cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38501280
Over the years, many who read the news in the USA were surprised to find a magazine, ostensibly for teenagers, became one of the last bastions of mainstream press resistance.
A holdout from the earlier purges at other organizations, it was silenced this week.
I find this noteworthy USA news because it helps chronicle the ongoing collapse of the commercial press in the country.
Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning.
That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine.
“Hey, we’re just driving technicals into Nambia. Its not like we’re driving tanks into France or Russia, where the important people live.”
:-/
The Second Congo War killed 5.4M people over four years. That’s half again as many deaths Japan suffered during WW2. It was a bit more than a guerrilla campaign.
I understand the Congo War has been the most deadly ongoing conflict since WW2. But the Apartheid regime was far from the only outside player in the war