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Gavin Newsom is spot-fucking-on. ð¯ð¯ð¯ð
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico.bsky.social) 2025-11-29T22:08:35.512Z
SharonClark
(10,497 posts)Prairie Gates
(6,943 posts)DoBW
(2,958 posts)
BlueKota
(4,970 posts)marble falls
(69,954 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(155,881 posts)Bluetus
(2,052 posts)for behaving beneath the dignity of the office. But they can't say a word because they have been ignoring this exact shit from Trump for 15 years.
In many ways, this is more about the media than it is about Trump.
SergeStorms
(19,840 posts)Unlike some demented Big Orange Pig who likes playing president on "Truth"social, but hates acting like an actual president in the White House. At least half of his "truths" are written by his slimy reptilian henchman, Martin Bormann Stephan Miller.
bluestarone
(20,914 posts)Wouldn't be in the trouble we;re in today.
maddiemom
(5,160 posts)spanone
(140,806 posts)AllaN01Bear
(28,228 posts)oasis
(53,246 posts)Telling it like it is.
Just Jerome
(402 posts)gotten old!
pfitz59
(12,192 posts)All true.
ananda
(34,147 posts)Nasruddin
(1,157 posts)Did he leave anything out?
progree
(12,621 posts)I might have bought this until I saw the part about Vance too busy with 'the couch'
I don't see it here either --
https://www.gov.ca.gov/category/press-releases/
highplainsdem
(59,208 posts)The butterfly for Bluesky that you see is from Bill Madden's account. He posted the screenshot. The gray government verification below for Newsom's press office shows it's from X. Bluesky just uses blue checkmarks for all verified accounts.
Link to tweet
progree
(12,621 posts)account. I've read X sells those "verifications". It's going to take me a lot more than a "verification" checkmark on an X account.
I didn't go by that at all. I looked at https://bsky.app/profile/govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov (see my above post).
You may be right that he posted on an X account with the address @GovPressOffice
(there's 50 governors in the U.S. -- why would a state government choose an X account name that is so vague?)
and not at Blue Sky
or at the https://www.gov.ca.gov/category/press-releases/
I think it's more likely that the X account is fake.
highplainsdem
(59,208 posts)available to subscribers on X.
That Bluesky account for Newsom's press office has only 8.2K followers.
The X account, which has been the official account since 2013, has 673.9K followers.
That's why they're more concerned with posting on X, where they reach nearly 100x as many people.
You're going to miss a hell of a lot of official messages if you think only the Bluesky accounts are official. AOC, for instance, and a !ot of other Democratic politicians still use X much more than Bluesky.
progree
(12,621 posts)account is real. Or that he would use the juvenile debunked couch slur. But that's just me.
Who told you that?
highplainsdem
(59,208 posts)progree
(12,621 posts)highplainsdem
(59,208 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(31,158 posts)Is Trump exposed to Gavin's texts? I hope so.
highplainsdem
(59,208 posts)Celerity
(53,270 posts)highplainsdem
(59,208 posts)showing that is Newsom's press office on X.
progree
(12,621 posts)A verified checkmark on an Elon Musk & Co webpage alone doesn't do it for me.
progree
(12,621 posts)There are no fake accounts on Elon Musk's platform with verified checkmarks on them that claim to be official accounts? None whatsoever?
Up thread we've been discussing this particular account in a couple of roundy-rounds. This is not a new revelation to us.
On the other hand, I'm pretty much convinced it's real from the Axios and ABC links that highplainsdem supplied above.
I have no regrets whatsoever in raising the issue, and certainly no regrets about not automatically giving a helluva lot of credence Elon Musk's website checkmarks. But now that we have some strong evidence that it's a real account from other than Musk&Co, I'm pretty much convinced.
I think the official https://www.gov.ca.gov website should have a list of their official social media accounts and links, but I can't find any such. It might be there somewhere; it's a vast website. Some organizations that I'm familiar with do have such for just such situations, since impostor websites and accounts are numerous.
Martin68
(26,755 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(31,158 posts)calimary
(88,655 posts)He speaks for me, too!
Gavin the Great!!!
live love laugh
(16,125 posts)spudspud
(631 posts)Trump would be apoplectic.
malaise
(291,605 posts)RandomNumbers
(19,024 posts)llmart
(17,196 posts)Dozy Don - Hit him where it hurts.
Scalded Nun
(1,572 posts)Upthevibe
(9,917 posts)Thanks for posting
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Gov............
CTyankee
(67,667 posts)I hope it makes Dump furious. Maybe he'll have a fatal heart attack...
