Parker Molloy
@parkermolloy.com
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
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Teen Vogue's Award-Winning Journalism Was Too Much Trouble for Condé Nast
The outlet just won recognition for speaking truth to power. Condé Nast responded by eliminating its entire politics staff and folding it into Vogue.
www.readtpa.com
Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
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Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
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Honestly there was only one way the Cuomo family could be more off-putting and it’s to try to look like modern day Vince McMahon
Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Honestly there was only one way the Cuomo family could be more off-putting and it’s to try to look like modern day Vince McMahon
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More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
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for better and worse you’re like a dozen times more likely to see discourse like the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle thing on Twitter than you are here. you want government shutdown content, though, this is the place.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
for better and worse you’re like a dozen times more likely to see discourse like the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle thing on Twitter than you are here. you want government shutdown content, though, this is the place.
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this isn’t even the right stereotype about Bluesky! the actual legit criticism is that the core user base *only* talks about things like Senate inside baseball and not, like, movies or pop culture
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
this isn’t even the right stereotype about Bluesky! the actual legit criticism is that the core user base *only* talks about things like Senate inside baseball and not, like, movies or pop culture
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this @katelynburns.com piece about the death of lia smith deserves your full attention
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
this @katelynburns.com piece about the death of lia smith deserves your full attention
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
These guys really think we're stupid.
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
These guys really think we're stupid.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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'I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s all about Orbán holding on to power.' Read Iván Zsolt Nagy.
www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
Viktor Orbán’s Hail Mary.
I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s ...
www.cjr.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
'I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s all about Orbán holding on to power.' Read Iván Zsolt Nagy.
www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
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This is really weird and deeply embarrassing.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is really weird and deeply embarrassing.
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"The central goal of much anti-transgender rhetoric is to make cisgender people believe that their interests and trans people’s interests cannot be met at the same time."
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
Great @gbbranstetter.bsky.social read on how throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning political strategy and in fact the opposite is true. Democrats have an opportunity here to not be craven cowards succumbing to transphobic messaging.
Democrats Can’t Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party's establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
www.thenation.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"The central goal of much anti-transgender rhetoric is to make cisgender people believe that their interests and trans people’s interests cannot be met at the same time."
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head
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called it blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
called it blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
I really hate how Trump refers to everything as a "hoax." The "Democrat Shutdown Hoax?" The government was shut down. It wasn't a "hoax." Demented shithead.
Now we have Trump blasting air traffic controllers, telling them they hate this country for not showing up without pay.
"I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK... You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record."
"I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK... You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record."
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I really hate how Trump refers to everything as a "hoax." The "Democrat Shutdown Hoax?" The government was shut down. It wasn't a "hoax." Demented shithead.
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The courts are moving ahead with a scheme to make trans people as a category of second-class citizen, unprotected by law.
More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:
More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:
An Immediate Need to Impose Bigotry: Rogue Court Endorses Trump’s Ideology — Assigned
An Immediate Need to Impose Bigotry: Rogue Court Endorses Trump’s Ideology
www.assignedmedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The courts are moving ahead with a scheme to make trans people as a category of second-class citizen, unprotected by law.
More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:
More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:
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the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
This seems significant
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
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"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.
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The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.
One photo, a deluge of threats: Inside the Arizona high school turned upside down by right-wing activists
A group of math teachers — some of whom were fans of Charlie Kirk — had their lives turned upside down this week over false accusations about a Halloween photo.
www.nbcnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.
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This essay muses wisely on the New York Times' relentless insistence on false balance -- a big-media standard that, sadly, amounts to business as usual malpractice.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This essay muses wisely on the New York Times' relentless insistence on false balance -- a big-media standard that, sadly, amounts to business as usual malpractice.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.
Why is he everywhere?
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Why is he everywhere?