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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, September 7th, the Princess Diana Beanie Baby Edition.

I'm June Thomas, the managing producer of Slate Podcasts. And as

usual, I'm joined by Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hello, Maureen. Hello.

Oh my goodness. Hi, June. I've been gone so long. You forgot my name. It's a mere two weeks

and I'm out. Noreen. Noreen, we missed you awfully. Missed you too.

Hannah Rosen is away on a reporting trip, so we're going to be missing her this week. But we're not going to be bereft of Washington, D.C. Energy, because completing our threesome this week, live from the nation's capital, is fabulous slate. Staff writer Christina Cotarucci. Hey, Christina. Hi, thanks for having me back. Sure, and I didn't miss up your name, so hey, points.

So this week, we'll be discussing the latest in a never-ending

series of expressions of shock, horror and surprise that Team Vogue publishes write on articles

about social issues alongside beauty tips and fashion spreads. We'll assess the enduring fascination with Princess Diana 20 years after her death,

and we'll look at Tignitaro's Amazon Prime Series 1, Mississippi,

which returns for a second six-episode season on Friday.

Then in our Slate Plus segment, we'll ask whether the response to Taylor Swift's

latest video, Luke, what you made me do, is sexist, as the video's male director Joseph

Khan claimed. If you're not yet a Slate Plus member, you can start your free two-week trial by

visiting slate.com slash XX Plus. All right, let's get on with the show.

So our first topic this week is Teen Vogue.

In the weeks after last November's election, several media outlets noted with surprise

that the Uthea version of Condé Nass iconic fashion magazine was publishing some of the

scorchingest takes on Donald Trump and politics

generally, especially after Lauren Dukkah published, Donald Trump is gaslighting America

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