With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal.

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On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

.@melmason.bsky.social speaks with Brooke about how the whisper network surrounding Eric Swalwell caught up to him: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic has been filed.

All else aside, it confirms this: Kash Patel was locked out of the FBI system on Friday, April 10.

The lockout set off a flurry of inquires to the FBI/DOJ/WH about whether Patel had been fired.

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Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

He sat atop an extremist empire. She thought he needed money. The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

“i am chained to the desk reading insipid slop,”

Nick Fuentes on the comments his own fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to read out

Really great work here from @drewharwell.com and @jeremybmerrill.com

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On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

It’s estimated that Victor Orbán’s government and friends controlled almost 80% of the media in Hungary. Now that he’s out, what happens next? lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Love how this story shows the power of social media influencers and large news orgs coming together to hold power to account. Both can play a key role when they embrace each other’s strengths.

Influencers Usher in a New Era for #metoo | On the Media | WNYC Studios Prime Minister Viktor Orban lost in Hungary’s national elections, bringing his 16-year tenure to a close. On the week’s On the Media, what it will take for Hungary to rebuild a robust...

Especially valuable @onthemedia.bsky.social, on both influencers as new Woodward-Bernstein spark & Hungary. Latter segments are on how badly media literacy is needed. Trust nothing you're seeing now... www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

The stunning story of how two social media content creators brought sexual harassment and assault allegations against Eric Swalwell to the press within a matter of weeks, with @melmason.bsky.social: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

@onthemedia.bsky.social is just killing it with this week's episode. They also give the clearest explanation of the Swalwell rape scandal I've heard, here: bsky.app/profile/onth...

On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

Incoming Hungarian prime minister Peter Magyar has vowed to reform the country’s media landscape, but his relationship with the press is a little complicated w/ Ivan Nagy lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

REALISTIC APPROACH; Radio Should Do Things That Video Cannot (Published 1952)

"The key to radio's future does not lie, as so many broadcasters seem to think, in doing more cheaply what television can do...Rather the key to radio's future lies in another direction: doing the things that television cannot do." File under: unheeded advice, 1952. www.nytimes.com/1952/06/01/a...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

There had long been rumors swirling around Eric Swalwell regarding sexual misconduct. But after he decided to run for governor, two content creators teamed up to make these allegations public. @melmason.bsky.social has the story: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

I know there’s so much media to share, but I think On the Media synthesizes the moment so well. highly recommend.

On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

Victor Orbán’s 16-year reign in Hungary has ended–but what does that mean for the media? w/ Ivan Nagy lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

📻 Show’s up! Insight from Ivan Nagy & @melmason.bsky.social:
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Trans People are Facing a 'Dual State' in Trump's America | On the Media | WNYC Studios This week, the Idaho Senate is considering a bill that would block transgender people from using public bathrooms that conform with their gender identity, escalating the state’s preex...

Listen to the full interview: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

"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."

There are many window & lawn signs stating that “Hate has no Home here.” For those that have wondered where does Hate have a home, it’s apparently on shortwave radio. Check out @onthemedia.bsky.social multi-episode podcast On the Divided Dial from journalist #KatieThornton #hatehasnohomehere

Trump to Pick Ousted FEMA Head to Lead Agency Again

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!!!
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Thanks for the heads up! We’re reuploading the file.

Just checked our original files and they sound fine. But you’re right, there’s some glitching around the 29 min mark. Will investigate!

Ticketmaster and Live Nation had monopoly over big concert venues, jury finds A Manhattan federal jury deliberated for four days before reaching its decision Wednesday in the closely watched case, which gave fans the equivalent of a backstage pass to a business that dominates l...

A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of U.S. states. https://to.pbs.org/4tQdtMi

Visionary NPR leader Kevin Klose, who led network to new heights, has died Klose led NPR for a decade starting in 1998, a period of incredible growth for the public media network.

Kevin Klose, who was a Washington Post correspondent, the head of RFE/RL (twice) and NPR's president for a decade, has died at the age of 85. www.npr.org/2026/04/15/n...

The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.

Excellent reporting from @dell.bsky.social on how CAR, a small conservative legal group, has a fast track for filing complaints at the FCC. Appreciate the couple quotes from our @onthemedia.bsky.social interview with the president of CAR.

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The NYTimes editorial board—"elite" by any definition—writes this drivel about "elite cultural progressivism" after a hand-picked Trump supporter flown in from Arkansas for a photo-op was asked by Trump about trans athletes and said "I really don’t have an opinion on that."

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On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

A mysterious shortwave radio broadcast went live in Iran shortly after American and Israeli strikes started. Last year, reporter Katie Thornton took a trip to the northern Maine town of Monticello to find one of shortwave’s farthest reaching broadcasters. on-the-media.visitlink.me/IyV46U