"Utilize their bodies for compelled slave labor" "Go Old Testament on these people" Asmongold wants the GOP to be "more authoritarian" -- and sees himself as a bridge to Nick Fuentes From @bambooboy.bsky.social, Gideon Taaffe, and me for @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/asmongold/my...

Former Colorado election official Tina Peters has been on a right-wing media tour since leaving prison. She's talked extensively about meeting with Trump in the White House and urging him to sign executive orders to curtail voting rights. Appears to be part of a larger plot to subvert the midterms

After Jan. 6, 2021, and all the treasonous MAGA moves before and after, we need to get serious about the threat that they'll again try to steal an election. This Media Matters story is not panicky or overblown. It simply states what MAGA extremists want to do, based on what they've said and done.

This is a weird one but stay with me. It seems that Steve Bannon, John Solomon, Cleta Mitchell, and two top officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are forming a plot to subvert the midterm elections by declaring Chinese interference in US elections as a national emergency

Right-wing podcaster Steve Stern, who hosts calls with election deniers, praised Christina Norton when she ran the RNC's so-called election integrity shop in 2024. Stern complimented her a few times on Bannon's show. She's now a top official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Snide response is these people are losers who can’t win shit (correct) but the more substantive take is they are capital’s bulwark against rising working class power and that’s a legitimate problem given the US system

In March, JD Vance attended a donor event hosted by Rockbridge, a network of conservative elites helmed by Chris Buskirk. Buskirk also publishes American Greatness, which three days ago posted a full-throated defense of Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech.

The workers are making less but producing more value, and the owner doesn't have a problem with that? Well, I suppose that's the end of the story

Right-wing media figures, especially in Murdoch world, are furious at the MOU between the US and Iran. A Fox contributor said: "This doesn't feel like a victory." No, no it doesn't, because it isn't.

Right-wing media figures, especially in Murdoch world, are furious at the MOU between the US and Iran. A Fox contributor said: "This doesn't feel like a victory." No, no it doesn't, because it isn't.

The feedback loop between Trump and Fox News has been a defining feature of the Iran war. Now, the network's hawks may get the escalation they've wanted since the paper-thin ceasefire started in early April

An ill-conceived, short but brutal bombing campaign? Why, wherever could Trump have gotten that idea?

Whatever Trump ends up doing next, it's worth noting that his semi-official advisors at Fox News have spent months telling him he can achieve a military victory over Iran in two weeks

Several talking heads at Fox News have spent months selling Trump on the fantasy that victory in Iran is a mere "two weeks" away, if only he'd unleash the U.S. and Israeli militaries. No reason to believe it but it's all the more worrisome given Trump's promise to retaliate for the downed helicopter

There's a right-wing media campaign to discredit the Medicaid home health care program, which millions of people with disabilities & elderly people rely on. It's the same playbook the right used to go after day care centers in MN -- this time in OH, also targeting Somali communities there

There are flashing red signals in energy markets, but right-wing media figures are doing everything they can to reassure their audiences the higher costs will be short-lived. Some are appealing to notion of shared sacrifice to prop up this unprovoked and profoundly stupid war (my words, not theirs)

Exclusive: How a prisoner ended up alone in the war court in a death penalty case at Guantanamo Bay. --A look back at a most unusual pretrial hearing in the long-drawn-out 9/11 case at the place the Pentagon calls Camp Justice. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/u...

Right-wing media figures are doing everything they can to support the Trump administration's efforts to enact regime change in Cuba

I am heartbroken to announce that I am no longer at Media Matters for America due to the hostile litigation campaign against the organization. I dedicated nearly four years to improving LGBTQ coverage in mainstream media & challenging right-wing propaganda. It wasn't easy, but I am proud of it. 🧵

Fox News just can't stop pushing Trump to start bombing Iran again

Fox News personalities are encouraging Trump to begin bombing Iran again as a tenuous ceasefire shows potential signs of collapse.

Fox News figures are desperately pushing for Trump to start bombing Iran again. At least two sit on the boards of directors of defense contractors that could benefit from a resumption of active hostilities.

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.

Who remembers the Friedman Unit?

In the new issue of @bookforum.bsky.social I got to write about Langston Hughes, blues poetry, and communism: www.bookforum.com/print/3204/m...

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

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

Whatever this means specifically, more generally the United States and Israel have already jointly carried out a genocide, specifically in Gaza. Once that line is crossed and those actions justified, there is no limit to what these countries can and will do

The guy who publishes this website, Chris Buskirk, is a close ally of JD Vance and is financially backed by Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer

Israel is poised to begin carrying out a program of state-sponsored murder of Palestinians, complete with parliamentary and public support

Only slightly exaggerating to say MAGA thought they could extract concessions as easily from Iran as from Cracker Barrel

I wrote about how the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is threatening a global food crisis, which is driving divisions in right-wing media. Many conservative pundits are using fertilizer shortages to call for escalation, & some are saying this proves the war was a bad idea from the outset.

At the NYT, time doesn't flow in a linear path. Rather, it begins halfway through a series of events, bending to ensure that official enemies of the US and Israel are blamed for instantiating a "new phase" of economic warfare despite said phase "following" and earlier act

Something so perfect about the US waging this war with intrinsic awareness towards the timing of the market and total indifference to the timing of global food production

If you're not watching Fox News all day long, you might not appreciate the extent to which Brian Kilmeade -- who once tried to roast a marshmallow with his hands and a plastic spoon -- is functioning as de facto national security advisor

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.

In 2023 Media Matters conducted a research study where we watched all of the videos released by PragerU Kids. We thought it was about time to update that research. So I did!

I wrote about right-wing media figures embracing "regime collapse" -- as opposed to "regime change" -- and how they've dispensed with even the thin pretext of humanitarianism. What's left is destruction for destruction's sake and a belief that Iran as a failed state is a desirable outcome

I wrote about right-wing media figures embracing "regime collapse" -- as opposed to "regime change" -- and how they've dispensed with even the thin pretext of humanitarianism. What's left is destruction for destruction's sake and a belief that Iran as a failed state is a desirable outcome

The US and Israel jointly carried out a genocide in Gaza and once you've crossed that line it's not clear that there are any internal constraints or limiting principles. These two countries are truly capable of anything right now

Fox News' Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Jesse Watters want to flood Iran with small arms to incite regime change (or more likely state collapse), an idea so reckless even one of Fox's biggest war cheerleaders, retired Gen. Jack Keane, said it was a bad idea [research from @slawton.bsky.social]

MAGA media figures like Benny Johnson and Greg Kelly seemed to have inside information about the Iran war before Trump launched it. Fox News' Brian Kilmeade said he attended a "briefing with high-ranking Trump officials" on Saturday. Congress, meanwhile, is scheduled to get briefed tomorrow.

Indistinguishable from an old self-help bit by Rob Lathan

I will simply reiterate what I have said for years, namely that whatever their utility when it comes to individual psychopathology, the ideas of repetition compulsions and the death drive are super clarifying when it comes to the libidinal economies of settler colonial imperial violence

I wrote about Nick Shirley endorsing an antisemitic video made by Tyler Oliveira. They're two of the rising stars of MAGA's new class of self-described "independent journalists," provocateurs who have adopted James O'Keefe's approach and play a crucial role in the right-wing media ecosystem

Nick Shirley is rebooting old James O'Keefe myths about voter fraud and serving them up to a new audience. Did either of them find fraud? No. But did they come close? Also no. But what if you simply imagined the fraud? Well, now we're talking!

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