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W. Andy Knight

@knight54.bsky.social

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2021-22 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International & Area Studies @YaleU; Past UA Provost Fellow Black Excellence & Leadership; University of Alberta Distinguished Professor, FRSC, LLD

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W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · Nov 15

Good morning! This is my first post of Bluesky. I am officially getting off twitter. I hate what Musk has done to that platform.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1h

Is it even allowed for a speaker of the House to refuse to swear in someone who is constitutionally elected by the people?

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1h

Unfortunately, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 7h

AMERICA, you voted for a felon and placed him in the White House. Now the entire country is doomed!

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 3h

Happy walks the professor on this chilly October evening. Folks winter is on its way.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 6h

You are right! Not all of America voted for Trump. But in a democracy all you need is a plurality. Those who didn’t vote (36.3 %) can’t complain. In fact they are responsible in large part for Harris’ loss. They reality is “the rain falls on the just and the unjust”.

Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 7h

No, AMERICA, did not and I accept zero responsibility for this shit show.

I blame the chucklefucks who voted from a place of vengeance rather than patriotism and the dumbfucks who put their grievances above the country and chose not to vote at all.

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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 7h

No, AMERICA, did not and I accept zero responsibility for this shit show.

I blame the chucklefucks who voted from a place of vengeance rather than patriotism and the dumbfucks who put their grievances above the country and chose not to vote at all.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 7h

AMERICA, you voted for a felon and placed him in the White House. Now the entire country is doomed!

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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 8h

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

Love this intelligent, competent woman!!

#JasmineCrockett

“The problem is that Americans thought it was ok to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of The United States and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things.

Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of The United States and if we don’t wake up we may not have a United States.”

Congresswoman
Jasmine Crockett

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatens legal action if Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva

The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.

www.politico.com

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Ginger (frequently) Snaps @gingersnap944.bsky.social · 10h

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kleinstadt.bsky.social @kleinstadt.bsky.social · 13h

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 17h

Heroes among us. Whistleblower exposing ICE.

WATCH:

#Resist

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom: "Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I'm being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today."

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1d

sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/... Pan-African Symposium

Pan-African Symposium

sites.google.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

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Nsignificannot @nsignificannot.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Problems? We’ve got’em!

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Sarcastic Beeotch @bluedotinmaine.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t get paid. We do it for free because we’re true patriots and love our democracy.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1d

Sue them. This is the recompense that’s required.

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning resisters 💙🌅☕☕🌅
A new week has started and we must continue to resist the unlawfulness of the occupation. While the regime head is in Isreal promoting peace he continues to wage war on his own citizens. make sure you attend a protest near you as we stand against the regime. #NoKings 💙

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Grampa Jody @jodywagner.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 🦅
@antontreuer.bsky.social @debhaalandnm.bsky.social @peggyflanagan.bsky.social @laewagner.bsky.social

Indigenous Peoples' Day

Native American people are honored and celebrated on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

nationaltoday.com

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tafphy.bsky.social @tafphy.bsky.social · 1d

Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather | Donald Trump | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...
Also this - Trump gets seasick. That's why he never had a yacht. He couldn't afford one either but that's beside the point, amirite?

Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather

Royal decree ordered Friedrich Trump to leave Germany and never come back after he failed to do military service

www.theguardian.com

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1d

The rich should realize by now that when they die and lose their souls (and they surely will), they can’t take any of that money with them.

Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 2d

Every bit of this mess that we’re currently enduring is because rich people need more money & they dgaf if you’re hungry or homeless or dead in order for them to get more money

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1d

Accumulate these videos of crimes being committed by ICE against humanity. One day, hopefully soon, they will be used as evidence in a court of law.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1d

No wonder people are increasingly turning away from creating branches of Christianity.

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 2d

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 1d

Great call. Put your kids first.

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SharG @hapkidogal.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

One of Europe’s biggest farm machinery firms halts US exports over ‘hidden’ tariffs

Krone says ‘alarming’ levies on about 400 goods including hair dryers and combine harvesters have forced pause

www.theguardian.com

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GLEN JACKSON @glenjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Strangely, she was the attorney general of Florida when Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were raping a little girls and sex trafficking.

Strange coincidence, isn’t it?

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily Beast concluded that the agency's effort to "milk" the parody only drew more attention to the sketch and highlighted the mockery.

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StandWithUs @standwithus.bsky.social · 1d

Emotional moments: After being kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and surviving more than 2 years in Hamas captivity in Gaza, Eitan Mor is finally reunited with his family in Israel.

Credit: IDF

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist

Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction Investment in climate action is the economic growth story of the 21st century, the economist Nicholas Stern has said. Growth fuelled by fossil fuels is futile, he said, as the damage it causes ends in self-destruction. The plummeting costs of clean technologies, from renewable energy to electric cars, plus the healthier and more productive societies they enable, mean investments can simultaneously tackle the climate crisis and faltering economic growth, and bring millions of people out of poverty. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com