Versha Sharma
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, trying to figure out how to be a good person in this chaotic world
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
29 days 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month ago
One thing the DC occupation drives home is how many types of federal cops there are.
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Amanda Litman
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
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Greg Sargent
about 1 month 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)
about 2 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
2 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
2 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
5 months ago
My campaign manager is IN IT TO WIN IT
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Daniel Laurison
5 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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Absolute power corrupts absolutely
6 months ago
“Authoritarianism doesn’t stop at the first target,” - Kat Abughazaleh
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Don Moynihan
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 months ago
*looks directly at camera*
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Josh Marshall
6 months ago
initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt
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Eric Umansky
6 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"
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
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Carl Quintanilla
6 months ago
NYT page one:
@nytimes.com
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Teen Vogue
6 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
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Acyn
6 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
6 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
6 months ago
TONIGHT AT 8pm ET:
@versharma.bsky.social
,
@harikondabolu.bsky.social
and
@franifio.bsky.social
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Amanda Litman
6 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
6 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
6 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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L.A. Kauffman
6 months ago
What's most significant about today's day of action is the sheer number of locations where protests took place -- more than 1000 towns and cities, all over the country. That's only happened one or two times before *in all of American history.*
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ashley fairbanks
6 months ago
the artist from this story, Rebecca Burke, is working on a comic about her experience and the women she met in ICE custody. her instagram is r.e.burke if you want to follow for updates
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Amanda Litman
6 months ago
New Yorkers: Now through April 6, you can vote in participatory budgeting -- you get a chance to directly shape how money is being spent in your district. Anyone age 11 or over (!!) can vote.
rnd.council.nyc.gov/PB_Voting/
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PBNYC - Cast Your Ballot
Vote on local projects to improve your NYC neighborhood. Vote Week: March 29 - April 6.
https://rnd.council.nyc.gov/PB_Voting/
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Casey Michel
6 months ago
Saying that Trump will refuse to leave power in 2028 has to be one of the easiest predictions in American politics in years, maybe decades. Still remarkable how little that's understood in the U.S., or abroad.
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Teen Vogue
6 months ago
Doechii announced that she launched a mental health hub as a resource for those “navigating anxiety.”
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Doechii Launches Mental Health Hub Inspired by Song "Anxiety"
"Now let me support YOU."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/doechii-launches-mental-health-hub-for-anxiety
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
6 months ago
spoke to
@aaup.bsky.social
pres Todd Wolfson about AAUP's suit against the Trump admin over campus deportations: “They're abducting people off the streets. They're forcing Columbia to pass rules that say students can't protest wearing masks, yet when they abduct people, they're all wearing masks.”
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Students Are Getting Swept Up By ICE. Here’s What Professors Are Doing About It
"We have ICE on our streets abducting people because Donald Trump or Marco Rubio don't like their speech. That's crazy."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/aaup-todd-wolfson-deportations-ice-columbia
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Teen Vogue
6 months ago
College campuses have become ground zero for President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. Under his and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s guidance, federal agents have detained multiple international students under threat of deportation.
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Students Are Getting Swept Up By ICE. Here’s What Professors Are Doing About It
"We have ICE on our streets abducting people because Donald Trump or Marco Rubio don't like their speech. That's crazy."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/aaup-todd-wolfson-deportations-ice-columbia
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Nice shout outs to
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
@marisakabas.bsky.social
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social
and more at ISOJ, presentation on content creator - model journalists vs news influencers by
@lizkellynelson.com
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Jonathan Groves
6 months ago
At
#ISOJ
,
@versharma.bsky.social
said
@thevivllainous.bsky.social
trusted
@teenvogue.com
with an interview because of the publication's reputation and expertise for reporting on trans youth.
www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
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Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth
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Jonathan Groves
6 months ago
With the drop in search traffic in 2025,
@teenvogue.com
has been focusing on ways to improve direct traffic by investing in newsletters and premium offerings —
@versharma.bsky.social
.
#ISOJ
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Center for Media Engagement
6 months ago
“Hiring people to tell the stories of their own communities is very powerful.”
@versharma.bsky.social
, editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue at
#ISOJ2025
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Jonathan Groves
6 months ago
As part of its efforts to be transparent,
@teenvogue.com
is putting more editors in front of the camera so the audience can get to know the journalists behind the work —
@versharma.bsky.social
#ISOJ
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Katie Drummond
6 months ago
Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk:
issuu.com/tuftsdaily/d...
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The Tufts Daily - Thursday, March 27, 2025 by The Tufts Daily - Issuu
https://issuu.com/tuftsdaily/docs/the_tufts_daily_-_thursday_march_27_2025?cta=post-publish-view-live
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Kat Abughazaleh
6 months ago
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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