Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.

Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the ongoing federal government shutdown could remove $7 billion to $14 billion from the U.S. economy, reducing fourth-quarter GDP by as much as 2% due to halted government spending.

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Say what you want about Dick Cheney but he raised a daughter who stood up when it mattered.

“It’s hard imagining that Gatsby & those who partied at his house every night would’ve missed out on the kind of get-rich-quick schemes of the crypto & AI booms had they existed back then. It’s just as hard to imagine that our current Roaring ’20s is going to end any better than theirs did in 1929.”

The members of my focus group were terrified by their new health insurance premiums, overwhelmed by tariffs, and anxious about losing SNAP benefits. Asked who they'd trust to get America out of this mess, 80% replied Donald Trump with the remainder divided among Eric, Ivanka, and Don Jr.

Dick Cheney died on Election Day 25 years too late.

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Rainy day walk in Portland’s NW Hills #Photography #Portland 📷

This happens every evening around here, although it's slightly less bucolic as they're headed for a telecom building from the 1980s. We did also have an official city mascot crow who once stole a knife from a crime scene and was known to take the public transit monorail.

Good morning 🙂

#forest #nature #sunrise #morning #photography #landscape

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off.

The media landscape shrinks even further.

The Nemean Lion Parade burgonet of Charles V made by famed armorer Filippo Negroli in Milan c. 1541

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Monet with a pigeon on his head, and his wife Alice, Venice, 1908.

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In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector, a Black girl in Oklahoma was given a 160-acre land allotment. While the best farmland was reserved for white settlers, her barren plot struck oil, making her one of the country’s first Black millionaires.

Hello November.

MAGA government-haters sure love the perks. Add new jets for Noem, new 747 and ballroom for Trump, military housing for many.

The Death Twerk

Kash Patel used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend perform at an event. The most shocking aspect of this story is that Kash Patel has a girlfriend