Gaylene Pheysey 🌮

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.

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m 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

Amazon 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)

Continuous Medicaid Eligibility Matters for Children LDI Senior Fellow Aditi Vasan and colleagues quantified the impact of Medicaid continuous eligibility policies on children’s health care use.

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

Getting 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.

RFK Should Grill the Pill No drug is as sacrosanct in today’s sexually “liberated” culture as oral contraceptives. But the proliferation of the birth control pill since the 1960s has fostered a number of grave consequences for...

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. Here’s the Heritage piece from 10/29/25... 1/ www.heritage.org/life/comment...

Teen Vogue's Award-Winning Journalism Was Too Much Trouble for Condé Nast The outlet just won recognition for speaking truth to power. Condé Nast responded by eliminating its entire politics staff and folding it into Vogue.

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

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

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: “To read it is to spend 48 pages understanding the depth of corruption in the Justice Department in the second Trump administration.”

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJ’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution motion. ⬇️

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 🧪

YouTube video by NPR Music The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert

Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ

That makes me think of the Persian Gulf having grown up during ‘The Gulf War’

I know we had invite codes that April because that's how I joined that April lol

Workers 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

Israel hands over bodies of 45 Palestinians after Hamas returns the remains of 3 soldiers DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The exchange marked another step forward for the tenuous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire intended to end the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel…

Israel 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

Oops, 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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The Law Professors Aiding Trump’s War on Birthright Citizenship A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s spurious claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but the conservative legal movement is doing what it can to muddy the waters.

"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 Amendment’s context and circumstances."

Oh! 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.

Who has the best Zohran crashout screenshots?

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The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s 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.

Video: Opinion | The Double Standard for Female Candidates In the New Jersey governor’s race, the Democratic candidate, Mikie Sherrill, is polling well. So why is there so much anxiety? The journalist Molly Jong-Fast visited her campaign and found a major dis...

The people at @nytimes.com helped me make this video about sexism

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor - Longreads It's a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.

The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor (2018)