i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

I would simply not have voted to confirm the guy who hauled a bear carcass down from upstate New York and left it in Central Park.

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"The Sweeney uproar wasn’t a meaningful controversy, but it became a major media story because that’s how today’s information ecosystem functions," @passantino.bsky.social writes in his Saturday column for @status.news. www.status.news/p/sydney-swe...

My latest: I started a Substack and wrote about Dems raising money to build up progressive influencers. If they attach too many strings to the money, they're doomed. Please subscribe to Number Two Pencil! I'll be writing there for free once a week numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/on-money-f...

“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

Not to be dramatic but I spent months and months working on this video deep diving into the history of attacks on DEI. It is my baby and I’d love for y’all to check it out! 🙏🏻 youtu.be/nD1nJ7g8j94?...

When we saw @mmfa.bsky.social & @ohhkaygo.bsky.social analysis of the political leanings of the top streams, podcasts, & other online shows, we wondered how many were sharing false info about climate change. Turns out it's most of them! yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/eigh...

Big thanks to @ohhkaygo.bsky.social for providing the data that informed this journey into the world of MAGA media www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

So glad my pop culture knowledge finally came in handy @onthemedia.bsky.social. Never guessed it would be in the context of a explaining a Candace Owens video. Make sure to listen to last week's episode, it's a bit of a format-breaker and a weird time! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Even as President Trump’s destructive tariffs disrupted the global economy and tanked the stock market, we found that among right-leaning online shows that self-categorize as nonpolitical, a full quarter of discussions still embraced the president’s deeply unpopular economic policy.

Trump saying that he’s going to send US citizens to be imprisoned in another country, while the admin says that fed courts can’t mandate an “act of diplomacy or incursion upon” that country’s sovereignty after it illegally sent someone there seems like a 5 alarm fire everyone should pay attention to

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

I wrote a piece for MSNBC that underscores the extent to which the right is dominating the online media ecosystem — with right-wing narratives seeping into supposedly nonpolitical shows and right-wing media figures branching into pop culture.

It was great speaking with @andylevy.net about @mmfa.bsky.social's new study! Listen to hear about our findings on the state of the online media ecosystem

NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows, this media ecosystem becomes more influential. A new Media Matters’ study shows how overwhelmingly right-leaning this ecosystem is -- with nearly five times the following of left-leaning online shows. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

to put it simply: the right has an outrage machine. built over years and years, tinkered to perfection, running on all cylinders. the left has nothing comparable.

the thing about the manosphere is that these people have no idea what they're dealing with www.mediamatters.org/manosphere/y...

Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.

Fox News, which treated Joe Biden's son selling his paintings as a major White House ethics scandal, just put Donald Trump's daughter-in-law on the payroll.

Congrats. You played yourself.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Cecile Richards.

1/ Sad news here. Cecile Richards passed away this morning. I’ve known Cecile for many years. So appreciative of all of her work and efforts. I’m also grateful that she agreed to serve as a Media Matters board member these past few years. 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

They are just topping each other with the suck uppery. Congress passed a law that was started with Donald Trump. Now he’s going to “save” it.

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

Meta has reportedly been blocking LGBTQ content. Meanwhile, last summer we reported that we found at least 100 posts across Meta's platforms with an anti-trans slur www.mediamatters.org/facebook/med...

Although the network has seemingly attempted to quietly walk back the false information, Fox personalities have continued to baselessly connect he New Orleans truck attack to the southern border www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

We’ve reached the Anderson giggling and Andy talking about the mayor parts of the night

those screenshots showing the huge bump in post-election google searches that are like “what is a tariff” is such a huge condemnation of what has happened to political media and there’s just no introspection or self reflection at all within the industry

Turns out all I needed to be interested in engaging on social media again was a little break from work