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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h

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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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rodneyse is shakened

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PACK THE COURT.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot

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cathodeCorpse @cathodecorpse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like, if my opponent is someone like Ramaswamy, why even bother with third tier culture war bullshit? It's Ramaswamy C'mon

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was not ready for the name of the guy who invented the thermometer pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Dude (across the 7 seas) @alladi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Voice memos are one of life’s great pleasures. I do this, too.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Troy Jackson and Angie Nixon need to form a Regional Accents Caucus

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Dude (across the 7 seas) @alladi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

could I have beaten up on my dad in his prime? debatable. But my grand-dad? no. the dude was a boxer who moonlighted as a math professor. that man would've snapped me in half without thinking about it.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Arch Naramore sounds like the name of Hayley Williams' Wario

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Genuinely disappointed to see my socialist in office comrades falling for this RFK Jr nonsense. There are reasons to prioritize wind, solar, and better grid capacity, but nuclear can’t be off the table if we’re serious.

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

how else do you think I post so much on here

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syn @vibesynthesist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

She's a transphobe too, she hates when people gain any knowledge about themselves that might let them feel better about themselves

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

it does kinda bum me out that we see very little discussion about “how do you deal as a hyperactive adult with ADHD” I know we are a rarer, albeit not at all elusive or shy species, within the category of ADHD, but we sure do exist (and we’re very annoying)

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Hammam is my serious homie & he badly needs us, his life is so hard because he works an intense job only out of duty for his people for no pay treating the severely wounded as a nurse, while he’s homeless & supports a severely autistic & epileptic brother & asthmatic mother. They starve. Help.

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I get to the United States Senate, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop the killing, get humanitarian aid to the people who need it, and stop writing blank checks for endless wars. I've been clear where I stand since Day One, and Mainers can check my website to see where I stand.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the storm’s name? macklemore

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the Yglesias Democratic Centralism For Democratic Centrism left-punching approach

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

If you found this thread of me crashing out for a full hour this AM of any utility, then consider donating funds to the church/QR code below and/or goods to the upcoming charity drive in downtown KC. This is all going to the impacted families throughout SWKS currently in hiding from ICE terror.

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Liam @liamegan.com · 26/09/2026

This guy’s in the replies talking about coalitions. It’s *your fault* when you fuck up the coalition by doing something bad. You do not get to drag the coalition into something entirely avoidable and then demand they follow your moronic (and murderous) lead

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@majorityreport.bsky.social and countless others have tried to separate these fights and argue reigning in the police is a nonstarter nationally while hatred of ICE has been growing. It’s just factually incorrect and strategically impossible.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

it is not healthy spiritually to wake up every day and fantasize about certain someones being flayed alive, to live every day suppressing bouts of wrath and homicidal ideation hate is bad for the soul but we must hate them still because not to is worse for the soul

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

Call them and scream at them. Show up to their candidate forums and scream at them. Do not let them have peace. Voting is not enough. They need to know fear, fear form something more than hurt feelings or a fox news clip.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

Dairy farms in Kansas? Raided. Barton County? Texts about entire hotel blocks rented out by feds for the next weeks. It is a pogrom. This is called a pogrom.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

Bleeding Kansas

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

Do you understand how bad the immigration raids have to be for people to be calling a hotline in a city that is six hours away

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Njal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Santeri Salokivi View from the Archipelago Finnish, 1886–1940 Oil on canvas A 1936 archipelago view showing Salokivi’s late‑period Finnish landscape clarity #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #landscape #NordicArt

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this mirrors homan's tactics during obama - he understands the role propaganda plays for the left much better than trump, he understands that low-density areas with packing plants & farmland are ripe picking that are harder for observers to reach. tom homan needs to be targeted by democrats.

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bodega No.6 8”x8” Oil on cradled wood panel

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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Heartbroken to read this - Kiwanuka’s music is gorgeous and reflects a gentle, thoughtful soul. Prayers up for his full recovery.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026

Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Mohamed Ahmed is also one of the best, finest, most noble human beings our creator has blessed me to know in this lifetime. I've agreed to edit his beautiful memoir once it's fully translated into English in my practice of manuscript consultancy I opened. Maeve is my loving comrade on team Mohammed.

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Dude (across the 7 seas) @alladi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

every single day I get to learn about a new turbo freak

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“ZESTY” Taylor 🎶🧑🏻‍🦲✨ @orso-xl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love that Apple Music says that Age of the Exhibitionist, an album that fully came out two weeks ago, is “coming soon”

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everybody deported 2025-2028 should be brought back and immediately made a US citizen unless they have a conviction for a violent crime. Even then, they should lowkey get a free flight to wherever they would prefer to live aside from the US.

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