FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.

Absolutely horrendous shit “If the global media is talking about Israel killing innocent journalists, then immediately there’s a push to find one journalist who might not be so innocent — as if that somehow makes killing the other 20 acceptable,” the intelligence source said.

Re-upping this since I’ve been hearing again from some listeners frustrated with my interview w Cam Higby, which we’re rerunning on this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Radio listeners are being treated to my wild interview with Cam Higby (rerun) for the first time. We were really proud of this entire episode. Definitely worth catching it if you missed it in December:

OMG this is an excellent and very revealing episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: @danlamothe.bsky.social, @annamerlan.bsky.social, Cam Higby, and Laura Poitras lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

“If now forensics analysis is itself going to be doubted because we have these instances, this is now a new layer to the AI doubt,” said @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social of @witnessorg.bsky.social. “We are really going towards epistemic fracture in the information environment.”

I interviewed with WNYC's On the Media about what is happening to trans people in the United States. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The situation in Iran is so bad they're gonna have to release the missing Epstein files to distract from the war

📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: @minnahfarshad.bsky.social, @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social, Samantha Gross @brookings.edu, and Erik Slavin @starsandstripes.bsky.social. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Good work, Times lawyers. Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

People are mocking this guy but as head of response and recovery at FEMA, Gregg Phillips is capable of teleporting into flooded houses and saving people. That seems like a good thing to me..?

Finally someone with the fucking guts to say this stuff in public 🙏 “Teleporting is no fun,” he said “You know it’s happening, but you can’t do anything about it, and so you just go, you just go with the ride. And wow, what just an incredible adventure it all was.”

The munition is briefly visible here:

As much as you may be tired of hearing about how democracy is backsliding under Trump, according to @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social, the legibility of the threat to democracy is one of the more powerful tools we have.

TIL that during the 1973 oil crisis, Nixon lowered the national speed limit to 55mph to reduce gas use. Truckers started calling the new speed limit "double nickels," hence the name of the great Minutemen album "Double Nickels On The Dime" -- one of my all time faves

Hey NYC, I'll be speaking onstage with @billadair.com at the Wikipedia Day event to celebrate 25 years of the best free online encyclopedia. It's a free event though maybe consider a lil Wikidonation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

I love that they played Dirty Work

Don't miss Brooke's interview with @wesjbryant.bsky.social about Hegseth's decision to shut down the civilian protection initiative at the DoD. I spoke with @davidgilbert.bsky.social about how right-wing media and conspiracy theorists are metabolizing or ignoring Epstein revelations

Whether or not you’re the public radio sort, please listen to the episode of OTM linked below, as well as last week’s ep. of This American Life entitled “Give a Little Whistle”. Both feature whistleblowers, & expertly relay alarming, horrifying, necessary narratives from inside the Trump regime.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: @wesjbryant.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people ... what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”

Is the New York Times manufacturing consent for war in the Middle East? Is the mainstream media as a whole? Zeteo dug into some of the numbers in our First Draft newsletter this morning: zeteo.com/p/how-media-...

When a train crashed in Minot, N.D., and a noxious cloud of ammonia gas spread across town, there was no one at the radio stations to sound the alarm and inform residents. "This is just a glaring example of a media system that has no allegiance to local communities,” said @victorpickard.bsky.social.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Welcome to Bluesky @doctorow.pluralistic.net !!!

Kristi Noem is out at DHS. Here's a TV commercial of her on a horse, filmed five months ago at Mount Rushmore, for an ad campaign that cost more than $200 million

On the podcast today, a new interview with the director of "Predators," a 2025 documentary about one of the most popular and influential true crime shows ever: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Great concern over insider betting on Polymarket, even on nuclear weapons! House Dems could have passed a bill, anytime from 2019–2022, that would have prohibited executive branch officials from such assets, and sent it to the Senate. Pelosi never gave the Anti-Corruption Act a hearing.

Donald Trump’s FCC has been coming after the broadcast networks for their so-called political biases. @brookegladstone.bsky.social spoke with the conservative lawyer behind it all.

"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.” Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7

A new report found 129 journalists were killed in 2025, the deadliest year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting these data in 1992. Israel was responsible for 2/3. I spoke with CPJ's CEO Jodie Ginsberg on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

What? I have not seen any reporting to confirm saying that "the strikes were welcomed by Iranians"—except this throwaway, lazy line. Wanting to see an end of a regime doesn't mean you want the US to bomb you

What a cartoonishly dumb and frightening moment we find ourselves in

From @onthemedia.bsky.social A rocking interview about media capture from mid-19th century to now. Clear, detailed, with helpful comparison to systems other than ours. Can't say enough about it. With @victorpickard.bsky.social, a brilliantly accessible expert. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

So much terrible stuff to keep up on, but Kansas' war against trans folks deserves special mention. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

"It's time to put to rest the idea of a benevolent billionaire." @victorpickard.bsky.social @onthemedia.bsky.social @micahloewinger.bsky.social

I really enjoyed speaking with @micahloewinger.bsky.social for @onthemedia.bsky.social about the long history of U.S. media capture. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I had nothing to do with the latest episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social so I can honestly say the team crushed it this week. Listen to Brooke heroically take on the right-wing lawyer helping the FCC target ABC, CBS, et al. His vision for the future of American media is quite frightening. Listen:

A good friend and his gf decided to move to NYC for the month of Feb to see if they wanted to live here longer term. He was a bit concerned about doing their test during the winter but I insisted it would be fine. Oops lol

Take a listen to this one: it’s one you WON’T want to miss! 🔥🔥🔥 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

here you go

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

“The Democrats’ demands aren’t ‘common sense reforms,’ as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described them. All but a few are already the law — and most of the others are either longstanding norms in U.S. policing or the foundational principles of any free society.”

Boutta eat some of this lechon

“To think you can go to Stonewall and just take down the Pride flag — that is telling of the time we are living in,” Ms. Lentz said. “It is unbelievable. The flag is not just an abstract symbol; it tells L.G.B.T.Q. people, especially younger ones, that their history will not be sidelined again.”

Don’t love the drone sound on these Olympics broadcasts. Pretty odd to me considering how much care the Olympics had put into their audio production / sound design in the past..

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.