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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do a 20 yr stretch for war crimes and then we can talk about your redemption tour buddy
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Are We The Baddies Bad
ALT: Are We The Baddies Bad
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Caitlin Cooper @caitlinmaycooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everyone can spend their money however they choose, but the self-harm rate among gambling disorder is among the highest for behavioral/substance-based addiction. Wish there was more empathy for that. Polymarket (which allows bets on wildfires, politics, clinical trials) is an extra level of dystopia
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
propublica.org
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
"Some day people will look at online gambling the way we look at Big Tobacco today: an industry that dishonestly profiteered on addiction and human misery."
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Our Politicians Suck. But Our Voters Do, Too.
And the political system we’ve built brings out the worst in both.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/09/2026
The question, which was reportedly intended to be rhetorical, was answered in harrowing detail by Sabeen Bhatt, 46, who began by describing every possible calamity in her immediate surroundings, before moving on to the world at large.
thedailytism.com
Bystanders traumatised after autistic woman asked “what’s the worst that can happen?”
Bystanders have reportedly been left “traumatised” after overhearing an autistic woman answering the question “what’s the worst that can happen?” The question, which was reportedly intended to be…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
ProPublica uncovered the machinery of the Dominican Republic baseball factory, whose lenders and trainers exploit players as young as 11. Here are the key findings from our reporting.
propublica.org
Underage Players, Predatory Moneylenders: 7 Findings From Our Dominican Baseball Investigation
ProPublica uncovered the machinery of the Dominican Republic baseball factory, whose lenders and trainers exploit players as young as 11. Here are the key findings from our reporting.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
19thnews.org
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looking forward to watching and hoping for an “Abraham-Szor Effect” as a result of this threat. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026
If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if you're looking for an actual measure of Trump hard core supporters, I think this is it. if you're willing to follow him on this, you're willing to follow him on anything.
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Algeria Worblebot @algeriaworblebot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In that society finally stopped pretending it wasn't a thing in hopes it'd go away? Yeah I reckon so. Now we've got a better handle of how ASD can present, we can better diagnose it, which is great because that also means we can better accommodate it.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“The men now that are like ‘Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y’all were the same ones saying we shouldn’t be paid…saying we’re a joke, the same ones that don’t respect Black women. So, if you’re going to protect women, that means all women…Black women, trans women and the list goes on.”
nytimes.com
Natasha Cloud calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘irrelevant,’ urges WNBA to ban him league-wide (Gift Article)
“I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/08/2026
That boot’s not gonna lick itself.
Google Maps shows “Lake America.”
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are we ever going to find out what happened to mitch McConnell
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NPR @npr.org · 26/08/2026
Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself. n.pr/4zCge7o
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Dolly Parton didn't just write hits — she created an American songbook
Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's in the long-term interests of the United States for the current lawless, corrupt, incompetent government to fail at every lawless, corrupt, and incompetent action it undertakes. I wish Canada the best in their wholly-justified retaliation in a trade war we started for no good reason.
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Iris Smooches @iris-smooches.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Similar thoughts about the “just asking questions” crowd. If someone really is just asking, they’ll be satisfied with finding out the question was answered ages ago and we’ve all moved on. Their insistence means they don’t like the answer.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump’s attacks on Canada serve no purpose but to feed his malignant ego. He is a sick person, unable to discharge the duties of his office. He should be removed
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Whether it's a trade war with Canada or an actual war with Iran, the pattern is the same: Americans are paying the price for the President's choices.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/08/2026
I’m still trying to process how the president of the United States somehow talks tougher about Canada than North Korea.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rosie O’Donnell: “Donny Boy": "Oh Donny Boy, it's Rosie, Rosie calling From Hollywood, the Jimmy Kimmel Show Drop that Big Mac that we all know you're holding Because, my dear, I worry for you so Poor Donny Boy, your polls, your polls are falling Your reflecting pool is green as Mountain Dew
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factsmatter4all.bsky.social @factsmatter4all.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Speaking behalf of the majority of Americans who thought it might be a bad idea to elect a treasonous, extremely stupid, criminally insane rapist as our President, I offer our deepest apologies.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
American drug companies Merck and Moderna have created a vaccine that has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial. Each vaccine is created specifically for an individual patient by sequencing DNA from patient's tumor and using mRNA to create the vaccine.
bbc.com
Vaccine breakthrough stops cancer returning in trial
A new jab extended the length of time patients were cancer free, but it is unclear for how long.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Party Of National Security™️
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thatseanguy.bsky.social @thatseanguy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Those frantic, hysterical political fundraising texts aren’t for you, they’re designed to take advantage of known cognitive vulnerabilities among seniors, says this twice-spiked(!) report from @adambonica.bsky.social data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Getting all my political talking points from the comments of the pro wrestling subreddit from now on.
There have been more school shootings in the 2026-2027 school year (which started last week) than there are transgender athletes competing. This is a nothing issue pushed by nothing people while the rich continue to rob us blind.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
LeBron pointingLibrary of Congress
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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