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Dr Katie Pruszynski

@katiepruszynski.bsky.social
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Political strategy and consultancy. PhD on lies in politics, democracy and polarisation. US politics obsessive. Former Westminster Aide. Consultancy services here: katiepruszynski.com

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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Perhaps Polanski might like to concede that there is actual unsafety...
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
*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
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
*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
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
*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
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Well if I wasn't devastated about this enough, along comes this song to really thump me in the gut
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
No one watching can conclude much else than this is the Stephen Miller presidency.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Don't let all the #Greenland / Iceland (?!) talk swamp Trump's casual dropping in of imminent prosecutions over the "rigged" 2020 election...
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump's #Davos speech rapid response: #Trump’s rambling, 90 minute speech may have sounded somewhat tepid to those expecting fireworks and bombast over Greenland. But all the clues were there that Trump feels deeply driven to acquire what he sees as being rightfully his to take.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Current state as we near 90 minutes in... #Davos #Trump #Greenland
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🔥 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.”
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It's time to resocialise politics... www.instagram.com/reel/DR-no8q...
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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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
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2025
of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
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FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Donald Trump boasts that he ended the war between “Azerbaijan and Albania". Azerbaijan and Albania have never been at war together.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The decimation of local news in the US and here in the UK is a disaster for democracy
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2025
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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...
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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
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The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
‘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...
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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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...
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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.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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 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.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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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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.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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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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.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
100%. And equally inevitable will be the torrent of fake accounts set up on every platform to create content that will "prove" them right.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This is the only line to take.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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 🧵...
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I had so much fun recording this- frankly we could have spent hours more chatting about the potential of candidates like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and how cities may hold the key to a calmer, more socialised politics.
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Professor Beth Perry @itsbethperry.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Another fascinating duo of guests joining us on this episode to discuss @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's rise in #NYC and whether we need a #wealthtax on the super rich Thanks @katiepruszynski.bsky.social and @qurbanist.bsky.social Listen to #urbanradar now ...
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The hubris of this guy. Get out of the way. youtu.be/CUIT5c-EIK4?...
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Cuomo to run for NYC mayor as an independent, sources say
YouTube video by CBS New York
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Just wait- they'll be busy prepping the lie that there is evidence of the files having been destroyed by the previous admin...
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🥑🗽🏗 Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com · 11/07/2025
All you need to know about the importance of air conditioning for climate change summers via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I don’t think Americans should have to endure physically painful and degenerative manufacturing jobs in a deliberately regressed economy just because there’s a moral panic over masculinity.
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