ICYMI Gloves Off, my @couriernewsroom.bsky.social series with the leaders who are actually rising to this moment in the fight against the cruel + corrupt administration is now live! Pls give my first episode with @jasmineforus.bsky.social a watch + hit subscribe! 🥊🎙️🙏 couriernewsroom.com/gloves-off/

excited to join @milestaylor.bsky.social and the DEFIANCE team at 5pm ET today to talk about the role of independent media in our opposition movement - come hang with us! www.defiance.news/podcast

Tara McGowan of the Courier news chain on opposing Homeland Security tyranny: “We are seeing the most inspiring acts of courage and solidarity and community in places like the Twin Cities and Chicago. They are standing up for all of us and giving us a playbook that we’re going to have to replicate.”

Join us 12pm ET!

rob reiner leaves behind a truly astonishing legacy of impact i hardly knew about beyond his deeply formative filmography- and a consistently clear-eyed, outspoken courage i hope becomes more contagious in the wake of this loss. from @juddlegum.bsky.social 👇 popular.info/p/what-rob-r...

The competitive bidding war to acquire Warner Brothers has little to do with money and will clearly be decided - as everything in America is these days- by who can curry more favor for the corrupt White House + president. My take- www.fortherecord.news/p/when-billi...

🚨DC friends! Join opposition movement + media leaders tonight at @couriernewsroom.bsky.social's "Courage > Cowards" holiday event. Brilliant humans, smart takes + strong drinks to toast this hellish year in 🇺🇸 farewell 👋 RSVP + bring your fav antifa friends 😎🎄🥂 www.eventbrite.com/e/courage-co...

"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat. Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..." coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...

Kyle Tharp's Chaotic Era newsletter offers an encouraging overview of progressives' attempts to boost their media reach. Kyle cites the sponsor of my Stop the Presses newsletter, Courier, which is big on TikTok and also runs local newsrooms. @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social @couriernewsroom.bsky.social

NEW: It has been a big year for Democrats looking to solve their partisan media problem. 2025 has seen Democratic operatives pitch donors on more than a dozen new efforts, while established left-of-center outlets grew faster than ever. www.chaoticera.news/p/liberal-me...

“It’s proof that the American right has spent the last decade letting algorithmic spam tell them what they want to hear, astroturfing themselves into believing that some silent majority out there believes in their worthless MAGA crusade.“ Another excellent @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email

We're talking podcasts. We're talking newsletters. We're talking new media with @taraemcg.bsky.social, Navin Nayak, @chriscillizza.bsky.social, Linda Douglass.

WATCH — @jenpsaki.bsky.social : “Courier compiled 23,000 Epstein emails into a searchable database… Donald Trump's name appears more than any other. And that’s just from these emails. Who knows how many times in 100,000 files.”

The lesson for all Democrats: Be brave, be bold, fire your traditional comms hacks and hand the keys to your digital strategists.

The differences in how right-wing media outlets and creators are treated and empowered by Republicans compared to how left-leaning media outlets and creators are treated by Democrats never ceases to madden me. To their detriment. It's just wild. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"It’s a nasty tactic but an effective one. Create unbearable suffering. Wait for your opponents’ empathy to overwhelm their resolve. Then offer relief in exchange for political surrender." - @adambonica.bsky.social data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-compas...

As usual, my fav analysis is @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social at Garbage Day (+Panic World pod) “The effects of the internet, a deeply alienating globalized economy, and the rise of a technofeudal billionaire class have finally cracked American Democrats wide open” www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo

May every candidate Schumer and Jeffries refuse to endorse win as big as Zohran did last night 💫

I can’t stop thinking of every young person who worked, volunteered for or believed in Zohran’s campaign. For the rest of their lives, on bright days like today - and far darker days to come, they will have a leg up because they will always have hope in the driver’s seat 🫶

Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, according to Decision Desk.

fuck yes new york 🗽✨🇺🇸

"More than 55% of people under 45 believe that the American Dream is no longer achievable, a disaffection that has fueled a deep desire for a fundamental reordering of society." Anyone who doesn't want a fundamental reordering is benefitting from it!💡 www.progressreport.news/p/americans-...

"If The Washington Post becoming right wing doesn’t make these people [rich liberals] want to take spade in hand and plant some trees, what on earth will?" - @mjtoma.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2025...

