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Talia Barrington

@taliabarrington.bsky.social
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Journalist, dancer, London born New Yorker. Reluctant social media participant. ✍️ The Atlantic, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian. NYU journalism 👩‍🎓

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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“It’s exciting to look at myself now and be like, look at you!” She says. “But it’s also disheartening that I looked at myself at 200 pounds and didn’t feel beautiful, even though I’m the same me.” For Cosmo I wrote about the emotional impact of taking a GLP-1. www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitne...
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Navigating the Emotional Side of GLP-1 Weight Loss
The physical changes may be obvious. The mental adjustment is often more complicated.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I love it when an assignment challenges me to reshape how I think: For Cosmo two pieces on male infertility: 1) on the myth that women were always blamed 2) on how support groups for men are full of their female partners. www.cosmopolitan.com/relationship... www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a7...
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History Has Always Blamed Men’s Infertility on Women
History is wrong.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
It was so inspiring talking to the peerless Megan Hilty for @nytimes.com last week. Here’s just a small window into her day, and everything it takes to dominate on Broadway! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...
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How Megan Hilty, a Tony Nominee, Spends Her Show Days
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
For Cosmopolitan I wrote about a phenomenon I've experienced more and more in recent years. Why ARE people telling me not to have kids? (also, yay, casual front page of the magazine!) www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...
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I Can’t Believe How Many Parents Are Telling Me Not to Have Kids
Everyone agrees that raising children can be difficult, thankless work—but it’s still worth it, right? This Mother’s Day, the answer is...maybe not.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
For @thecut.com I spoke to the @nwslsoccer.com’s Commissioner Jessica Berman about the direction of the league, work/life balance and living in fluidity instead of artificial boundaries. www.thecut.com/article/how-...
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Jessica Berman Is Taking the NWSL to New Heights
The women’s soccer commissioner talks growing the league as the curtain rises on the 2025 season.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If ‘going through it’ were a person: There is a woman in the laundromat with me who has been standing in front of her dryer staring at it spin for the past 30 mins.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Jane Fonda. “This is our documentary moment.”
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It’s a hockey game. And I’m rooting for a team.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
For Women’s Health, I wrote about how a 5000 year old sport is meeting new challenges, and the devastating accident that is inspiring change. www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a636884...
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The Ice Broke When It Shouldn’t Have. This Expert 'Wild Ice' Skater Is Determined To Figure Out Why.
The traumatic incident changed her in more ways than one.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Not at all apocalyptic right now in NYC.
Screen shot of weather app show 1 yard visibility in NYC.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Would be really nice to be able to read just about anything these days without involuntarily screaming What The Actual Fuck in my head.
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 08/02/2025
Timely — "If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley on Technodictators
YouTube video by Blank on Blank
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/02/2025
Source:
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CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People (Gift Article)
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
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LittleMissVrb @littlemissvrb.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hey, you aren’t crazy or depressed. It’s fascism.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 04/02/2025
This seems bad www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
For @theguardian.com, I wrote something I wish I didn’t have to. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
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‘Our youngest and brightest’: grief of DC plane crash rocks figure skating community
The loss of the young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short in the American Eagle flight 5342 crash has ripped a hole in the tightly knit world of figure skating
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
www.wired.com/story/life-s...
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The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done
Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only tempor...
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“Not surprised. Disgusted.”: Capt. Sully Sullenberger responds to Donald Trump’s attempt to blame the D.C. plane crash on DEI #LastWord
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Trying to cover a story on the federal funding freeze
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patrick star and spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other in a room and talking about chaos .
ALT: patrick star and spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other in a room and talking about chaos .
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
For @theguardian.com I spoke to Quad God Ilia Malinin on a second world title, a new golden age of figure skating, and landing a ‘quint’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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Ilia Malinin: ‘I have a little more pressure on myself. I don’t think I’m really that far away from everyone’
Figure skating’s ‘quad god’ takes aim at a third straight US national title starting on Saturday, but for the first time as the incumbent world champion
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
For everyone who said it wouldn’t come to this www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
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Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision (Gift Article)
A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Please read this.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Turns out watching a tv show about the devolution of society into self destructive anarchy does not, in fact, relieve anxiety about the devolution of society into destructive anarchy.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The new normal: A woman in her thirties getting her quality news from a teen magazine. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/01/2025
"I won’t take a pardon—because it would be a slap in the face to the Capitol Police, the rule of law, and to our nation.
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Meet the insurrectionist rejecting Trump’s pardon
Taking a pardon, Pam Hemphill told Mother Jones, "would be a slap in the face to the Capitol Police, the rule of law, and to our nation."
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Resharing my Cosmo piece from last month for no reason whatsoever.. www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitne...
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Stop Trying to “Protect” Women by Banning Trans Athletes
Research shows the gender divide in sports is shrinking. And that should be something to celebrate, not fear.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So.. it’s occurring to me that my decade-long procrastination taking the us citizenship test may not have been smart. Anyone done it? Easy? Hard? Tips?
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Perhaps the clearest take, from The Hollywood Reporter. Unexpected. But not the strangest thing I’ve seen in the past 2 days.. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
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Sometimes a Nazi Salute Is a Nazi Salute
Did Elon Musk intentionally "sieg heil" at Donald Trump's inauguration rally? Sometimes it only matters what you do, not what you intend.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Attacking trans people is an efficient and potent way for them to attack all of our freedom, with the immediate consequences falling first and heaviest on the most vulnerable people. My eternal gratitude and solidarity to trans people daring to exist in the face of this bigotry. Fuck transphobia.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products.

Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Quick suggestion: don’t alienate your readership and lose 300k subs if you want to reach “all of America.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
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The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It’s not even begun and I’m already sick of internally screaming what the fuck at everything I read.
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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Your periodic reminder that the public ritual of “I never liked his work anyway” is a tacit reinforcement of the notion that one cannot be both a good artist and a bad person, which is a huge part of how we keep ending up here.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
After 7 hours of writing pitch emails non-stop, here’s a picture of our foster kittens. May it be as calming for you as it is for me!
Two tabby kittens cuddle in a sunshine spot.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Superb reporting and writing. Repulsive and devastating subject.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/01/2025
"No snow yet this fall / but the gardens are just dirt now, / nothing left to eat except / invisible parsnips lurking below.” Read a new poem by Marge Piercy:
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We stay and its ours
A poem for Sunday
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: from the bottom of my heart, whoever created Undo Send on Gmail, I love you. Signed, A person with ADHD
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Welp. It was real guys. Anyone know of jobs back in the UK? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/u...
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Supreme Court to Hear New Affordable Care Act Case on Preventative Care (Gift Article)
Lower courts ruled that a task force that determines which treatments must be covered at no cost had not been validly appointed.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Is there a way I can know all the important updates this week without having to see Mark Zuckerberg’s face every three posts? Asking for a friend.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Meta will instead build programs "that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background," Pretty sure thats what DEI is for dummies. www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...
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Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs
The company cut its DEI programs as it pushes to make inroads with the Trump administration days after it ended its fact-checking programs.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 07/01/2025
"Of all the losses caused by Alzheimer’s, the one that seems to have brought him the most angst is that of the digital world he had once mastered, and the abilities to create and connect that it had afforded him." @taliabarrington.bsky.social
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Americans With Dementia Are Grieving Social Media
With its visual interface and constant updates, the social web is a nightmare for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Facts
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
For @theatlantic.com, a personal story of my father’s experience, and what it portends as an entire generation of power users comes of age. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Social Media Is a Nightmare for Alzheimer’s Patients
Older Americans are mourning the loss of platforms they had once mastered.
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In case anyone thought the prostration ended with $1 million www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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Meta to End Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates (Gift Article)
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump a...
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Petition to ban tv shows from scripting “Hey Siri.”
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Ive always been a bit of an outlier in my dislike of spotify, something just felt off about the whole platform. Feeling somewhat vindicated after reading this excellent piece harpers.org/archive/2025...
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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musicians
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Talia Barrington @taliabarrington.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A little late to this trend, but I wanted to share some of my work from the past year (my first since this career shift and j school) that I’m particularly proud of:
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