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Politics @TeenVogue . Steward @condeunion . Previously @TPM . DMs are open. Reach me off Twitter at allegra_kirkland @condenast .com

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Allegra Kirkland
2 years
Rep. Matt Gaetz tried to body shame a 19-year-old abortion rights activist. In the 48 hours since, @0liviajulianna has raised over $168,000 for abortion funds. @TeenVogue
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Take COVID tests before you go see your families! Just tested positive ~4 hours before I was supposed to leave to see mine. (ALSO I HATE THIS FCKN VIRUS)
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A rural Maine school board tried to eliminate a policy protecting trans students 200+ ppl came to a meeting to speak out against the move The board still nixed the policy, but the town rallied together to unseat the members + install a progressive majority
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It’s cool how the president tells the truth so infrequently that when he says he got the disease causing a global pandemic people are speculating if he’s telling the truth or has an angle
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2 years
As soon as @MaxwellFrostFL won his primary, we knew he'd be the perfect person for a @TeenVogue cover. Excited to share a project months in the making! We spent some time in Orlando w/Frost, going deep on what it means to be The First Gen Zer in Congress
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"Whenever someone resorts to body shaming in an argument it's because they can’t intellectually and factually get their point across," @0liviajulianna tells @fortesalatifi
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6 years
NEW: In leaked Discord chats, field director for GOP Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he has “more compassion for dogs than illegals,” uses the n-word freely and claims his “whole political ideology revolves around harming journalists"
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Also love that @0liviajulianna says she got her confidence + comeback skills from watching WWE! "I had years of watching storylines taking on authority figures or 'bad guys.' It made me develop a quick wit to respond in this situation."
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3 months
Welcome to the United States of Suppression, @TeenVogue 's new series documenting the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S.
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6 years
UPDATED TWEET re: new details on Cohen subpoena in Trump Foundation probe -Cuomo official clarified it's being led by Tax Dept, other state agencies ~could~ get involved -They're working w/Manhattan DA & NY AG's office
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Allegra Kirkland
4 years
Just editing story after story of young people losing jobs, incomes, hope for their future and getting mad (again) at everyone who has ever said "omg Teen Vogue covers POLITICS now." Teens give a shit about the world imploding around them!!!!
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4 years
The convention speeches about the soul of our nation, 538's new election forecaster, Biden's slight lead in the polls, this growing sense that Dems have got it in the bag cause surely everyone can see the damage Trump has caused...I have serious 2016 flashbacks
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"I think what he was expecting was for me to fall into an outrage cycle and he wanted me to be like, “This is horrendous, you’re evil, you should be canceled.”...I don’t think he expected for me to respond in the way that I did—to fundraise for abortions."
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The Dems having a Republican strategist host one night of their own convention is too on brand
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EXCLUSIVE: The DNC will feature 4 celebrity hosts. One for each night. Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn, Ana Navarro & Mindy Kaling.
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6 years
Also implicated in court documents for Michael Cohen -The Trump Organization & two unnamed executives there -American Media Inc., CEO David Pecker, the National Enquirer, & mag's EIC -"One or more members" of the Trump campaign
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Feeling grateful to work at a publication where we can say people deserve the right to an abortion. It's dehumanizing to have to pretend to be neutral on issues that intimately affect our lives. It's outdated to think that you need to do so in order to do "Real Journalism."
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. @MaxwellFrostFL has fought for gun control, abortion access + voting rights. Last night, he won his Florida congressional primary. As Frost tells @leximcmenamin , to win "the world we deserve," we have to push for "all the things, all the time":
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4 years
Hi! IYCMI, @TeenVogue is running an ongoing series called Fear and Learning in America about what it's like to go back to school during the apocalypse. Here are some of the stories we've run so far:
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2 years
Disability (In)justice, a new @TeenVogue package launching today, explores where the fight for disability justice stands. For the first piece, we spoke to @thellpsx @Imani_Barbarin @NotYourAvgHo101 @ananyapaints @teonawrites @powerfullyisa + more
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6 years
Wow. New statement out from Michael Cohen attorney Lanny Davis after Cohen pleaded guilty on 8 counts:
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5 years
Mueller report contains lot of eye-popping private conversations btw Trump and those in his orbit. Like this one:
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4 years
“At the end of the day, whether I sit at home or I’m on the front lines, I could be killed just for the color of my skin,” @nupol_justice , 19, says. “If anything were to happen to me, I would want it to be for righteous cause.” @TeenVogue
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4 years
Since we’re always being accused of indoctrinating the teenz anyway, we went ahead and did a whole socialism package. First up, for May Day, we have this explainer on what democratic socialism is and is not @TeenVogue
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Allegra Kirkland
4 years
Still reeling from this Incredibly Bad Week for Media, but if you got laid off bc this industry is trash, I have a freelance budget for the time being! Pitch me at allegra_kirkland @condenast .com on anything young people interested in politics would be into!
