There needs to be a new word for radio journalism to distinguish incredible outfits like @onthemedia.bsky.social from “podcasts”. This series on the trump’s war on academia is phenomenal- open.spotify.com/episode/729x...

As someone who spent 7 years on NPR's digital desk rewriting/editing radio stories for the website, this is incredibly disappointing. I understand the financial strains they are under post-rescission, but this is not the way.

"Last week, NPR’s leadership proposed testing the use of artificial intelligence to produce digital versions of radio stories, to make the middle of the editorial process more efficient." Please DM/email/signal me if you know something about this! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

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The war inside Heritage has been described to me as the start of the post-Trump civil war within the GOP. Sources told me it’s not really about antisemitism. And I think that’s true. But antisemitism animated a lot of how this blew up.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

Okay okay we can work with this. Mamdani was also polling at like 9% in March so not all hope is lost newslit.org/wp-content/u...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Midweek pod is up! A very timely discussion with @gelliottmorris.com about what the numbers say about moderation and why it might not be the silver bullet Democratic strategists seemed to crave. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

One of the finest times to scroll X in many moons

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

A fun feature I'd like from ClearSky: a way to see what you had posted most recently before you were blocked by someone lol

I unpacked the implications of Nick Fuentes' collaboration with Tucker Carlson and the former Fox News host's willingness to portray the white nationalist livestreamer as a victim. Someone wants him in the mainstream. Why? And what does it mean? postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-ca...

WEEKEND LISTEN This year, the Trump admin threw everything it had at the nation's oldest and richest university 3 Harvard profs tell the story of what they saw @naxerova.bsky.social @ryanenos.bsky.social & Kit Parker www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Reading a grad student's oral history project and this is the opening line. Kinda brilliant lol

over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed... how it's going, so far>> my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social pls listen & share! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

“Following the jewel heist at The Louvre, [Bari] Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown…Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code…”

NEW: I spoke to original Halo devs about that ICE Halo post One: "abhorrent” Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation” www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...

thank you to @mikesenters.bsky.social for being so succinct and clear about why this latest wave of Trump branded Halo memes feels so horrifying

New: Internet celebrities like Jake Paul and MrBeast are paying armies of "clippers" to saturate social media with clips of their videos. This is the story of Anthony Fujiwara, 23 -- the secretive mastermind behind celebrities' clipping campaigns. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Two main conclusions from this Fuentes-Carlson interview: 1) MAGA has tried to keep Fuentes out of mainstream circles for years—and knows it failed. The movement’s shift to increasingly radical rhetoric, especially in TPUSA circles, was in part them trying to compete for the youth’s attention. 1/n

Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.

I’m on NPR’s @onthemedia.bsky.social this weekend talking with @micahloewinger.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes, the prominent Gen Z white Christian nationalist, and his latest bid for influence/ www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I went deep on Nick Fuentes and the groyperification of the GOP with @benlorber8.bsky.social. Listen!

once again: believe these people when they tell you what they want to do www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government

One of the new members of the Pentagon press corps has collaborated with neo-Nazis and spread Russian misinformation on multiple occasions. He also wrote a book about crushing the left that bears very eerie parallels to overt white supremacist literature that World War II-era Nazis praised.

The new Pentagon press corps appears to be a who's who of pro-Trump propagandists. And a security nightmare. At least one of these—Tim Pool's Timcast—was tied to a network of influencers that received money as part of a Russian influence operation. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is gonna be really good!

It’s true! We’re back with season 2 of The Harvard Plan hosted by OTM regular @ilyamarritz.bsky.social. Don’t miss next week’s OTM: it’s going to be a riveting listen 📻

"The Defense Department’s policy blocks journalists from soliciting information the department has not authorized for release — even unclassified details, a major shift in press outreach from the organization." via @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

As we await an opinion from the ICJ on whether Israel broke the law by banning UNRWA, the largest aid network in Gaza, it's worth remembering that the US withdrew funding for UNRWA after a thinly-sourced report appeared in the WSJ, which remained unconfirmed months after publication:

Sure sounds like that research about how left-wing violence was outpacing right-wing violence for the first time in 30 years had some glaring fatal flaws

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit panel, on a 2-1 vote, allows Trump to deploy National Guard troops in Portland during litigation. Both judges siding with Trump were appointed by Trump in his first term. Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials...

Hello reporters/researchers on the far-right beat! Do you have a link to the paywalled Nick Fuentes Red Scare interview?? Please DM 🙏🙏

Do you listen to OTM? Listen to OTM.

From @juddlegum.bsky.social’s newsletter this morning: “A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.” popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

“The ousting comes amid a critical dispute within academia about how to rebuild confidence in higher education in a politically polarized moment.” This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.

For the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @josephcox.bsky.social about the administration’s new-found love of content moderation as the DOJ has been pressuring Apple, Google, and Meta to remove apps and groups decided to helping people document ICE activity:

Went on WNYC’s On the Media to talk about Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE spotting apps, including one that just archived videos of ICE abuses to use as evidence later. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Bike Kill in Brooklyn

A bit of relevant show lore: an editor heard Brooke’s 2017 conversation with @mark-bray.bsky.social on the car radio and pulled over to write down Bray’s info. The editor asked Bray to write a book version of the interview which ultimately became “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook”

Show's up! Featuring: - @josephcox.bsky.social on the DOJ's efforts to stymie ICE-spotting apps. - Historian @mark-bray.bsky.social on the right-wing doxxing campaign that led to him fleeing the country. - Incarcerated journalist John J Lennon on the "tragedy of true crime."

The ADL has not yet commented at all on a Republican representative who had a swastika flag in his office. But they found time today to condemn the DSA and Jewish columnist M. Gessen.

This passage from @andykroll.bsky.social’s revelatory profile of Russell Vought, tells you everything you need to know:

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...