NEW: An app launched by Cancel the Hate, a website for anonymously reporting those accused of speaking ill against Charlie Kirk, was leaking user data. Cancel the Hate declined to respond to my inquires & removed the app from its website shortly after. san.com/cc/app-for-o...

Any explanation why legacy media is not talking about this? NATO countries sovereignty challenged - and responding forcefully. Estonia, Poland etc...

Lord help me, I read this whole essay and whew boy First of all, nowhere does NYT mention that New Atlantis is funded by Ethics & Public Policy Center, a right-wing interest group. It just says the author writes on “reform” 😒 /1

After the industrial explosion in Roseland, the EPA still says there is no health threat. capitalbnews.org/roseland-oil...

Excellent thread on the NYT piece today that misinforms the public about science. Pat Healy & the NYT choose to publish Opinions that normalize the fascist MAGA movement - and now their war on science. #MedSky #ScienceSky bsky.app/profile/mark...

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Is there a bigger news story than Donald Trump’s demonstrable detachment from reality? Why is legacy media still not covering this? “Objectivity” does not mean don’t cover important news stories. There is no “surge” in Memphis, TN. h/t journalist @philinvestigates.com bsky.app/profile/phil...

I am really proud to say I wrote the foreword to the esteemed Dr. Jonathan Howard’s new book about the bad actors who weaponized doubt to undermine the pandemic response. You should grab a copy!

It's been a fun and busy time meeting with students from Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and IIMUN at the FEC to discuss federal campaign finance!

It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social we would appreciate your thoughts on the impact of “normalization” performed by media elites?

Did...did Disney buy the NYT overnight?

He wrote section on the FCC in Heritage Foundation's 'Project 2025' doc (see link) which many see as the playbook for much of what is happening now. Worse than what he wrote though are his actions now he has been appointed to run the FCC. Even Sen. Ted Cruz thinks he's being anti- First Amendment

I went to Twitter just to check that this creepy Brendan Carr tweet is real, and of course it is. Like in Russia, far-right trolls have taken over

#artmatters! Great work by @davewhamond.bsky.social here and lots more via Cagle Cartoons 1/2

BREAKING: The Board of Immigration Appeals is trying to deport our client Mario Guevara, a journalist from El Salvador, despite his clear legal path to residency and an immigration judge's order to grant his release on bond.

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

Lexis-Olivier Ray ( @shoton35mm.bsky.social ) , an award-winning journalist for L.A. Taco, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department this week. The L.A. Times has all the details: www.latimes.com/california/s...

In his effort to bring the media to heel, Trump could not invent a better ally than FCC Chief Brendan Carr. interc.pt/46zp4VT

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

It's cute that the @nytimes.com thinks it's still teetering and hasn't already fallen. A newspaper that's simply not up to covering authoritarianism.

So much brutal violence to the English language to avoid simply writing "Trump is doing yet more authoritarianism."

We need to see the full context of the MAGA assault on the press. There is a very broad and active campaign to suppress dissent.

We need to see the full context of the MAGA assault on the press. There is a very broad and active campaign to suppress dissent.

“To view each Trump call to violence in isolation—‘he attacked Milley’ ‘he attacked NBC’ ‘he attacked [jury, prosecutor, judge]—is to miss his overall plan to ‘introduce violence as a natural extension of our democratic disagreement’.” @juliettekayyem.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

"By suspending Kimmel under political pressure, Iger hasn’t just abandoned its biggest star. He’s signaled that under his leadership, Disney will play ball with the government, even if it means... putting the very principle of free speech at risk." www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

So many of our media institutions and information infrastructures are owned and controlled by right-wing oligarchs. And it promises to only get worse.

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

Interesting update. Sinclair media group (led by right-wing Chairman David Smith) threatened Disney and had planned to replace Kimmel slot w/Charlie Kirk documentary - changed their minds. H/t @thedesk.net @matthewkeys.net bsky.app/profile/thed...

Earlier this week, Sinclair said it would replace "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with a documentary about Charlie Kirk during the Friday time slot that Kimmel occupies on its ABC affiliates. Friday evening, Sinclair pulled the documentary and aired "Celebrity Family Feud" instead.

Cardinal Dolan on Kirk’s legacy: "This guy is a modern-day St. Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knew what Jesus meant when he said, 'The truth will set you free." -Cardinal Dolan Dolan appears on Murdoch’s "Fox & Friends"? bsky.app/profile/ncro...

Its the same lie they told when CBS decided to end The Late Show next May. In both instances a corporate merger hung in the balance.

“Why FCC Chief Brendan Carr May Be the Most Dangerous Man in Media” Carr’s most pronounced quality is his total fealty to Donald Trump — and he’s been busy weaponizing the FCC for the cause. Read our latest in the @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/19/f...

SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count

Hate speech simplified:

excellent article and if pictures are words this too... a trump golden head pin

Carr’s most pronounced quality is his total fealty to Donald Trump — and he’s been busy weaponizing the FCC for the cause.

“Carr waged an unabashed campaign to be named FCC chair. He appeared on Fox News espousing Trumpist talking points and publicly authored the chapter on the FCC in Project 2025.” All the Trump appointees: propagandists and apparatchiks. Good piece here from J Reiss of @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social.

The September 19 edition of @thelatinonewsletter.org is by @julito77.bsky.social From the Notebook: Journalist #MarioGuevara’s Fight Against Deportation

“In his effort to bring the media to heel, Trump could not invent a better ally than Carr, who has laid out a program for weaponizing the FCC against Trump’s enemies.”

Brilliant piece by @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social

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“Why FCC Chief Brendan Carr May Be the Most Dangerous Man in Media” Carr’s most pronounced quality is his total fealty to Donald Trump — and he’s been busy weaponizing the FCC for the cause. Read our latest in the @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/19/f...

BREAKING: Immigration court orders Mario Guevara can be deported immediately. This is a gross miscarriage of justice. If Mario is deported, that sets dangerous precedent -- targeting reporters for their coverage & free speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I repeat: This is WILDLY illegal. Trump is just outright, explicitly, egregiously ignoring the law. The fact that NONE of these words in the Times post say so is a failure of journalism.

I wrote about Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, and the First Amendment for @msnbc.com.