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Anthony L. Fisher

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MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) senior editor and opinion columnist — often covering free speech, civil liberties, and extremism. Not here to argue. Signal: @afish.99 https://www.ms.now/author/anthony-l-fisher

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so great that they got the political bias out of cbs news

28.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...

28.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 1854    🔁 271    💬 23    📌 10

Good morning to everyone except “antiwar“ MAGA libertarians.

28.02.2026 14:16 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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seems like unhealthy rhetoric in a "democracy"

28.02.2026 08:10 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

TONIGHT:It’s #Nightcap time: Fmr. President Bill Clinton questioned before the House Oversight Committee about Epstein – The midterms officially kick off next week with all eyes on Texas –& FCC Chair calls on broadcasters to air more "patriotic, pro-America" programming for America’s 250 birthday.

28.02.2026 03:47 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump told FBI Director Kash Patel he didn't like his Olympics hijinks Trump told Patel directly that he wasn't pleased about his viral locker-room partying with the U.S. men's hockey team, as well as his use of a government jet to travel to Italy.

BREAK: Donald Trump told Kash Patel he wasn’t thrilled with his Olympic hijinks:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

27.02.2026 22:49 — 👍 379    🔁 60    💬 51    📌 33
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snow-shoveling is woke communism

27.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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This is how broadcasters should respond to FCC chair Brendan Carr's call for "voluntary" displays of "patriotic, pro-America" content.

www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

26.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East Sympathies Israelis no longer lead the Palestinians in Americans' sympathies, with independents' shift toward the Palestinians driving most of the change.

When pro-Netanyahu partisans like The Free Press praise him as the "protector of Israel" — show them this poll.

27.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Again, the ongoing claim that the 2026/8 elections are going to be just fine, because the authoritarians don't have the power to stop the actual voting, overlooks all the ways that competitive authoritarian regimes put their thumbs on the scales of democracy short of outright cancelling elections.

26.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 258    🔁 86    💬 11    📌 1
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Brendan Carr read these words today and that makes me happy.

www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

26.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

We've got beyond the practice of agents wearing masks to outright deception and abuses of trust. The lesson they are teaching the public is to not trust their government.

27.02.2026 01:19 — 👍 693    🔁 219    💬 24    📌 8
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WaPo is apparently state media now

27.02.2026 01:07 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He wants local broadcasters to air "patriotic" content. His kind, of course.

27.02.2026 01:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sooner or later it comes for us all

27.02.2026 00:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

haha Anderson Cooper thought he could get away from Bari Weiss

27.02.2026 00:09 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Brendan Carr doesn't get to decide what is "pro-America."

Americans who stand up to authoritarians like him are patriotic.

www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

26.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Brendan Carr read these words today and that makes me happy.

www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

26.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Glad this MAGA hall monitor is reading MS NOW!

www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

26.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 293    🔁 56    💬 2    📌 1

Realizing their fellow travelers are now bad for the brand -- but never ever admitting to their own willful idiocy.

26.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is how broadcasters should respond to FCC chair Brendan Carr's call for "voluntary" displays of "patriotic, pro-America" content.

www.ms.now/opinion/fcc-...

26.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Real patriotism > MAGA flag-humping

26.02.2026 13:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | What FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s call for ‘pro-America’ content is really about Anthony L. Fisher: The MAGA regulatory bully’s call for broadcasters to “voluntarily” produce “patriotic, pro-America content” has an air of menace to it.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr apparently isn’t content just to be the comedy and talk show police.

Now it seems he’s taking on the role of patriotism cop, too.

New @ms.now

26.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 73    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 8

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

09.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 6892    🔁 1700    💬 18    📌 79

I wouldn't accept one at this point.

26.02.2026 04:51 — 👍 100    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

25.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 15489    🔁 8143    💬 855    📌 543
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Only took 11 years of flagrant MAGA racism for contrarian anti-woke culture warriors to get to “pretty darn concerning”

26.02.2026 04:48 — 👍 936    🔁 132    💬 3    📌 29
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Glenn Greenwald, down af with the antisemites

26.02.2026 04:05 — 👍 150    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 1

but you know this place is a laughingstock in progressive/organizing circles, so it's impossible to say if you should stay on X or not

26.02.2026 02:43 — 👍 306    🔁 47    💬 5    📌 0
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Megyn Kelly doesn’t think Muslims should hold office in America. There’s a word for that. Amid an ideological civil war over antisemites in the MAGA movement, the right-wing podcast superstar unleashed a xenophobic attack on Zohran Mamdani.

Nov 2025:

"Mainstream MAGA stars like Shapiro want to clean the bigotry out of their house on an a la carte basis — but fear and loathing of 'the other' is as MAGA as a red baseball cap. The MAGA civil war is a Spider-Man pointing meme come to life. The hate is coming from inside the house."

26.02.2026 02:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0