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Reed McMaster
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Media Analyst at Media Matters For America. Views are my own.

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justinbaragona.bsky.social
I want to point out two things here.

One, the White House would not go on the record with a comment about this story, despite me giving them multiple extensions. Only asked for off the record conversations.

Two, this is not a denial. Instead, they're saying other CBS execs yucked it up with Trump.
January 17, 2026 at 6:04 PM
mcmasterreed.bsky.social
All these countries have to do is like wait a month for the damage this'll do to hit the US and then he'll cave like he did with Brazil
January 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d
Pollster: 58% of Americans say Trump's second term has been a failure. A year into term number two, Trump's numbers look worse than any other president. Trump is even worse than George W. Bush after Katrina and a long period in the Iraq War. This is really, really bad.
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
Over the weekend, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared posts with a song, "We'll Have Our Home Again."

I dug into the group that performed and popularized it. Its cofounder said his goal was to create "the seed of an eventual government." www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
DHS, White House shared white nationalist song in ICE recruitment posts
Multiple accounts run by DHS share references to “We’ll have our home again” song, popularized by a white nationalist group, with a link to join ICE.
www.splcenter.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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jaredlholt.bsky.social
Jack Posobiec should check out some recent poll numbers on the boots he’s licking
hannahgais.bsky.social hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 3d
Wine moms are scaring off ICE agents with whistles when all they want to do is go to boozy brunch, and you're calling the left demoralized?
Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec Demoralization is setting in on the Left Their usual tricks aren't working and the Trump Admin is holding firm They are facing total morale collapse Advance
January 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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mattgertz.bsky.social
This is the great thought leader of the far-right? www.mediamatters.org/patrick-bet-...
January 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
mcmasterreed.bsky.social
It's kinda wild to think the entire situation in Minneapolis wouldn't of happened if the MN GOP didn't try to manufacture something to run on by reaching out to and then signal boosting Nick Shirley
January 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6
January 13, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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jael.bsky.social
I just need to explain how absurd the court cases around the offshore wind projects are getting

Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security

But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
January 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Gets at one of the dynamics rotting away at everything: People are inclined to trust "influencers" more than "the media." But influencers have no ethics rules and can take payouts for coverage. Outside the media, how many people know that we can't even let a source buy us dinner?
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d
Detailing many of the right-wing social media influencers who are being paid big bucks by foreign governments and corporations to push issues that they suddenly care very passionately about. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington’s New Lobbyists: Paid Online Influencers With Few Rules
Corporate and foreign interests pour money into getting pro-Trump social-media stars to push their causes.
www.wsj.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
3 panel comic. Panel 1: waitress watching TV at a diner, a news story that says “FOUR DEAD. DEVELOPING STORY” the news anchor says “please be advised, the murderer is still at large.” Panel 2: the anchor says “here’s their photo.” It shows a picture of a guinea pig in a propeller hat. Panel 3: the waitress watches the TV pensively. Seated at the bar is a guinea pig in a propeller hat, their face obscured slightly by shadow. They have on their plate an entire head of lettuce
January 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
ICE agents shot a woman yesterday, but that wasn't enough cruelty, so Border Patrol went to a school and attacked people.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10d
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
You can draw a draw a straight line from a right wing YouTuber's unverified viral video about Somali American daycares to ICE showing up in Minneapolis to this killing.

This feels like a galvanizing moment for the city in the same way George Floyd's death was five years ago.
January 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
It's important to note that when the White House does things like this to note that Trump's pardons weren't popular—even among Republicans. Most voters know what Jan. 6 really was. This is a conspiracy that is pushed by minority rule. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
every dipshit reactionary centrist like Bari Weiss wants us to get along with these people
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12d
this is the sort of thing that makes me genuinely question every dipshit centrist at Reason and elsewhere who is like "Can't we just get along?"
January 6, 2026 at 5:59 PM
mcmasterreed.bsky.social
The "it's illegal to not like me" administration
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12d
Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated.
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes
Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.
www.sfgate.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
She should absolutely focus more or exclusively on the imaginary internet stuff actually
robertsilverman.bsky.social Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 12d
I dunno, maybe just do your job as a civil servant and stop focusing on imaginary internet points?
January 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
everything keeps getting dumber so I may come to regret this question but does the New York Times have any particular reason to believe the Nazi Pillow guy is a "strong" candidate for governor?
nyt: "Mr. Walz's decision jolts a race that had drawn an unusually large and strong slate of Republican candidates, including the speaker of the Minnesota House, Lisa Demuth, and Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow"
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
He kidnapped the leader of another country and said the U.S. is now going to run it, Chuck.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
The only sense you can make of any of this is that the administration is or hopes to be in touch with Rodriguez, expect her to capitulate fully, and expect her to maintain control of the country as we functionally annex Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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jsweetli.bsky.social
NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/

theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...
Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to “demon Muslims” on social media.
theintercept.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM