WE NEED CALLS NOW! HR 9495, now known as Section 112209, if passed, would give the Trump administration unprecedented power in suppressing nonprofits, by allowing the administration the power to strip organizations of their tax exempt status! Call 319-313-7674

NPR suggests Trump might be "a protector of the 1st Amendment," because people who agree with the Trump "feel more free today to express views without fear of a backlash." Feeling like it's safe to agree with the government has never been a test of free speech, @npr.org . fair.org/home/hey-npr...

Spotted in my neighborhood. Made me so happy.

"...it’s no surprise the Times engages in selective amnesia over Cuomo" "The paper’s kid-glove treatment of Cuomo isn’t restricted to the news pages." This is a BRUTAL critique of the @nytimes.com fluffy coverage of Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign by media watchdog @fairmediawatch.bsky.social⤵️

Glad to see someone's calling out how the media has covered Cuomo with kid gloves since he announced his campaign.

The most astonishing thing to me from this story I wrote with @jhollar.bsky.social is @cnn.com quietly rewriting its story about Hands Off! to change “millions of people took part in protests" to “scores of people took part in protests.”

A morning reminder that if the senator you're trying to reach isn't answering the phone, you can FAX many of them FOR FREE from whatever device you're reading this on. Do you know annoying and attention-getting it is to get faxes? faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

I don’t really like to comment on political strategy but WTF are Schumer and Newsom, two of the most powerful leaders in the Democratic Party, doing right now?

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

[email protected] surveyed Day 1 stories on Trump’s anti-trans EOs across 6 major media outlets. Only 13 of 35 quoted a trans person. GLAAD noted one highlight: “Stories from @apnews.com were uniformly inclusive of the LGBTQ community.” glaad.org/media-analys...

First they came for the pro-Palestinian protesters. fair.org/home/trumps-...

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

The WaPo opinion section will now advance Jeff Bezos’ “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Anyone not on board can take a hike, Bezos told Post employees in a note he shared on X. That was Wednesday morning. By evening, Bezos was dining with President Trump. fair.org/home/to-cozy...

"Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says, 'I'm trying to figure out what leverage we actually have.' "It’s not hard. Julie Hollar of FAIR.org does an excellent job of laying out that leverage (& indicting the media for not challenging the Dem’s refusal to act)." www.zerohourreport.com/p/first-they...

My latest for FAIR. Democrats (and Republicans) feigning total helplessness and scolding those who are shouting from the rooftops are, of course, being aided and abetted by corporate media. Support independent journalism like your democracy depends on it, because it does.

"I don't want to be the speech police" says FCC chair Brendan Carr, as he puts networks on trial for not editing interviews the way Trump would have. fair.org/home/fccs-kn...

"Meta enshrining a statement that LGBTQ people are 'abnormal' and 'mentally ill,' and intentionally employing overtly bigoted anti-LGBTQ dog whistle language...in a hate speech policy—is unprecedented." From @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social

Okay so now Musk is literally drawing millions out of NYC's bank account. Comptroller Lander "said the funding was pulled on Tuesday afternoon, and that his office isn’t sure how the feds accessed money from the city’s bank account—though he likened it to a credit card company reversing a payment."

"But no amount of equivocation or pearl-clutching can erase the fact that The Times's reporting has been repeatedly cited in court cases as justification for enshrining discrimination against transgender people into legal precedent."

"If we don’t learn how to extract ourselves from this loop, none of the information we gain will manifest as tangible action—and the people in charge prefer it that way." A vital reminder to not just stay informed—ACT UP. Make calls. Join a protest. Go to a local meeting. Pick and thing and do it.

Incredible that almost every DC press outlet ran with Brendan Carr's self-branding as a "free speech warrior" and his first major actions as Chair of the FCC have been to weaponize the agency to bully media outlets over press coverage that Trump doesn't like

Western outlets haven’t just failed to consistently convey the full extent of the carnage in Gaza to their readers, they’ve actively downplayed it. fair.org/home/countin...

Google removes language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people,” and more.

When prominent news outlets won’t summon the courage to vigorously oppose this descent into autocracy, they are accessories to the coup.

Why is Trump a "populist," according to NPR? He “made a show of working a shift at a McDonald’s last fall.” And he “popularize[d] a fringe theory about then-President Obama being foreign born." That's pretty much it! fair.org/home/with-ze...

The @nytimes.com proves there is truly nothing they won’t bothsides.

This is open corruption. Paramount pays the president tens of millions of dollars for a completely frivolous legal claim, and then Trump gives Paramount a pass on antitrust law. Trump isn’t enforcing the laws, he’s collecting a toll from corporations in exchange for looking the other way.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

A surge in Tren de Aragua–centered propaganda will facilitate Trump's pledge to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history.” fair.org/home/media-h...

The "Democracy Dies in Darkness" paper managed to give the impression that Trump's federal funds-freezing power grab was “confusing,” but probably mostly legal. fair.org/home/action-...

I wrote about the Washington Post's craven new slogan, "Riveting Storytelling for All of America," Bezos's goal of reaching "firefighters in Cleveland," and what it all means for the paper. fair.org/home/as-trum...

The NYT front page recently announced that "for a political figure so divisive" as Trump, "the level of support for his ideas is striking." A key piece of evidence: 55% say they support "deporting all immigrants who are here illegally." But just two questions down, 62% OPPOSE deporting Dreamers. 1/3

The New York Times let go of Pamela Paul in an Opinion section shakeup (that also saw the departure of Charles Blow). Perhaps they realized her anti-trans opinions were redundant given the rest of the paper's content. fair.org/home/pamela-...

Big Media doesn't always get the facts wrong, but the facts they point us toward, the interpretations they suggest we credit, the responses we’re told are worth pursuing—all that serves media’s corporate owners and sponsors, at the expense of the rest of us. fair.org/home/media-i...

The media watchdog FAIR addresses "repitition"--> "It’s bizarre to argue that a regular cartoonist’s work should be killed because the paper published a column—or even two!—with similar content..." fair.org/home/wapo-ki...