Dr Katie Pruszynski

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*Political Insight* What worldview is shaping Trump's foreign policy? Katie Pruszynski unpacks it in the latest issue of Political Insight. @katiepruszynski.bsky.social ⬇️ Link below buff.ly/UemROuY

*Political Insight* What worldview is shaping Trump's foreign policy? Katie Pruszynski unpacks it in the latest issue of Political Insight. @katiepruszynski.bsky.social ⬇️ Link below buff.ly/UemROuY

*PSA PUBLICATIONS* Latest issue of Political Insight out now! #OpenAccess articles include: ➡️ War Without Peace by Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social ➡️ Who’s Going to Stop Us? The Worldview Shaping Trump’s Foreign Policy by Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social

Well if I wasn't devastated about this enough, along comes this song to really thump me in the gut

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

No one watching can conclude much else than this is the Stephen Miller presidency.

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

Don't let all the #Greenland / Iceland (?!) talk swamp Trump's casual dropping in of imminent prosecutions over the "rigged" 2020 election...

I am sat making notes on Trump's #Davos speech and yet somehow his irreverence has almost been eclipsed by his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent. Denmark is "irrelevant" according to fellow NATO member.

I read David Plouffe's essay about what Democrats need to do, and he has a brilliant idea: come up with an economic plan that appeals to people. No mention of the information environment, and how regular voters will hear about and believe these appealing economic policies, but that must not matter.

🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”

This- over any other possible strategy- is how Trump upends elections, or even cancels them altogether. He will create the conditions that he then will claim make it too dangerous to hold secure elections. This is the play.

The Donroe Doctrine- not just in international politics but in every aspect of his life is this: say the quiet part out loud and work to normalise it. No cover up or fake agenda needed. Say the outrageous thing loud and convince people of the reasons to be proud of it.

It's time to resocialise politics... www.instagram.com/reel/DR-no8q...

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...

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

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

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

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Donald Trump boasts that he ended the war between “Azerbaijan and Albania". Azerbaijan and Albania have never been at war together.

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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 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.

New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

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...

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.

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.

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.

100%. And equally inevitable will be the torrent of fake accounts set up on every platform to create content that will "prove" them right.

This is the only line to take.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.

Crime has been falling in DC year on year. This is a man in need of a big, showy display of power- and to remind his followers (wavering ever so slightly on the Epstein issue) why the world beyond MAGA is terrifying and only he can save them. All lies. All designed to polarise and divide.