JD Vance Joins Lefty X Competitor Bluesky, Gets Banned After Just One Post

Bluesky, the once-hyped “free speech” alternative to X, has become yet another left-wing echo chamber incapable of tolerating dissent — and Vice President J.D. Vance just proved it.

In a moment that perfectly captures the collapse of open dialogue in progressive tech spaces, Vance was banned from the Bluesky platform just 20 minutes after joining and posting the Supreme Court’s majority decision in favor of state laws protecting minors from irreversible gender procedures.

Vance’s “offensive” post? A simple message welcoming users to respectful political discussion and a direct quote from Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence, in which he questioned the “authority of the expert class” regarding irreversible transgender treatments on minors.

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The Supreme Court ruling, delivered in a 6–3 decision, upheld Tennessee’s right to prohibit the use of puberty blockers, hormones, and other experimental procedures on children. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, stated:

“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field… The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best.”

Roberts was joined by Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas. The court’s three far-left justices dissented, with Sonia Sotomayor dramatically claiming the ruling “does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight.”

Vance, clearly aware of the significance of the ruling, joined Bluesky to test the waters of what the left has long claimed is a platform for “common sense political discussion.” His first post read:

“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”

He then posted Justice Thomas’ blistering critique of activist “experts,” noting that:

“There are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest the leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.”

That was all it took for the censors at Bluesky to swing the hammer.

As the New York Post reported, the ban was short-lived — the vice president’s account was restored minutes later. But the fact remains: the sitting vice president of the United States was banned from a social platform for quoting a Supreme Court ruling.

No violation of terms. No disinformation. No hate speech. Just facts. That’s all it takes to get canceled in 2025 on a platform that claims to be the antidote to censorship.

Users bragged about reporting Vance for “misinformation,” which in leftist circles now simply means “things I don’t like.” One user encouraged others to “report the account and the posts,” revealing a culture of digital mob rule where truth is met with punishment.

Perhaps the platform’s algorithms were automatically triggered by mass flagging. If so, that only further exposes the flaws of a site desperately trying to paint itself as modern and inclusive, while operating on the same tired “Occupy Democrats” model of silencing anything that challenges their groupthink.

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But none of this is shocking. Bluesky has been circling the drain for months. After a post-election spike in 2024, the platform’s engagement has been plummeting. As columnist Megan McArdle recently pointed out, user interaction is down 50%, and even the loudest progressives who swore off X/Twitter now barely post at all. She writes that these efforts mostly “appeal to folks who are very interested in progressive politics — which is to say, the other people who have already moved to Bluesky.”

When Vice President Vance walked into this digital ghost town armed with the truth, the left-wing echo chamber lost its collective mind. That tells you everything you need to know about why the American people continue to abandon the radical left and why free speech — championed once again by the Supreme Court — remains an essential American value.


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