🧵FCC Chairman Carr continues to weaponize the power of his agency to support MAGA allies. We sent him a letter. “This illegal scheme must end now. You cannot be allowed to continue to ignore the other commissioner’s statutory role and play the game of “hide the ball” from the courts!” 1/

My latest piece for the New York Amsterdam News on the Getty Museum's current exhibition "Photography and the Black Arts Movement," on view through June 14th: #photography #photojournalism #GettyMuseum

The New York Times writes this whole story about this without mentioning that Trump billionaire donor Larry Ellison owns the CBS Sports rights to the Army Navy game, which is being threatened by competing broadcasts owned by ESPN/ABC/Disney.

finland was planning to move its election platform to amazon web services. after all the threats from the US and concern about how it will use tech dependence against europe, that plan is on ice.

Big new: A judge has ruled that ICE can’t ignore FOIA because of a lapse in funding and must produce records in response to a @freedom.press FOIA lawsuit. That’s great news, in no small part because the records will shed light on obfuscation of congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities.

The government says journalists and sources who are living in the United States illegally don’t have First Amendment rights. But the First Amendment was written to limit government power, not let officials decide whose voices are worth hearing.

“I don't think the problem today is left versus right. It's truth versus lies. And we cannot give in to these lies.” Watch @jimacosta.bsky.social warn against Trump’s march toward a state-dominated media at a Friday hearing on the proposed WBD-Paramount deal, led by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

Another poor word choice from NYT in a story just published “Crackdown“ implies severe yet legitimate Were the killings of Good and Pretti “crackdowns”? Is obstruction of MN prosecutors by the federal exec branch part of a “crackdown“? That’s not wording that respects equal justice under law

VOA was started to combat Nazi propaganda and be a reliable source of unbiased democratic news on WWII. Now, we filed a new lawsuit to keep propaganda out of VOA's independent, international journalism. Read more about the fight for a free press. ⬇️ whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...

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Interesting and important new finding from @gelliottmorris.com's monthly poll: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-24...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

ALA is disappointed that the House Committee on Education & Workforce moved forward dangerous federal book banning legislation yesterday. HR 7661 contains vague, confusing, and overly broad language, inviting government censorship. More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/03... (1/2)

Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are at war with reality and democracy on three continents. They pay Jesse Watters and his ilk to promote dangerous propaganda. All NewsCorp employees are complicit in normalizing this - and the Murdochs. #NameThemShameThem www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.

Were having a weak fundraiser month and really need your help. Spare a few bucks for labor reporting paydayreport.com/help-save-la...

Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into the anti-woke, fascist-amplifying X. There’s been debate about whether to stay since he bought it. But seeing how it’s evolved and the recent Grok deepfake scandal, there’s no good argument to stay. I stopped posting there. You should too.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez is free after more than two weeks in ICE detention. She posted bond and was released from a Louisiana detention facility late this afternoon. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/19/e...

The ability of terrible people like Candace Owens and Jesse Watters to make big bucks in the media gets me down. To retaliate, I’ve listed the 25 worst people in the news media. I call these dishonors “the Worsties.” See if you agree. (Anyone who reports, analyzes, or disseminates news is eligible.)

ALERT: Professional news. Nine days after leaving CBS, I have found a new professional home: Chief Washington Correspondent and Anchor for @meidastouch.com

The United States between Democracy and Dictatorship: I’ll be talking about the state of American politics, and what the rest of the world should expect from the Trumpist regime, in Hamburg next week. Come join us!

Right-wing media urge Trump to seize Kharg Island: www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

NYT editors summary of self-described "Far Right" racist oligarch's agenda in France. These are editorial choices. This is normalizing white-supremacy.

When historians look back on any erosion of First Amendment rights from this era, it will not just be the fault of Trump, but also the news outlets themselves who failed to stand up for their own rights. Kudos to the @nytimes.com. Sad how many others are cowards. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

I hate it here.

Pro tip: Verify exactly what ICE agents are doing at the airports before writing headlines & stories that claim the agents are helping ease long lines, etc. So far, there is no evidence that ICE agents are doing anything but standing around.

What an incredible story: Meatpacking workers who speak 57 languages are ON STRIKE against the behemoth JBS in Greeley, CO. Reminds me of historical accounts of the Lawrence, Mass. strike of 1912, where workers spoke dozens of languages, and often sang to communicate.

As always, read @sulliview.bsky.social Her latest piece brings to mind @mariaressa.bsky.social's 2021 Nobel Lecture “Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy...” margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-brutal...?

Add more editorial cartoonists to your information diet. Follow and amplify the brilliant @murphycartoons.bsky.social #ICE #TSA

And you know who does know something about information access as a public good? Librarians: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin

Add more editorial cartoonists to your information diet. “Editorial cartoonists and satirists are a barometer for all our free speech rights.” - @anntelnaes.bsky.social Here’s a perfect opportunity with a great thread.

“The pastoral letter contained some of the strongest and most unambiguous condemnation of the U.S. mass deportation campaign from the U.S. Catholic hierarchy thus far.”

Add the work of editorial cartoonists to your information diet. Follow and share the work of @chappatte.bsky.social “Editorial cartoonists & satirists are a barometer for all our free speech rights. A silenced cartoonist is an indicator and a warning to us all...” - @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Front page that should live in infamy. +7yrs later & AGSulzberger @nytimes.com editors still cannot center facts that Trump campaign conspired w/Russia. “..Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential election,&then concluded that he could neither absolve nor accuse President Trump of a crime, died...”

Calling it an ”excursion” so as to avoid using the more accurate word “war” seems misleading rather than ”delicate.” And he appears to be learning that he can’t “call it a day” whenever he wants. It is not just that “many of his war goals remain unfinished” but that many of them have backfired.

More ominous Trump, Musk, Thiel connections for the new German owner of the Telegraph, Mathias Döpfner and his son The climate change denying hard right are everywhere in media these days open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

Excellent thread by @lorak.bsky.social The reality vs the cultivated myth of Elon Musk. (Please turn this into a piece for sharing off of Bluesky).

We wake up today to a world at war and economies on the brink, all driven by a deranged US leader who promotes racism, misogyny, corruption and predation. The nyt waged a hate campaign against trans ppl that directly lifted this evil man to power. This is the nyt legacy

@jimacosta.bsky.social Thank you for your powerful words this week about the harms of oligarchs and giant corporations controlling news and information. We like to remind folks of the allegiance of the FCC chairman; not Americans and a 🇺🇸 - but a gold Trump pin. open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...

A 🧵 How many newspaper Editorial Boards have called for Pres. Trump's impeachment (or resignation)? As far as we know, only one: @sentinelcolorado.com Our 2 part series: journalism, trust, press freedom & how a local newspaper serves its community-and democracy. open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...

Will continue to ask this question: where are the Editorial Boards calling for impeachment?

“‘I’m Glad He’s Dead’: Trump Spits on Robert Mueller’s Grave The president celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into Trump and his associates over Russian interference in the 2016 election." Read here, by @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-robe...

Do you characterize liars as liars, or do you just correct their misstatements in real time? Platforming liars always results in a toxic increase of lies in the information environment. (I don't watch Licht's version of CNN. Good luck with it.)

As it is so important to spread this knowledge The vicious cycle we trigger now in the oceans will supercharge all other feedbacks being at the core of the runaway warming we are now triggering... #Climate #Earth substack.com/home/post/p-...

#WorldPoetryDay | 'If This Is a Man' by Primo Levi (1919-1987), an #Auschwitz survivor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo_Levi)

It’s shocking that this sweeping prior restraint was the official policy of our federal government and that Department of Justice lawyers had the nerve to argue that journalists asking questions of the government is criminal. Read our full statement: freedom.press/issues/amid-...

Just going to put this here again & note - as we saw with EMAIL & Hunter Biden & Joe Biden’s age & all the other things - that one easy way for the media to avoid what it sees as unfair criticism about double standards would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely> justify our criticism.

"It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms- all of them- may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage." ~Rod Serling