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I’ve been a subscriber for many years, and a reader since the hey-day of blogs.

I've been a TPM member since 2016 and you should seriously considering becoming one, as well. It's never been more important to support independent journalism.

Just do it. You won't look back.

Already a member but considering working on a list of sites worth supporting now that a large chunk of my subscriptions budget is free (cancelled NYT, Paramount, etc. etc.)

Thinking of:

TPM
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BBC
NPR
Economist

What else?

Thank you Paul!

Worth every penny imo

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Alright that's enough for Day 1. If you weren't persuaded this time, don't worry, I'll be back :)

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this is the dumbest shit i've ever seen

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

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.
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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...

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it.

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Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just...

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"

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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.

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Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...

@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

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Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...

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.
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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.

The Cabinet in My Apartment That Explains How Journalism Broke During COVID There’s a cabinet in my apartment that tells the story of how...

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

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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.

Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...

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.

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