My latest👇 Unlike in past years, we are not only up against the GOP and its right-wing allies, but the Department of Justice as well. Their collective goal is to use data to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat next November. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

@attackerman.bsky.social's destruction of Bari Weiss here is so vicious because it is so spectacularly well-informed; this one is an earner, folks www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Created by the Civil Rights Act to protect our constitutional right to vote, the DOJ Civil Rights Division has since abandoned its commitment to neutrality under Trump. Now, the division is actively eroding those very protections 68 years later. https://bit.ly/4jcAHb9

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

Hours before it was set to air an episode about the treatment of migrants shipped to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, “60 Minutes” mysteriously pulled the episode. Just like that, the beloved show we have known is dead, Marc Elias writes. https://bit.ly/4b7yj3p

It’s about time!

This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Shoveling money to the rich and large corporations, screwing over everyone else, and constantly breaking the law www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

BREAKING: FCC Commissioner is hiring a CBS "bias monitor" who will report directly to the President. This is how state-run media begins.⁠

“La Sagrada Familia” by Kelly Latimore

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

In the news business, we call this a “puff piece.” It’s about the Ellisons, an “intriguing partnership,” according to the NY Times, which seems more impressed by people’s bank accounts than anything else. The Ellisons are buying up media to prop up a dictator. That’s the news. 1/4 🧵

We have reached the let’s-hope-Canada-beams-in-news-that’s-being-censored-in-our-own-country stage of authoritarianism. Here's a broadcast-quality version of that "60 Minutes" story via Yashar Ali. www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

The only Trump renaming that makes sense.

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

Once in a while you win one. “The board determined, after careful review, that Sinclair’s offer was not in the best interests of Scripps and our shareholders as well as our employees and the many communities and audiences we serve in the United States." coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-t...

This is the core project of Trumpism 2.0

Has this story shown up anywhere else? I think it's relevant since he got to interrupt Survivor to yell at us yesterday. This is the easiest layup ever if you were a real reporter working for a real news organization.

Trump is heavily focused on getting a military that's personally loyal to him, from the generals to the rank-and-file. He needs it for when he asks them to fire on protesting American citizens, or staging his next coup

Food prices are skyrocketing, so President Snow is launching the Hunger Games!

"Zaslav will receive $30 million in "Golden Parachute' compensation along with $537 million in equity for a total of $567 million in a transaction-associated pay." half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job

The media is being consolidated and the robber barons of information are being chosen as winners in Trump's command economy. And most of the media is ignoring it.

AI De-Skilling: Will Chatbot Use Corrode Our Humanness? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/virt...

Thrilled to see @mandytroeger.bsky.social and my article on the legacy of Bob McChesney publically available today in MR: monthlyreview.org/articles/be-... It’s really such an honour to get to contribute to this very special issue alongside so many people that have helped shaped my own perspective

Almost no jobs have been added to the American economy since April. In fact, 710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024. More thoughts on today's dismal jobs report — and what it means for America's affordability crisis.

"We really have to this paradigm shift, where we think of our news media, especially local journalism, the same way that we think of public education, libraries, public parks. There are these public goods that we would never leave entirely up to the market," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

#Filmsky #Film 🗃️

He's breathing, so he's lying and scapegoating

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

In short, the Trump cult, headed by a leader who emulates the current leader of Russia’s Evil Empire, has become what the Republican Party used to despise. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Reminded again of the exchange @fractalecho.bsky.social had w/ their student whose writing quality tanked, was noticed, and then, when asked what was going on, revealed they'd been using "AI" to rewrite papers to sound more white. Our trust in these systems does us real epistemic & hermeneutic harm

Investigators concluded Monday that South Korea’s ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol plotted to impose martial law to eliminate his political rivals & monopolize power — Yoon is currently in jail while standing trial One day America — one day 🤞🏼

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

This is a real headline on the New York Times website. Support independent media.

This is both disgusting and expected. The Scumbag-in-Chief

I only needed to read the headline to know @sulliview.bsky.social was dead on. When she called the coverage of Trump “stenography” I said to myself “yep.” And I applauded when she outlined 3 changes on how to respond to Trump. Follow them please, journalists. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Gen AI tools are not good sources for information during rapidly unfolding, novel events. Words associations aren't helpful for discovering ground truth. These tools are more likely to echo and contribute to the inherent uncertainty and ambiguity of crisis events.

There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/euILrS8

My take on the resurgence of media oligopolies bidding to be the belle of Trump's oligarch ballroom. Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and more anticompetitive than ever theconversation.com/whether-netf...

My take on the resurgence of media oligopolies bidding to be the belle of Trump's oligarch ballroom. Whether Netflix or Paramount buys Warner Bros., entertainment oligopolies are back – bigger and more anticompetitive than ever theconversation.com/whether-netf...