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2 months ago | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
At her first-ever White House briefing, new press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the Trump administration foiled a plan to use $50 million taxpayer dollars “to fund condoms in Gaza.” On Wednesday, Trump repeated the claim, adding a new detail: the condoms were for Hamas, and Hamas was going to use these US-funded condoms to make bombs. Zeteo contributor Kat Abughazaleh fact-checks this viral claim in her latest ‘Vibe Check.’Spoiler: it’s a total lie.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
Donald Trump’s inauguration guest list featured tech billionaires, fascistic foreign leaders, and various right-wingers — along with dozens of Democrats. Zeteo contributor Kat Abughazaleh breaks down the significance of prominent Democrats - from Biden to Obama to the Clintons - turning up to attend Trump’s inauguration.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
Right-wing pundits are coping with their climate change denial by blaming the intense California wildfires on… diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this ‘Vibe Check,’Zeteo contributor Kat Abughazaleh breaks down the right’s increasingly bizarre and very racist scapegoats for the wildfires devastating Southern California. “Here are the real reasons behind these wildfires, at least, according to America's least qualified meteorologists,” Kat quips in the video.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
“Trump’s pick for secretary of defense is now trotting his mommy in front of the cameras to prove that he's qualified for the job.”Since Donald Trump nominated Fox host Pete Hegseth to be his secretary of defense, Hegseth’s track record of sexual assault allegations, Islamophobia, and excessive drinking has emerged. In this ‘Vibe Check,’ Zeteo contributor Kat Abughazaleh breaks down Hegseth’s desperate attempt to hold on to his nomination: calling in his mother for reinforcement.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
Donald Trump is diligently assembling his team, and with every pick, he outdoes himself in building an administration filled with online culture warriors and far-right television personalities. Zeteo contributor Kat Abughazaleh outlines some of the most unhinged people who are about to run the US.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Kat Abughazaleh |Katherine Abughazaleh
There are no adults in the room. That’s the reality, and the sooner we accept it, the better. This is, as many have already noted, true in the Republican Party. Eight years ago, Donald Trump’s cabinet and staff included a number of more sober-minded and establishment-friendly figures who did occasionally work to suppress his worst impulses.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
Election day has yet to begin, but right-wingers are already claiming the vote is rigged. Donald Trump and his acolytes spent the last four years priming their supporters for a second round of ‘Stop the Steal.’ In her latest ‘Vibe Check,’ Zeteo contributor Kat Abughazaleh breaks down five election interference ‘red flags’ to look out for this election. “Despite claiming widespread voter fraud, Trump and his cronies could not provide any credible proof to Trump-appointed judges.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
The United States spent at least $22.76 billion funding Israel’s military operations in the year following the Oct. 7 attacks, a new analysis from Brown University has found. And that’s a conservative estimate. This continued support comes despite international outcry over the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza. Another report from Brown’s Cost of War project estimates well over 100,000 people have died in Gaza during the same period.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
Conservative social media has been exploding with a new and nonsensical story about a Haitian migrant kidnapping and eating pets. The town of Springfield, Ohio - where the incident was alleged to have occurred - has said the outrageous claim is just that, a flagrantly untrue story. But the official denial has done nothing to stop GOP vice-presidential candidate JD Vance and other right-wing figures like Elon Musk from continuing to amplify it.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Katherine Abughazaleh
Republicans want you to believe that it’s the Democratic Party - and the left more broadly - that has an antisemitism problem. They want you to believe that their party, on the other hand, is very concerned about Jewish security and welfare. And yet their presidential candidate is the guy who hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner at his home and - infamously - praised a group of neo-Nazis when he was last in the White House.
