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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

last week I started a substack chronicling my journey as a soon-to-be founder. this week’s newsletter is all about rejection (freelancers are v familiar w the feeling!!!) izzie.substack.com/p/training-t...

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Training 'til failure

This week in building a media company: flopping and getting back up again

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @izzieramirez.bsky.social, @heatherkelly.bsky.social and @emilydreyfuss.bsky.social about the many iterations of the telephone, which turns 150 years old this month. ❓What’s a feature of a previous iteration of phone tech you miss/love? 📻 Listen:

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Dialing Up 150 Years on the Phone | KQED

We’ll discuss what looking back on how we used the phone can teach us about restoring connection and meaning in our lives.

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🫵🏽Are you a #chef, #waiter, #caterer, #eventplanner? Have you ever had to serve an insanely wealthy private party? I want to talk to you!🫵🏽 For Serviette Magazine, I'm writing about the folks who make decadent nights possible. Happy to grant anonymity! Hit me up: izziermrz@gmail.com #restaurants

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

letter of rec: quit your job, go freelance, and throw a party

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

4pm lunch no one tell me shit

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

THIS JUST IN: I'm the first ever Vox employee to hit the aegyo during an exit interview. Today is my last day as deputy editor of Future Perfect! I've had a blast working with this truly iconic team, but it's time for me to do my own thing!

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

y'all think i can use a burst water pipe as an excuse not to cook and to get ceviche instead yes or yes

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Seth Maxon @methsaxon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Read Vox's chief Bad Bunny correspondent @izzieramirez.bsky.social on the references to Puerto Rican culture, history, and politics you might have missed during Benito's set last night. www.vox.com/culture/4784...

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Bad Bunny’s knockout halftime show, explained by a Puerto Rican

All of the cultural Easter eggs you might have missed.

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

it's me!!! explaining benito bowl!!!

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Here's a gift link to the @vox.com piece I wrote explaining eight of the biggest, cultural, "if you know, you know" moments of Bad Bunny's halftime show www.vox.com/culture/4784...

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Bad Bunny’s knockout halftime show, explained by a Puerto Rican

All of the cultural Easter eggs you might have missed.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 04/02/2026

Team resources is why worker-owned media collectives are so important. It's not gonna fix everything, especially the problem of readers only having so much cash, but everyone can't go it alone.

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

democracy dies when you are actively trying to kill it!!

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

my brand at work is so strong that i got a “congrats to izzie” at the 9:30 am stand up

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/01/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

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Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

everything always works out in my favor!!! ik — a highly delusional thing to believe, but it's true!

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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 30/01/2026

Thrumming with untold power, as a bit

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

i see, so doomscrolling anxiety lives here now

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

i'm the world's luckiest girl (saw kokuho in tokyo a month ago and then again tonight in imax in nyc)

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

clear eyes, miso soup in a to go coffee cup, can’t lose

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

in any case this is what you missed on glee last weekend! cambodian coconut milk rice cake, nails by my amazing nail tech of 4 yrs, and...me at kelang 🌺

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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some early takes said the new food guidelines weren't too bad, but you always gotta dig deeper to really understand what MAHA is doing. So much going on here is chaos but most notably the new guidance makes an aggressive turn toward centering animal-based foods www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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The new food pyramid is lying to you

It’s also a contradictory mess.

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

cold brew x cafe de olla combo so strong not only did i clean my house, i logged onto bluesky

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @vox.com's @izzieramirez.bsky.social, @washingtonpost.com's @michellesingletary.bsky.social and @nytimes.com's Emma Goldberg about their predictions for 2026 and what we learned from 2025. ❓Whether good, bad or neutral, what do you think will happen this year? 📻 Listen:

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What Are Your 2026 Predictions? | KQED

We’ll speak with three journalists about what they expect — and what we’ve learned from 2025. And we’ll hear from you: Whether it’s good, bad or neutral, what do you think will happen this year?

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 19/12/2025

@klingebeil.bsky.social: “Journalism risks becoming endlessly malleable, shaped to fit yet another set of companies’ platforms, metrics, and algorithms rather than public needs.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...

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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today, @izzieramirez.bsky.social and @vox.com's Future Perfect team launched our annual list of extraordinary changemakers keeping global progress alive at a moment when foreign aid and development are under immense pressure. There's so much to be inspired by here: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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The 2025 Future Perfect 25

Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive.

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

For a long time, I thought ditching beef would mean missing out on some grand connection I'd gain at the table. For @vox.com, I wrote about reconnecting with Indigenous foodways, while also acknowledge the cultural pull of beef — as a Texan. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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I’m the daughter of a cattle rancher. Could I ever ditch beef?

Beef is tied to my cultural identity — because of its complicated, colonial history.

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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"I feel just at home in my roots making bean and squash tacos for a dinner party in Brooklyn as I do eating brisket with my dad by the side of a racetrack in Austin, cars whipping by." Sharing this beautiful piece by @izzieramirez.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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I’m the daughter of a cattle rancher. Could I ever ditch beef?

Beef is tied to my cultural identity — because of its complicated, colonial history.

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izzie ramirez @izzieramirez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

me posting on yet another godforsaken platform

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