john whitehouse
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@ media matters. this is a personal account.

everything is real but it's also just as fake
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CBS Evening News just inverted CBS News' own reporting, which found very low rates of so-called criminal histories for ICE arrestees.

But the Evening News distorted its own network's article, making it seem like the Trump admin was rounding up the "worst of the worst." Very cool editorial process
CBS Evening News inverts its network's own reporting on ICE arrestees’ low rates of violent criminal histories
www.mediamatters.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
February 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
these inept motherfuckers
Stephen Moore tells Fox that jobs data show the US needs more immigrants in the labor force
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February 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Half an hour ago, Fox News hosted an "aviation expert" who argued such a closure wouldn't happen "unless we are at war" facing a "major security threat," and that it signaled the government "might have discovered the next potential Pearl Harbor."
February 11, 2026 at 2:12 PM
in august, TOM HOMAN admitted that this was the law www.mediamatters.org/immigration/... via @johnknefel.bsky.social
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Analysis: we fired all our arts and culture writers
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.

But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
February 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
they're scared
Fox News has completely ignored Trump's since-deleted racist Truth Social post
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February 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
newsmax asking the questions that no one else even dared to imagine
Newsmax's Greg Kelly says the Super Bowl logo looks "a little bit LGBT queer-ish"
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February 6, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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You really need to read this to appreciate how deranged it sounds. The standard view that judicial warrants are necessary to forcibly enter residences is blamed on “subversion” by “deep state actors.”
As far as I know, this is DHS's first effort to explain their position that I-205 forms allow entry into the home. They rely on the dicta in the 1960 Abel case (before Payton) and re-imagine the plurality opinion in Lucas as if it were the majority (and then overrely on it).
February 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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hmmmmmm
January 30, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Bannon had a tough weekend with his candidate losing a key election and being exposed as a close collaborator and friend of Epstein. So he's decided to continue his four hours of programming a day without mentioning either of them.
Steve Bannon's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend
Over the weekend, Steve Bannon watched his endorsed candidate and friend Leigh Wambsganss lose what he called a “vitally important” special election in Texas and faced backlash from the media and MAGA...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
can someone please remind fox news that puerto rico is part of the united states, ty www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
here's tom homan of all people admitting a few months back that ice needs a judicial warrant for a search of private property www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
February 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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I found a Fox News interview from August 2025 where Border Czar Tom Homan acknowledges that ICE needs a judicial warrant to perform a search of private property -- contrary to an ICE memo that says agents only need an administrative warrant. Curious what he believes now.
Border Czar Tom Homan in resurfaced Fox interview: “We need a judicial warrant for a search”
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February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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stereotype-busting
February 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 12:57 AM
February 2, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...
“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 28, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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Stating the obvious at this point, but the killings by ICE & CBP aren't isolated incidents; they're the product of a culture of contempt for and casual brutality toward civilians.
CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.
January 27, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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The writing and editing of allegedly inaccurate talking points used to discuss the Benghazi attack on the Sunday shows were the subject of YEARS of congressional hearings. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Good for her. It isn’t every day you get the chance to tell a SCOTUS justice that he’s full of shit.
NEW: Marimar Martinez, the woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago only to be criminally charged (and cleared), seeks to modify a court order so she can "disclose case materials … to the public."

Her atty, Chris Parente, points to events in Minneapolis as well as writings by Justice Samuel Alito:
January 27, 2026 at 1:08 PM
January 27, 2026 at 2:14 AM