Vegas Tenold
@vegastenold.bsky.social
Journalist, documentary guy, and author. Trying to fix America's loneliness problem by solving my own.
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Vegas Tenold
@vegastenold.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
Welcome!
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
First post! Welcome to my substack! I'd love it if you subscribed! whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/lets-figur...
More delightful nonsense from Krishna and I! This time with special guest Alzo Slade!
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Episode 7! Give it Up for Alzo Slade!
YouTube video by Wonderboys
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June 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
More delightful nonsense from Krishna and I! This time with special guest Alzo Slade!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsH...
The craziest thing happened! Ye just released a new album and took the cover art from a piece me and my friend Peter van Agtmael did for a Norwegian magazine back in 2015. Nope, he didn't ask first.
April 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The craziest thing happened! Ye just released a new album and took the cover art from a piece me and my friend Peter van Agtmael did for a Norwegian magazine back in 2015. Nope, he didn't ask first.
Maybe the state of protest isn't as bleak as I thought, but it's clear that the nature of protest has to change as Trump ignores First Amendment rights.
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
wagingnonviolence.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Maybe the state of protest isn't as bleak as I thought, but it's clear that the nature of protest has to change as Trump ignores First Amendment rights.
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This is terrifying and should be seen alongside the CBS settlement, Gawker, the efforts to overturn Sullivan--billionaires putting their boot on the throat of free speech. This is the actual cancel culture.
Absolute destruction of the First Amendment to enable absolute destruction of a habitable planet.
Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator $667 million in case that could destroy the group
A North Dakota jury awarded $667 million in damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is terrifying and should be seen alongside the CBS settlement, Gawker, the efforts to overturn Sullivan--billionaires putting their boot on the throat of free speech. This is the actual cancel culture.
“So, let’s get this party started, Terrorbros.”
Telegram’s largely hands-off approach to moderation allowed Terrorgram Collective leaders to reach an international audience of disaffected young people and then encourage them to turn their violent thoughts into action.
Some of them did.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Some of them did.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network
How a cadre of white supremacists used the loosely moderated social media platform Telegram to inspire lethal violence — until authorities took them down.
propub.li
March 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“So, let’s get this party started, Terrorbros.”
After chatting with @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social on their podcast, I've been thinking about what the regime's crackdown on activists means for the future of protest in America.
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I Think We're Alone Now
Is this the end of protest?
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
After chatting with @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social on their podcast, I've been thinking about what the regime's crackdown on activists means for the future of protest in America.
New substack!
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New substack!
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the funniest thing about JFK assassination theories is that conspiracists accidentally discovered a seedy nexus of intelligence agencies, organized crime, and political extremists and then judged it irrelevant because it didn't provide proof of what they were originally looking for
March 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
the funniest thing about JFK assassination theories is that conspiracists accidentally discovered a seedy nexus of intelligence agencies, organized crime, and political extremists and then judged it irrelevant because it didn't provide proof of what they were originally looking for
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This is so so wild.
Mercola is the OG of online health misinfo sitting on a $300 mil enterprise. And these tapes where he confers with an alien spirit on every decision from what gasses he inserts into his bum, to firing executives, to feeding his dog his own blood—shows he’s a true believer.
Mercola is the OG of online health misinfo sitting on a $300 mil enterprise. And these tapes where he confers with an alien spirit on every decision from what gasses he inserts into his bum, to firing executives, to feeding his dog his own blood—shows he’s a true believer.
1. EXCLUSIVE: Major anti-vaccine and alternative health influencer Dr. Joe Mercola says he wants people to march with weapons on veterinarians, and this is just the tip of the iceberg of what I discovered.
youtu.be/QRps3VQ-0BE
youtu.be/QRps3VQ-0BE
The “psychic” behind the world’s richest anti-vaxxer
YouTube video by McGill Office for Science and Society
youtu.be
March 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is so so wild.
Mercola is the OG of online health misinfo sitting on a $300 mil enterprise. And these tapes where he confers with an alien spirit on every decision from what gasses he inserts into his bum, to firing executives, to feeding his dog his own blood—shows he’s a true believer.
Mercola is the OG of online health misinfo sitting on a $300 mil enterprise. And these tapes where he confers with an alien spirit on every decision from what gasses he inserts into his bum, to firing executives, to feeding his dog his own blood—shows he’s a true believer.
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Remember “the #Resistance”?! I did a deep dive into 2017-2020 internet, the rise of the movement, its major figures, the resistance’s ultimate downfall, and why it crumbled.
youtu.be/mz3Rf820ozE
youtu.be/mz3Rf820ozE
The Rise and Fall of 'the Resistance'
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
March 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Remember “the #Resistance”?! I did a deep dive into 2017-2020 internet, the rise of the movement, its major figures, the resistance’s ultimate downfall, and why it crumbled.
youtu.be/mz3Rf820ozE
youtu.be/mz3Rf820ozE
Next episode is a doozy! Chatted with @thesparrowproject.bsky.social about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the regime's crackdown on dissent, and Andy's own arrest for non-violent activism. Episode drops tomorrow! Subscribe at whathappensinvegas.substack.com to get it right in your inbox!
March 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Next episode is a doozy! Chatted with @thesparrowproject.bsky.social about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the regime's crackdown on dissent, and Andy's own arrest for non-violent activism. Episode drops tomorrow! Subscribe at whathappensinvegas.substack.com to get it right in your inbox!
Like a goddammed idiot I've been doomscrolling here, and all the dystopia is a little overwhelming. Any good news out there? What do you folx do to feel happy these days?
