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Mar 12 5 tweets 2 min read
FLASHBACK: A Trump-appointed prosecutor dropped an unfalsifiable partisan bomb on President Joe Biden Thursday, playing into a years-long right-wing media campaign — and U.S. political journalists decided to treat it as a valid and impartial charge.

mediamatters.org/joe-biden/poli… The New York Times ran 30 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the Hur report, per @JuddLegum.

After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes that Biden "fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, while otherwise appearing clearheaded." Image
Feb 15 5 tweets 3 min read
Sean Hannity's Fox News show ran with this informant's claims in at least 85 separate segments last year, including 28 monologues. He said they proved Joe Biden engaged in "public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/study…
Of course the benefit of building wild conspiracy theories premised on the bogus idea that the DOJ under Biden is in the tank for Democrats is you can move directly to claiming this prosecution is part of the conspiracy. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…
Feb 6 6 tweets 1 min read
1. Russia invaded Ukraine. A broad U.S. and E.U. coalition funded Ukraine's defense.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that supporting Ukraine was taking resources away from border security, so.... 2. Biden proposed a supplemental which included both funding for Ukraine and additional funds for border security.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that border funds weren't enough without policy changes, so...
Jan 19 5 tweets 2 min read
TheBlaze’s Jason Whitlock hosts notorious antisemite to denounce supposed Jewish control of US government, Black people
mediamatters.org/blazetv/thebla… JONES: "The Jews... have spent their entire time here in the United States of America undermining the moral fabric of the American people."

WHITLOCK: "“I get it, and I can’t say that I disagree." mediamatters.org/blazetv/thebla…
Dec 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Seems very, very bad. plus.thebulwark.com/p/theres-a-sto…
Image Trump is threatening to use the government to “come down hard” on the free press. Believe him.

mediamatters.org/msnbc/trump-th…
Nov 28, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
Probably a little dicey to marry someone who disagrees with you politically if one of the things he disagrees with you about politically might be whether women should be able to get a no-fault divorce...
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On the broader point, "women find your hobby off-putting so you should probably find a new one if you want to date" seems like a pretty normal state of affairs.
Nov 28, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
NEW STUDY: Broadcast, cable, and print outlets have given Donald Trump calling his enemies "vermin" a tiny fraction of the coverage they gave Hillary Clinton's 2016 remark calling some Trump supporters "deplorables" mediamatters.org/donald-trump/m…
According to a Media Matters review:  The Big Three broadcast TV networks provided 18 times more coverage of Clinton’s 2016 “deplorables” comment than Trump’s “vermin” remark on their combined nationally syndicated morning news, evening news, and Sunday morning political talk shows. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC mentioned Clinton’s “deplorables” comment nearly 9 times more than Trump’s “vermin” comment. Print reports that mentioned Trump’s statement outnumbered those that mentioned Clinton’s 29-to-1 across the five highest-circulating U.S. newspapers. ABC/CBS/NBC news programs provided *18 times* more coverage of "deplorables" than "vermin" Graph
Nov 5, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
“From the river to the sea, Palestinians will be free” seems like a chant that would have the vibe activists say they want, avoid the problem of literally calling for Israel’s elimination while raising questions about what happens to the Jews, and, crucially, still rhyme. Of course, the real problem with a vision for a secular, binational state with robust civil rights for all isn’t the chant, it’s that the actual existing Israeli and Palestinian populations don’t want that.
Oct 10, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
French journalist confirms Hamas terrorists beheaded babies at Kfar Aza, sourcing includes "courageous journalists from the foreign press who were able to see / agreed to see with their own eyes the bodies."
Image Personally I don't find a lot of distinction between "Hamas murdered babies but only beheaded adults" and "Hamas murdered and beheaded babies, as well as adults" but some people in my feed thought it was worth trying to debunk the latter, so there it is.
Oct 10, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
Charlotte's thread crystalizes where I'm at after a few days toggling between videos of Hamas terrorists murdering civilians and videos of avowed leftists cheering the murders on this website. I expect to see depraved right-wingers doing "fuck around find out" shit over images of destruction in Gaza. But cheering the murderers of hundreds of Israelis at a concert in the name of peace, justice, and decolonization is some depraved shit.
Sep 29, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Trumpists are becoming unusually explicit in acknowledging they want to regain power so they can engineer political prosecutions of people they disagree with. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…
The modern Republican Party is the sort of place where you can carve out a lucrative, powerful position for yourself by being more explicitly fascist than your peers.
Sep 27, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The "bombshells" the Oversight Committee is pumping out before tomorrow's impeachment hearing range from "total non sequiter" to "actively undermines their case." Threaded below...
Sep 25, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Merrick Garland’s DOJ indicted a Democratic senator. MAGA pundits responded with wild conspiracy theories. mediamatters.org/fox-news/merri… Anyone who thought the charges against Robert Menendez would lead pundits on the right to reconsider their assertions of a “two tiered” system of justice was making a category error.
Sep 22, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
~9 hours from "senior Democratic senator was indicted" to "the state's Democratic governor and Democratic heads of both houses of the state legislature call for him to step down." newjerseyglobe.com/governor/murph… Reps coming along too...
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Sep 18, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
John Solomon inadvertently detonated the House impeachment case. Last month, he published a State Dept. briefing memo which irrefutably proves that it was U.S. policy to seek Viktor Shokin's removal at the time Biden was pushing for it as VP. mediamatters.org/fox-news/john-…
The memo states: There is wide agreement that anti-corruption must be at the top of this list, and that reforms must include an overhaul of the Prosecutor General’s Office including removal of Prosecutor General Shokin, who is widely regarded as an obstacle to fighting corruption, if not a source of the problem. The right has claimed for years that when Biden told Ukraine’s leaders in December 2015 that the U.S. would not release $1 billion in loan guarantees unless they fired Shokin, the country’s prosecutor general, he was acting to benefit Hunter by halting his purported Burisma probe
Sep 5, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
1. Here’s a thread about a grotesque and cynical bid by The Daily Caller, Breitbart, and The Daily Wire to farm traffic and engagement from anti-vaxxers by churning out posts about celebs and young athletes suffering heart attacks. mediamatters.org/daily-caller/r… 2. If you spend any time online, you know that anti-vaxxers inevitably but dubiously attribute heart attacks to the rare (and usually mild) COVID-19 vaccine side effect of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.
Aug 28, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
From Friday through Monday at noon, Fox spent almost 3 hours on an interview Brian Kilmeade conducted with Ukraine’s former prosecutor general Viktor Shokin.

They're rerunning what the network previously admitted was a disinformation campaign. mediamatters.org/trump-impeachm… Shokin was fired in 2016 amid criticism from Western governments including the U.S. that he was not prosecuting corruption.

But on Fox, he maintained that he was actually so successful at it that Joe Biden forced him out to benefit Hunter's business interests.
Aug 23, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
In 2002, Coulter famously said that her “only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building”; she later expressed regret, saying she “should have added, ‘after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.’” More recently, she wrote that the paper “must die,” explaining, “This is a newspaper that cannot be trusted on anything touching on race. They’re liars and ideologues, not reporters and editors.” mdjonline.com/opinion/ann-co…
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Jul 25, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
RFK Jr. is the toast of the right and is doing a town hall tonight with Fox host/Trump adviser Sean Hannity.

It's a startling shift from when he called for ad boycotts of Hannity and other right-wing climate deniers, whom he described as fascists. mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/t… RFK Jr. at Live Earth 2007: "The next time you see John Stossel, or Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity" pushing climate denial, "you send an email to their advertisers and tell them you're not going to buy their products anymore."
Jun 14, 2023 11 tweets 2 min read
What do all the high-profile investigations leading to charges for Republicans but not for Democrats have in common?

Republicans in key roles overseeing the probes. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump… Under the cover of critiquing the process of these investigations, the real complaint from Trump’s media allies is squarely over their results.

In their view, by definition, if probes lead to charges against Trump but not his opponents, they must be unjust.
Jun 13, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
The federal criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump functions as a crushing repudiation of the apocalyptic rhetoric his right-wing media allies have deployed since August. mediamatters.org/fox-news/ten-m… Fox News hosts cheered when Trump picked Bill Barr to become attorney general because they believed —correctly — he could turn their conspiracy theories into federal investigations while protecting Trump and his allies from the law. But even he can’t defend this.