Micah Loewinger
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
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Co-host of
@onthemedia.bsky.social
from WNYC mloewinger(at)wnyc,org Signal: (646) 753-2373
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On the Media
about 10 hours ago
In the latest ep of our miniseries American Emergency,
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
on why old rumors of âFEMA campsâ resurfaced during Hurricane Helene:
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Chuck Sudo
about 11 hours ago
The American Emergency series currently airing on
@onthemedia.bsky.social
has been fascinating. Do not pass this up.
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We traveled to North Carolina for this episode of American Emergency to understand how MAGA's lies about FEMA and Hurricane Helene played out on the ground. This one features militia threats, media confusion, cold war conspiracy theories, and a harrowing flood rescue. It's a great listen:
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Episode 3 of "American Emergency: The Movement To Kill FEMA" is up now! It's about Hurricane Helene, a storm that unleashed a torrent of misinformation and put the agency in MAGA's crosshairs.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Ep. 3: American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA | On the Media | WNYC Studios
How Hurricane Helene unleashed a torrent of conspiracy theories about FEMA.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/ep-3-american-emergency-movement-kill-fema-on-the-media
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Don Moynihan
2 days ago
This is a soon to be shuttered boondoggle that squandered hundreds of millions of dollars and simultaneously engaged in human rights violations. In a functioning political system, it would be a massive scandal.
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DeSantis says he doesn't care when or if FEMA reimburses Florida for Alligator Alcatraz, which... is reportedly closing soon due to high costs. Construction for the facility came out of a state disaster relief fund. This project was a disgrace and Floridians should be pissed
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Ron DeSantis unconcerned about when feds finally pay up for Alligator Alcatraz, slams âmediaâ for posing questions
It could take years. But the price is worth it, he says.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/796167-gov-desantis-alcatraz-money/
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Jesse Eisinger
4 days ago
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know weâre numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/trump-suit-irs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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On the Media
4 days ago
For all of FEMAâs faults, and there are many, can we really afford to dramatically scale back the agency, especially with another potentially devastating hurricane season just around the corner?
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
investigates in a new four-part podcast series.
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Josh Sternberg
5 days ago
The embers of a dying local and regional media landscape tie directly to the embers of a dying American democracy. We can't have local news when national pubs make 9-figures a quarter. Eg; the NYT brought in $719 million in Q1; AJC shuttered its print edition in Jan.
www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n...
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'Atlanta Journal-Constitution' chief steps down as bold goals yield to tough realities
The owners of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution invested $150 million to reinvent the paper. The changes have been significant. Three years in, the payoff has been modest.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/11/nx-s1-5818208/ajc-andrew-morse-leaving
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I interviewed Cameron Hamilton in the final episode of American Emergency, our series about FEMA. Excited for y'all to hear it in the coming weeks...
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...
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Trump Nominates Ousted FEMA Leader to Run the Agency Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/climate/trump-fema-cameron-hilton.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share
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Eloise Blondiau
5 days ago
ICYMI: *Ep. 2* is out now from
@onthemedia.bsky.social
! We couldn't explain how FEMA became distrusted without looking Hurricane Katrina. Hear about it from the only FEMA employee on the ground (a PR guy no less), and a survivor who suffered from FEMA's failures
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Ep. 2: American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA | On the Media | WNYC Studios
How FEMA's response to Hurricane Katrina forever marred its reputation.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/ep-2-american-emergency-movement-kill-fema-on-the-media
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On the Media
5 days ago
Listen to part 2 of American Emergency, our investigation into how FEMA became so distrusted. This week,
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
looks at how Hurricane Katrina triggered an identity (and publicity) crisis at FEMA:
on-the-media.visitlink.me/WIhv4h
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Mary Harris
6 days ago
I didnât know that I needed a Slow Burn for FEMA but
@onthemedia.bsky.social
has successfully built the case
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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On the Media | American Emergency: the Movement to Kill FEMA | WNYC Studios
On the Media is a weekly show that uses the media as a lens to understand our world.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/american-emergency-movement-kill-fema
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Nelson
6 days ago
This series is amazing.
