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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😉🙏🏾
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
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
...co‑creative evolution'

'nothing regresses, awareness only unfolds (evolution's a spiral)...the resurgence is the sound of old frequencies dissolving in the presence of a higher resonance'

*keep attuning to that higher field (live, speak, act as if...protective‑cooperation were already the norm)
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 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
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 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?
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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☯️
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
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾, 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😉
September 28, 2025 at 2:56 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😉
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
'It's great to give asked, but unasked (& understood) is AWESOME' ~Khalil Gibran

When our feelings & needs are reflected without aggravating a situation, INSTANT-RELIEF, because they 'got' us!

*Today, don't commiserize ('that's awful'), EMPATHIZE ('sounds really painful?')🙏🏾

#PeacefulLiving (9/10)
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)
September 28, 2025 at 1:53 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)?
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)?🇺🇸🙏🏾
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)?
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Right?

And part of the toxic-irony is that what the bad-faithers call 'free-speech' violates the 1st amendment (which explicitly calls out obscene-words & fighting-words as un-protected)

So not only does personal-pain in the brain come from toxic word-rain...violent-speech is not protected speech👊🏾
September 15, 2025 at 1:08 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🐻
September 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Do you LOVE (choose a universal need)

Respect
Inclusion
Connection
Equality
Fun
Play
Caring
Compassion
Peace
Joy
Rest
Adventure
Harmony
Certainty
Choice
Variety
Understanding
Significance
Support

...then affirm what you LOVE🙏🏾

*how many of these universal needs do you LOVE?😎

#PeacefulLiving (9/5)
September 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM