I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

If you care about corporate media capitulation & Jimmy Kimmel getting canceled, you should definitely care about the Trump administration trying to deport journalist Mario Guevara.

As the Federal Communications Commission is making national headlines, here is a short @media2070.bsky.social essay I wrote in July for @objectivejournos.bsky.social on the racist origins of the FCC, broadcast regulations and the broadcast industry.

BREAKING: Immigration court orders Mario Guevara can be deported immediately. This is a gross miscarriage of justice. If Mario is deported, that sets dangerous precedent -- targeting reporters for their coverage & free speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Deportation without due process—that would be the new normal set by Mario Guevara’s removal from the US,” Benavidez explained. cpj.org/2025/09/jour...

@karenattiah.bsky.social is a voice for the TRUTH!

Mahmoud Khalil was just ordered to be deported for his free speech. Mario Guevara is in detention for filming police. Jimmy Kimmel taken off air for his speech. TikTok being bought by Trump cronies. All of it moves towards one singular narrative Trump approves. We must resist.

Jimmy Kimmel pulled from the air is bad. It's an attack on the First Amendment, press freedom, intended to limit what narratives are allowed -- none acceptable if they critique those in power. Also horrific: the detention of reporters like Mario Guevara.. He's been detained for just filming police!

From Ta-Nehisi Coates....

@media2070.bsky.social statement on the firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social. It's latest example of powerful media companies helping to fuel our nation’s constitutional collapse and empowering an authoritarian effort to dismantle civil-rights laws and infrastructure. @freepress.bsky.social

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

This claim is meritless: it’s without basis in law and the 1A prevents the FCC from intruding into political content in this manner. If FCC Chair Carr doesn’t dismiss this outright he will make a mockery of himself in front of the entire Communications Bar. www.thewrap.com/center-for-a...

Our first launch event home in Berkeley! Craft in A Time of Crisis: Asian American and Pacific Islander Writers on Meeting the Moment Cathy Park Hong, Terisa Siagatonu, Colleen Lye & Jeff Chang  Oct. 1, 6PM • David Brower Center  Register now: watermirrorecho.net #watermirrorecho

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Our very own @josephtorr.bsky.social has a great interview with @fairmediawatch.bsky.social on how the Trump administration's attacks on the press connect to its assaults on Black and Brown people. Listen here: fair.org/home/joseph-...

Thanks to @fairmediawatch.bsky.social for letting us share their conversation w Janine Jackson and @josephtorr.bsky.social in the new Pressing Issues!

Prof. Aziz Rana's critically important essay on our nation's current constitutional collapse due to its flaws and on the critical need of "protecting and expanding meaning-making institutions."

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

Thank you to Janine Jackson (‪@fairmediawatch.bsky.social‬) for having me on her weekly radio program — Counterspin. @freepress.bsky.social[email protected]‬. fair.org/home/joseph-... ....

This Washingtonian really appreciates the @51st.news putting together an explainer on the situation in DC. “It’s a profoundly challenging time because D.C. has entered a disorienting unknown where much of what happens is simply out of the control of local officials and residents.”

The lapse in training puts a pause on life-saving curriculum and official certifications, potentially slowing the growth of a workforce that serves those who use drugs as they continue to die at astronomical rates. Read my latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social 🔽 baltimorebeat.com/maryland-is-...

The world is now dominated by algorithms to incentivize the most incendiary stuff. Billionaires manipulate our public discourse to push extreme views. Of course humor is a tool they weaponize to degrade & dehumanize people: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Freedom of the Press Foundation requests DC Court of Appeals disciplinary counsel to disbar FCC chair Brendan Carr over egregious misconduct. www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

We followed the money & it lead to us how Big Ugly Bill will pour billions into border & surveillance tech. Read our most recent report to learn about the kinds of tech being expanded and the companies set to benefit from this unprecedented level of spending.

Here's a new @media2070.bsky.social essay published by The Objective‬ that provides an overview of the role the FCC has played in undermining the 14th Amendment/equal protection rights of Black/marginalized communities since its inception, reinforcing racial hierarchy. @freepress.bsky.social

This morning, the Federal Trade Commission is hosting a workshop titled: Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices in “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors. If the scare quotes don't give it away, Trump's FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has promised from the start that harassing trans people would be on his agenda

A new and timely essay from @nhannahjones.bsky.social

A few years ago, I warned that we were entering a Second Nadir. Just a few months into Trump's second term, we are in it. I spent the last few months reporting on the in a once-a-century battle for civil rights being waged by the Trump Administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country

Predictable...right?

On May 16, Moore vetoed more bills than he had in the past two years combined, including multiple proposals that had passed with strong backing from legislative leadership and key climate coalitions. baltimorebeat.com/moore-vetoes...

The FCC Chair has weaponized the agency to attack First Amendment freedoms, ignoring its core mission to protect consumers. Join Free Press and @agomezfcc.bsky.social with an esteemed panel of experts to discuss the escalating attacks on free speech. RSVP: bit.ly/fpfcclai

I’m excited to join @freepress.bsky.social for the very first stop of our First Amendment Tour outside of Washington. Together, we must continue to stand up for free expression and push back against the Administration’s growing campaign of censorship and control. Hope you can tune in!

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

ICE is on track to remove 300K + ppl by the end of 2025, only tiny boost from 2024. Stripping due process & expedited removal are the strategy. But govt must do more to hit 1M — such as more surveillance, agents, detention room, agreements w/ countries to receive ppl. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The FCC approved Verizon's acquisition of Frontier Communications after Verizon agreed to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. So I guess we know the price of equality for Verizon's leadership. loom.ly/9FesZi8

"Verizon’s cowardly decision to modify or kill its diversity, equity and inclusion practices is the latest shameful episode in a litany of surrenders to appease our authoritarian president." - @mattfieldwood.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social

"Reimagining a traditional newsstand as a grandma’s living room is an attempt to depict a place that exists where an information infrastructure nourishes Black people, Black families and Black communities." @freepress.bsky.social @fanniebluehamer.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4ts87a4h

This is a remarkable statement.

The Media 2070 project, the Charlotta Bass Journalism and Justice Lab at USC, @mediajustice.bsky.social and allies are hosting a multi-media exhibit on May 2 (Friday) that examines the impact of journalism on Black communities. www.eventbrite.com/e/black-futu...

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Read this @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece by the great @christopherali.bsky.social. What's happening to US broadband right now is criminal. The degree of Musk-driven corruption and hypocrisy in broad daylight is staggering: www.techpolicy.press/when-you-wis...

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities

officially handing it to him

New piece in The Nation arguing that we need public media more now than ever. We must defend what we have with an eye toward expanding and restructuring public media in the future.