Joe Ragazzo
@jragazzo.bsky.social
Publisher of TPM, Writer of Rhapsody
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Joe Ragazzo
@jragazzo.bsky.social
· Dec 5
1. As they say, @bsky.app has the juice. Over the last several weeks, we at @tpm.bsky.social gained a lot of followers, some very familiar with TPM. Some less so. For those less familiar with TPM, here’s what we’re all about, a thread. (with a little reward at the very end)
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Teen Vogue is getting folded into Vogue and losing most of its staff. It’s the end of one of the only publications that allowed young people to share their own stories and took them seriously as political actors.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Teen Vogue is getting folded into Vogue and losing most of its staff. It’s the end of one of the only publications that allowed young people to share their own stories and took them seriously as political actors.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...
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Slow Burn producer @andrewjparsons.bsky.social saw his show become a hit + a boom in podcast investing
By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped"
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped"
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside
I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Slow Burn producer @andrewjparsons.bsky.social saw his show become a hit + a boom in podcast investing
By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped"
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped"
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
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I wrote a thing
Slow Burn producer @andrewjparsons.bsky.social saw his show become a hit + a boom in podcast investing
By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped"
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped"
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside
I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I wrote a thing
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For TPM's 25th anniversary, we’re hosting a party at Brooklyn's Bogart House on 11/7, where you can meet TPM staff, alums + contributors to our new edit project on 25 years of digital media.
There are a few half-off tickets left. Get yours now:
eventbrite.com/e/1716908833539/?discount=PRIME
There are a few half-off tickets left. Get yours now:
eventbrite.com/e/1716908833539/?discount=PRIME
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For TPM's 25th anniversary, we’re hosting a party at Brooklyn's Bogart House on 11/7, where you can meet TPM staff, alums + contributors to our new edit project on 25 years of digital media.
There are a few half-off tickets left. Get yours now:
eventbrite.com/e/1716908833539/?discount=PRIME
There are a few half-off tickets left. Get yours now:
eventbrite.com/e/1716908833539/?discount=PRIME
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@ericmgarcia.bsky.social tells the story of how autism disinformation spread from obscure Facebook groups to the top of the U.S. government’s public health apparatus
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare
In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social tells the story of how autism disinformation spread from obscure Facebook groups to the top of the U.S. government’s public health apparatus
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
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For the 25th anniversary of @talkingpointsmemo.com I wrote about how the anti-vax mommy bloggers and Facebook groups launched our current MAHA hellscape and facilitated the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare
In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
For the 25th anniversary of @talkingpointsmemo.com I wrote about how the anti-vax mommy bloggers and Facebook groups launched our current MAHA hellscape and facilitated the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...
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As a teenager pissed off about politics, @talkingpointsmemo.com became my go-to website. Really grateful for @joshtpm.bsky.social and @allegrak.bsky.social for letting me take part in the 25th anniversary retrospective on how the internet changed media.
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
The Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech Business
I want to begin this introduction to our 25th anniversary essay series...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
As a teenager pissed off about politics, @talkingpointsmemo.com became my go-to website. Really grateful for @joshtpm.bsky.social and @allegrak.bsky.social for letting me take part in the 25th anniversary retrospective on how the internet changed media.
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Aurin Squire bought a cabinet’s worth of supplements during the pandemic. For @talkingpointsmemo.com's 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media, he explains how the COVID "infodemic" dissolved the line between news, advertising and conspiracy theory
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-c...
The Cabinet in My Apartment That Explains How Journalism Broke During COVID
There’s a cabinet in my apartment that tells the story of how...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Aurin Squire bought a cabinet’s worth of supplements during the pandemic. For @talkingpointsmemo.com's 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media, he explains how the COVID "infodemic" dissolved the line between news, advertising and conspiracy theory
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-c...
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This piece is terrific, and this line had me thinking about a Chuck Klosterman essay from 20+ years ago, about how early "Real World" cast members got edited into caricatures, prompting future cast members to sell themselves as caricatures.
Presaged our influencer dystopia now eating journalism.
Presaged our influencer dystopia now eating journalism.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This piece is terrific, and this line had me thinking about a Chuck Klosterman essay from 20+ years ago, about how early "Real World" cast members got edited into caricatures, prompting future cast members to sell themselves as caricatures.
Presaged our influencer dystopia now eating journalism.
Presaged our influencer dystopia now eating journalism.
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An important read.
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
An important read.
