Tony Scruggs (#TheEmpathyGuy)
@empathic-warrior.bsky.social
I'm a spiritual-being exploring life as a higher shade of brown, american of african-ancestry, with an athletically professional pedigree and a degree in #LoveAndEmpathy😉🙏🏾
#TheWeekend
Q: Do you think Mr Sessions needed a whistle blown (or a flag thrown), for all the BS he was slinging yesterday?
*journalists aren't observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY (they are passengers with keys to the extraction-pump)🇺🇸🙏🏾( #LFG )
Q: Do you think Mr Sessions needed a whistle blown (or a flag thrown), for all the BS he was slinging yesterday?
*journalists aren't observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY (they are passengers with keys to the extraction-pump)🇺🇸🙏🏾( #LFG )
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
#TheWeekend
Q: Do you think Mr Sessions needed a whistle blown (or a flag thrown), for all the BS he was slinging yesterday?
*journalists aren't observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY (they are passengers with keys to the extraction-pump)🇺🇸🙏🏾( #LFG )
Q: Do you think Mr Sessions needed a whistle blown (or a flag thrown), for all the BS he was slinging yesterday?
*journalists aren't observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY (they are passengers with keys to the extraction-pump)🇺🇸🙏🏾( #LFG )
#TheWeekend
Which do U think is more effective communication (BS, said simple & direct, or the truth-telling...sometimes perceived as a passive-aggressive, coping-strategy ... #LiberalSarcasm)?
@NicolleWallace.bsky.social? @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social? @RainPerry.bsky.social? @MorgFair.bsky.social?
Which do U think is more effective communication (BS, said simple & direct, or the truth-telling...sometimes perceived as a passive-aggressive, coping-strategy ... #LiberalSarcasm)?
@NicolleWallace.bsky.social? @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social? @RainPerry.bsky.social? @MorgFair.bsky.social?
December 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
#TheWeekend
Which do U think is more effective communication (BS, said simple & direct, or the truth-telling...sometimes perceived as a passive-aggressive, coping-strategy ... #LiberalSarcasm)?
@NicolleWallace.bsky.social? @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social? @RainPerry.bsky.social? @MorgFair.bsky.social?
Which do U think is more effective communication (BS, said simple & direct, or the truth-telling...sometimes perceived as a passive-aggressive, coping-strategy ... #LiberalSarcasm)?
@NicolleWallace.bsky.social? @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social? @RainPerry.bsky.social? @MorgFair.bsky.social?
S/O to #TheWeekend team👊🏾
Q: Do you think the #EyesOfOurEra (journalists), need to evolve into #JournoRefs (matching ENERGY & FREQUENCY with INTENSITY & URGENCY, refraining from ANY timid-hesitancy)?
How about you, @NicolleWallace.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @MorgFair.bsky.social?
🇺🇸🙏🏾
Q: Do you think the #EyesOfOurEra (journalists), need to evolve into #JournoRefs (matching ENERGY & FREQUENCY with INTENSITY & URGENCY, refraining from ANY timid-hesitancy)?
How about you, @NicolleWallace.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @MorgFair.bsky.social?
🇺🇸🙏🏾
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
S/O to #TheWeekend team👊🏾
Q: Do you think the #EyesOfOurEra (journalists), need to evolve into #JournoRefs (matching ENERGY & FREQUENCY with INTENSITY & URGENCY, refraining from ANY timid-hesitancy)?
How about you, @NicolleWallace.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @MorgFair.bsky.social?
🇺🇸🙏🏾
Q: Do you think the #EyesOfOurEra (journalists), need to evolve into #JournoRefs (matching ENERGY & FREQUENCY with INTENSITY & URGENCY, refraining from ANY timid-hesitancy)?
How about you, @NicolleWallace.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @MorgFair.bsky.social?
