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

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Right-wing hawks are embarked on a truly pathetic effort to blame the MOU’s contents on Vance, while absolving Trump of responsibility for the document that he signed and publicly describes as “a very strong deal.” www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

We recently wrote about the media figures and influencers who have been peddling Vitamin K shot skepticism for years via @alyssatirrell.bsky.social and @vandowe.bsky.social mediamatters.org/propublica/new-reporting-links-skepticism-vitamin-k-shot-newborn-deaths-influencers-and-media

Moms Across America founder Zen Honeycutt on data center construction: “We are losing our water sources, we're losing our power. … This is one of the most important issues in front of America today.” new from me for @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/health-care/...

hate to be that guy but i think it should be illegal to intentionally poison people

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

If everything here is normal, then why is the boss an opinion writer with no experience in broadcast news? If that question is never answered — answered by CBS itself, I mean — then I see nothing ahead but newsy turmoil and slow ruin. @brianstelter.bsky.social

The deaths of these babies likely could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. For reporter @deldeib.bsky.social, their autopsy reports painted the clearest picture of the tragedy of their short lives.

Gonna be a generational burden to recreate the norm that scamming other people is bad when our positions of leadership are being filled by proud scammers and people who previously only succeeded in the field of social media engagement bait

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow has repeatedly shrugged off the economic pain that Americans are feeling from rising fuel costs and growing inflation due to Trump’s war with Iran. “I don't care about a couple of months of $4 gasoline. Honestly, I don't care if the inflation rate goes to 5%.”

so one reason why we should never elect rich assholes anymore is they say shit like “the strait will open like magic” because they think they have better dna than us and thats why everything has always worked out for them and not people sucking up to them and the 8 figure trust fund

The Trump administration is illegally withholding $150 million for domestic violence service providers, which has led to "layoffs, diminished services for survivors and sacrifices among advocates." A 24-hour hotline is now closed on nights and weekends. 19thnews.org/2026/05/dome...

Domestically I am tired of democrats being chicken shits about this. I don’t care how it polls. I don’t care if swing state soccer moms get squeamish about it. I don’t give a single fuck. This is a non-negotiable.

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

My latest: I wrote about being Jewish at Rededicate 250, Trump's taxpayer-funded Christian revival on the National Mall. I got accused of blasheming Christ and someone tried to convert me. numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/being-jewi...

My latest: Upcoming TPUSA conference for young women will feature a 20-year-old "trad wife" who belives women shouldn't have the right to vote. Savanna Faith Stone: “I think since the 19th Amendment, society has really decayed" numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/turning-po...

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...

New from me: @mmfa.bsky.social got a big victory this week. Here's why it matters and what we can learn from it. www.altrightdelete.news/p/onward?utm...

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

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

and Republicans are doing it because they know they're going to get their asses kicked in the midterms. if you can't win, cheat

Legalizing sports gambling and making it ubiquitous and frictionless was a terrible idea. slate.com/technology/2...

Like the weak SPLC and Comey cases, the best way to think about this is an attempt to sync up law enforcement with the right-wing media narrative machine.

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

The original concept of DARVO relates to sexual violence, but it’s extremely helpful for understanding the Trump administration. They kill and harm people and then they blame those who correctly identified their violence as the ones inciting violence. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender

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

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

heres tucker talking privately about trump after january 6, this lying grifter knew the whole time if he means this hed slink away, never to be heard from again…he doesnt mean it, he just sees which way the winds blowing

I have always considered myself a libertine. I had no problem with gambling. But the expansion of gambling into EVERY CONCEIVABLE CORNER of society is horrific. This is why I don't read ads for sports betting anymore. people can't leave well enough alone. and this isn't just a gambling thing.

I fear that we'll get yet another muted media and public response, because this is a domestic violence situation. When murder, even mass murder, is about domestic violence, it's not taken as seriously as violence at the hands of a stranger. What will it take for us to realize it's just as bad?

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...

I wrote about Gen. Jack Keane, one of Fox's most vocal cheerleaders for the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, who also happens to sit on the board of directors of two military contractors. The network doesn't seem to have disclosed this conflict of interest over at least 59 appearances on Fox News/Business

Oh, okay

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

They want you to become listless and hopeless. They know that's easier for many of us than inhabiting uncertainty. I get it. I don't do well with uncertainty. But I'm gonna stay here, in this ugly, messy uncertainty—grieving, refusing, denouncing, and trying to figure out what to do next.

So trump filled his cabinet with sychophants who lifted their faces off the floor a few inches to tell him war with Iran was a dumb idea and he ignored them because he’s never faced a consequence in his entire life www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Also tonight: Tennessee's Senate passed "the Charlie Kirk Act," which prohibits colleges from “discriminating” against someone based on their “opposition to abortion, homosexuality, or transgender behavior." (?!) The bill is silent about those who support abortion rights and the LGBTQ community

It's late, but this is important: Senate Republicans are pressuring the FDA to shut down abortion pill websites jessica.substack.com/p/the-gops-p...

Some bold takes today www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...

Relatedly www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

A new report highlights the systemic failures that led to the DCA plane crash that Trump and right-wing media blamed on DEI The incident was just the start of Trump and his allies responding to tragedies by rushing out a political narrative before facts can be established tinyurl.com/bdenme8p

and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...