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"If half your class is absent and half your teachers are sick and your friend is in the hospital and your aunt has COVID and you don’t want to eat in school because you don’t want to take your mask off, is learning really happening in those conditions?"
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Allegra Kirkland
4 years
GOOD MORNING! Our November cover stars are the incomparable @IlhanMN & @israhirsi , some of the only people I want to hear from 1 week out from Election Day 2020. Check out @SafyHallanFarah 's joint profile here: @teenvogue
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4 years
After clearing the plates left by a large party, one of the diners informed Bailey that his Invisalign had been thrown away in a napkin. He made her dig through the trash for 30 mins. The table's tab was $550. They left her $0. @saruhli @TeenVogue
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Allegra Kirkland
6 years
The US Attorney in NC's Eastern District was tipped off about the absentee ballot fraud scheme in #NC09 in 2017. He's focused instead on rooting out extremely rare, usually mistaken instances of non-citizen voting. My story on Bobby Higdon:
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Allegra Kirkland
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Spoke to @staceyabrams back in January about her work to turn Georgia blue and expand access to political power: "Fundamentally for me, this isn't about politics; this is about lives.” @TeenVogue
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3 years
20 years ago today, the US brought its first prisoners to Guantánamo. We're spending $500M/year to run the facility, where 39 prisoners remain. As @IlhanMN writes, "Their ongoing detention goes against the most basic standards of justice" @CVTorg @amnesty
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Allegra Kirkland
5 years
Proud as hell that @GrimKim writes for @TeenVogue (and files smart, clean stories that make my job easy). Any publication that decides not to work with her bc they just found out she has political views is losing out.
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📢💫 🗳️ @TeenVogue is looking for student journalists attending college in NV, FL, MI, WI, AZ, GA and PA to be our 2024 election correspondents! Learn more and apply here: 🗳️💫📢 Deadline is Fri July 7! You can send Qs to teenvogue2024project @gmail .com
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4 years
"I feel sick with anxiety." "I had a panic attack on the bus on the way home." @mary__retta spoke to students who fear punishment for documenting unsafe conditions at their schools @TeenVogue
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Just dropping in to say student journalists are journalists, and young people were at the forefront of most of the major social movements of the past few decades (and, ya know, much of the 20th century)
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5 years
Cue the old ~personal news~ dance: I’m so excited to share that after 4 years and 2 months @TPM , I’m heading over to @TeenVogue next week to become their politics editor!
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4 years
Sorry to keep being so depressing On Here but it’s just staggering to think of the mass trauma people have experienced this year — unemployment, deaths, illness, evictions, homes lost to wildfires, hunger. So many people are hurting.
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Allegra Kirkland
6 years
A Florida House committee just passed a bill that ~dramatically~ undermines voter-approved ballot amendment restoring the franchise to former felons. Those too poor to pay off fines would effectively be unable to get their voting rights back
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4 years
🗳🚨✨ IF YOU CAN VOTE EARLY IN PERSON, THAT IS THE WAY TO GO ✨🚨🗳
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Allegra Kirkland
6 years
Just out from Gillum team on the "tightening" results in the Florida gov race
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"I’m an organizer, and I believe we need more organizers in Congress, folks who come from this world," 25-year-old Florida congressional nominee @MaxwellFrostFL says. "I mean, I’m a working-class person. I Uber five nights a week so I can pay my bills."
