Harry Gural
@harrygural.bsky.social
Pro-democracy activist. Former Capitol Hill senior staffer working at the intersection of political comms and econ policy. Countering authoritarianism, fighting disinformation, using words to change minds, and holding the media to higher standards.
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Ukrainian drones hitting the Russian Shatura power plant in the Moscow region this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Ukrainian drones hitting the Russian Shatura power plant in the Moscow region this morning.
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WTF newrepublic.com/post/203517/... This is like a Maddow fever dream circa 2018
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian
Certain phrases in Trump’s proposed deal seem to be using Russian language.
newrepublic.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
WTF newrepublic.com/post/203517/... This is like a Maddow fever dream circa 2018
The NYT gets a mixed grade for this headline. Trump didn't “approve the release” of the Epstein files - he only signed a bill calling for their release. Big difference.
But it deserves credit for nailing the critical point: the bill contains a major “loophole” that could keep many documents secret.
But it deserves credit for nailing the critical point: the bill contains a major “loophole” that could keep many documents secret.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The NYT gets a mixed grade for this headline. Trump didn't “approve the release” of the Epstein files - he only signed a bill calling for their release. Big difference.
But it deserves credit for nailing the critical point: the bill contains a major “loophole” that could keep many documents secret.
But it deserves credit for nailing the critical point: the bill contains a major “loophole” that could keep many documents secret.
The Philadelphia Inquirer runs this photo and story on page one of its print edition -- with the headline nailing the key irony of Trump's fawning welcome of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. Nicely done. Let's see how The Washington Post and New York Times did. (1/4)
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Philadelphia Inquirer runs this photo and story on page one of its print edition -- with the headline nailing the key irony of Trump's fawning welcome of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. Nicely done. Let's see how The Washington Post and New York Times did. (1/4)
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The Epstein emails have damaged Trump beyond repair, because the public has now seen the gross moral rot behind Trump's presidency and the elites who prop it up (and fawned over a convicted sex creep)
Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
www.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Epstein emails have damaged Trump beyond repair, because the public has now seen the gross moral rot behind Trump's presidency and the elites who prop it up (and fawned over a convicted sex creep)
Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
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Spread this as widely as you can and urge everybody you know to do the same
Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Spread this as widely as you can and urge everybody you know to do the same
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Under Joe Kahn's leadership, @nytimes.com excels at writing "Do Not Read Me" headlines. A "Lost NY" & a "clubby world"...Sigh. Funny how two monsters, Trump & Epstein, operated for decades right under the nose of the NYT.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Under Joe Kahn's leadership, @nytimes.com excels at writing "Do Not Read Me" headlines. A "Lost NY" & a "clubby world"...Sigh. Funny how two monsters, Trump & Epstein, operated for decades right under the nose of the NYT.
It more important than ever to have your eyes wide open instead of being asleep at the switch.
if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It more important than ever to have your eyes wide open instead of being asleep at the switch.
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Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
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This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
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This performer at Trump’s Great Gatsby party should clear up any suspicions about whether or not he’s in the Epstein Files.
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This performer at Trump’s Great Gatsby party should clear up any suspicions about whether or not he’s in the Epstein Files.
This story does a good job mentioning both Vance’s religiosity and conflicts with Christian teachings. It could benefit by backstory. Vance had been agnostic, was married in a Hindu ceremony, and converted to Catholicism just before running for office.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Vance defends saying he hopes his wife converts to Christianity
The vice president told students on Wednesday that he hopes his wife, Usha, who is Hindu, converts to Christianity someday.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This story does a good job mentioning both Vance’s religiosity and conflicts with Christian teachings. It could benefit by backstory. Vance had been agnostic, was married in a Hindu ceremony, and converted to Catholicism just before running for office.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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If I were @nbcnews.com or @abcnewsbot.bsky.social I would market aggressively on CBS to move CBS News viewers to them, as CBS goes through major transformation in news standards, perspectives and objectivity. Habits hard to break, but you need to make them earn a new audience for their new product.
