"the very rich man from television is a bigger victim than the normie who was jailed and might be deported for opposing genocide" is about as pure a distillation of what it means to be a member of the ruling media class as you will get

ICYMI 👇🏽 👇🏽 👇🏽

Thank you @nimashirazi.bsky.social , such a delight!

So much fun joining the great @bridgettodd.bsky.social for this week's 'There Are No Girls On The Internet' news roundup! We talk Taylor, Gaza, Sandwich Guy, TikTok + most importantly DJ Jazzy Jeff & Peter Frampton. Get it here or wherever: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... #TANGOTIComesAlive

Citations Needed has done an extraordinary job covering the media's treatment of the ongoing genocide in Gaza throughout this atrocity, but this episode and the one before are particularly important and reach for something fundamental in the nature of the American media.

My laptop looks really good with the new @funforallages.bsky.social sticker, my stalwart @citationspod.bsky.social podcast sticker, and a really cool Charles Bukowski sticker. I'm a stickler for stickers. @franksantopadre.bsky.social @nimashirazi.bsky.social

This podcast is hands down the best look into policy and media spin out there and this episode is no exception.

As usual, @citationspod.bsky.social has been all over this dismal media dynamic for a while: @ahjohnson.bsky.social @nimashirazi.bsky.social discuss Axios' propaganda functions in this excellent episode from January 2024.

This was not a failure of the press. This is exactly what major media have been instigating, defending and encouraging through decades of promoting lies about Iran's nuclear program. This is the result of a compliant and complicit media that operates in service of US power.

The media should be reminding readers and viewers of this constantly, but it won't: None of the nuclear sites illegally attacked by the US were hidden or secret. All of them operate under expanded IAEA monitoring, as they have for years. The US bombed safeguarded nuclear sites.

I was super happy to join @ahjohnson.bsky.social and @nimashirazi.bsky.social on Citations Needed to discuss how the Abundance agenda is trying to win over the Democratic Party with the “one easy trick” solution to all our problems (the trick is neoliberalism)

CNN's diverse stable of commentators tonight.

Genuinely the interview here is insane, such a short interview too which makes the questions they choose to ask even worse since they’re all so asinine. Especially the question about Trump’s stated Gaza plans, I’m sure they’re thrilled to be kicked out of their home for Atlantic City 2.0

this is excellent. “waste, fraud, and abuse” has deeply racist, eugenicist roots, and it’s been deployed for centuries to oppose investments in social programs. everyone posting articles about how doge’s costs are exceeding “savings” should listen to this. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

In Ep 221, "Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism" we detail demagogues' favorite faux populist schtick of taking scientific studies out of context and mocking them, often with help from mainstream media. w/ Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists

Highly recommend this fine-grained, critical dissection of an extraordinarily problematic NPR segment on Gaza. @nimashirazi.bsky.social & @ahjohnson.bsky.social offer a searing breakdown that applies far beyond the segment they analyze. This is surely worth 23 minutes of your time.

The language of “waste, fraud, and abuse” isn’t just budgetary noise—it’s how capitalism moralizes abandonment. I joined @ahjohnson.bsky.social and @nimashirazi.bsky.social on @citationspod.bsky.social to talk about how this ideology disciplines, divides, and disposes of the surplus. Listen here:

In this News Brief, "Trump's Anti-Migrant Terror PR Strategy, Dr Phil's ICE Reality Show & NYT's MAGA Assist," we detail Trump's strategy of terrorizing migrant communities, how NYT is manufacturing a pro-mass deportation consensus and how activists are fighting back. with @nomoredeaths.bsky.social

No snitching to your pathetic fascist bosses, folks.

This might be my favorite podcast right now. Sharp, incisive commentary about the intersection of media and power. As the name states, claims are sourced, but w/o being pedantic. Most importantly, discussions happen beyond the boundaries of conventional framing, but not purposefully outrageous. 👍👍

Pardon the plug: I recently wrote about this for Duke Law Journal in an essay about how capital-friendly “bipartisan criminal justice reform” has been focused on producing a precarious labor force under community-based criminal supervision. scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj_online/1...

"Why is it that the act of making decisions or passing legislation is deemed more important to elected officials than the actual content of those decisions and legislation?" Citations Needed continues to be a light in the dark.

In this News Brief, "Media Won't Say a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute and How MAGA Became Too Big To Fail," we detail how elite #resistance is MIA, how grassroots activists are fighting back, and how Musk & Co can, more than ever, apparently get way with anything. soundcloud.com/citationsnee...

COLUMN: As internet search engines degrade and AI spits out wrong answers and replaces human workers, I’m struck by how the 1957 romantic comedy “Desk Set” starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy predicts it all

All crypto is fundamentally a scam, they invested a ton of money to elect a guy who would allow them to scam more, and he is running the biggest scam of all himself as a result. Congrats to all. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

5 Things Unions Can Do To Defend Transgender Workers (Originally published in 2023 but still relevant.)

As long as you support Israel's genocide of Palestinians, the ADL will have your back no matter how big a Nazi you are.

I'm seeing terms like "straight-arm salute" and "fascist salute" being used by some media today... those are not real terms. Google's Ngram Viewer has zero results for either one. It's a "Nazi salute," folks, just fucking say it. This shit's too fucked up to use hedgy language.

"This Administration is dominated and directed by wealth and for the accumulation of wealth...Corporate wealth profits as never before in history. We turn over the national resources to private profit and have few funds left for education, health or housing." — W.E.B. Dubois, Oct. 20, 1956

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