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6 years
Walked in to a restaurant bathroom at Penn Station and three much older women were hugging and talking about their sexual assaults
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Allegra Kirkland
4 years
Facebook announced it is (finally) pulling its QAnon pages and groups. But so much damage has already been done. @fortesalatifi talked to young people who've lost their parents to the conspiracy theory. @TeenVogue
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Allegra Kirkland
6 years
PSA: The Proud Boys' name comes from the song "Proud of Your Boy" which was CUT from the 1992 Aladdin Disney movie
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5 years
One of the most 👀 moments of the hearing so far
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4 years
. @AyannaPressley introduced an HR1 amendment to lower the federal voting age to 16 — because, as she said, people that age are deeply politically engaged and just as deserving of this right
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The Kerner Commission of 1968 found that riots were caused by -police brutality and militarization -white racism -poverty -an unequal justice system @meelanash @TeenVogue
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Allegra Kirkland
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Healthcare workers in NYC have been going through hell. @HannaWallis spoke to 5 of them about needing more than compliments and applause. “I don't want to be called a hero and die a hero because I lost my life to this because they failed us." @TeenVogue
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. @MeetMckayla , 29, is running a primary challenge against Rep. Steny Hoyer, who has held his seat since 1981. She wants an end to a political system that is "regular people vs the powerful corporations & the politicians they buy." @TeenVogue @MalaikaJabali
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5 years
Can we just cancel the government and start a new one from scratch please
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4 years
100 years ago, the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. But so many women of color remained — and remain — disenfranchised, and have been written out of this history. Our August cover is about them: @TeenVogue
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. @JCisnerosTX lost her 2020 primary against anti-abortion Rep. Henry Cuellar by fewer than 3,000 votes. In 2022, Cisneros is hoping for a win. "I owed it to the folks here to try it one more time." @AmandaBecker
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Allegra Kirkland
6 years
Cody Wilson, founder of 3-D printed gun company Defense Distributed, was charged w/child sexual assault by authorities in Austin today. Wilson also founded Hatreon, a Patreon alternative for the far-right. I talked to him about it after Charlottesville.
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6 years
Morning! I spent ~3 months working on this story about the surprisingly promising campaign to restore the franchise to some 1.4 million Floridians with felony convictions. Would be so grateful if you read it.
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2 years
Me: ok I’m going to go to sleep and get updated on election results first thing. Me 10 mins later: scrolling Twitter in my living room in the dark
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Allegra Kirkland
4 years
The way we run elections in this country is soul-crushingly exhausting for everyone involved. Such a waste of money and energy and time.
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Allegra Kirkland
3 years
Workout videos are always like “pull your bellybutton into your spine” or “knit your ribs together" Literally what are you talking about
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5 years
16-yr-old Gillian Sullivan's Tik Tok calling for students to strike in solidarity w/their teachers went viral. Then her Nevada school district reached a deal with the teacher's union. Here's what she told @SatansJacuzzi :
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@mollytaft @bettinamak Day 2: Spend $900 on Crypto at 9 am 🤡
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Allegra Kirkland
4 years
VERY COOL JOB OPP: @EconomicSecProj is funding a 1-year reporting position at @TeenVogue focused on all the ways young people are being affected by the COVID recession. It's very well paid & fully remote & you'll have tons of flexibility & autonomy
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Imagine how weird you have to be to not think networking is the ninth circle of hell
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WOW the terms that the Washington Post agreed to for a tentative two-year agreement with the paper's union are offensively bad
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Kavanaugh: "Renate Alumnus" reference in our yearbooks was "not related to sex" with Renate Schroeder Georgetown Prep student Michael Walsh's yearbook: “You need a date / and it’s getting late / so don’t hesitate / to call Renate.”
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6 years
Last night, Scott called for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate “rampant fraud” in his U.S. Senate race. But the FDLE says there are no voter fraud allegations to look into and that Scott made no formal request for an investigation.
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🫶 In Rome and 7 months pregnant 🫶
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3 years
📢 📢The incomparable @Rainesford is starting a careers advice column for @TeenVogue ! Send your questions about figuring out what you wanna do, finding a job, salaries, work/life balance, burnout, unions + more to TVWorkinProgress @gmail .com 📢📢
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"To give up on government as a tool for good is to give up on one of our biggest tools," Frost says. He cites his own story as an example.
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3 years
Jackson Reffitt, 19, reported his dad to the FBI for joining the January 6th Capitol riot. A year later, he lives away from his family and rarely speaks to them. When he does talk to his mom, she calls him “the Gestapo.”
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2 years
As @Imani_Barbarin says, COVID made people more aware of ableism, but so many disabled lives "were lost because we politicized a virus unnecessarily." And the pandemic itself was a mass disabling event, leaving millions w/long COVID. "They are us now."
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4 years
Teens are teaching seniors to use Zoom & FaceTime, order groceries online & running errands for them. A story to warm our cold dead hearts: @TeenVogue
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4 years
Ahh a new day, time to immediately log onto The Website That Makes Us Feel Bad
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4 years
In @TeenVogue , Minneapolis Public School Board director @JoshPauly urges other school districts to cut ties w/police: "We cannot partner with organizations that do not see the humanity in our students. We cannot be neutral in situations of injustice."
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As @FaithfullyBP writes, "Queer students in my small town saw neighbors who were willing to fight for their ability to thrive. Trans rights aren’t a 'big-city' issue; they’re woven into the fabric of every community."
