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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump administration airs new taxpayer funded ad celebrating Trump's declaration of war on Iran — the latest pro-Trump ad reminds people he urged Iranians to take over their government 7 months ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

A screenshot from a Trump administration ad showing supporters of his war on Iran celebrating in New York on 1 March 2026.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

White House claims pro-Trump ad it paid Fox to air was ‘public service announcement’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The pro-Trump ad the White House used taxpayer funds to air on Fox News uses a rapid-fire montage of flash-frames of Trump's second term you have to slow down to appreciate the weirdness of — including Trump winning the Fifa peace prize and pardoning a turkey www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

An image from a pro-Trump ad shows him pardoning a turkey as on-screen text reads: "America will never be a communist country"

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AOC was an intern in Ted Kennedy's office

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is somehow too perfect, from a (wildly inaccurate) AI-generated transcript of Trump's remarks today, when asked about Republicans suddenly campaigning against AI data centers, shared with the White House pool:

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Trump claims 'young, beautiful girls' who work in his White House keep thanking him www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

19 years ago, a 20-year-old Lionel Messi posed for a photo with a baby from the outskirts of Barcelona for a UNICEF calendar. The baby was an infant Lamine Yamal.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

On social media, many people spread viral false claim the newspaper in McConnell's hand looked fake, and so was proof the whole image was AI generated. Far-right conspiracy theorist, and Trump adviser, Laura Loomer got over a million views for that false claim, and Elon Musk's Grok "confirmed" it

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Washington Post report on Mitch McConnell's health oddly fails to note photo released by his office includes a newspaper — which I reported yesterday was the cover of Sunday's WaPo sports section — even though AI generated summary of reader comments notes that their readers think the image was AI

Screenshot of the Washington Post's AI generated summary of reader comments on its report on statement and photo released by Mitch McConnell's office

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Shade from Telemundo, acknowledging English-speakers watching in part because they do not cut to commercials during the pausas de hidratación — and also donnot have basketball announcers ignorant of football doing commentary

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My first day as a construction worker in Queens, one summer during college, the other guys told me the most important rule of the hourly job, with overtime, was: "Make the work last".

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

'Our Pool is Bigger than Skyscrapers,' Trump assures an anxious nation www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Minor OSINT scoop: That "Thank you, PRESIDENT TRUMP" banner Trump had plastered all over DC to take credit for taxpayer funded renovations features a photo of him in a hard hat taken last July — as he toured the Federal Reserve renovation he called a huge scam www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

An image of the suspected gunman shared first by the president on his own social media platform, right next to an ad for snake oil in his timeline

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Trump confirms government could 'just buy' Spirit Airlines, then confuses Obama with Biden and Jet Blue with People Express www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Backlash in India to Trump amplifying screed against birthright citizenship that calls country a 'hellhole' www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

When he says "it was shocking" because "we didn't think" Iran would retaliate for US strikes by hitting Gulf states with US bases, he is admitting he did not think of a likely Iranian response a member of his own Iran negotiating team until last year predicted would happen in an article in February:

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Netanyahu has been wrongly predicting Middle East peace can be achieved through US and Israeli bombing since JD Vance was in high school. "If you take out Saddam," he told Congress in 2002, "I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region," particularly "in Iran"

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Very clear asessment of what is actually happening from @emilyhorne.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/spinclas...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Netanyahu says a regime change war on Iran will bring peace 24 years after he offered Congress his "guarantee" that regime change war in Iraq would "have enormous positive reverberations on the region" including "right next door, in Iran" where people "will say, the time of such regimes... is gone"

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Mullin never served but often speaks as if he did. After Jan 6, he told CSPAN he directed police and actual vet Jason Crow how to respond to riot, and said "I haven't seen a thing like that since stuff you see overseas". When asked to explain his service experience, he said: "I would prefer not to."

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

He's been predicting that since September 2002, when offered Congress his "guarantee" that a US regime change war in Iraq would "have enormous positive reverberations in the region" and bring an end to Iran's Islamic Republic

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

JD Vance calls Donald Trump's attack on Kaitlan Collins for not smiling 'so perceptive' www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Musicians Against Ice takes over a busy Portland street corner and lays down a protest beat to honks and waves of solidarity

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The French foreign ministry has an official account dedicated to "riposte" and here is their riposte to Musk calling the UK fascist for protecting X users from abuse

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Yeah, no: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A screenshot of a post by Donald Trump, in which he confuses a dead falcon in Israel for a bald eagle in the United States

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

"Self-deportation" was also, originally, intended to be such a self-evidently stupid term that no one could take it seriously when it was invented by the satirist @laloalcaraz.bsky.social aka Daniel D. Portado in 1994 archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blog...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

What's that in Epstein's bookcase, behind the vase? Why it's Epstein's copy of "Trump: The Art of the Comeback", which The New York Times reported in July was inscribed by Trump in 1997 with a handwritten note: “To Jeff – You are the greatest!”

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is a message from an official, tax-payer funded White House account, written by government employees barred by law from engaging in partisan politics

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It seems obvious that Olivia Nuzzi's book is karaoke Joan Didion, but it looks like her prose was also influenced by the writing of RFK Jr. She uses the phrase "I mean to" repeatedly in the book excerpt published by Vanity Fair. According to Ryan Lizza, RFK used it in an erotic poem he sent Nuzzi:

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Trump calls investigation of ex Honduran president for drug trafficking "a Biden-inspired witch hunt", even though it began during Trump's first term, led by Emil Bove, who later served as Trump's lawyer and is now a Trump-appointed federal judge www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

White House has picked very pro-Trump pool reporters for Trump's Oval Office meeting with Mamdani on Friday: TV is Fox and Newsmax; Print is Washington Times and The Telegraph; New Media is Megyn Kelly. Exception is Radio: AURN (whose Black, female correspondent Trump called obnoxious in September)

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

You are clearly unfamiliar with my work, because I have reported that he lied many times over the past decade. I use the word when it is accurate, as it would not have been here, and am not in need of a lecture from someone who can't be bothered to find out who they are lecturing.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Trump disapproval in exit polls tracked vote for Democrats in VA and NJ governor races and for CA redistricting; in NYC, it looks like 50% of the Trump haters voted Mamdani and 19% Cuomo. If 29% who approve of Trump's presidency in NYC split 7% Sliwa/22% Cuomo, most Cuomo voters were Republicans

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Seems like a lot of the reporting on Trump's attacks on Mamdani, and his tacit and then open endorsement of Cuomo, underplayed how wildly unpopular he is in his native city. A supermajority of NYC voters hate him.

Exit polls showing 69% of new York city voters disapprove of Trump

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And it will be much, much worse for some people: "a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 (or 402% FPL) would see yearly premium payments rise by over $22,600 in 2026" www.kff.org/affordable-c...

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