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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

This is FUCKING INSANE

my colleague @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social went long on how zohran mamdani — a climate hawk — barely mentioned climate change on the trail and how it is evidence the issue just isn’t the populist winner many activists long for it to be

Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Bad things are going to happen in your life and you’re going to need people to lean on in your time of need. You need friendship and a community of people who aren’t going to call you a lazy bum because you got laid off

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Big day for people who care about other people

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

This is a speech for the ages

This is a barn burner of a speech

So goes Mississippi, so goes the nation. Invest in us, build us up, stand by us, believe in us. And watch what we can do.

No question in Mississippi. Said this for decades now. Call it bigotry of low expectations.

Finally, politicians who have a favorite Power Ranger. Representation matters

I’m in shock

TO THE LEFT TO THE LEFT EVERYTHING YOU OWN IN A BOX TO THE LEFT

The people have the power!

GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN IF WE PUSH FOR THEM

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia’s next governor and the first woman to hold the state’s highest office. Her campaign promised to fight the “chaos” of President Donald Trump’s second term and to address cost-of-living issues. https://bit.ly/3JEKGZp

meow-er to the people

Purity culture is pedophile culture. Full stop.

Who wants to go in with me to buy it? We can ramp up the Book It program and bring back the buffet

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.

Man, I repeat: If art is a machine that generates empathy, AI generated art is a machine that generates apathy. It erodes trust and human connection. The entire point of it is to make solidarity impossible, because it becomes unimaginable.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Head Start closures will have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. Because the million kids who rely on the program don't have other options. And so, we're likely to see: ⬇️maternal employment ⬆️child poverty, hunger, and homelessness ⬇️school readiness and achievement long-term

mamdani is the model for future dem candidates and it can work in all 50 states. not the boring milquetoast candidates who refuse to take a position on hot button issues. they inspire nobody but dnc ad makers.

GOP-led states are blocking college students from registering to vote with campus addresses. In the context of broader attacks on vote-by-mail and early voting, these efforts will systematically disenfranchise young people across the US. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Antiblackness is an expensive addiction but there is nothing they won't run into the ground to get another hit.

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ Data for Generative AI Improvement ➡️ toggle off

Universal Healthcare INCLUDES Universal Mental Health Care for this VERY reason. If you don't give it for free, people will find the free option. Churches. Cults. Chatbots. Violence. Cheap substances, whatever it takes to stop the pain.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

That Teen Vogue would nuke the team that has brought us uniquely clear eyed and incisive political journalism over the last decade aka THE PUBLICATION'S PRIMARY DIFFERENTIATOR in an oversaturated Bootlicking Slop Landscape is......................stomach turning, honestly.

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

Hope something good happens to you tomorrow.

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

If you plan to help out the hungry, do so without a camera.