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If I were @nbcnews.com or @abcnewsbot.bsky.social I would market aggressively on CBS to move CBS News viewers to them, as CBS goes through major transformation in news standards, perspectives and objectivity. Habits hard to break, but you need to make them earn a new audience for their new product.
This is Trump's America.
"Bovino wants the community to see him as an occupying military commander. Going out of his way to look like the driver of a military operation is part of the attempted subjugation. This is how fascists behave during the consolidation phase of their drive to power."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This Man Is the Face of the Future
Greg Bovino is next.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is Trump's America.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
The @guardian reports that “Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest.”
Trump takes another step toward establishing a police state in the U.S.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump takes another step toward establishing a police state in the U.S.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The @guardian reports that “Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest.”
Trump takes another step toward establishing a police state in the U.S.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump takes another step toward establishing a police state in the U.S.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Great piece by Adam Serwer of the Atlantic, looking at how Musk and other right-wingers fall in the thrall of the “bad guys” of science fiction, confusing right and wrong, and seeking unlimited power to mete out a justice that serves them.
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Great piece by Adam Serwer of the Atlantic, looking at how Musk and other right-wingers fall in the thrall of the “bad guys” of science fiction, confusing right and wrong, and seeking unlimited power to mete out a justice that serves them.
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Interesting to watch the part about Netflix's "Hitler and the Nazis" where parliament willingly votes itself out of power in 1932 at the behest of the spring dictator.
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Interesting to watch the part about Netflix's "Hitler and the Nazis" where parliament willingly votes itself out of power in 1932 at the behest of the spring dictator.
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Today's *real* headline that @theonion.com wouldn't have even tried.
In Japan Speech US President Threatens To Deploy Active Duty Troops To US Cities
In Japan Speech US President Threatens To Deploy Active Duty Troops To US Cities
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today's *real* headline that @theonion.com wouldn't have even tried.
In Japan Speech US President Threatens To Deploy Active Duty Troops To US Cities
In Japan Speech US President Threatens To Deploy Active Duty Troops To US Cities
Mike Johnson has given Democrats an opportunity. Every Republican House member who hasn't signed the petition forcing a vote on the Epstein bill could be the deciding 218th signature. If they feel the intense heat of constituent anger, Johnson will seat Grijalva.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Mike Johnson has given Democrats an opportunity. Every Republican House member who hasn't signed the petition forcing a vote on the Epstein bill could be the deciding 218th signature. If they feel the intense heat of constituent anger, Johnson will seat Grijalva.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
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This NPR story about Trump's plan to designate Antifa a foreign terrorist organization is excellent.
“... experts say Antifa isn't an organization at all. It's more of a movement of disparately linked people who share an ideology, WHICH IS THAT FASCISM IS BAD.”
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
“... experts say Antifa isn't an organization at all. It's more of a movement of disparately linked people who share an ideology, WHICH IS THAT FASCISM IS BAD.”
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
What designating antifa as a foreign terrorist organization could mean
President Trump is thinking about designating the group Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization. That would have real legal consequences.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This NPR story about Trump's plan to designate Antifa a foreign terrorist organization is excellent.
“... experts say Antifa isn't an organization at all. It's more of a movement of disparately linked people who share an ideology, WHICH IS THAT FASCISM IS BAD.”
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
“... experts say Antifa isn't an organization at all. It's more of a movement of disparately linked people who share an ideology, WHICH IS THAT FASCISM IS BAD.”
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
Of course he'd love a third term. As president he gets to play golf all the time, makes hundreds of millions of dollars, and avoids ending up in prison for stealing classified information." Best job ever.
Trump on running for a third term: "I would love to do it."
Q: "You're not ruling out a third term?"
Trump: "Am I not ruling it out? You'll have to tell me."
Q: "You're not ruling out a third term?"
Trump: "Am I not ruling it out? You'll have to tell me."
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Of course he'd love a third term. As president he gets to play golf all the time, makes hundreds of millions of dollars, and avoids ending up in prison for stealing classified information." Best job ever.