Mike Hogan

Why Counterfeit Ozempic Is a Global-Growth Industry The semaglutide weight-loss miracle has a dark side: As desperate patients contend with shortages and sky-high prices, a world of criminals and con artists are filling the void with life-threatening…

Delighted my @VanityFair.com story on counterfeit Ozempic, Shots in the Dark, has won @NYPressClub award for magazine consumer reporting. Great addt'l reporting by @berileski.bsky.social @katherineli.bsky.social. Stellar editing by @tapeslammike.bsky.social. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

You’re the best!!!

Mike Hogan hired me at Vanity Fair and changed my life, and was part of so many of my best adventures there, from starting Little Gold Men to multiple chaotic Oscar party livestreams. He has been as essential to Vanity Fair as anyone who has ever worked there.

Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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America rn

New Video on the YT channel:

LET'S TALK "TWIN PEAKS" WITH @tapeslammike.bsky.social FROM @vanityfair.com and @cameroncloutier.bsky.social
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let’s look back at what has happened so far

Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile

Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile

Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that

just a general note to Dems

Waiting for the weekend to start.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Really underrated @markfrost.bsky.social ‘s Secret History of Twin Peaks when it initially came out. I think the book’s explorations of the occult and esoteric, especially in relation to modern science and scientific superstitions (UFOs!) adds so much to Twin Peaks.

The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Kudos to the @latimes.com for correctly including Dave Cullen's Columbine in its list of the 30 best nonfiction books of the past 30 years. (And what a way to find out Dave hasn't joined BlueSky yet. Get on it, my man!)

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"Businesses are very scared of saying this themselves," Kooyenga said. "But 99% of the conversations that I'm having is these companies want to be off the record because they fear retaliation both from the government, which is super sad in a democracy, and they also fear retaliation from certain segments of the population that are very politically extreme in one direction or another."

this part is actually scarier than the tariffs themselves

the fact that some of the most powerful people in our community — business leaders — are afraid to speak in public about their policy perspectives is deeply concerning

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Jennifer Lynch on David Lynch’s Art and Life: “He Loved Being Alive” She inspired Eraserhead and gave Twin Peaks's tragic homecoming queen a voice in 'The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.' Now the filmmaker and TV director is coping with the loss of an icon: her beloved d...

Here is my interview with @jenlynch.bsky.social for @vanityfair.com about the passing of #davidlynch and his art life. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

NYT on Trump law deal

"Surely Donald Trump will keep his word" is one hell of a business strategy from people who get paid $2K an hour to be the planet's most savvy negotiators. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated, say officials Conservative critics have long accused the department of helping to censor the American right.

Yet another scalp here. We are gutting state capacity in response to paranoid fantasies of a “censorship industrial complex” that never existed.

It has been shown to be bullshit in both congressional inquests and SCOTUS cases.

And yet they keep lying…

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5 DIFFERENT WAYS TO THINK ABOUT THE CRISIS

In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about possible historical parallels to our current environment. What's similar, what's different etc.

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Such onerous conditions tho!

As someone who grew up idolizing independent record labels like Dischord and Matador I was fascinated (in a sad way) by this @nicksylvester.bsky.social piece on the diminished role of the indie in today’s music industry

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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"

Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”

“I’M PISSED!”

I would say we should start calling El Salvador's CECOT and internment camp or detention camp. The lack of due process and release make those descriptions more accurate than prison.

It’s such an honor to be mentioned in Vanity Fair alongside my book. It’s the 35th anniversary of “Twin Peaks” — absolutely unbelievable it first aired so long ago. The show was life changing for me and so many others.

As ‘Twin Peaks’ Turns 35, the Mystery Is Still the Message for a World of Fans David Lynch and Mark Frost revolutionized TV with ‘Twin Peaks,’ a series that even now exudes paranormal cool. In the wake of Lynch’s death, our reporter dives into the show’s chaotic creation—and its...

Had a wonderful conversation providing some background on the Twin Peaks fandom last year for this new piece in Vanity Fair. Looking forward to reading it. #FanStudies ☕️ 🍒🥧

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Vanity Fair article snippet against Welcome To Twin Peaks sign spot location

What a fantastic article from Mike Hogan with @vanityfair.com for the 35th Anniversary of #TwinPeaks. I spoke with Mike during the Real Twin Peaks 2025 event. His article is a wonderful look back and turns a spotlight on friends who love the show as much as I do. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Hey John, would love to talk to you for a VF story I’m working on. Can we DM on here?