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Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 11d
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See our grades & analysis of 60+ front pages for #NoKings coverage.
Influential news outlets like NYT/ WSJ continue trivialize coverage of the pro-democracy movement & demonstrations like #NoKings. Editors of local outlets did better.
+ A few surprises
see: open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...
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Text "analysis of Nokings coverage" over image of NYT front page: https://open.substack.com/pub/mediaanddemocracyproject/p/analysis-of-no-kings-coverage-the?
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eric-reinhart.com
www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-cult...
Neither Culture Wars nor Big Tents Will Save American Democracy - New Global Politics
Centrists call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the...
www.newglobalpolitics.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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joshshepperd.bsky.social
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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markhisted.org
It was a major mistake that the Senate didn’t hold high-profile hearings and investigations into the corrupt Roberts Court when ProPublica was breaking the scandals.

Now that same corrupt Court is blowing up NIH, NSF, and all of US basic science.

Our failure to pick a big fight with the Court 1/
fleerultra.bsky.social Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 2h
look at what this leadership did with oversight powers of SCOTUS in the middle of multiple devastating scandals for the conservatives. look at the half assed impeachments and half-assed oversight during the teens.
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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theverge.com
The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.

Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
a Verge headline: The algorithm failed music Illustration: A colorful waveform starts to pixelate
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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azrww.bsky.social
what man
• The NYT announced the lineup for the Andrew Ross Sorkin-anchored DealBook summit, which included one curious name: Erika Kirk. [NYT] • A panel on journalism hosted by Michael Barbaro will include: Charlamagne Tha God, Jon Favreau, Amna Nawaz, David Remnick, Stephanie Ruhle, Andrew Schulz, and Ben Shapiro.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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katz.theracket.news
"Critics say ..."
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Two paragraphs from the article, pointing out Telegraph hypocrisy
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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protecttruth.bsky.social
Hearing now that @chrismurphyct.bsky.social will allow the fast-tracking of the capitulation CR.

If any senator objects, the bill passage could be delayed until Friday. But apparently zero Senators have objected to the scheduling motion on the hotline.
Zero!
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16h
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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gijn.org
🚀 Applications are open for the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social's Fellowship in Journalism Innovation at Harvard!

Work on projects exploring journalism’s digital future, from new tools to business models.

🗓️ Int'l deadline: Dec 1 | US: Jan 31
🔗 Learn more:
Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation - Nieman Foundation
The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation* brings individuals to Harvard University to work on a specific course of research or a specific project relating to journalism innovation. The fellowship is a collaboration between the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. Both organizations share a set of common interests […]
twp.ai
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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alexip718.com
Fine, I'll do it: Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the Medicare for All and Congressional Progressive Caucuses who represents Silicon Valley, is the first sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵
rokhanna.bsky.social Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
Media ownership is agenda- and narrative-making power.
A worthwhile read by @publicenlightenment.com

The world's perspective of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social governance will be driven by the unseen power of media owners and those who shape understanding.
www.publicenlightenment.com/p/mamdanis-r...
Mamdani's Real Fight Won't Be In Albany, It'll Be In Your Newsfeed
Who controls your opinion of politics? What about your MAGA loved ones?
www.publicenlightenment.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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deanbaker13.bsky.social
Trump's tariff dividend checks would be a massive increase in the deficit, but we know no one cares about budget deficits deanbaker22.substack.com/p/tariff-div...
Tariff Dividend Checks for Dummies (i.e. the People in Policy Debates)
Trump proposes a massive increase in the deficit and no one notices
deanbaker22.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028.
politi.co/3WN7A3T
Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.
politi.co
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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randalljstephens.bsky.social
"I am the law." John Fischetti on McCarthyism, May 1954.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
Attention @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

If you’re in the area…
bkindivisible.bsky.social Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 1d
BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*

Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).

Not another #SchumerSurrender

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
#ChuckSchumer is understandably getting a lot of attention.

How about @kenmartin.bsky.social the Chair of the DNC?!

Martin appeared on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox propaganda channel today.

Have any journalists asked him for his perspective/quote on Schumer’s cave?

bsky.app/profile/kenm...
kenmartin.bsky.social Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s what I shared on Fox News today:

I believe in winning elections through addition, not subtraction.

Democrats are laser-focused on affordability and the issues keeping Americans up at night, and our candidates are resonating across the country.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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sustainable2050.bsky.social
"We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. This unfolding emergency stems from failed foresight, political inaction, unsustainable economic systems, ..
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
CBP/ICE DRIVE-BY PEPPER SPRAYING OF A ONE YEAR OLD.

my god this is vile, just vile. #Chicago
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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zacheverson.com
Have any tips about Trump's businesses or other money-in-politics info?

Email: z_everson@protonmail.com
Mobile/Signal: 202.804.2744
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Suggested reading
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Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
“For years, Christian supremacist ideology was coursing through American conservatism. Now it—& its antisemitism—is out in the open, in the halls of power & scaring Jews.” 11/4/25 (*Incredible* article discussing Tucker, Nick Fuentes, Heritage, Doug Wilson & his protégés, Yoram Hazony, & NatCon.) 1/
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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seth-stern.bsky.social
The Alabama Solution couldn’t have been made without incarcerated people having access to cell phones.

Think that has to do with why the Trump administration now wants to jam cell phones in prisons?

Read more from @joinjeremy.org in collaboration with @freedom.press and @theintercept.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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mel2lou.bsky.social
Just another Saturday in Georgetown DC. @tesla-takedown.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com

We’re dancing every Saturday from 11am-1pm

#TooFabulousForFascism
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM