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Micah Loewinger
@micahloewinger.bsky.social
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Co-host of @onthemedia.bsky.social from WNYC
mloewinger(at)wnyc,org Signal: (646) 753-2373
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I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.

In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
January 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
OTM's executive producer Katya Rogers put together this retrospective of the year. A very compelling listen:
December 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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onthemedia.bsky.social
Show's up! @brookegladstone.bsky.social and @micahloewinger.bsky.social take a look back at 2025 and OTM's coverage of the biggest stories in media:
Is it Over Yet? 2025 in Review | On the Media | WNYC Studios
And just like that, 2025 is coming to a close. On this week’s On the Media, hear a tour of a 12-month news blitz, from AI to the Pentagon press room to the reshaping of legacy outlets...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Lately I have been thinking a lot about this short but insightful quote from @micahloewinger.bsky.social. The right-wing is piling lie upon lie and cover-up upon cover-up and eventually this whole house of cards is going to collapse.
Micah Loewinger: Suffice to say, there's a lot of cognitive dissonance coursing through the MAGA internet right now, and the work of telling right-wing audiences what they want to hear has grown more and more difficult. Last weekend, we learned that a lot of people doing that work on Elon Musk's X are not who they appear to be. Big accounts, crypto boosters, Trump family fan pages, right-wing news aggregators with hundreds of thousands of followers. Many of them, it turns out, are likely click farms based in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and Northern Africa.
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
I’m on vacation in San Juan. Perfect timing because there is absolutely no media news right now. Anyway, please send me restaurant recs!
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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On this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with Stephen Witt about how AI tycoons have tied our economy up in knots and are demanding that we let them do significant harm to our planet:
Deep Fakes, Data Centers, and AI Slop — Are We Cooked? | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Donald Trump has signed an executive order limiting state regulation on artificial intelligence. On this week’s On the Media, Republicans spar over AI, and what deregulating the indus...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Had missed that a Reddit commenter actually had the info that was needed to find the shooter.

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Kash Patel Under Fire After Reddit Post Finds Brown Shooting Suspect
The case bungled by the FBI director was only solved thanks to a Reddit user.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
Follow up Q: Did Brooks’s editors know he had attended this 2011 event (which was 3 years after Epstein pled guilty for soliciting sex from minors) when Brooks wrote his column last month?
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 17d
NYT statement to me: "David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event. Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner."
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Everyone who is having a pleasant holiday season because they aren't in the Epstein files, step forward.

Not so fast, David Brooks.
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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wrote about the rise and further rise of candace owens, whose unapologetically unhinged right-wing conspiracy theories have made her one of the most popular political voices in america — and are now causing headaches for the MAGA movement that backed her wapo.st/3MKjPwg w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social
She was MAGA’s favorite conspiracist. Then she dug into Charlie Kirk’s killing.
The right-wing firebrand rose to prominence as a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist. Her latest claims have infuriated some of her former allies.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
Why even entertain Trump’s post as evidence of a potential motive lol

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December 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
I was blown away by It Was Just An Accident. I love when a filmmaker just drops you in the middle of a story and trusts you to find your way. It's funny and sad and poignant. Catch it in theaters if you can!!
December 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Follow us on Instagram or TikTok to see a new video of @micahloewinger.bsky.social talking through the decision to interview right-wing influencer Cam Higby on last weekend's show:

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December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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onthemedia.bsky.social
wtf
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 25d
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
All, Today, we’re introducing our latest customer audio offering: “Your Personal Podcast,” a personalized, AI podcast experience only available in The Washington Post app. App users will be able to shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology. This is a conversational, digestible format completely personalized to the user's individual preferences – All based on our best-in-class Washington Post journalism. Here’s how it works: On our Washington Post app, subscribers and registered users will find access to “Your Personal Podcast” via their habit tile, and our “Listen” tab. Users can then personalize their podcast experience by choosing their preferred topics, selecting the AI hosts, and setting the duration. (Currently, our beta version limits the duration to a maximum of 8 minutes.) Once a user begins listening, they soon will be able to ask follow-up questions to explore topics in greater depth. In line with our mission and plan, “Your Personal Podcast” is the ultimate intersection across our critical initiatives of premium experiences, customer choice and AI platform and products. It also reinforces our audience segmentation work, which has revealed our target audience is excited to be offered new ways to access our journalism. More specifically, they are busy and on the go with a growing appetite for audio and video news. “Your Personal Podcast” is another way for us to meet these customer needs. The product is in beta, which means we will continue to improve it based on user feedback. A big thank you to the many teams who collaborated with us across the company to get us to this exciting stage. Listen to a podcast that listens to you and try this out today. Vineet and Bailey
December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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jonchristian.net
Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform

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King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
futurism.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
How I feel about Geese is how Brian Eno felt about avant-garde music: "You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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This week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social is not to be missed, as usual — especially @micahloewinger.bsky.social’s conversation with a Pentagon reporter who agreed to the new restrictions www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Covering the Pentagon, from Sy Hersh to Laura Loomer | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The New York Times has sued the Pentagon for restricting access to journalists. On this week’s On the Media, meet the new cast of right wing influencers and conspiracy theorists repla...
www.wnycstudios.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
This week I called up Cam Higby, a member of the new media MAGA Pentagon press corps to ask him about his decision to sign away his ability to do investigative journalism in exchange for access to press briefings. He shouted and called me names…
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
As Patel and Bongino go on their victory lap after nabbing the pipe bomb suspect, an apparent Stop The Steal-er, I hope more outlets acknowledge the lies they spread before joining the FBI:

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
micahloewinger.bsky.social
I interviewed living legend Laura Poitras for this weekend's episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. She's a hero of mine -- a true paragon of righteous brave thorough investigative journalism. Watching Citizenfour as a college student made me want to become a reporter. Excited for y'all to hear it
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Back on the radio this week talking with the great @cwarzel.bsky.social about MAGA fakery on X and that moment when you realize you needa log off. Listen:

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Tell Your Uncle He's Fighting Twitter Bots in Bangladesh | On the Media | WNYC Studios
A new feature on X, formerly known as Twitter, has revealed that some prominent MAGA accounts are based in South Asia and Eastern Europe. On this week’s On the Media, how foreign acto...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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X as "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit" with "fake people yelling at fake people for being fake" enabling a "nothing is true everything is possible moment" is the best burn for long time in crowded field. Kudos @cwarzel.bsky.social @micahloewinger.bsky.social and NPR.

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November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM