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Mark Mazzetti

@markmazzetti.bsky.social
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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," and currently writing a book about the Middle East. Adjunct professor, Duke University.

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
NEW: The regime change plan at the beginning of the Iran War called for installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former hard line presidnet known for accelerating the nuclear program and denying the Holocaust, as the country’s new leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I feel that if Washingtonian figured out the answer to this question it should have been the cover story
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A personal and absolutely devastating account of the Texas floods. It is as beautifully written as it is painful to read www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Sure this is going down really well at Langley
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
NEW: How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
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How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
NEW: Erik Prince has a contract to conduct lethal operations on behalf of Haiti’s government. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
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A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This Champions League match is a treat. Historic rivals Qatar and the UAE going at it
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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is a real honor. I’m incredibly grateful and proud to be in such distinguished company.
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The Sidney Hillman Foundation @sidneyhillman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Ronen Bergman and @markmazzetti.bsky.social of The New York Times Magazine win the 2025 Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for “The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel.”
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The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
Beatings, murder threats, harassment, vandalism, and the torching of homes: Jewish extremists have been committing these crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank for decades, with impunity. The au...
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Honored that the story I wrote with Ronen Bergman is the winner of the 2025 Hillman Prize for magazine journalism given by @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. Here is press release and original story www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...
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The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just astonishing that standing up to American aggression becomes the rallying cry for the newly elected leader of…Canada
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Possible the US moves down in the first round and swaps a second round pick with UK
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Do we tell them, or let them find out on their own?
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“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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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
But let’s be honest here. Is there really that much of a difference between Oliver Stone and Roger Stone?
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“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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We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now
He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This story is at once completely bonkers and unbelievably scary
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“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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For Trump and Netanyahu, Similar Strategies With Similar Goals
The American and Israeli leaders have been mirroring each other as they go to war with their own governments
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Important new reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social
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Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict Trump on Venezuelan Gang
To invoke wartime deportation powers, President Trump asserted that Venezuela’s government controls a gang. U.S. intelligence analysts think that is not true.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The JFK records page already crashed. God damn you, Ed Asner
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“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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The U.S. Doesn’t Have a Deep State. It Never Should.
Theodore J. Singer had a career watching murky bureaucracies at work. His experience is a cautionary tale, he writes in a guest commentary.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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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Inside Ned’s, the private club for a new generation of D.C. cool kids
The London-based franchise Ned’s Club aims for a modern take on Washington’s elite membership clubs.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“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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Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“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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Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The More You Know…..
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I hear DOGE is selling off that giant warehouse where they keep the arc of the covenant
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Far-Right Israeli Minister Visits Washington After Years of Being Shunned
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, had drawn rebukes from the Biden administration for his opposition to a cease-fire in Gaza and his support for Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
In a Virginia coffee shop
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Poor bastards on nuclear subs will surface in a month and find they’ve been fired.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
At least Montgomery Burns’ softball team will still have some damn standards
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Yankees Part With Tradition: Beards Are Now Allowed
The team is ending its longstanding policy on facial hair and will allow “well-groomed beards moving forward,” Hal Steinbrenner said.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The work my colleagues are doing on the plight of the migrants deported to Panama is stunning
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Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp
The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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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Behind Trump’s Views on Ukraine: Putin’s Gambit and a Political Grudge
The roots of Donald Trump’s animus toward Ukraine — an issue with profound consequences should he be elected again — can be found in a yearlong series of events spanning 2016 and 2017.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Pete Marocco Returns to Battle in Trump’s War on Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
A meeting between a Hungarian official and Pete Marocco, the top Trump appointee in charge of foreign aid, signals a new future.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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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Pete Marocco Returns to Battle in Trump’s War on Foreign Aid
A meeting between a Hungarian official and Pete Marocco, the top Trump appointee in charge of foreign aid, signals a new future.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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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The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards
The Times was honored for an investigation into extremism in Israel, coverage of the civil war in Sudan and a narrative about a Russian soldier who defected from the war in Ukraine.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Robert Bork Friday night
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I guess baseball got "past" the cheating scandal by just ignoring the cheating scandal. MLB not into the accountability thing
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Alex Bregman signing signals Red Sox are back and baseball may be past cheating scandal
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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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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Jordan’s King Faces a Bind as He Meets With Trump
King Abdullah II, a close U.S. ally dependent on aid from Washington, is confronting the president’s demands that he take in Palestinians from Gaza, a step the king’s domestic politics will not allow.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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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Trump’s Gaza Plan Reflects Broader Push for Annexation of Palestinian Land
Right-wing officials in Israel, evangelical Christians in the United States and Trump appointees have become increasingly outspoken in calling for Israel to take more territory.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The costs of media companies choosing to settle lawsuits brought by Trump, by @jameeljaffer.bsky.social
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Opinion | Settlements With Trump Are Weakening Press Freedoms
Media institutions and technology companies are offering obscene sums of money to settle feeble or frivolous lawsuits.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I feel like maybe Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk came out a little early
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Good night watch “The Insider.”
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CBS to Hand Over Transcript of Kamala Harris’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview to FCC
The broadcaster had declined previous requests by the Trump campaign to release the unedited transcript of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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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Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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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