White House Launches Official Bluesky Account

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Above: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the White House on Oct. 1, 2025. Image copyright: Alex Wong/Getty Images

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Right narrative

The White House's Bluesky debut exposes the Left's fragility: after losing the public square argument on X following Trump's 2024 victory, they fled to create their own safe-space echo chamber. Unable to face honest debate, they insulated themselves from opposing viewpoints. This has now compelled the Right to engage on Bluesky — even if it means doing a little trolling — sharing conservative messaging directly to ensure users encounter the argument conservatives won.

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Left narrative

The White House's Bluesky debut is as brazen as it is unserious: trolling Left-leaning users with partisan memes, it confirms there are no safe spaces from MAGA's toxic harassment and misinformation. Yet the move also acknowledges Bluesky's rising influence, a decentralized platform — full of real people, not fake bots — where users control the conversation and X no longer dominates the public square. Conservatives might hate to admit it, but the Right now has to play here, too.

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Cynical narrative

The White House joining Bluesky feels less like progress and more like proof that America's digital town square is gone. After Trump's 2024 victory fractured online discourse, each side retreated into its own algorithmic bubble — Left to Bluesky, Right to X — preferring comfort over conversation. What was once a marketplace of ideas has become a maze of echo chambers where debate dies and civility feels almost nostalgic. Perhaps it's time we stopped letting the algorithm run the show and actually talked to someone who disagrees with us.

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