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Zeteo commissioned this poll from Data for Progress and it is pretty clear that the Democratic base prefers the progressive/leftist position on every issue from Israel-Palestine to healthcare to even immigration.

Full poll results and analysis:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

26.04.2025 20:27 — 👍 1147    🔁 234    💬 61    📌 16
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He’s got a point. After his stint working in the government I’d like him to go work in the mines.

12.04.2025 22:54 — 👍 7998    🔁 935    💬 380    📌 65
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A crow's math skills include geometry Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

12.04.2025 16:48 — 👍 11944    🔁 2012    💬 426    📌 317
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WHAT THE F**K!

05.04.2025 01:38 — 👍 25307    🔁 7850    💬 898    📌 541
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Coffee, shrimp, other foods could soar with Trump tariffs The food hit hardest, if the tariffs take effect, is mostly not grown or harvested in the U.S.

The irony of Americans electing a fascist because they were more concerned about getting lower grocery prices than saving democracy and then they end up losing democracy AND getting higher grocery prices 🤦🏽‍♂️

04.04.2025 11:46 — 👍 3155    🔁 677    💬 139    📌 38
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S&P 500 down 285 points.

@cnbc.com ⛳️

04.04.2025 18:26 — 👍 10337    🔁 2719    💬 769    📌 306
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...

For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.

29.03.2025 02:23 — 👍 5530    🔁 1433    💬 155    📌 62
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“Frightened for the safety of their families.”

America, 2025.

08.03.2025 13:02 — 👍 7542    🔁 2189    💬 1092    📌 692

The fact I spent last night bombing Ukraine just shows they don't want peace.

07.03.2025 10:56 — 👍 1921    🔁 379    💬 25    📌 11
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lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

07.03.2025 21:12 — 👍 27093    🔁 5792    💬 448    📌 175
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The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago.

You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.

02.03.2025 11:47 — 👍 4412    🔁 2000    💬 188    📌 132
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“Humanitarian aid should never be used as a tool of war.”

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the Israeli decision to stop the entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip is “outrageous and will have devastating consequences”.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/66nsyl

02.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 749    🔁 316    💬 13    📌 20

Zelensky must have been surprised. He went to Whitehouse and ended up speaking to Kremlin.

01.03.2025 14:58 — 👍 2790    🔁 491    💬 33    📌 14

One day the remote control device we put up Trump's ass will take pride of place in KGB museum.

28.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 1702    🔁 305    💬 22    📌 9
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Me: "Do you worry about civil war?"
Former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh: "The MAGA base, they're welcoming violence... Trump wants violence, MAGA wants violence. I just don't think the American people fully understand..."

Watch Part 1 of my interview with Walsh, on fascism:
zeteo.com/p/trump-maga...

28.02.2025 20:55 — 👍 2027    🔁 426    💬 110    📌 33
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MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.

Meanwhile:

28.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 15955    🔁 3608    💬 550    📌 162

So I won US election but lost German.

Plusses. Minuses.

23.02.2025 19:20 — 👍 2200    🔁 250    💬 42    📌 8
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We deny that we demanded the things that we have explicitly demanded.

22.02.2025 12:20 — 👍 873    🔁 124    💬 14    📌 5

And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too.

Oh the shamelessness!

This is who they are:

21.02.2025 06:13 — 👍 4279    🔁 812    💬 122    📌 18
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Exclusive: Trump’s foreign aid freeze stops anti-fentanyl work in Mexico President Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the U.S. fentanyl epidemic, but his sweeping freeze on foreign aid has temporarily stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years have been working to curb the flow of the synthetic opioid into the United States.

Trump freeze on foreign aid also “temporarily stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years have been working to curb the flow of the synthetic opioid into the United States”: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

21.02.2025 21:34 — 👍 99    🔁 34    💬 5    📌 4
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Gaza’s Government Media Office has said over 12,000 bodies remain trapped under the rubble in the enclave, but Israel is preventing the necessary heavy equipment from entering Gaza to retrieve them.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/i0q52j

08.02.2025 07:35 — 👍 313    🔁 180    💬 21    📌 9
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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid.

On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

09.02.2025 09:36 — 👍 21640    🔁 4552    💬 446    📌 445
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US-Regierung kürzt Zuschüsse in der Forschung US-Universitäten müssen künftig mit deutlich weniger staatlichen Zuschüssen auskommen. Die Regierung will vier Milliarden US-Dollar pro Jahr einsparen. Viele Wissenschaftler zieht es nun ins Ausland -...

Applications for positions as research group leaders from the US at one of Germany‘s elite research networks, the Max Planck Society, have doubled. Helping our US friends to continue their important work. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...

09.02.2025 08:58 — 👍 158    🔁 66    💬 3    📌 10
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Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’

Multi-level barrage of US book bans is "unprecedented," says PEN America

Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes "but this has never all happened at once," says PEN America's Jonathan Friedman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #bannedbooks #notahoax

09.02.2025 03:06 — 👍 828    🔁 380    💬 30    📌 29

Beyond. Parody.

06.02.2025 00:25 — 👍 4423    🔁 816    💬 279    📌 60
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It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan A foreign billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing It’s one of the humiliations of our historical moment that the constitutional order has been…

It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan

06.02.2025 09:17 — 👍 868    🔁 334    💬 44    📌 40
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

05.02.2025 17:23 — 👍 32675    🔁 10678    💬 769    📌 645
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or scream... or all of the above.

02.02.2025 03:48 — 👍 36862    🔁 6776    💬 3776    📌 1104
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Senior Treasury official to leave after clash with Musk allies - report www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

31.01.2025 13:42 — 👍 324    🔁 139    💬 40    📌 42
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Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday.

#nottheonion Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

28.01.2025 07:10 — 👍 154    🔁 53    💬 44    📌 25

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