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On the Media
7 days ago
When many people hear about FEMA, they think of Hurricane Katrina. In the latest episode of American Emergency,
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
explores where the agency went wrong, and the identity crisis the disaster triggered for FEMA:
on-the-media.visitlink.me/QWEjUs
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molly conger
7 days ago
there's no marcomentum, stop trying to make marcomentum happen.
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Episode 2 is all about how the creation of DHS and the War on Terror left FEMA under-staffed ahead of Hurricane Katrina -- similar to where the agency is today. This episode follows an unlikely hero: a PR guy who was FEMA's only person on the ground during Katrina. I found this one really moving.
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Brandy Zadrozny
8 days ago
I know Iâm old because I saw this and went Ooooh I need to go to bed so I can wake up early and listen to this on my morning run.
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Episode 2 is out!
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8 days ago
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On the Media
9 days ago
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
spoke with Flora Lichtman, host of the
@scifri.bsky.social
, all about FEMA â and how the far-right militia movement has used climate disasters to gain a recruiting foothold.
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Andrew Heiss
9 days ago
Man, this episode was so goodâlooking forward to the rest! OTM miniseries are top tier radio
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Seth Cotlar
9 days ago
Just listened to this and it is incredibly well done. Highly recommend. Leave it to OTM to take a seemingly boring/wonky topic, the history of FEMA, and make it totally riveting.
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Zero Plan
9 days ago
Please, please, PLEASE Listen to this series. Micah and OTM are absolutely creating one of the most engaging real-time-ish series. Listening may help you better understand who's NOT coming to your rescue when a - natural or otherwise - disaster hits your town/city/state đđŞ
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Episode 2 of âAmerican Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA,â our new
@onthemedia.bsky.social
series, comes out tomorrow! Itâs about how the creation of DHS weakened the agency ahead of Hurricane Katrina. Definitely check out the first episode if you havenât already đ
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Spencer Ackerman
11 days ago
âForcingâ
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Drew Harwell
12 days ago
Very proud to be a small part of this Pulitzer Prize finalist reporting on immigration
www.pulitzer.org/finalists/st...
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Pulitzer Finalist: Staff of The Washington Post
For reporting that tracked the impact of the Trump administrationâs mass deportation campaign, following it from a Chicago park to the White House, a tent encampment in Texas and a Salvadoran prison.
https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-washington-post-3
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Wow! This is really cool. Congrats to
@pablo.show
for winning a pulitzer!!!
www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
12 days ago
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Eloise Blondiau
12 days ago
So proud that this is finally out in the world, and that I got to work so closely with
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
on this project. We learned so much about how the country got here, and about the agency that's meant to help us when the unthinkable happens. Listen!!! đ§
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Elizabeth Nelson
13 days ago
This is absolutely spellbinding. Canât recommend more highly.
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On the Media
13 days ago
ICYMI: OTM just released a new series all about FEMA! In our first episode,
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
investigates why the agency became so despised, distrusted⌠and defunded.
lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the weekâs big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
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RebelFema
14 days ago
Weâre really happy to see this series out in the world,finally. FEMA is misunderstood & this does a good job of covering its history & where we are now. Please consider listening to the entire series as it releases! Happy to answer any questions.
#FEMA
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Just after Donald Trump's first term began, he announced that he was considering eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency — the agency that helps Americans amid unthinkable...
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/american-emergency-the-movement-to-kill-fema
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The great irony of the militia conspiracy theory about FEMA -- that it will declare martial law and put rw activists in FEMA run concentration camps -- is that Trump's DHS is currently trying to use FEMA funds to pay for Alligator Alcatraz. Listen to our brand new
@onthemedia.bsky.social
series!
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14 days ago
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Brandy Zadrozny
14 days ago
This is really fun
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Mike Masnick
15 days ago
OTM's new mini-series on FEMA is fascinating, but I have to admit I laughed at
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
appearing to have never heard of the satirist Mark Russell, whose shows I used to watch all the time as a kid (yeah, I was quite the nerd).
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On the Media
15 days ago
How did FEMA, the agency tasked with saving America, end up distrusted and defunded? Listen to Ep. 1 of our new series, American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA, hosted by
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
and ft.