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Until Black people can "run, walk, swim, play, nap, drive, rest, shop, work, bank, laugh, and vacation without fear of harassment, accusation, or bodily violence — until Black people can live — we will never unroot systemic racism." - @hyphenatedprof
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6 years
READ: Full copy of Stormy Daniels' new complaint alleging that her former lawyer "colluded" with Michael Cohen without her knowledge
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@allegrakirkland truly amazing stuff
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3 years
We're coming to the end of another turbulent, draining year. But I'm really proud of the stories @teenvogue put out despite...well, everything. Hard to narrow it down, but sharing just a few favorites from our brilliant columnists + contributors ⤵️
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5 years
A little bit of ~personal news~ to share. Starting today, I'll be a senior editor in @TPM 's New York office helping to lead our wonderful team here. Will still be writing (especially in the short term) so please keep reaching out with tips, suggestions, etc!
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The Trump administration is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. @MaiaWikler went to Alaska to profile the 18-year-old activist fighting to protect the land her tribe has lived on for centuries: @TeenVogue #CCNow
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The 19th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago today. ICYMI, @TeenVogue 's August cover was about all the women of color left uncounted after that amendment passed, their fight for representation, and why telling people to "just vote" isn't nearly enough.
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Fireworks going off in bushwick and subway conductors laying on their horns
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It’s so strange to feel hopeful about the world again
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Students covering the campus protests are pulling all-nighters, watching their peers get arrested and tear-gassed, and even getting assaulted on the job.
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3 years
Let’s just say this union has been a LONG. TIME. COMING. Beyond proud of all the Condé Nast workers past and present who made this thing happen.
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The 2022 midterms aren't over but wanted to take a sec to share some of the work the @TeenVogue team did this cycle. We didn't ~know~ how results would go + try to avoid horseracey coverage of The Narrative. But we heard the same things from young people consistently ⤵️
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. @CoriBush is one of the most visible progressive voices on Capitol Hill, pushing for student debt forgiveness + arguing for the protest rights of young pro-Palestine demonstrators AIPAC has spent $8M+ on her 8/6 primary race, which is looking very close
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6 years
That screenshot is from the New Yorker’s own story
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5 years
The generational divide in this primary and the party is very real
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Sanders got 72% of all under the age of 30 in California, & he got 62% of all under the age of 45. He won 55% among Hispanics, to 21% for Biden. Among white respondents, it's 33-23 Sanders; among African Americans, it's 38-18 Biden.
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"We are past Mayor Frey’s crocodile tears, his false promises, and his failed leadership. We are past his toothless reforms to" the Minneapolis Police Department, @robin4mpls writes in this oped calling for Frey's resignation
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Allegra Kirkland
3 years
Thrilled that the wonderful @leximcmenamin is joining @TeenVogue full time as News + Politics Editor! Lexi is a longtime contributor who is bright, enthusiastic, conscientious + always building up fellow writers (especially thru mentoring work w/the @zenithcoop )
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Clark brothers were born to Mormon parents & bounced around the country before winding up in DC. Jeff Clark finished HS but failed to find a foothold in adult life. He told white nationalist podcast he was radicalized by Ferguson protests, Trump's election
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6 years
Just said “stoppp it” out loud on the train
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Roger Stone is selling ‘Roger’ stones
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Woke up to some incredibly normal emails bc we recently retweeted the Marx explainer from a few years ago?
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This debate was not fun to watch but gchatting with the Teen Vote committee saved my brain: "let’s revolt plz" "Sir, I am GRADUATING IN A RECESSION IN A PANDEMIC" "The xenophobic language JUMPING out" "the bar is in hell" @TeenVogue
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Goodbye to my last grandparent, an exceptionally decent and loving Alabama turned North Carolina guy who ran a children’s home and loved kids and the woods and my grandma who he met at 13 and was just sweet, goofy and smart as all hell. We love you and this is all just so hard.
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2020 has made it extra clear that time is an illusion, but, somehow, today marks my 1 year anniversary @TeenVogue . Has been a WILD RIDE thus far.
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4 years
This whole situation is truly sick.
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Polls open in minutes. Here’s a look at the line in Waukesha, the city’s only polling location
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. @keaux_ wrote about what happened when @scalawagmag gave its entire staff a full paid month off. For 30 days, they "paused meetings, let Slack exchanges go quiet, and automated our social media content."
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. @StrikeDebt and 50+ other orgs + unions are holding a day of action in front of the Dept of Education today urging Biden to cancel student debt thru executive order. "This doesn't require some lengthy, bureaucratic process. It can actually disappear.”
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