W. Andy Knight

@knight54.bsky.social

12K followers 17K following 4.4K posts

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

Excellent Martin!
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Christmas is about peace and love; we should be supporting peace and love for everyone, everywhere.

YouTube video by Martin Kerr

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W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 4h

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art... Edmonton area under blowing snow advisory: Environment Canada

Poor visibility, blowing snow expected in Edmonton and surrounding areas: Environment Canada

Environment Canada has issued a yellow advisory for blowing snow in Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park that may make roads hard to travel on Friday night through Saturday afternoon.

www.ctvnews.ca

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 4h

More snow today in Edmonton; but Happy thrives in this weather.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 4h

www.rawstory.com/trump-mystiq...

'Weak' Trump ending the year with his 'mystique' evaporating as his defenders flee: column

Donald Trump's first year in his second term is concluding with mounting setbacks that have prompted some former supporters to distance themselves from the president, no longer viewing him as politica...

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LoriPica 💙 @loripica.bsky.social · 5h

This is a true statement‼️
#TrumpsteinFiles

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5h

I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 6h

📽️Our second most-watched video of 2025 covers something that resonated deeply with us since Jan. 20 — feeling unsafe.

Rep. @ericswalwell.bsky.social joined us to discuss the first weeks of the second Trump administration and how its actions are harming our security.

Trump is Making Us Less “Safe” | Rep. Eric Swalwell

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 9h

Very concerning

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 23h

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 9h

Be reminded. We have a rapist in the WH. All those in Congress, his Cabinet, & the DOJ who attempt to cover his crimes is complicit. They all deserve consequences. And, most importantly, the survivors deserve justice.

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Jean Pocket @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 9h

Well I think we need to call our Governors because we the people need support. HOUSE AND SENATE IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB. THESE ACTS MUST BE STOPPED.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10h

A U.S. judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed, after the U.S. permanent resident sued officials over an entry ban.

Judge blocks Trump administration from detaining British anti-disinformation activist

The temporary order comes after the State Department announced visa bans on five individuals it accused of working to restrict freedom of speech in the United States.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12h

When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it.

Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...

Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People

Kat Abughazaleh, an activist running for Congress in Illinois, turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.

theintercept.com

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AMF @anitafellows4.bsky.social · 12h

www.huffpost.com/entry/virgin...

Virginia Offshore Wind Developer Sues Over Trump Administration Order Halting Projects

The Interior Department did not detail the security concerns in blocking the five projects on Monday.

www.huffpost.com

W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · 21h

Love your water colours.

BakerArt @bakerart.bsky.social · 22h

One of many past watercolour compositions featuring flowers and plants from my garden. There will be new paintings when things start growing. I don't know what happened to the Chinese Lanterns (Physalis). They don't seem to come up now (must try again).
#art #watercolour #flowerpainting

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BakerArt @bakerart.bsky.social · 22h

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 22h

let's make it 100%

"YOU VOTED FOR THIS": 37% of Trump voters in total meltdown as they can't afford food, cost of living hits worst in memory

newsrepublic.co.uk/2025/12/25/y...

"YOU VOTED FOR THIS": 37% of Trump voters in total meltdown as they can't afford food, cost of living hits worst in memory

New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.ContentsAmericans...

newsrepublic.co.uk

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d

With ZERO fucks left to give, Caroline Kennedy, throws down the gauntlet on the loathsome piece of shit for his desecration of The Kennedy Center. 😳👇

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌The Epstein Files are only the latest ghastly example of white male privilege.

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🌎💙❤️‍🔥🪶❤️‍🔥💙🇺🇦Quack @twistedtenyce.bsky.social · 1d

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🚨2900 DOJ Lawyers SUDDENLY QUIT on Trump IN MASS EXODUS

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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

Let’s wait and see how effective these strikes by the US Department of War were. We all recall Trump’s hyperbolic statements about the now dubious strikes against IRAN not too long ago.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”

Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”

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

It was fun to post my seldom seen artwork on this Bluesky platform
#ArtAdventCalendar. It was also wonderful to view the works of other wonderful artist. Merry Christmas to you all from @knight54.bsky.social

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Belated Birthday to Anthony Fauci!

Without truth, Democracy falls apart.

For Christmas I want
1. #NIH & CDC to use evidence based science
2. RFK Jr Impeached
3. MAHA dismantled
4.To not politicize science

🧪 We can't give up & get discouraged. Do not accept the normalization of untruths.

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

This makes me so happy!

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 3d

FINALLY. The seedlings of Trump's nihilistic conservatism have blossomed.

15 or more Heritage Foundation Employees exit HF over its hypocritical embrace of Trumpian policies that go against conservatism.

They opt for Mike Pence's Advancing American Freedom Foundation.

www.wsj.com/opinion/heri...

Some 15 or more Heritage employees, including the leaders of three prominent policy departments, are jumping to the Advancing American Freedom foundation that the former Vice President established in 2021. The defectors include the leaders of Heritage’s most important policy shops: The Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the Center for Data Analysis, and the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies.

The move by John Malcolm and his colleagues at the Meese Center is especially notable. We’re told it is endorsed by Mr. Meese, the Reagan-era Attorney General who is now 94 years old and has been a fixture at Heritage. The Roe Institute is the think tank’s free-market shop—or it was before Heritage embraced Trumpian industrial policy. One data project stifled at Heritage is to map the district-by-district impact of the Trump tariffs.

“They called us first,” says Mr. Pence about the defectors. “They see us as being a consistent, reliable home for Reagan conservatism.” Or maybe simply conservatism, which Heritage was founded to promote and did for decades. But that changed with the arrival of Kevin Roberts as president, who tried to play the game of populist politics rather than promote the think tank’s traditional principles.

Heritage once supported free trade; now it is protectionist. It once supported a robust American foreign policy; Heritage purged its defense hawks two years ago. Heritage was a supporter of the originalist judicial revolution and the rule of law; now it defends Mr. Trump’s expansion of executive power whether or not it has a constitutional basis.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

As hurricane-force winds showered fire embers down on Altadena in January, it seemed almost impossible that much would survive. But while some of the towering deodar cedars lining Santa Rosa Avenue were singed by fire and damaged by wind, they survived. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Colorado officials have dismissed the validity of Trump’s pardon, as Peters—whose arrest went viral across social platforms—was convicted of a state crime, where presidential pardons don’t apply.

Tina Peters—Who Trump Pardoned And Whose Arrest Went Viral—Pleads For Freedom

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Rico Pulsa8 @pulsa8.bsky.social · 1d

In Greenland, Venezuela, and elsewhere, Trump cycles through the same moves visible in the Epstein saga: charm and flattery, transactional offers, threats of ruin, and, when cornered, attempts to rewrite the record and hide the worst details

MAGA influencer turns on Trump