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

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 9mo ago

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.

another Teen Voguer here, come show our brilliant culture editor Kaitlyn love!!

kaitlyn mcnab@kaitlynmcnab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I was laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday, along with 70% of my incredible team. @teenvogue.com Thank you to everyone who has reached out. I am so grateful. For nearly 4yrs as Culture Editor, I was dedicated to humanizing and empowering young people. We move.❤️‍🩹🚀 Cash App: $kmcnab Venmo: @/kaitmcnab

as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!

Aiyana Ishmael@aiyanaish.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

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.

I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...

Allegra Kirkland@allegrak.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

absolutely furious about Teen Vogue

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Santiago Mayer@santiagomayer.com · 9mo ago

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Wave of RSV, particularly dangerous for babies, washing over U.S.; doctors urge vaccination

Wave of RSV, particularly dangerous for babies, washing over U.S.; doctors urge vaccination

A wave of the highly contagious respiratory syncytial virus is beginning to wash over the United States, sending greater numbers of babies and toddlers to the hospital for professional care.

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Good morning. ☕️ ICYMI: Trump has now forced more than 211,000 people out of their federal jobs. A near-decimation of the federal workforce in nine months. Biggest losses at Defense Dept and Treasury. “He is, in essence, taking our government to bankruptcy.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump Has Forced Out An Alarming Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Have An Exact Number

“The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.

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Mail-in voters who haven't returned ballots yet: Check your state's deadline to make sure your vote gets counted. If your ballot must be received by Election Day, consider stopping by a ballot drop box or early voting site. It may be too late for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver it by Nov. 4...

thou shalt not bear false witness

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 9mo ago

NEW from me: Speaker Mike Johnson dismisses religious freedom concerns of clergy who have been shot by DHS/ICE with pepper balls, pepper rounds, or rubber bullets, insisting he hasn't heard about such incidents despite being asked about one earlier this month. religionnews.com/2025/10/29/s...

The USDA’s current position is that these funds “are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” This, however, directly contradicts guidance that the USDA issued on September 30 which explicitly states that contingency funds can be used for regular benefits.

Choosing to let kids go hungry

The USDA asserts that Democrats are blocking funding to secure “health care for illegal immigrants” and funding for “gender mutilation procedures.” All of these claims are false.

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The USDA has a contingency plan to keep SNAP running during a government shutdown — but the document laying out that plan has been deleted from the agency’s website. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP

The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.

notus.org

The Justice Department indicted six protesters—including Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh—for allegedly impeding an ICE officer outside a federal immigration facility. The move is a stunning continuation of Trump’s weaponization of judicial and police power to crush dissent.

House candidate Kat Abughazaleh calls her indictment for protesting a "political prosecution”

“This case is a major push by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish anyone who speaks out against them.”

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3. “Our authoritarian government is waging war to flatten any differences, to make America great again with a forced monochrome lens,” Will Bunch said. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

From autism to beards, the Trump regime wages war on ‘the different’ | Will Bunch

The Trump regime's disturbing views on everything from autism to transgender people have a scary "master race" vibe.

inquirer.com

In Sudan, the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces are "killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven't seen since Rwanda,” says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond.

anyways, the reason i don’t like people calling rfk jr. insane is because i am technically insane (i get very depressed without medication). but i’m not an egotistical, willfully ignorant, corrupt nepo baby sexual predator shit sipper, which is the real problem with him

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

this video made me smile when i was really depressed in 2020

"divergent thinking and creative thinking gets ground down and standardized out of us by the school system - not inevitably, but predictably"

@ruha9.bsky.social asking us to unlearn some of the bullshit silicon valley and western thinking is predicated on

cool cool cool cool cool

ProPublica@propublica.org · 9mo ago

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Column: In museums, monuments and public spaces, addressing shame and defeat is part of what makes nations thrive.

Column | Trump wants triumphal history. But democracies remember their failures.

President Trump has ordered museums and monuments to show triumphal history. But addressing shame and defeat is part of what makes nations thrive.

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Photo via flickr user yuki_alm_misa (heididorf): www.flickr.com/photos/heidi...

What's this? A Manul Monday come to visit?

Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher

Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher

RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp Fears are growing for hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said it had captured the city, which it has been besieging for more than a year in Sudan’s civil war. The group said on Sunday that it had seized control of the army’s main base in the city in Darfur, where famine was declared in a displacement camp last year. It then released a statement saying it had “extended control over the city of El Fasher from the grip of mercenaries and militias”. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Fuck yes

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo ago

Should Californians vote to redistrict and fight Texas’s fire with fire? | Moira Donegan

I needed this and you probably do too

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 9mo ago

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.