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Research at Media Matters for America, currently focusing on economic news coverage. All posts are my own views but are backed by the Commissariat. he/him. https://www.mediamatters.org/author/zachary-pleat

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Everybody will learn this lesson or they will go down with the fascist ship.

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Showing off clearly doctored photos with a dumb look on your face? Wow, it really is McCarthyism all over. Roy Cohn would be so proud of you, sir!

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Coercively demanding somebody sign something in a language they can't even read, and refusing to tell them what it is, is such openly Kafkaesque authoritarianism. These people are not a government, they are a criminal enterprise, much more accurately described as "gang members" than their victims.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

It's true that us citizens get detained by ICE regularly but it's also true that now that we live in a time when "detained by ICE" might turn into "life sentence in a concentration camp before you even talk to a lawyer or judge," it's certainly higher stakes to be detained by ICE

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

New from me: Fox claims Trump's tariffs will restore American manufacturing. Experts say they are hurting business. www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... Industry surveys reveal Trump tariff policies harm the manufacturing sector

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ok fine I did it myself

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

The ICE officers covering their faces feels like a pretty big tell

submitted 6 days ago • 237 comments

New from me: MAGA media knives are out for Trump’s tariff advisers www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... Trump supporters are blaming some of Trump’s economic appointees — instead of Trump — for confusion and general turmoil over his tariffs

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

There is a strong legal case that Trump tariffs are illegal (because he has not authority to issue them.) No major corporation or trade association, however, has filed suit because they are all afraid of making Trump mad. The only company that has sued is a small stationary store in Florida.

submitted 12 days ago • 110 comments

Again, impeachable actions by the minute. For example, the President of the United States bragging that he is extorting law firms.

submitted 12 days ago • 88 comments

Destroying their own jobs and retirement benefits would be bad for the union workers, fwiw.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

New from me: Fox vs. Fox: Trump apologists defend tariff chaos while experts raise alarm www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 14 days ago • 845 comments

Republicans full-on stealing am election in North Carolina. 2026 is going to be grim

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment