In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social of @citationspod.bsky.social on the White House’s weaponization of Kirk’s death and the broader rightward tilt of the media.

My guest @ahjohnson.bsky.social is brilliant in this latest episode of @theintercept.com podcast. He perfectly explains why all of these institutional pillars, including media, appear to have fallen so quickly in the wake of an obvious smear campaign. theintercept.com/2025/09/19/b...

MAGA is swiftly channeling outrage over Kirk’s murder into efforts to attack nonprofits, discipline liberals and the Left. Democratic leadership seems uninterested in stopping them. @ahjohnson.bsky.social explains what’s at stake and who’s failing to act. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

New from me. The biggest labor story in the US is happening at Microsoft. More people should be talking about it. I spoke with 5 tech workers who have all been fired for protesting Microsoft's complicity in genocide. They don't regret it & won't stop @therealnews.com therealnews.com/the-biggest-...

Musk has spent the past week having another Great Replacement meltdown and once again, "leading anti-hate organization" ADL has ignored his overt trafficking in antisemitic conspires because Musk toes the line on Israel. I wrote about the increasingly obvious hollowness of ADL's shakedown operation

Polling shows Zohran Mamdani leading with Jewish voters in NYC’s mayoral race. But the New York Times keeps framing him as “alienating” the community—while ignoring polls that say otherwise. 📊 Read @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s breakdown.

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

With democratic voters support for Israel at an all time low and 65% of Dems saying Israel is carrying out a genocide, theres emerged a new suite of pseudo criticism of Israel by AIPAC liberals. I listed the top four and dissect why they’re bullshit ass-covering and misleading busy work.

In Ep 227, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)" we detail US media's trend of reporting on Israeli war crimes months after Palestinian reporters already did and the broader regime of dehumanization targeting Palestinian media workers

This is an excellent piece

Typically excellent analysis…and Wrigley Field gets referenced!

As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.

In Ep 226, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)," we detail NYT & WSJ's incitement campaign against the UN in Jan 2024 and how it directly assisted Israel's starvation campaign. w/ guest Moureen Kaki who joins us from Khan Yunis, Gaza

The politics of feigned helplessness are bipartisan and essential to maintaining American Innocence: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

I see the “Not Surprised” discourse is popping up again and 1) YES it’s enraging to see in your replies constantly and 2) I like to reply with @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s perfect article www.columnblog.com/p/the-tyrann...

“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn’t just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?” by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

In Ep 225, "How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'," we detail the popular media trope that providing direct social welfare to people who need it is somehow cheating, or playing the electoral game on God Mode. with Janine Jackson of @fairmediawatch.bsky.social.

This is an incredible post even by Adam Johnson standards

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

In Ep 224, "Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting' Public Outrage," we detail the classic PR gambit of corporations anticipating regulation, offering to "self-police," implementing token or superficial reforms, waiting for outrage to blow over, then going back to business a usual

This is a great @ahjohnson.bsky.social piece, with important connections and insights in every paragraph. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

NYT, WaPo, CNN, and ABC, NBC, and CBS Network News have not seen fit to mention a sitting member of Congress is leading a racist incitement campaign against his colleagues: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Great analysis by @ahjohnson.bsky.social of the media-manufactured "meta-scandal" of Zohran Mamdani refusing to condemn something he never actually said: inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

In this News Brief, we break down recent bad faith attacks on Zohran Mamdani, the ADL's DO YOU CONDEMN extortion racket, and the broader "antisemitism scandal" playbook to derail moderate social democratic policies and any meaningful criticism of Israel.

Even as we are celebrating Mamdani’s win over the many forces of reaction in this country - including Zionism - the genocide in Gaza continues. Props to the JVP Chicago hunger strikers for keeping the fight up

Tonight at 5pm in Fed Plaza, join JVP Chicago #LetGazaLive hunger strikers & the Public Health & Safety Coalition for a teach-in on Treatment Not Trauma, safety beyond policing, & anti-racist public safety from Chicago to Palestine!

🚨 New @therealnews.com: I speak w/ 3 eyewitnesses who have been covering what's happening in LA closely. "It never got violent until the police started firing munitions at protestors… It was not an insurrection. I covered Jan 6, I know exactly what that looks like” therealnews.com/three-eyewit...

"This is war is being waged by two nuclear powers against a country that does not have nuclear weapons or a nuclear weapons program, according to the overwhelming consensus of the US intelligence community," per @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @ahjohnson.bsky.social. www.columnblog.com/p/lawmakers-...

“False claims or insinuations about Iran having nuclear weapons or a nuclear weapons program are not a simple slip of the tongue… They are being used by both Israel & the United States to argue that a catastrophic war is both urgent & necessary.” - @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Ward Sakeik is married to an American, has a pending green card application, owns a home in Texas, and has never been to Israel-Palestine. Why did ICE arrest her on her honeymoon and try deporting her to a country she's never seen? My latest for FWST: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...

As Trump barrels toward a possible direct war with Iran, the most powerful Democrats in Congress are issuing statements that are at best tepid and confusing. At worst, they are cheering escalation. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/06/19/d...

I wrote about Jeff Bezos’ complete take over of the second most influential opinion section in print media and billionaires and their conservative media’s pathological, but ultimately necessary, preoccupation with not being perceived as “ideological”.

A breakdown of Bezos’ final coup and the bizarre pathology of right-wing ideologues really, really wanting you not to think they’re ideological: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Israel attacking Iran and Iran attacking back has driven Israeli leaders underground and required US media to gingerly note the IDF maintains underground bases in “populated areas”. I wrote about this awkward fact and US media’s racist and cheesy “human shields” double standard.

In this public News Brief, we detail how US media reinforces every faulty premise of Israel's attack and how top Democrats either ignore Trump and Israel's massive escalation or openly support it, showing once again the scope of debate in our politics and media ranges all the way from A to B.

In Ep 223, "The Empire Strikes First Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism," we detail the sudden ubiquity of Abundance Discourse, its conspicuous lack of class politics, and the booming market for a donor-friendly vision for Dems in 2028

Now that Greta Thunberg is sailing to Gaza with a group of 11 other activists in an effort to break the Israeli blockade, there's no fawning coverage of Thunberg’s activism from the @nytimes.com. fair.org/home/nyt-goe...

Looked to me like Israeli drones sprayed the boat with some white paint-looking substance and then the IDF surrounded it, kidnapped the people on it and cut off their communications with the world. “Diverted” doing a lot of work here

Great piece @ahjohnson.bsky.social. Kind of amazing Mamdani is polling ahead of Lander among (Democratic) Jewish New Yorkers. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

“Fund the police” was a whole applause line for the people best situated to prevent this.

Tenants with @KCTenants just won an 8-month strike -- and showed that labor tactics work on landlords. reporting by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

Here's a question: what's the legal responsibility for University of Michigan administrators and Regents who hired private investigators who attempted to murder a student by driving into them with a car? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rather than subvert the neoliberal order, Trump is promoting a more brutish version of it on behalf of corporate America. I wrote about Trump’s tariff regime and how, despite his faux populist rhetoric, he’s using tariffs to harm workers around the globe. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

In Ep 222, "The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves," we detail how our media allows the same party flacks who got the Dems into this mess, control over the narrative of how to get them out. With guest UC-Berkeley professor Jake Grumbach.

After ignoring the story—and parroting the government’s line on Gaza genocide for 20 months—Tapper is bloviating about Speaking Truth to Power: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Israel claims that Hamas endangers civilians by hiding behind human shields. Several investigations, however, have found that Israeli soldiers are systematically using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza. Nadav Weiman from Breaking the Silence details what is known about the "Mosquito Protocol."

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