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...

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter. But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

i think it's bad to pick the head of the counterterrorism center based on who you feel bad lost their congressional race

worth a quick read of the late, great simon maloy on gorka. too good to excerpt. www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...

My latest for MSNOW details how the Trumps turned Fox News’ “Biden Crime Family” schtick into a business plan, and the network immediately stopped caring about political corruption: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

why are we hearing about fox news host lara trump going on the president's trip to china from a trump org spokesperson www.reuters.com/world/china/...

45 suggestions from the Trump administration's proposed 2027 budget seem to be directly pulled from Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership. In some cases it seems like Russ Vought saved his more extreme language/ideas for when he was instated as OMB director.

they can't deny it www.mediamatters.org/jesse-kelly/...

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

(watching Homicide: Life on the Street) Melissa Leo is WEAK on Crime!

oh shit they did the meme

Trump is GUACmaxxing — giving up american clout

Pete Hegseth talking about Iran in January 2020: “What better time than now to say, we're starting the clock, you've got a week, you've got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities?” Now he's secdef, and Trump is doing it. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

real chance this breaks though — the standard line for right-wing media when hegseth's been under pressure is that he's fighting the deep state and the neocon war machine. harder to argue that when this is the story, not to mention the unpopularity of the war itself.

This reads like it was lifted word-for-word from Catch-22.

I wrote about how right-wing media figures are looking for scapegoats as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran spirals out of control. Two leading candidates: NATO countries who won't open the Strait of Hormuz, and the Iranian people who haven't overthrown the government. There will be more.

Very strange to see people effectively saying, "we all know the president, who we support, loves to do politically motivated investigations of people who displease him" www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Feel like these two tweets sum up where we are right now

So what we’re gonna do is push to re-name all the Cesar Chavez schools and roads after Dolores Huerta. Call your city council people.

The day begins with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at the media over his own failings and ends with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at a judge over her own failings.

can the wormhole from interstellar be a solution

let me add a corollary to this. things are really bad if i am coming across news about the reinsurance market.

If only someone could have predicted this...

almost as if these people don't know what they're talking about

how it's playing out in right-wing media: "fake sermons and fake passages from the Bible” “Skin suit of Christianity” “straight up demonic" www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso... via @slawton.bsky.social