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markmazzetti.bsky.social
Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, "The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth." Adjunct professor, Duke University.
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Do we tell them, or let them find out on their own?

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“Memorializing the Holocaust” has been purged from the Naval Academy’s library. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” remain. By @johnismay.bsky.social

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But let’s be honest here. Is there really that much of a difference between Oliver Stone and Roger Stone?

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“So many references to “1984” have flooded the political conversation that it feels as if nearly half the electorate joined the same book group” Matt Purdy, a legendary editor, has returned to writing at the right time.

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This story is at once completely bonkers and unbelievably scary

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“Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are running the same playbook to achieve strikingly similar goals: to neuter the judiciary, dismantle a system of oversight that puts a check on their authority and discredit national security professionals they see as arrayed against them.” New w/Patrick Kingsley

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Important new reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social

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The JFK records page already crashed. God damn you, Ed Asner

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When Johnny Cash sang at the White House in 1972, he played “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” as an f-you to Nixon.

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“So here’s the point. If you really want to see what a deep state is, go look elsewhere. We don’t have one here at home. And we need to keep it that way.” By Ted Singer, a former Middle East hand at CIA

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Only in Washington would a new "younger and hipper" private club open and feature young and hip members like Howard Lutnick, Steve Mnuchin, and Kirsten Gillibrand

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“What is Putin getting? He is getting more than he and other former K.G.B. officers ever dreamed of,” said @calderwalton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

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“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” The statement was a tell. The president sees common cause with Mr. Putin, a merging of interests forged through battles against those he believes are his and Mr. Putin’s mutual adversaries.

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The More You Know…..

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I hear DOGE is selling off that giant warehouse where they keep the arc of the covenant

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Maybe it’s an accident. Or maybe it’s the ultimate troll for Macron to be calling it a “coalition of the willing.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/w...

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Maybe, just maybe, some of these DC-based newsletters should take a beat before coming out with an “account” of the Trump-Zelensky meeting based on a single anonymous White House source.

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In a Virginia coffee shop

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Poor bastards on nuclear subs will surface in a month and find they’ve been fired.

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At least Montgomery Burns’ softball team will still have some damn standards

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The work my colleagues are doing on the plight of the migrants deported to Panama is stunning

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Trump has been blaming Ukraine for Ukraine getting invaded for a while now. Here’s a piece I did on the backstory of Trump’s animus toward Ukraine. Spoiler: Putin played a big role

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NEW: During a State Dept meeting, Trump’s new top foreign aid official told an official in Viktor Orban’s government that programs aimed at Hungary’s “internal affairs” were ending. The following day, Orban declared media orgs and pro democracy groups that received USAID money “illegal agents”

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Proud to be honored with a Polk Award for “The Unpunished,” a story with Ronen Bergman about right wing extremism and settler violence in Israel.

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Ok, schools at US military bases aren’t just removing books that fall into the “DEI” category. They are removing books with that totally woke viewpoint that slavery was a bad thing

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Robert Bork Friday night

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I guess baseball got "past" the cheating scandal by just ignoring the cheating scandal. MLB not into the accountability thing

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Jordan is THE US lilly pad in the middle east. It’s also part of Israel’s security blanket. Screwing with Jordanian stability (Trump’s Gaza plan to send Palestinians to Jordan+Bibi’s endorsement) is monumental idiocy. Abdullah will need to dance through the raindrops on this.

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Abdullah’s Choice: Going along with a Trump plan to expel millions from Gaza could cost him his kingdom. Fighting back risks getting cut off from American aid

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It’s not just Gaza. Trump’s comments are the latest example of how government officials on the right in both the United States and Israel now speak publicly about a shared goal: the takeover of Palestinian land. W/Patrick Kingsley

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The costs of media companies choosing to settle lawsuits brought by Trump, by @jameeljaffer.bsky.social

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Netanyahu’s office just issued statement that he has landed in US and is staying at Blair House for the 14th time which is “much more than any other foreign leader in its history since it was built in the 19th century.”

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I feel like maybe Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk came out a little early

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Good night watch “The Insider.”

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Another ominous story. The return of Trump has shifted the ground in just how much corporations are will to defend journalism that the White House doesn’t like

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Having spent a while covering the battles over American spy agencies since 9/11, the Gabbard hearing was pretty interesting. She sounds far closer to the way Democrats use to speak about everything from the dangers of “regime change wars” to “illegal and unconstitutional” NSA programs

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Future generations will hear John Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses” and have no idea what the Gulf of Mexico is

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The acts of retribution over the first week are intended not just to impose punishment for the past but also to intimidate anyone who might cross Trump in the future.

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Based on the British series Mi5:Mi6

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"For everyone watching, the vastness of Washington National Cathedral compressed, in one stunning moment, into a sudden intimacy. And with it, all the existential fights not simply of politics, but of morality itself." Stunning piece by Elizabeth Dias www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

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“This is what retribution could look like during the second Trump presidency: payback dressed up in the language of victimhood.”

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Ok, I saw "The Social Network," does all this still have to do with Zuckerberg not getting into that Harvard club?

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The press release Netanyahu's office just put out is striking, even for Netanyahu. Praise for Trump's help in deal and "for helping Israel bring an end to the suffering of dozens of hostages and their families." Then, almost as an afterthought, a cursory thanks to Biden Thank you for your service.

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The lead singer of Cheap Trick singing the national anthem is the most Tampa thing ever

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Those thrifty Midwesterners

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