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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Aug 11

I feel that if Washingtonian figured out the answer to this question it should have been the cover story

Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Jul 11

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...

“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.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sure this is going down really well at Langley

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Jun 17

NEW: How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · May 28

NEW: Erik Prince has a contract to conduct lethal operations on behalf of Haiti’s government. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

A Desperate Haiti Turns to Erik Prince, Trump Ally, in Fight Against Gangs

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · May 7

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 · Apr 29

This is a real honor. I’m incredibly grateful and proud to be in such distinguished company.

The Sidney Hillman Foundation @sidneyhillman.bsky.social · Apr 29

@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social wins the 2025 Hillman Book Prize for “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis,” @Newyorker.com

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis

Everyone who makes the migrant journey faces an impossible choice. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already b...

hillmanfoundation.org

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The Sidney Hillman Foundation @sidneyhillman.bsky.social · Apr 29

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.”

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...

hillmanfoundation.org

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Apr 29

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...

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Apr 29

Just astonishing that standing up to American aggression becomes the rallying cry for the newly elected leader of…Canada

Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · Apr 29

“Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory”

www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/a...

Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory | CNN

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country would “never” yield to the United States as he declared victory in federal elections early Tuesday, following a campaign overshadowed by relentless...

www.cnn.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Apr 24

Possible the US moves down in the first round and swaps a second round pick with UK

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Apr 23

More on UK/US trade talks
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rachel Reeves dashes hopes of early breakthrough in UK-US trade deal

Chancellor says UK is ‘not going to rush a deal’ and rejects new US demands on agricultural products

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Apr 17

Do we tell them, or let them find out on their own?

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Apr 11

“Memorializing the Holocaust” has been purged from the Naval Academy’s library. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” remain.
By @johnismay.bsky.social

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Apr 3

But let’s be honest here. Is there really that much of a difference between Oliver Stone and Roger Stone?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 1

Morley: I think you’re confusing Roger Stone with Oliver Stone

Boebert: I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 29

“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.

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?

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 24

This story is at once completely bonkers and unbelievably scary

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.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 21

“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

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

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 20

Important new reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 18

The JFK records page already crashed. God damn you, Ed Asner

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 18

When Johnny Cash sang at the White House in 1972, he played “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” as an f-you to Nixon.

Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser

Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 14

“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

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.

www.barrons.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 9

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

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 8

“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...

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 8

“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.

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social · Mar 7

The More You Know…..

BNO News @bnonews.com · Mar 6

BREAKING: Debris over the Bahamas after SpaceX Starship falls apart during test flight

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