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Florida governor Ron DeSantis is certainly having a moment. In the wake of the failed “red wave” the media kept warning us about, DeSantis has been declared “the biggest winner of an otherwise dark election cycle for Republicans.” This week, Time magazine — responsible, you may recall, for the 2014 “transgender tipping point” — short-listed DeSantis for its 2022 person of the year award. This award isn’t necessarily granted to the best person in a given year: For example, past recipients include DeSantis’s current nemesis and then president-elect Donald Trump in 2016, and Adolf Hitler in 1938. But it’s another...

In this installment of Practical Magic, Lisa Stardust talks about how to hex the patriarchy. Always remember that magic is for believers, but this column can also simply serve as a guide to getting in touch with yourself — magically or not. Throughout history, witches have fought back against the patriarchy. In fact, the humble beginnings of magic focus on standing up and rebelling against governments that suppress the disenfranchised and those who lack power in society. The witch is a strong being who stands up to fight back against oppression, advocating especially for women’s power and rights. In the...

I really don’t know what to say about this one. How dense do you have to be? How far does one have to go to come up with stuff like this about the 9/11 terror attacks? Today is the 20th anniversary of that heinous day. Nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives when radical Islamic terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. United 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers tried to overpower the hijackers. The 9/11 Commission concluded that if these passengers didn’t take action, United 93’s likely target would have been the U.S....

A writer for the popular teenage girls' magazine Teen Vogue argued this week that young Americans are primed to accept socialist ideology due to capitalism's alleged "lack of regard for human life." Calla Walsh, a 17-year-old delegate to the Democratic Socialists of America's 2021 National Convention, wrote in the magazine that Gen Z — one of the youngest demographics in the U.S.— "faces a unique set of conditions that make us especially open to ideological radicalization." "The expansion of the academic industrial complex and the resulting student debt crisis have crushed our socioeconomic mobility," Walsh writes. "Forty-eight percent of workers...

Source: MSNBC/ScreenshotWhoever controls the narrative controls the world – Caitlin JohnstoneIn the late 19th century, the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov found that objects or events could trigger a conditioned response in canines. By simply ringing a bell, Pavlov could elicit a ‘psychic secretion,’ with the dogs salivating wildly.Fast forward one hundred and years, and vast swathes of society have been conditioned by the media. The mere utterance of words like ‘privilege,’ ‘masculinity,’ ‘equality,’ and ‘race’ make millions of people froth at the mouth. This is a very specific type of conditioning, very much a product of recent times, with the...

No mention of the vicious oppression, brutalization and slaughter of gays living under Islamic law. You can’t make this stuff up. Here is one letter sent to Teen Vogue: Have you read the Quran? Have you studied the History of Islam? Do you follow the news daily about your ‘religion’? Do you not know your ‘prophet’ and his ‘holy’ book condemns you and me to death on Earth, and a fiery eternal burning in Hell? Do you not realize your ‘religion’ has murdered over 270 MILLIONS in its 1,400 yr history, many of those gay and Lesbian? Do you think...

A senior Teen Vogue staffer who expressed concern about the racist tweets posted by the magazine's now-departed editor used the N-word in her own tweets. Christine Davitt, a senior social media manager at Teen Vogue, wrote two tweets in 2009 to a friend identifying him as a 'ni--a,' and another in 2010 using the word 'ni--a', Fox News reported. The friend to whom the comments were addressed appears to be white. Davitt said in multiple tweets that she is of Irish and Filipino descent.

I don’t revel in the misery of others, as a general rule, but every once in a while I do enjoy watching some leftist, or group of them, get a big dose of their own medicine. When 70 employees of the lie factory HuffPo were laid off by their new owners at Buzzfeed, I felt bad for the individuals, none of whom I know. But in a broader sense, I couldn’t care less. And if I’m being completely honest, I laughed a little. I wasn’t laughing at the people who lost their jobs. They weren’t real people in my mental...

McCammond had been set to take the top job at Teen Vogue until her past tweets came back to haunt her A senior Teen Vogue staffer who posted a letter expressing concern about Alexi McCammond for past tweets racist against Asian Americans used the N-word in tweets from over 10 years ago herself. Christine Davitt, senior social media manager at Teen Vogue in 2009 wrote two tweets to a friend identifying him as a "ni--a," and in 2010 used the word "ni--a" in a joke tweet. The friend appears to be White.

Once the must-read print magazines for then-middle school millennial girls, Teen Vogue has long been a shadow of its former self. Glossy print spreads boasting Marc Jacobs and Betsey Johnson merchandise for the (upper-middle class) younger set have been replaced by angry drivel lambasting capitalism and Israel and teaching "How To Masturbate If You Have a Penis." What used to be a print magazine catering to actual teenage girls with flirting and fashion tips now clearly desires to be an ethno-Marxist manifesto for bitter, unwed thirty-somethings living with two roommates and a cat in Bushwick. So it should come as...

Teen Vogue's new editor Alexi McCammond has resigned less than two weeks after taking the job over anti-Asian tweets she wrote as a teenager which surfaced online and cost Conde Nast a seven-figure ad campaign. McCammond's resurfaced tweets include one in which she wrote: 'Googling how to not wake up with swollen Asian eyes'. Another now-deleted tweet read: 'Give me a 2/10 on my chem problem, cross out all of my work and don't explain what I did wrong… thanks a lot stupid Asian T.A. you're great.'

When the journalist Alexi McCammond was 17 years old, she wrote some tweets in the voice of an annoyed American adolescent — which is what she was. Little could she have known that almost a decade later, her skyrocketing journalism career would be suddenly imperiled because she used the word “Asian” in a slighting way in three of those tweets. But imperiled she is. And her story should be a reminder to everyone that whatever it is that causes people to dedicate themselves to Twitter, they are taking a huge and foolish risk with their potential futures. That risk is...

Former WH press aide forced to resign after threatening to 'destroy' a female journalist Less than a month after former White House press aide T.J. Ducklo was ousted for threatening to "destroy" a female reporter, Ducklo's girlfriend has landed a plum new gig as editor of Teen Vogue. "Still pinching myself!" wrote Alexi McCammond, the Axios reporter whose controversial relationship with Ducklo came to light in February. She will take the helm of the Condé Nast publication beginning March 24. "I'm looking forward to working with the team to build a unique community of ambitious, curious, and fashion-forward young leaders,"...

The far-left magazine Teen Vogue ran a column this week suggesting white people need to go after their racist relatives at the holiday dinner table. Because in the era of Biden, diversity of thought will not be tolerated. Or something. The column, written by Jenn M. Jackson, laments that all too often white people are willing to allow their relatives to speak their “generally ugly ideas” at the dinner table over the holidays – be it Thanksgiving, Christmas, or the New Years. “Often, during the holidays, the dinner table feels so safe that many family members are comfortable uttering their...

Teen Vogue has come out with a headline in the wake of the 2020 presidential election declaring that President Donald Trump did not lose the race by a landslide because the United States is racist. In an article written by Lily Herman for the publication aimed at young people, she admits that there was no “resounding repudiation” of Trumpism that the left had been hoping for. Herman wrote: The 2020 election is not going to be the resounding repudiation of Trumpism that many had hoped for. I hate to break it to those people, but that was never going to...

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, blasted Teen Vogue on Thursday over a July column in which the writer advocates for the eventual end of private property rights. “Just wondering if anyone sees any issues with our next generation reading Marxist propaganda in popular teen magazines...?” Crenshaw, who has represented the Houston-area 2nd Congressional District of Texas since 2019, wrote on Twitter. Columnist Kandist Mallett, who has recently focused on issues related to racial injustice protests, centered her argument around those struggling financially during the coronavirus pandemic -- such as those dealing with rent and eviction issues.

Teen Vogue is really pushing to indoctrinate young people into the Marxist designs of the Black Lives Matter movement. Forget fashion, it’s about toppling our capitalism-worshipping bourgeoisie. The magazine has apparently dropped its mission as a purveyor of style tips to young people and adopted one of destroying capitalism, abolishing the police, and – no joke – advocating actual tenets of Anarchism. Just take a look at a few of the recent politically-charged headlines from the teeny bopper mag, and you might be shocked at what they’re trying to get your kids to embrace for radical societal change. Teen Vogue...

In a bizarre move, a major magazine designed to influence an entire generation of teenagers — Teen Vogue — tweeted “Welcome to Marx!,” promoting a 2018 article hailing Karl Marx as a “legend” and adding that the communist philosopher’s ideas “are more prevalent than you might realize.” “You may have come across communist memes on social media,” begins the 2018 Teen Vogue piece. “The man, the meme, the legend behind this trend is Karl Marx, who developed the theory of communism, which advocates for workers’ control over their labor (instead of their bosses).” But of course, anyone who has studied...

Leftist outlet Teen Vogue told its readers that the terrorist organization Antifa “aspires to create a better world” in the wake of riots that have broken out across the country, which have involved looting, vandalism, businesses being destroyed, beatings, and death. “‘Antifa grows out of a larger revolutionary politics that aspires toward creating a better world, but the primary motivation is to stop racists from organizing,'” tweeted Teen Vogue on Monday. The magazine’s tweet included an 2017 Teen Vogue interview with Dartmouth College historian Mark Bray, in which he defends the violent group that President Donald Trump recently announced would...

Have you noticed that a lot of lefties are more or less admitting they don’t want the nation to recover from the Chinavirus lockdowns? Not just AOC with her bubblegum wrapper economics degree celebrating the oil industry’s free fall; there are celebrity climate change cultists who care more about trees than humans and race pimps who maintain that those demanding to get back to work don’t care about “black and brown people.” The left is getting bolder about rooting against the nation. Take Teen Vogue (please!) for example. It has a series of articles called “Bread and Roses,” which explores...