Allegra Kirkland

Hi new followers! I'm the Politics Director @teenvogue.bsky.social, and 1/2 of our small but mighty politics team. We run reporting, opeds + explainers/guides by + for young people navigating these ~chaotic~ times. We cover education, labor, US history + government, social justice advocacy + more.

Extremely normal JD Vance question about Zohran Mamdani: “I wonder, has he ever read the letters from boy soldiers in the Union Army to parents and sweethearts that they’d never see again?” @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...

In 2018, the @talkingpointsmemo.com staff decided to unionize. The day we formally notified our EIC @joshtpm.bsky.social, we sat quietly at our cluster of desks, nervously waiting for his response. An hour or 2 later, after a few calls, Josh looked over and said something along the lines of, "Okay."

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...

A Tennessee man has been in jail for more than a month after posting a meme on Facebook trolling the memorial service for Charlie Kirk. His bond has been set at $2 million. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Agents smashed a man's car window + dragged him out while he was waiting for his 8-months-pregnant wife. This all happened in front of a daycare. "I just keep thinking about the kids and how they had to witness that. I saw a couple of children at the windows.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

@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-...