 19 Year Old Girl Who Is Her Family’s Primary Caregiver
Soofia is being held by herself, with deportation orders.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-separating-immigrant-families-what-can-do
9 months ago
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Acyn
9 months ago
AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
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AYMAN on MSNBC
9 months ago
"I swear to God, if you come for Ms. Rachel, as a mother of a two and half year old... you have to come through me."
@franifio.bsky.social
slams right-wing calls for AG Bondi to investigate YouTube children's star Ms. Rachel over expressing sympathy for Palestinian children.
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AYMAN on MSNBC
9 months ago
TONIGHT AT 8pm ET:
@versharma.bsky.social
,
@harikondabolu.bsky.social
and
@franifio.bsky.social
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Amanda Litman
9 months ago
In this week’s
@runforsomething.net
feel-good update: When we run, we can win.
rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
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RFS feel-good update (4/7): Winning begets winning
The more we do it, the more we'll do it.
https://rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-good-update-47-winning-begets
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Teen Vogue
9 months ago
This
#OpEd
explains how a Republican-led lawsuit is really a fight for the future of civil rights in America.
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How a Republican Lawsuit Targeting Trans Kids Could Undo Major Disability Protections
Texas v. Becerra is a fight for the future of civil rights in America.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-v-becerra-disabled-people-trans-kids
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G Elliott Morris
9 months ago
CNN reports “millions” of people attended this Saturday’s marches against Trump and Musk, the first large-scale protests during his second term. Google Search interest in the protests rivals levels last seen after the Women’s March in 2017
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-musk...
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