Mark Mazzetti
@markmazzetti.bsky.social
Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, "The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth," and currently writing a book about the Middle East. Adjunct professor, Duke University.
NEW: The regime change plan at the beginning of the Iran War called for installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former hard line presidnet known for accelerating the nuclear program and denying the Holocaust, as the country’s new leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
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I feel that if Washingtonian figured out the answer to this question it should have been the cover story
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.
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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
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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
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This Champions League match is a treat. Historic rivals Qatar and the UAE going at it
This is a real honor. I’m incredibly grateful and proud to be in such distinguished company.
The Sidney Hillman Foundation@sidneyhillman.bsky.social · last yr.@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
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...
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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.
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Just astonishing that standing up to American aggression becomes the rallying cry for the newly elected leader of…Canada
Jamie Gangel@jamiegangel.bsky.social · last yr.“Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory” www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/a...
Possible the US moves down in the first round and swaps a second round pick with UK
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · last yr.More on UK/US trade talks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“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.
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But let’s be honest here. Is there really that much of a difference between Oliver Stone and Roger Stone?
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Morley: I think you’re confusing Roger Stone with Oliver Stone Boebert: I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize
“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?
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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.
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“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
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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.
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The JFK records page already crashed. God damn you, Ed Asner
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.
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“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.
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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I hear DOGE is selling off that giant warehouse where they keep the arc of the covenant
Maybe it’s an accident. Or maybe it’s the ultimate troll for Macron to be calling it a “coalition of the willing.”
Mujtaba Rahman@mijrahman.bsky.social · last yr.In a 15 minute TV address to the nation, Macron gave no details of which countries will be involved alongside France and Britain in this so-called “coalition of the willing”. 2/
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Far-Right Israeli Minister Visits Washington After Years of Being Shunned
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, had drawn rebukes from the Biden administration for his opposition to a cease-fire in Gaza and his support for Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
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Maybe, just maybe, some of these DC-based newsletters should take a beat before coming out with an “account” of the Trump-Zelensky meeting based on a single anonymous White House source.
