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Julie Hollar

@jhollar.bsky.social
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Senior analyst, FAIR.org

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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After 9/11, the NYT parroted false gov't reassurances to local residents, workers and students and dismissed or ignored contradictory evidence. It’s an important history you can read at FAIR.org but won’t hear about from the Times, which has never acknowledged or apologized for its reporting.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 13/05/2025
WE NEED CALLS NOW! HR 9495, now known as Section 112209, if passed, would give the Trump administration unprecedented power in suppressing nonprofits, by allowing the administration the power to strip organizations of their tax exempt status! Call 319-313-7674
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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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 . fair.org/home/hey-npr...
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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.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Spotted in my neighborhood. Made me so happy.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"...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⤵️
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Universal Childcare Now @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Glad to see someone's calling out how the media has covered Cuomo with kid gloves since he announced his campaign.
But it’s no surprise the Times engages in selective amnesia over Cuomo, as New York City’s centrist neoliberal paper has a natural affinity for the centrist neoliberal politician. Cuomo’s barely a Democrat: As governor, he spent years supporting a posse of turncoat Democratic state legislators who caucused with the Republicans, to allow the minority party to block progressive legislation Cuomo didn’t want to see cross his desk (New Republic, 5/12/17).

He cut pensions for government workers, withheld hundreds of millions of dollars of school funding, and cut Medicaid in the midst of the pandemic.

He also specifically screwed over New York City, even aside from robbing city public transportation funds. In 2019, Cuomo singled out the city for a reduction in the standard state reimbursement for the local health department, so that New York City gets proportionally less than every other municipality in the state—costing the city up to $90 million a year (HealthBeat, 2/27/25). And he tried to cut a third of the state’s funding for the city’s public university system, which would have devastated it (Jacobin, 3/3/25).
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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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.”
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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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
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Fax Senators
FaxZero lets you send free faxes to your senators with no subscription or sign-up.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
.@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.” glaad.org/media-analys...
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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...
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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
First they came for the pro-Palestinian protesters. fair.org/home/trumps-...
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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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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. fair.org/home/to-cozy...
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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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"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)." www.zerohourreport.com/p/first-they...
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“First They Came”: For Dems Who Dare to Do Nothing
The party "plays possum" as the steamroller approaches.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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.
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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"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. fair.org/home/fccs-kn...
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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.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"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
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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."
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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.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"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."
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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.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"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.
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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.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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. fair.org/home/countin...
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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.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/02/2025
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
When prominent news outlets won’t summon the courage to vigorously oppose this descent into autocracy, they are accessories to the coup.
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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.
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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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! fair.org/home/with-ze...
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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.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The @nytimes.com proves there is truly nothing they won’t bothsides.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is open corruption. Paramount pays the president tens of millions of dollars for a completely frivolous legal claim, and then Trump gives Paramount a pass on antitrust law. Trump isn’t enforcing the laws, he’s collecting a toll from corporations in exchange for looking the other way.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A surge in Tren de Aragua–centered propaganda will facilitate Trump's pledge to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history.” fair.org/home/media-h...
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Media Hype Set Up Tren de Aragua to Serve as Trump’s New Bogeyman
Tren de Aragua hype fuels a general persecution of migrants by implying that migrant shelters are gang hotbeds.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The "Democracy Dies in Darkness" paper managed to give the impression that Trump's federal funds-freezing power grab was “confusing,” but probably mostly legal. fair.org/home/action-...
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ACTION ALERT: When Trump Tried to Freeze Federal Funds, WaPo Saw Not Illegality But ‘Determination’
When Trump usurped Congress's power of the purse, the Beltway paper declared this "highlights" the administration's "determination."
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I wrote about the Washington Post's craven new slogan, "Riveting Storytelling for All of America," Bezos's goal of reaching "firefighters in Cleveland," and what it all means for the paper. fair.org/home/as-trum...
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As Trump II Begins, Bezos Swaps Scrutiny for ‘Storytelling’
The new direction sounds like the Foxification of the Washington Post, a move away from any attempt to hold the powerful to account and toward inexpensive clickbait punditry.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The NYT front page recently announced that "for a political figure so divisive" as Trump, "the level of support for his ideas is striking." A key piece of evidence: 55% say they support "deporting all immigrants who are here illegally." But just two questions down, 62% OPPOSE deporting Dreamers. 1/3
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The New York Times let go of Pamela Paul in an Opinion section shakeup (that also saw the departure of Charles Blow). Perhaps they realized her anti-trans opinions were redundant given the rest of the paper's content. fair.org/home/pamela-...
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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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Big Media doesn't always get the facts wrong, but the facts they point us toward, the interpretations they suggest we credit, the responses we’re told are worth pursuing—all that serves media’s corporate owners and sponsors, at the expense of the rest of us. fair.org/home/media-i...
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‘Media Institutions Have Played a Direct Role in Undermining Democracy’: Transcript of The Best of CounterSpin 2024
"Journalism is absolutely critical for democracy, and we have to remember that moving forward."
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The media watchdog FAIR addresses "repitition"--> "It’s bizarre to argue that a regular cartoonist’s work should be killed because the paper published a column—or even two!—with similar content..." fair.org/home/wapo-ki...
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WaPo Kills Cartoon That Mocked the Boss—and Trump
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.”
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