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I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
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What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
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@kellyweill.bsky.social takes us inside a 2018 Flat Earth conference. While flat earthers were then a curiosity at the time, "They were early adopters of a delusional digital mode that, a couple years later, would come to dominate political speech," she says talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
@kellyweill.bsky.social takes us inside a 2018 Flat Earth conference. While flat earthers were then a curiosity at the time, "They were early adopters of a delusional digital mode that, a couple years later, would come to dominate political speech," she says talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
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@kellyweill.bsky.social talks abt how coverage of the far right + Internet trends was often siloed outside politics verticals
"'Extremism'" suggested that our subject matter was somehow divorced from meaningful power, even as politics grew visibly more extreme" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
"'Extremism'" suggested that our subject matter was somehow divorced from meaningful power, even as politics grew visibly more extreme" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@kellyweill.bsky.social talks abt how coverage of the far right + Internet trends was often siloed outside politics verticals
"'Extremism'" suggested that our subject matter was somehow divorced from meaningful power, even as politics grew visibly more extreme" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
"'Extremism'" suggested that our subject matter was somehow divorced from meaningful power, even as politics grew visibly more extreme" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
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In 2015, at the peak of the digital media boom, law student Nathan Robinson founded the print magazine @currentaffairs.bsky.social. He makes the case for why democracy needs small print magazines for TPM’s 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/why-i...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/why-i...
Why I Founded a Print Magazine At the Peak of Digital Media Mania
Here in New Orleans, if you want to go out and buy...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 2015, at the peak of the digital media boom, law student Nathan Robinson founded the print magazine @currentaffairs.bsky.social. He makes the case for why democracy needs small print magazines for TPM’s 25th anniversary series on 25 years of digital media:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/why-i...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/why-i...
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@maxrn.bsky.social thinks the most "bone-headed" of all the rules for online journalism was that it should be free. When he & his co-founders started @hellgatenyc.com, a local NYC news site, they decided to do so as a reader-funded, worker-owned publication.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
The Future of Local News Is Making People Pay For It
You can leave journalism altogether or you can take the longest way...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
@maxrn.bsky.social thinks the most "bone-headed" of all the rules for online journalism was that it should be free. When he & his co-founders started @hellgatenyc.com, a local NYC news site, they decided to do so as a reader-funded, worker-owned publication.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...
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To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
The Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech Business
I want to begin this introduction to our 25th anniversary essay series...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
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Extremely excited about this series TPM is doing in concert with our 25th Anniversary, reflecting on 25 years of digital journalism .. the good, the bad, the awful, and where we are now.
Our first two essays are out. We’ll be publishing 25 over the next month.
Our first two essays are out. We’ll be publishing 25 over the next month.
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...
The Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech Business
I want to begin this introduction to our 25th anniversary essay series...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Extremely excited about this series TPM is doing in concert with our 25th Anniversary, reflecting on 25 years of digital journalism .. the good, the bad, the awful, and where we are now.
Our first two essays are out. We’ll be publishing 25 over the next month.
Our first two essays are out. We’ll be publishing 25 over the next month.
Reposted by Joe Ragazzo
To celebrate making it 25 years in this generally cursed industry, TPM asked 25 writers we admire to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media.
Introducing 💻 Pivots, Trolls and Blog Rolls 💻
Take a break from the abysmal news to check it out! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25
Introducing 💻 Pivots, Trolls and Blog Rolls 💻
Take a break from the abysmal news to check it out! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25
October 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
To celebrate making it 25 years in this generally cursed industry, TPM asked 25 writers we admire to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media.
Introducing 💻 Pivots, Trolls and Blog Rolls 💻
Take a break from the abysmal news to check it out! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25
Introducing 💻 Pivots, Trolls and Blog Rolls 💻
Take a break from the abysmal news to check it out! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25
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Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
What Made Blogging Different?
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
.@joshkovensky.bsky.social and I launched a podcast!
We're still figuring out exactly what this thing will be, but it's going to be good — that we know! Check it out
talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the...
We're still figuring out exactly what this thing will be, but it's going to be good — that we know! Check it out
talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the...
Introducing: The TPM Social Club – Let’s Do The F*cking News
Josh and Joe introduce a new TPM podcast and talk about the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
.@joshkovensky.bsky.social and I launched a podcast!
We're still figuring out exactly what this thing will be, but it's going to be good — that we know! Check it out
talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the...
We're still figuring out exactly what this thing will be, but it's going to be good — that we know! Check it out
talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the...
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Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
April 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
This particular decision was a fait accompli.
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"Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. It wasn't all that long ago that we were going to have internet in our schools. Now, let's do A1."
April 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. It wasn't all that long ago that we were going to have internet in our schools. Now, let's do A1."
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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...