Propaganda

Bill Casey didn't like speaking about the war, but the leaflets dropped on him during the campaign sparked his son to explore the messaging of battle Published Aug 18, 2025 Last updated Aug 19, 2025 7 minute read Jim Casey holds military medals earned by his father, Bill Casey, along…

With less than a month to go before the Emmys, Disney’s pulling out all the stops to make sure Andor takes home some gold. Not only did it recently release the script for “Welcome to the Rebellion,” one of its best season two episodes, it’s also getting the word out…

The U.S. Defense Department is sharing AI-generated images of female soldiers to make it seem like the government’s recruitment efforts are actually working. In a propaganda segment on One America News’s The Matt Gaetz Show Thursday, Defense Department press secretary Kingsley Wilson lauded the department’s “incredible success” in recruiting women.…

It’s been clear since President Trump and his Fox News DC U.S. Attorney first announced that he was placing the Metropolitan Police Department under emergency federal control that he was trying to pull off another LA-style federal occupation of a city run by politicians he doesn’t like. Multiple news outlets…

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The New York-based media freedom organisation, the Committee to Protect Journalists, is scrupulous with its words. So, when the organisation described the killing of six Palestinian journalists in an Israeli air strike as “murder”, the word was a carefully considered choice. The CPJ defines “murder” as the “deliberate killing of…

The local police union in Washington, D.C., wasted no time in welcoming President Donald Trump’s unprecedented federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department and the deployment of the National Guard to the district as part of a dubious crackdown on crime. Trump — who has openly endorsed police violence in the…

Image credit: Eurogamer/Neoludic Games If the recent unstoppable wave of cosy sims has taught me anything, it's that my life would be infinitely more tolerable if only I dropped everything to start a life of aggressive vegetable upkeep deep in bucolic isolation. Yet despite all this pro-turnip (and weirdly low-key…

“Here we go” is both the first line of the 2025 Amazon Prime movie War of the Worlds and exactly what I said when I chose to watch it after the shitstorm of reviews that warned me not to. Directed by Rich Lee and shot exclusively through online calls and…

Materialists filmmaker Celine Song is clapping back at those who have described her film as “broke man propaganda.” During a recent interview with Refinery29 , the writer-director behind the romance movie responded to the “very cruel” commentary surrounding the relationship between Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans‘ characters, Lucy and John. “I think that…