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.

It's like stupid Stalinism

Newsmax host: "Let's not pretend that the idea of government shutdown isn't somewhat alluring to most of us"

It’s not like there’s ever been a problem with that before

Official US Army slideshow document gets the date of 9/11 wrong lol

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

i don’t think he was supposed to post this. this is a company lobbying for medical cannabis, specifically for medicare coverage of it, and i think they made a whole commercial for an audience of one. “YOU will…” “cementing YOUR legacy,” millions will thank you… this was just for trump

In theory, the federal government has civil service laws, and protections against personnel actions that are driven by partisan reasons. The reality is that massive purges are going on, and lawyers are being targeted because Trump/Miller figured out that is a crucial lever in federal agencies.

Newsmax host: “People don't care if they” shut down the government www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

The MAGA media cudgel against dissent; Also, Right-wing media had an escalator obsession this week. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The right has repackaged anti-science talking points as well-meaning skepticism: www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-...

Personally I don't think we should let the president make the entire country a safe space for himself

i dont want to go back to normal, i want a democratic president to use these newfound powers to completely dismantle the conservative media apparatus responsible for this mess

Fox News continued the Trump administration’s campaign to oust Lisa Cook even after two reports from Reuters seemed to exonerate her. His blatant effort to take control of the Federal Reserve threatens the entire global financial system. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

This might be the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever seen

They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant. Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.

In this week's newsletter, I offer my reflections on Charlie Kirk's assassination and we bring some analysis of the right-wing response. www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Tulsi Gabbard's Russiagate farce crumbles on Fox; Also, Fox covered a Sydney Sweeney ad more than rising grocery prices. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

MAGA media flails to distract from Epstein; Also, Fox News mentioned Obama three times as much as Epstein. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...