Matt Jordan

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.

The Election Interference Hypocrisy How Trump is using Iran's past election interference to justify his own

I put this thread on Trump's hypocritical and duplicious claims of Iran's 2020 election interference into a longer form article this evening.

Can't wait for Kid Rock to release ein Charlie-Kirk-Lied that ICE can goosestep to

There were def people in Washington who advised Trump not to do this, basically saying, "hes 90, hes had cancer twice, hes going to die soon anyway. Dont make him a martyr for the cause". He didnt listen.

#ScholarSunday Thread 265 (3/1/26) – Black and White and Read All Over March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last w...

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Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

And by the "merits" Harper intimates that Mellon is funding things that centrists reporters think that right wingers hell bent on destroying the humanities and looking for a pretext might not like. Ergo, those icky things that foreground social justice have no merit.

Yes, and even those limited things to resist it should be done. As a film buff, this might resonate with you.

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Anti-Trust is apparently dead under our competitive authoritarian reime

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Buy it or wreck it!”: What films can teach us about the fight for press freedom in America - News Literacy Initiative For those who believe in democratic ideals, the attacks on democracy in 2025 were deeply disturbing, especially the attempts to chill and capture the free press

Faculty and FPMS Dept Head @mattjord.bsky.social writes about press freedom and lessons from film. newsliteracy.psu.edu/news/buy-it-...

I wrote something about what films teach us about the importance of protecting a democratic free press against the Trump regime's oligarch media capture.🎦🗃️

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The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
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This is a hideous betrayal of the country, in exchange for a bribe.

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

State official absolutely must use the power they have under the Constitution — the power that the framers intended them to have — to prosecute these crimes.

NFL owners could give a shit about their fan bases.
The "Indiana Bears" would be an insult to the Chicago fan base, but NFL owners have normalized extortion - `pay for the stadium I will profit from or I will move the team' - so I wouldn't count on anything from McCaskey.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr praises Bari Weiss’ CBS “I think they’re doing a great job,” Carr said at Semafor’s Restoring Trust in Media event Wednesday.

@semafor.com is such a perfect example of softball brunchlord media and the feckless way it normalizes and downplays radical censorial authoritarians

reading this you'd barely be aware that Carr is a free speech trampling extremist (who in his free time guts telecom and media consumer protections)

The Press REALLY Doesn't Want AOC To Be President The corporate press is already busy working hand in hand with bad actors to make life hell for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her crime? Being a progressive minority woman.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about how the right wing, corporate U.S. press is utterly dedicated to derailing AOC's pursuit of higher office:

The radical centrism of the New York Times rears its silly head again. Upton Sinclair described the way the NYT throws shade at socialists as a symptom of being the "organ of world capital."

Place Your Bets: The Casino-fication of News | News Over Noise As prediction markets move from the fringes into mainstream news coverage, questions about ethics, accountability, and public trust are becoming harder to ignore. In this episode of News Over Noise, h...

In this News Over Noise episode, hosts @mattjord.bsky.social & @corybarker.bsky.social talk w/ @juddlegum.bsky.social, founder/editor of Popular Information, about prediction markets and what happens when the logic of gambling collides with journalism. news-over-noise.simplecast.com/episodes/pla...

In our latest episode, we talk with independent journalist @juddlegum.bsky.social about the way that some news orgs are joining forces with prediction markets as a feature of their soothsayer programming.
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Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

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They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

To make things more interesting, take a drink every time one of the lazy pundits uses the word "Presidential" tonight to sane-wash the ramblings of the mad orange-painted king