@pepinneff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Public Policy: Moral Panic Agenda Setting - including #emotions #LGBTQ+ #politics and human - #shark interactions. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
America needs better Americans.
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AMAZING
02.11.2025 03:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Homophobia for Halloween in #Sydney
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Wishing you all the joys of this festive season.
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"Authorities in Indonesia arrested 34 men in Surabaya, the country’s second-largest city, later parading them in public to shame them for allegedly hosting a gay sex party at a local hotel."
www.metroweekly.com/2025/10/indo...
Lia Smith, Missing 21-Year-Old Trans Student, Found Dead in Vermont
www.them.us/story/lia-sm...
Trump Forces a Playdate with Xi Jinping & MTG Makes Too Much Sense for Desi Lydic
youtu.be/I2BjRIIchbg
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
30.10.2025 02:26 — 👍 3542 🔁 1091 💬 85 📌 73
How Democrats are not winning against this guy is incredible.
29.10.2025 23:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The debate about the future of the Democratic Party is misguided.
Pundits say the problem is that Democrats don’t accurately represent the American people.
But, the real problem is that our political system doesn’t represent the American people.
Too much winning!
- Pro-Life Republicans take food away from children as winter approaches!
- America cheers new ballroom as White House is bulldozed!
- 14,000 layoffs this week from Amazon!
- Third Term Coming Soon for Trump!!!
"It is for us to turn this country toward a path of honor. Not through arms or wealth or force, but through that redeeming conviction of national innocence and by finding our own satisfaction in the conduct of our country and in the conduct of ourselves as individuals." Sen. Robert Kennedy (1968).
29.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner: "The deployments we’re currently seeing inside American cities…are not only un-American and wrong, they’re being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform."
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Tennessee arrested a man for tweeting a meme - who has now been in jail for over a month. The Judge set a $2 million bond. This is America in 2025 - and freedom of speech seems to only mean speech that places Trump above the U.S. Constitution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cM...
Too cute by half: Sarah Ferguson on the 730 Report gave Kamala Harris a really hard time and rubbed her the wrong way. I usually defend Sarah - but Sarah starts to kind of question the intentions and motives of Harris that I think crossed a journalistic line.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmM...
Boop
27.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This is a turning point for the entire Democratic party. I believe it will invite a long period of minority rule and Democrats must get better - and compete with the Democratic Socialists or the party will fall.
27.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0America is smaller and meaner under Trump.
27.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
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🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
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I was today years old when I learned Amy Grant was the OG.
#AmyGrant #LadyGaga #Abracadabra
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
24.10.2025 03:51 — 👍 13105 🔁 5958 💬 617 📌 508This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
![Jack Paar Show - Robert F. Kennedy RFK interview after the death of JFK [COMPLETE INTERVIEW] 1964](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bf7csf4ev66zw2dqxkhg743z/bafkreihqrpkz6rnfok2s6p2n4upves2crv6kxztfvrn7w77qd6eoy5enay@jpeg)
Following #JimmyKimmel - to get an idea of the central role of Late Night television on U.S. political culture - the first public discussion by Bobby Kennedy about the assassination of President Kennedy was on the NBC Tonight Show w host Jack Paar in March of 1964:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ4n...
The demolition of the entire East Wing of the White House and the paving over of the Rose Garden without a sound from the public highlights a temper tantrum in which Americans are taking pleasure in breaking all their toys.
#WhiteHouse #Trump
New from @harrymlewis.bsky.social @hannaeldarwish.bsky.social & team:
'Social Cure and Savouring: Attending Live Music Events Is Associated With Wellbeing and Behaviour Changes to Maintain Wellbeing'
Please share.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
UTS is going to subscribe to more e-journals so it can fire library staff:
“The work related to the physical items such as opening boxes, stamping books, receiving items, putting stickers on items and checking physical invoices will be significantly reduced.”
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Man in pink jacket with rainbow glasses and glitter puts on lipstick with sequin gloves.
Colleagues: “Legally Blonde is a movie. You cannot channel Elle Woods in your legal work.”
Me:
Updating my LEGO White House
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