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The Media and Democracy Project
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Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom mediaanddemocracyproject.org All our links: linktr.ee/FixMediaNow
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · Feb 8
Are you disturbed by the harmful impact of Rupert Murdoch and #FoxNews on America?

WARNING: Watching Tubi funds Fox News + assists Rupert Murdoch & his agenda

#Tubi is Rupert Murdoch's/FOX's streaming media platform and will stream the #SuperBowl for "free"

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WARNING: Watching Tubi funds Fox News
Tubi is Rupert Murdoch's latest scheme to use entertainment — and especially the Super Bowl — to fund his right-wing agenda and assault on American minds.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 9h
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
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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 · 18h
On #NoKings defend and celebrate the First Amendment.

“Freedom of The Press is not just important to democracy, it IS democracy.”
–Walter Cronkite

If NYC come join us. If not create your own #PressFreedom #FirstAmendment action.

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NYC "No Kings" #PressFreedom and Celebration of the First Amendment · The Media and Democracy Project
Join the MediaAndDemocracyProject.org in NYC at the Manhattan "No Kings" demonstration in support of journalism, the First Amendment and democracy. Without a free press and an informed electorate - ...
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 19h
Our folks will defend and celebrate the First Amendment.

#NoKings

“Freedom of The Press is
not just important to
democracy, it IS
democracy.”
–Walter Cronkite

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NYC "No Kings" #PressFreedom and Celebration of the First Amendment · The Media and Democracy Project
Join the MediaAndDemocracyProject.org in NYC at the Manhattan "No Kings" demonstration in support of journalism, the First Amendment and democracy. Without a free press and an informed electorate - ...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h
Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

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Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14d
Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.”

Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 2d
The JD Vance interviews show how broken the Sunday morning political show format has become. Such interviews are a purely performative exercise.
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d
New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 1d
The @nytimes.com shamefully insists on "both sides" rather than reality of #Portland /Chicago/LA (NO credible reason for POTUS to send the Natl Guard - against the wishes of govs) vs. POTUS and GOP elected propaganda.

h/t @timdickinson.bsky.social

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NYT "comparative calm" or "hellscape"
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d
"Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @danfalk.bsky.social for the @buckscountybeacon.com: buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/book...
Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science - Bucks County Beacon
“Science Under Siege,” by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 2d
Exactly.
Media ownership is agenda and narrative-shaping power.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 2d
Newsweek is the old magazine in name only. It was bought by Korean cult leader David Jang's media group IBT in 2013.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 2d
Excellent thread by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

Legacy media is democracywashing the demolition of American democracy and institutions by a fascist MAGA movement.

AGSulzberger, Joe Kahn, David Halbfinger, Pat Healy et al are choosing not to explicitly defend American democracy.

#FixMediaNow
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d
Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 2d
Blame him for being an asshole, a conman, and a liar…

But realize there’s another person there who is letting him lie.

Until this acquiescence to the firehose of lies stops, we’re all fucked.

Hold media accountable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d
Thomas is 100% right. There's no law (yet) that a news network has to put proven liars on the air to lie to their audience. If a network thinks it needs to put Vance on because he's VP, the network needs to make the defense of truth so aggressive that Vance ends the interview and flees.
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 2d
Blame him for being an asshole, a conman, and a liar…

But realize there’s another person there who is letting him lie.

Until this acquiescence to the firehose of lies stops, we’re all fucked.

Hold media accountable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jun 2
In case folks have wondered about some of the right-wing opinions that run in Newsweek.

Josh Hammer is the senior editor-at-large for Newsweek.

Claremont-Newsweek-A3P-WH.

Billionaires invest in the long game.

Thread h/t @jennycohn.bsky.social

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jun 2
Claremont alum Josh Hammer is Sr. Counsel at A3P, which advises Trump on judicial nominees. In 2024, Hammer blasted the vetting of past nominees & advised looking into the “private life” of future picks. “If you go to a church or synagogue that’s flying a rainbow flag, you cannot be promoted.” 1/
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2d
Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
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Cascade PBS Newsroom @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social · 4d
As Cascade PBS sunsets its digital-first news operation, we take a look back at some of the stories that exemplify its impact on the region over the past 18 years, first as Crosscut and later as the Cascade PBS newsroom.
Remembering Crosscut: 18 years of independent journalism in WA
As Cascade PBS sunsets its digital newsroom, formerly Crosscut, current and former staff members reflect on some of the outlet’s impactful reporting.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 3d
The POTUS is dangerously detached from reality.

Why is this not a #FrontPage story?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 8d
🚨 New episode from @drilledmedia.bsky.social: The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction.

@aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social join @amywestervelt.bsky.social to discuss why understanding the media’s role in blocking climate action is crucial to solving the crisis.

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S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 4d
Woman-led. Mississippi-rooted. Our founders built this newsroom on truth, equity and community. Invest in their vision: givebutter.com/mfpdonate
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Grist @grist.org · 4d
Albert Carter @albertcarter.bsky.social couldn’t find a nonprofit that knew what to do with his coding skills—so he built one. His group, Bank.Green, uses #AI to expose which banks fund the climate crisis.

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#Banks #Finance #Investments #Climate
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d
Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 4d
Wondering why @forbes.com, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO @randalllane.bsky.social, has seen an exodus of talented journalists recently? This right here.
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Brent E. Huffman @brenthuffman.bsky.social · 4d
So very proud of my students! Award-winning
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#documentary "Hey Hugo," created in my Documenting #Carceral Injustice program at Sheridan #Prison, plays
the prestigious #Chicago Film Festival
October 25th:
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Medill students, incarcerated classmates collaborate on award-winning ‘Hey Hugo’ documentary Medill students, incarcerated peers work on ‘Hey Hugo’ documentary
In a Medill School of Journalism course that pairs journalism students with incarcerated peers, two seniors produced an award-winning documentary entitled “Hey Hugo.” The documentary was created in “D...
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