What did JD Vance say to get suspended in just 12 minutes after setting foot on Bluesky?
Vice President of the United States JD Vance joined Bluesky but was promptly booted off the platform just minutes after making his first post.
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Vice President of the United States JD Vance joined Bluesky but was promptly booted off the platform just minutes after making his first post.
Vance posted on X, “just set up my page on Bluesky. I hope to see you guys there!”
Little did he know that the transition from X to Bluesky wouldn’t be as smooth as he thought.
Vance’s first post on Bluesky, a notoriously left-leaning platform, went a little like this:
“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go to for common-sense political discussion and analysis. So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”
The post included a highlighted excerpt that discusses gender dysphoria and gender affirming care for children.
As you can imagine, JD Vance didn’t exactly indicate that he’s in favour of gender-affirming care for youngsters.
Vance continued by saying that he found Justice Thomas’s “concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating.”
The vice president continued to break down the excerpt by saying that the judge “argues that many of our so-called ‘experts' have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth.”
President Trump’s right-hand man then went on to say that many of the scientists who are supposedly pushing gender affirming care on young people are “receiving substantial resources from big pharma.”
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.
undefined JD Vance (@jd-vance-1.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Vance’s speculation hit a lot of people’s nerves, including Bluesky, who promptly suspended his account just 12 minutes after posting the thread, as Axios journalist Marc Caputo reported.
Vance got banned on Bluesky within 12 minutes of announcing on X that he was there
undefined Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) June 18, 2025
Update: the ban appears to have been reversed
He had posted a thread supporting Justice Thomas’s concurrence in the Supreme Court case upholding Tennessee’s law restricting transgender therapies https://t.co/xUV5dK0ug2
However, the ban was short-lived, and Vance’s Bluesky account was quickly reinstated.
A representative of the X (formerly Twitter) rival platform told Newsweek that Vance’s account had been briefly suspended as its system flagged something suspicious.
The issue wasn’t what Vance said. Instead, it was flagged as a potential fake account used to impersonate the vice president.
“Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past, Bluesky told Newsweek.
The X rival told Newsweek that the account had been restored as quickly as it was taken down.
The account was even verified so that people can know that whatever is coming from this account is Vance’s own words.