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How Orbán systematically suffocated the Hungarian media over the past 15 years Viktor Orbán has also pledged, in his annual address earlier this month, to “clear out” after the April elections media and civil society organisations deemed to threaten “sovereignty.” Fidesz already...

this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:

I think they should have to sit through the entire speech with the camera on them personally

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Screenshot from piece: The attempts to cynically exploit the crash were just a preview for how MAGA would handle tragedies in Trump’s second term. In the past year, conservative media lied about the ideological profile of a man who killed Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband; covered for the Department of Homeland Security’s repeated immigration abuses that included the killing of two Minnesotans; and baselessly targeted an innocent Palestinian student after a shooting at Brown University. In each of these incidents, the Trump administration and its media allies moved quickly to establish a political narrative before facts were established, which often takes time and investigation. The result was a cycle in which speculation hardened into talking points, shaping public perception before a full and careful accounting of the truth could take place. By the time the actual facts came to light, the narrative was set and right-wing media had already moved on to the next outrage cycle.

New report highlights systemic failures behind DC plane crash that right-wing media blamed on DEI

A new report highlights the systemic failures that led to the DCA plane crash that Trump and right-wing media blamed on DEI

The incident was just the start of Trump and his allies responding to tragedies by rushing out a political narrative before facts can be established

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Demoralized Democrats Have a Road Map for Success in Trump’s America. It Was Written by Jesse Jackson. Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national farm bust of the early 1980s. Debt for farmers had exploded from $85 billion in 1976 to $216 ...

and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...

Anyway, here's just one example of how the above incident was covered on Fox News

Just this week we wrote about how right-wing media serve as propaganda mouthpieces for DHS when they lie about agency abuses before the facts have a chance to emerge

www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Right-wing media are mouthpieces for DHS lies about ICE abuses Amid the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive deportation push, the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly misrepresented or lied about multiple recent events, only to be contradicte...

Right-wing media are carrying water for blatant DHS propaganda.

Right-wing media are trying to justify ICE abuses by lying about the reality of mass deportations. This pattern has repeated itself in the aftermath of DHS-related incidents across the country.

James O'Keefe & @JamesOKeefeIII Follow A bunch of different citizen journalists are about to rock California. 8:43 PM • Feb 1, 2026 • 480.7K Views

Is the administration’s bit that they encourage right-wing influencers to find “fraud” in blue states; influencers “investigate” and publish propaganda claiming said widespread fraud was responsibility of immigrants; and then gov’t sends in ICE to terrorize people because of it?

And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.

Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired

Libs of TikTok has spent the days following Alex Pretti's murder doxxing teachers, nurses, and school board members — trying to get ordinary people fired for supporting Pretti or opposing ICE www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/...

The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.

For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

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this is a great call! It really helped me last year, I've found that reading is one of the only activities (along with cooking/baking) that can truly get me to unplug and get off my phone

❤️ very well-written, Jason

Right-wing disinformation machine spins up a false profile of Minnesota shooting suspect In the early hours of June 14, Vance Boelter allegedly shot two Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers in their homes while impersonating law enforcement — Rep. Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman, al...

New from @mmfa.bsky.social, a round-up of this weekend's disgraceful display: Right-wing disinformation machine spins up a false profile of Minnesota shooting suspect

www.mediamatters.org/infowars/rig...

Our brains have been successfully hacked by bad actors in the tech sector and no one really talks about it. It's just a fact of modern life: We've all been hypnotized by the magic devices we were told to buy.

Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.

"The family of a 30-year-old metro Atlanta mother and nurse said she was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago — but is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant...Her medical team is legally required [by Georgia's abortion ban] to maintain life support until the fetus reaches viability."

Casey Means called the COVID-19 pandemic “a Darwinian moment for America.”

“Americans must build personal immunity defenses through radical changes in diet and exercise, or risk getting sick and dying,” she wrote.

This is who Donald Trump picked to be surgeon general.

Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

I heard Stephen A. Smith tell CNN yesterday that "people are afraid they're going to lose their job for messing up a pronoun" and it really amazes me how many people don't realize they are awash in intentional propaganda designed to make them afraid of the wrong things and angry at the wrong people

The fact that these are the *updated* clarifications just shows how barbaric Texas’ abortion ban is. And the bill still doesn’t remove major criminal penalties or expand abortion access to cases of fetal anomalies, rape or incest.

weird, what could explain this

Really great and informative book that I think about a lot, I very much recommend giving it a read

Including Portnoy, who still maintains that if he could do it all over again he would still vote for Trump

How could people have possibly known that Trump was going to do what he promised every single day on the campaign trail

Almost finished with it and just wanted to say it’s a really fantastic book 🫶🏻

NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo.

Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.