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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 12h
New from me: New York Fed research found that if not for Trump's tariffs, goods prices would have declined. Many news outlets haven't yet covered it. www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... Fox continues to blame affordability problems on Democrats
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New York Fed research found that if not for Trump's tariffs, goods prices would have declined. Many news outlets haven't yet covered it.
On October 6, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published an article to its Liberty Street Economics blog that included a chart showing that President Donald Trump’s tariffs directly led to a highe...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 13h
Although nobody rioted on behalf of Spencer Pratt, right-wing media are creating a dangerous environment where the reflexive rejection of negative election results is the new normal.
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Opinion | MAGA media’s election denial in LA mayoral race is a warning for the midterms
Right-wing media are creating a dangerous environment where the reflexive rejection of negative election results is the new normal.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17h
Guilfoyle, in her prior role as a Fox News host, endorsed the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton for “racketeering” and “corruption” because Clinton was supposedly “willing to sell access” through the Clinton Foundation in a “pay-for-play” scheme. www.mediamatters.org/kimberly-gui...
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FLASHBACK: At Fox, U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle endorsed criminal investigation into Clinton “pay-for-play” claims
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 19h
Talarico gets the flu, and MAGA immediately goes full conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, Trump is covered in bruises, wearing a leg brace, falling asleep in meetings, and clearly in cognitive decline, and they haven't said a word. Bunch of weirdos.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 20h
Fox News is drawing on decades of attacks on climate science to cast widely supported protections as another bid for power and control.
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Fox is using climate denial to undermine bipartisan support for AI safeguards
In September, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from the company, issuing a stark warning that increasingly powerful AI systems could threaten human survival. To date, ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is what you can do to help me: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fox News’ role as a GOP propaganda machine is clear to anyone who has bothered to peruse its programming — Donald Trump knows it, Rupert Murdoch knows it, disgraced Roger Ailes knew it, and longtime viewers like me certainly know it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Incredible.
Analysis. Does a sex assault claim kill a political career? It depends.

Ghraham Platner’s swift exit followed Eric Swallwell’s similar departure from the California governor’s race, but Republicans have taken a different tack.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump keeps demanding that journalists face arrest and prosecution, and his purported standards for criminal sanctions are developing in bizarre ways over the course of his second term.
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Trump keeps demanding criminal punishment for reporting he dislikes — including about his crowd sizes
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It feels crazy to need to write this, but journalists should not be arrested because the president doesn’t like the way they report on the sizes of his crowds. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Trump keeps demanding criminal punishment for reporting he dislikes — including about his crowd sizes
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some NEWS from within David Ellison's first Skydance company town hall: During a panel moderated by Anderson Cooper, Ellison said he supports CNN's efforts to have access restored to cover Donald Trump.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, the state’s Republican elections chief said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Utah’s GOP election head purged noncitizens from voter rolls, but the Trump team didn’t want to hear how few she found
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, ...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MAGA media figure and former Colorado election official Tina Peters has been adamant that Trump has the power to intervene in the midterms. Yesterday, she allegedly met with the president in the Oval Office.
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Tina Peters allegedly met with Trump to discuss election plans. Here's what that could mean for the midterms.
Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters, who was released from prison on June 1 after being sentenced to nearly nine years for actions related to tampering with voting machines following the 2...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Peters, who was released from prison in July following commutation of her sentence on charges related to 2020 election conspiracy theories, is a key player in the larger MAGA campaign to undermine the midterms: www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
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Tina Peters' right-wing media tour: Endless conspiracy theories about voter fraud and boasts about advising Trump on how to fix it
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eight years ago today, Susan Collins cast the deciding vote that put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. That alone should be enough for Maine voters to boot her ass out of the Senate. And that's before you get to the corruption and the Trump bootlicking.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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We'Re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Tim Robinson
ALT: We'Re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Tim Robinson
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Karl Rove’s conspicuous absence coincides with his newsmaking statements warning about extremism within the GOP — and his denunciation by President Trump.
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Why has Fox News benched Karl Rove?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improve
Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kevin Hassett just looked at skyrocketing mortgage rates and told us it's good news, because the money is going to corporations building data centers "instead of lending to homeowners." These people are staggeringly out of touch.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their families to cast ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Hegseth urges military to vote as Trump administration makes it harder for them to cast ballots
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The presumptions of good faith and of regularity are made up court creations that fly in the face of commonsense and the structure of the Constitution. It should be a priority for Democrats and progressives to undo both. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Court upholds Tennessee’s GOP gerrymander, saying lawmakers deserve ‘presumption of good faith’
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit challenging a gerrymandered map adopted by Tennessee Republicans that eliminated what was the state’s one Black-majority congressional district, based in Memphis.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I won't support a single 2028 presidential candidate unless I truly believe they'll go after the crooks in the Trump administration like no president ever has. We only know a fraction of the corruption and it's already staggering.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The most plausible hypothesis I can come up with is that Trump looked up at his television at 12:09 p.m. ET, saw a brief clip that Fox Business was airing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) criticizing the GOP’s AI strategy, and flipped out." www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/don...
