you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

The Iran war is making everything more expensive. Fox keeps insisting “the consumer is doing very well.” www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

notably Mamdani has been successful in part because he was able to take Ws without doing this and instead see the party as a whole as something to be moved, rather than the enemy.

bannon on nyc goes from the knicks parade to ranting about "jewish intellectuals" in fewer than 200 words www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...

Hell of a Freudian slip. I *assume* he was thinking of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a far-left terrorist group. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a legendary and rightly celebrated anti-Nazi theologian & dissident.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

Another story of massive corruption featuring one of the president's sons for Bret Baier to ignore. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/bre...

real new yorkers speak dutch. sorry, that's always been the rule, they never changed it.

February: Jack Keane says the war with Iran will take two or three weeks March: Jack Keane says the war is in the red zone, on the 20-yard line. Today: Jack Keane says we're in "the middle" of the war www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

i could never be an announcer because i'd just instinctively react to this with a "holy fucking shit"

When letting Twitter be your assignment editor results in some truly truly stupid moments

What doesn't break the foundation of trust is having the boss lie directly to the faces of the staff.

What is happening with CBS shows the US media bias problem. Outlets with actual integrity are regularly accused of liberal bias, even as a large and growing part of the media is owned by the right wing pushes right wing viewpoints at the expense of integrity.

Couldn't be clearer after the Pulte appointment that Trump only wants access to these authorities to persecute his domestic political opponents.

If we know Pulte was using his former post to dig up ways to prosecute Trump’s enemies, really the only way to read his promotion to DNI is that Trump’s enemies list will now expand. And here you have the right saying that explicitly.

Citing anti-ICE protests, Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec agree that Bill Pulte was chosen as DNI to “start digging in on the domestic side of terrorism”

somehow Trump looked at a candidate field full of totally unqualified hacks, lawless regime loyalists, and pathetic wannabe social media influencers and decided to turn the intelligence apparatus of the United States of America to the guy sitting at the very middle of the Venn diagram

In which the president of the United States is interviewed by his daughter-in-law, a Fox contributor-turned RNC chair-turned Fox host.

cannot emphasize enough how much mark levin melted down about benny johnson last night. this is all from one (1) radio episode (and doesn't include an ai summary of benny's career that levin read out) www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

This is extremely lawless and corrupt by the Trump DOJ. So, par for the course. The presumption of regularity is a joke now, and federal prosecutors won’t recover the esteem they had from federal judges for a generation. (Which, actually, is fine.)

Kinda defeats the point of having a grand jury if you can just boot everyone who didn’t want to indict, keep everyone who did, and keep trying until you get the result you want.

lol www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...

It's striking to me how much this...uh...strategy...conversation resembles some sports commentary where most of what is being said is basically bullshit. It's all just words with no substance, he says 'open the strait' like that is a thing you can just decide to do and then do in an afternoon.

extremely normal things happening in right-wing media

we're tracking local coverage of gas/diesel/fertilizer/jetfuel shortage and we've already seen coverage on the impact on school districts www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

Full piece here: www.ms.now/opinion/medi...

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

As prices keep increasing, Meals on Wheels and similar programs across the country are struggling and turning to local news to sound the alarm

the story about fertilizer/diesel re: food production is -huge news- in local media and in trade publications. www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

While local media cover the impacts of rising gas prices, Fox is minimizing Americans' pain at the pump ⬇️ www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

Media Matters secures victory over Trump's FTC probe.

The lead-up to the end of Infowars was … tough to watch

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

There's a lot of alarmist coverage of the Supreme Court. Rick Hasen does not engage in it. This isn't stuff he'd write lightly.

important to realize that even their audience isn't buying this stuff

meanwhile, amazon still selling merch like this lol

Right-wing media is turning to an old playbook as Trump's unpopular war with Iran curdles: Blame the press. It may be the only lesson conservative media learned from the Vietnam War.

I am at heart a moderate institutionalist, but find few things as grating as insipid, pious, formulaic denunciations of “politicial violence” in a country founded by it. Politics IS regulated violence. And when the regulatory systems break down, no intrinsically better than the freelance sort.

these idiots aren't competent enough to stage anything

Violently inclined, resentful ppl who became suicidal and decided to try to commit suicide-by-cop in as attention-getting of a way as possible.

Right-wing media have been telling their audiences that Trump’s war in Iran will be over shortly for eight weeks now.

No idea who this reporter is but if that's what you're seeing ... maybe write that, rather than waiting for TMZ? nymag.com/intelligence...