Micah Loewinger
@micahloewinger
Co-host of @onthemedia.bsky.social from WNYC mloewinger(at)wnyc,org Signal: (646) 753-2373
Some fucking asshole is claiming to be me in an effort to scam authors and academics, and accurately satirizing public media in the process
Not the finals matchup I wanted but it does make this photo even more legendary
Trump's FEMA pick Cameron Hamilton will sit for a confirmation hearing on Wednesday. He would be the least experienced FEMA administrator since Katrina-era director Michael Brown. He was fired as acting administrator last year for not going along with Trump admin's effort to abolish FEMA.
Thanks @samseder.bsky.social and @majorityreport.bsky.social for having me on to talk about our @onthemedia.bsky.social FEMA series!! Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/yE5EFTD...
Wow! This is really cool. Congrats to @pablo.show for winning a pulitzer!!! www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
For 10 months, I’ve been working on a 4-part @onthemedia.bsky.social investigation into FEMA, one of America’s least favorite agencies: why MAGA nearly killed it and how we got here. The first episode just dropped. We’re super proud of it. Hope you’ll listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Some delicious things I’m eating this weekend at Jazz Fest in New Orleans: this Cochon de Lait Po-Boy from Walker’s BBQ 🤤
In his desperate attempt to raise money and fight The Onion's takeover of InfoWars, Alex Jones is selling these "Low IQ" t-shirts... a reference to Trump's post about Jones and other rw personalities who have recently criticized the president. LOL
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
TIL that during the 1973 oil crisis, Nixon lowered the national speed limit to 55mph to reduce gas use. Truckers started calling the new speed limit "double nickels," hence the name of the great Minutemen album "Double Nickels On The Dime" -- one of my all time faves
Hey NYC, I'll be speaking onstage with @billadair.com at the Wikipedia Day event to celebrate 25 years of the best free online encyclopedia. It's a free event though maybe consider a lil Wikidonation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:W...
A new report found 129 journalists were killed in 2025, the deadliest year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting these data in 1992. Israel was responsible for 2/3. I spoke with CPJ's CEO Jodie Ginsberg on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
There's a fantastic doc short called "Armed Only With a Camera" about the life and death of Brent Renaud, the first Western journalist killed by Russia in Ukraine. I interviewed the film's director Craig Renaud, Brent's brother, for @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Props to the scholars and researchers who identified January 6 for what it was. @milleridriss.bsky.social said this to me in the July 2nd 2021 episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social
Why even entertain Trump’s post as evidence of a potential motive lol www.bbc.com/news/article...
As Patel and Bongino go on their victory lap after nabbing the pipe bomb suspect, an apparent Stop The Steal-er, I hope more outlets acknowledge the lies they spread before joining the FBI: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
In the span of 12 hours Trump called MTG a "traitor" and posted photos from his playdate with Zohran Mamdani. The only lesson I can take away is that anytime you find yourself trying to predict the future just stop
Okay okay we can work with this. Mamdani was also polling at like 9% in March so not all hope is lost newslit.org/wp-content/u...
Reading a grad student's oral history project and this is the opening line. Kinda brilliant lol
From @juddlegum.bsky.social’s newsletter this morning: “A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.” popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
For the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @josephcox.bsky.social about the administration’s new-found love of content moderation as the DOJ has been pressuring Apple, Google, and Meta to remove apps and groups decided to helping people document ICE activity:
You cant tell from the audio but I was recording the convo under a blanket in a closet because I was traveling. Haven’t done this since the height of the pandemic
On @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @joshuakeating.bsky.social about the US bombing boats in the Caribbean and why combining the war on drugs with the war on terror is a very bad development: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
For @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social (whose Garbage Day newsletter is absolutely essential these days) about radicalization and what mainstream outlets get wrong about internet culture and memes. Really enjoyed this one: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...