Allegra Kirkland
@allegrak.bsky.social
Politics @ TPM // Previously @ Teen Vogue
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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
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.
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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...
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
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...
Most importantly, she learned that private equity had gotten into the media industry to eat it alive
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/priva...
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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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.
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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
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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
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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 andrea.gonzalez@voxmedia.com. We can also protect people's identities as needed.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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 andrea.gonzalez@voxmedia.com. We can also protect people's identities as needed.
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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.
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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,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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...
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...
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Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
As a Pike Co. student, I see the SNAP delays, and I see our people suffer | Opinion
OpEd: As a high school student, I see the struggles of our mountain communities, already hurt by floods, now suffering under SNAP delays.
www.kentucky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
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Last night in Tampa, cops used a controversial and risky technique called a PIT maneuver while chasing a driver who'd sped away from a street race
The PIT maneuver failed. The driver sped away, losing control, and crashing into an LGBTQ+ bar killing 4 people and injuring 13
The PIT maneuver failed. The driver sped away, losing control, and crashing into an LGBTQ+ bar killing 4 people and injuring 13
4 dead, 13 injured after Florida police chase ends with suspect crashing into popular LGBTQ bar
More than a dozen people were standing outside Bradley's, a popular LGBTQ bar, when the car crashed into them after a police chase.
www.cbsnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Last night in Tampa, cops used a controversial and risky technique called a PIT maneuver while chasing a driver who'd sped away from a street race
The PIT maneuver failed. The driver sped away, losing control, and crashing into an LGBTQ+ bar killing 4 people and injuring 13
The PIT maneuver failed. The driver sped away, losing control, and crashing into an LGBTQ+ bar killing 4 people and injuring 13
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Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
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Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
![Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigev37etpfwfdxjlnt3pz5qyueldxo3k6rfxw5ip477gp7inlrctq@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
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No GoFundMe, but I am thinking about rent for this month, so if you don’t wanna subscribe to the newsletter and just feel like chipping in some beer money or whatever:
Venmo is @ Jake-Lahut straightfromthehut.substack.com
Venmo is @ Jake-Lahut straightfromthehut.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
No GoFundMe, but I am thinking about rent for this month, so if you don’t wanna subscribe to the newsletter and just feel like chipping in some beer money or whatever:
Venmo is @ Jake-Lahut straightfromthehut.substack.com
Venmo is @ Jake-Lahut straightfromthehut.substack.com
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible.
Federal judge says border patrol chief admitted he lied, in ruling limiting federal agents’ use of force in Chicago | CNN
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible.
Condé is just flagrantly breaking labor law now
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Condé is just flagrantly breaking labor law now
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"In a country built on anti-Black violence, for the media — one of the perpetrators of that violence — to truly reckon with the harm it has done would require dismantling itself as we know it. But too few journalists were willing to risk their own comfort"
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The Summer the Internet Found Empathy — And How Quickly We Lost It
In May 2020, a nation already cracked by a pandemic convulsed further...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"In a country built on anti-Black violence, for the media — one of the perpetrators of that violence — to truly reckon with the harm it has done would require dismantling itself as we know it. But too few journalists were willing to risk their own comfort"
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@adamlmahoney.bsky.social entered the media industry full-time in summer 2020, when newsrooms wanted frontline dispatches from the Floyd protests and nuanced Black perspectives, and wanted them now. It seemed like empathy itself had gone viral.
It didn't last.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-s...
It didn't last.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-s...
The Summer the Internet Found Empathy — And How Quickly We Lost It
In May 2020, a nation already cracked by a pandemic convulsed further...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social entered the media industry full-time in summer 2020, when newsrooms wanted frontline dispatches from the Floyd protests and nuanced Black perspectives, and wanted them now. It seemed like empathy itself had gone viral.
It didn't last.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-s...
It didn't last.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-s...
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Should women have rights? We go through the pros and cons bsky.app/profile/jess...
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Should women have rights? We go through the pros and cons bsky.app/profile/jess...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!”
— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
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— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!”
— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The campaign's viral videos made Mamdani into a “tour guide to a city amidst an affordability crisis, while also showcasing how the city is the living, breathing antidote to the narrow politics of the Trump administration.”
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Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The campaign's viral videos made Mamdani into a “tour guide to a city amidst an affordability crisis, while also showcasing how the city is the living, breathing antidote to the narrow politics of the Trump administration.”
defector.com/selling-zohran
defector.com/selling-zohran
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For the next installment of TPM's series on 25 years of digital media, @jawnita.bsky.social brings us inside Gawker's newsroom on Feb. 26, 2015, when a viral outfit known as “The Dress” upended the office’s silence and, probably, the trajectory of media itself.
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Chasing the Dress Into the Viral Traffic Abyss
Gawker Media’s Nolita office, where the blog conglomerate was located until the...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For the next installment of TPM's series on 25 years of digital media, @jawnita.bsky.social brings us inside Gawker's newsroom on Feb. 26, 2015, when a viral outfit known as “The Dress” upended the office’s silence and, probably, the trajectory of media itself.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/chasi...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/chasi...
@kateriga.bsky.social: Voters' voted against Trump's party "in whatever vessel was presented to them—moderate or Democratic socialist, judge or public service commissioner, redistricting initiative or vote-by-mail question"
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In First Chance For Voters to React to Trump II, All Kinds of Democrats Steamrolled Republicans
All kinds of Democrats won all kinds of races Tuesday night, as...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
@kateriga.bsky.social: Voters' voted against Trump's party "in whatever vessel was presented to them—moderate or Democratic socialist, judge or public service commissioner, redistricting initiative or vote-by-mail question"
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/electio...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/electio...
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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Nandy, a 22-year-old in Kentucky, has Type 1 Diabetes. Foods he's supposed to eat are more expensive, he said. He goes to Walmart and Kroger trying to find lowest prices. He's been eating one meal a day to stretch food out. It's impacting his health: “It’s like a death sentence for people like me”
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nandy, a 22-year-old in Kentucky, has Type 1 Diabetes. Foods he's supposed to eat are more expensive, he said. He goes to Walmart and Kroger trying to find lowest prices. He's been eating one meal a day to stretch food out. It's impacting his health: “It’s like a death sentence for people like me”