Shortly after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, right-wing media seized on a story that could reset the narrative. DHS said an immigrant attacked federal officers with a shovel, and the story was everywhere in MAGA media. The case has since fallen apart & prosecutors just dropped the charges.

CBS Evening News just inverted CBS News' own reporting, which found very low rates of so-called criminal histories for ICE arrestees. But the Evening News distorted its own network's article, making it seem like the Trump admin was rounding up the "worst of the worst." Very cool editorial process

in august, TOM HOMAN admitted that this was the law www.mediamatters.org/immigration/... via @johnknefel.bsky.social

I wrote about the right-wing media campaign to erode 4th Amendment protections by mischaracterizing demands that ICE/BP get a judicial warrant before entering a home. Even Tom Homan admitted as much last summer.

Tom Homan in August: ICE agents “need a judicial warrant for a search” ⬇️

I found a Fox News interview from August 2025 where Border Czar Tom Homan acknowledges that ICE needs a judicial warrant to perform a search of private property -- contrary to an ICE memo that says agents only need an administrative warrant. Curious what he believes now.

As there is a lot of news about immigration and who is "supposed" to be deported, it's worth talking about why the media and commentators keep using the word "criminal." Most people I hear will casually say, oh sure, we should "deport criminals."

NEW: The Israeli military today accepted the Gaza Health Ministry's estimate of 70,000+ killed. But in 2024, 62 Dems joined 207 Republicans to ban the State Dept. from citing the Ministry's stats. Now, even Israel accepts them — perhaps because they realize what is feared: the toll is even higher.

Of course he has no real job. How can Congress let someone they didn’t vote on run an agency?

I wrote about how Fox News is trying to portray Tom Homan as the immigration good cop, the professional, the cooler head -- all of which is absurd to anyone who knows the first thing about him. Fox is trying for a rebrand but the underlying policy hasn't changed.

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

Just a little background on Bill Melugin, the Fox News reporter who posted a photo of a gun supplied to him by DHS. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/bil...

New piece on Fox News' repeated use of a totally misleading talking point about the supposed criminality of ICE arrestees. The number of people in ICE custody with a conviction for a violent criminal offense is about 5-7%. Fox's coverage falsely suggests the number is closer to 70%.

The rhetoric MAGA media is using to describe Minnesota protesters is increasingly unhinged and militaristic -- "insurgents" and "terrorists" waging "guerilla warfare,” looking to provoke a "Fort Sumter moment" and start a civil war. New from me and @slawton.bsky.social at @mmfa.bsky.social

Nativist think tank and close ally of Trump admin calls for Minneapolis school officials to be charged with felonies for allowing hybrid/remote classes during ICE rampages

Wrote a short thing about Laura Ingraham's show last night, where she practically begged Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and repeatedly referred to pro-immigrant activists as "insurgents." New at @mmfa.bsky.social

Wrote a short thing about Laura Ingraham's show last night, where she practically begged Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and repeatedly referred to pro-immigrant activists as "insurgents." New at @mmfa.bsky.social

I wrote about Trump's new push to ramp up denaturalizations, and how MAGA media is making it clear that they want this effort to target Muslims specifically. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

New from @slawton.bsky.social & me: Mainstream news coverage almost completely ignored Bannon's extensive ties to Epstein. Only 8% of print articles from leading newspapers drew connections between the two. Even worse, no broadcast news segments did. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social

I wrote about right-wing media's escalating attacks on women, from pushing for birth control restrictions to pressuring young women to leave the workforce. A new hire at The Heritage Foundation, Scott Yenor, exemplifies this trend, but it goes far beyond him. New at @mmfa.bsky.social

I wrote about right-wing media's embrace of Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado, who supports Trump's threats of regime change and has offered fuel for conservative conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud & Maduro's role as a supposed narco kingpin. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social

I wrote about right-wing media's embrace of Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado, who supports Trump's threats of regime change and has offered fuel for conservative conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud & Maduro's role as a supposed narco kingpin. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social

Will Zohran's NYPD also intervene to prevent ICE watch direct actions?

Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc

New: @slawton.bsky.social & I wrote about how Bannon has gone silent on Epstein since the latest release of emails and texts. Back in July, he was all about the need to "get to the bottom of Epstein" - but as new docs confirm their close relationship, he's avoided the topic. New at @mmfa.bsky.social

do not miss @attackerman.bsky.social on all the reasons @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social needs to get rid of ICE collaborator Jessica Tisch.

I wrote an op-ed for @msnbc.com about the MAGA media backlash to Trump's defense of H-1B visas. Trump reanimated the ugliest histories of nativism in the United States, and any deviation from a maximalist approach reads as apostasy to his loudest supporters. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Comrade Gutfeld forced to acknowledge Marx's core insight that capitalism produces the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat but then veers into vulgar Bonapartism

Steve Bannon today sent an unmistakable signal that he's on Tucker Carlson's side in the aftermath of his interview with Nick Fuentes. Bannon had a friendly interview with Ryan Neuhaus, recently departed from Heritage for his role in defending the Carlson-Fuentes interview. New at @mmfa.bsky.social

Can’t wait to go to @thedigradio.bsky.social live tonight. Things might get a little rowdy* *congenial debates about whether neoliberalism marks a distinct mode of capitalist development or is mostly congruous with earlier eras and forms of accumulation

There's a decent chance that the Sydney Sweeney / Cracker Barrel cycle was the high-water mark for conservative narrative dominance

The NYT continues to lie to its readers about the top tiers of the MAGA coalition. Just the closeness of Loomer alone (not to mention dozens of other MAGA media figures) invalidates this entire premise

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Steve Bannon is wedded to the misperception that MAGA's driving force is a working class base, when in fact its core is private equity and family businesses whose aim is to capture as much public money as possible before the whole thing collapses. My latest at @mmfa.bsky.social

Honest-to-god cadre in city hall, fucking insane

Eric Adams reluctantly transferring boarding passes to Istanbul, on-going extortion schemes to the Mamdani team

You’ll see this in socialists’ living rooms for decades

Cuomo concession speech reads to me as an audition to be a Fox News pundit down the line

Good things are possible

choose your fighter

I'm sorry, this WaPo profile of Chris Buskirk reports that 3,000 people canvassed a universe of "several million" low-propensity voters and achieved a turnout of 50 percent? Doesn't that seem a bit...unlikely?

One way to think about the Mamdani campaign is that 14 years ago Mayor Bloomberg and Gov Cuomo worked to crush Occupy Wall Street - a social movement gesturing at what working class politics might look like in a country with a marginalized & disorganized left. Today, Cuomo and Bloomberg will lose.

Damn Cheney took Michael Lange’s block-by-block post pretty hard

Vulgar Marxism explains this better than any high-brow liberalism

The left’s task now and always is to build a broad, multi-racial/ethnic working class coalition, and the Mamdani campaign is operating at a higher level than anyone else in electoral politics. It’s not even close

Oh we’re doing this again are we

Right-wing media outlets are selling their audiences a fantasy of easy regime change in Venezuela, complete with a "government-in-waiting" narrative that mirrors the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. My most recent piece at @mmfa.bsky.social

I wrote about how right-wing media outlets are telling their audience that regime change in Venezuela would be simple and straightforward. In their version, the US has a small footprint and the opposition takes power seamlessly. History would be to differ. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social

I wrote about how right-wing media outlets are telling their audience that regime change in Venezuela would be simple and straightforward. In their version, the US has a small footprint and the opposition takes power seamlessly. History would be to differ. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social