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Today at 5:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm CT! Link to come.

This is increasingly just becoming a @citationspod.bsky.social shill acct.

Citations listeners! Join us this Wed Nov 5 at 5:30pmET/4:30pmCT for a YouTube live show on the media’s reaction to the NYC mayoral election. Will it be a Mamdani meltdown? Will there be executions in Central Park? Will the MSNBC/Pod Saves set successfully Obama-fy him? Find out!

The old @citationspod.bsky.social episode I keep referring to on this topic wasn't cynical enough: soundcloud.com/citationsnee...

In this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, "MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism," recorded on 10/13, we are joined by Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism.

apropos of nothing..

In this News Brief, we detail how the AP, Atlantic, Washington Post and New York Times are accepting Trump's framing that his attacks on Venezuela and Colombia are about "going after drug cartels" when it's clear they are—based on Trump's own words—about controlling Venezuela's oil.

In this News Brief, "Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock," we discuss NYT, NBC, Fox, CBS and ABC's "embedded reports" of ICE raids that prime the public for ICE’s abductions and harassment of immigrants. With guest @matthewccook5.bsky.social

fwiw, an amazing listen:

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Tonight at 9:30 pm ET! Join us on our YouTube channel. Link forthcoming!

In this News Brief, "The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 & 2028," we detail the major factions seeking to rewrite the history of the 2024 election as "woke" Gone Too Far, downplay Gaza, and prevent economic populism at all costs.

Monday at 9:30 pm ET / 8:30 pm CT on our YouTube channel! Don't miss it!

Making a rare appearance on this app to announce that I'll be live with Adam and Nima talking about MAHA politics on Monday evening. Hope to see you there.

In this News Brief, "IDF-Funding Mega-Billionaire Buys CBS News, Installs Bari Weiss to Enforce Ideological Discipline," we discuss the Ellisons' purchase of Paramount and the TikTok algorithm, their potential purchase of CNN, and how this will invariably incite more violence against Palestinians.

Please join us one week from today for a Beg-A-Thon live show @ 9:30ET/8:30CT! We will be joined by Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our shitty for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism.

In Ep 229, "Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport" we detail the rise of detached "who's winning/who's losing" political analysis that reduces high stakes life and death issues to fodder for ESPN-type navel-gazing. With guest @jackmirkinson.bsky.social

for those unaware, Mike Rowe is a notorious anti-union shithead. listen to the extremely good @citationspod.bsky.social about him: citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-64-m...

This will pair well with three Angela Collier video about billionaires pretending to be physicists

In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.

This is a very good podcast

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

Citations Needed has done an extraordinary job covering the media's treatment of the ongoing genocide in Gaza throughout this atrocity, but this episode and the one before are particularly important and reach for something fundamental in the nature of the American media.

In Ep 227, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)" we detail US media's trend of reporting on Israeli war crimes months after Palestinian reporters already did and the broader regime of dehumanization targeting Palestinian media workers

In Ep 226, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)," we detail NYT & WSJ's incitement campaign against the UN in Jan 2024 and how it directly assisted Israel's starvation campaign. w/ guest Moureen Kaki who joins us from Khan Yunis, Gaza

Oh hey, yet another incredibly relevant @citationspod.bsky.social news brief bsky.app/profile/cita...

This podcast is hands down the best look into policy and media spin out there and this episode is no exception.

@citationspod.bsky.social is so good. That's it. Just clear-eyed banger after banger.

In Ep 225, "How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'," we detail the popular media trope that providing direct social welfare to people who need it is somehow cheating, or playing the electoral game on God Mode. with Janine Jackson of @fairmediawatch.bsky.social.

In Ep 224, "Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting' Public Outrage," we detail the classic PR gambit of corporations anticipating regulation, offering to "self-police," implementing token or superficial reforms, waiting for outrage to blow over, then going back to business a usual

as always, there is an excellent @citationspod.bsky.social episode on this bullshit practice. citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-157-...

The folks at @citationspod.bsky.social outline in vivid detail how Zohran Mamdani is being smeared by both the usual anti-Muslim racists *and* centrist Democrats for things he never said - an essential listen for anyone who cares about truth & justice.

In this News Brief, we break down recent bad faith attacks on Zohran Mamdani, the ADL's DO YOU CONDEMN extortion racket, and the broader "antisemitism scandal" playbook to derail moderate social democratic policies and any meaningful criticism of Israel.

In this News Brief, "Mamdani's Decisive Win Shows Cynical 'Antisemitism' Attacks Falling Flat," we break down the last ditch smear campaign against Mamdani and how the playbook of Islamophobic innuendo, stoking sectarianism and crybullying is losing its juice.

@citationspod.bsky.social has been consistently giving me the words and well researched breakdowns of things that have seemed obvious fact to me in a world where everyone else seems to be operating on a separate set of facts. Catching up on pods and this episode is especially sticking out to me now.

Incredible moral clarity from Ash and Ben of @jvp-chicago.bsky.social. Also, the two prior Citations episodes on media propaganda around Iran are absolutely invaluable.

In this News Brief, "Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza" we are joined by Ash Bohrer and Ben Teller of @jvp-chicago.bsky.social to discuss the US and Israeli-imposed starvation in Gaza and why they're hunger striking to draw attention to it.

excellent half hour antidote to a lot of the bullshit spinning around (again)

In this News Brief, "Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Days," we break down the insta-talking points to sell war with Iran––from Ticking Time Bomb '24' plots to cherry-picked, dubious anecdotes of Iranians begging for Israeli bombs.

In this public News Brief, we detail how US media reinforces every faulty premise of Israel's attack and how top Democrats either ignore Trump and Israel's massive escalation or openly support it, showing once again the scope of debate in our politics and media ranges all the way from A to B.

In Ep 223, "The Empire Strikes First Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism," we detail the sudden ubiquity of Abundance Discourse, its conspicuous lack of class politics, and the booming market for a donor-friendly vision for Dems in 2028

Listening to this a couple of weeks late, but a great episode about how important research is portrayed as frivolous by ignorant politicians and commentators.

Getting hella use out of my [citations needed] t-shirt this finals season. @citationspod.bsky.social

I feel like @citationspod.bsky.social was close to first in line for their Jake Tapper hate and it's nice to see more people understand. soundcloud.com/citationsnee...

Must listen. @citationspod.bsky.social

In Ep 222, "The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves," we detail how our media allows the same party flacks who got the Dems into this mess, control over the narrative of how to get them out. With guest UC-Berkeley professor Jake Grumbach.

I’m really trying to be better about only consuming one piece of media at a time, however: my failure led to viewing this tweet while simultaneously listening to the latest @citationspod.bsky.social episode and that’s just serendipity

This show is goated for so many reasons and nearly every ep is an absolute banger worth listening to. Subscribe on Patreon. @citationspod.bsky.social sites.libsyn.com/102225/episo...

Great episode by @citationspod.bsky.social on the history and political weaponization of anti-intellectualism in America. Featuring an interview with @brendaekwurzel.bsky.social from @ucs.org Worth a listen.