Travis Mannon
@travismannon.bsky.social
Senior video producer for @onthemedia.bsky.social & adjunct at CUNY j-school | previously The Intercept, NYT Opinion, and Define American | views are my own | bi 🏳️🌈 they/them
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"Authoritarianism is a catastrophic military disadvantage," @elysegraham.bsky.social tells @brookegladstone.bsky.social in an excellent episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social
The segment originally aired earlier this year, and Graham was referring to a 2024 article she'd written for the Globe and Mail.
The segment originally aired earlier this year, and Graham was referring to a 2024 article she'd written for the Globe and Mail.
Tell Your Uncle He's Fighting Twitter Bots in Bangladesh | On the Media | WNYC Studios
X is full of overseas bots, and a documentary about librarians
www.wnycstudios.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Authoritarianism is a catastrophic military disadvantage," @elysegraham.bsky.social tells @brookegladstone.bsky.social in an excellent episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social
The segment originally aired earlier this year, and Graham was referring to a 2024 article she'd written for the Globe and Mail.
The segment originally aired earlier this year, and Graham was referring to a 2024 article she'd written for the Globe and Mail.
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The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
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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...
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...
www.wnycstudios.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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...
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!
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Brooke has a new video up on our Instagram and TikTok accounts, where she talks about her interview with @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social of @thirdway.bsky.social, and responds to the idea of Democrats moderating to win elections:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfdWnAkaW6/
www.tiktok.com/@onthemedia/...
www.instagram.com/p/DRfdWnAkaW6/
www.tiktok.com/@onthemedia/...
On The Media on Instagram: "Do Democrats really have to tack toward the center to win elections? On the most recent episode of On the Media, Brooke Gladstone spoke with Matt Bennett, the co-founder of...
Democrats need to reassess their language to appeal to a broader audience. The use of 'woke' terminology may be alienating voters. Find out how to speak like a moderate and win elections.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Brooke has a new video up on our Instagram and TikTok accounts, where she talks about her interview with @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social of @thirdway.bsky.social, and responds to the idea of Democrats moderating to win elections:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfdWnAkaW6/
www.tiktok.com/@onthemedia/...
www.instagram.com/p/DRfdWnAkaW6/
www.tiktok.com/@onthemedia/...
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There is so much context missing from the discussion of the Davis cert petition. People are understandably scared. It’s also incredibly dangerous to act like same sex marriage has already been overturned and much of the mainstream reporting is frankly irresponsible.
August 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
There is so much context missing from the discussion of the Davis cert petition. People are understandably scared. It’s also incredibly dangerous to act like same sex marriage has already been overturned and much of the mainstream reporting is frankly irresponsible.
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People are unhoused because billionaires and multi millionaires like Cuomo are buying and hoarding property in *the* LGBTQIA+ murderous US of A
August 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
People are unhoused because billionaires and multi millionaires like Cuomo are buying and hoarding property in *the* LGBTQIA+ murderous US of A
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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
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#Skrmetti is painful to read. SCOTUS held that heightened scrutiny does not apply to a ban on gender affirming care for minors with gender dysphoria. Justice Barrett’s concurrence says she would not find trans people a suspect classification—a lesson for all who read her Qs at oral arg positively.
June 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#Skrmetti is painful to read. SCOTUS held that heightened scrutiny does not apply to a ban on gender affirming care for minors with gender dysphoria. Justice Barrett’s concurrence says she would not find trans people a suspect classification—a lesson for all who read her Qs at oral arg positively.
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The Skrmetti loss is devastating on many levels. It is basically Geduldig for gender dysphoria. Geduldig never made any sense and was essentially abrogated by decades of sex discrimination jurisprudence that developed later.
June 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Skrmetti loss is devastating on many levels. It is basically Geduldig for gender dysphoria. Geduldig never made any sense and was essentially abrogated by decades of sex discrimination jurisprudence that developed later.
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we're not going to "you're valid without transitioning" and "you'll always have a place as a second-class citizen" our way out of the suicides and immiseration
It is really important right now that we make sure our trans young people hear other stories than that. They hear "there is a future for you" & "there is community for you" & "you don't have to pass to be loved" & "not having access to gender affirming care before puberty IS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE."
June 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
we're not going to "you're valid without transitioning" and "you'll always have a place as a second-class citizen" our way out of the suicides and immiseration
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Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
April 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
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Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
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Can Dems stop playing dead now or do they need to ask James Carville first?
Extraordinary stuff in new Quinnipiac/CNN polls:
60% disapprove of Musk/DOGE handling of federal workers
54% say Musk/DOGE hurting the country
62% say cuts going too far
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social is good on how Musk is getting voters to like govt again:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
60% disapprove of Musk/DOGE handling of federal workers
54% say Musk/DOGE hurting the country
62% say cuts going too far
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social is good on how Musk is getting voters to like govt again:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Fiasco for Musk as He Craters in New Polls and DOGE Cuts Lose in Court
As a judge blocks the Trump-Musk effort to fire thousands of federal workers, a close chronicler of Musk’s follies explains why the public backlash against him and Tesla matters so much—and what’s com...
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Can Dems stop playing dead now or do they need to ask James Carville first?
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!
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just in: a federal judge finds patriot front liable for $2.75mil in damages for a july 2022 assault on a black man in boston
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January 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
just in: a federal judge finds patriot front liable for $2.75mil in damages for a july 2022 assault on a black man in boston
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Just want to point out that @lacontroller.bsky.social, the city’s actual accountant, confirmed in a Twitter thread today that Bass did indeed cut fire department funding
January 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just want to point out that @lacontroller.bsky.social, the city’s actual accountant, confirmed in a Twitter thread today that Bass did indeed cut fire department funding
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And Californians’ recent vote to uphold slave labor continues to enable this horror
As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners
About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.
www.motherjones.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
And Californians’ recent vote to uphold slave labor continues to enable this horror
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In 1985, at the height of what was then called a Second Gilded Age, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans was the equivalent of $377 billion today. That's less than the current net worth of one person, Elon Musk.
December 24, 2024 at 3:38 PM
In 1985, at the height of what was then called a Second Gilded Age, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans was the equivalent of $377 billion today. That's less than the current net worth of one person, Elon Musk.
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My friend Jose Olivares on how the Biden administration is laying the groundwork for expansion of private immigration detention facilities:
Donald Trump’s plan for the mass deportation of undocumented people and a related expansion of US detention facilities is getting an unexpected head start from Joe Biden – and private prison companies are already cashing in.
Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office
In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 1:18 PM
My friend Jose Olivares on how the Biden administration is laying the groundwork for expansion of private immigration detention facilities:
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One more piece of the Skrmetti argument I think is important to underscore is the way Tennessee’s argument will be used to attack *all* sex discrimination claims.
December 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
One more piece of the Skrmetti argument I think is important to underscore is the way Tennessee’s argument will be used to attack *all* sex discrimination claims.