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this is the dumbest shit i've ever seen

Teen Vogue is getting folded into Vogue and losing most of its staff. It’s the end of one of the only publications that allowed young people to share their own stories and took them seriously as political actors. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

Slow Burn producer @andrewjparsons.bsky.social saw his show become a hit + a boom in podcast investing By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...

I wrote a thing

For TPM's 25th anniversary, we’re hosting a party at Brooklyn's Bogart House on 11/7, where you can meet TPM staff, alums + contributors to our new edit project on 25 years of digital media. There are a few half-off tickets left. Get yours now: eventbrite.com/e/1716908833539/?discount=PRIME

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social tells the story of how autism disinformation spread from obscure Facebook groups to the top of the U.S. government’s public health apparatus talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...

For the 25th anniversary of @talkingpointsmemo.com I wrote about how the anti-vax mommy bloggers and Facebook groups launched our current MAHA hellscape and facilitated the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...

As a teenager pissed off about politics, @talkingpointsmemo.com became my go-to website. Really grateful for @joshtpm.bsky.social and @allegrak.bsky.social for letting me take part in the 25th anniversary retrospective on how the internet changed media.

Aurin Squire bought a cabinet’s worth of supplements during the pandemic. For @talkingpointsmemo.com's 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media, he explains how the COVID "infodemic" dissolved the line between news, advertising and conspiracy theory talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-c...

This piece is terrific, and this line had me thinking about a Chuck Klosterman essay from 20+ years ago, about how early "Real World" cast members got edited into caricatures, prompting future cast members to sell themselves as caricatures. Presaged our influencer dystopia now eating journalism.

An important read.

I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

@kellyweill.bsky.social takes us inside a 2018 Flat Earth conference. While flat earthers were then a curiosity at the time, "They were early adopters of a delusional digital mode that, a couple years later, would come to dominate political speech," she says talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

@kellyweill.bsky.social talks abt how coverage of the far right + Internet trends was often siloed outside politics verticals "'Extremism'" suggested that our subject matter was somehow divorced from meaningful power, even as politics grew visibly more extreme" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

In 2015, at the peak of the digital media boom, law student Nathan Robinson founded the print magazine @currentaffairs.bsky.social. He makes the case for why democracy needs small print magazines for TPM’s 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/why-i...

@maxrn.bsky.social thinks the most "bone-headed" of all the rules for online journalism was that it should be free. When he & his co-founders started @hellgatenyc.com, a local NYC news site, they decided to do so as a reader-funded, worker-owned publication. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...

Extremely excited about this series TPM is doing in concert with our 25th Anniversary, reflecting on 25 years of digital journalism .. the good, the bad, the awful, and where we are now. Our first two essays are out. We’ll be publishing 25 over the next month.

To celebrate making it 25 years in this generally cursed industry, TPM asked 25 writers we admire to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Introducing 💻 Pivots, Trolls and Blog Rolls 💻 Take a break from the abysmal news to check it out! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25

Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

[email protected] and I launched a podcast! We're still figuring out exactly what this thing will be, but it's going to be good — that we know! Check it out talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the...

Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

"Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. It wasn't all that long ago that we were going to have internet in our schools. Now, let's do A1."

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

This is the ruling class, right here. Not your asshole MAGA neighbor, not the guy in your building who buttonholes you so he can tell you what he heard on Rogan. Those people are, at worst, aspirants to this sort of evil. The people who commit it are the signatories here.

incredibly depressing to read the replies here. "this is what they voted for" is just the stupidest, meanest response and if you start writing it please do yourself and me a favor and log off and pet the cat or something

As I wrote, elite lawlessness also proves out the basic premise of Trumpism, which is that all of governance is finally just rich creeps doing whatever they want, whenever they want; the degeneracy of the people doing it, and what they do, is a self-perpetuating thing. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

didn’t we used to have a word for this

Seems bad

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳

House Republicans used the hearing as an opportunity to force NPR and PBS’ top leaders to apologize for covering the news in ways they found to be not adequately in line with their own talking points.

I retraced the paths of Venezuelans who the administration removed to El Salvador. What became clear very fast is that these people were intentionally staged for immediate removal under the Alien Enemies Act in a process that began long before it was invoked talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

(Reuters) - The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters. #BigBalls

Substantial jump in the % of people who think they'll have lower income in the next 6 months

NEW: How the Trump administration concealed its plans to remove hundreds of people under the Alien Enemies Act from the courts, from lawyers, and from anyone who could intervene to stop talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

When asked about the consequences of such an action — if it were to happen — Lieu, matter of factly, said: “We would instantly become an authoritarian country.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

TPM’s reporting shows that federal officials went to extraordinary lengths to conceal weeks of preparations for the removals. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...