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.
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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.
Itโs been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. Iโm heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
06.11.2025 05:28 โ ๐ 1169 ๐ 327 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 8Amazon is suing Perplexity to block people from using AI agents to shop for them on the site.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Amazon is developing . . . wait for it . . . an AI agent people can use to shop for them on the site.
Amazon.com Services LLC v. Perplexity AI Inc., 3:25-cv-09514,
(ND Cal)
New research from Aditi Vasan shows that Medicaid continuous eligibility policies reduce coverage gaps and unmet care needs for kids. As federal policy shifts away from continuous eligibility, this evidence is more urgent than ever.
Read the more here:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
As lawmakers in Congress fail to act, courts are now taking center stage in deciding major questions about presidential authority. This has major consequences for the separation of powers. Watch The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/4hIEvA5
05.11.2025 21:50 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
The Heritage Foundation & the Claremont Institute often seem to operate in lockstep. Both of them, for example, recently published articles by Scott Yenor that take aim at contraception, specifically, birth control pills. Hereโs the Heritage piece from 10/29/25... 1/ www.heritage.org/life/comment...
05.11.2025 20:08 โ ๐ 183 ๐ 84 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 6Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
05.11.2025 21:50 โ ๐ 437 ๐ 135 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 5I donโt know how many times Iโve watched this video.
I donโt know how weโve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while theyโre watching children.
But I do know that this isnโt sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
Courts & Litigation Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law The Situation: Where's the Lie? Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 4:20 PM Share On: f X in & G B The government's response to James Comey's vindictive prosecution raises one very big and important question.
NEW: โTo read it is to spend 48 pages understanding the depth of corruption in the Justice Department in the second Trump administration.โ
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJโs response to James Comeyโs vindictive prosecution motion. โฌ๏ธ
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Making sure the language in the senate appropriations bill ends up in the final budget seems like a clear goal to push our representatives on ๐งช
05.11.2025 21:37 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ
05.11.2025 18:46 โ ๐ 242 ๐ 106 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 54That makes me think of the Persian Gulf having grown up during โThe Gulf Warโ
05.11.2025 21:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I know we had invite codes that April because that's how I joined that April lol
05.11.2025 05:12 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Workers are harvesting grapes in Delano CA.
Workers are harvesting grapes in Delano CA. The season will soon be ending and they are trying to get in as many hours as they can. #WeFeedYou
05.11.2025 21:00 โ ๐ 192 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 2Israel handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians on Monday, the Red Cross said, a day after militants returned the remains of three hostages.
religionnews.com/2025/11/05/i...
That was my first thought
05.11.2025 15:55 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oops, CJ Roberts accidentally called Justice Kagan Justice Sotomayor and she called him on it.
Makes me recall the time when Justice O'Connor and Justice Ginsburg were the first and only women to serve on the court and attorneys would address one by the other's name CONSTANTLY. It was painful.
Black and white art two women hugging when it's light skin when it's darker skin they both have heavy eyebrows and one has fairly large nose on dress has a moon and stars a crescent moon and the other has some Stars and the dresses come together so it looks as though they could be wearing one large dress together
I got curious, so I took a look for some of Rama Duwaji's artwork
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05.11.2025 15:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Law professors @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Anthony Michael Kreis pointed out in a rebuttal of Wurman and others echoing his argument in July that this entire [allegiance and birthright citizenship] exercise took us far afield of the Fourteenth Amendmentโs context and circumstances."
05.11.2025 14:16 โ ๐ 65 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Oh! Geesh I just thought they were saying more racism is coming so Muslim would need to hide which is sad but wow! I had no idea where this racist rhetoric came from about lying.
05.11.2025 14:45 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Who has the best Zohran crashout screenshots?
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05.11.2025 14:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Illinois legislature had passed the โIllinois Bivens Act,โ allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzkerโs signature.
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.
05.11.2025 05:42 โ ๐ 7504 ๐ 1357 ๐ฌ 58 ๐ 135The people at @nytimes.com helped me make this video about sexism
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...