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Vanity Fair correspondent. Author of Stealing the Show. Here, there and everywhere

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you’ve watched Furious, here’s an interview with the great Liz Meriwether about one of the most powerful female-driven shows around www.vanityfair.com/story/furiou...
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Elizabeth Meriwether on the ‘Furious‘ Finale—and Her Britney Spears Biopic
The showrunner talks rage, redemption, and why her show isn’t about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We really did lose one of the best advocates for books that there ever was.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
because my kids were both born on medicaid in eastern kentucky, they got imagination library books in the mail for a little while. always felt like a package delivered from a world just a little better & kinder than ours.
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The queen is dead, long live Dolly's legend
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Aren’t we all on a first name basis with Arendt? (Back in the day I reviewed a Bjork LP for NYT and they made me call her Miss Gudmundsdottir)
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
As someone who's specialized in underappreciated shows, I love Judy's list! Here's a few more from my running mental list: Beforeigners, Borgen [Scand] Catastrophe, Detectorists, Green Wing [UK] Deadloch, Fisk [Aus] The Curse, Fantasmas, High Maintenance, Patriot, You're the worst. What else?
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I somehow missed the announcement that Jarvis Cocker was a Booker Prize judge and now I can't stop thinking of him as Judge Jarvis thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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Jarvis Cocker interview: ‘I want to find an author who has looked at the world differently’ | The Booker Prizes
Booker Prize 2026 judge Jarvis Cocker tells us how reading became the perfect companion to life on tour, and why an unforgettable voice matters more to him than a gripping plot
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
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Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
When things are going great
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ballerina X @ballerinax.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Back in the day I used to stage manage some Fashion shows at Danceteria and was an emergency mermaid for Mermaids On Heroin hence my header photo. I'm still close to the nekked guy. Heck I met my first husband at The Pyramid Club. Great times www.vanityfair.com/story/dancet...
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Danceteria in Pictures, Stories, and Stars: The Famed NYC Nightclub Where Madonna Became Madonna
Debi Mazar, Rick Rubin, Michael Musto, Fab 5 Freddy, and more remember the legendary ‘80s nightclub that inspired a new Madonna single—and where she, RuPaul, Beastie Boys, and more invented themselves...
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Highly recommend Bang My Box, the new doc on HBOMax about Robin Byrd, the sex-positive queen of Manhattan Cable's Channel J. Hard to explain what a free-for-all wonderland Manhattan cable access was once upon a time...
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Robin Byrd Still Wants to Make You Feel Good
The original free-speech hero of late night, retired from her disco life, returns with a documentary.
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Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The idea that Samantha Morton is The Odyssey standout so all the kids are gonna be watching Morvern Callar this summer. Hot Morvern Summer, they are calling it.
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
10 transgender athletes out of more than half a million on college teams. That’s it. A cadre of hateful, and deeply weird, wealthy people paid to get their bigotry approved by a corrupt conservative Supreme Court.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 30/06/2026
Picturing the area at JFK arrivals where women will be forced to pee on a stick.
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Marla Lepore @marlaink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
From the great Ann Magnuson, one of many quotes that feels like it could be prefaced w/ Stefon saying Danceteria is New York's hottest club: "Our Manson musical was called Family! Joey Arias was Manson, I was Squeaky Fromme, and Marc Shaiman played the piano. We had dancers and lots of fake blood."
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Who among us doesn’t find themselves thinking: If only the Salem Witch Trials had been more organized….
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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Fun + fascinating oral history - with fabulous photos - of Danceteria by @joypress.bsky.social, a regular at the legendary New York club in the 80s. Everyone from Madonna + Fab 5 Freddy to Beastie Boys + Butthole Surfers makes an appearance. www.vanityfair.com/story/dancet...
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When Freaks Were Chic: An Oral History of Danceteria
Debi Mazar, Rick Rubin, Michael Musto, Fab 5 Freddy, and more remember the legendary ‘80s nightclub that inspired a new Madonna single—and where she, RuPaul, Beastie Boys, and more invented themselves...
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@joypress.bsky.social on danceteria is a perfect match of writer and subject and you should all read it!!!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/06/2026
this is a level of “what if you threw a party and nobody came” that actually triggers my secondhand embarrassment
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This Danceteria oral history is one of the most fun stories I’ve worked on. The club was a home for artsy misfits, incubating future stars like Madonna and Beastie Boys, Keith Haring, and Karen Finley. New wave, drag and hip hop rubbed up against each other. Enjoy! www.vanityfair.com/story/dancet...
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When Freaks Were Chic: An Oral History of Danceteria
Debi Mazar, Rick Rubin, Michael Musto, Fab 5 Freddy, and more remember the legendary ‘80s nightclub that inspired a new Madonna single—and where she, RuPaul, Beastie Boys, and more invented themselves...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 28/11/2025
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Had a fun chat with Lawrence of Mozart Estate / Go-Kart Mozart / Denim / Felt legend for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/features/int...
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An Interview with Lawrence, Icon of the Pop Underground
Across several terrific bands—Felt, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart, Mozart Estate—the mononymous British singer-songwriter built an oeuvre of jangle-pop gems that flew unknown the radar. After a documentary an...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/11/2025
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports. This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
this has been a VERY hard year for trans people so let me just say to all of you out there who stood up for us and soundly rejected transphobia in this election thank you for protecting us PLEASE KEEP IT UP WE NEED YOU and there’s still a long way to go but THANK. YOU. 😭🩷
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Apparently I may be somewhat responsible for coining cringe comedy? Sorry and you’re welcome
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This incredible speech feels like the speech of a future president.
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Congratulations, NY! If anyone’s fleeing the city, I know plenty of people who’d love to take your place
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I spend my whole life ignoring sports yet live close enough to Dodger stadium that I can hear the endless fireworks all night. Happy for all the happy people!
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
When your kid grows up to be a journalist, despite your dire warnings
"Both of my parents were like, “This is the worst job. Do not follow in our footsteps. It’s not lucrative at all.”
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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer
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Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum
A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Margaret Atwood’s version of this, in The Handmaid’s Tale, is “Nolita te bastardes carbarendurum” carved into the bottom of a wardrobe. Life is imitating terrifying dystopian fiction www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
Rumeysa Ozturk’s description of going to a library inside an ICE detention facility and finding handwritten notes from other detainees left in the margins of a novel
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
From 2020 but evergreen
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded: www.nokings.org#map
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Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Can we just pull the plug on today's news? We've stockpiled enough horror to last us through the summer
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the mother said. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history. I explored this many moons ago in Guernica: www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/
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Remapping LA
Before California was West, it was North and it was East: the uppermost periphery of the Mexican Empire, and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants making the perilous journey from Guangdong.
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