Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

oh my god they actually did it lmao

If you want a sense of just how bad Tucker has gotten these days, look no further than the fact that a lot of right-wingers right now are sounding a lot like Media Matters when they talk about him.

do you have any idea how bad things must be behind the scenes - how hellish the underlying data must be - for this guy to say something like this

NEW: Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) called the indictment of Kat Abughazaleh and five others an "alarming abuse of power." Full statement below:

COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

Kat is an extraordinary talent and an exceptional leader. She’s in the right here and has to fortitude for this fight. This is a nakedly partisan attack on her and all of our First Amendment rights.

CBS’ evening news program failed to cover Trump's pardon of Binance founder last night — while its counterparts all did. www.mediamatters.org/cbs-evening-...

Another reminder about the importance of fighting instead of folding. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This is what all our *currently* elected officials should be doing, and not nearly enough are. We need people who are willing to stand up against fascism, not weak-willed appeasers. Good on you, @katmabu.bsky.social

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

Right-wing media quickly found a wide range of people and institutions to blame for Charlie Kirk's death

The Trump administration is consolidating American media in the hands of right-wing billionaires. @chrislhayes.bsky.social explains in under two minutes ⬇️ www.mediamatters.org/chris-hayes/...

Bingo. Yes, he definitely will use things like this against the right.

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

Power perceived is power achieved.

This is an escalation, but admin has already been using gov’t power to crack down on media for a while. I know first hand. But, you have to defend free speech, not fold. (We are still fighting, but so far this lesson is standing firm better than caving).

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

ABC immediately caves to tiniest bit of gov’t pressure. If you don’t defend basic free speech rights, you’ll lose them. Simple as that. Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse

Come for @goangelo.bsky.social youtu.be/ACGW9PLx-uI?...

Media Matters’ plight has reached the front page of The New York Times, at least in its digital edition: Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is strugg...

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

They folded. We're fighting. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Lol. Someone was like, "Ahhh! Break the glass and get the Biden tapes!"

Fox News right now

Maurene Comey’s farewell note to the SDNY after being fired by the Trump administration. Yet another warning.

Epstein story and depending on who you ask Trump’s embrace of or total capitulation to the deep state is breaking their brains.

This Mike Davis footnote in Media Matters' motion for a preliminary injunction against the FTC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UPDATE for all of Fox News live coverage from July 14 Biden: 158 mentions Epstein: 8 mentions* Trump ordered a stop to the Epstein coverage and Fox's stars obeyed. *Epstein tally includes this example; no mentions before the 6 p.m. ET hour:

He literally did the doublethink trope. War Is Peace

Media writing about events of the last 24 hours might want to connect some dots here. Just a friendly suggestion.

*clears throat* Apropos and as a reminder, we (myself personally and Media Matters) are *still* being sued by X for a report.

One of the reasons he updated Grok was because it was citing Media Matters 🙃

Reminder that Elon is still suing Media Matters in like 15 different venues for reporting that Nazi content even appears on Twitter. Now the bot that’s trained on the site’s tweets sounds like Rappin’ Goebbels.

"The Trump administration has demonstrated that it will not hesitate to abuse the powers of the federal government to undermine the First Amendment and stifle dissent." – @goangelo.bsky.social on @mmfa.bsky.social's lawsuit against the FTC.

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

Because conservatives are bad people who want bad things and believe and espouse lies on purpose to excuse the cruelty they want to inflict

Happy birthday Keyo! 11! My best friend. She shares the day with a certain other person, but she far outshines him. Love you much pretty girl!

This parade…half assed.

What began as Elon Musk’s personal vendetta against Media Matters has now escalated into a full-blown government-backed campaign, with Donald Trump’s FTC launching a probe into the non-profit group. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/ftc-invest...

Under Trump’s second term, the figures Media Matters has long scrutinized have been elevated into positions of real power. The fringe is now the establishment. And they’re now attempting to muzzle the watchdogs in plain sight. www.status.news/p/ftc-invest...

theyre trying to destroy media matters because media matters tells the truth about the right

a democratic politician calling out fox news hosts by name and identifying them as villains is necessary and has been sorely lacking

@goangelo.bsky.social Hey Angelo, Saw you in the Times today on “demonic forces”. My relative is charismatic Christian (New Apostolic Reformation, Charis Bible College, Wommack, Wallnau Christian nationalism) She talks about the fight against “demonic forces”. BIG in her circles. Paula White.

Asked to predict the next big thing in paranoia, Angelo Carusone, president of the nonprofit Media Matters, said he was “pretty bullish on demons as the next big one.”

@goangelo.bsky.social is dead on.🎯👹

it bugs me so much that the conservative tabloid (ny post) is mocking trump over this doll comment and there arent multiple liberal tabloids that hit him and the right over this shit *every day*

No. It is not the job of ordinary citizens to show perfect message discipline. It is the responsibility of actors with agenda-setting power — like, say, national newspapers — not to treat random-ass people exaggerating as a threat equivalent to the madman president.