On October 28, DHS's social media account claimed that on October 23, "rioters" had "shot at agents with commercial artillery shell fireworks," thus forcing agents to deploy tear gas and riot munitions. Judge Ellis reviewed the video. This was completely false. The explosions were DHS's flashbangs!

My latest (again): Fox obscures negative revisions, mixed signals in celebrating “blowout” September jobs report www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

theres no coming back from this without prosecuting everyone up and down the chain of command

New: Fox Business host warns Zohran Mamdani to “tread very lightly” with Trump or “get his federal funding pulled” from New York City www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox... Jackie DeAngelis: “So, that is going to be the tone of this meeting. To me, he's going in there with his tail between his legs.”

I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes

My latest: Right-wing media embrace Trump policies that experts say increase housing costs www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig... Conservative media join Vice President JD Vance in scapegoating immigrants for high housing costs

Strangling the world-beating export industry which cross-subsidizes higher education for Americans. The White House says that's good news!

This is hell actually, "Last week, the two top officials at the National Institutes of Health—the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research—debuted a new plan to help Americans weather the next pandemic: getting everyone to eat better and exercise."

"Looper" (2012)

ICE detainees did not sext with RFK Jr but still deserve your attention

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

My latest: Fox & Friends praises Trump for “quick fix” on affordability by lowering his tariffs — which Fox used to celebrate www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox... Fox was an evangelist for Trump's tariff policies throughout the campaign and his first year back in office

I feel like Trump has pioneered a new form of spoils, where criminal allies of the President can expect to be compensated for their crimes.

This was the strongest real wage growth for low-paid workers in more than 50 years. And the media could not be bothered to talk about it. Instead they felt they had to tell us about "vibes."

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

It was a major mistake that the Senate didn’t hold high-profile hearings and investigations into the corrupt Roberts Court when ProPublica was breaking the scandals. Now that same corrupt Court is blowing up NIH, NSF, and all of US basic science. Our failure to pick a big fight with the Court 1/

Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

My latest: Fox News figures called price gouging investigations “communist.” Network figures are now praising Trump for proposing the same thing for meatpackers. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

New: It took big Democratic wins for right-wing media to admit that the affordability crisis is getting worse www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/it-...

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...

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.