Allegra Kirkland
@allegrak.bsky.social
Politics @ TPM // Previously @ Teen Vogue
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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.
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...
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...
Reposted by Allegra Kirkland
@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...
Was such a pleasure working with you, Alice ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Was such a pleasure working with you, Alice ❤️
Reposted by Allegra Kirkland
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...
Chasing the Dress Into the Viral Traffic Abyss
Gawker Media’s Nolita office, where the blog conglomerate was located until the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
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...
Reposted by Allegra Kirkland
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”