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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 2h

"We need to do in the West Bank what we did in Gaza." - Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Minister of Finance

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nationalism & Bond-market enforced Neo-liberalism are partners in a vicious circle! Econ decline gives environ for nationalism- Brexit & anti immigrant- which exacerbates econ decline which drives further extremes of nationalism & neoliberalism/austerity leading to further econ decline driving ….

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shock finding: Toxic bully boy politics linked to toxic bully boy personality! Who’d have thought!

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How long is this- both the emboldened neo nazis and the anti genocide protesters=terrorists- a “Starmer legacy” issue? When does it become Burnham’s full responsibility that he’s continuing with such horrendous immorality

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ridiculous that in the 21st century voting remains, in too many constituencies, a binary choice for the least worst option. A stupid game with our lives! No wonder there’s so little faith in party politics! PR now! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tactical voting at next election could push Reform into fourth place, poll finds

Polling suggests Andy Burnham is attracting progressives back to Labour, motivated by desire to stop Nigel Farage

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nothing new except govt acknowledgement of the severity, so, as Adrian Ramsay says “why has our government still not published its response to how it will address the stark findings?” We knew Starmer was bad but suppressing this….an existential threat! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In some ways it sounds like hyperbole when we talk of the current rise of the far right leading to fascism, but the faces enabling Hitler's fascism were incredibly ordinary- not monsters in themselves but part of a monstrous movement that then inexorably led to atrocities.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pretty comprehensive! I recall his reactions when visiting Graceland including that he could have beaten Elvis (8th degree black belt) at Karate 🤪 Everything became about himself to such a bizarre extent.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The trouble is it becomes fun for these inadequates. Running around feeling powerful as a gang of thugs is self perpetuating. The thuggish, bully-boy, politics are the perfect justification.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The BBC must think we’re stupid! Time after time they Headline whatever Reform UK say, with no pushback on facts or reality other than a late short paragraph to pay lip-service to their duty to impartiality. It's a clear cynical attempt platform Reform with a fig leaf of 'Trace Impartiality'.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you show yourself to be inadequate with bullying politics, it seems to follow that there's a high probability that you're inadequate and bullying in your personal life as well.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BBC reports happy scene: "We went into this village hall as the underdogs- we had a plucky idea." Not racist, xenophobic NIMBY bigots trying to smear asylum seekers as sexual predators when far right toxic men have awful record. ...nothing like impartiality then... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The very fact of there being billionaires in the world while millions of people are dying of hunger or curable diseases or living in abject poverty is itself obscene meme via Share Love To All

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Asylum seekers are not illegal – people have a right [under international law] to seek shelter" via Truth Against Hate

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Farage &co are like bacteria. Always around but not a problem if the body is healthy. Neoliberalism- esp Labour's complete submission to it- has so weakened our econ & politics that the bacteria can thrive & make the country ill. We have to fight the infection but also address restoring health.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At least he's come clean- but why no response from the media- esp BBC- & Labour? This is a public statement of intent to dismantle British democracy, exploiting the lack of a written constitution to institute a dictatorship. Everyone in favour; Mail, Telegraph... must be exposed for who they are!

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At least VAR is consistent in it's uselessness: Yesterday was karma from 2023 goal: www.facebook.com/footballdail... In general: Replace the 'tech' with 2 VAR refs + ex pro watching 3x half speed replays - if it's not clear and obvious from that, on-field decision stands (incl offsides).

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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is what the BBC calls 'news'. Released today. It's just a blatant platforming of Reform. It's meaningless and is not news.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nigel Farage and his friends, allies and company.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Migrant subsistence is tiny while #TaxTheRich could end poverty "I thought you could do with some actual facts from yougov. Not exactly the luxury hotel utopia you keep assuming. This is costing each British taxpayer £2 a year. More tax goes on treating the morbidly obese" via Britain to the Core

