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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 · 03/06/2026
Really looking forward to participating in this tomorrow- midterms have never been so interesting!
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
AND get blamed for it
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm aware. But why offer the option for people to view a perception vs reality window when the data on antisemitic attacks shows that Jews are empirically less safe? Why make that point at all?
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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
Tbf Stephen Miller has definite Rasputin energy
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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
This is not an administration that is likely to accept a polite but firm “no”. Economic sanction now surely follows and it remains to be seen if NATO leaders follow Mark Carney’s lead in refusing to simply “go along to get along”
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
It was, quite deliberately, a menacing intimidation tactic dressed up for the refined audience at Davos. For a clear read on Trump’s thinking, see Stephen Miller’s defiant assertion of America’s right to act like a superpower, or Treasury Sec Scott Bessent’s description of Denmark as “irrelevant”.
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Although he seemed to rule out the use of force to take the island, Trump spent much of his speech discussing the US’s military might- helpfully reminding the audience about the unilateral deposing of Venezuela’s leader this month.
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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
Eating dry cereal from the box and wondering if Scott Bessent feels good about himself right now.
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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 · 08/12/2025
I've talked about how we need to go back to talking about politics face to face for precisely these reasons www.instagram.com/reel/DR-no8q...
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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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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Corby's going to have to go full Mrs Doubtfire in a minute
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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I wrote about the scenarios that could play out, and I see a difficult but most definitely available path out of where the US (and increasingly the UK) has cornered itself. Hopefully it's a positive note at the end of a fairly sober piece 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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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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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The three overlords
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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
Wrote a piece today and it was extremely hard to prioritise all the terrible reasons why we are where we are. 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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Dr Katie Pruszynski @katiepruszynski.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'm always reassured when I see we're on the same page. I wrote about it too. 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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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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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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