New Column: Chew on this. The nation's capital, one of the most Democratic cities in America, no longer has a liberal newspaper. The techbro takeover of the mainstream media is a crisis rich liberals must wake up and address. newrepublic.com/article/2025... via @newrepublic.com

Agree with every word of @faiz.bsky.social here - we need more candidates with both the spine to stand up to the tech billionaires who have co-opted our democracy, and who have a vision for how to hold tech + AI accountable to building IN SERVICE to all Americans, not in detriment.

uhhh

Come hang with me and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a live conversation at 3pm ET today on COURIER's IG channel about the critical role independent media is and must play in standing up to this administration and safeguarding our freedoms 🇺🇸

“The clear desire to align himself with power at all costs, wherever that power might be, is one of the reasons he’s getting rejected so hard online. It’s a misunderstanding of the moment.”

Everything in this post by @dellavolpe.bsky.social on the views of voters under 30 but mostly THIS perfect metaphor: dellavolpe.substack.com/p/after-ever...

The wildly over-valued $150M purchasing price of Bari Weiss' substack network by Larry Ellison makes more sense when you consider the rapid + complete MAGA-fication of one of the longest legacy news brands in America she was hired to be the public architect of. www.thedailybeast.com/new-cbs-boss...

"Staley previously voted for Trump but says he has since gravitated more towards the political center...he wants to see action on things like rising costs and worker protections. Those two issues in particular have drawn him more recently to Bernie Sanders + Zohran Mamdani..."

"I want somebody to inspire me," he added. "It doesn't matter if you're red or blue, whatever side of the aisle you're on, like, come on, guys, what do we want?" An absolute must-read on how young people feel left behind by political leaders today. www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

If you thought what Rupert Murdoch built at Fox News was dangerous (and it was), you should really get acquainted with Larry and Keith Ellison. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/american-o...

Something I'm reflecting on a lot these days is how Dem leaders drank their own koolaid for so long, believing they were the ones protecting democracy, when they are STILL clearly only interested in protecting themselves. Seems pretty undemocratic to me. substack.com/home/post/p-...

anyone who is STILL trying to suggest that we are not in the throes of an authoritarian takeover is either not paying attention, expressing a WILD level of cognitive dissonance, or is protecting their own interests that stand at odds with what is required to fight back. pay attn!

Now that Dems have made a stand, they need to hold the line, stay on offense + keep the conversation focused on all of the reasons they will not vote for a MAGA CR bill that will fund the active dismantling of democracy and lethal gutting of health care. www.fortherecord.news/p/holding-th...

Schumer + Jeffries need to hold the line with Trump that no Democrat, under any circumstance, will vote to fund the active weaponization of the U.S. military against the American people. This isn't politics as usual, this is an authoritarian takeover. I hope they lead accordingly.

The rapid consolidation of massive media brands + platforms by MAGA billionaires is no accident, and will accelerate the end of freedom of speech in America. Where are the brave billionaires who believe in freedom of speech more than lining their pockets?! www.fortherecord.news/p/a-frighten...

The only way we're going to rid society of political violence is for leaders from both parties to condemn violence in all forms and promote non-violent protest + debate. Trump + MAGA Republicans are doing the opposite in the aftermath of Kirk's murder. My post- www.fortherecord.news/p/the-only-w...

Happening right now! @ninaburleigh.bsky.social and @camaron.bsky.social from @couriernewsroom.bsky.social are live talking about their exclusive reporting on Epstein 👇 open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Corporate media is failing to stand up to Donald Trump. In this week's How Is This Better, host @akilahhughes.com talks to journalist @markjacob.bsky.social and COURIER founder and publisher @taraemcg.bsky.social about the future of media in Trump's America.

oh hey, @couriernewsroom.bsky.social 👀

I enjoyed being interviewed for the “How Is This Better” video podcast by‪ @akilahhughes.com‬. It was an opportunity to frankly discuss the Trump regime’s assault on independent news. Also interviewed was Courier founder @taraemcg.bsky.social‬, one of the most visionary voices in journalism today.

One of the more thoughtful conversations I’ve had lately about where the doomscroll-poisoned media ecosystem is and where it’s headed, with a side of Epstein, of course - with Chuck Todd, of all media elites! 👇 youtu.be/CHvwzO32HUY?...

@couriernewsroom.bsky.social founder @taraemcg.bsky.social joins Anthony Davis to discuss Trump’s media shakedown, silencing dissent and the capitulation by networks and universities in the wake of this authoritarian takeover of government.

“He caters to right wing listeners who distrust the government but don’t want to reflect on their own role in making our democracy considerably worse.” is the best sentence I’ve read in a while. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Even the best [left-leaning] campaign accounts are playing minor league ball compared to the engagement that creators and publishers are getting, which is how they’re shaping the ecosystem around them." - Patrick Stevenson for FWIW www.fwiw.news/p/how-to-run...