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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
cc @origgio.bsky.social @brainwashingdad.bsky.social @jensenko.bsky.social @publicenlightenment.com @holleya.bsky.social
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Tremendous news. The Ellisons’ corrupt takeover has been slowed. Strong work to all involved. #BlockTheMerger to #StopTheCorruptTakeover www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for Months
The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I see sanewashing Trump is still very much a thing.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Has Iranian state TV paid a $787 million settlement for spreading lies about an election?
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/03/2026
“The illegality of your authoritarian management of the FCC is exacerbated by the fact that this administration has asserted unprecedented executive branch control over this agency…” Seems like a pattern across agencies, no?
Letter to Brendan Carr at the FCC
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Thank you for this @karlbode.com “ "CEO said a thing!" journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything being said is factually correct.” karlbode.com/the-press-is...
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The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Everyone - and especially every journalist and editor needs to read and follow @andreapitzer.bsky.social #CallThemConcentrationCamps
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Illegal arrest of my friend @donlemonofficial.bsky.social is gross violation of the Constitution & laws Magistrate rejected a criminal complaint & Judge Schiltz (conservative former Scalia clerk) said "no evidence of any criminal behavior" @democracydefendersfund.org will help fight back!:
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Statement | January 27, 2026
Democracy Defenders Fund issues the following statement in response to recent actions by the Department of Homeland Security and its immigration enforcement agencies.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“The move toward more commentators telling you what to think about an America spiraling into chaos & fewer boots-on-the-ground journalists digging up what’s needed to fix that crisis—objective truth—couldn’t happen at a worse time…unfortunately this is not unique to CBS News.” @willbunch.bsky.social
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Public Enlightenment @publicenlightenment.com · 19/03/2025
Best video thumbnail ever? Only have 20 minutes to check in on the news? Public Enlightenment's Bluesky Lists have you covered. Pin them to your feed and get all the context you need to understand the news.
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Use Public Enlightenment’s lists to quickly gather pro-democracy context on the news. Easy, breezy, beautiful…publicenlightenment.com #democracy #mediadiet #medialiteracy #journalism
TikTok video by public_enlightenment
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. The criticism was not “widespread” & the cited sources are all pro-Trump.
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Constance Lighthall @clighthall.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I've helped with legitimate news outlet turnarounds. What's happening at CBS News is anything but. The Ellison's have gift wrapped the news network for Trump. The fake 'internal injuries' story was just the start of the MAGA makeover. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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Goodbye Cronkite, Hello Trump.
The new owners of CBS and their handpicked propagandist are all-in on a MAGA makeover, eager to spin, spike, and edit (or not)news content to keep Trump happy. Who runs CBS now? Trump.
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Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) @fixmedianow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Join @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Thursday Jan 22 at 8pm ET (5pm PT) to honor journalists and media activists fighting for democracy! Meet some of our 2025 Heroes, find out who is the MAD Disinformer of the Year, prizes, more… RSVP and bring a friend! www.mobilize.us/mediademocra...
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Our MAD 2025 Review & Celebration + Special Guests! · The Media and Democracy Project
Join the Media and Democracy Project for our 2025 extravaganza! Join our community of media activists for an inspiring celebration. JOIN us as we celebrate our "2025 Heroes", our achievements - you...
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Parody by the @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social with a better sense of reality and seriousness of POTUS #Greenland #Denmark threats - than NYT, WSJ, WaPo. “Nuuk”!
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 19/01/2026
Celebrate the best in what's left of our free press! Important Zoom gathering this Thursday night
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Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) @fixmedianow.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Stop calling Nick Shirley a journalist. He's a MAGA political operative [whose] viral video abt Minneapolis daycare centers ignited an explosive situation giving Trump excuse to launch largest ever ICE occupation of a US city.” @newsjennifer.bsky.social jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/stop-calli...
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Stop calling Nick Shirley a journalist. He's a MAGA political operative.
Shirley's viral video about Minneapolis daycare centers ignited the explosive situation that gave Donald Trump an excuse to launch the largest ever ICE occupation of an American city.
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sarcasm about mainstream media's bothsiderism--whether they pretend that minor things Dems do are equivalent to awful things Republicans do. Most ppl are unaware of this as a form of subtle Right Wing bias in mainstream media.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
DHS: Abolish ice
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/01/2026
Important to be clear-eyed about what this FBI search means. The Trump administration is going after a journalist for doing journalism. "A clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press."
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/01/2026
FWIW, traditional journalistic answers to Leavitt's question are things like "are you declining to answer the question?" or "this a press conference — I'm here to ask the White House questions" or "with respect, my readers don't care what I think about WH policy — they care what the WH thinks."
