Dr Katie Pruszynski
@katiepruszynski.bsky.social
Political strategy and consultancy. PhD on lies in politics, democracy and polarisation. US politics obsessive. Former Westminster Aide. Consultancy services here: https://katiepruszynski.com
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...
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
September 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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...
Any other women out there do the "keys between your fingers" thing?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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
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
September 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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
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...
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
September 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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.
Azerbaijan and Albania have never been at war together.
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Donald Trump boasts that he ended the war between “Azerbaijan and Albania".
Azerbaijan and Albania have never been at war together.
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
Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The decimation of local news in the US and here in the UK is a disaster for democracy
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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.
Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.
September 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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.
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.
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.
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
September 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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.
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.
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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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...
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
September 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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...
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...
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‘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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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
September 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
‘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...
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theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...
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New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk
theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...
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
September 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk
theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...
theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...
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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.
Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.
September 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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.
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...
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
September 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk
theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...
theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...
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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
September 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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...
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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
September 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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.'
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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.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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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.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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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.
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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.
there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
September 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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.
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.
September 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is the only line to take.
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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.
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.
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Dr Katie Pruszynski
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.
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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.
Currently on holiday in #Lyon, which is in the midst of a fierce summer of extreme heat (by European standards). Whilst trying to stay cool and see through the suncream sweat, I've seen a city at work trying to protect its people from the dangers of global heating. A small 🧵...
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Currently on holiday in #Lyon, which is in the midst of a fierce summer of extreme heat (by European standards). Whilst trying to stay cool and see through the suncream sweat, I've seen a city at work trying to protect its people from the dangers of global heating. A small 🧵...