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Mentions of the Obamacare subsidies whose elimination they support are few and far between, as the hosts instead try to redirect the attention of their audience and stoke their rage over the prospect of undocumented immigrants receiving benefits. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/mas...
03.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 745 🔁 241 💬 47 📌 9
The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket
03.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 268 🔁 106 💬 18 📌 14
MAGA throws a temper tantrum over Bad Bunny; Also, right-wing media cheers on a government shutdown.
This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...
This is allegedly still about Bad Bunny btw: www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...
03.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 92 🔁 27 💬 30 📌 13
Scoop:
Richard Mack, the leader of a far-right sheriffs group, told multiple far-right podcasts in late September that Tom Homan said he would send at least a member of his staff to the organization’s upcoming national conference. Homan said he'd "run it past" Trump if he could come himself too.
Newsmax host: “These poor government employees are now on a paid vacation”
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Day three of the right-wing Bad Bunny meltdown: “NFL leadership has decided to hire a cross dressing, America-hating, ICE-hating Puerto Rican dude”
01.10.2025 17:54 — 👍 158 🔁 27 💬 68 📌 22Ben Shapiro: “It kind of feels like, you know, a government shutdown is mostly the stuff you need and kind of gets rid of a lot of the stuff you don't”
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Benny Johnson: “There is a government shutdown right now, and we are cheering for that. We say yes.”
01.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 10 📌 2
Right-wing media are pushing a lie that Democrats are threatening to shut down the government over “free health care for illegal immigrants” even though undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded health benefits.
30.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 288 🔁 131 💬 30 📌 10
State and local leaders in North Carolina say that only a fraction of approved FEMA funds have actually been disbursed due to additional Trump administration red tape.
30.09.2025 18:14 — 👍 108 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 6
A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement.
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Benny Johnson: “White rage is how you win a war. That's how America's always won wars, idiots.”
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Some right-wing pundits have embraced the potential ban on gun ownership for trans people, but others — including the NRA — are far more hesitant.
30.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 53 🔁 17 💬 9 📌 3
“We have a crossdresser who doesn't speak English doing the halftime show”
30.09.2025 13:40 — 👍 89 🔁 25 💬 30 📌 1
I wrote about how Trump watched TV (probably Fox) in early September and then decided to send troops to Portland. Right-wing media outlets have spent the entire month painting Portland as a war zone, & Bannon wants the FBI to kick in 1K doors to arrest "antifa." New @mmfa.bsky.social
30.09.2025 13:11 — 👍 69 🔁 24 💬 10 📌 1
A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...
29.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 286 🔁 81 💬 16 📌 12
Given the president’s willingness to promote any lie, as long as it fits his biases, false claims supporting the narrative of January 6 as an “inside job” can spread with alarming speed.
29.09.2025 16:49 — 👍 151 🔁 53 💬 11 📌 2
Newsmax host: “People don't care if they” shut down the government
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Fox News host Will Cain calls for Des Moines superintendent to be deported: “I have some next step ideas. How about fired and then deported?”
29.09.2025 13:42 — 👍 80 🔁 18 💬 16 📌 4
Right-wing media figures have called the Comey indictment weak, underwhelming, and unlikely to survive in court.
26.09.2025 18:48 — 👍 514 🔁 142 💬 26 📌 7
Conservative media figures have called Argentina's far-right President Javier Milei an inspiration and treated his brutal austerity programs as a model for the US. Now, the country's economy is in free fall and Trump might offer Milei a bailout. Latest at @mmfa.bsky.social
26.09.2025 18:31 — 👍 111 🔁 42 💬 6 📌 3
Fox News panel on Comey charges: "This is potentially a problematic prosecution”
26.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 212 🔁 44 💬 19 📌 4
Right-wing media and MAHA figures celebrate Trump's promotion of an unproven connection between the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism:
26.09.2025 15:05 — 👍 78 🔁 24 💬 9 📌 5
The MAGA media cudgel against dissent; Also, Right-wing media had an escalator obsession this week.
This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...
Newsmax host: Comey indictment “does feel like retribution, does feel like they saw a man and they looked for a crime. And that's likely happening.”
26.09.2025 13:55 — 👍 687 🔁 186 💬 51 📌 30
New from me: a deep dive into the grifty world of measles misinformation. If you sow enough doubt and fear and confusion, you can sell more supplements to "bulletproof" your followers immune systems against measles.
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