March 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Like a goddammed idiot I've been doomscrolling here, and all the dystopia is a little overwhelming. Any good news out there? What do you folx do to feel happy these days?
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On the newest podcast episode, you’ll hear us speak with @vegastenold.bsky.social about the unholy political alliances that the ADL is attempting to form with the Trump administration. Bleak stuff
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010: The ADL Goes MAGA feat. Vegas Tenold
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · 03/17/2025 · 1h 5m
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March 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
On the newest podcast episode, you’ll hear us speak with @vegastenold.bsky.social about the unholy political alliances that the ADL is attempting to form with the Trump administration. Bleak stuff
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Talking to @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social about the ADL abandoning any pretense of being a civil rights organization.
We talk with @vegastenold.bsky.social about The ADL’s embrace of the MAGA agenda on this week’s pod — real bad vibes for the civil rights community.
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010: The ADL Goes MAGA feat. Vegas Tenold
The 'leading anti-hate organization in the world' has shacked up with Trump world
open.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Talking to @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social about the ADL abandoning any pretense of being a civil rights organization.
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Ep 10, featuring a chat with @vegastenold.bsky.social
The ADL goes MAGA
postthroughit.substack.com/p/010-the-ad...
The ADL goes MAGA
postthroughit.substack.com/p/010-the-ad...
010: The ADL Goes MAGA feat. Vegas Tenold
The 'leading anti-hate organization in the world' has shacked up with Trump world
postthroughit.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ep 10, featuring a chat with @vegastenold.bsky.social
The ADL goes MAGA
postthroughit.substack.com/p/010-the-ad...
The ADL goes MAGA
postthroughit.substack.com/p/010-the-ad...
Friendly reminder that everything you do online is being monitored and could be used against you. Focus on real world communities, real world solidarity, real world friendships.
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...
www.404media.co
March 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Friendly reminder that everything you do online is being monitored and could be used against you. Focus on real world communities, real world solidarity, real world friendships.
I got to be there when the Posting Through It podcast hit double digits! Shame the topic is such a bummer, but a spoonful of @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social makes the medicine go down a treat!
Next episode of the podcast is not a fun, but needed: a closer look at ADL leaders' coziness with the Trump administration. In what world does it make sense for the "leading anti-hate organization in the world" to shack up with MAGA?
@vegastenold.bsky.social joined us to help make sense of it all
@vegastenold.bsky.social joined us to help make sense of it all
March 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I got to be there when the Posting Through It podcast hit double digits! Shame the topic is such a bummer, but a spoonful of @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social makes the medicine go down a treat!
This is an absolute masterclass in how to interview people in power.
DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
www.npr.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is an absolute masterclass in how to interview people in power.
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A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
March 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
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Great. Columbia J-school students from abroad are being told to obey in advance by their dean. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Great. Columbia J-school students from abroad are being told to obey in advance by their dean. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
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“Throughout the work on the list, I was encouraged to look for cases of extremism coming from the left. It was even explicitly suggested that congresswomen AOC, Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib would be good places to start.”
The ADL threw its support behind Trump's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. I know a little bit about the ADL because I used to work there, so I wrote about the civil rights org that doesn't care about civil rights.
The Fascist and His Little Helpers
As much as we might hope that it’s lonely on the wrong side of history, it’s getting remarkably crowded.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“Throughout the work on the list, I was encouraged to look for cases of extremism coming from the left. It was even explicitly suggested that congresswomen AOC, Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib would be good places to start.”
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Vegas Tenold (@vegastenold.bsky.social) :
I’ve realized that what I’ve really been covering is American loneliness .... to say that loneliness has gotten us into a pretty bad spot.
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/lets-figur...
I’ve realized that what I’ve really been covering is American loneliness .... to say that loneliness has gotten us into a pretty bad spot.
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/lets-figur...
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
Welcome!
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Vegas Tenold (@vegastenold.bsky.social) :
I’ve realized that what I’ve really been covering is American loneliness .... to say that loneliness has gotten us into a pretty bad spot.
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/lets-figur...
I’ve realized that what I’ve really been covering is American loneliness .... to say that loneliness has gotten us into a pretty bad spot.
Let's figure out loneliness before it breaks the world.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com/p/lets-figur...
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To my delight I just found Vegas on BlueSky. You should definitely follow him and read this article about the ADL. It's enlightening, although unsurprising.
The ADL threw its support behind Trump's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. I know a little bit about the ADL because I used to work there, so I wrote about the civil rights org that doesn't care about civil rights.
The Fascist and His Little Helpers
As much as we might hope that it’s lonely on the wrong side of history, it’s getting remarkably crowded.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
To my delight I just found Vegas on BlueSky. You should definitely follow him and read this article about the ADL. It's enlightening, although unsurprising.
The ADL threw its support behind Trump's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. I know a little bit about the ADL because I used to work there, so I wrote about the civil rights org that doesn't care about civil rights.
The Fascist and His Little Helpers
As much as we might hope that it’s lonely on the wrong side of history, it’s getting remarkably crowded.
whathappensinvegas.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The ADL threw its support behind Trump's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. I know a little bit about the ADL because I used to work there, so I wrote about the civil rights org that doesn't care about civil rights.
Reposted by Vegas Tenold
“If organs of state security & petty demagogues & mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is clearly and unequivocally fascist.” - @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
“..the first arrest of many to come.”
www.unpopularfront.news
March 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“If organs of state security & petty demagogues & mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is clearly and unequivocally fascist.” - @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...