Media Matters for America

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

Amidst intra-party fight over GOP abortion platform, Project 2025 partner launches initiative to push for hardline stance www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:09 UTC

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

Project 2025 partners celebrate Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

The Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity is a win for Richard Nixon — and Roger Ailes www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sup...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

The story of Trump insulting service members was confirmed by Trump's own chief of staff. Right-wing media are still denying it. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

Bannonism, and its focus on retribution against Americans who disagree with the MAGA movement, will persist as he serves a four month sentence www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:00 UTC

Newsmax guest: Supreme Court immunity decision reflects that the president “sort of is the king” www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:48 UTC

MAGA figures celebrate Supreme Court’s immunity decision: Trump’s lawyers “saved President Trump’s legal behind here” www.mediamatters.org/supreme-cour...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

Project 2025 partners join right-wing media and climate deniers to celebrate SCOTUS decision overturning Chevron deference www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

What they don't want to talk about

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:19 UTC

The Heritage Foundation and other organizations involved in Project 2025 have advocated for extreme rollbacks to reproductive rights and access to healthcare. Read the thorough investigative report here: www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

MAGA media figures have recently praised disgraced Sen. Joe McCarthy and his blacklists, a tactic that a Project 2025 partner is attempting to bring to the White House www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

Ahead of the first presidential debate, Kevin McCarthy is flip-flopping on Biden’s mental acuity (again) www.mediamatters.org/joe-biden/ah...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

Project 2025 partner calls “to stop at nothing until abortion is eradicated” www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Fox & Friends vets Trump’s VP picks; the three apparent finalists have combined for more than 300 Fox weekday appearances since Biden’s inauguration www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 14:25 UTC

A Hitler-promoting antisemite spoke twice at Trump’s Miami resort alongside Eric and Lara Trump www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

Steve Bannon to AG Merrick Garland: “You're going to be a target of a massive investigation. You're going to go from the Supreme Court to prison” www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

While these accusations are, on their face, an extremely funny result of a deeply unfunny moment in LGBTQ history, they come with dark precedents: www.mediamatters.org/candace-owen...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:06 UTC

Organizations looking to staff and provide policy for a second Trump administration want severe roll-backs on access to surrogacy, IVF, mifepristone, and contraception www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:34 UTC

Fox News returns to “migrant crime” fixation as migrant crossings, crime plummet www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

Project 2025 partner senior fellow: “Public schools are religious schools” www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

Project 2025 partner blog: If Trump wins, “unpleasant things will have to be done to hold people to account” www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:29 UTC

We found 144 articles focused on either or both Biden’s and Trump’s ages or mental acuities in the period studied, with 67% focused just on Biden’s age or mental acuity and only 7% on just Trump’s. www.mediamatters.org/washington-p...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

New: Project 2025 and its partners have advocated for extreme rollbacks to reproductive rights and access to healthcare. Read our full 48-page investigative report here: www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

Right-wing podcaster Royce White, who has the backing of Minnesota Republicans for the U.S. Senate, is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. On his podcast, White raised questions about the collapse of 7 World Trade Center and falsely claimed that “there's no camera footage of the plane hitting the Pentagon.”

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

New data showed a national drop in violent and property crime rates. Fox News spent the least amount of time, covering the report for only 5 minutes. MSNBC and CNN performed slightly better, but still spent only 11 and 9 minutes, respectively. www.mediamatters.org/crime-and-cr...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

Fox News is helping Trump plan another Jan. 6-style assault on democracy www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

Project 2025 leader The Heritage Foundation calls for Social Security cuts www.mediamatters.org/heritage-fou...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

On her podcast, RNC co-chair Lara Trump maintains a collection of conservative-branded utility, doomsday prep, and supplement company sponsors www.mediamatters.org/lara-trump/t...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

Jesse Watters celebrated Trump’s calls for revenge. Now, Watters says that the idea that Trump is out for revenge is a hoax. www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watter...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

News outlets gorged on Hunter Biden trial coverage while ignoring Trump’s calls to prosecute foes www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

Right-wing commentator and Trump-backed House candidate Mark Burns: A wife should be “submissive” and “obey” www.mediamatters.org/diversity-di...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

Two groups, including Republican senators, voted against IVF this week. Fox buried the news. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/two...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

Fox News buried comments Paul Ryan made on the network in which the former GOP House speaker and current director of Fox News’ parent company said Donald Trump’s willingness to “suborn” the Constitution makes him “unfit for office.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

In April, Trump said he would reveal whether he supports banning drugs used in medication abortions like mifepristone “over the next week or two.” He never did, and major newscasts and most influential newspapers seemed to have moved on. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 19:09 UTC

Aaron Rodgers has appeared on multiple right-wing podcasts where he has promoted conspiracy theories www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 18:47 UTC

The deranged MAGA reactions to the Hunter Biden verdict shows that they want their excuse to throw their enemies in jail, and they’ll do whatever it takes to retain it. www.mediamatters.org/joe-biden/ma...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

The FDA warns that "If you are pregnant, drinking raw milk — or eating foods made from raw milk — can harm your baby even if you don’t feel sick.”

A TPUSA influencer is pushing raw milk on her pregnant audience regardless, writing "F the FDA"

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

No-fault divorces allow marriages to be dissolved without having to prove wrongdoing. Multiple Project 2025 partners want to roll it back. www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes tells his followers to join Project 2025 www.mediamatters.org/heritage-fou...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration www.mediamatters.org/heritage-fou...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

Fox News is priming another presidential election with election lies and conspiracy theories www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 19:51 UTC

Right-wing media spread another misleadingly edited video of Biden www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

Fox News doesn’t want to talk about Republican plans to curtail reproductive rights.

Fox News wants Republicans to get elected so they can curtail reproductive rights.

www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

There's already a feedback loop between MAGA media and Trump's VP hopefuls www.mediamatters.org/trump-trials...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 22:46 UTC

A close Trump ally called for the judge who oversaw Trump's criminal trial, Judge Juan Merchan, to be deported “back to the Third World hellhole he came from”; one of Trump's attorneys appeared on this same episode www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

Another Pride, another boycott: Right-wing media attempt to cancel children’s educator Ms Rachel www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/a...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

Project 2025 partner claims witchcraft and ancient spiritual warfare tactics were used to secure 34 guilty verdicts in Trump's criminal trial www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

When conservative media were adamant that a criminal investigation and conviction were disqualifying for presidential candidates: "You would have a felon as a president who would have to step down” www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

Project 2025, a plan to guide the next GOP presidential administration organized by a right-wing think tank, aims to dismantle the federal agency that tracks hurricanes www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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