Matt Jordan
@mattjord.bsky.social
Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy
Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5
Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu
Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5
Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu
Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
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This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Leavitt: "The people of Honduras have highlighted to him how the former President Hernandez was set up. This was a clear Biden over prosecution."
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
Both were later sentenced to life in prison!
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
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🔴Trump Envoy Has Financial Ties With Former Adviser to Putin’s ‘Money Man’ Now Leading Kremlin Peace Talks
Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
Trump Envoy Has Financial Ties With Former Adviser to Putin’s ‘Money Man’ Now Leading Kremlin Peace Talks
Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🔴Trump Envoy Has Financial Ties With Former Adviser to Putin’s ‘Money Man’ Now Leading Kremlin Peace Talks
Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
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"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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It’s neither the lawful answer nor is it the oath they took.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s neither the lawful answer nor is it the oath they took.
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She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.
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"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
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New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the incredible shrinking Speaker of the House.
Least. Speaker. Ever.
When it comes to American politicians who say little and do less, the gold standard remains former President Calvin Coolidge.
As most people know, Coolidge was quiet, deeply reserved, and generally u...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the incredible shrinking Speaker of the House.
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
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The WSJ used the words "anti woke crusader" in the second graf of an article to describe the new EIC of CBS News. A job that used to be important and serious has become a punchline. We have no real newspapers. Just a bunch of losers sucking each other off in a circle
"The hiring of a former opinion journalist with strong views on Israel and diversity, equity and inclusion"
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
‘I Wanna Blow This Up’: How Bari Weiss Is Trying to Overhaul CBS News
The new editor in chief is personally recruiting potential anchors, booking guests herself and asking staff what they do.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The WSJ used the words "anti woke crusader" in the second graf of an article to describe the new EIC of CBS News. A job that used to be important and serious has become a punchline. We have no real newspapers. Just a bunch of losers sucking each other off in a circle
Now do the US
A series of Whatsapp messages revealed that the British MEP had received over €45,000 from an alleged Russian asset to make pro-Kremlin statements.
Former Brexit MEP jailed for 10 years for taking Russian bribes
Former Brexit MEP jailed for 10 years for taking Russian bribes
www.brusselstimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Now do the US
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it won't get as much attention because the U.S. press doesn't care about infrastructure, but the Trump admin is also threatening to withhold billions of dollars in infrastructure bill broadband grants if states pass laws focused on making broadband affordable or try to enforce net neutrality
Yesterday, an Executive Order designed to prevent states from regulating AI within their own borders was leaked. If signed, this Executive Order would establish an AI litigation “task force” at the Justice Department to threaten, harass, & sue states that pass any bill deemed “unlawful.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
it won't get as much attention because the U.S. press doesn't care about infrastructure, but the Trump admin is also threatening to withhold billions of dollars in infrastructure bill broadband grants if states pass laws focused on making broadband affordable or try to enforce net neutrality
Great ancillary benefit of our tech overlords creating a dystopic tech world overrun with A.I. defecated simulacra.
The disruption they manufactured generates a need for technologies to detect technologically crafted unreality.
We are a blink away from Blade Runner and the Void-Kampf test.
The disruption they manufactured generates a need for technologies to detect technologically crafted unreality.
We are a blink away from Blade Runner and the Void-Kampf test.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Great ancillary benefit of our tech overlords creating a dystopic tech world overrun with A.I. defecated simulacra.
The disruption they manufactured generates a need for technologies to detect technologically crafted unreality.
We are a blink away from Blade Runner and the Void-Kampf test.
The disruption they manufactured generates a need for technologies to detect technologically crafted unreality.
We are a blink away from Blade Runner and the Void-Kampf test.
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"The multitrillion-dollar institution collectively known as the federal government belongs to all of us, not to just some of us, and certainly not to our elected leaders." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-must-recl...
We Must Reclaim a Government That Belongs to All of Us
From the White House rubble to the bottomless pit of Epstein, we are in the midst of a nationwide struggle over whose government this really is.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"The multitrillion-dollar institution collectively known as the federal government belongs to all of us, not to just some of us, and certainly not to our elected leaders." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-must-recl...
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
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When Musk's Grok repeats one of the central lies of the Holocaust deniers, it then doubles down [see replies] and insists that a) Holocaust denial is free speech and b) it has an evidentiary basis.
This is where we are.
This is where we are.
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
When Musk's Grok repeats one of the central lies of the Holocaust deniers, it then doubles down [see replies] and insists that a) Holocaust denial is free speech and b) it has an evidentiary basis.
This is where we are.
This is where we are.
Floating the idea for the Theft-Tech two step to prepare the public.
1. Fleece investors with endless A.I. hype narrative to cause bubble
2. Fleece taxpayers with bailout from government you bought using capital from step 1 after the bubble bursts
1. Fleece investors with endless A.I. hype narrative to cause bubble
2. Fleece taxpayers with bailout from government you bought using capital from step 1 after the bubble bursts
BBC: Pichai said while AI investment had been an “‘extraordinary moment’, there was some ‘irrationality’ ..
“Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said .. ‘I think no company is going to be immune, including us.’”
$GOOGL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said .. ‘I think no company is going to be immune, including us.’”
$GOOGL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Floating the idea for the Theft-Tech two step to prepare the public.
1. Fleece investors with endless A.I. hype narrative to cause bubble
2. Fleece taxpayers with bailout from government you bought using capital from step 1 after the bubble bursts
1. Fleece investors with endless A.I. hype narrative to cause bubble
2. Fleece taxpayers with bailout from government you bought using capital from step 1 after the bubble bursts
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"So what? Why is a robust public education system important? Public schooling is one of those common goods—like working infrastructure, a clean environment, and public health—that lifts all our prospects." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...
The Republican Attack on Public Education
Dismantling the Department of Education and pouring taxpayer dollars into private schools.
www.thebulwark.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"So what? Why is a robust public education system important? Public schooling is one of those common goods—like working infrastructure, a clean environment, and public health—that lifts all our prospects." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...
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Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.