🇺🇸🙏🏾
@NicolleWallace.bsky.social TYSM for calling out 'narrative-dominance' (@GoAngelo.bsky.social) & 'premature-submission' (@TimothySnyder.bsky.social)
With 'the current president' (& his dodgy, un-truth-social band of non-merry-men using the constitution as toilet-paper), we need sharp-observations🇺🇸🙏🏾
With 'the current president' (& his dodgy, un-truth-social band of non-merry-men using the constitution as toilet-paper), we need sharp-observations🇺🇸🙏🏾
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
@NicolleWallace.bsky.social TYSM for calling out 'narrative-dominance' (@GoAngelo.bsky.social) & 'premature-submission' (@TimothySnyder.bsky.social)
With 'the current president' (& his dodgy, un-truth-social band of non-merry-men using the constitution as toilet-paper), we need sharp-observations🇺🇸🙏🏾
With 'the current president' (& his dodgy, un-truth-social band of non-merry-men using the constitution as toilet-paper), we need sharp-observations🇺🇸🙏🏾
Dear fam of @TheWeekendMSNow.bsky.social
Will you please stand-up for viewers when GOPers use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective?
...& refrain from #CredibilityCloaking (dodgy/D-O-G-E, un-truth social, the current president)
cc @VelshiMSNBC.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social ☮ #TheWeekend
Will you please stand-up for viewers when GOPers use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective?
...& refrain from #CredibilityCloaking (dodgy/D-O-G-E, un-truth social, the current president)
cc @VelshiMSNBC.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social ☮ #TheWeekend
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Dear fam of @TheWeekendMSNow.bsky.social
Will you please stand-up for viewers when GOPers use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective?
...& refrain from #CredibilityCloaking (dodgy/D-O-G-E, un-truth social, the current president)
cc @VelshiMSNBC.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social ☮ #TheWeekend
Will you please stand-up for viewers when GOPers use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective?
...& refrain from #CredibilityCloaking (dodgy/D-O-G-E, un-truth social, the current president)
cc @VelshiMSNBC.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social ☮ #TheWeekend
(cont'd) Besides looking forward to Ali one day saying 'the current president & his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are using the constitution as toilet-paper'...
...I'm loving Steve's 'max abuse of power requires max use of power' (& Angelo's wiz on P25) @VelshiBBC.bsky.social
...I'm loving Steve's 'max abuse of power requires max use of power' (& Angelo's wiz on P25) @VelshiBBC.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
(cont'd) Besides looking forward to Ali one day saying 'the current president & his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are using the constitution as toilet-paper'...
...I'm loving Steve's 'max abuse of power requires max use of power' (& Angelo's wiz on P25) @VelshiBBC.bsky.social
...I'm loving Steve's 'max abuse of power requires max use of power' (& Angelo's wiz on P25) @VelshiBBC.bsky.social
Dear folks at #TheWeekend,
1. How are you feeling today?
2. Do you believe the current president is using the constitution as toilet-paper (vandalizing & looting the bribery-clause, with unlawful foreign-corruption-gifts, scams & mayhem)?
3. Will you match energy/frequency with urgency/intensity?
1. How are you feeling today?
2. Do you believe the current president is using the constitution as toilet-paper (vandalizing & looting the bribery-clause, with unlawful foreign-corruption-gifts, scams & mayhem)?
3. Will you match energy/frequency with urgency/intensity?
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Dear folks at #TheWeekend,
1. How are you feeling today?
2. Do you believe the current president is using the constitution as toilet-paper (vandalizing & looting the bribery-clause, with unlawful foreign-corruption-gifts, scams & mayhem)?
3. Will you match energy/frequency with urgency/intensity?
1. How are you feeling today?
2. Do you believe the current president is using the constitution as toilet-paper (vandalizing & looting the bribery-clause, with unlawful foreign-corruption-gifts, scams & mayhem)?
3. Will you match energy/frequency with urgency/intensity?
Dear cast & crew members of @TheWeekendMSNBC.bsky.social,
Would you be willing to remember that every time a GOPer uses the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, it's a toxic insult to your viewers?💜
Feel me, @MorgFair.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?👊🏾 #TheWeekend☯️
Would you be willing to remember that every time a GOPer uses the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, it's a toxic insult to your viewers?💜
Feel me, @MorgFair.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?👊🏾 #TheWeekend☯️
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Dear cast & crew members of @TheWeekendMSNBC.bsky.social,
Would you be willing to remember that every time a GOPer uses the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, it's a toxic insult to your viewers?💜
Feel me, @MorgFair.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?👊🏾 #TheWeekend☯️
Would you be willing to remember that every time a GOPer uses the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, it's a toxic insult to your viewers?💜
Feel me, @MorgFair.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?👊🏾 #TheWeekend☯️
You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to
1. Lend dignity through terminology
2. Underestimate verbal-psychology &
3. Ask bs-entertaining escape Q's (frequently)?
Y'all ready to shift from journalists to Journo-Refs (blow a whistle, throw a flag & stop the game/call time-outs)? #TheWeekend
1. Lend dignity through terminology
2. Underestimate verbal-psychology &
3. Ask bs-entertaining escape Q's (frequently)?
Y'all ready to shift from journalists to Journo-Refs (blow a whistle, throw a flag & stop the game/call time-outs)? #TheWeekend
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to
1. Lend dignity through terminology
2. Underestimate verbal-psychology &
3. Ask bs-entertaining escape Q's (frequently)?
Y'all ready to shift from journalists to Journo-Refs (blow a whistle, throw a flag & stop the game/call time-outs)? #TheWeekend
1. Lend dignity through terminology
2. Underestimate verbal-psychology &
3. Ask bs-entertaining escape Q's (frequently)?
Y'all ready to shift from journalists to Journo-Refs (blow a whistle, throw a flag & stop the game/call time-outs)? #TheWeekend
👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾, G!
The twice-impeached, sex-abuser, convicted-felon, cult-leading, current-president (& his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are way over there skiis...
...& this last-gasp, power-over, chrysalis-gurgle, will soon reveal next-gen, power-with Warriors Of Kindness & Empathy😉
The twice-impeached, sex-abuser, convicted-felon, cult-leading, current-president (& his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are way over there skiis...
...& this last-gasp, power-over, chrysalis-gurgle, will soon reveal next-gen, power-with Warriors Of Kindness & Empathy😉
September 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾, G!
The twice-impeached, sex-abuser, convicted-felon, cult-leading, current-president (& his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are way over there skiis...
...& this last-gasp, power-over, chrysalis-gurgle, will soon reveal next-gen, power-with Warriors Of Kindness & Empathy😉
The twice-impeached, sex-abuser, convicted-felon, cult-leading, current-president (& his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are way over there skiis...
...& this last-gasp, power-over, chrysalis-gurgle, will soon reveal next-gen, power-with Warriors Of Kindness & Empathy😉
Having gone to the same HS as @JoanCBaezOfficial.bsky.social, studied #CompassionateResistance w/Gandhi's grandson & played for Pres Bush, I found this ep of #TheBestPeople transformative, nourishing & inspiring🙏🏾
Btw Coach Wooden taught us #WinningWithHonor & @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social is AWESOME😉
Btw Coach Wooden taught us #WinningWithHonor & @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social is AWESOME😉
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Having gone to the same HS as @JoanCBaezOfficial.bsky.social, studied #CompassionateResistance w/Gandhi's grandson & played for Pres Bush, I found this ep of #TheBestPeople transformative, nourishing & inspiring🙏🏾
Btw Coach Wooden taught us #WinningWithHonor & @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social is AWESOME😉
Btw Coach Wooden taught us #WinningWithHonor & @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social is AWESOME😉
'No-one rises to low expectations' ~Emily Dickinson
Do you want to be objectively-honest? Then try the #EmpathicCommunication 4 step:
OBSERVING: When you drove me to the airport,
FEELING: I felt GRATEFUL.
NEEDING: TYSM for the COURTESY🤗
REQUESTING: Feel me?
*Today, #EmCo🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (8/28)
Do you want to be objectively-honest? Then try the #EmpathicCommunication 4 step:
OBSERVING: When you drove me to the airport,
FEELING: I felt GRATEFUL.
NEEDING: TYSM for the COURTESY🤗
REQUESTING: Feel me?
