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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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"

A🧵 +blog post
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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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nickturse.bsky.social
SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities

theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...
Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities
An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.
theintercept.com
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
You are welcome.

March your media diet to your values.

The Murdochs love Tubi! Lachlan Murdoch boasts about it to shareholders!
A MESSAGE FROM
LACHLAN MURDOCH
Dear Shareholders,
Fiscal 2024 was marked by achievements across all our businesses, including delivering strong total company affiliate revenue growth each quarter from our ongoing renewals with distributors; extending Tubi's position as the most-watched free ad-supported TV streaming service in the United States; and generating strong ratings and share growth at
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Spread the knowledge.

The Murdochs love Tubi! Lachlan Murdoch boasts about it to shareholders! Opening graf.

A MESSAGE FROM
LACHLAN MURDOCH
Dear Shareholders,
Fiscal 2024 was marked by achievements across all our businesses, including delivering strong total company affiliate revenue growth each quarter from our ongoing renewals with distributors; extending Tubi's position as the most-watched free ad-supported TV streaming service in the United States; and generating strong ratings and share growth at FOX News.
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potatothings420.bsky.social
Yep. I looked it up. Tubi is Fox. Bye, Tubi.
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
With the MLB playoffs on Fox Sports 1 and promos being run for Tubi it’s a good to remind folks that #Tubi is Lachlan & Rupert Murdoch's/FOX's streaming media platform.

#TubiFundsFox

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tiny.cc/TubiFundsFOX
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.
tiny.cc
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joshuabenton.com
June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.
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pbump.com
I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges
Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.
www.washingtonpost.com
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maureenogle.bsky.social
I did not know this. Did you?
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
With the MLB playoffs on Fox Sports 1 and promos being run for Tubi it’s a good to remind folks that #Tubi is Lachlan & Rupert Murdoch's/FOX's streaming media platform.

#TubiFundsFox

blog post
tiny.cc/TubiFundsFOX
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.
tiny.cc
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
Lachlan Murdoch bragged about Tubi in the opening of his 2024 statement to shareholders.
MESSAGE FROM
LACHLAN MURDOCH
Dear Shareholders,
Fiscal 2024 was marked by achievements across all our businesses, including delivering strong total company affiliate revenue growth each quarter from our ongoing renewals with distributors; extending Tubi's position as the most-watched free ad-supported TV streaming service in the United States; and generating strong ratings and share growth at FOX News.
The Murdochs love Tubi! Lachlan Murdoch
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susanrinkunas.com
If anyone has recently canceled a subscription to an evil corporation’s media product, we’d love to have your support on @autonomynews.co!
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I’ve asked this question—and many more—multiple times this week.

Reporting takes time. Please support @autonomynews.co with a paid subscription or one time gift so @garnethenderson.com and I can keep bringing you stories about the many attacks on our bodies
www.autonomynews.co/support/
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Me: How do you want to be identified?
Source: Thank you for asking.
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#ShouldBeFrontPage

POTUS & Roger Stone protégé Jack Posobiec are retconning the heroic anti-fascists that fought Weimar Republic Nazis.

The intentional effort to render “anti-fascist” devoid of its positivity is strategic.

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Jack Posobiec making “white power”
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protecttruth.bsky.social
this is an extremely high priority.

“Murdoch Fox” and “Ellison CBS” should be said by every Democratic politician at least once per day.
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It's incumbent upon the Democratic Party to educate the public on why CBS news is not to be trusted anymore.
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protecttruth.bsky.social
Contra Trump Censor-in-Chief Brendan Carr, the purpose of the FCC is NOT to censor speech or punish people based on what they say.

The purpose of the FCC, as created, was to stop billionaires from controlling our media.
The famous Fairness Doctrine aimed to block billionaire speech domination.
protecttruth.bsky.social
The root problem is the Ellisons, and billionaires.

We are going to have to use the FCC in the future to stop billionaire control of our media — as it was designed by its creators to do.
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dmihalopoulos.bsky.social
Another L for the G — and this time it’s a W for press freedom, in Chicago Headline Club et al vs. Noem.

Congratulations and heartfelt thanks on behalf of all journalists in Illinois #JournalismIsNotACrime
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Not enough people at the national level doing what Chris Hayes is doing right here- speaking truth about what is happening in Chicago.
allinwithchris.bsky.social
WATCH: "People at a deep level understand that what they are seeing in Chicago is wrong. They know that they are free citizens of a free country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the backlash to Trump's takeover in Chicago.
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In a functional democracy with a media ecosystem mobilizing to defend the republic this would be #FrontPage news.

POTUS refuses to answer - or is ignorant - to the significance of suspending habeus corpus.

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atrupar.com
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
#ShouldBeFrontPage

POTUS & Roger Stone protégé Jack Posobiec are retconning the heroic anti-fascists that fought Weimar Republic Nazis.

The intentional effort to render “anti-fascist” devoid of its positivity is strategic.

bsky.app/profile/just...
Jack Posobiec making “white power”
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
POTUS is detached from reality and democracy.

Constitutional failure.

SCOTUS, The House, The Senate and the Fourth Estate.

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atrupar.com
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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jacksapoch.bsky.social
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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Thank you for this @jvl.bsky.social
One of the reasons people aren’t alarmed enough: legacy media leaders are democracywashing a fascist movement consolidating and flexing its power.
Exhibit A. NYT front page today: nothing on Chicago but ✅Hunter Biden.
🧵NYT vs ChicTrib👇
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POTUS has declared himself above the law, declared “war” on America & put our Government for sale. The crypto grift is corruption; he’s extorting companies and nations w/BS “tariffs” even steering media companies to his allies like the Ellisons.

AGSulzberger and Joe Kahn NYT #FrontPage today

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jvl.bsky.social
As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
www.thebulwark.com