Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”

Steve Bannon's unseen Jeffrey Epstein footage; And MAGA's infighting over H-1B visas. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

MAGA's election despair and the crisis of affordability; Also, Fox News remains largely silent during firestorm over Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Fox News and Fox Business glossed over rising food and grocery prices last month, while Trump redoubled his efforts to simply lie about the worsening inflation situation hitting hundreds of millions of Americans. (h/t @zpleat.bsky.social) www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Newsmax host on election results: “It's like a funeral in here” www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

No treats, just tricks: Right-wing media cheer SNAP cuts. This weeks' Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

This isn't remotely the point, but the pedant in me feels obligated to point out: "un-painless" just means…painful.

The complete inversion of morals on the right is not surprising but it's still shocking. Imagine being on the side of intentionally starving children.

Matt Walsh: “If there's a noncitizen here who would starve without EBT, I would still say we should not give it to them” www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/m...

The Trump administration will soon be releasing two Medicaid rules that would ban medicaid funding for gender affirming care for trans youth and any Medicaid reimbursements to any organization that provides care to trans youth. This would be a de facto national ban www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Newsmax host: "You sound like a defeated man already and it's not even election day"

How lucky can one family be? Win the presidency and their family business starts booming at exactly the same time!

The left's rhetoric is out of control and inciting political violence. The right's rhetoric is unifying the country through heartfelt appeals to our common bonds as Americans.

Our saving grace from this Christofascists is going to be that they're all such weird little freaks. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

MAGA media are cheering for Trump's invasion of American cities; Also, John Durham continues to haunt right-wing media. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Their prayers are to themselves. They’ve flattened the Christian faith into a theological license to carry out their violent political program. In the face of actual prayers in line with Christian teaching, this is how they respond.

You don't say: Fox & Friends admits “coffee prices are soaring” due to Trump's tariffs www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

MAGA throws a temper tantrum over Bad Bunny; Also, right-wing media cheers on a government shutdown. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

The politics of full service to the fossil fuels industry, and spreading its malicious propaganda, on full display.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

One of those most anti-Christ things I've read

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Benny Johnson: "Netflix has transed the cows"

This is a perfect example of how Donald Trump views the entire federal government, and really the whole country, as a thing that belongs to him personally. L'État, c'est moi.

Newsmax host: “These poor government employees are now on a paid vacation” www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

Matt Walsh: "The death penalty is pro-life" www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/m...

If Fox News just started playing footage on loop for a bit from the Matthew Broderick Godzilla, the literal president would probably bomb Madison square garden

Ben Shapiro: “It kind of feels like, you know, a government shutdown is mostly the stuff you need and kind of gets rid of a lot of the stuff you don't” www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/...

Daily Wire host: "In reality, white people don't say the n-word. And actually, statistically, the only people who say the n-word are black people."

Benny Johnson: “There is a government shutdown right now, and we are cheering for that. We say yes.”

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

Presumably this is meant to dissuade future Iranian attacks on U.S. assets there, but the most recent country to bomb Qatar is Israel.

"I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of government working for them, and that ain't bad"

Anyone with critical thinking skills or a memory of past shutdowns should be aware that this isn’t how it works. The president doesn’t gain new powers because Congress hasn’t sent over the money for the executive branch.

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement. www.mediamatters.org/national-rif...

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

Benny Johnson: I mean, I feel like most workers in the federal government are nonessential. I think most of them could be replaced by an AI chatbot, frankly. Rick Scott: Yeah. Well, it just looks like that might happen

The U.S. president just ordered all the military generals to an unprecedented gathering in Washington, then told them that they should plan to participate in a war on American cities.

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

Benny Johnson: “White rage is how you win a war. That's how America's always won wars, idiots.” www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

I didn’t want America to go fascist. I think that is very bad. But I take some solace in the fact that we got such stupid, petty fascists, the sort who order an in-person meeting of military leaders not to execute a large-scale purge, but to make them listen to him wax philosophical about gender.

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

This is the administration that just fired a bunch of FBI agents for kneeling at a BLM protest five years ago.