@nytimes.com : "Mr. Trump and administration officials have long championed free speech, but their actions—as well as their promises since Charlie Kirk’s killing—to guarantee it have been replaced by efforts to quash criticism." When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?

These performances of debate-unity only reach the NYT audience. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Right are signaling to their supporters that the time for a comprehensive crackdown on the “enemy within” has come. Klein isn’t doing anything to defuse the situation - he’s obscuring the problem.

I suspect the supposed text messages released by the FBI are a reconstruction of how the roommate remembers the exchange, created with the help of FBI interrogators. Thus the stilted language and the way it serves prosecutorial needs--without being something the roommate will disavow in court.

”Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.” @pastpunditry.bsky.social

The leading voices of MAGA are ready to declare a police state over the killing of Charlie Kirk -- carried out, as it appears, by someone even further right than Kirk.

🤬cnn hire www.instagram.com/reel/DOjBEjI...

During the Holocaust, the @nytimes.com shamefully buried news of the mass murder of Jews in its back pages, sometimes tucked in at the end of unrelated articles. With genocide scholars saying a new genocide is happening in #Gaza, the Times is behaving the same way. fair.org/home/nyt-bur...

The corporate media template: Go ahead and admit that the US government is consciously and intentionally setting refuge seekers up to “end up in brutal conditions,” but don’t bother dwelling on where that slippery slope might lead us all. fair.org/home/media-d...

I'm proud to learn that the paper I wrote for in college is suing Marco Rubio on behalf of the First Amendment. theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...?

I miss the First Amendment.

The most popular active US politician is Bernie Sanders, with a +12 net favorability. Compare that to Chuck Schumer, with a -31 net. Yet Sanders is considered fringe, whereas Schumer is mainstream, pragmatic, a natural leader of the Democratic Party. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

I hear there may be a few other things going on in DC... but I discussed the city’s sweetheart stadium deal with Janine Jackson on @fairmediawatch.bsky.social’s radio show Counterspin

Corporate journalists see pretending not to know what's going on as a central part of their job. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...?

A public figure that's been the subject of cover stories and feature spreads risks his life to bring food to starving children: Here's why that's not a newsworthy story. fair.org/home/for-med...

"We agree that's a problem, and we're going to do less to solve it" is never going to be a winning political message.

Chris Smalls, Amazon organizer, is one of the most prominent labor activists in the country. Yet when he was beaten by the IDF while trying to bring life-saving aid to Gaza, it got virtually no US corporate media coverage. paydayreport.com/amazon-union...

NEW: Trump effectively confessed he knew what Epstein was doing, and the mainstream media whiffed: presswatchers.org/2025/07/trum...

An 18-month-old was born in January 2024. This kid has no problems that pre-existed the Israeli genocide.

Watching ABC and CBS, Columbia and Harvard crumble at the first authoritarian push makes you realize what a rotten structure our society is built on.

Superman works best as an allegory if you think of Jor-El as representing the Democratic Party and Superman as being Zorhan Mamdani.

Live at The Santita Jackson Show @santitajackson.bsky.social with @naureckas.bsky.social & @bloomekatz.bsky.social The Everglades concentration camp is violating human rights & dehumanizing people. Wasteful & abusive. Years of anti-immigrant discourse & DeSantis's opportunism led us here.

If you don't think most people belong on the left, you are not on the left.

Trumpism depends on "us" hating "them" as much as vice versa. Refuse to be manipulated.

When Trump is using Islamophobia to put people in concentration camps, the center has to stop using tactical Islamophobia. h/t @[email protected] www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...?

More people will make it easier to solve environmental problems, they say, because "every time we've made progress against an environmental challenge before, it's been while the population was growing." Note the world's population has been growing since the 14th century. time.com/7299524/birt...

Yuck 🤢 🤮 “In fact, New Yorkers should be worried that he would lead Gotham back to the bad old days of civic dysfunction, and Democrats should fear that he will discredit their next generation of party leaders, almost all of whom are better than this democratic socialist.”

One of the ugliest aspects of human nature is hating people just because we have permission to hate them. And that's the only way I can explain the animosity towards people whose greatest crime is helping to grow our food, build our houses and take care of our children.

The Washington Post can never admit that what it hates about Zohran Mamdani is exactly what people love about him: that he doesn't think a billionaire is a billion times more important than someone who is broke. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Andrew Sullivan has been writing the same drivel for 30 years. Rad-shaming his way to the top. Now, predictably, he’s fueling the anti-Trans hate machine at the boring, boring @nytimes.com. Shame on him. #trans @translash.org #lgbtqia #pride

I'm grateful to the @nytimes.com for publishing this, but I also want to say to them--you know this about you, right? by @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

What are the odds Trump doesn't drop a bomb called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator?

"Some Far-Left Groups Have Encouraged Peaceful Protests to Turn Violent, Experts Say," is NBC's headline. Here's one example they offer: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...?

The @washingtonpost.com appears to blame a US senator for being assaulted by DHS goons at a news conference. h/t @normansolomon.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/the-seven-tr...?

How do you describe someone who “narrowly won” an election as “performing strongly”, WaPo?

I think we can all recognize looking back that Weather Underground violence was not the important moral issue of the Vietnam War.

Just when you think the Trump administration has reached peak bonkerism. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One of the most important thing to realize about media is that outrage does not emerge naturally from the events of the world; it is evoked or suppressed in keeping with the government's foreign policy needs.

People mix up caring about people like them with not caring about people not like them.

The Trump administration's free speech tourists went on a wild censorship spree this week.

Happy birthday to radical rocker Tom Morello, who coincidentally has an interview with CounterSpin today about music in the age of Trump. @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social fair.org/home/tom-mor...

Funny, I agree with this transphobic kid's T-shirt--there ARE censored genders! dankennedy.net/2025/05/27/s...

"If you follow the Times‘ approach to journalism, in which you must never say that something is happening if someone in power claims it is not happening, then your audience won’t know when their government is acting illegally, or denying truth and reality."

"Objective" journalism requires you to treat respectfully official claims that opposition lawmakers are violent threats to the public order. To report straightforwardly that such arrests are dangerous authoritarianism would be "taking sides." fair.org/home/an-obje...

Two things wrong with NPR's headline: The arguments were not about birthright citizenship, but about universal injunctions. And skepticism among the justices toward the administration's opposition to such injunctions was remarkably widespread. www.npr.org/2025/05/15/n...

Links that used to go to the text of Project 2025 now take you to a link where you can buy a paperback copy--which is sold out. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

In the world of the @nytimes.com, leaving room for the possibility that it's not corruption to sell access to the president for millions of dollars makes you a better journalist--and, really, a better person. fair.org/take-action/...

Great to hear that the DNC is going to maintain its proud tradition of remaining neutral in primary contests.

Israel's unsubstantiated claim that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields is used to justify indiscriminate bombing of Gaza--when in reality it is Israel that routinely forces Palestinians to shield its combatants. fair.org/home/one-sid...