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9. The White House isn’t alone. The Washington press corps is also guilty. We are often treated as if we have no authority to arbitrate reality. If the news media does not tell us something happened, it apparently did not happen. To illustrate my point, I ask you to consider this:

The deeper reason Trump, Vance, and Ramaswamy are backing the vile rape ad is they think MAGA politics—the cruelty, the depravity, the viciousness—is still ascendant. They think doing this esesentially puts Trump on the ballot. Me and @jimswift.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

Trump now completely out of the closet as Putin’s puppet. Things must be getting desperate if he can’t hide it any more.

Trump may or may not be a Russian asset. It doesn’t really matter: he acts like a Russian asset.

Axis of Evil: Putin, Musk and Trump.

A massive Fourth Estate failure that “I can do anything I want” was not national news. Sanewashing by omission. Do corporate media leaders have no sense of civic duty to defend the Constitution? Cartoon h/t @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Perfect, @whitehouse-47.bsky.social.

The aim of the Republican Party is to delegitimize and dismantle the United States government in order to resegregate, restore patriarchy, privatize and plunder the states they control.

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

The worst person alive.

Americans need to understand the stakes of the upcoming elections. Too many news orgs rely on “horse race coverage”, “sanewashing”, “false equivalence”, “euphemism” and other inadequacies. Endorse our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...

if this is all it took to get the deal over the line than the AGs allowed themselves to be massively fleeced by Paramount

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what.

After Trump used taxpayer money to air one of his literal campaign ads, FCC Chair Brendan Carr shrugged off the scandal, saying the propaganda was just a “normal PSA.” It’s ridiculous to the point of being insulting. It’s as if these guys think Americans are idiots. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Gil Durán says his book "The Nerd Reich" is about "a cult of apocalyptic billionaires who believe it is their destiny to end democracy." He joined Data & Society research director Alice Marwick and me to discuss the book last week at Betaworks. Listen: www.techpolicy.press/gil-durn-map...

David Ellison wrote an NYT op-ed telling us we could trust him to run CNN. Well now his buddy Donald says he's banning CNN from the White House. Time to put his mouth where his money is. Surely he'll stand up for the journalists he wants to employ, even if his friend is president. We'll wait...

We’re grateful for the work of FAIR @fairmediawatch.bsky.social on the occasion of their 40th anniversary, to hear from @jeffycohen.bsky.social and meet the one & only Janine Jackson, host of Counterspin! “News for people, not for profit” is the essential work of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

🎉Join us for a special event: “WARNING SIGNS: Massive Debt & Foreign Cash Are Keys to The Ellisons' Takeover Attempt of Warner Bros” With an extraordinary panel: @bedoyausa.bsky.social and Profs Pete Johnson and Deborah Jaramillo. Sign up link: tiny.cc/parabros 🗓️ Thurs Sept 10, 1pm ET via Zoom

Cameras, Communities & the Future of Local News Media consolidation is homogenizing the news and citizen journalists are the first line of defense. Join Jessica Mayberry (Video Volunteers) for a conversation on who gets to tell the story. Tue Aug 25, 8–9pm EDT | Virtual RSVP: tiny.cc/CommunityNews

I’m a media critic. In my newsletter I take mainstream news outlets to task for normalizing the dictatorship that’s unfolding around us. But it’s the duty of all of us – not just the media – to sound the alarm. Your family and friends may not understand how bad it’s gotten. Tell them.

