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Research at Media Matters for America, currently focusing on economic news coverage. All posts are my own views but are backed by the Commissariat. he/him. https://www.mediamatters.org/author/zachary-pleat

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Trump enforcer Bill Pulte disappeared from Fox after accusations against Fed board member Lisa Cook crumbled Fox News and Fox Business repeatedly hosted Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte in July and August to push his claims that several targets of President Donald Trump’s political retribut...

New from me: Trump enforcer Bill Pulte disappeared from Fox after accusations against Fed board member Lisa Cook crumbled www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru... Fox regularly amplified Pulte’s claims of supposed “mortgage fraud” by Trump’s perceived enemies over the summer

24.09.2025 21:18 — 👍 86    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 2

my go-to lazy meal is a cup of brown rice and a can of black beans in the rice cooker, with cheese and hot sauce mixed in at the end. cheap, easy, nutritious, delish.

18.09.2025 20:51 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Fox continued Trump’s campaign to fire Fed board member Lisa Cook just before reports seemed to exonerate her Since late August, Fox has assisted in the Trump administration’s effort to force Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook out of her seat – her term is not scheduled to end until 2038 – by pushing unsu...

New from me: Fox continued Trump’s campaign to fire Fed board member Lisa Cook just before reports seemed to exonerate her www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox... The Trump administration and Fox have accused Cook of mortgage fraud as part of a long-running effort to influence/seize control of the Fed

16.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

lmao wow

12.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have 800 hours in that game, can confirm. I use it almost every drop.

12.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As the August jobs report showed a weakening economy, Fox cast doubt on the data before it was even released

New from me: As the August jobs report showed a weakening economy, Fox cast doubt on the data before it was even released www.mediamatters.org/fox-business... Continuing the shoot the messenger approach, Fox was casting doubt on the jobs data even before it was released

05.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 31    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

Or that they can destroy Iran's nuclear program in one bombing raid

23.08.2025 00:11 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Same way Canadians soured so fast on the U.S. this year -- Trump threatened to destroy their manufacturing base over a whim.

22.08.2025 12:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean, SCOTUS kinda legalized bribery didn't it

22.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

it's like these fools have no idea how huge America is and how popular it is (or was)

22.08.2025 02:06 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

maybe this will finally end the nonsense over endorsements?

22.08.2025 01:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a hood says let the hate flow through you !!! Alt: Emperor Palpatine saying "let the hate flow through you"
22.08.2025 01:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

post thru it

22.08.2025 01:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i love all these kinds of tweets you do

22.08.2025 01:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

honestly havent been to one since family roadtrips as a kid

22.08.2025 01:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Roberts has turned SCOTUS into nothing more than Trump's racketeering enforcer

22.08.2025 00:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

21.08.2025 20:58 — 👍 6506    🔁 2588    💬 174    📌 96

As always, immediate intervention when Trump is inconvenienced; versus a lengthy and interminable legal morass when his targets are.

21.08.2025 21:57 — 👍 334    🔁 92    💬 13    📌 0

these shitbags are going to cost plenty of people their jobs and likely gin up death threats over this. absolute clown losers.

21.08.2025 21:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

lmaoooo

21.08.2025 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just after Fox pushed Trump’s lie that foreign countries pay for tariffs, a host acknowledged that Americans are paying higher prices

Oops: Just after Fox pushed Trump’s lie that foreign countries pay for tariffs, a host acknowledged that Americans are paying higher prices www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad...

21.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 83    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 1

just what i always wanted, a rainforest in my gut xD

21.08.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care

More Pedocon stuff: Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

21.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

lol does it even mention that this is outside of the census redistricting? (also, Texas did this over 20 years ago too)

21.08.2025 13:14 — 👍 73    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

My last three phones have had the exact same battery size, except each new phone uses it up faster.

20.08.2025 20:27 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

well at least they're not being sent to Greenland

20.08.2025 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's because they know they can manipulate and bribe him to do what they want.

20.08.2025 02:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He'll eventually hang a fake one like that old TIME cover

20.08.2025 00:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my friend/roommate bought an old historic one in rural PA and it's so full of character

19.08.2025 02:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i try not to

19.08.2025 02:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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