Alice Wong

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

another Teen Voguer here, come show our brilliant culture editor Kaitlyn love!!

as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Wave of RSV, particularly dangerous for babies, washing over U.S.; doctors urge vaccination

Good morning. ☕️ ICYMI: Trump has now forced more than 211,000 people out of their federal jobs. A near-decimation of the federal workforce in nine months. Biggest losses at Defense Dept and Treasury. “He is, in essence, taking our government to bankruptcy.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Mail-in voters who haven't returned ballots yet: Check your state's deadline to make sure your vote gets counted. If your ballot must be received by Election Day, consider stopping by a ballot drop box or early voting site. It may be too late for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver it by Nov. 4...

thou shalt not bear false witness

The USDA’s current position is that these funds “are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” This, however, directly contradicts guidance that the USDA issued on September 30 which explicitly states that contingency funds can be used for regular benefits.

The USDA has a contingency plan to keep SNAP running during a government shutdown — but the document laying out that plan has been deleted from the agency’s website. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

The Justice Department indicted six protesters—including Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh—for allegedly impeding an ICE officer outside a federal immigration facility. The move is a stunning continuation of Trump’s weaponization of judicial and police power to crush dissent.

3. “Our authoritarian government is waging war to flatten any differences, to make America great again with a forced monochrome lens,” Will Bunch said. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

In Sudan, the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces are "killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven't seen since Rwanda,” says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond.

anyways, the reason i don’t like people calling rfk jr. insane is because i am technically insane (i get very depressed without medication). but i’m not an egotistical, willfully ignorant, corrupt nepo baby sexual predator shit sipper, which is the real problem with him

"divergent thinking and creative thinking gets ground down and standardized out of us by the school system - not inevitably, but predictably"

@ruha9.bsky.social asking us to unlearn some of the bullshit silicon valley and western thinking is predicated on

cool cool cool cool cool

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Column: In museums, monuments and public spaces, addressing shame and defeat is part of what makes nations thrive.

Photo via flickr user yuki_alm_misa (heididorf): www.flickr.com/photos/heidi...

What's this? A Manul Monday come to visit?

Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher

Fuck yes

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

In a world where we still have not eliminated the belief that some are born disposable, to seek a technology that might reinforce it is more than reckless; it is cruel. It grows from a mindset that possession is more important than creation and cooperation is a concession only when dominance fails.

Today's edition of Journalism Today features stories on a UK journalist detained by ICE, freedom of speech in Rwanda and Meta's ban on political ads. Click to read, share, and subscribe buff.ly/R8fYAGm

"Gender-affirming care is not an abstract issue — it is life-saving health care," writes Joseph Torre of the Resilience Resource Center. "For our young people, it is the difference between fear and hope, despair and possibility." epgn.com/2025/10/16/g...

I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge. 3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc. Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.

The stuff of nightmares: "Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said" apnews.com/article/ai-a...

Given the hunger and fear that this administration is inflicting upon so many children across the country, it has never been a more difficult time for schools to be good places for kids to walk into and it has never been a more important time, too. And that both/and is overwhelming.

NPR is accusing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in federal court of reneging on a contract to appease the White House. n.pr/43D18QC

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.

What the WaPo has become: "The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification." The MAGAfication of the language.

A box-office behemoth, horror finally has Oscar voters' attention

Hurricane Melissa strengthens to category 5 and heads for Jamaica amid warning ‘many communites will not survive flooding’ – live

We have discovered a planet. It is under my pillow. A bat-like creature lives there and dreams of its next meal.

Truer words have never been spoken

There will be consequences

This is going to be PHENOMENAL! A huge win for disability justice and for increased available theory and understanding.

This is going to be PHENOMENAL, and should be read and shared by anyone who cares even a smidgen about disability justice. This is EXACTLY the kind of research and #publication that's needed 🔥🔥🔥