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Grotesque abuse of power #KavanaughStop #ICE Will any news orgs find this kid and tell his story? He will never be the same.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars: / Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform. / Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks. / Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
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How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Murder on ICE and water. The invasion of Venezuela and the invasion of Minnesota are one and the same bid for tribute and obeisance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi6...
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Murder on ICE and Water
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My CAP colleague Mike Sozan sounds the alarm on Trump's allies buying up media companies. It is distorting the information Americans receive and it makes the government far less accountable when more accountability has never been more important.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Big media mergers controlled by President Trump's allies and friends is bad news for the American people—CAP expert @michaelsozan.bsky.social breaks down why:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The thing I will remember most about 2025 is that Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russell Vought took live-saving medicine and food away from hundreds of thousands of sick and starving children, and this did not change the way the media and society in general regarded them in any significant way.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The mainstream media only talks to Trump voters. Even in a year where Democrats win election after election, the only voters they talk to are people who vote for Republicans www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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What we learned about the state of the Trump coalition in conversations with 50 voters this year
A set of focus groups featuring 2024 Trump voters showed them largely sticking with the president, but they also showed discontent around the economy and immigration.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"Policies that strengthen independent news organizations, bolster local journalism, fund public media, and prohibit the concentration of media power in too few hands are not only possible – they are necessary for a functioning democracy." @sulliview.bsky.social on US media has universal relevance.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Sure @washingtonpost.com Let’s give free press to a bad faith guy who interviews Nazis If you ever wondered why fascism has been rising in the United States Look no further than stories like these
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
"The collapse of journalism is part of a larger trend in which institutions are being annihilated." Andrea Pitzer on one of the most consistent features of dictatorships—an assault on journalism.
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Shredding public knowledge
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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Public Enlightenment @publicenlightenment.com · 12/12/2025
I wrote about the New York Times’ latest failure for @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social. Cancel your subscription and donate those funds to local, independent, or non-profit journalism outlets reporting in the public interest. open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...
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The New York Times Spread Dangerous Health Disinformation, Erased It, Hopes You Don’t Notice
The New York Times aided the MAGA, anti-science FDA in its mission to undermine the public’s trust in life saving vaccines. Another example of editorial decisions undermining trust in the Grey Lady.
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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New York Times sues Defense Secretary Hegseth over media restrictions - coming up on NPR's Morning Edition at 6.45/8.45a My written story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
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'New York Times' sues Pentagon over media restrictions
The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
NYTimes uses its brand + infrastructure to promote Sorkin’s Dealbook summit. NYT leadership contributes to the whitewashing & normalization of: -TPUSA w/Erika Kirk -Ehud Barak (reported Giuffre abuser) (Apologies for link to Murdoch’s rag; may be triggering to SA victims) nypost.com/2025/10/18/u...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So you can't see everything, but finding zero Jake Tapper posts about Trump sleeping through a cabinet meeting designed to fluff him. Jake must be saving it for the book.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our leader is having repeated trouble staying awake at public events he's hosting; is acting more erratically online and in public; is making decisions that are doing clear material harm to the country & our allies. Simply, his declining health must become a bigger issue. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🙄 “both parties are the same” bluesky
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”! What are we doing?
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A year ago.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.
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Heather Muse @heathermuse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Read this whole thread.
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Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) @fixmedianow.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Democracy and the #FirstAmendment are under attack. Join us Oct 18 in support of journalism, press freedom, and democracy. #NoKings is a time to defend and exert your #1A rights and freedoms & express support for journalists & #PressFreedom mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/nokings-jo...
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#NoKings! Join MAD in Defending and Celebrating the First Amendment & #PressFreedom
The Media and Democracy Project invites you to join #NoKings demonstrations in support of the First Amendment - wherever you are.
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Julio Ricardo Varela @juliorvarela.com · 16/10/2025
Today's @chappatte.bsky.social cartoon in print edition of @bostonglobe.com #Pentagon
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R5_to_philly / R5Philly @r5-to-philly.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
There will be textbooks written on how headline fails contributed to Trump's fascism and manipulation of the public, particularly by the billionaires who purchased the 4th estate. @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Democracy and the First Amendment are under attack. Join us in support of journalism, the First Amendment, and democracy. #NoKings is an opportunity to defend and exert your #FirstAmendment rights and freedoms & express support for journalists & #PressFreedom open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...?
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#NoKings! Join MAD in Defending and Celebrating the First Amendment & #PressFreedom
The Media and Democracy Project invites you to join #NoKings demonstrations in support of the First Amendment - wherever you are.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We are proud to join @rsf.org and @freedom.press and 14 other press freedom and civil liberties groups on this statement and regulatory comment calling for DHS to keep our country open to journalists and others and allow a vibrant free press. rsf.org/sites/defaul... #FreePress
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