Julie Hollar

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Hey NPR, Free Speech Isn’t Just a Vibe NPR offers only two possibilities: Trump is increasing free speech, or censorship is just a swinging pendulum whose victims change as administrations change.

NPR suggests Trump might be "a protector of the 1st Amendment," because people who agree with the Trump "feel more free today to express views without fear of a backlash."

Feeling like it's safe to agree with the government has never been a test of free speech, @npr.org .

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Spotted in my neighborhood. Made me so happy.

"...it’s no surprise the Times engages in selective amnesia over Cuomo"

"The paper’s kid-glove treatment of Cuomo isn’t restricted to the news pages."

This is a BRUTAL critique of the @nytimes.com fluffy coverage of Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign by media watchdog @fairmediawatch.bsky.social⤵️

Glad to see someone's calling out how the media has covered Cuomo with kid gloves since he announced his campaign.

The most astonishing thing to me from this story I wrote with @jhollar.bsky.social is @cnn.com quietly rewriting its story about Hands Off! to change “millions of people took part in protests" to “scores of people took part in protests.”

A morning reminder that if the senator you're trying to reach isn't answering the phone, you can FAX many of them FOR FREE from whatever device you're reading this on. Do you know annoying and attention-getting it is to get faxes? faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

I don’t really like to comment on political strategy but WTF are Schumer and Newsom, two of the most powerful leaders in the Democratic Party, doing right now?

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

Mixed Results in Media Survey of Trump’s Anti-Transgender Executive Orders | GLAAD Among President Trump’s first executive orders were those targeting transgender people’s identity, military service, access to health care, access to education, and access to sports. GLAAD analyzed 35...

.@glaad.bsky.social surveyed Day 1 stories on Trump’s anti-trans EOs across 6 major media outlets. Only 13 of 35 quoted a trans person. GLAAD noted one highlight: “Stories from @apnews.com were uniformly inclusive of the LGBTQ community.”
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Trump’s Protest Threat Reflects Belief That Free Speech Belongs to Some Trump has come out with a diktat threatening sanctions against any educational institution that tolerates forbidden demonstrations.

First they came for the pro-Palestinian protesters.

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However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

To Cozy Up to Trump, Bezos Banishes Dissent From WaPo As shocking as Bezos' groveling is, it’s just the latest in a string of extraordinary favors he’s done for Trump and Elon Musk.

The WaPo opinion section will now advance Jeff Bezos’ “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Anyone not on board can take a hike, Bezos told Post employees in a note he shared on X.

That was Wednesday morning. By evening, Bezos was dining with President Trump.

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“First They Came”: For Dems Who Dare to Do Nothing The party "plays possum" as the steamroller approaches.

"Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says, 'I'm trying to figure out what leverage we actually have.'

"It’s not hard. Julie Hollar of FAIR.org does an excellent job of laying out that leverage (& indicting the media for not challenging the Dem’s refusal to act)."

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My latest for FAIR. Democrats (and Republicans) feigning total helplessness and scolding those who are shouting from the rooftops are, of course, being aided and abetted by corporate media. Support independent journalism like your democracy depends on it, because it does.

FCC’s Knives Are Out for First Amendment FCC chair Brendan Carr's is waging war on news media as part of the Trump administration's quest to destroy freedom of the press.

"I don't want to be the speech police" says FCC chair Brendan Carr, as he puts networks on trial for not editing interviews the way Trump would have.

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"Meta enshrining a statement that LGBTQ people are 'abnormal' and 'mentally ill,' and intentionally employing overtly bigoted anti-LGBTQ dog whistle language...in a hate speech policy—is unprecedented." From @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social

Trump Administration Claws Back $80 Million Sent to NYC to House Migrants Officials in the city comptroller’s office spotted the unprecedented grab at congressionally approved funds that were already in the city’s bank accounts.

Okay so now Musk is literally drawing millions out of NYC's bank account.

Comptroller Lander "said the funding was pulled on Tuesday afternoon, and that his office isn’t sure how the feds accessed money from the city’s bank account—though he likened it to a credit card company reversing a payment."

Pamela Paul’s Gender Agenda By giving Paul a platform, the New York Times is feeding a grievance-based ideology that directly harms trans and other marginalized people.

And: fair.org/home/pamela-...

NYT’s Anti-Trans Bias—by the Numbers The New York Times used its front-page coverage primarily to wonder whether trans people's rights and access to healthcare have gone too far.

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NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump's Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In The New York Times Editorial Board today released an opinion piece calling Trump's attacks on transgender Americans "shameful." The paper has been influential in fueling those attacks.

"But no amount of equivocation or pearl-clutching can erase the fact that The Times's reporting has been repeatedly cited in court cases as justification for enshrining discrimination against transgender people into legal precedent."

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

"If we don’t learn how to extract ourselves from this loop, none of the information we gain will manifest as tangible action—and the people in charge prefer it that way."

A vital reminder to not just stay informed—ACT UP. Make calls. Join a protest. Go to a local meeting. Pick and thing and do it.

Incredible that almost every DC press outlet ran with Brendan Carr's self-branding as a "free speech warrior" and his first major actions as Chair of the FCC have been to weaponize the agency to bully media outlets over press coverage that Trump doesn't like

Counting the Victims of Israel’s War on Gaza Is Low on Media’s Priority List Over the course of Israel’s genocide, Western media have actively avoided investigating the true human costs of the war.

Western outlets haven’t just failed to consistently convey the full extent of the carnage in Gaza to their readers, they’ve actively downplayed it.

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Google removes language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people,” and more.

As Constitutional Crises Mount, US Press Sleepwalks Into Autocracy The New York Times and Washington Post largely downplayed the Trump administration's earth-shattering break from democratic norms.

When prominent news outlets won’t summon the courage to vigorously oppose this descent into autocracy, they are accessories to the coup.

With Zero Evidence, NPR Suggests Trump May ‘Work for Working Class’ in Second Term NPR's evidence that Trump is a "populist"—or at least has a populist lurking inside him—is remarkably thin.

Why is Trump a "populist," according to NPR? He “made a show of working a shift at a McDonald’s last fall.” And he “popularize[d] a fringe theory about then-President Obama being foreign born." That's pretty much it!

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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.