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Burnham knew this would be the result of dropping his pledge to cap political donations, but he did it anyway. Labour are determined to midwife a Reform government, like plenty of other centrist parties before them whose weakness paved the way for right wing extremists.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here we go again. Chamber of Commerce, Tony Blair's TBI & other neoliberals, say that the real problem for the 5th biggest economy (with 442,000 £millionaires + 157 £bn's) is a state pension of £230 a week for over 67yrs. Very expensive economic illiteracy. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's absolutely wrong to associate Israeli violence with Jewishness. It's absolutely wrong to defend Israeli violence because of Israel's Jewishness. Anti-semitism benefits from both moral bankruptcies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements

Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Absolutely! It's a stated aim of the authoritarian far right. No bank account these days can mean inflicting joblessness, homelessness (therefore problems with healthcare) poverty.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's a step in the right/moral direction- that shows up how poor the Lab govt has been to date. Those who say the Israeli violence can't be opposed without being antisemitic, & those who say all Jews are responsible, conflate violence with Jewishness & must be rejected. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Miliband rejects chief rabbi's claim British Jews in greater danger after sanctions move

The foreign secretary disagrees that sanctions on Israeli settlements could put British Jews at greater risk.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And here we are... The most powerful man in the world... "...malignant narcissists are fundamentally fantasists. While they can function in day-to-day tasks, their entire psychological architecture is built on a highly distorted, self-serving alternate reality." edition.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...

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Fact check: Trump’s story about being carried away by firefighters after the 9/11 attack | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump has for years told false or unproven stories about what he supposedly saw and did on 9/11 and soon after. As the 25th anniversary of the terror attack approaches, Trump told ano...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Essential thread.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Better from the BBC; a sound article on the climate crisis. If they know the science why are they not pressing politicians on the greatest ever political challenge to humanity? And little linking it to food price rises & supply that would engage the wider public www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The clues that hint our planet might be heating faster than we realised

A curious online row over this summer's heatwaves points to a wider - and worrying - shift in climate science.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Farage stating he will 'be a dictator from day one' though calling a State of Emergency got remarkably little coverage and Labour have hardly responded at all.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Another triumph of VAR! Isn't remotely near kicking the ball- straight for the head. Nigh on assault.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Man-made climate crisis will kill millions & destroy food supply? Anti-immigrant rhetoric leads to huge rise in racism? QUANGOs have failed on Water Co.s? 20,000 children killed from Israel’s violence against civilians? Why treat anti-genocide protesters as terrorists? Who pays to influence you?

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When a few balaclava-less septuagenarian environmental protesters stop traffic they are arrested, tried and thrown in jail? Hundreds of young white men decide to dress in black head-to-toe , don balaclavas, and travel together to Dover on the same train the police do nothing. Two tier policing

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"The coverage of Nigel Farage and Reform UK by BBC News in recent years has raised some disturbing concerns about the corporation’s commitment to impartiality and its editorial standards."

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A genuine Lab Govt, concerned about best value for money spent re disabilities- would have (guaranteeing no cuts to secure trust) engaged in a mass consultation to direct money to revolutionising inclusion opps- the only solution that makes econ & moral sense. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet

Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psyche, says Mik Scarlet, campaigner and co-CEO of the national charity Phab

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just Stop Oil planned to block a road, they got 21 years. Far Right masked thugs actually blocked roads. Not one arrest, nothing.

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Several Israeli officers familiar with the incident said the strikes were not ordered on the basis of an imminent threat to Israeli lives, but to fulfil the mission to thwart Hamas attempts to control aid deliveries." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Crunch time is coming for the US & its impact on the world! I really hope that the Dems have an effective response planned. Trump told his faithful at the last election it would be the last time they'd have to vote for him! Hope this it totally wrong but it's a scenario I hope they've planned for!

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If Trump's (Project 2025's) coup succeeds on Nov 3rd. What will happen to the Epstein Files? Will they be destroyed and Trump finally escapes exposure for who he is? robertreich.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

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Remember the Epstein files!

They won’t go away, and new legislation seeks fuller disclosure

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Andrew James @a-bluejay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The US are much, much (Nov 3 ish) closer than the UK but, given the establishment's record, it will be "coming to a place near you soon..."

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wes Streeting, who took substantial donations from private medicine providers, ordered the NHS to use private medicine providers

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