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Zachary Pleat

@zpleat.bsky.social
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Research at Media Matters for America, currently focusing on economic misinformation. All posts are my own views but are backed by the Commissariat. www.mediamatters.org/author/zachary…

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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 11h
it hit me around 40 i'd say
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
that sounds good, maybe i'll alternate between berry and pumpkin
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm gonna be trying baked oatmeal with frozen berries soon, I'm looking forward to it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump’s plan to save the midterms is…help Russia. The Trump-Vance-Kushner-Witkoff approach to the war has always been weaken Ukraine so they bow down to Putin. It hasn’t worked. With nearly two years of this, Ukraine has shown it can thwart ground offensives and strike Russian oil without US help.
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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
giving aid and comfort to enemies, much?
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Palpatine Star Wars: I Am The Senate
ALT: Palpatine Star Wars: I Am The Senate
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
and sink their tankers
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I doubt Russia has tons of diesel to export. They're in a fuel shortage crisis. It'd be illegal, violating sanctions. And awful strategy while Russia is attacking Ukraine, menacing NATO allies, and helping Iran target Americans. But looks like Trump trying to jawbone markets before the midterms.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If only housing wasn't sooooooo much higher than what previous generations paid fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XTUX
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Real Residential Property Prices for United States
Real Residential Property Prices for United States
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Stop writing headlines as if Trump's DOJ is remotely credible! www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/1...
washingtonpost.com
Kennedy Center doesn’t have to answer questions about Trump’s role, DOJ asserts
The ongoing court battle has prompted an unusual debate about whether executive privilege can extend outside of the president's official responsibilities.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
War crimes administration sanctions court that investigates war crimes
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's because she's Black, that's it, it's naked racism.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just Al Capone all of them to jail forever.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i dont believe it was part of my curriculum
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
pretty much everything he does is
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Angelo Carusone @goangelo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Shoot ‘em, stick ‘em, or fry ‘em” www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What I mean is, the cameras switched to a view outside the facility when the time came, they didn't show the execution. But my memory of that could be wrong!
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it's not just gonna be cameras outside? i remember watching the Timothy McVeigh execution like that
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Outside of the AI buildup, it sure looks like we are bsky.app/profile/jaso...
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New from me: New York Fed research found that if not for Trump's tariffs, goods prices would have declined. Many news outlets haven't yet covered it. www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... Fox continues to blame affordability problems on Democrats
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New York Fed research found that if not for Trump's tariffs, goods prices would have declined. Many news outlets haven't yet covered it.
On October 6, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published an article to its Liberty Street Economics blog that included a chart showing that President Donald Trump’s tariffs directly led to a highe...
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
he's been waging a race war already
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I guess this means they're not gonna bulldoze it?
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Big Beautiful Bill cut corporate income taxes pretty substantially. Corporate tax revenues came in even lower than expected.
corporate tax revenue was at around 1.7% of GDP when BBB was enacted. Now it's down to 1.2% of GDP.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I realize JD Vance lies as he breathes, but inflation was LOWER when Trump took office than it is now, by all measurements. Biden inherited a global pandemic, recession, and inflationary pressure from Trump. Trump inherited stable inflation and robust job creation and then screwed it up.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The head of the Fraud Task Force unaware of corruption inside the Trump administration, despite it being widely covered in the media. All by design: The Public Integrity unit in DOJ was gutted and has been told to focus on welfare fraud in blue states. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
The unit is hiring again to focus on “how politicians and state officials facilitate the misuse of taxpayer dollars.” That sounds good — until you realize what this actually means is they plan to go after blue state officials for allegations of welfare fraud. Trump’s circle will remain safe. After all, his former defense lawyer runs the DOJ now.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i want that of the 'ballroom'
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Surely Trump can't surprise the market anymore, right?
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Helldivers 2 is about as fast-paced as i can handle these days
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
noooooo
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i just cant with the randomly capitalized words
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what does the letter say?
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
such a "hard news" show www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ton...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Those who remain at Fox to celebrate the network's 30th anniversary either revel in or are willing to accommodate its core aims of GOP dominance and Trumpian propaganda.
mediamatters.org
Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump in early 2024:
thehill.com
Trump says he hopes economy crashes in next 12 months: ‘I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover’
Former President Trump said in an interview that aired Monday that he predicts the U.S. economy will crash and that he hopes it does so within the next year. In the interview with Lou Dobbs, Trump,…
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
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Joshua Smith @smithmachine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The President broke the law by illegally withholding funds to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
gao.gov
U.S. GAO - Department of Health and Human Services—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—Application of Impoundment Control Act to the Availability of Funds for Grants
Congress appropriated lump sum amounts to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to carry out various research initiatives for fiscal...
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
stunning strategic defeat
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump is corruptly misappropriating taxpayer funds to pay for political ads. And rather than object, his GOP allies in Congress shrink in fear. Gift link: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👇🎯 - NSF/NIH $ decimated - ongoing attacks on specific universities - Title VI/FLAS $ cancelled: new CAANN grants just illegally cancelled by Russell Vought - ongoing foreign student collapse bc of immigration restrictions - Constant lying about campus speech from the fascists Total failure
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once again, I ask why the New York Times & every other media outlet immediately & instinctively reports on the 🇩🇪 AfD as a “far right” or “extremist” party but does not regularly cover the 🇺🇸 Republican Party as such: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And everyone who lied about it www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...
npr.org
ICE denies having a protester database. But a letter to Congress sheds more light
In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes. Again, it all should have ended in 2017, when he began openly monetizing the presidency at his hotel two blocks from the White House. We are not a serious country.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The mainstream media has given lot of different people lots of reason to lose trust in it broadly speaking. However, when Republicans talk about The Media, I would like for you to look at historical polling graphs of when that plummet in their trust really began and hmm, interesting timing…
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Zachary Pleat @zpleat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
and i thought it was going to be natalie
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