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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 15d

People, women have been screaming this at you for literal centuries.

Any other women out there do the "keys between your fingers" thing?

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Majority of girls and young women in UK alter behaviour to feel safe, study finds

Girlguiding survey reveals rising fears of harassment, with many avoiding public transport or changing what they wear

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 20d

Per my last post- this is also true. It's not that the law doesn't matter, it's just that it isn't a sentient being. It is enacted by, adhered to by, ignored by and undermined by people. When those people are doing all of those from with the Oval Office, it's real bad

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20d

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 20d

This is how he'll attempt to stay in power or throw the midterms. The law is only as strong as the people who uphold it

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 21d

Trump has already declared nine (!) national emergencies purporting to justify hundreds of questionable actions that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review.
www.thebulwark.com/p/reining-in...

Reining in Rogue Presidents

How ambiguities in the law gave Trump power he could seize—and what a future Congress can do about it.

www.thebulwark.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20d

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FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 20d

Corby's going to have to go full Mrs Doubtfire in a minute

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 20d

I wrote about the scenarios that could play out, and I see a difficult but most definitely available path out of where the US (and increasingly the UK) has cornered itself.

Hopefully it's a positive note at the end of a fairly sober piece theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk shooting: another grim milestone in America’s long and increasingly dangerous story of political violence

Increasing polarisation and a lack of measured debate is fuelling violence in a nation awash with guns.

theconversation.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20d

Donald Trump boasts that he ended the war between “Azerbaijan and Albania".

Azerbaijan and Albania have never been at war together.

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 20d

The decimation of local news in the US and here in the UK is a disaster for democracy

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20d

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 20d

The three overlords

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25d

They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'.

Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 25d

Absolutely correct, except to say that it matters very much what the motivations were and that we document them.

Because if we have to live through this information warfare, someday an accurate historical record may help our future selves learn from these moments.

A quaint concept these days.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25d

It does not matter what motivated the assassin in this case. Trump will use this awful moment as justification to attack anyone — and everyone — who stands up against him, his agenda and the MAGA movement. Indeed, he has already begun to do just that. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...

A Long, Hard Week

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 26d

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 26d

Objective data show BBC & ITV bias.
Reform featured in 49 bulletins between January-July 2025
whereas Lib Dems(with 72 MPs) were in 18% of bulletins, with 35.
Reform referenced in nearly 1 in 5 ITV News At Ten bulletins, but 6% for Lib Dems www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage

Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social · 26d

‘Hyperpartisanship‘ stokes distrust and radicalisation: opponents become “enemies” and those with different worldviews become “traitors”, @katiepruszynski.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com
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theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk and the politics of rhetoric and division

Russia aggression, and the killing of a US political activist and its implications in the weekly world affairs newsletter.

theconversation.com

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 27d

New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk

theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk shooting: another grim milestone in America’s long and increasingly dangerous story of political violence

Increasing polarisation and a lack of measured debate is fuelling violence in a nation awash with guns.

theconversation.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people.

Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 27d

Wrote a piece today and it was extremely hard to prioritise all the terrible reasons why we are where we are. theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk shooting: another grim milestone in America’s long and increasingly dangerous story of political violence

Increasing polarisation and a lack of measured debate is fuelling violence in a nation awash with guns.

theconversation.com

Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 27d

I'm always reassured when I see we're on the same page. I wrote about it too. theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk shooting: another grim milestone in America’s long and increasingly dangerous story of political violence

Increasing polarisation and a lack of measured debate is fuelling violence in a nation awash with guns.

theconversation.com

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 27d

New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk

theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk shooting: another grim milestone in America’s long and increasingly dangerous story of political violence

Increasing polarisation and a lack of measured debate is fuelling violence in a nation awash with guns.

theconversation.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28d

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Minnesota shooting suspect had a list of dozens of potential Democratic targets, prosecutors say

All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.

www.pbs.org

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28d

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

New rules for firearms on campus - University Department of Public Safety

In order to carry a firearm on campus, a person must obtain a Concealed Carry Permit (CCP) from the state of Utah.

publicsafety.utah.edu

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 28d

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.

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