john whitehouse
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everything is real but it's also just as fake
everything is real but it's also just as fake
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Although guns have been a part of US culture from the beginning, modern right-wing gun culture is downstream of the industry's need for profit, and they do that by selling a fantasy of right-wing violence against left wingers, Pretti doesn't fit that fantasy bsky.app/profile/hcom...
We're is the NRA shouting about 2A rights. No fucking where that just shows you what they truely care about. We are just cannon fodder for profits
January 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Although guns have been a part of US culture from the beginning, modern right-wing gun culture is downstream of the industry's need for profit, and they do that by selling a fantasy of right-wing violence against left wingers, Pretti doesn't fit that fantasy bsky.app/profile/hcom...
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1) Melugin slips in here something Fox has repeatedly contradicted on-air: Pretti never drew his gun.
2) Melugin is on Homan’s side of his ongoing schism with Noem/Bovino over enforcement tactics, trying to preserve the mass deportation project.
2) Melugin is on Homan’s side of his ongoing schism with Noem/Bovino over enforcement tactics, trying to preserve the mass deportation project.
Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.
January 26, 2026 at 1:09 AM
1) Melugin slips in here something Fox has repeatedly contradicted on-air: Pretti never drew his gun.
2) Melugin is on Homan’s side of his ongoing schism with Noem/Bovino over enforcement tactics, trying to preserve the mass deportation project.
2) Melugin is on Homan’s side of his ongoing schism with Noem/Bovino over enforcement tactics, trying to preserve the mass deportation project.
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Fox News once postured as the patriotic opposition to purported government tyranny. Right now, its primary purpose is to explain to viewers why it is good that masked agents of the state are executing Americans on the street. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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January 25, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Fox News once postured as the patriotic opposition to purported government tyranny. Right now, its primary purpose is to explain to viewers why it is good that masked agents of the state are executing Americans on the street. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
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The whole interview is worth it
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The whole interview is worth it
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Recall that a district court wrote a lengthy and closely reasoned opinion blocking DOGE's access to sensitive SSA data after extensive briefing. The Fourth Circuit agreed. Then SCOTUS threw that out with no explanation in a two-page emergency order.
"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls..."
If anyone has any information on the identity of the "advocacy group tyring to overturn election results in certain states” and who were secretly in contact with DOGE, my Signal is DavidGilbert.01
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Recall that a district court wrote a lengthy and closely reasoned opinion blocking DOGE's access to sensitive SSA data after extensive briefing. The Fourth Circuit agreed. Then SCOTUS threw that out with no explanation in a two-page emergency order.
imo, one of the most undercovered shifts in the media landscape is the emergence of *spanish-language* right-wing media. here's some of what's happening in that space in the last week.
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 PM
imo, one of the most undercovered shifts in the media landscape is the emergence of *spanish-language* right-wing media. here's some of what's happening in that space in the last week.
you just don't see language like this in right-wing spaces anymore, quite shocking to see it.
"This is a direct and profound violation of the Fourth Amendment ... The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American, and has been un-American since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791." www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...
Newsmax's senior judicial analyst: "The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American"
www.mediamatters.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 PM
you just don't see language like this in right-wing spaces anymore, quite shocking to see it.
"This is a direct and profound violation of the Fourth Amendment ... The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American, and has been un-American since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791." www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...
Newsmax's senior judicial analyst: "The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American"
www.mediamatters.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"This is a direct and profound violation of the Fourth Amendment ... The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American, and has been un-American since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791." www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...
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There would be no conceivable reason to handle the policy this way it they really believed it were legally defensible.
A whistleblower says the memo authorizing these irregular entries was handled in a hush-hush manner, being given to a subordinate to read, for example, on condition that it be handed back to a supervisor waiting there on the spot with no copy kept. That sounds like consciousness of guilt to me. /3
January 21, 2026 at 10:46 PM
There would be no conceivable reason to handle the policy this way it they really believed it were legally defensible.
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Roundup of the insane rhetoric coming from the right at the moment. It's remarkable how *little* violence we've seen from protesters, given the feds' aggression. Maybe I've missed something, but the worst I've seen is people throwing snowballs. The MN weather has injured more cops than protesters.
Right-wing media are describing pro-immigrant Minnesota activists using the language of war
Right-wing media figures and outlets are using the language of war to characterize protests against the presence of violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota.The fatal shooting o...
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January 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Roundup of the insane rhetoric coming from the right at the moment. It's remarkable how *little* violence we've seen from protesters, given the feds' aggression. Maybe I've missed something, but the worst I've seen is people throwing snowballs. The MN weather has injured more cops than protesters.
went long about the new right wing media www.mediamatters.org/misinformer-...
Nick Fuentes is the biggest beneficiary of a crowded and fractured new era of right-wing media
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December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
went long about the new right wing media www.mediamatters.org/misinformer-...
witkoff: for bad
is that anything
is that anything
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
witkoff: for bad
is that anything
is that anything
i've just analyzed the early results and can conclusively tell you that they're all numbers
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
i've just analyzed the early results and can conclusively tell you that they're all numbers
as a millennial of a certain age yes i am familiar with the rapture www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v8G...
Sister Saviour (DFA Vocal Remix)
YouTube video by The Rapture - Topic
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September 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
as a millennial of a certain age yes i am familiar with the rapture www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v8G...
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A crucial win for all of our freedoms: “It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.” Thank @mmfa.bsky.social and support them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters
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August 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A crucial win for all of our freedoms: “It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.” Thank @mmfa.bsky.social and support them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
"This hall of mirrors, where regular people going about their lives are transformed into violent threats to community safety, inverts the actual dynamics at play" www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
Inside the alliance between right-wing media and Trump “Border Czar” Tom Homan
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August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"This hall of mirrors, where regular people going about their lives are transformed into violent threats to community safety, inverts the actual dynamics at play" www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
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Media writing about events of the last 24 hours might want to connect some dots here.
Just a friendly suggestion.
Just a friendly suggestion.
*clears throat*
Apropos and as a reminder, we (myself personally and Media Matters) are *still* being sued by X for a report.
Apropos and as a reminder, we (myself personally and Media Matters) are *still* being sued by X for a report.
July 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Media writing about events of the last 24 hours might want to connect some dots here.
Just a friendly suggestion.
Just a friendly suggestion.
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very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922
June 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922
when simon maloy read jeanine pirro's book
May 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
when simon maloy read jeanine pirro's book
insane that this sentence is being written by, charitably, someone from a very very very friendly outlet to the admin
April 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
insane that this sentence is being written by, charitably, someone from a very very very friendly outlet to the admin