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What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

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.

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on

And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

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.

Noooo I’m so sorry Lex

Left a party that basically got taken over by the baseball game… booooooo

Happy Halloween!!

Come join my campaign Halloween bash in the back lot of 7016 N Clark Street!

We’ve got blood donation, bone marrow donor registration, candy, Chicago dogs, and ICE whistles! Come hang from 12-6!

DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate Amid Threats to Arrest Dems Over ICE Accountability Efforts Read more here.

Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

Donate to Kat Abughazaleh Show your support with a contribution.

We now have legal fees on top of our campaign expenses.

You can help us stand up to the Trump administration by chipping in here: katforillinois.com/legal

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

BREAKING: Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Indicted Over Chicago ICE Protest

Details: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

An Interview with Gish Jen. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @aaknopf.bsky.social @ansonjtong.com #booksky

For @wirobooks.bsky.social, I interviewed Gish Jen about BAD BAD GIRL, her new novel that fictionalizes and imagines her mother's life from leaving China in the 1920s all the way into Jen's adulthood and their complicated relationship.

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...

New review from @ansonjtong.com at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social.

Great timing for this review. My book tour swings through Chicago next week! Oct. 21st at @madstreetbooks.bsky.social

madstreetbooks.com/events/34263...

James R. Gapinski's "The Museum of Future Mistakes" is Both Familiar and Strange - Chicago Review of Books An elevator elf that supplies useful daily gifts (“The Elevator Elf”). Literally stealing and returning an ex’s beating heart (“Three-Month Autopsy”). A ghost living in a woman’s fingernails and exace...

"Gapinski wields anthropomorphic interlopers and bizarre circumstances in order to craft an intensely human set of stories."

@ansonjtong.com review of “The Museum of Future Mistakes” by James R. Gapinski (@boa-editions.bsky.social) out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/13/j...

Inaction is a Choice in Grady Chambers’s “Great Disasters” - Chicago Review of Books It can be easy to slip into the belief that you’re all on the same journey when you see the same people everyday at school, have been to their house, come from the same place. Only in the years after ...

"The novel aches with the ambiguous grief of growing apart from friends."

@ansonjtong.com's review of “Great Disasters" by Grady Chambers (@tinhouse.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/30/i...

Chicago musicians leave Spotify over concerns about data privacy and AI In an open letter published on Monday, the artists cite Spotify’s compensation model for artists, the proliferation of unlabeled AI-generated music, and the company’s algorithm-driven model that relie...

chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/0...

for the chicago sun-times, i talked to some of the local musicians who signed an open letter announcing the removal of some or all of their music from spotify due to concerns about ai, payment, and the ceo's investment in military ai. they cite @lizpelly.bsky.social's mood machine as an influence.

voluntarily experiencing psychological duress this week for the sake of the plot

conan gray in a sailor outfit looking towards the distance

conan gray wearing a ruffly top, mid leap

conan and a fan breaking a wishbone; conan got the long end

conan gray mid jump on stage

conan gray wishbone tour last night!

photos by me, more on insta

They openly like something and put in effort good job team

Not dragged by their girlfriends, just the boys out for a night of good live music

This is such a low bar but it makes me so happy when I see groups of young men attending a concert together

“The Case Against Micropayments” — From Fear and Surprise to The Comfy Chair Micropayment hope springs eternal. Clay Shirky and Andrew Odlyzko drove a stake in its heart way back in the dot-com era, but here it is…

“But why can’t I pay per article??”

Because you won’t. You think you will and that other people will too but you won’t and they won’t. People hate them.

rreisman.medium.com/the-case-aga...

I perpetually discount the value of time away from the writing as part of the editing process