Gil Duran is what they call in The Biz, "a real one." Everyone get The Nerd Reich for your book clubs, holiday gifts, etc. It's an urgent wake-up call and plan of action. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Hear @gilduran.com warn us about the racist billionaire fascists tearing down our democracy, and our rematch with the Confederacy, Nazis, and Putin’s hot info war @andreachalupa.bsky.social @gaslitnation.bsky.social youtu.be/lV-GXVlfO14?... & @democracynow.org youtu.be/sg7YNUbaV-8?... #EpsteinFiles

Here’s Gil Durán, the author of “The Nerd Reich” on Democracy Today with Amy Goodman. He’s chatting about how #techbros turned #fascist and gave up on #democracy. He highlights the book that started it all and the role of key players like Peter Thiel in the process […]

Silicon Valley’s overlords have lost their minds. @gilduran.com, Kamala Harris’ former communications director and now a journalist, says Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the rest of the tech oligarchs have a severe case of “billionaire psychosis”. He joins @emmakennedy.bsky.social ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Just heard a couple podcast convos w/ @gilduran.com on his new ESSENTIAL book, out today “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy” Was all set to run to buy it when it showed up in my mail! Forgot I’d preordered via @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social’s Lucid Zoom… back in Dec 2025! 🤣

This man is unfit for office and a danger to every living creature on earth. Any news org, editor and journalist not communicating that clearly is sanewashing him and enabling his harms.

My latest story has some intrigue. FCC finally released Chairman Brendan Carr’s financial report for 2025 late Friday. The report states Paramount gave him tickets to the gala worth $12,390. But he and his wife sat in skybox seats that sold for $125,000 a piece. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...

Tremendous news. The Ellisons’ corrupt takeover has been slowed. Strong work to all involved. #BlockTheMerger to #StopTheCorruptTakeover www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Why we need permitting reform, and why we need to stop Trump’s corrupt blockade of American solar and wind (hint: he does it to force U.S. grids to buy expensive fossil power from his crooked donors, even though your costs go up).

This is amazing. As if there were a 'healthy' way to process the ongoing, perhaps-just-barely-avoidable collapse of your country into a fascist dictatorship

We live in a white supremacist country under the rule of a white supremacist Supreme Court and President.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

by "they understand power" you're saying "they are willing to break the entire civilization" Biden's presidency like Obama's was seemingly based in the mistaken belief that these monsters were tameable

Watch: Senator Ossoff evicerates the corrupt oligarchy destroying our country! On May Day, we’re standing up at over 4,000 events across the country for Workers Over Billionaires. See you in the streets 📣📣📣

No law enforcement officer operating in Connecticut—federal, state, or local—can wear a mask on duty. ICE and CBP agents have to show their faces and badges. And when an officer assaults someone recording them, commits false imprisonment, false arrest, or malicious prosecution, they lose immunity.

Shameful opening graf: “President Trump has a complicated relationship with the Bible” - NYT @ruthgraham.bsky.social This piece further degrades “trust” in journalism. -grotesque euphemism -stenography -sanewashing -view-from-nowhere reporting. -devoid of context of his unchristian actions

Legacy media editors continue to sanewash and give the Trump regime the benefit of the doubt. Tuesday: Trump “a civilization will die tonight” Wednesday: “cease fire”! [narrator: there was no cease fire] Sanewashing. bsky.app/profile/medi...

It’s journalism malpractice to quote trump on the status of rhen Iran war without including actual facts and evidence. Trump says’ is not reliable on its own. Journalists & headline writers know this but keep sanewashing trump anyway.

This speech is insane. Our President is a lunatic. Also, he sounds like a moron. A real low IQ individual. Don’t be numb to how crazy this is.

and look, the media has been incredibly and embarrassingly subservient to him so far but we are really getting into “stink of failure” territory here that’s why Fox threw Bush overboard, and while the bar for doing the same to Trump is really high I don’t know if it’s insurmountable

So the rumors were true. Bunker Boy wanted a $400,000,000 place to hide. That figure is *double* what Karoline Leavitt said the "ballroom" would cost. How much of that increase will wind up in Donald's pockets? www.newsweek.com/trump-buildi...

Saturday, March 28, 2026 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local #NoKings #NoKingsIII #NoKings3 event to make it clear that America rejects the corrupt, lawless regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/oysFgOdi

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The president is openly bragging that he's an enacted an authoritarian Orbanization of the nation' media.