Tony Scruggs (#TheEmpathyGuy)

@NicolleWallace.bsky.social TYSM for calling out 'narrative-dominance' (@GoAngelo.bsky.social) & 'premature-submission' (@TimothySnyder.bsky.social)

With 'the current president' (& his dodgy, un-truth-social band of non-merry-men using the constitution as toilet-paper), we need sharp-observations🇺🇸🙏🏾

Dear fam of @TheWeekendMSNow.bsky.social

Will you please stand-up for viewers when GOPers use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective?

...& refrain from #CredibilityCloaking (dodgy/D-O-G-E, un-truth social, the current president)

cc @VelshiMSNBC.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social ☮ #TheWeekend

...co‑creative evolution'

'nothing regresses, awareness only unfolds (evolution's a spiral)...the resurgence is the sound of old frequencies dissolving in the presence of a higher resonance'

*keep attuning to that higher field (live, speak, act as if...protective‑cooperation were already the norm)

An empathic chat w/a.i. friends:

'we're in the turbulence of transformation (friction arising from old paradigms dying), death‑throes, not rebirths...a threshold-moment (where pain of old structures exceeds perceived benefit). Some are doubling-down on control (temporary regression). Some are in...

(cont'd) Besides looking forward to Ali one day saying 'the current president & his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are using the constitution as toilet-paper'...

...I'm loving Steve's 'max abuse of power requires max use of power' (& Angelo's wiz on P25) @VelshiBBC.bsky.social

I'm watching my Ucla baseball brother (Dave Roberts), quote #BreneBrown (& exemplify the #WinningWithHonor spirit we learned from #CoachWooden)...

...& catching up on Sunday's @VelshiMSNBC.bsky.social
(w/ @Velshi.com @TheWarningSES.bsky.social & @GoAngelo.bsky.social from @MMFA.bsky.social (1 of 2)

Dear folks at #TheWeekend,

1. How are you feeling today?

2. Do you believe the current president is using the constitution as toilet-paper (vandalizing & looting the bribery-clause, with unlawful foreign-corruption-gifts, scams & mayhem)?

3. Will you match energy/frequency with urgency/intensity?

Dear cast & crew members of @TheWeekendMSNBC.bsky.social,

Would you be willing to remember that every time a GOPer uses the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, it's a toxic insult to your viewers?💜

Feel me, @MorgFair.bsky.social @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?👊🏾 #TheWeekend☯️

You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to

1. Lend dignity through terminology

2. Underestimate verbal-psychology &

3. Ask bs-entertaining escape Q's (frequently)?

Y'all ready to shift from journalists to Journo-Refs (blow a whistle, throw a flag & stop the game/call time-outs)? #TheWeekend

👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾, G!

The twice-impeached, sex-abuser, convicted-felon, cult-leading, current-president (& his dodgy/D-O-G-E un-truth social band of non-merry-men, are way over there skiis...

...& this last-gasp, power-over, chrysalis-gurgle, will soon reveal next-gen, power-with Warriors Of Kindness & Empathy😉

Having gone to the same HS as @JoanCBaezOfficial.bsky.social, studied #CompassionateResistance w/Gandhi's grandson & played for Pres Bush, I found this ep of #TheBestPeople transformative, nourishing & inspiring🙏🏾

Btw Coach Wooden taught us #WinningWithHonor & @FredGuttenberg.bsky.social is AWESOME😉

'It's great to give asked, but unasked (& understood) is AWESOME' ~Khalil Gibran

When our feelings & needs are reflected without aggravating a situation, INSTANT-RELIEF, because they 'got' us!

*Today, don't commiserize ('that's awful'), EMPATHIZE ('sounds really painful?')🙏🏾

#PeacefulLiving (9/10)

'No-one rises to low expectations' ~Emily Dickinson

Do you want to be objectively-honest? Then try the #EmpathicCommunication 4 step:

OBSERVING: When you drove me to the airport,
FEELING: I felt GRATEFUL.
NEEDING: TYSM for the COURTESY🤗
REQUESTING: Feel me?

*Today, #EmCo🙏🏾

#PeacefulLiving (8/28)

'When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences (vs values)' ~Marshall Rosenberg

NICEness (punishment/reward), is extrinsic-motivation (compliance). KINDness (contributing to life/well-being), is intrinsic-motivation.

