Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 08/11/2025“They sell us individualism because we can’t defeat them alone.” 💙 010
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” — Lin Yutang 040
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Standing in solidarity with my freedom-loving neighbours to the south… #nokings 020
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 21/02/2025It’s sadistic at this point. There’s no way around it. Implying that Americans can find pleasure in watching people be deported in shackles is next level cruelty… www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...cnbc.comWhite House posts video of immigrants in shackles, calls deportation footage 'ASMR'President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States a priority for his second term in the White House. 131
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This is what I find so unsettling: waiting until it mounts to a more extreme level is when it’s going to be too late. We should be responding to any little hint of #fascism as it arises. As time passes, more power will be accrued and the worst-case scenario will only become more likely… 063
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 26/01/2025“The professors are the enemy,” according to them. Of course they are. Education broadly is the enemy when you seek unmitigated power… 293
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 22/01/2025So, just to be clear, one of his PRIORITIES this time around was to roll back decades-long protections against discrimination on the basis of sex, race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation…huffpost.comTrump Just Revoked Anti-Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement. 220
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Whether or not it was intentional is sort of beside the point. If I were to make a gesture like this "by accident" in the classroom, I would still be held accountable. In part because I'm white, in part because I'm in a position of authority. Musk should know better. We should all know better...apnews.comMusk's straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meantMany social media users noticed that the gesture looked like a Nazi salute. Musk has only fanned the flames of suspicion by not explicitly denying those claims. 000
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Could they be any more clear about who they are? 031
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 19/01/2025How much more “masculine” could corporate culture get? Almost 90% of Fortune 500 countries are run by men, and men also dominate the tech industry…so…… 111
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Why are people so trusting of billionaires in the first place?? 022
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 18/01/2025It is a great, great disappointment to realize how many people view cooperation, respect, and decency as politically motivated pursuits… 132
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 17/01/2025So…hate speech is okay. Swearing at people is okay. Using the R word like Musk has is okay. But anything HE considers negative will be penalized…?! Okay then….. 2104
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Tech bros and billionaires flocking to Trump…I wonder how long it will last? 151
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Good old right-wing family values… Interestingly, according to numerous psychological studies, it’s liberals and Democrats who have more communal values. Conservatives and Republicans, in contrast, are driven more by power, self-reliance, and independence… 154
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The current resurgence in toxic masculinity is difficult to endure, but it won’t last forever. It is by definition volatile and therefore unsustainable—self-destructive even—and terribly unpopular amongst the rest of us… 032
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Yeah the hypocrisy’s pretty thick on the other side…but I often wonder how much denial and projection are necessary to sustain it all… 0135
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 13/01/2025There are conspiracy theories, and then there are real conspiracies… What baffles me is that the conspiracy theorists never care about the real conspiracies (and in fact deny climate change). 0102
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I would like to introduce the Bluesky community to Hunter! Hunter (nicknames: Hunty, Hunter Bunter, Little Monkey, Handsome Boy) is a rescue from Mexico. He’s almost 8 and is the sweetest little guy in the world… 🐾 #prouddogdad 3162
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 12/01/2025“We are all one – and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.” This quote by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin describes our current predicament so well. Everything we're up against comes down to this single problem: we're either in this together, or we're not in it... #weareallone 0195
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 12/01/2025This is such a good example of everything wrong with right-wing politics broadly and Trumpism specifically: they’re devoid of all humanity, to the point that even ASL interpreters are not off limits. If they only knew how completely unsustainable their approach is…comicsands.comMarlee Matlin Has Blunt Advice For Trumper Who Wants To End Sign Language Interpreters On TVGo get 'em, Marlee! 2186
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Capitalism has a long relationship with fascism. In motivational terms, it makes a lot of sense: capitalists and fascists are both motivated by power, displaying what is referred to as unmitigated agency—the pursuit of individual power at the expense of communal values and concerns (like empathy). 1168
Dr. David King @drdavidking.bsky.social · 11/01/2025We belong to the community; we belong to the world. These things do not belong to us... 164