john whitehouse
@existentialfish.com
@ media matters. this is a personal account.
everything is real but it's also just as fake
everything is real but it's also just as fake
i've just analyzed the early results and can conclusively tell you that they're all numbers
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
i've just analyzed the early results and can conclusively tell you that they're all numbers
as a millennial of a certain age yes i am familiar with the rapture www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v8G...
Sister Saviour (DFA Vocal Remix)
YouTube video by The Rapture - Topic
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September 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
as a millennial of a certain age yes i am familiar with the rapture www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v8G...
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A crucial win for all of our freedoms: “It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.” Thank @mmfa.bsky.social and support them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters
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August 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A crucial win for all of our freedoms: “It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.” Thank @mmfa.bsky.social and support them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
"This hall of mirrors, where regular people going about their lives are transformed into violent threats to community safety, inverts the actual dynamics at play" www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
Inside the alliance between right-wing media and Trump “Border Czar” Tom Homan
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August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"This hall of mirrors, where regular people going about their lives are transformed into violent threats to community safety, inverts the actual dynamics at play" www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
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Media writing about events of the last 24 hours might want to connect some dots here.
Just a friendly suggestion.
Just a friendly suggestion.
*clears throat*
Apropos and as a reminder, we (myself personally and Media Matters) are *still* being sued by X for a report.
Apropos and as a reminder, we (myself personally and Media Matters) are *still* being sued by X for a report.
July 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Media writing about events of the last 24 hours might want to connect some dots here.
Just a friendly suggestion.
Just a friendly suggestion.
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very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922
June 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922
when simon maloy read jeanine pirro's book
May 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
when simon maloy read jeanine pirro's book
insane that this sentence is being written by, charitably, someone from a very very very friendly outlet to the admin
April 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
insane that this sentence is being written by, charitably, someone from a very very very friendly outlet to the admin
how it started / how it's going
April 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
how it started / how it's going
There's a second chat where the fox-news-host-turned-defense-secretary inappropriately shared highly classified information?? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
April 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
There's a second chat where the fox-news-host-turned-defense-secretary inappropriately shared highly classified information?? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
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How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News
April 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News
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It's darkly humorous that AI doomers worry about an advanced technology falling into the wrong hands, which allow China to wreck our economy, throw markets into turmoil, interrupt manufacturing progress, disrupt our scientific infrastructure, and create global panic and confusion.
“The affected grants include research into new materials for jet engines, propulsion systems, large-scale information networks, robotics, superconductors, and space and satellite communications, as well as cancer research"
April 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's darkly humorous that AI doomers worry about an advanced technology falling into the wrong hands, which allow China to wreck our economy, throw markets into turmoil, interrupt manufacturing progress, disrupt our scientific infrastructure, and create global panic and confusion.
normal things are happening
April 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
normal things are happening
April 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows, this media ecosystem becomes more influential. A new Media Matters’ study shows how overwhelmingly right-leaning this ecosystem is -- with nearly five times the following of left-leaning online shows. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
March 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows, this media ecosystem becomes more influential. A new Media Matters’ study shows how overwhelmingly right-leaning this ecosystem is -- with nearly five times the following of left-leaning online shows. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
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just named to the kennedy center board
www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingrah...
www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingrah...
Laura Ingraham tried to explain hip-hop lyrics to the editor-in-chief of Vibe. It went poorly.
Ingraham even got the name of Kendrick Lamar’s album wrong.
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March 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
just named to the kennedy center board
www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingrah...
www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingrah...
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A caller pleaded to a Fox host to protect Ukrainians who fled to America to escape war. Now, the Trump administration is reportedly planning on revoking their legal status. www.mediamatters.org/russias-inva...
A caller pleaded to a Fox host to protect Ukrainians who fled to America to escape war. Now, the Trump administration is reportedly planning on revoking their legal status.
On the radio show of Fox’s Mark Levin, one Republican caller worried about the effects of revoking parole for Ukrainians fleeing war, sharing his concern for his Ukrainian fiancée and her family. Now...
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March 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A caller pleaded to a Fox host to protect Ukrainians who fled to America to escape war. Now, the Trump administration is reportedly planning on revoking their legal status. www.mediamatters.org/russias-inva...
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Said it before, but I think you have to sort of invert Marx to get current politics: A lot of rhetoric that’s supposedly about economic interests is a mask for cultural interests. They get reframed for pollsters as being about economics, because that’s a respectable thing to worry about.
The economist has to unweave a typical voter’s entire worldview, which right now is telling him that his whole society is under threat.
The thing to say isn’t “there’s no evidence that immigrants depress wages.” That’s true, but it feels beside the point at best.
The thing to say isn’t “there’s no evidence that immigrants depress wages.” That’s true, but it feels beside the point at best.
March 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Said it before, but I think you have to sort of invert Marx to get current politics: A lot of rhetoric that’s supposedly about economic interests is a mask for cultural interests. They get reframed for pollsters as being about economics, because that’s a respectable thing to worry about.
the thing about the manosphere is that these people have no idea what they're dealing with www.mediamatters.org/manosphere/y...
March 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the thing about the manosphere is that these people have no idea what they're dealing with www.mediamatters.org/manosphere/y...
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You guys don’t ever have to watch Trump speak FYI. If it’s making you sick turn it off.
March 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
You guys don’t ever have to watch Trump speak FYI. If it’s making you sick turn it off.
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There is something downright surreal about this talking point that the guy whose country is being utterly ravaged by war somehow isn’t interested in peace. But the guy who decided to invade unprovoked is, presumably? People buy this?
Pretty amazing to read news accounts implying that Trump's claim that he wants to "determine" if Zelensky is serious about peace before resuming aid to Ukraine is an actual intention on his part.
March 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
There is something downright surreal about this talking point that the guy whose country is being utterly ravaged by war somehow isn’t interested in peace. But the guy who decided to invade unprovoked is, presumably? People buy this?