New from me: Trump enforcer Bill Pulte disappeared from Fox after accusations against Fed board member Lisa Cook crumbled www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru... Fox regularly amplified Pulte’s claims of supposed “mortgage fraud” by Trump’s perceived enemies over the summer

New from me: Fox continued Trump’s campaign to fire Fed board member Lisa Cook just before reports seemed to exonerate her www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox... The Trump administration and Fox have accused Cook of mortgage fraud as part of a long-running effort to influence/seize control of the Fed

New from me: As the August jobs report showed a weakening economy, Fox cast doubt on the data before it was even released www.mediamatters.org/fox-business... Continuing the shoot the messenger approach, Fox was casting doubt on the jobs data even before it was released

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

As always, immediate intervention when Trump is inconvenienced; versus a lengthy and interminable legal morass when his targets are.

Oops: Just after Fox pushed Trump’s lie that foreign countries pay for tariffs, a host acknowledged that Americans are paying higher prices www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad...

More Pedocon stuff: Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

Early and mail-in voting is something the right keeps changing its mind on (this is from post-2022 miderms) www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

investors shocked as trump economic policy begins showing the exact goddam results literally everyone said they would

New from me: Trump’s BLS commissioner nominee EJ Antoni calls Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” www.mediamatters.org/social-secur... The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces the inflation statistic used for Social Security cost-of-living adjustments for seniors

8 years after Charlottesville, Nazis control the White House www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8...

The US conservative movement, for the last 5 or 6 decades, is so much more sinister, so much more of an *actual* shadowy conspiracy fueled by oligarchs, than the average American understands.

My latest: Fox asks, “Where’s the tariff inflation?” It’s in the coffee Americans are drinking. www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... Prices have increased drastically in recent months, even before 50% tariffs on Brazilian coffee took effect a week ago

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.

It was precisely Watergate that set off a multi-decade effort on the right to protect Republicans from ever again facing real accountability. The experience of facing consequences for their actions was deeply traumatic for them.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

RFK Jr.'s Nurgle worship through killing Americans with preventable illnesses continues.

New, from me: Trump just fired the head of the BLS, accusing her of rigging data. The reality is that by shooting the messenger reporting on the negative effects of his economic policies, Trump pushed America further into banana republic territory. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...

New: After Steve Bannon called for “a MAGA Republican” to run the BLS, Trump fired its commissioner www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon... Trump took this action following a weak jobs report with major downward revisions. Economists say this move will create mistrust about economic data.

One interesting thing about Trump randomly imposing tariffs on every country on earth for any reason or no reason is that it is illegal

great example of a common dynamic: anything that anyone vaguely left-coded on the internet says is associated with and becomes a problem for “the democratic party”

still in shock about Emil Bove. easily one of the most depraved individuals ever to be confirmed to the federal bench, and that's including the nineteenth century. prosecuting his reported crimes has to be a priority when party control of government next changes hands.

Let's not forget that this seat was vacant because Islamaphobic Democrats wouldn't let Biden's appointee be confirmed. And Schumer let the clock run out.

Scoop: The Freedom of the Press Foundation is formally asking the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the D.C. Court of Appeals to probe and consider disbarring FCC chair Brendan Carr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

To be clear, Trump increased the tariff on goods from Europe from about 1.2% to 15% and that will lead to price increases for consumers and the NY Times take is that Trump is “winning” the trade war.

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public This is like setting money on fire

Genuinely fascistic

Good profile of the type of person who prospers in the Trump era: the guy leading the campaign against Powell is the Senate-confirmed head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, heir to a home-building fortune and online troll. $ + social media + loyalty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...

My latest: MAGA media praise Trump’s tariffs and trade deal with Japan that hurt the US auto industry www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... Trump warned of a supposed industry “bloodbath” if he wasn't elected, but now he’s seemingly engineered one

They folded. We're fighting. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

GAO in the increasingly lonely business of pointing out that the President is breaking the law, even as Congressional leaders pretend it isn't happening, and SCOTUS is enabling it.

In essence, Jon Stewart on Monday night told people like LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong to “go f**k yourself” for corporate cowardice—and then handed one of them a comfortable platform on national television minutes later. www.status.news/p/jon-stewar...

Trump’s oft-expressed desire to have sex with his daughter got a fair amount of chatter during the 2016 campaign but when he became president everyone dropped it, like they couldn’t talk that way about the president. But he talked that way about his daughter: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

mainstream media is writing about trump & epstein...but those articles don't inform readers that trump was held liable for sexual assault. that's because they're covering epstein as a MAGA rift story, not as a story about trump's character or fitness. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/epstein-co...

It's wild that this guy's constantly popping up to tell us all about the horrible problems he plans on causing for the world and he's somehow not universally treated as a villain.

Renewable energy is meant to be displacing fossil fuels, not meeting new demand from chatbots and image/video slop mass production. This is only a good thing if you narrowly care about technology and don't care at all about climate.

its almost like theyre full of shit

Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

Is this the new Hastert rule?

My latest: Fox ignores insurance premium spikes after GOP kills ACA tax credits www.mediamatters.org/health-care/... Fox previously warned that premium increases during the Obama administration could indicate a looming “death spiral”

NEW: Trump and his appointees have been accused of flouting courts in a third of the more than 160 lawsuits against the admin in which a judge has issued a substantive ruling, WaPo found — suggesting widespread noncompliance with America's legal system. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

People need to go to prison for these stories.

I'm not the first to say this, but I really think Democrats should make more of the fact that the Republican Party is absolutely ridden, top to bottom, with sexual predators.

New from me: Newspapers are — correctly — flagging the inflationary effect of Trump's tariff policies www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... But during the campaign, papers rarely mentioned in their inflation coverage that his proposed policies would accelerate inflation

a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

All the fatuous bullshit aside: I used to work as a fact checker. I would have been fired immediately for writing or "verifying" this.

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia