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Reed McMaster

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Media Analyst at Media Matters For America. Views are my own. author page: www.mediamatters.org/author/reed-mc…

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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 6h
It's honestly going to be really funny when the admin inevitably picks him to be one of the sineaters to explain why the Iran war was a comical failure
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's still so much more to watch www.ms.now/news/maha-su...
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At MAHA Summit, RFK Jr.’s base asks if its champion is selling out
The second annual conference features Trump officials, tech titans, corporate sponsors and fading celebrities — but very little MAHA.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This administration appears intent on making the entire country hate it. Now, they are kicking 750,000 people off their health insurance. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
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Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud
Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
thing about fox news is they know where their bread is buttered. if other networks are getting banned, they know they'll get banned too.
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The comedic irony of the popularists is that their key examples of good Dems are always the ones who backstab the party
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come January 3, 2027, Dick Durbin will very likely be replaced by Juliana Stratton. Stratton ran on expanding the Supreme Court as well as on enacting term limits for justices.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A very public rendition of how insane this all looks literally just happened. Robert Kraft going after Macklemore, claiming it's to combat antisemitism but not saying a peep about Kanye West who's currently touring
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More in my lane is how anti-semitism is now basically unregulated on social media, how any 14 year old can now find "Jewish question" content that was walled off 10 years ago... and all the energy is in banning Israel boycotts. I assure you, that's making this worse!
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16/09/2026
a lot of people think that faillison hired bari weiss to deliberately destroy CBS news and i think all of you need to consider the possibility that he hired her because he genuinely thought she would be successful.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"ICE arrested 50,000 people in July, and another 50,000 in August, eclipsing the monthly arrests made during the peak of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, and Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota." www.turtlediaries.net/p/ice-is-sti...
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
who is ready for… DATA CENTER OIL SPILLS!
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Data Center Spills 5,500 Gallons Of Diesel Into Secaucus Creek
This happened Friday night at Equinix data center, which is located on Hartz Way and is expanding.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ICE is so unpopular these days it’s creating the kind of corporate replies that I can only compare to the corporate ass covering in public statements re: trump in 2015
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 08/09/2026
Will a British ban on trade with Israeli settlements, 60 years too late and done only after at least 75,000 Palestinians were massacred, cripple the Israeli settler enterprise? No. But, Miliband's forceful break with decades of feigned ignorance, helplessness, and complicity is a watershed moment.
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Ed Miliband has overturned decades of Foreign Office inertia on illegal Israeli settlements
Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and description of Israel’s actions as ethnic cleansing
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More from Campanile in his lengthy social media post. "Making matters worse is the cadre of self-described influencers and on-line opinionists who market themselves as “journalists”. Some have been given control of our most precious reporting institutions — including CBS News."
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
you could derail the entire steelers offense by showing them a globe
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/09/2026
every fun, cool, or just silly thing america has ever done is getting made worse because of these demons
After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, this year and will continue to be held in a European city for the foreseeable future. The reason: concerns about the safety of international travelers, who are increasingly reluctant to travel to the US to participate. Four of last year’s 10 winners opted to skip the ceremony rather than travel to the US, and the situation has not improved.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Guys, Maria Bariromo has fallen! I repeat, Maria Bariromo has fallen. Fox News announces that she is out, effective immediately. “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter.” No other explanation given.
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's really just that easy
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This measure is far short of what some of the leading Nordic countries do in terms of supporting and sustaining journalism, which is necessary for a functioning democracy, but it's a fantastic start.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
feels like "can the president unilaterally demolish the white house and build whatever he wants in its place" is a "major question" given the cultural and political significance of the building but, again, the president *is* a special birthday boy
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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
CBS News trying to manufacture a scandal out of drawing comparisons between the pandemic and 9/11 death tolls. The thing is, that point of comparison was incredibly common at the time. It was everywhere, and trying to smear El-Sayed now is disgusting, if totally predictable under Weiss and Ellison
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Embracing blatant Islamophobia, CBS News makes bizarre attempt to tie El-Sayed to 9/11
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Right-wing figures amplified the Trump administration's unsubstantiated claims, pushing for the SAVE America Act and fearmongering about noncitizens voting.
