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Last night, Tucker Carlson said Joe Biden "has no active role in running the U.S. government," promised his show would call it "the Kamala Harris administration" from now on, and

Right-wing media is a perpetual bullshit machine that whips itself into a frenzy about a new lie every day, with Republican officials acting as an accelerant. We're basically dealing with

I am extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate "the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution" from "the J&J vaccine is not safe and the

I spoke with @Finneganporter at @BusinessInsider about Tucker Carlson's mainstreaming of white nationalist talking points. The interview was actually conducted before he went all-in on the great replacement theory last

When my mentions weren't distracting me I wrote kind of a lot this week. Thread. "What the Republicans call a 'working class' agenda is just a revamped Fox News culture

Another normal day on a normal website. Ok folks we're done here, let's move on.

The theory that Rupert Murdoch had put his foot down really isn't holding up too well.https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1325766553284042753 This segment, promoted by the president of the United States, features discussion of a

Fox's analysis is that Joe Biden succeeded by taking the virus seriously, building his margin in the suburbs, and because the GOP didn't push mail-in voting.In other words, the network's

NEW STUDY: Two years of Trump's Fox live-tweeting obsession, by the numbersTrump live-tweeted Fox 1,146 times from September 2018 through August 2020 -- 7.5% of his total tweetshttps://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/study-two-years-t

Trump has live-tweeted at least 42 different Fox shows, with Fox & Friends receiving by far the most attention -- a whopping 355 live tweets over the two-year span, plus

Unclear whether the press will sustain the coverage, but this is what using the agenda-setting power looks like. When I say it matters whether the press sustains the coverage, this

The New York Times ran its story on Trump refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power on page A15, Washington Post on A4. Can't tell if or where