Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...
"They're deregulating how drugs are approved, these kinds of supplements are being sold," said @esqueer.net. "Meanwhile, they are cracking down on gender affirming care for trans youth and launching investigations against providers of gender affirming care."
📻 Show’s up! Insight from Ivan Nagy & @melmason.bsky.social:
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Also hi Ilya!!
4 episodes airing over the course of May!
I've been reporting a multi-part @onthemedia.bsky.social series about FEMA for like 9 months. I interviewed Cam Hamilton last year after he was fired. I did not see this coming!!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
On the show this week
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds regular Pentagon prayer meetings, which infuse worship with the furor of Christian nationalism. "Hegseth is trying to evangelize the military leadership with his version of Christianity,” says @briankaylor.bsky.social of @wordandway.bsky.social.
Signal has a setting to stop this (Settings > Notifications > Notification Content). It's likely not an issue limited to just Signal, but more fundamental friction between secure chat apps and phones. Very interesting data point when talking about forensics www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
I remember hearing the term "news fatigue" for the first time in 2016-2017. That phrase feels a bit... quaint nowadays
The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
I'm so glad I got to talk with @onthemedia.bsky.social about what is being done to trans people by the law.
Thanks for sticking with it. I know it was a difficult listen!
A devastating cascade of legal actions is stripping away trans rights. @brookegladstone.bsky.social speaks with @esqueer.net about why she's been looking toward a legal framework invented in the wake of Nazi Germany called "the dual state" to better understand this moment.
I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.
Utterly Speechless.....
Come for the scriptural analysis, stick around for a discussion of the differences between pre- and post-millennial apocalypticism. Another great episode of OTM.
Thanks Kyla! Credit goes to our producer @cwango.bsky.social who came up with the idea and made it great :)
Take 20 minutes and listen to this gem from @onthemedia.bsky.social. (Don't be fooled by the graphic, it's not really about prediction markets.) Learn what the philosophy of games can reveal about the meaning of life! Thanks for another good one, @micahloewinger.bsky.social and team!
Don't miss the new midweek podcast! @add-hawk.bsky.social explains how metrics and scoring systems –– college rankings, Rotten Tomatoes scores, and prediction markets –– are distorting the true value of things. And how playing games can help remind us about what's good in life:
I really should've made the show
I don't have it in me to make an April Fools post this year. Anyway, I'll never be able to top my tweets from 2022 when I convinced some outlets that I was leaving OTM to start a daily crypto podcast for Cheddar, the Millenial-focused gas pump / NYSE TV channel
As someone who went through conversion talk therapy I'd kindly like to show Mark to the nearest cliff's edge
let's make this bitch so disappointed he leaves the site. fuck him
Mark out here thinks that my parents abusing, raping, and killing me in the process of "their talking" is fine because freeze peach or some liberal shit
Mark, "really abuse" is gonna be all your known for now. Your epitaph.
FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.
Absolutely horrendous shit
“If the global media is talking about Israel killing innocent journalists, then immediately there’s a push to find one journalist who might not be so innocent — as if that somehow makes killing the other 20 acceptable,” the intelligence source said.
Thanks for listening and sharing your thoughts :)
Hi Pete! Sorry you didn’t like the conversation. It’s precisely because we treat our listeners like adults that we occasionally give them an ugly, close-up look at the people shaping our info environment. Most listeners that I’ve heard from appreciated it even though they found it uncomfortable.
Re-upping this since I’ve been hearing again from some listeners frustrated with my interview w Cam Higby, which we’re rerunning on this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Sorry you didn’t like the conversation. No one is pressuring the show to have fake balance. The episode was an investigation of the new “press” corps, and as a media show we hoped the conversation would give deeper insight into the people making propaganda that is being consumed by millions.
