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Senior Data Scientist, @today.yougov.com
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Majorities say that when immigrants become U.S. citizens, they should not have to give up citizenship in other countries, and that Americans shouldn't lose their U.S. citizenship if they become citizens of another country.

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The share of Americans saying that naturalized citizens should have to renounce any other citizenship is 25%. The share saying they should not have to give up any other citizenship is 60%. Most Americans who say new U.S. citizens should not have to give up other citizenships say they should have to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. (46% of all Americans, vs. 14% who are OK with new citizens retaining other citizenship without requiring an oath of allegiance). The vast majority of Democrats (83%) and about half of Independents (52%) and Republicans (51%) say that immigrants should not be required to give up foreign citizenship when they become U.S. citizens. The shares who would require a renunciation of citizenship in any other country are 7% of Democrats, 25% of Independents, and 39% of Republicans. A majority (56%) of Americans say Americans shouldn't have to give up their U.S. citizenship if they become a citizen of another country. Only 26% say Americans should be required to renounce their U.S. citizenship if they gain citizenship elsewhere. Majorities of Democrats (72%) and Independents (54%) would not require Americans to give up their U.S. citizenship if they become citizens of another country. Republicans, on the other hand, are evenly split: 43% would and 43% would not introduce such a requirement.
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Pew Research Center just released a big report on religiosity in America, finding little shift since 2020 across four big indicators of religious commitment in its high response-rate NPORS surveys. Worth a read -> www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
Religion Holds Steady in America
Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about religiousness by age and gender.
www.pewresearch.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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natanlast.bsky.social
an honor to get to put this full name in the NewYorker crossword today

www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
i mean to tell you that I have authorial quirks

i median to tell you that I have also acquired a thesaurus

i mode to tell you that I may have misunderstood the thesaurus

anyway, on average
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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burrata.bsky.social
“People are Using Chairs to Sit”
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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opiniontoday.bsky.social
Americans contemplate a post-penny future.
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More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251207
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
alxrh.bsky.social
Pretty surprising that a majority of men would choose to live on a women-only planet. Now the question is how many of them are sensible people and how many are just pervs 🤔
today.yougov.com YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 2d
New polling on views of hypothetical women-only and men-only planets
% who would definitely or probably ever consider living on a planet occupied only by women | men
U.S. adults 44% | 21%
Women 36% | 14%
Men 53% | 29%
today.yougov.com/society/arti...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Men and women are more likely to consider living on a planet of all women than one of all men." The chart's sub-headline is: "If there were a planet occupied only by [women / men], would you ever consider living on it? (%)."
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.
jacob-redman.bsky.social Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 3d
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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windupez.bsky.social
Sneezing in Australian: "AAAAH-choyy"
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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today.yougov.com
New polling on the penny
% of U.S. adult citizens who supported | opposed eliminating the penny in...
November 2025: 40% | 39%
February 2025: 42% | 30%
today.yougov.com/economy/arti...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Opposition to the penny's elimination is higher than before its production ceased." The chart's sub-headline is: "Would you support or oppose eliminating the penny coin, so that the lowest valued coin available would be the nickel? (%)."
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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% who think the U.S. should | shouldn't provide refuge to people fleeing war or oppression in their home countries
U.S. adults 54% | 20%
Democrats 78% | 7%
Independents 53% | 16%
Republicans 33% | 37%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
YouGov survey results by political party for the question, Do you think that the U.S. should or should not provide refuge to people fleeing war or oppression in their home countries?
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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today.yougov.com
Dec 5 poll of 3,383 U.S. adults (+/-2 points)
% who say the U.S. should [accept refugees from a variety of countries | only accept white South African refugees | not accept any refugees]
U.S. adults 53% | 3% | 19%
Democrats 76% | 3% | 5%
Republicans 30% | 5% | 35%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
YouGov survey results by political party for the question, Do you think the U.S. should…?
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
alxrh.bsky.social
New article at @today.yougov.com: It looks like opposition to eliminating the penny has grown, but that may be due to ambiguity about what "eliminate" means. With more explicit questions, there is more support for ending production and less for ending circulation.

today.yougov.com/economy/arti...
In February, we found that more Americans supported eliminating the penny than opposed its elimination. Nine months later, and after production of the penny has ended, there has been a shift in favor of the penny. Today, Americans are evenly split over whether to eliminate the penny: 40% of Americans somewhat or strongly support elimination, while 39% oppose it. Opposition to the penny's elimination has grown among Democrats, Independents, and Republicans since February. In February, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans were all more likely to support than to oppose eliminating the penny. Now, more Democrats and Independents oppose elimination than support it; only Republicans remain more likely to support than oppose elimination. Ending the production of new pennies while leaving old pennies in circulation draws more support than removing pennies from circulation entirely. While more Americans support ending penny production than oppose it (46% vs. 27%), the opposite is true about removing pennies from circulation entirely (34% vs. 42%). Both ending penny production and removing pennies from circulation are more popular among Republicans than among Democrats and Independents. But the gap in support between ending production and circulation is similar among all three groups: Ending penny production draws between 11 and 13 percentage points more support among each group. In all three groups, ending penny production draws more support than opposition, while removing pennies from circulation draws more opposition than support.
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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More Americans approve of Democrats telling troops to refuse unlawful orders than approve of Trump calling this message sedition.
(@dhmontgomery.com @today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251203
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
Two new polls show learning about Trump's policies moves public opinion toward Democrats
Your weekly political data roundup for November 13, 2025
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
DC residents have gone 236 years without congressional votes (2 in Senate; 1 in House). They should get statehood now and, as reparations, I would modestly propose either:

- they get double the usual amount until the year 2261, or

- for 2 years, DC gets 119 House votes & 238 senate votes.
August 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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sifu.tweety.fish
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
awest.uk Andrew West @awest.uk · 16d
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
alxrh.bsky.social
If the plot in this image is anything to go by, looks like this'll be a good article
gelliottmorris.com G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 16d
Tomorrow's political data roundup is about survey experiments and what they can teach us about how voters are responding to information about the policies of the Trump presidency/GOP-controlled Congress: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-new-po...
Two new polls find learning about Trump's policies moves opinion to Democrats
Your weekly political data roundup for November 13, 2025
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
alxrh.bsky.social
"Tech experts": If you see something unbelievable in a video, be careful, it's probably a deep fake.

Real life: Today Trump will gaze lovingly at Madani and the Pope will throw a rave.
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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lilyyily.bsky.social
this way she can have January 6th off which is a holiday in her culture
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17d
Breaking news: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she will resign from Congress as of Jan. 5, a surprise announcement that came days after a public spat between President Trump in which he lobbed public insults at his longtime ally.
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from House
The longtime MAGA supporter says she is stepping down from office as of Jan. 5.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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You now need to opt-out of letting Google use your G-Mail to train its AI. Go to your general settings and scroll to Smart Features: Unclick it. Done.
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM