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Billy Pickett

@billypickett.bsky.social
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I write about global politics for @gzeromedia.com/ @eurasiagroup.net and post too many pictures of my dog 🏳️‍🌈📍Brooklyn

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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This news cycle is so exhausting that I’m like “Trump is taking a free plane from Qatar? Who cares!”
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Ok this took me out lol
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
coming to a streaming service near you
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Thinking about how day high school social studies students will have to write their AP US history essays about this…
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Don’t let all the noise drown out how this administration is impacting human rights of real people. @gzeromedia.com www.gzeromedia.com/news/hard-nu...
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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. ...
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump has a love affair with Andrew Jackson and mentioned “manifest destiny” in this year’s inaugural address We should’ve seen his new obsession with territory coming 🤷
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Pride has always been a protest. Especially now for the people of Hungary…
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
When life gives you lemons, why not sell lemon t-shirts? www.gzeromedia.com/news/hard-nu... @gzeromedia.com
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The United States’ global reputation:
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GZERO Media @gzeromedia.com · 26/02/2025
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. www.gzeromedia.com/news/watchin...
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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, ...
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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…. www.gzeromedia.com/news/watchin...
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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, ...
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Big news: left brooklyn today
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What my brain has to analyze for 40+ hours a week covering washington
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The most important meme I’ve ever seen
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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). @gzeromedia.com www.gzeromedia.com/news/hard-nu...
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I’m so tired
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Nobody is happier about this than the enemies of the United States
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Need this jacket
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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...
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza…not surprising but still chilling
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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
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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 “happy” with a new poll revealing that 85% of Greenlanders opposed becoming part of the United States.
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thinking this morning about how the right rallied against “global elites” pulling the strings of the highest levels of government Just to put the richest man in the world in charge?
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
:)
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Nicki WISHES
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Why is every democrat asleep except jack schlossberg
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Do you blame them 😭
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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
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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 “happy” with a new poll revealing that 85% of Greenlanders opposed becoming part of the United States.
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s good for news organizations to be held accountable when they mess up. But as long as the most invasive and sensational stories keep feeding clicks and generating the most ad revenue, we’re gonna be stuck in a feedback loop. My thoughts for @gzeromedia.com:
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£10 million to spare: Prince Harry wins tabloid legal battle
The Duke of Sussex (or Montecito, these days) achieved the impossible: He got the British tabloids to apologize.
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hate being forced to be on Twitter all day for work. I want to delete it like everyone else I know..
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Not again Nicole :/
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Buying Greenland? Gulf of America? He’s not even president yet and I’m exhausted
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In light of Trudeau’s news, Celine Dion has stepped up to become Canada’s new PM
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Bring back gay horror villains
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The villain in frosty the snowman is sooooooo queer coded
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Logging in for the first time in weeks to thank Beyoncé for that halftime show
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Big day for Italian American bisexuals everywhere
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Elphaba:
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My #applemusicreplay really said: you’re gay
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My November Apple Music replay is beyond unhinged
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
No its not AI my corgi is actually this cute
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Omg 2,500 panda sculptures going on display in Hong Kong for the official “Panda Go! fest HK” Take that, moo deng
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Felt so good to be home for the long weekend 😍
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
What thanksgiving is all about
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I knew that courtroom sketch looked familiar
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Elphaba would eat him up tho
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 27/11/2024
godzilla portrait on the side of japan’s iwaya gawauchi dam made entirely by cleaning with pressure washers
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Vox: Americans will eat 40 million turkeys this thanksgiving…and throw out 8 million. Good thing I’m on team Whole Foods tofurkey roast www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My two moods this week
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Billy Pickett @billypickett.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is my type of girl
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