Versha Sharma
@versharma.bsky.social
EIC @teenvogue.bsky.social, trying to figure out how to be a good person in this chaotic world
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Hi.
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
Hi.
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hi.
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold.
I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)
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my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"
Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide
LGBTQ+ group Human Rights Campaign ended sponsorships from arms firms Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, who profit off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
theintercept.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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new @teenvogue.com: students at the 9 colleges invited to Trump's "college compact" have been pushing their universities to reject it.
+ a bit of a scoop: @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social tells us that they're launching a national coalition to support students pushing their schools to fight the Trump admin
+ a bit of a scoop: @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social tells us that they're launching a national coalition to support students pushing their schools to fight the Trump admin
College Students and Faculty Resist Trump’s “Free Speech” Funding Scheme
Nine universities across the country were given a test of loyalty from the Trump administration. Now, students are demanding their schools not sign the president’s 10 point compact agreement.
www.teenvogue.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
new @teenvogue.com: students at the 9 colleges invited to Trump's "college compact" have been pushing their universities to reject it.
+ a bit of a scoop: @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social tells us that they're launching a national coalition to support students pushing their schools to fight the Trump admin
+ a bit of a scoop: @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social tells us that they're launching a national coalition to support students pushing their schools to fight the Trump admin
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Joy is good & builds long-term power! www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Joy is good & builds long-term power! www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...
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Subscribe to The Onion. I want to have more subscribers than The Free Press as soon as possible. This is achievable.
In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.
In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Subscribe to The Onion. I want to have more subscribers than The Free Press as soon as possible. This is achievable.
In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.
In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.
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Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
www.teenvogue.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
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rare good news! @teenvogue.com
Arkansas is the 2nd-most climate vulnerable state: extreme heat, tornadoes, and low investment in climate adaptation from its Republican legislature—not to mention home to Walmart's Walton family and Tyson Foods.
these young ppl launched a group to make the fight fun
Arkansas is the 2nd-most climate vulnerable state: extreme heat, tornadoes, and low investment in climate adaptation from its Republican legislature—not to mention home to Walmart's Walton family and Tyson Foods.
these young ppl launched a group to make the fight fun
Young People Are Using Parties and Free Menstrual Cups to Fight Climate Anxiety
A 2024 survey of 15 to 25 year olds found that 60% are "extremely worried" about the climate crisis; more than 40% say climate anxiety affects their mental health.
www.teenvogue.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
rare good news! @teenvogue.com
Arkansas is the 2nd-most climate vulnerable state: extreme heat, tornadoes, and low investment in climate adaptation from its Republican legislature—not to mention home to Walmart's Walton family and Tyson Foods.
these young ppl launched a group to make the fight fun
Arkansas is the 2nd-most climate vulnerable state: extreme heat, tornadoes, and low investment in climate adaptation from its Republican legislature—not to mention home to Walmart's Walton family and Tyson Foods.
these young ppl launched a group to make the fight fun
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“These narratives around young people in ‘starter jobs’ or doing sort of superfluous work, or just work to get them through, can often function to lower young people's bargaining power and reduce the power that they have in the workplace. Unions can obviously help with giving them back that power.”
What Are Your Rights at Work As a Young Person?
Exploitation of young people on the job is way too common.
www.teenvogue.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“These narratives around young people in ‘starter jobs’ or doing sort of superfluous work, or just work to get them through, can often function to lower young people's bargaining power and reduce the power that they have in the workplace. Unions can obviously help with giving them back that power.”
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J.B. Pritzker is 100% right.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
August 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
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One thing the DC occupation drives home is how many types of federal cops there are.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum.
Our report:
Our report:
Officer repeatedly seen on camera in DC crackdown shows Trump agents' impunity
US Park Police officer Patrick O’Hanlon isn’t unique in his behavior. He just got caught.
www.thehandbasket.co
August 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One thing the DC occupation drives home is how many types of federal cops there are.
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100%, all of this. It's what we advise @runforsomething.net candidates to do (and with the exception of point 10, which wasn't relevant, is basically what Zohran did in NYC.)
August 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
100%, all of this. It's what we advise @runforsomething.net candidates to do (and with the exception of point 10, which wasn't relevant, is basically what Zohran did in NYC.)
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I’m going to be hosting on msnbc with @ayman.msnbc.com & @elisejordan.bsky.social tonight from 6-9 and tomorrow night from 6-9pm
Please join us
Please join us
August 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’m going to be hosting on msnbc with @ayman.msnbc.com & @elisejordan.bsky.social tonight from 6-9 and tomorrow night from 6-9pm
Please join us
Please join us
Going on @msnbc.com at 8 pm ET to talk about Trump’s rapidly increasing authoritarianism, JB Pritzker’s response (which sets him apart from other Dem leaders), and the young activists organizing and joining protests across the nation
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Going on @msnbc.com at 8 pm ET to talk about Trump’s rapidly increasing authoritarianism, JB Pritzker’s response (which sets him apart from other Dem leaders), and the young activists organizing and joining protests across the nation
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This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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over 50 Texas Dems fled the state to block Greg Abbott and Trump's push to redraw Congressional districts.
Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com
Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com
This Texas Democrat Fled the State to Block Trump and Greg Abbott's Redistricting Effort
"It's one thing to fight against my community and try to silence us. It's a whole ‘nother thing if we just lay down and take it."
www.teenvogue.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
over 50 Texas Dems fled the state to block Greg Abbott and Trump's push to redraw Congressional districts.
Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com
Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com
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The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...
All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?
slate.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Nothing I can say could come close to summarizing these words, these photos. Just read it.
“Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."
“Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."
"We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. It already happened to my sister: while searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, she suddenly collapsed to the ground. Her body didn’t even have the strength to stay upright."
We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.
www.972mag.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Nothing I can say could come close to summarizing these words, these photos. Just read it.
“Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."
“Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."
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My campaign manager is IN IT TO WIN IT
Find me one piece of evidence of Kat being a Republican after 2018 and I will resign as her campaign manager, donate my entire bank balance ($8,000ish) to the charity of your choice, and get your name tattooed on my face.
April 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
My campaign manager is IN IT TO WIN IT
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The presidents of 200 US colleges declare:
"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."
Good!
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."
Good!
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The presidents of 200 US colleges declare:
"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."
Good!
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."
Good!
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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“Authoritarianism doesn’t stop at the first target,” - Kat Abughazaleh
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
April 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Authoritarianism doesn’t stop at the first target,” - Kat Abughazaleh
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling
In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip
www.aarp.org
April 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...
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Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime
April 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime
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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness