If this was a photo of Gaza, there would not be a single media outlet that didn’t have this on the front page. It’s not Gaza. It’s Iran.
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You may want to ask yourself WHY is that? The answer to the question is because the Iranian-Islamic regime is EVERYTHING the left supports.
That's why you don't hear or see Leftist / Democrats / Liberals & Progressives marching in support of the people of Iran or the Mainstream Media reporting on it.
Can we finally retire this tired take that “Connor doesn’t have charisma”? He absolutely does. The problem is that audiences keep measuring him against a very narrow, Eurocentric idea of charisma: one that always defaults to cocky rogues, witty banter, and action hero-style suave.
And because Connor doesn’t perform charm in that way, people dismiss him as “bland.” But charisma isn’t just about being a smooth talker. Connor’s charisma is quieter, more grounded. When he speaks, people listen because he actually means it. His sincerity draws people in because he’s not putting on an act or trying to manipulate anyone. And the respect he commands doesn’t come from bravado -- it comes from the steadiness and conviction with which he carries himself.
That’s also charisma. Just not the kind most gamers have been trained to recognize. And honestly, the fact that so many write him off says less about Connor as a character and more about how narrow our collective lens for “charisma” has been.
Connor doesn’t lack charisma -- society just lacks the range to see it.
President Donald Trump hosted the largest US military parade in decades on his 79th birthday as protesters rallied across the country to acc
It’s fitting and inspiring that trump’s ridiculous birthday party was not only attended by troops who clearly did not want to be there, but was heavily overshadowed by regular people holding their own better-attended marches all over the country.
Putting personal profit aside for a moment, there has been one primary motivator for Trump’s actions in his second term: obeisance.
Every move he has made, every speech he has given, every order he has signed, can be traced back to his desire for people to bow down to him. It was the point of his unauthorized tariffs, it was the point of illegally calling up the national guard and marines, it was the point of his recent “you spit, we hit” speech, all of it.
“No Kings Day” was aptly named, and it was motivating. Remember that it typically takes only 3.5% of people protesting to effect a major social change. That’s it. If you’re out protesting, you’re punching way above your weight.
Despite the paltry coverage of protests by US media (we have to read foreign papers to even find out about them), and the subsequent overcoverage of isolated property damage, it’s possible that this weekend could wake them up.
There’s a market for honest coverage, and I believe that the 3.5% number is key in making them aware that this market exists. In our hyper-capitalist society, it’s sadly essential for them to internalize that before their stories will reflect it. Perhaps we are getting there.
The disappearance of the platform is bigger than one newsroom.
When I learned that Teen Vogue had been absorbed into Vogue and its politics team had been laid off, it felt like another gut punch in a time of endless bad news. For nearly 10 years, Teen Vogue was an improbable home for some of the sharpest justice journalism in the country. While other outlets chased clicks or softened language, Teen Vogue published incisive essays on prisons, abortion criminalization, police violence, and democracy itself. Its writers didn’t just analyze systems of inequality and injustice—they handed the microphone to those who lived them first hand.
Teen Vogue’s dissolution signals a more troubling shift: the quiet disappearance of expert community voices from mainstream media and, more broadly, the silencing of those who challenge the dominant fear-mongering narratives that consolidate support for right-wing political agendas. It’s no coincidence that this silencing is unfolding alongside a broader assault on labor itself—evident in newsroom union fights like Condé Nast’s and a weakened National Labor Relations Board. These attacks are central to how authoritarian forces consolidate power and exert control.
As a public defender for nearly a decade in Brooklyn, I spent long days in crowded courtrooms where lives were being decided in minutes, often with no audience, no cameras, and little understanding from the outside world. What struck me most was how many brilliant voices were being ignored: the people living through injustice every day, the defenders witnessing the system’s failures up close, and the advocates and organizers trying to transform it. That frustration is what led me to found Zealous, an initiative working to help those closest to injustice tell their own stories and shift public understanding of what safety, health, and justice really require.
Teen Vogue quickly became the outlet that brought that vision to life. Zealous has partnered with Teen Vogue on dozens of pieces that taught readers something rare in mainstream media—how justice actually works, and for whom.
These stories chronicled the last decade of American crisis and resistance: from 2018’s exposé of Louisiana’s collapsing public-defense system—where attorneys described “triaging human lives”—to essays on the fight against the “superpredator” myth and the criminalization of trauma survivors. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Teen Vogue and Zealous partnered to publish firsthand accounts from inside Cook County Jail, one of the country’s deadliest outbreaks. In the wake of the George Floyd uprising, we collaborated on coverage explaining how “copaganda” shapes what the public believes about safety. And when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, together we connected the dots between reproductive rights and criminal punishment.
In total, we partnered on nearly 30 articles and video projects that traced a living history: the public-defense crisis, mass incarceration, pandemic neglect, protest repression, abortion criminalization, and the rise of abolitionist imagination. These articles form a timeline of how a generation learned to question punishment itself. They were also training grounds for readers—many encountering these issues for the first time—showing what critical media should look like: unafraid, intersectional, rigorous.
That Teen Vogue of all outlets became a pillar of serious justice reporting was no accident. Its editors understood that feminism without freedom is hollow. They treated youth not as consumers but as participants in democracy. And they modeled what real editorial bravery looks like: commissioning incarcerated writers and grassroots advocates, insisting on trauma-informed storytelling, and publishing work that demanded better from the system—and from us.
The disappearance of that platform is bigger than one newsroom. It signals the slow collapse of spaces willing to publish the truth about harm and healing in America. Newsrooms are shrinking. Foundations are retreating. And the journalists most fluent in justice—often women, gender-fluid, and people of color—are losing their jobs first. This contraction is not neutral; it is political. When the outlets willing to publish abolitionists, public defenders, and survivors vanish, public understanding narrows. Democracy weakens.
Teen Vogue’s work was originally driven by a mission to educate and empower young women and girls. Yet over time it reached far beyond that: Its reporting drew in the general public, academics, lawmakers, and cultural leaders. It shaped debate and informed policy. The team’s reach and influence proved that serious, justice-oriented journalism could thrive in unexpected places—and that youth media could change the world.
I don’t know if Condé Nast will reverse course. I hope it does. But whether or not Teen Vogue survives, the movement for truth must find new homes. We need editors who see expertise in lived experience, and we need funders who recognize that justice journalism is foundational to democracy. But we also need readers to keep seeking out the perspectives Teen Vogue elevated—to resist the idea that cable commentators or political pundits are our only experts.
The real truth-tellers are still out there: the organizers, survivors, defenders, and directly impacted people who understand what safety and justice demand. Our democracy depends on whether we choose to keep listening to them.
All I'm sayin is with all the media figures being fired for saying milquetoast criticisms of recently deceased nazi Charlie Kirk, if just one media outlet was willing to snatch them up, they would garner infinite sympathy and a ton of new followers/subscribers almost instantly. No one is on board with this kind of broadstroke censorship.
All these reporters but especially Jimmy fucking Kimmel? Are you fucking kidding me? Literally just a free moneypot for whatever company has even an iota of balls.
