Jason Campbell
@jasonscampbell.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Media Matters; Recovering Philosopher; “An evil piece of garbage” - Ben Shapiro
Steve Bannon's unseen Jeffrey Epstein footage; And MAGA's infighting over H-1B visas.
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Media Matters weekly newsletter, November 14
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: Steve Bannon is all over the newly released Epstein documents, raising questions about the 15 hours of interviews he promised to release. M...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Steve Bannon's unseen Jeffrey Epstein footage; And MAGA's infighting over H-1B visas.
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MAGA's election despair and the crisis of affordability; Also, Fox News remains largely silent during firestorm over Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes.
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Media Matters weekly newsletter, November 7
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: MAGA’s despair following this week’s elections — and Sean Hannity’s attempt to whitewash the New Jersey gubernatorial election. Right-wing ...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
MAGA's election despair and the crisis of affordability; Also, Fox News remains largely silent during firestorm over Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes.
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Fox News and Fox Business glossed over rising food and grocery prices last month, while Trump redoubled his efforts to simply lie about the worsening inflation situation hitting hundreds of millions of Americans.
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Fox glossed over grocery prices last month as Trump kept falsely claiming that food costs were coming down
Fox News and Fox Business spent just 1 hour and 23 minutes discussing high and rising grocery prices in the month of October, as high-profile off-year elections approached. The two networks’ relative ...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fox News and Fox Business glossed over rising food and grocery prices last month, while Trump redoubled his efforts to simply lie about the worsening inflation situation hitting hundreds of millions of Americans.
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Newsmax host on election results: “It's like a funeral in here”
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November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Newsmax host on election results: “It's like a funeral in here”
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No treats, just tricks: Right-wing media cheer SNAP cuts.
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Media Matters weekly newsletter, October 31
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: MAGA split on SNAP — some pundits horrifically attack recipients while others use them as a cudgel against Democrats. Right-wing figures an...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
No treats, just tricks: Right-wing media cheer SNAP cuts.
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
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This isn't remotely the point, but the pedant in me feels obligated to point out: "un-painless" just means…painful.
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This isn't remotely the point, but the pedant in me feels obligated to point out: "un-painless" just means…painful.
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The complete inversion of morals on the right is not surprising but it's still shocking. Imagine being on the side of intentionally starving children.
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The complete inversion of morals on the right is not surprising but it's still shocking. Imagine being on the side of intentionally starving children.
Matt Walsh: “If there's a noncitizen here who would starve without EBT, I would still say we should not give it to them”
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October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Matt Walsh: “If there's a noncitizen here who would starve without EBT, I would still say we should not give it to them”
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The Trump administration will soon be releasing two Medicaid rules that would ban medicaid funding for gender affirming care for trans youth and any Medicaid reimbursements to any organization that provides care to trans youth. This would be a de facto national ban
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Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Trump administration will soon be releasing two Medicaid rules that would ban medicaid funding for gender affirming care for trans youth and any Medicaid reimbursements to any organization that provides care to trans youth. This would be a de facto national ban
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Newsmax host: "You sound like a defeated man already and it's not even election day"
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Newsmax host: "You sound like a defeated man already and it's not even election day"
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How lucky can one family be? Win the presidency and their family business starts booming at exactly the same time!
“.. In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million ..
“.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”
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“.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”
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October 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
How lucky can one family be? Win the presidency and their family business starts booming at exactly the same time!
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The left's rhetoric is out of control and inciting political violence. The right's rhetoric is unifying the country through heartfelt appeals to our common bonds as Americans.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The left's rhetoric is out of control and inciting political violence. The right's rhetoric is unifying the country through heartfelt appeals to our common bonds as Americans.
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Our saving grace from this Christofascists is going to be that they're all such weird little freaks. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Fox News' Will Cain calls Zohran Mamdani a "threat to Western civilization"
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October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Our saving grace from this Christofascists is going to be that they're all such weird little freaks. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...
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Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...
Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.
One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project
If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...
MAGA media are cheering for Trump's invasion of American cities; Also, John Durham continues to haunt right-wing media.
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Media Matters weekly newsletter, October 10
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: MAGA media are defending and celebrating Trump’s invasion of American cities. Right-wing media are yelling about Jack Smith allegedly spyin...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
MAGA media are cheering for Trump's invasion of American cities; Also, John Durham continues to haunt right-wing media.
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Their prayers are to themselves. They’ve flattened the Christian faith into a theological license to carry out their violent political program. In the face of actual prayers in line with Christian teaching, this is how they respond.
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Their prayers are to themselves. They’ve flattened the Christian faith into a theological license to carry out their violent political program. In the face of actual prayers in line with Christian teaching, this is how they respond.
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You don't say: Fox & Friends admits “coffee prices are soaring” due to Trump's tariffs
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October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
You don't say: Fox & Friends admits “coffee prices are soaring” due to Trump's tariffs
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if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately
The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
October 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately
MAGA throws a temper tantrum over Bad Bunny; Also, right-wing media cheers on a government shutdown.
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Media Matters weekly newsletter, October 3
Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: Right-wing media’s Bad Bunny temper tantrum reveals who they think counts as American. Some MAGA media pundits were, and are, cheering for ...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
MAGA throws a temper tantrum over Bad Bunny; Also, right-wing media cheers on a government shutdown.
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The politics of full service to the fossil fuels industry, and spreading its malicious propaganda, on full display.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Reducing the CO2 emissions, that's expensive but really wholly unnecessary. Extremely expensive, very little benefit from that. Again, it's just returning common sense. Americans want affordable energy."
October 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The politics of full service to the fossil fuels industry, and spreading its malicious propaganda, on full display.
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NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
One of those most anti-Christ things I've read
October 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One of those most anti-Christ things I've read
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SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.
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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.
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From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me: