Once again, the "excesses" experienced were largely hallucinated through social media. People in positions of power, addicted to Twitter, scrolling through stories and opinions that they found confrontational--or reading conspiracies and horror stories from their fellow travellers.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Most men don't ever see this because its the water in which they swim. They do not perceive it, and to the extent that they do, they notice the incredibly mild and frankly feckless ways in which it is policed in society, because they are used to more impunity with it. That's all that's happening.

The rumors are true: scrolling through Zohran’s transition website and seeing that his co-chairs so far are eminently qualified women of color is a great way to feel like better things are possible

Hey! I’m in this piece! @kattenbarge.bsky.social does great work, check it out!

The convoluted saga of Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, and It Ends With Us is still raging on social media, thanks to influencers. Read more from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

The thing is, it’s actually blindingly obvious that Zohran Mamdani’s campaign speaks to what Americans all over the country are looking for and even what people around the world are looking for

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

I do not think the era of Islamophobia or anti Arab racism is over but I do think this book ends a particular era of a particular kind of Democratic politics and opens up a new one

History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world…

Libbing out so hard I might listen to the entire Hamilton soundtrack

My brother, we are in City Hall now.

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

My favorite gay club is playing Last Friday Night while Cuomo concedes on a giant screen… heaven is a place on earth

Am I going to remember who voted for Cuomo? Forever and ever.

And that’s a resounding NO on putting sexual predators back into positions of power!

i'll tell you what, i'm enjoying this night of making my haters my waiters at the table of success

There are so many people who've had a hand in this historic moment, but one person I'm so grateful for is @lindseyboylan.bsky.social. Your courage and your conviction opened a door for so many people and so many futures, and this is one amazing reality you had such a vital role in making possible.

Alright Dave Portnoy and Bill Ackman time to leave New York City and never return like you promised

Stop stop I can’t like all your victory posts fast enough!!!

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

In Kensington, at least one voter was thinking about her daughter's future: hellgatenyc.com/election-day...

I love when rich assholes threaten to leave New York City or California or wherever like they haven’t figured out yet how much ordinary people hate them and how it’s actually hurting their cause

Former Teen Vogue politics editor Allegra Kirkland pays homage to ... what ... OUUUUCH: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

Every single bar I’ve ever been to in New York City is having an election watch party and they are all at capacity. It’s winning time

. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped in on many online microfandoms to conquer the fragmented media problem, including a personal favorite of mine, the streamer who walks around New York making beats for strangers to freestyle to @ariathome.bsky.social

For @thenerve.news, I wrote about how Zohran’s winning social media strategy isn’t just about going viral (although he does, often), but about “influencing civic action” through unapologetic leftist personality and policies that resonate with New Yorkers and beyond www.thenerve.news/p/tiktok-sav...

"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

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.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

Teen Vogue changed my life and their politics team was doing incredible journalism comparable to very little other publications. I can't say I'm not disappointed with this decision. Sending y'all love❤️

WE DID IT THE FLYTRAP MET OUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER GOAL WE CAN PAY OUR FOUNDERS THIS YEAR WE CAN FUND FREELANCERS NEXT YEAR MORE MOTHERFUCKIN' WORKER-OWNED CRUNCHY QUEER FEMINIST JOURNALISM FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE

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.

I have multiple classes that promote the use of AI. It's becoming increasingly harder to struggle through assignments when my TAs tell me, "Just ask ChatGPT". Thank you for writing this Kat in a way that understands those urges and helps remind us that relying on AI will do more damage than good.

Teen Vogue was among my first big bylines. What I loved about it was that once I showed them I could report, editors from other sections of the website reached out with assignments. It was the first place that treated me like a strong reporter and not just a reporter for trans/queer stories.

For @spitfirenews.com I wrote about "ChatGPT induced psychosis," how the chatbot distorts reality for all of its users, and why, despite what feels like growing pressure to conform to the hype, I still won't use it (and I'm not missing out) spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-stil...

On Teen Vogue: It's an amazing publication full of talented journalists. It offers so much value. It's clear the monied interests in media aren't interested in preserving that value, especially if it threatens the status quo that undergirds their wealth. Capitalism and journalism are enemies.

I have shed tears repeatedly over this

This isn’t a dig at Jennifer Lawrence, but the way she’s been talking about herself on her current press tour makes me sad. She basically expresses that having a personality as a young woman in the public eye made her too much, and she doesn’t want to repeat those same mistakes. It’s a little eerie.