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Donald Trump’s insatiable demand for Fox propaganda
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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fox News is committed to pushing the "worst of the worst" myth as a way to frame Trump's deportation operations as about public safety rather than what they really are -- an attempt to maintain structures of white supremacy through ethnic cleansing
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Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW from me: A comprehensive list of key election denial activists in the right-wing ecosystem. These activists regularly appear in right-wing media to promote their work & boast of ties to Trump, urging him to get rid of voting machines, ban mail-in ballots, & declare a national emergency.
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Key election denial activists in the right-wing media ecosystem
It’s become increasingly apparent that election denial activists have the president’s ear. Figures seeking to undermine faith in election outcomes through direct action and advocacy efforts have boast...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEWS: Mark Zuckerberg told investors his AI data centers are a massive financial success but also told the IRS they're a risky "experiment" to knock nearly $4 billion off Meta's tax bill.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After Fox aired footage of the 9/11 attacks during a segment about a suspected terrorist incident, Brian Kilmeade was forced to give a very awkward apology.
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Fox News Host Apologizes for Jaw-Dropping Error in Cockpit Brawl Coverage
The UAE-to-Israel flight, carrying 180 passengers, suddenly plunged 17,000 feet.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I questioned the government chatbot about Trump’s attacks on voting. Here’s what it said. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-17907830690...
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Even Trump's AI won't back his election lies
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CODA: @mattgertz.bsky.social catches Rs revving up the old migrant caravan again. This makes it more urgent for Dems to speak to the fact that immigrants are getting viciously demonized and subjected to cruelty/injustice all around us. Let's not get inured to it: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Instead of admitting that Eric Schmitt brutally missed the mark by confusing two different basketball teams while trying to catch Jack Smith in a "gotcha moment," some MAGA tastemakers are doubling down.
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MAGA Media Is Trying to Spin Senator’s Brutal Gaffe Into a Win
Eric Schmitt humiliated himself while trying to corner Jack Smith during a Senate hearing. The right is running cover for him
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is clear that Democrats are set to sweep control of Congress in free and fair elections. It is also clear that Trump and the GOP are working to make sure the elections are not free and fair. I founded Democracy Docket to help you stay informed to fight back. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s once again time for Fox News to try to scare its viewers to the polls with frantic coverage of a “caravan” of migrants.
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Right-wing media had dismissed stories about conditions onboard the USS Lincoln as a “misrepresentation in the media,” “an information op,” and “Persian propaganda.”
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The Navy disclosed 8 suicide attempts after right-wing media dismissed reporting about conditions on the USS Lincoln as "Persian propaganda"
As reporting emerged in August that the servicemembers on the USS Abraham Lincoln faced poor conditions and declining mental health — evidenced by at least one servicemember overboard incident — right...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think I'm getting the hang of this.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In October 2018, Fox hosts began warning viewers that a migrant caravan was moving through Central America with plans to “storm our border” — and urged Trump to make that “caravan” a central issue for that year’s midterm elections. It's happening again. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When legacy media compare Orban's treatment of the press to Trump's, do they realize they're telling on themselves? Big corporate media folded. Independent media stood up there and is standing up here. Support Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump fell asleep in the Oval Office again...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump starts the day posting about what he sees on his TV. Left, Fox Business, 7:09 a.m. "TRUMP: US HAS BEST EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS IN HISTORY" Right, Trump, 7:38 a.m. "'The United States has the BEST Employment Numbers in HISTORY.' FoxNews. The Fake News Media REFUSES to report this..."
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My latest: Justice Jackson's "bright side" depends on Republican election officials following federal law, and on the Supreme Court holding firm if election deniers try to purge voters. If the past is prologue, the signs are not hopeful. newsletters.democracydocket.com/justice-jack...
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Justice Jackson found a bright side. I am not sure I see one.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: Podcaster and author David Pakman joins me to discuss how algorithms control what you see and why the next influencer in your feed might not be a real person at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoY...
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Why the Algorithm Favors Right Wing Content with David Pakman
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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