*Today, #EmCo🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (8/28)
September 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
'No-one rises to low expectations' ~Emily Dickinson
Do you want to be objectively-honest? Then try the #EmpathicCommunication 4 step:
OBSERVING: When you drove me to the airport,
FEELING: I felt GRATEFUL.
NEEDING: TYSM for the COURTESY🤗
REQUESTING: Feel me?
*Today, #EmCo🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (8/28)
Do you want to be objectively-honest? Then try the #EmpathicCommunication 4 step:
OBSERVING: When you drove me to the airport,
FEELING: I felt GRATEFUL.
NEEDING: TYSM for the COURTESY🤗
REQUESTING: Feel me?
*Today, #EmCo🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (8/28)
#TheWeekend
3. If journalists in 2025 are no longer observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY, but rather ship-passengers with keys to the extraction-pump (that only operates when neutrality is seen as complicity)...
...how do journos become Journo-Refs (matching ENERGY & INTENSITY to URGENCY)?
3. If journalists in 2025 are no longer observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY, but rather ship-passengers with keys to the extraction-pump (that only operates when neutrality is seen as complicity)...
...how do journos become Journo-Refs (matching ENERGY & INTENSITY to URGENCY)?
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#TheWeekend
3. If journalists in 2025 are no longer observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY, but rather ship-passengers with keys to the extraction-pump (that only operates when neutrality is seen as complicity)...
...how do journos become Journo-Refs (matching ENERGY & INTENSITY to URGENCY)?
3. If journalists in 2025 are no longer observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY, but rather ship-passengers with keys to the extraction-pump (that only operates when neutrality is seen as complicity)...
...how do journos become Journo-Refs (matching ENERGY & INTENSITY to URGENCY)?
#TheWeekend
2. You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to a) lend them dignity through terminology b) underestimate verbal-psychology & c) ask BS entertaining, escape Q's [frequently]?
How do we empathically respond to things like the noun 'democrat' used as an adjective (GOP code for F/U)?🇺🇸🙏🏾
2. You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to a) lend them dignity through terminology b) underestimate verbal-psychology & c) ask BS entertaining, escape Q's [frequently]?
How do we empathically respond to things like the noun 'democrat' used as an adjective (GOP code for F/U)?🇺🇸🙏🏾
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#TheWeekend
2. You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to a) lend them dignity through terminology b) underestimate verbal-psychology & c) ask BS entertaining, escape Q's [frequently]?
How do we empathically respond to things like the noun 'democrat' used as an adjective (GOP code for F/U)?🇺🇸🙏🏾
2. You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to a) lend them dignity through terminology b) underestimate verbal-psychology & c) ask BS entertaining, escape Q's [frequently]?
How do we empathically respond to things like the noun 'democrat' used as an adjective (GOP code for F/U)?🇺🇸🙏🏾
Happy 21st day (& soon to be night) of September, to #TheWeekend TEAM @TheWeekendMSNBC.bsky.social
As an american of african-ancestry (with an athletically professional pedigree & a dad who's LGBT) 3 Q's:
1. Empathically speaking, how are you all holding-up (spiritually, emotionally & physically)?
As an american of african-ancestry (with an athletically professional pedigree & a dad who's LGBT) 3 Q's:
1. Empathically speaking, how are you all holding-up (spiritually, emotionally & physically)?
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Happy 21st day (& soon to be night) of September, to #TheWeekend TEAM @TheWeekendMSNBC.bsky.social
As an american of african-ancestry (with an athletically professional pedigree & a dad who's LGBT) 3 Q's:
1. Empathically speaking, how are you all holding-up (spiritually, emotionally & physically)?
As an american of african-ancestry (with an athletically professional pedigree & a dad who's LGBT) 3 Q's:
1. Empathically speaking, how are you all holding-up (spiritually, emotionally & physically)?
'free-speech' is the philosophy, #FreedomOfSpeech is the legality🇺🇸
*make sure the bad-faithers aren't getting it twisted, my beloved good-faithers😉(like how they use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, to insult our democratic officials...& 'democrats were klan', when conservatives were democrats)
*make sure the bad-faithers aren't getting it twisted, my beloved good-faithers😉(like how they use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, to insult our democratic officials...& 'democrats were klan', when conservatives were democrats)
September 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
'free-speech' is the philosophy, #FreedomOfSpeech is the legality🇺🇸
*make sure the bad-faithers aren't getting it twisted, my beloved good-faithers😉(like how they use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, to insult our democratic officials...& 'democrats were klan', when conservatives were democrats)
*make sure the bad-faithers aren't getting it twisted, my beloved good-faithers😉(like how they use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, to insult our democratic officials...& 'democrats were klan', when conservatives were democrats)
Thank you for sharing this, Sarah🙏🏾
What really stirs me (as a bruin who was blessed enough to play at a cathedral dedicated to an african-american man, #JackieRobinson Stadium)...
...is that we were steeped in Coach Wooden's tradition of 'Winning With Honor', and mr un-truth social is DiAMETRICAL🐻
What really stirs me (as a bruin who was blessed enough to play at a cathedral dedicated to an african-american man, #JackieRobinson Stadium)...
...is that we were steeped in Coach Wooden's tradition of 'Winning With Honor', and mr un-truth social is DiAMETRICAL🐻
September 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Thank you for sharing this, Sarah🙏🏾
What really stirs me (as a bruin who was blessed enough to play at a cathedral dedicated to an african-american man, #JackieRobinson Stadium)...
...is that we were steeped in Coach Wooden's tradition of 'Winning With Honor', and mr un-truth social is DiAMETRICAL🐻
What really stirs me (as a bruin who was blessed enough to play at a cathedral dedicated to an african-american man, #JackieRobinson Stadium)...
...is that we were steeped in Coach Wooden's tradition of 'Winning With Honor', and mr un-truth social is DiAMETRICAL🐻
'Some people are mad that roses have thorns. Some people are thankful that thorns have roses' ~Karr
We get more of what we FOCUS on (positive or non-positive). We can affirm what we want to be (I AM ABUNDANT), or what we love (I LOVE ABUNDANCE)🦋
*Today, affirm what you LOVE🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (9/5)
We get more of what we FOCUS on (positive or non-positive). We can affirm what we want to be (I AM ABUNDANT), or what we love (I LOVE ABUNDANCE)🦋
*Today, affirm what you LOVE🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (9/5)
September 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
'Some people are mad that roses have thorns. Some people are thankful that thorns have roses' ~Karr
We get more of what we FOCUS on (positive or non-positive). We can affirm what we want to be (I AM ABUNDANT), or what we love (I LOVE ABUNDANCE)🦋
*Today, affirm what you LOVE🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (9/5)
We get more of what we FOCUS on (positive or non-positive). We can affirm what we want to be (I AM ABUNDANT), or what we love (I LOVE ABUNDANCE)🦋
*Today, affirm what you LOVE🙏🏾
#PeacefulLiving (9/5)
'The 1st act of violence that #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands of men, is not violence toward women!
Instead #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands (of all men), that they engage in acts of emotional castration: killing off the emo-parts of themselves'
~Bell Hooks
Instead #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands (of all men), that they engage in acts of emotional castration: killing off the emo-parts of themselves'
~Bell Hooks
September 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
'The 1st act of violence that #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands of men, is not violence toward women!
Instead #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands (of all men), that they engage in acts of emotional castration: killing off the emo-parts of themselves'
~Bell Hooks
Instead #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands (of all men), that they engage in acts of emotional castration: killing off the emo-parts of themselves'
~Bell Hooks
In my montessori-methodist journey as a student/athlete (including time w/Coach Wooden & President Bush), I've learned to value #ObjectiveObservation (& the #LawOfAttraction)
Doesn't it seem like both are being violated by much of journalism, @MatthewJDowd.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?
Doesn't it seem like both are being violated by much of journalism, @MatthewJDowd.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?
September 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In my montessori-methodist journey as a student/athlete (including time w/Coach Wooden & President Bush), I've learned to value #ObjectiveObservation (& the #LawOfAttraction)
Doesn't it seem like both are being violated by much of journalism, @MatthewJDowd.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?
Doesn't it seem like both are being violated by much of journalism, @MatthewJDowd.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?