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Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Apr 16
Even as President Trump’s destructive tariffs disrupted the global economy and tanked the stock market, we found that among right-leaning online shows that self-categorize as nonpolitical, a full quarter of discussions still embraced the president’s deeply unpopular economic policy.
Study: Most Pro-Trump podcasters support Trump's tariffs but some fractures emerge
In a new study of top pro-Trump online shows in the days after President Donald Trump launched his formal tariff plan, Media Matters has found some dissension as his economic policy disrupts the globa...
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helena hind @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: We compiled some of Jesse Watters' most inflammatory takes — including claims that Dems are "at war" and that their “strategy” is “using bullets to bully us into political submission." Meanwhile, right-wing leaders demand the left tone down their rhetoric.

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Jesse Watters' history of inflammatory and dehumanizing remarks
Fox News host Jesse Watters’ inflammatory rhetoric has reached new lows during the second Trump administration. After the right-wing prime-time host said last week that America needed to bomb or “mayb...
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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 19h
Bari Weiss is now CBS's editor in chief. Just two years ago, her outlet The Free Press was the springboard for an anti-trans "whistleblower" & a ban on care for trans youth in Missouri. The stories have been heavily scrutinized for falsehoods and inconsistencies

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Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic
Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20h
Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/why...
Why the right-wing media apparatus is suddenly yelling about Jack Smith supposedly spying on GOP senators
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 21h
After Jesse Watters said last week that America needed to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations headquarters, the UN reached out to Fox News and Watters privately apologized. The incident is part of a much larger pattern: www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watter...
Jesse Watters' history of inflammatory and dehumanizing remarks
Fox News host Jesse Watters’ inflammatory rhetoric has reached new lows during the second Trump administration. After the right-wing prime-time host said last week that America needed to bomb or “mayb...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 1d
A Trump-appointed judge just demolished right-wing fearmongering about Portland www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d
On MSNBC's Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses what Project 2025 reveals about the shutdown: "They were going to get rid of as many people as they possibly could independent of the shutdown"
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 1d
Despite Fox hosts pulling out all the stops to present Portland as a violent hellhole begging for federal intervention, a Trump-appointed judge blocked the deployment and noted the city's protests have been “small and uneventful.”
A Trump-appointed judge just demolished right-wing fearmongering about Portland
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 4d
Mentions of the Obamacare subsidies whose elimination they support are few and far between, as the hosts instead try to redirect the attention of their audience and stoke their rage over the prospect of undocumented immigrants receiving benefits. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/mas...
The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 4d
The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket
The masks slip as Fox propagandists reveal they want health care premiums to skyrocket
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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 4d
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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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 4d
This is allegedly still about Bad Bunny btw: www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...
Newsmax guest on ICE agents at the Super Bowl: "I want to see ICE agents tackling performers and bringing them off the field. Send them to Uganda with Kilmar Abrego Garcia."
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 5d
Scoop:

Richard Mack, the leader of a far-right sheriffs group, told multiple far-right podcasts in late September that Tom Homan said he would send at least a member of his staff to the organization’s upcoming national conference. Homan said he'd "run it past" Trump if he could come himself too.
A far-right sheriffs organization says Trump “border czar” Tom Homan is sending a representative to its upcoming conference
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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 5d
Newsmax host: “These poor government employees are now on a paid vacation”
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 6d
Day three of the right-wing Bad Bunny meltdown: “NFL leadership has decided to hire a cross dressing, America-hating, ICE-hating Puerto Rican dude”
Benny Johnson on Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: "NFL leadership has decided to hire a cross dressing, America-hating, ICE-hating Puerto Rican dude"
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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d
Ben Shapiro: “It kind of feels like, you know, a government shutdown is mostly the stuff you need and kind of gets rid of a lot of the stuff you don't”
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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d
Benny Johnson: “There is a government shutdown right now, and we are cheering for that. We say yes.”
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 7d
Right-wing media are pushing a lie that Democrats are threatening to shut down the government over “free health care for illegal immigrants” even though undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded health benefits.
Right-wing media run wild with the blatantly false claim that Democrats are shutting down the government to secure "health care for illegals"
Right-wing media are pushing a lie that Democrats are threatening to shut down the government over “free health care for illegal immigrants” and want to “blow up the budget” for “illegal aliens” even ...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 7d
State and local leaders in North Carolina say that only a fraction of approved FEMA funds have actually been disbursed due to additional Trump administration red tape.
One year after Hurricane Helene, local news outlets show frustration with slow pace of recovery
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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 7d
A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement.

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Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans
Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...
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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 7d
Benny Johnson: “White rage is how you win a war. That's how America's always won wars, idiots.”
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 7d
Some right-wing pundits have embraced the potential ban on gun ownership for trans people, but others — including the NRA — are far more hesitant.
Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans
Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 7d
“We have a crossdresser who doesn't speak English doing the halftime show”
Fox News host on Bad Bunny halftime show announcement: "Don't be mad that we have a crossdresser who doesn't speak English doing the halftime show"
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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 7d
I wrote about how Trump watched TV (probably Fox) in early September and then decided to send troops to Portland. Right-wing media outlets have spent the entire month painting Portland as a war zone, & Bannon wants the FBI to kick in 1K doors to arrest "antifa." New @mmfa.bsky.social
Right-wing media’s dystopian Portland coverage feeds into Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8d
A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president www.mediamatters.org/january-6-in...
A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 8d
Given the president’s willingness to promote any lie, as long as it fits his biases, false claims supporting the narrative of January 6 as an “inside job” can spread with alarming speed.
A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president
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