📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: @mkblyth.bsky.social, Pasha Talankin, and David Borenstein on-the-media.visitlink.me/QoGEX0

Roundup of the insane rhetoric coming from the right at the moment. It's remarkable how *little* violence we've seen from protesters, given the feds' aggression. Maybe I've missed something, but the worst I've seen is people throwing snowballs. The MN weather has injured more cops than protesters.

Hint...that word rhymes with peo-poyalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

WHO is Russel Vought? DJT’s policy director? The oval office whisperer? Darth Vader? Take a listen. TY @onthemedia.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

after flying back from Vegas last week, I was just laid off from Inverse today. I'm open to connecting over email at [email protected] and I'm definitely still in the writing and editing space. Expect a more in-depth explanation coming soon in my Updater newsletter. shannonliao.substack.com

Is it the about the oil, America First, the Monroe Doctrine? We don’t have to tie ourselves into pretzels to understand Trump’s foreign policy. @brookegladstone.bsky.social breaks down a new word, based on a very old concept, to describe Trump’s global ambitions.

What the hell is going on with Trump's foreign policy? Brooke reflects on a new word that helps explain it:

Another very good analysis of Renee Macklin Good's shooting from the New York Times visual team. Slightly dry but worth it for the analysis. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

@onthemedia.bsky.social does a good profile on the hateful, racist, christo-fascist Russel Vought. He really is one evil MFer that's just as bad as Stephen Miller. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

"In his ruling, Judge Young, who is 85 and has served as a federal judge for over 40 years, described the case as “perhaps the most important” of his career." Read @zjmontague.bsky.social's curtain raiser in @nytimes.com ahead of today's AAUP v. Rubio remedy hearing: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

This morning's Reliable Sources newsletter has some insta-reactions from Post reporters to the news that the FBI searched their colleague Hannah Natanson's home: cnn.it/4pJrTvd

Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.

Hi there! I'm currently working on a multi-part @onthemedia.bsky.social series about FEMA –– conspiracy theories and media narratives about the agency, and how it's been perceived from the 70s through now. I'm looking to speak with more people who work at the agency right now. If you know someone...

“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Just in: The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show. https://to.pbs.org/4qivlOd

How can we make sense of the U.S. invasion of Venezuela? SFS Prof Abraham Newman joined @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss President Trump’s foreign policy “neo-royalism,” a term Newman coined to explain international affairs driven by a select group of elites. Listen here: https://bit.ly/4qmhmXX

If you missed this weekend's @onthemedia.bsky.social, go back and listen. You'll hear from the editor-in-chief at Caracas Chronicles about what's really driving Trump's policy in Venezuela [21:32]. And you'll be introduced to a new term about this administration's foreign policy [36:15].

NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

The @wired.com guide to ICE invading your neighborhood:

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

This one is very good.

@micahloewinger.bsky.social and @brookegladstone.bsky.social are doing heroic work at @onthemedia.bsky.social The interview with Rafael Osio Cabrices reflects deep reporting and interest by this team.🙏🏼👏

For @onthemedia.bsky.social this week I spoke with Minnesota Star Tribune reporter Jeffrey Meitrodt about Nick Shirley's racist video on Somali daycare fraud. And Caracas Chronicles EIC Rafael Osio Cabrices about what media get wrong about Venezuela: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Venezuelan journalist Rafael Osio Cabrices on his home country’s evolving media landscape, the US raid and capture of Maduro from the perspective of Venezuelans, and what foreign media outlets are getting wrong in their coverage: on-the-media.visitlink.me/ROBVEd

Always an important listen, to help in understanding the chaos we are in.

When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increase, an expert on the U.S. media and its role in democracy explains. buff.ly/lcUuZZQ By @victorpickard.bsky.social #journalism

Tips for following coverage of protests in Minneapolis:

A time-honored tradition: Republicans offering buts and prayers

Why daycare centers in Minnesota became the center of a GOP campaign against alleged fraud on-the-media.visitlink.me/jIyc3H

The excellent @wnyc.org @onthemedia.bsky.social podcast has done a great job of calling it like it is while still committing actual journalism. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

It was a thrill to talk neo-royalism with Brooke Gladstone even if the circumstances are quite troubling. But as we discuss, you have to be able to name something before you can resist it. @onthemedia.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social

📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: Jeffrey Medtroit, Rafael Osio Cabrices, and @abenewman.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

"Officials have described the killing of Ms. Good in starkly different terms." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u... Oh, thanks. To know my frustration is to watch this clip from 2021, where I explain to @brianstelter.bsky.social — as clearly as I can — what might be better. www.cnn.com/videos/busin...

I wrote about how Trump treats the news the way he treats election results: complete when he decides they’re complete and fraudulent if the completed version is inconvenient. www.pbump.net/o/trumpism-d...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Statement from the Minnesota Star Tribune:

Tips for following coverage of protests in Minneapolis:

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b... If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Jon is a reporter with @mprnews.org. Other accounts to follow are @startribune.com @unicornriot.bsky.social...

Breaking News: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said it would cease operations, signaling the end of a newspaper whose origins date to 1786.

It's basically an ad.

This guy is one of a kind. If you don't have him on your radar you should fix that. Instead of gazing with wonder at the denialism five years later, he's warning the polity. Possibly the most valuable news anchor in the country. Kyle Klark at 9News Denver.

The rollout of Tony Dokoupil's rebooted "CBS Evening News" is not going over well inside the network. It's a "total disaster," as one insider put it. Or a "total shit show," as another told me. Much more in @status.news: www.status.news/p/tony-dokou...

J6 prosecutor: “It’s more maddening than it is anything else. I spent years of my life watching the events of that day unfold in front of me again and again and again. I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma.”