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the weekâs big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
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E.R. Flynn - Cartoonist and Illustrator
15 days ago
The Trump admin's craven gutting of FEMA will literally kill people. Thank you
@onthemedia.bsky.social
for this reporting.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Just after Donald Trump's first term began, he announced that he was considering eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency — the agency that helps Americans amid unthinkable...
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/american-emergency-the-movement-to-kill-fema
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Micah Loewinger
On the Media
15 days ago
Listen to episode one of our new miniseries all about FEMA! Hosted by
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
and ft.
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
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15 days ago
listen listen listen!
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For 10 months, Iâve been working on a 4-part
@onthemedia.bsky.social
investigation into FEMA, one of Americaâs least favorite agencies: why MAGA nearly killed it and how we got here. The first episode just dropped. Weâre super proud of it. Hope youâll listen:
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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On the Media
17 days ago
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
addresses the rumors on r/onthemedia about his absence.
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Eric Columbus
17 days ago
Why worry whether a case has merit when you can screw your enemies just with an indictment?
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Cecilia D'Anastasio
18 days ago
New: Manosphere influencer Clavicular is everywhere, and thatâs not an accident. A paid marketing campaign is spreading video clips of his controversial antics across social media.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Video Clipping Machine Behind Clavicularâs Viral Fame
Videos of the influencer Clavicular are inescapable online. Social media is awash with clips of his sharp-featured face and muscular body â the result of a âlooksmaxxingâ regimen that can include test...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-28/how-kick-and-stake-helped-propel-looksmaxxing-influencer-clavicular-to-fame?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NzM5NjkyMywiZXhwIjoxNzc4MDAxNzIzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURFYyOERLSkg2VjkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGRUIzODlCNUI2ODI0RTY0QjY5MENEODE1RTBDREZGRCJ9.qlJzID6OD6vdMtmdEYKr5nhlvQ-jU4LNSA_gFjB3p4s
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Parker Molloy
20 days ago
Just chatted with
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
on the phone, and there's some confusion that I want to help clear up: she was not attending the dinner, did not have a ticket to the dinner; she was seriously just there to try to talk to someone who was at an event at the Hilton.
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Thomas Harvey
20 days ago
On The Media is always good but this episode is especially important.
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
interviews
@democracynow.org
's Amy Goodman. You'll definitely want to hear about her story of the massacre in East Timor paid for by US taxpayer money.
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Jane Roh ë ¸ě§ě´
20 days ago
@timheidecker.bsky.social
on
@onthemedia.bsky.social
, whatta time to be alive
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Grab Your Tin Foil Hat for The Onion's Takeover of Infowars | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted an AI picture that seemed to depict him as Jesus Christ. On the weekâs On the Media, why the image drew so much ire from Trumpâs own followers....
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/grab-your-tin-foil-hat-for-the-onions-takeover-of-infowars
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I gotta say Amy Goodman is the friendliest famous journalist I've met. She engaged genuinely with everyone she met at WNYC. Asked people their names and lots of questions. You can tell when people are just being polite and professional and this was not that. She's a real mensch
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I was honestly kinda nervous that
@timheidecker.bsky.social
was gonna show up to our interview entirely in character as Alex Jones. He turned out to be a really sweet guy, though I later learned he spoke with CNN shirtless in character this week and they still haven't run the interview LOL
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21 days ago
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On the Media
22 days ago
Showâs up! Featuring
@davidgilbert.bsky.social
,
@bencollins.bsky.social
,
@timheidecker.bsky.social
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Grab Your Tin Foil Hat for The Onion's Takeover of Infowars | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted an AI picture that seemed to depict him as Jesus Christ. On the weekâs On the Media, why the image drew so much ire from Trumpâs own followers....
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/grab-your-tin-foil-hat-for-the-onions-takeover-of-infowars
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Kevin M. Kruse
22 days ago
Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.
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Some delicious things Iâm eating this weekend at Jazz Fest in New Orleans: this Cochon de Lait Po-Boy from Walkerâs BBQ đ¤¤
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