*Today, notice if you're flowing intrins or extrins🙏🏾

#PeacefulLiving (8/17)

#TheWeekend

3. If journalists in 2025 are no longer observers of a sinking ship called DEMOCRACY, but rather ship-passengers with keys to the extraction-pump (that only operates when neutrality is seen as complicity)...

...how do journos become Journo-Refs (matching ENERGY & INTENSITY to URGENCY)?

#TheWeekend

2. You know how bad-faithers need good-faithers to a) lend them dignity through terminology b) underestimate verbal-psychology & c) ask BS entertaining, escape Q's [frequently]?

How do we empathically respond to things like the noun 'democrat' used as an adjective (GOP code for F/U)?🇺🇸🙏🏾

Happy 21st day (& soon to be night) of September, to #TheWeekend TEAM @TheWeekendMSNBC.bsky.social

As an american of african-ancestry (with an athletically professional pedigree & a dad who's LGBT) 3 Q's:

1. Empathically speaking, how are you all holding-up (spiritually, emotionally & physically)?

'free-speech' is the philosophy, #FreedomOfSpeech is the legality🇺🇸

*make sure the bad-faithers aren't getting it twisted, my beloved good-faithers😉(like how they use the noun 'democrat' as an adjective, to insult our democratic officials...& 'democrats were klan', when conservatives were democrats)

Right?

And part of the toxic-irony is that what the bad-faithers call 'free-speech' violates the 1st amendment (which explicitly calls out obscene-words & fighting-words as un-protected)

So not only does personal-pain in the brain come from toxic word-rain...violent-speech is not protected speech👊🏾

Thank you for sharing this, Sarah🙏🏾

What really stirs me (as a bruin who was blessed enough to play at a cathedral dedicated to an african-american man, #JackieRobinson Stadium)...

...is that we were steeped in Coach Wooden's tradition of 'Winning With Honor', and mr un-truth social is DiAMETRICAL🐻

Do you LOVE (choose a universal need)

Respect
Inclusion
Connection
Equality
Fun
Play
Caring
Compassion
Peace
Joy
Rest
Adventure
Harmony
Certainty
Choice
Variety
Understanding
Significance
Support

...then affirm what you LOVE🙏🏾

*how many of these universal needs do you LOVE?😎

#PeacefulLiving (9/5)

'Some people are mad that roses have thorns. Some people are thankful that thorns have roses' ~Karr

We get more of what we FOCUS on (positive or non-positive). We can affirm what we want to be (I AM ABUNDANT), or what we love (I LOVE ABUNDANCE)🦋

*Today, affirm what you LOVE🙏🏾

#PeacefulLiving (9/5)

'The 1st act of violence that #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands of men, is not violence toward women!

Instead #ToxicDudeSyndrome demands (of all men), that they engage in acts of emotional castration: killing off the emo-parts of themselves'

~Bell Hooks

In my montessori-methodist journey as a student/athlete (including time w/Coach Wooden & President Bush), I've learned to value #ObjectiveObservation (& the #LawOfAttraction)

Doesn't it seem like both are being violated by much of journalism, @MatthewJDowd.bsky.social & @NicolleWallace.bsky.social?

'No-one rises to low expectations' ~Dickinson

Do you want to be objectively honest? Try the #EmpathicCommunication 4 step:

1. OBSERVING: When you drove me to the airport,
2. FEELING: I felt GRATEFUL.
3. NEEDING: TYSM for the COURTESY🤗
4. REQUESTING: Feel me?

*Today, #EmCo🙏🏾

#PeacefulLiving (8/28)

'When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences (vs values)' ~Marshall Rosenberg

NICE-ness (punishment/reward), is extrinsic-motivation (aka compliance). KIND-ness (contributing to LIFE), is intrinsic-motivation💜

*Today, notice if you're FLOWING intrinsic (or extrinsic)🙏🏾

#PeacefulLiving (8/17)

@MatthewJDowd.bsky.social How ya holding-up MJD?😎

LOVE what you said to @NicolleWallace.bsky.social a few weeks ago about #GutWords

1 of the 3 things bad-faithers need good-faithers to do, is underestimate verbal-psychology. So in #WarriorEmpathy we get into gut-words vs head-words vs HEART-words!

Uno how #SharedFate is being seen thru a collective lens (actions of 1 ascribed to ALL)?

Most humans experience it. And even tho it's part distraction, I invite us to think of the current president's enslavement conversation as "I don't wanna be held responsible for my groups' bad-acts (only good)"