Is the world healing?
After Tuesday's trouncing, it is easy to wonder whether it even can. But then I see stories about how The Washington Post is clearing out the worst of their leftist propagandists, or see how The Los Angeles Times moves somewhat back to the center, and I get rejuvenated.
On Wednesday, I wrote about Condé Nast folding Teen Vogue into its adult magazine and firing all the Marxist/alphabet whack jobs who filled it with leftist politics, and today I get to write about how the media giant is using the opportunity to take out even more trash.
And, thanks, Beege, for pointing this out to me!
In response, Conde has filed a charge with the NLRB against the NewsGuild of New York over the union's "repeated and egregious disregard of our collective bargaining agreement."
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) November 6, 2025
As I wrote the other day, Teen Vogue was aimed at young teen girls and was recruiting them into Marxism and alphabet ideology. That is not hyperbole in the least. Their politics editor was a radical trans activist, and when all the reporters in that section were booted, they all screamed about alphabet issues above all.
Over the past decade or so, the woke media takeover that surprised & disturbed me the most was Teen Vogue. A magazine about fashion & celebrity, with articles about "Who Wore it Best" turned into a Leftist propaganda rag. pic.twitter.com/SVAdBrfBO7
— Paul Klein 🏎️🇺🇸🇳🇴🏎️ (@SgtWRC) November 4, 2025
TEEN VOGUE's advice to teens on watching porn:
— Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) November 4, 2025
"Porn, as an abstract concept, is not morally bad or wrong. Technically, it’s also not illegal for teens to watch it. It is illegal for an adult to show a minor pornography, and any form of watching or distributing child porn is… pic.twitter.com/K1DwYWaPla
This was the sort of stuff they were pushing out to 13, 14, and 15-year-old girls as they are looking for advice on how to be cool and admired by their peers. That is, after all, the whole point of Teen Vogue—telling girls how to be cool.
I have so much care for my colleagues/friends getting laid off and feel an immense sense of devastation because we're just losing more and more outlets we need for more radical, honest writing and rich assholes need to leave media alone.
— elly belle 🔮🍉🇵🇸 (they/them) (@literElly) November 3, 2025
Well, writers at other Condé Nast magazines got big mad that Queer ideology and Marxism would no longer be pushed out to young teens, and had a hissy fit.
Condé Nast abruptly fired four staffers who were among a group of more than a dozen employees who confronted the company’s head of human resources on Wednesday, an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.
According to two people familiar with the situation, the company told the four staffers, including a senior fact checker at The New Yorker, a politics reporter for WIRED, a digital staffer at Bon Appétit, and a video staffer, that they were being fired for violating company policies.
On Monday, Condé Nast announced that it was folding Teen Vogue into its sister magazine Vogue, and laying off several staffers and its editor in chief. While the publication was one of the smaller outlets in the company’s portfolio, some fans and supporters were quick to criticize the move; the company’s union saying it was “clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.”
On Wednesday, more than a dozen employees gathered outside the office of Stan Duncan, Condé Nast’s head of human resources, demanding to speak with him about the Teen Vogue decision, and other recent cuts at the company. Duncan told staff that they could not be congregating outside his office, and asked them to return to work. When he tried to leave, one employee asked Duncan if he was running away from the unionized employees.
A member of the union implied that the decision to fold Teen Vogue into its parent magazine would impact the company’s political coverage; one of the fired employees asked Duncan what he planned on doing to stand up to the Trump administration.
Businesses have been dealing with activist employees disrupting the office for years now, and have pushed back very little, letting the inmates run the asylum.
Loving parents standing in the way of you accessing hormone-altering, depression-inducing, body-impacting birth control pills at 14?
— Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) November 4, 2025
They don't think you're old enough to make informed choices about sex?
No problem, TEEN VOGUE will help you access them without their consent: pic.twitter.com/EZd3ViSfsp
Employees don't get to dictate to employers; if they don't feel their values align, they can leave. And since these "journalists" felt so strongly that they would blockade the HR department, they will have that opportunity now, right?
Not sure if the TJA membership is still current, but the trans journalist Association is anti-girl and woman and also an advocate against truthful reporting. https://t.co/Ar1BZzHc1V pic.twitter.com/zwjogMMBVo
— Karen Orlando (@KarenFOrlando) November 6, 2025
Part of a thread. pic.twitter.com/kS1wI9je2j
— Karen Orlando (@KarenFOrlando) November 6, 2025
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, now.
Condé’s decision to take a hard line with unionized staff comes amid a broader post-pandemic attempt by bosses to claw back power they feel was ceded to employees during the internal upheavals within white collar workplaces following the #MeToo movement, the 2020 racial reckoning, and flexible COVID-era work arrangements. The confluence of pro-employee cultural forces and shaky economics in the media business inspired many employees to form unions or deploy more aggressive union tactics.
But years of challenging media economics and changing cultural sentiments have emboldened bosses to adopt a more confrontational approach with employees.
What's remarkable is that employees at media outlets haven't quite figured out that the power dynamics don't work in their favor. They are so hyped up on radical intersectional politics that they ignore the basic fact that the media landscape is economically precarious, and "journalists" are a dime a dozen these days.
Full Conde statement pic.twitter.com/liV30aLNoB
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) November 6, 2025
Do they think that The New Yorker can't find a thousand people eager to "fact-check" for them? Or a writer eager to work for WIRED? Or some tech geeks?
C'mon, man.
I hope a lot more crazy leftists at Condé Nast properties get in high dudgeon and march...straight out the door.
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