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Allegra Kirkland
@allegrak.bsky.social
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Politics @ TPM // Previously @ Teen Vogue
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mattdpearce.com
As part of its 25th anniversary anthology of journalists reflecting on digital media, @talkingpointsmemo.com asked me to write about when my Guild tried to make Google and Meta pay for journalism. (We totally lost.)

Thanks @allegrak.bsky.social for the edit!

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/we-tr...
We Tried to Get Big Tech to Pay for Wrecking Journalism. It Didn’t Work Out.
The debate over Who Destroyed Journalism borders on theology among journalists and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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jeradwalker.bsky.social
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
In 2008, "a lot of people saw online writing as something that you did for free,” @mayaschenwar.bsky.social tells Sarah Jaffe. So the staff at Truthout unionized, kicking off a wave of media organizing that helped shaped a generation’s thinking about unions

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/digit...
Digital Media’s Union Wave Helped Shape a Generation’s Thinking About Unions
When Maya Schenwar and her colleagues at Truthout began to talk about...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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mattshuham.bsky.social
Incredible. Jess has been on this story for YEARS. The victim's mother recently told her – in a quote that was shown to the state's Pardon and Parole board, contributing to their clemency recommendation – “They should let him live. I don’t think they should execute him.” The governor listened.
jessicaschulberg.bsky.social Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Tremane Wood, who was moments away from being executed for a killing his brother admitted to committing, received a last minute clemency grant from Gov. Kevin Stitt www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...
Tremane Wood Spared From Execution In Shocking Decision
His case marks only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has commuted a death sentence since entering office in 2019.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
What life under competitive authoritarianism looks like
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all. Plaintiffs are in the process of hiring an IT contractor. Plaintiffs’ contractor will meet with the government’s ESI Liaison (with attorneys on the phone) to attempt to work through issues concerning the missing video, including whether any content is able to be retrieved. While Plaintiffs intend to explore the issue of missing footage,
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
An estimated one-quarter of IRS tax evasion agents have been repurposed to immigration enforcement. Instead of tracking high-end tax evaders, they are looking for metro fare evaders. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
It is unclear precisely what diverted IRS-CI agents are doing. An unknown number of IRS-CI agents were involved in Trump’s attempted takeover of Washington’s local police. Men in IRS-CI vests have been seen at Metro stops in the Washington DC area, apparently working to catch riders evading a $2 Metro fare. IRS-CI also reportedly participated in a military-style raid against street vendors on New York City’s Canal Street.
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
In 2023 and 2024, @mattdpearce.com chased the trail of missing journalism cash toward Silicon Valley.

Like many of California’s classic detective stories, the pursuit ended in heartbreak.

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/we-tr...
We Tried to Get Big Tech to Pay for Wrecking Journalism. It Didn’t Work Out.
The debate over Who Destroyed Journalism borders on theology among journalists and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.

(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)

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November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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condeunion.bsky.social
Reinstatement now!
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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condeunion.bsky.social
Ben Dewey with a shout out to @kimkelly.bsky.social for teaching him about unions via this @teenvogue.com explainer.
Unions Aren't As Complicated As You Might Think
Here's how they work.
www.teenvogue.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
allegrak.bsky.social
"The young staffers at Teen Vogue took a magazine that had been cute and commercial before 2016, and wrestled it into the flagship publication of feminist Gen Z politics."

Such a nice piece from Sarah Leonard.

www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism.
Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
www.cjr.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money."

www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
"only 33% of U.S. adults approve of the way the Republican president is managing the government, down from 43% in an AP-NORC poll from March.

That was driven in large part by a decline in approval among Republicans and independents."

apnews.com/article/trum...
What Americans think about Trump's management of the government, according to a new AP-NORC poll
A new AP-NORC poll finds U.S. adults’ opinions of how President Donald Trump is managing the federal government have dropped sharply since early in his second term, highlighting the risks posed by the...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
@joshtpm.bsky.social spoke to @columjournreview.bsky.social about why the core relationship in journalism has to be "adversarial," covering Trump II, and remaining an independent outlet.

“A very important goal is remaining in existence. We cannot take that for granted."

www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.
Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”
www.cjr.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
@kylietcheung.bsky.social has watched TikTok + Instagram become hotbeds for birth control disinformation, + "young, female social media users increasingly fall into the trap of a misogynist online ecosystem."

Meanwhile, the GOP is stripping away repro rights

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
Anti-Feminist Media Is Trying to Make Young Women Turn on Birth Control
In the aftermath of the 2024 election, explanations for Donald Trump’s decisive...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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greenwell.bsky.social
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
As EIC of Deadspin, @greenwell.bsky.social learned that Jacuzzi is a trademarked brand + she could laugh to the point of tears in a Times Square cubicle farm

Most importantly, she learned that private equity had gotten into the media industry to eat it alive

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/priva...
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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ckubzansky.bsky.social
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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andreagonram.bsky.social
Friends, I'm looking to speak with people who are upset about the Democrats' shutdown deal and who can speak about how increasing healthcare costs will impact them. If that's you, I can be reached via DM or at [email protected]. We can also protect people's identities as needed.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
Thanks to Elon Musk's changes to X, no one shares links to stories anymore.

Instead, they're more likely to post pictures of headlines or exciting paragraphs from articles — creating "a far stupider discourse," @daveweigel.bsky.social says.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM