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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 5d

This is not a drill: Trump says that people who criticize him and his administration are responsible for "terrorism," and he's outlined a plan to prosecute this "conspiracy."

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Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal

After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 6d

"These three companies alone have collectively paid Trump and his associates $59.5 million for the sin of enforcing the rules of their own privately held companies."

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YouTube Bends the Knee

Welcome to the era of Big-Tech capitulation.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 6d

The "trans shooter" meme illustrates a flaw in the way our minds work: We pay attention to things because they're unusual, then think they're common because we're paying attention to them.

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When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 20d

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 20d

@nytimes.com : "Mr. Trump and administration officials have long championed free speech, but their actions—as well as their promises since Charlie Kirk’s killing—to guarantee it have been replaced by efforts to quash criticism."

When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20d

These performances of debate-unity only reach the NYT audience. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Right are signaling to their supporters that the time for a comprehensive crackdown on the “enemy within” has come. Klein isn’t doing anything to defuse the situation - he’s obscuring the problem.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 20d

I suspect the supposed text messages released by the FBI are a reconstruction of how the roommate remembers the exchange, created with the help of FBI interrogators. Thus the stilted language and the way it serves prosecutorial needs--without being something the roommate will disavow in court.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 23d

”Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.” @pastpunditry.bsky.social

The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review

Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 25d

The leading voices of MAGA are ready to declare a police state over the killing of Charlie Kirk -- carried out, as it appears, by someone even further right than Kirk.

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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 25d

🤬cnn hire www.instagram.com/reel/DOjBEjI...

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Sep 4

During the Holocaust, the @nytimes.com shamefully buried news of the mass murder of Jews in its back pages, sometimes tucked in at the end of unrelated articles. With genocide scholars saying a new genocide is happening in #Gaza, the Times is behaving the same way.

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NYT Buries News That Experts on Genocide Say Israel Is Committing It

A declaration by genocide scholars that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza was widely seen as significant news--but not by the New York Times.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · Sep 3

The corporate media template: Go ahead and admit that the US government is consciously and intentionally setting refuge seekers up to “end up in brutal conditions,” but don’t bother dwelling on where that slippery slope might lead us all.

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Media Dance Around Illegality of Trump’s Third-Country Deportation Scheme

US corporate media have not shied away from reporting on third-country deportations, but tend to dance around the illegality of the whole matter.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Aug 30

I'm proud to learn that the paper I wrote for in college is suing Marco Rubio on behalf of the First Amendment.

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The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations

The Stanford Daily argues the First Amendment protects journalists from arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Aug 27

I miss the First Amendment.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Aug 26

The most popular active US politician is Bernie Sanders, with a +12 net favorability. Compare that to Chuck Schumer, with a -31 net. Yet Sanders is considered fringe, whereas Schumer is mainstream, pragmatic, a natural leader of the Democratic Party.

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What Americans think of 120 political leaders | YouGov

Barack Obama is by far the most well-liked political figure among the 120 asked about, with a net favorability among Americans of +22.

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Pete Tucker @petetucker.bsky.social · Aug 13

I hear there may be a few other things going on in DC... but I discussed the city’s sweetheart stadium deal with Janine Jackson on @fairmediawatch.bsky.social’s radio show Counterspin

FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · Aug 13

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with @petetucker.bsky.social on the DC stadium deal:

"The progressive side, somehow, is to call this the Commanders, not the Redskins, and get this deal done."

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‘DC’s Not Making Money Here, DC Is Paying Billions’: CounterSpin interview with Pete Tucker on DC stadium deal

"All of these dollars are going to a stadium, as opposed to after-school programs, as opposed to shoring up an already hurt safety net."

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Aug 13

Corporate journalists see pretending not to know what's going on as a central part of their job.

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Starvation in Gaza divides many Jewish Americans

Images of starving children have caused what some call a “rupture” between supporters of Israel’s offensive and opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Aug 1

A public figure that's been the subject of cover stories and feature spreads risks his life to bring food to starving children: Here's why that's not a newsworthy story.

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For Media, Trying to Help Gazans Survive Turns Heroes Into Zeroes

It would be hard to make up a story with more dramatic potential. Yet corporate media somehow knew this was a story to steer clear of.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Aug 1

"We agree that's a problem, and we're going to do less to solve it" is never going to be a winning political message.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Jul 30

Chris Smalls, Amazon organizer, is one of the most prominent labor activists in the country. Yet when he was beaten by the IDF while trying to bring life-saving aid to Gaza, it got virtually no US corporate media coverage.

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Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, But US Media Ignores It

On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW: Trump effectively confessed he knew what Epstein was doing, and the mainstream media whiffed: presswatchers.org/2025/07/trum...

Trump effectively confessed he knew what Epstein was doing, and the mainstream media whiffed | Press Watch

Stenography isn’t enough when Trump unleashes something wildly self-incriminating

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Jul 30

An 18-month-old was born in January 2024. This kid has no problems that pre-existed the Israeli genocide.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Jul 29

Watching ABC and CBS, Columbia and Harvard crumble at the first authoritarian push makes you realize what a rotten structure our society is built on.

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · Jul 16

Superman works best as an allegory if you think of Jor-El as representing the Democratic Party and Superman as being Zorhan Mamdani.

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · Jul 14

Live at The Santita Jackson Show @santitajackson.bsky.social with @naureckas.bsky.social & @bloomekatz.bsky.social
The Everglades concentration camp is violating human rights & dehumanizing people. Wasteful & abusive. Years of anti-immigrant discourse & DeSantis's opportunism led us here.

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