In continued book promotion… @mirandabanks.bsky.social and I spoke about the state of Hollywood on @citationspod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

In this News Brief, we talk with Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, authors of the new book Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers, about precarity in Hollywood, studio consolidation, and how the dream of fame, 100 years on, is still used to concentrate power and drive down wages

You guys got a shout-out from Tatiana Maslany! @ahjohnson.bsky.social @nimashirazi.bsky.social

book talk w/ @nimashirazi.bsky.social facilitating discussion of @ahjohnson.bsky.social new book. just as good as their pod / think it will be a pod episode

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

New York friends: see @ahjohnson.bsky.social and @nimashirazi.bsky.social THIS WEEK!!

we'd all be better off if more people listened to citations needed

In this News Brief, we talk @ajbauer.bsky.social about his new book, "Making the Liberal Media," and the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America.

Great @citationspod.bsky.social news brief with author and professor @ajbauer.bsky.social on the origins of the "liberal media". It was especially informative, and could easily have been a full episode. #StraightBanger

Excellent @citationspod.bsky.social on how "deradicalization" discourses are not only drenched in hypocrisy but also weaponized to suppress dissent. 🔥interview w/ @premthakker.bsky.social of @zeteo.com in conversation w/ @nimashirazi.bsky.social/@ahjohnson.bsky.social soundcloud.com/citationsnee...

Thanks to @nimashirazi.bsky.social and @ahjohnson.bsky.social for having me on the pod!

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Of course, I love all our @citationspod.bsky.social babies, but this ep is definitely my favorite in a while

The move from paying for genocidal weapons to simply selling them is about buying time and misdirecting activist energy: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Excellent book.

🚨 @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s book detailing US media complicity in Israel’s genocide is out in the UK today www.plutobooks.com/product/how-...

It's been my honor to have worked alongside Adam to create @citationspod.bsky.social for nearly a decade. He is endlessly curious, blisteringly brilliant, infuriatingly principled & bladder-bustingly hilarious. His book is incredible, enraging & essential. Really proud of this kid today.

[deep breath] the project of defining discrimination as acknowledging differences between groups is a long term, conservative project fully embraced by the reactionary court and intended to make it so selecting for merit rather than inherited privilege is illegal

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

In Ep 236, "Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off," we discuss how privatization was rebranded 'Public-Private Partnerships' and unleashed decades of raiding of the public coffers by Wall Street. with guest Donald Cohen.

Yes! I've been waiting to post until everything is finalized but tentatively my book events in NYC are May 7 - The Word Is Change bookstore, with Nima Shirazi (event page is TBD) May 8 - New School with Natasha Lennard (event page here: event.newschool.edu/adamjohnsonh...) May 9 - details TBD

Got my @ahjohnson.bsky.social book in the mail today. Excited to read this and feel incredibly angry.

The most intriguing storyline in pro wrestling this month is not a title chase or a bloody feud, but whether or not fans are going to keep chanting "Fuck ICE" at shows.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Killing boatloads of poor people for *alleged* drug offenses while pardoning an elite trafficker...is the Drug War in a nutshell. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

For @convergencemag.com I wrote a two-part guide for progressives on how to understand antisemitism and its weaponization, and how to fight it with solidarity Part 1 breaks down how antisemitism is used as a tool by the 1% and a fuel for White Christian supremacy -- yesterday and today

The @citationspod.bsky.social podcast hosted by @nimashirazi.bsky.social and @ahjohnson.bsky.social is a great program dedicated to media criticism in case you havent heard of them before. They have a huge catalogue and a lot of great structural analysis of copaganda’s form and function

"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

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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. 👍👍