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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 4h

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin

More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

www.gofundme.com

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 6h

takes a special kind of loser to regularly cover people's bodies in pepper ball welts and then testify that a sandwich getting onions and mustard on your shirt is a grave injury

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 10h

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

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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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 1d

this is insane

lucy diavolo really blazed a trail at teen vogue that she doesn't get enough credit for because media's memory is short. how lex and other teen vogue staffers evolved that work was beautiful. this is a huge blow to journalism

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

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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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 1d

accidentally used rosemary instead of thyme when making minestrone this weekend, turned out to be a major slay???

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 1d

high schoolers and college students have been SO brave these last couple years

H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 1d

Things have been rough - but this story is so cool:

300 Little Village High Schoolers Walk Out To Protest Immigration Raids

"This is not political. This is personal. Our people are under attack," one student said.

blockclubchi.co

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Trump administration’s Chicago immigration raids are coming to a city near you as Homeland Security sidelines old ICE leadership. “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect. This is the new model.” Our story on what that means www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership

“What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect,” said Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 2d

“defund the police was a bad slogan”

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2d

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 4d

honestly crazy that more people didn't think this was the inevitable conclusion of that technology

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 4d

Amazon Ring cameras are a privacy nightmare 👹but we know there are many reasons why people get them, so we have some suggestions ….

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

Really proud of this profile Samantha Riedel wrote of me in THEM. We talked about BLACK FLAME, DC comics firing me, Palestine, and real-life community as it relates to the internet.

www.them.us/story/gretch...

Horror Fiction’s It Girl Gretchen Felker-Martin Doesn’t Care if You Like Her

The ‘Black Flame’ author talks to Them about queer horror, getting dropped by DC Comics, and the perils of being hyperonline.

www.them.us

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 5d

the way i snort laughed

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 5d

OH! i am the number one iron claw hater. i think that movie is so shallow and riddled with cliches about toxic masculinity. like, the real dad performed as a nazi when he wrestled??? show me the psychic wounds caused by that!!! imho it's only worthwhile cuz everyone's hot

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 5d

oh! hmm......okay one movie i really love that has never been popular is fur: an imaginary portrait of diane arbus

it was panned when it came out, and i never hear it mentioned. i love that movie! it's a stupid, highly esthetized harold & maude. first movies i cried to were that and harold & maude

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 6d

there's so many things people LOVE that i'm just like "?!???(??)" and so many things people hate that i'm like "no this is perfect."

being the lone dissenter can feel lonely, but part of the beauty of art is how no work evokes a universal response - so much is cultural, contextual, or individual

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6d

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

Rosen Thorne @rosenthorne.bsky.social · 6d

We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 7d

🎉🎉🎉

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 7d

big thief does not have a place on my radar, but i welcome any and all laraaji news

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 7d

no i just learned about it from this tweet

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micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social · 7d

huge news for me, personally

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

They've used Chicago as a testing/training ground for this roving army of BP dipshits after doing the same in LA. Feels pretty crucial that everyone not in Chicago continue paying attention to Chicago to know exactly what to expect when they move elsewhere.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.