OTM's executive producer Katya Rogers put together this retrospective of the year. A very compelling listen:

Show's up! @brookegladstone.bsky.social and @micahloewinger.bsky.social take a look back at 2025 and OTM's coverage of the biggest stories in media:

Lately I have been thinking a lot about this short but insightful quote from @micahloewinger.bsky.social. The right-wing is piling lie upon lie and cover-up upon cover-up and eventually this whole house of cards is going to collapse.

I’m on vacation in San Juan. Perfect timing because there is absolutely no media news right now. Anyway, please send me restaurant recs!

On this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with Stephen Witt about how AI tycoons have tied our economy up in knots and are demanding that we let them do significant harm to our planet:

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Had missed that a Reddit commenter actually had the info that was needed to find the shooter. newrepublic.com/post/204650/...

Follow up Q: Did Brooks’s editors know he had attended this 2011 event (which was 3 years after Epstein pled guilty for soliciting sex from minors) when Brooks wrote his column last month?

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Everyone who is having a pleasant holiday season because they aren't in the Epstein files, step forward. Not so fast, David Brooks.

wrote about the rise and further rise of candace owens, whose unapologetically unhinged right-wing conspiracy theories have made her one of the most popular political voices in america — and are now causing headaches for the MAGA movement that backed her wapo.st/3MKjPwg w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

This is extremely important

Why even entertain Trump’s post as evidence of a potential motive lol www.bbc.com/news/article...

I was blown away by It Was Just An Accident. I love when a filmmaker just drops you in the middle of a story and trusts you to find your way. It's funny and sad and poignant. Catch it in theaters if you can!!

Follow us on Instagram or TikTok to see a new video of @micahloewinger.bsky.social talking through the decision to interview right-wing influencer Cam Higby on last weekend's show: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UEdAkJ/ www.instagram.com/reel/DSIwOBf...

wtf

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

How I feel about Geese is how Brian Eno felt about avant-garde music: "You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.”

This week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social is not to be missed, as usual — especially @micahloewinger.bsky.social’s conversation with a Pentagon reporter who agreed to the new restrictions www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

This week I called up Cam Higby, a member of the new media MAGA Pentagon press corps to ask him about his decision to sign away his ability to do investigative journalism in exchange for access to press briefings. He shouted and called me names…

As Patel and Bongino go on their victory lap after nabbing the pipe bomb suspect, an apparent Stop The Steal-er, I hope more outlets acknowledge the lies they spread before joining the FBI: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I interviewed living legend Laura Poitras for this weekend's episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. She's a hero of mine -- a true paragon of righteous brave thorough investigative journalism. Watching Citizenfour as a college student made me want to become a reporter. Excited for y'all to hear it

Back on the radio this week talking with the great @cwarzel.bsky.social about MAGA fakery on X and that moment when you realize you needa log off. Listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

X as "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit" with "fake people yelling at fake people for being fake" enabling a "nothing is true everything is possible moment" is the best burn for long time in crowded field. Kudos @cwarzel.bsky.social @micahloewinger.bsky.social and NPR. pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm

Just heard a newscast on WAMU in DC. In a chipper tone, the host said that Trump believed that the Dem video was treasonous and punishable by death. Then he moved to the weather: “It’s gonna be in the upper 60s today. That’s not normal.” The weather got a comment but not the insane Trump threat!?

Brooke has a new video up on our Instagram and TikTok accounts, where she talks about her interview with @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social of @thirdway.bsky.social, and responds to the idea of Democrats moderating to win elections: www.instagram.com/p/DRfdWnAkaW6/ www.tiktok.com/@onthemedia/...

Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!

What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

In the span of 12 hours Trump called MTG a "traitor" and posted photos from his playdate with Zohran Mamdani. The only lesson I can take away is that anytime you find yourself trying to predict the future just stop

More from my interview with WNYC's On The Media about whether Democrats need to substantially moderate their issue positions (the claims are especially re: social policy) to win elections: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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Remember the horrifying text messages that showed a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month? The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com

Politico: “‘President Trump has nothing to hide, but the Democrats should be very scared because they have secrets to hide,’ said a second White House official, granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking.” This is malpractice. You don’t grant officials anonymity to lie.

So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

Today: - @eleanormueller.bsky.social on national politics, including the end of the shutdown and the Epstein releases; - Working Families Party on Mamdani's win; - @ilyamarritz.bsky.social on academia and the Trump admin; - YOUR Friendsgiving menu Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

our third & final episode of The Harvard Plan is out now, from @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social featuring: - Trump highed ed strategist May Mailman - Claudine Gay getting candid - Vannevar Bush, the father of uni-gov't cooperation www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

This is fantastic. An extremely clear, concise, and logical summation/primer on the state of *actual* anti-semitism in the MAGA Cinematic Universe. Kudos to @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social for the precision and info-density of the chat. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, faced blowback after defending Tucker Carlson's interview with a white nationalist. He later apologized and said he erred out of ignorance, because he did not keep up with the news and had simply read an aide’s script.

In 1999 Tucker Carlson called out Pat Buchanan’s conspiratorial antisemitism for the toxic threat it posed to American politics. Today he’s giving softball interviews to straight up neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes who make Pat seem quite tame in comparison. youtu.be/AC9QBYdInJk?...

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

New pod is up! @micahloewinger.bsky.social speaks with @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social about the GOP’s “civil war” over Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and antisemitism in the party. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I was under the impression that Trump incited an insurrection by spending months lying to his followers that the election was stolen and then asking them to show up at the Capitol on January 6th. But now I'm learning that I only thought that bc of an edit in a 2024 BBC documentary. Oops!

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas