“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.

Props to NPR for leading the newscast w/ the president's racist post. But, c'mon...they're not false narratives. They're lies. Words matter (Once again, don't give me the 'but we don't know what he knows or is thinking.')

Our hearts go out to everyone laid off at The Washington Post today. Take a moment to scroll through the list of journalists across the industry who've donated to the Post Guild's layoff fund. Media solidarity is more important now than ever. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

If you can spare 16 minutes, here's a great discussion by @micahloewinger.bsky.social for @onthemedia.bsky.social with Craig Renaud, one of the creators of the "Armed Only With A Camera" documentary, highlighting the immense contribution (and all too often, sacrifice) of journalists in the field:

There's a fantastic doc short called "Armed Only With a Camera" about the life and death of Brent Renaud, the first Western journalist killed by Russia in Ukraine. I interviewed the film's director Craig Renaud, Brent's brother, for @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

As the U.S. government wages war on immigrants, with Los Angeles bearing the brunt of ICE's violent tactics, this DIY Dead City show felt historic—echoing Rage Against the Machine's legendary protest set outside the 2000 DNC. The full story: lataco.com/dead-city-pu... By @theglutster.bsky.social

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's newsletter has never been more essential. On Epstein's fascination with 4chan, and the far-right plot to hijack the internet:

The media is so bad at this. A film that is going to cost $75mil for 20-day documentary and purportedly made $7mil with no international audience and limited ability to make money back has strong sales? Comparing it to other "documentaries" when most don't get $35mil promotion is disengenious.

Disaster capitalism is coming for disaster mitigation:

An Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter behind “It Was Just an Accident" was arrested in Tehran weeks before the awards. His arrest comes days after signing a statement condemning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the regime’s violent crackdown on protesters.

It's all good, but @micahloewinger.bsky.social 's interview with Radley Balko about the resonances between Minneapolis and the Boston Massacre is quite something. H/T @jamellebouie.net who is heavily quoted. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

On this newest ep I spoke with @radleybalko.bsky.social about the similarities between the events in Minnesota and the Boston Massacre. Great episode all around. Listen!

I spoke to WNYC's On The Media about the Verification, Deliberation, Accountability framework I've developed, and how, without major interventions, it predicts the inevitable slide of democracies into populism, conspiracy, and, finally, authoritarianism www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

the answer is that jennings performance of smug dishonesty reliably generates viral clips, so they continue to have him on even though he is a shameless liar

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

On our latest episode, @josephcox.bsky.social of @404media.co discusses Mobile Fortify, a faulty facial recognition app that ICE uses to identify suspects. The agency says it overrides a birth certificate. Listen to the full interview here: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

When I interviewed @annamerlan.bsky.social in December about the new right-wing influencer "Pentagon press corps" she correctly questioned whether people like Cam Higby would even commit to covering the DoD. What a joke

I can't believe it took me this long to learn that archive.is lets you view the (paywalled) comment section on The Free Press

Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue. Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

On this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social, I spoke with @josephcox.bsky.social about ICE’s growing arsenal of surveillance tools & @drewharwell.com about the agency’s massive recruitment/propaganda campaign: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Listen to excellent live audio coverage on local public radio @mprnews.org here

📻the show is up📻 @brookegladstone.bsky.social speaks to @vermontgmg.bsky.social about the state of…everything. And @micahloewinger.bsky.social dives into ICE surveillance and recruitment with @josephcox.bsky.social and @drewharwell.com ITS A GOOD ONE 👉 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison. Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared. How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.

Without delving into spoilers, it's fascinating to me how many big budget films from 2025 are about paranoid people fixated on conspiracies, theories of shadowy forces manipulating society, that turn out to be true

Surprise! h/t @atrupar.com bsky.app/profile/atru...

Something a bit more fun (kinda). What's behind the attack on the Fed, and central banks/technocratic governance, in general? Regime Shift, Power Play, or the Politics of Distraction? Probably all of the above. Me of @onthemedia.bsky.social this weekend: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

Hi there! I'm currently working on a multi-part @onthemedia.bsky.social series about FEMA –– conspiracy theories and media narratives about the agency, and how it's been perceived from the 70s through now. I'm looking to speak with more people who work at the agency right now. If you know someone...

For @onthemedia.bsky.social this week I spoke with Minnesota Star Tribune reporter Jeffrey Meitrodt about Nick Shirley's racist video on Somali daycare fraud. And Caracas Chronicles EIC Rafael Osio Cabrices about what media get wrong about Venezuela: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Despite all the John Roberts claims that the courts are in good shape and accusations of partisanship are unfair, the reality is that the public intuition that the courts have become more politicized under Trump are correct.

The excellent @wnyc.org @onthemedia.bsky.social podcast has done a great job of calling it like it is while still committing actual journalism. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b... If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

It takes 9 years on average for democracies to get off the global lists of “backsliding democracies,” one way of the other (either they are restored, or they collapse into autocracy, dictatorship, etc). By my count we are halfway through that average…

Props to the scholars and researchers who identified January 6 for what it was. @milleridriss.bsky.social said this to me in the July 2nd 2021 episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social

One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

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.