#MediaMatters

QANON 2020 CANDIDATE THREADQAnon is a long-term threat to this country that will extend far beyond this election.We must prevent its followers from holding elected office.Here are some Q-ers in
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1/ By now many of you have seen the tweet with the lunatic theory advanced by a Q Anon adherent and Florida congressional candidate that Beyonce is not, in fact,
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This new Trump executive order deserves to be front-page news—it's as bad or worse than his attempt to politicize IGs, for example.Stated simply, Trump wants to fire thousands of apolitical
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Some QAnon & far-right connections that bear further examination relate partly to Michael Flynn’s connections to the relatively obscure London Center for Policy Research.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-creepily-influential-trumpist-
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[Thread] As we head into 2020, we are inundated, more and more each day, with an overwhelming amount of novel information & news stories that stir deeply ingrained fear and
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2008: "Roy Den Hollander is not a fan of the New York ladies," filing a lawsuit to make "Ladies' Nights" at bars illegal.https://www.indiewire.com/2008/09/bachelor-of-the-year-roy-den-hollander-220522/2020: Roy Den H
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Digital rights in the time of #COVID19 (A Thread)Some important contributions have been made to the digital rights discourse following the spread of #COVID19 across the world. Do go over
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My latest article is about the right’s year and a half quest to get their Hunter Biden narrative to stick, and what they’re up to next:https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-post/new-york-posts-hunter-biden-story-flops-right-wing-media-r
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If you think things are bad now, but not bad enough to actually do anything, wait until this is common all across the US political spectrum, and try to get
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I have a theory about this... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/18/trump-campaign-runs-ads-with-marking-once-used-by-nazis-designate-political-prisoners/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter So a b
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As a psychologist and a student of how people get their news and form their views, I wanted to take a few tweets to respond to this common question in
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It begins. I'm here with a ton of @MomsDemand volunteers at #txlege for the Senate Special Committee for Constitutional issues (or something like that, it's a made-up panel). They're hearing
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Covid is exposing the GOP’s fraudulent conservative “principles”: They had no issues w/deficit-destroying tax cuts, yet ideology sabotages the Corona response.Ideology is a human construct. Human constructs are a luxury
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Which reminds me... journalists, I am begging you to actually familiarize yourself with what the Trump administration has done regarding LGBTQ rights. You screwed this up in 2016 on such
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Multiple accounts that Trump retweeted this morning appear to have pushed the QAnon conspiracy theory. It appears that Trump tonight retweeted another QAnon believer. An account Trump quote tweeted last
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Trump’s narcissistic sociopathy is creating two deadly, politically-driven realities:1) A red state tribal loyalty/ideological purity/cult membership testAnd…2)A petty, vindictive, sadistic, revenge-driven vanity project against Trump’s personal and
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