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.

Why on earth would a protest movement against the worst president in US history begin by acknowledging that he's not so bad www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

"If those numbers were really reflective of what's on the ground right now, why are there not more Republicans speaking out?" @goangelo.bsky.social and @stephruhle.bsky.social discuss the reality of Trump's poll numbers.

TONIGHT: Warnings of price hikes and supply chain trouble-Trump offers dinners for investments-& the push to weaken Florida's child labor laws @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @neilirwin.bsky.social @goangelo.bsky.social @bharatramamurti.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social @mrsethharris.bsky.social

Joe Rogan explaining quantum computing. “The sound of gay guys falling off a roof” might be one of goofiest and perplexing things I’ve heard in a while. Is this like an actual idiom and I’m just not familiar with it or something?

Hegseth coming up on F&F. Kilmeade says new signal controversy might actually turn out to be nothing more than Pete demonstrating “lessons learned” from first signal controversy.

Basically it’s down to denial vs procrastination now.

I feel like ive been shouting into the void about this insurrection act thing. Important to be girded and not surprised when it happens. There’s a reason Hegseth is where he is.

Reminder: Trump ordered DHS and DOD to issue him a memo by 4/20/25 on whether or not he should invoke insurrection. This IRS thing almost certainly ties in. Get addresses. Invoke act. Deploy military domestically for mass deportation. They’ve been very clear that this is the plan.

I was honestly surprised this didn’t come up at all during confirmation hearing for the joint chiefs chair.