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Center for Media and Democracy
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The Center for Media and Democracy is a national watchdog group that investigates corruption that undermines our democracy, environment, and economic prosperity. https://linktr.ee/centerformediaanddemocracy
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 22d
If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
Freedoms Under Attack: DHS Violence Against Journalists, Observers, and Protesters
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 12h
"A group of Chicago press associations, journalists, nonprofits and unions sued the Trump administration and its top officials Monday, saying federal agents had used 'extreme brutality' at local protests to silence both the press and civilians."
Chicago journalists, protesters sue Trump administration, alleging ‘extreme brutality’
The organizations are urging the court to protect the First Amendment rights of protesters to peacefully protest and journalists to “observe, record, and report on the federal agents’ activities and t...
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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social · 3d
Clean Energy…NOT IF THEY CAN STOP IT….

Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025 www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/09/19/r... via @exposedbycmd.bsky.social
Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025 - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The Republican Attorneys General Association brought in $10.1 million in contributions in the first six months of 2025, its latest IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The ...
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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social · 3d
All PERFORMANCE….commercials galore

Led by Fox, Journalists Embed with DHS Amid Media Crackdown www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/09/24/l... via @exposedbycmd.bsky.social
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed with DHS Amid Media Crackdown - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 6d
Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation & current director at Chevron, is tied for the 2nd largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for mayor of NYC. So far, he has donated a total of $1 million to the super PAC.
Chevron Director Pumps $1 Million Into Pro-Cuomo Super PAC - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation and current director at Chevron, is tied for the second largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former New York Gove...
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Matthew Cunningham-Cook @matthewccook5.bsky.social · 8d
Tied for the second-largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is an oil and gas heir and Chevron director. www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/09/30/c...
Chevron Director Pumps $1 Million Into Pro-Cuomo Super PAC - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation and current director at Chevron, is tied for the second largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former New York Gove...
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 8d
ICYMI: State Farm Fiddles with Fossil Fuels While the World Burns
State Farm Fiddles with Fossil Fuels While the World Burns - EXPOSEDbyCMD
On August 15, insurance regulators in Illinois granted State Farm a 27% rate hike on homeowners policies, with premiums projected to climb by $475 a year for the average homeowner.
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation & current director at Chevron, is tied for the 2nd largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for mayor of NYC. So far, he has donated a total of $1 million to the super PAC.
Chevron Director Pumps $1 Million Into Pro-Cuomo Super PAC - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Oil industry heir John Hess, the longtime former CEO of Hess Corporation and current director at Chevron, is tied for the second largest donor to Fix the City, a super PAC backing former New York Gove...
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 9d
NEW: State Farm offers investment services to anyone, not just policyholders, along with mutual funds open to investors. At the end of June, it held $3.3 billion in Exxon shares and $1.9 billion in Chevron stock — making it among the top 20 investors in both companies.
State Farm Fiddles with Fossil Fuels While the World Burns - EXPOSEDbyCMD
On August 15, insurance regulators in Illinois granted State Farm a 27% rate hike on homeowners policies, with premiums projected to climb by $475 a year for the average homeowner.
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 13d
Right-wing Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters has resigned and announced that he will lead the anti-union network "Teacher Freedom Alliance." The Center for Media and Democracy wrote about the launch of this astroturf operation earlier this year. Read more 👇
Freedom Foundation Launches Anti-Union Network for Teachers - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The Freedom Foundation, a notorious anti-union advocacy group, has launched a new organization, the Teacher Freedom Alliance, which the foundation’s CEO describes as “an alternative for pro-America ed...
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 13d
ICYMI: Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/09/24/l...
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed with DHS Amid Media Crackdown - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 13d
“If you make statements that right-wing politicians don’t like, then you can lose your job. Period. That is chilling,” said Isaac Kamola, director of the American Association of University Professors’ Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom
How Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist reshaped free speech on campus
Experts say the project laid the groundwork for subsequent attempts to limit what professors and teachers say in the classroom.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 14d
I am so glad @matthewccook5.bsky.social wrote about this. Journalists embedding with ICE is widespread and despicable. In one case, a Penske truck approached day laborers at Home Depot asking them if they wanted work, and when the workers gathered round, agents jumped out, along with a camera crew.
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed With DHS Amid Media Crackdown
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of their claims about deportation efforts.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15d
For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting.

He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job.

We demand his immediate release.

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Letter demanding release of journalist Mario Guevara
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14d
In the Bush years is was embeds in Iraq. Now it's embeds on ICE raids. @exposedbycmd.bsky.social reports on the latest trend of DHS dribbling out access for friendly journalists and stonewalling everyone else.
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Led by Fox, Journalists Embed With DHS Amid Media Crackdown
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of their claims about deportation efforts.
prospect.org
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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social · 14d
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 14d
NEW: Journalists from FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, New York Times, New York Post, & Newsmax have all embedded with ICE & CBP operations over the past nine months under the umbrella of the DHS, giving the operations a publicity boost while leaving key claims about DHS enforcement policies unquestioned.
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed with DHS Amid Media Crackdown - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
www.exposedbycmd.org
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Dr. Fröhlich (prefers not to) @edgarallandoh.bsky.social · 14d
Operation Dessert Storm.

It's all a folding inward of violence rehearsed elsewhere.

A big argument among historians in 🇩🇪 has been if and to what degree the German and European colonial atrocities prefigure the internal violence of the Third Reich. I'd say this thesis is confirmed by 🇺🇸 events.
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 14d
NEW: Journalists from FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, New York Times, New York Post, & Newsmax have all embedded with ICE & CBP operations over the past nine months under the umbrella of the DHS, giving the operations a publicity boost while leaving key claims about DHS enforcement policies unquestioned.
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed with DHS Amid Media Crackdown - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
www.exposedbycmd.org
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Matthew Cunningham-Cook @matthewccook5.bsky.social · 14d
NEW from me at @exposedbycmd.bsky.social . Nearly every major news outlet has been doing ICE or CBP ridealongs, leaving key government assertions totally uninterrogated. www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/09/24/l...
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed with DHS Amid Media Crackdown - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
www.exposedbycmd.org
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 14d
NEW: Journalists from FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, New York Times, New York Post, & Newsmax have all embedded with ICE & CBP operations over the past nine months under the umbrella of the DHS, giving the operations a publicity boost while leaving key claims about DHS enforcement policies unquestioned.
Led by Fox, Journalists Embed with DHS Amid Media Crackdown - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Major media outlets fail to question ICE and DHS on the reliability of its claims about deportation efforts
www.exposedbycmd.org
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 16d
ICYMI: Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025
Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025 - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The Republican Attorneys General Association brought in $10.1 million in contributions in the first six months of 2025, its latest IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The ...
www.exposedbycmd.org
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 19d
“Viral social media videos... not only spread misinformation, but also undermine public safety," said DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin today. Does that include social media videos on DHS violence against journalists?
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 22d
If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
Freedoms Under Attack: DHS Violence Against Journalists, Observers, and Protesters
YouTube video by The Center for Media and Democracy
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 19d
A June 2 email from RLDF’s then President to RAGA members obtained by CMD shows that Bondi has set up a State Attorneys General Task Force to work with her & the DOJ to “focus on addressing different criminal and civil issues via state statutes & regulations, in concert with enforcing federal codes”
Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025 - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The Republican Attorneys General Association brought in $10.1 million in contributions in the first six months of 2025, its latest IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The ...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19d
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 19d
NEW investigation from the Center for Media and Democracy reveals that the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) has cuts ties with Christian Right activist/funder Leonard Leo and brought in $10.1 million in the first half of 2025.

Read more 👇
Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025 - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The Republican Attorneys General Association brought in $10.1 million in contributions in the first six months of 2025, its latest IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The ...
www.exposedbycmd.org
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 19d
NEW: The Republican Attorneys General Association brought in $10.1 mil in contributions in the first six months of 2025, its latest IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The haul is $1.3 mil larger than what the pay-to-play group raised in the first half of 2023.
Republican AG Group Cuts Ties with Leonard Leo, Brings in $10.1 Million in First Half of 2025 - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The Republican Attorneys General Association brought in $10.1 million in contributions in the first six months of 2025, its latest IRS filing examined by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The ...
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