Matt Jordan

Opinion | This Summer, Students From Hundreds of Colleges Will Heed One Urgent Call

This is a fabulous idea and call to action!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

House Overlook Committee

That’s a 29 point swing. In Arkansas.

Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.

This video is both hilarious and infuriating!

Your periodic reminder that the incentive system driving the commercial press in America means that they will always be thirsty to fill their timeline with the human drama of war. (Cartoon from 1914)

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

If you know Mark Warner, you know this is a pretty serious statement. He is EXTREMELY level-headed and doesn’t make hyperbolic statements. He is from a state with a bunch of military contractors too. If he is mad about this, then imagine how mad everyone else is.

GOP “Antitrust Concerns” Magically Disappear Now That Larry Ellison Is Buying Warner Brothers You might have noticed that when Netflix was attempting to acquire Warner Brothers, Republicans were suddenly and uncharacteristically interested in media consolidation and antitrust reform. Republ…

funny how that works, huh?

"Oceana was a war with Eurasia; therefore Oceana had always been at war with Eurasia"

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Actually, we're already there.
My commentary over a year ago for @thebulletin.org:
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...

🔥 🇬🇧 @zarahsultana.bsky.social to Keir starmer : “There was no intelligence indicating an imminent threat— yet we’ve already seen pre-emptive strikes attacking a girls school, killing over 100 children… How much do you enjoy being Trump’s poodle?”

When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

@sulliview.bsky.social "When the media covers war, every other topic fades." bit.ly/3OVOwzE

She's not wrong....

Wondering what would be on the home pages of national media if we had not bombed Iran. Here are today's landing pages...

Misinformation, AI images related to Iran conflict spreading online A secondary battlefield is being established online, with the spread of misinformation and fake images and videos related to the active conflict in the Middle East.

"Misinformation, AI images related to Iran conflict spreading online" www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

a man in a white shirt with the word legislation on the sleeves ALT: a man in a white shirt with the word legislation on the sleeves

6. Idiocracy

So it seems they are selling this illegal & ill advised war to bloodthirsty evangelical rubes as the imbued Trump carrying out God's plan to kick off Armageddon.
Let's see if the captured press dutifully amplifies the framing.

@karlbode.com's new newsletter is a must-read for any one who wants to keep up on the politics and democratic implications of media and tech policy. He is one of the very best journalists on the beat and he deserves our support!

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Place Your Bets: The Casino-fication of News - News Literacy Initiative As prediction markets move from the fringes into mainstream news coverage, questions about ethics, accountability, and public trust are becoming harder to ignor

It's the horse race coverage you've come to expect from news orgs that have zero self-reflexivity about their role serving the public interest, BUT NOW with even more gambling.
(We talked about this trend in the latest episode)
newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/pla...

News gambling is some wicked shit.

War profiteering is an old problem (cartoon is from WWI era) but the potential for graft now with a GOP-run Congress that has abdicated its constitutional duty to check the President's unilateral action AND a captured press makes the worst of American jingoistic militarism almost inevitable. #Iran

One person is setting policy for the entire globe, deciding life and death for people in other countries, with virtually no constraints. Congress has a moral obligation to assert its authority.

Trump launched a war on Iran without a single vote in Congress. No authorization. No debate. No declaration. Just one man's decision. The Framers called this sort of thing the greatest danger to the republic.

@ilyasomin.bsky.social

I know that everyone here hates the “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” messaging but “Donald Trump started a war and jacked up your gas prices” is likely the single thing about this nightmare that will most affect the day to day lives of a lot of people in the US

Seriously, get off of X. Don't post there and don't spend time there. You will get exposed to propaganda and bullshit that will nestle into the corners of your brain EVEN IF YOU KNOW IT'S BULLSHIT. Stay away.