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Pink Boots

@pinkboots.bsky.social

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Ex-reporter turned comms pro. Wife, mom of 3 teen boys. Jersey girl. Proud Democrat ❤️💙❤️Refugee from the Great Twitter/Xodus of 2024. Usually found on a hiking trail somewhere in the Northeast 🥾💓. #BlueCrew #HarrisWalz2024 🌊💙🇺🇸💪 #Resistance 🦋 #OptOutside

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · Nov 15

I read so much last week about what we’re facing with the immense spread of disinformation & the uphill battle we have to combat it. This was so enlightening but disheartening. A must read: newrepublic.com/post/188197/...

Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.

newrepublic.com

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 12h

It’s more about the optics that he lost and he lost to a woman, which is all MAGA cares about and quite frankly, has shown us time and time again, that they don’t have the capacity to understand anything more.

Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 12h

A little something to brighten your feed 😍😍

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 14h

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 12h

Gives new meaning to Left Shark

Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 19h

I love this for him. I love that he lost an award he had no business campaigning for. But being beaten by a woman— with no remote possibility to rig this contest— is just chef’s kiss

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 19h

There are people who have no idea what’s happening and blissful in their oblivion. What will it take for them to wake up???

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 23h

Congratulations to María Corina Machado of Venezuela. Winner of the 2025 Peace Prize.

May we learn through your example.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 1d

But then we’d never hear from them and oh——

Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 1d

That, and he honestly doesn’t know the difference between a Nobel Peace Prize or an Emmy. He just knows it’s an award he can’t get—which Obama also won— and that upsets him like it would all 3 year-olds.

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Tia3966 💙 R*E*S*I*S*T ✊️ @tia3966.bsky.social · 1d

True story!

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James McGuire @gozermac.bsky.social · 1d

This is great strategy. Creating the illusion of a “trap” sets conditions for compliance. The issue is dictatorship and tyranny. The solution isn’t handwringing about their narrative.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve thought about this at length and Hitler was many deplorable things, but he was not a moron. He surrounded himself with sycophants as well but everything they did before breaking the law became the law was carried out with military precision. This right now is a fucking clown show.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

No he can’t. No he didn’t. And shame on anyone who believes this.

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 2d

Love this lineup! Sara Bareilles, too!

Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 2d

She should start with lessons on Eisenhower and Patton first.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d

The 79-year-old former host of Celebrity Apprentice, whose brain can now be best described as a sourdough starter, is strongly considering invoking the Insurrection Act

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 2d

He 💯 thinks Habeas Corpus is a person

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 2d

You can only rely on independent media for investigative journalism, to hold this administration’s feet to the fire and make noise to enact policy change. They are now the only trusted members remaining of the Fourth Estate.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 2d

💯 They never had a cult following either, but were also never fully fleshed out humans so that tracks.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Pink Boots @pinkboots.bsky.social · 3d

Thread 🧵

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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