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Right-wing media repeated Trump administration claims that over 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote — now that “inflated” number is falling apart
Right-wing media ran with unsubstantiated claims from the Trump administration that the Department of Homeland Security found hundreds of thousands of noncitizens registered to vote in federal electio...
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My favorite dumb little fun fact from last year is that the only executive order less popular than the mass pardon of Capitol Rioters was the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. That was also when Trump's approval was about 20 points higher
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You cannot sincerely target fraud in the United States without spending a considerable amount of time tracking it down in Florida
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Laura Loomer attacks "ghetto Black people," name-checks Angie Nixon, Fani Willis, Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Candace Owens, Ilhan Omar, and adds, "Some people call it racism. I call it pattern recognition." www.mediamatters.org/laura-loomer...
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Laura Loomer: "Some people call it racism. I call it pattern recognition."
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dems too busy being Islamaphobic about a liftbro on Twitch in the name of "fighting antisemitism" to notice that ICE has been going hog wild on the down low since Homan took over for Bovino and told the Gestapo to be a bit more subtle
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Democrats have spent 3 days attacking a streamer btw
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BREAKING: ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of President Trump's second term.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some personal news! So thrilled and honored to be joining TPM as a reporter. Can't wait to get to work.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Once again, annual subscriptions to my newsletter are on SALE! I'm fundraising so I can cover something out of town and related to Border Patrol and ICE, though I can't say what at the moment (bc of other journalists taking my story, not because the agents are doing something secret).
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Went undercover in MAGA for a year, now I write about the right. Click to read The Turtle Diaries, by Amanda Moore, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Literally nobody, including MAGA, had any ideological commitment or pre-existing policy goal of picking a fight with Canada. This is all happening solely because the crazy old man randomly blurted it out. And that makes it worse. There's nothing to negotiate, no aim to satisfy. He's just insane.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ed Martin is out. But you can still read our pretty good profile of his blundering reign as DC US Attorney. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A noun, a verb and Hasan Piker
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We shouldn't discount the fact that at least part of the data center backlash (and by extension the broader techlash) is because people feel like the tech industry has not given them anything cool, inspiring, beautiful, or useful in a long time
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New: 3 yrs ago I published exposé revealing Richard Hanania used pseudonym to write for Nazi sites Ever since I've watched centrist media rehabilitate him, accepting his ludicrous claim to have left white nationalism behind. My look at what it means, for @marisakabas.bsky.social' The Handbasket
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You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tafoya may not be the worst candidate the MN GOP put up for senate, but that's mostly because she has to compete with Royce White
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i still see reactionaries say we need a “reckoning” over woke 1 and i truly don’t know what they mean at this point. the right is firmly in power and we get 2 articles a week bemoaning the excesses of wokeness. what else are you looking for?
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Dj @djsoke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The main lesson from WIGov last night is that their current counting practices are untenable 🤪 But a secondary lesson is that you have to run tv ads and we see this time and time again
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
its an insult to carter, but the last thing trump wanted to be was jimmy carter. he has said that over and over. iran is jimmy cartering him. even after 50 years of this they understand us, we do not understand them, because we do not respect them as human beings
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This kind of racism is permissible in mainstream US outlets if the subject is a Muslim
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just further proof the Republican party has convinced itself social media is real life
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NEW: ICE attorneys have been detailed to work as prosecutors in DC Superior Court.
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"Sacrificial Lambs": The ICE Attorneys Working as DC Prosecutors
ICE lawyers are now working in DC Superior Court
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
All of this preemptive chiding of The Left, idk man maybe just want it more and try harder next time, What is wrong with you
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