Filtered with TJ Walker

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay hundreds of millions of dollars over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed children, adding to an already enormous legal reckoning for Mark Zuckerberg’s company. But this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker goes beyond one court ruling. TJ examines Meta’s youth mental health controversy, addictive notifications, declining Facebook experience, AI-g...

Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says America’s K-shaped economy is ending because wages are growing faster for lower-income workers. But ordinary Americans do not experience the economy through spreadsheets, they experience it through grocery receipts, rent increases, insurance bills, gas prices, college tuition, and unaffordable homes. TJ Walker examines the gap between Washington’s optimi...

Republican Congressman Chuck Edwards is leaving Congress after an ethics investigation detailed inappropriate conduct involving young female staff members. In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ examines the allegations, Edwards’ decision to step aside, and why political accountability now feels almost revolutionary. The bigger question is not whether Edwards deserves praise. It is why res...

Are you really too old to start something new—or have you simply been conditioned to believe it? In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ examines how Morgan Freeman, LeBron James, elite athletes, and his own experience beginning stand-up comedy at 63 challenge outdated ideas about aging. Biology is real, but aging does not have to mean quitting, surrendering ambition, or abandoning difficul...

Republicans warn that socialism is taking over America, but Social Security, Medicare, public schools, fire departments, roads, and government-backed mortgages are already part of everyday American life. TJ Walker examines why socialism and communism are deliberately confused, why democratic socialism is gaining support among younger voters, and how soaring housing, healthcare, childcare, and educ...

On today’s Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ examines Rahm Emanuel’s sharp criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu and what it reveals about a growing divide inside mainstream Democratic politics. This episode argues that unconditional support for Netanyahu is becoming politically and morally harder to defend, especially as Democrats confront the reality of Gaza, the West Bank, U.S. foreign policy, and the futu...

In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ breaks down the New York City affordability contradiction: politicians promise to make life cheaper for working families while protecting expensive government payrolls, overtime systems, pensions, and insider benefits. Using the story of a public housing plumber supervisor and broader city labor costs, TJ argues that Democrats cannot claim to fight fo...

Donald Trump has turned attention into a political, financial, and cultural weapon. From Trump crypto coins to FIFA and World Cup influence, the story is no longer just about competence, expertise, or governance. It is about who can capture attention, dominate the feed, and turn popularity into power. This episode breaks down how the attention economy rewards spectacle over skill, hype over result...

This week on Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ asks a simple Fourth of July question: are you really taking a vacation, or are you just working for Big Tech for free? If your holiday is spent scrolling TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Shorts, and endless news feeds, your attention becomes the product. The advertisers pay. The platforms profit. You get a Monday morning that feels exactly like the Mon...

New York City’s rent freeze may sound like a huge win for tenants, but does it actually solve the housing crisis? In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ argues that freezing rent may provide short-term relief for people already inside rent-stabilized apartments, but it does nothing for the teacher, nurse, young family, immigrant household, or working-class New Yorker still trying to find a...

Texas Republicans are pushing Bible passages into public school classrooms, but what happens when students actually read the Bible carefully? In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ breaks down the political irony behind Texas’s Bible curriculum push. Supporters may think they are reinforcing conservative culture, but serious reading leads to serious questions about hypocrisy, money, modest...

Hollywood is not out of creativity. It is out of affordable risk. In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ breaks down why studios and Broadway producers keep running back to sequels, revivals, franchises, known titles, pop-star biographies, and built-in fan bases. The real problem is not that executives cannot recognize good ideas. It is that the financial machine now punishes originality u...

On today’s episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ breaks down ABC’s fight with Brendan Carr’s FCC as the agency reviews whether The View should continue to qualify as a bona fide news program and places pressure on ABC-owned local station licenses. TJ argues this is not neutral regulation. It is political retaliation dressed up as oversight. As Donald Trump faces brutal approval numbers and deep p...

ABC is fighting back as Brendan Carr’s FCC reviews The View and pressures ABC-owned local station licenses. TJ Walker argues this is not neutral regulation. It is political retaliation against a network that criticizes Trump while his approval numbers collapse and Americans grow more worried about the economy. Subscribe to Filtered with TJ Walker for sharp political commentary on media, power, and...

Keir Starmer is resigning as Britain’s prime minister, making the UK’s political revolving door even more absurd. But the immigration panic misses a key point: net migration has already fallen dramatically. Britain may be obsessing over the shark attacks while ignoring the car crashes. Subscribe to Filtered with TJ Walker for sharp political commentary. #KeirStarmer #UKPolitics #BritishPolitics #F...

Keir Starmer is stepping down, and Britain is once again searching for a new prime minister. But this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker argues that Starmer’s resignation is not just one politician’s failure. It is a warning sign about modern democracy itself. TJ breaks down Britain’s revolving door of prime ministers, the long shadow of Brexit, the immigration panic, and the way social media rage...

AI cheating tools are no longer just for writing essays. They can humanize text, fake typos, fake deletions, and even create fake revision history in Google Docs. TJ Walker argues that this is a serious problem for schools, but also a warning: if education collapses because students can fake a take-home essay, then teaching itself has to change. Subscribe to Filtered with TJ Walker for sharp daily...

A New York Times story says AI cheating is becoming harder to detect, with tools that can humanize writing, fake typos, mimic deletions, and even create artificial revision history. TJ Walker argues this is a serious problem, but not the end of education. It is a wake-up call for teachers, professors, schools, and parents to stop relying on lazy take-home essay systems and start measuring real thi...

A five-year-old lemonade stand loses money, then asks for a $144,000 valuation. Ridiculous? Maybe. But TJ Walker says that’s the same kind of logic investors are applying to Elon Musk, SpaceX, and trillion-dollar market hype. Watch Filtered with TJ Walker for sharp commentary on business, politics, money, media, and power. #Shorts #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Investing #StockMarket #WallStreet #BusinessNews...

On today’s episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ breaks down the enormous hype surrounding Elon Musk, SpaceX, Starlink, and one of the most astonishing valuations in modern business. Using a simple lemonade stand analogy, this episode asks whether investors are valuing a real rocket company or buying into a financial myth built on celebrity, hype, and faith in Elon Musk’s future promises. SpaceX...

A new study says roughly 70% of kids ages 4 to 10 use electronic media during dinner, and more than 75% of parents do the same. On today’s episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ argues that the real problem is not just children staring at screens. It is parents modeling the behavior, then acting surprised when kids follow. Family dinner is supposed to be one of the last protected spaces for conver...

A new JAMA Pediatrics study says roughly 70% of kids ages 4 to 10 use electronic media during dinner, and more than 75% of parents do the same. TJ Walker argues that the real issue is not just kids staring at screens. It is parents modeling the same behavior while pretending to set rules. Family dinner cannot work if everyone is looking down at a phone, tablet, or TV instead of talking to each oth...

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Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed or strongly implied that the Iran war was almost over, close to a deal, basically finished, or headed for victory. But after at least 19 versions of “mission accomplished,” why should anyone take his word at face value? In this Filtered with TJ Walker short, TJ breaks down why media coverage should not treat Trump’s repeated Iran claims as fresh breaking news ev...

Gavin Newsom says Donald Trump’s Justice Department is investigating him, his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and people around them. TJ Walker breaks down why this is bigger than one investigation - and why it raises serious questions about democracy, political revenge, and Trump’s plans for power. Subscribe to Filtered with TJ Walker for sharp political analysis on Trump, democracy, corruption, and...