Amazing!! It's been way too long.

Pay attention to Gomez:

Google AI is here to help: #BoycottDisney

Fixed it for the NYT:

News media during Trump 2.0 have earned a "F" in framing, failing to add context to their coverage of Trump's increasingly disjointed rants and ravings. Last Friday during an EO signing, Trump went off piste to tell the press how popular he is having "won the election by a lot." (not true) A 🧵...

Scramble Brendan Carr, NBC is going rogue again: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Recalling that time earlier this same year that a gold-medallioned Zuckerberg said Meta would be "getting back to our roots around free expression ... to give people a voice." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump's former lawyer compares Brendan Carr's actions to those of Hitler's chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels: “Trump is waging war on people who offend him. He’s all about vengeance & sadly, his subordinates, like one of the Project 2025 authors, Brendan Carr of the FCC, are following in line.”

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos make an appearance at today's #MakeBillionairesPay march in New York City. Zuckerberg also joins the fray.

"What good is the 1st Amendment when so many in power don’t seem to know it exists?" asks @sulliview.bsky.social at The Guardian. That list of the powerful includes media owners who are busy caving to Trump. Though I believe they know it exists but have put their profits over democratic principles.

Last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper described President Trump and FCC Brendan Carr's relationship with media companies like Disney as "transactional." The correct word is "extortionate," or even "dictatorial." I explain with @fairmediawatch.bsky.social's Janine Jackson. (Segment starts at 14:10)

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Zuckerberg et al misappropriate parents' back-to-school images of their teen-aged daughters to lure older men to Meta platforms. cc: Frances Haugen www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat on the US Federal Communications Commission, said President Donald Trump wouldn’t legally be able to make good on threats to pull TV station licenses over content he doesn’t like.

Quoting Trump's censor in chief outside Disney/ABC's Manhattan offices today. Up to 400 people (mostly writers) call for Jimmy Kimmel to be reinstated.

“Mr. Guevara should not even be in immigration detention, but the government has kept him there for months because of his crucial reporting on law enforcement activity," says ACLU's Scarlet Kim. “That he may now be put on a plane to El Salvador, a country he fled out of fear... is despicable."

A gross miscarriage of justice.

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 300 protesters outside ABC/ Disney in lower Manhattan. There's live music and lots of press. kudos to @wgawest.bsky.social for their organizing work here

Tracking the Trump administration's First Amendment flip flops. 🧵1/5

"Jimmy Kimmel is the collateral damage of multibillion-dollar deals & a vengeful president," writes @thedanrather.bsky.social. "The fact that his assault is tied to deals to make rich people richer & consolidate media power makes it one of the most odious transgressions of Trump’s 8.5-month reign"

Trump about broadcasters today: “They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license ... maybe their license should be taken away” in a direct nod to FCC Chair Brendan Carr. Still waiting on reporters to ask Carr: "Will you take news outlets off the air for angering POTUS?"

From the one FCC Commissioner who's genuine when she talks in support of First Amendment freedoms.

The leader of the Federal Censorship Commission used to give lip-service to the First Amendment rights he's now actively undermining alongside Trump and compliant media owners. The receipts:

Media capitulation has gone into overdrive following Kirk's death, laying claim to anyone who speaks truth to this perilous moment in history. If you connect the dots, it all points to a media-ownership structure dominated by cowardly & meek billionaires, who put profits over principles.

When elected politicians take an oath to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," they should also affirm that they've actually read the document, including its very first amendment.

Again, the big four major media networks have been lobbying the trump administration to eliminate the last few media consolidation limits we have, including a rule preventing the four of them from merging that takes precedent over democracy, ethics, integrity, or having any sort of backbone

Are you curious about who FCC Chair Brendan Carr is, after his most recent abuse of power resulting in ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel? Last fall I wrote for @thehill.com about the threat Carr posed to free speech. Unfortunately he's met all of my expectations. thehill.com/opinion/camp...

Mario Guevara, journalist in ATL arrested & detained since June 14 for his news coverage, is still in detention. A judge ordered his release in July, but he remains in rural southern GA. We're fighting for his release. Next Monday will be 100 days in detention. pressingissues.org/five-questio...

And since Antifa doesn't exist, the Trump administration has leeway to define it and its alleged supporters as broadly as they imagine:

Fox News Channel's final solution

"There are worse things in this world than getting beaten on a story," a former top WSJ editor used to say when someone wanted to rush out an unconfirmed bit. He was right about that.

I have just done a quick analysis of what the US media landscape would look like should Paramount SD's bid to takeover Warner Bros. Discovery go ahead. Paramount SD's market share would sore from ~10% of the $223B market to 26%. 1/

MSNBC's message here: Charlie Kirk's speech is more important than that of others, including those accurately assessing its hatefulness and impact on society. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

“The job of this FCC-imposed ‘truth’ monitor must not be to judge whether independent reporting conforms to this Administration’s views and priorities. That’s a clear violation of the First Amendment and the law." — FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez (D) deadline.com/2025/09/para...

Jon Kelly at @puck.news discusses rumored Paramount/The Free Press deal, which might put Bari Weiss in a CBS News oversight role. "The fit doesn't seem obvious," Kelly says. It's just part of an Ellison scheme to acquire a lot of media properties & build something different than old, linear CBS.

WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.

My local Target is playing "Smashing Pumpkins."

Bizarre story involving a scammer who faked his affiliation to Oxford and Cambridge and built a reputation out of sand. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

What's that sucking sound: www.youtube.com/shorts/RnK9I...

Bari Weiss’ appointment to oversee CBS News would be another cherry on top of Trump’s campaign to bring prominent media to heel, something we at (the other) Free Press have documented in great detail. Please read my latest for Pressing Issues: pressingissues.org/paramounts-b...

Media Matters' @mattgertz.bsky.social tells The New Republic's @gregsargent.bsky.social how RFK Jr's anti-vax crusade has become a massive liability for Trump & the propaganda outlets (see Fox) that are attempting to cover the president's HHS secretary, while covering-up his many missteps & lies.

Sieg-heiling billionaire says what? www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-invok...

"[T]his isn’t about financial prudence. It’s about politics. Ellison is paying not for a strong business asset, but to send a signal to the anti-mainstream media crowd that CBS News is being reshaped," writes @oliverdarcy.bsky.social about the pending Bari Weiss deal with New Paramount...

Here, @vermontgmg.bsky.social digs in on why it's in our national-security interest for the press to ask more questions about the president's health. Worth the read. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

Talking chickens with Nicole Sandler (@nicolesandler.bsky.social‬) www.youtube.com/live/as6vSs7...

This was a special moment following a great night for my home team. youtu.be/IS5GZpVdhXM?... #GoSounders

"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage," writes @passantino.bsky.social for Status_. But @nytimes.com 🐔, @wsj.com 🐔🐔 & other major outlets published dozens of stories about Biden's physical fitness while he was in office.

Seemingly??? The song opens with: “No more great again,” followed by: “Don’t want soldiers on our streets” & “No more money to the fascists/The billionaire fascists” before returning to the refrain: “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...