Courtney Hagle

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

As bad as you think right-wing media has been about this case, it's much worse.

Right-wing media figures are jumping at the chance to attack the woman at the center of the Cornell rape case. www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

The best case scenario is that the president of the United States is an addled old man who is impotently lashing out at his critics as his administration collapses around him. Possible alternative explanations... are more sinister. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

This was Trump's fake justification for the first round of tariffs on Canadian & Mexican imports last year

"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.

You know who else has compared COVID to 9/11? Greg Gutfeld. Neil Cavuto. Donald Trump. (And thanks to @johnknefel.bsky.social who put this list together via www.mediamatters.org/cbs/embracin...)

how can you write this and not be embarrassed, how can you write this and not think to yourself “am i being a little piss baby about this?”

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

There's a good chance Trump will invoke a variation of the false Venezuelan election fraud conspiracy theory in his speech on Thursday. Read here about some of the conspiracy theorists who have played a major role spreading it, like Patrick Byrne and Martin Rodil.

I was curious about what the report says, so here's the relevant section. Beyond the sloppiness (there's a sentence repeated twice by mistake), note how the report doesn't make any real effort to DENY the racial origins of the Act, but instead just takes umbrage at people pointing out the history.

caring about victims of sexual assault is a feminine-coded concern, and there are some left wing men who seem like they'd prefer being called a misogynist by a woman on the left than a betacuck soy boy by a man on the right

I wrote about the irony of Platner and his campaign trying to convince journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it:

The screenshots Madeline compiled in here are bleak as hell and deserving of attention, as she says -> "Taking away a woman’s right to vote would require a constitutional amendment. And as far-fetched as this seems, the fever swamps of social media are exactly where these types of ideas start."

My latest: Kristan Hawkins, the president of anti-abortion group Students for Life, said she wants women to be able to keep their right to vote. That's no longer a popular position in the conservative movement. SUBSCRIBE ⬇️ numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/a-conserva...

The Iran war is making everything more expensive. Fox keeps insisting “the consumer is doing very well.” www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Right-wing hawks are embarked on a truly pathetic effort to blame the MOU’s contents on Vance, while absolving Trump of responsibility for the document that he signed and publicly describes as “a very strong deal.” www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

We recently wrote about the media figures and influencers who have been peddling Vitamin K shot skepticism for years via @alyssatirrell.bsky.social and @vandowe.bsky.social mediamatters.org/propublica/new-reporting-links-skepticism-vitamin-k-shot-newborn-deaths-influencers-and-media

Moms Across America founder Zen Honeycutt on data center construction: “We are losing our water sources, we're losing our power. … This is one of the most important issues in front of America today.” new from me for @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/health-care/...

hate to be that guy but i think it should be illegal to intentionally poison people

The deaths of these babies likely could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. For reporter @deldeib.bsky.social, their autopsy reports painted the clearest picture of the tragedy of their short lives.

Gonna be a generational burden to recreate the norm that scamming other people is bad when our positions of leadership are being filled by proud scammers and people who previously only succeeded in the field of social media engagement bait

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow has repeatedly shrugged off the economic pain that Americans are feeling from rising fuel costs and growing inflation due to Trump’s war with Iran. “I don't care about a couple of months of $4 gasoline. Honestly, I don't care if the inflation rate goes to 5%.”

so one reason why we should never elect rich assholes anymore is they say shit like “the strait will open like magic” because they think they have better dna than us and thats why everything has always worked out for them and not people sucking up to them and the 8 figure trust fund

The Trump administration is illegally withholding $150 million for domestic violence service providers, which has led to "layoffs, diminished services for survivors and sacrifices among advocates." A 24-hour hotline is now closed on nights and weekends. 19thnews.org/2026/05/dome...

Domestically I am tired of democrats being chicken shits about this. I don’t care how it polls. I don’t care if swing state soccer moms get squeamish about it. I don’t give a single fuck. This is a non-negotiable.

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

My latest: I wrote about being Jewish at Rededicate 250, Trump's taxpayer-funded Christian revival on the National Mall. I got accused of blasheming Christ and someone tried to convert me. numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/being-jewi...

My latest: Upcoming TPUSA conference for young women will feature a 20-year-old "trad wife" who belives women shouldn't have the right to vote. Savanna Faith Stone: “I think since the 19th Amendment, society has really decayed" numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/turning-po...

we're tracking local coverage of gas/diesel/fertilizer/jetfuel shortage and we've already seen coverage on the impact on school districts www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

New from me: @mmfa.bsky.social got a big victory this week. Here's why it matters and what we can learn from it. www.altrightdelete.news/p/onward?utm...

As prices keep increasing, Meals on Wheels and similar programs across the country are struggling and turning to local news to sound the alarm

While local media cover the impacts of rising gas prices, Fox is minimizing Americans' pain at the pump ⬇️ www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

and Republicans are doing it because they know they're going to get their asses kicked in the midterms. if you can't win, cheat

Legalizing sports gambling and making it ubiquitous and frictionless was a terrible idea. slate.com/technology/2...

Like the weak SPLC and Comey cases, the best way to think about this is an attempt to sync up law enforcement with the right-wing media narrative machine.

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

The original concept of DARVO relates to sexual violence, but it’s extremely helpful for understanding the Trump administration. They kill and harm people and then they blame those who correctly identified their violence as the ones inciting violence. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender

Right-wing media have been telling their audiences that Trump’s war in Iran will be over shortly for eight weeks now.

heres tucker talking privately about trump after january 6, this lying grifter knew the whole time if he means this hed slink away, never to be heard from again…he doesnt mean it, he just sees which way the winds blowing

I have always considered myself a libertine. I had no problem with gambling. But the expansion of gambling into EVERY CONCEIVABLE CORNER of society is horrific. This is why I don't read ads for sports betting anymore. people can't leave well enough alone. and this isn't just a gambling thing.