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I write about global politics for @gzeromedia.com/ @eurasiagroup.net and post too many pictures of my dog πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ“Brooklyn

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This news cycle is so exhausting that I’m like β€œTrump is taking a free plane from Qatar? Who cares!”

12.05.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok this took me out lol

12.05.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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coming to a streaming service near you

05.05.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thinking about how day high school social studies students will have to write their AP US history essays about this…

02.05.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HARD NUMBERS: Maryland senator visits jailed constituent in El Salvador, and more 1: On Wednesday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) flew to El Salvador to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abgrego Garcia, a Maryland resident wrongfully deported to a brutal high-security prison there. ...

Don’t let all the noise drown out how this administration is impacting human rights of real people.

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17.04.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The price is right: Greenland edition How much would it cost for the United States to maintain Greenland as its territory? And what are the revenue possibilities from the Arctic island’s natural resources? Those are two questions the Whit...

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04.04.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump has a love affair with Andrew Jackson and mentioned β€œmanifest destiny” in this year’s inaugural address

We should’ve seen his new obsession with territory coming 🀷

04.04.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will Hungary cancel Pride? 200,000: Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party has intensified its crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by proposing a bill to ban the Budapest Pride March, just as the event approaches its 30th anniversary. The bill, ...

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17.03.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pride has always been a protest. Especially now for the people of Hungary…

17.03.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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When life gives you lemons, why not sell lemon t-shirts?

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05.03.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The United States’ global reputation:

28.02.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are we ready for Trump Gaza? What happens when you ask artificial intelligence to create a video of gilded Trump statues (straight out of Turkmenistan) and new Trump Hotels (straight out of Atlantic City) featuring an up-tempo, ...

What happens when you ask AI to create a video of gilded Trump statues & new Trump Hotels featuring an up-tempo, pro-Trump track? You get Trump's Truth Social post advertising his postwar Gaza proposal, of course.

@billypickett.bsky.social explains what to know.
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26.02.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are we ready for Trump Gaza? What happens when you ask artificial intelligence to create a video of gilded Trump statues (straight out of Turkmenistan) and new Trump Hotels (straight out of Atlantic City) featuring an up-tempo, ...

Forced displacement of an entire population is no joke. And the president of the United States is acting just like it’s another business venture….

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26.02.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big news: left brooklyn today

23.02.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What my brain has to analyze for 40+ hours a week covering washington

13.02.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The most important meme I’ve ever seen

13.02.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The world set a new record in global defense spending: a whopping $2.46 trillion. The amount needed to end world hunger? Around $40 billion a year (estimated).

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12.02.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m so tired

10.02.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nobody is happier about this than the enemies of the United States

07.02.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Need this jacket

07.02.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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5 international news stories you might have missed today:

- Guatemala to take more deportees
- Google axes ban on AI for weapons
- Taliban shuts women’s radio
- Israelis like Trump’s Gaza plan
- Scientists virtually unwrap ancient scroll

Me for @gzeromedia.com: www.gzeromedia.com/news/hard-nu...

05.02.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza…not surprising but still chilling

05.02.2025 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Greenland temperature check (still cold, but the tea is hot) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen admitted on Tuesday that she was β€œhappy” with a new poll revealing that 85% of Greenlanders opposed becoming part of the United States.

A new poll shows that only 8% of Greenlanders would accept new American passports over their current Danish ones (do you blame them right now?)

My latest for @gzeromedia.com

30.01.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thinking this morning about how the right rallied against β€œglobal elites” pulling the strings of the highest levels of government

Just to put the richest man in the world in charge?

03.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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:)

03.02.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(I can say this bc I’m a barb)

02.02.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nicki WISHES

02.02.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why is every democrat asleep except jack schlossberg

01.02.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Greenland temperature check (still cold, but the tea is hot) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen admitted on Tuesday that she was β€œhappy” with a new poll revealing that 85% of Greenlanders opposed becoming part of the United States.

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01.02.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you blame them 😭

01.02.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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