February Media
"Publicity is the very soul of justice." -- Jeremy Bentham. February Media is a full-service book publicity and marketing firm founded by Gretchen Crary.
- Reposted by February MediaPolish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: "More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services."
- Reposted by February MediaWhether it’s right wing billionaires turning America’s most important media institutions into outlets for right wing propaganda or the Oberlin student council condemning the use of racial slurs, both sides seem to have lost interest in free speech.
- Reposted by February MediaGlad to see that FIRE is still non-partisan and totally not a right wing organization
- Reposted by February Mediai suppose it’s fitting that the model the billionaires have in mind when they want to destroy a journalistic institution and make it a reactionary slop machine is The Free Press
- Reposted by February MediaWhy? Because violent misogyny is a highly effective bonding agent among men & it works across all the other boundaries that divide men against each other: class, race, religion, even sexuality. To build a global elite network among men, the fastest & strongest bond to create is "bros before hoes."
- Reposted by February MediaThat cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)
- Reposted by February MediaBellingcat community members have already found two files detailing explicit allegations that President Trump engaged in sexual activities with children. One file is an FBI complaint form and the other is an FBI email chain. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- For anyone interested in digging through the new Epstein Files release our Discord community are going through the files at the moment Thread - discord.com/channels/709... Invite link for newbies - discord.com/invite/belli...
- Reposted by February MediaPew has Trump's approval at 37%. And: "Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans." www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
- Reposted by February MediaA remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302
- Reposted by February MediaWOW! You can really see where DOGE began its work!
- Reposted by February MediaAt the risk of handing it to JD Vance for finally making a good joke…
- Reposted by February MediaMy latest premium newsletter is about FIRE's alliances with the American right, and president Greg Lukianoff's pathetic attempts to justify them.
- Reposted by February MediaJonathan haidt co author of coddling of the American mind kind of gives the game away here.
- Reposted by February MediaI’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
- Reposted by February MediaMark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
- Reposted by February MediaCourt Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
- Reposted by February MediaICE is zip-tying kids and going after your hardworking friends and neighbors – not violent criminals. Just look at the data.
- Reposted by February MediaOh this poll is fascinating
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- Reposted by February MediaGood morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
- Reposted by February MediaIn an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.
- Reposted by February MediaWe live in an age where there's a glut of information and scarcity of attention, mediated through platforms that prioritise engagement over accuracy, and emotion captures attention more readily than reason.
- Reposted by February MediaLaughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
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- Reposted by February MediaNEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
- Reposted by February MediaWOW, new signage!
- Reposted by February MediaDid Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
- Reposted by February MediaOK this is amazing. Trump’s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of “Woke AI” in federal government. Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc: www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
- Reposted by February MediaChuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
- Reposted by February Media"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
- Reposted by February MediaRFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
- Reposted by February MediaVital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
- Reposted by February MediaIf the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028. by Rahm Emanuel
- Reposted by February MediaGood morning. We crunched 4.6GB of trade data to find out how much of U.S. imports are getting tariffed (quite a bit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by February MediaThis was a fun one: Ben Steverman & I took a close look at the class of wealthy New Yorkers threatening to leave if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor and found that they are actually stuck here www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Reposted by February MediaThe comeback of the mountain gorilla – podcast
- Reposted by February MediaBREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
- Reposted by February MediaAn insightful essay. A few years ago I wrote about the literature of shame, including questions about shamelessness, salutary kinds of shame and what shaming can (and cannot) be for: www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/b...
- Reposted by February MediaICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
- Reposted by February MediaThe level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.: —Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks —Bribes from ABC & CBS —TikTok sale to Ellison —Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base —Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins
- Reposted by February MediaOne lesson for pro-democracy advocates currently sitting in opposition around the world -- hammer incumbents on corruption and link strengthening liberal democracy (aka accountability) to anti-corruption efforts.
- Reposted by February Media"Gilded Rage" isn’t simply a rehash of existing reportage. What separates Silverman’s book from other writeups, and where his book truly shines, is in his attempt to get at the root of Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic lurch. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...
- Reposted by February MediaAmerican Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans." We checked the data. That wasn't true. openmeasures.io/american-eag...
- Reposted by February MediaEvery few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...
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- Reposted by February MediaWhat a perfect formulation: “This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
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“… but one thing that has been made abundantly clear to the entire world is that Ukraine is a very real nation, and that millions of Ukrainians are willing to fight tooth and nail to remain independent of Russia.' Yuval Noah Harari @financialtimes.com archive.ph/1gDc6#select... - Reposted by February MediaGov. Gavin Newsom just dropped a new video for Yes on Prop 50 —
- Reposted by February MediaThe Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:
- Reposted by February MediaMap Of The Proposed Great Green Wall Of Africa brilliantmaps.com/great-gre...
