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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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Star Wars: Zero Company is a game about what happens when a new administration dismantles all standing health and safety departments, while redirecting staff and finances into loyalty tests and time-wasting displays of fealty as avoidable illnesses sweep the universe.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On this Star Trek Day, please enjoy some Star Trek art from me

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JD Ryznar @jdryznar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We're putting every single song we've analyzed on The Yacht or Nyacht Podcast onto youtube as an individual video. So eventually, when you go to yachtornyacht.com and click on a song, you'll be able to hear why we gave it the Yachtski Scale score we gave it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzni...

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"What a Fools Believes" by The Doobie Brothers | Yacht or Nyacht Podcast

YouTube video by Yacht Rock

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Brendoom Wontliams @brendanwilliams.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Helped paint an entire house for a volunteer event today. So glad these roof raccoons will have a freshly painted chimney to live inside. 😅

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.

bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“is the federal government assisting iran in their attacks on dem run states” is a legitimate question that needs to be asked

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

that is in fact literally in the bible. it's Matthew 6:5.

5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Huh. The president thought this was of such significant importance as to hold a national televised address

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

matthew always brings the receipts

• A law called the "Food Traceability Rule," designed to make tracing contaminated food easier, was supposed to go into effect on January 20, 2026.
• Taylor Foods started paying Sidley Austin to lobby. on "regulation of food safety" in January of 2025.
• On March 20, 2025, FDA announced they were pushing back the implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule" by 30 months.
• On March 26, 2025, Taylor Fresh Foods Inc contributed $1,000,000 to MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.

Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Do people enjoy the hospital food when they are hospitalized for exploding diarrhea because you dismantled surveillance programs?”

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh yeah, I am now an award-winning independent journalist. Pretty cool!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

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allavut @allavut.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

EXCLUSIVE YouTube is earning money from ads shown on dozens of channels run by US-sanctioned Iranians, including many government officials In one case, a taxpayer-funded recruitment ad for a US government agency appeared on an Iranian government channel www.wired.com/story/youtub...

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YouTube Appears to Be Making Money Off of Sanctioned Iranians’ Accounts

New research suggests that dozens of monetized YouTube channels are run by people and organizations that the US government has sanctioned for their ties to Tehran.

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This lady had something to say y’all. Rep Mike Flood (R-NE) held a town hall and let’s just say it didn’t work out so swell for him. I would like to know the answer to her question as well, how much does it cost us, the tax payers to become a fascist country? #CantAffordTrump

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Tonight all the South High families that provided safe rides, distributed food, patrolled the school are gathering alongside all the families that they protected. A beautiful community, the sort ICE and their paymasters despise, and tried to destroy. ICE failed. www.gofundme.com/f/support-so...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption

Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

uhhhh so my mom and all of my hometown lost power because the gigantic American flag hanging from the WWE headquarters in Stamford blew loose and got caught in a major power line

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A storm-torn flag knocked out power to thousands in Connecticut, officials say

As of 6:45 p.m. Sunday, outages had dropped to 210 in Stamford and 190 in Greenwich, Eversource reported.

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The Screaming Butt Naked Patriot @buttnakedpatriot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The results are speaking for themselves, and loudly. MAGA but also the DNC are going to be very upset about this.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

An absolutely insane story from @telliotter.bsky.social about a US government employee who exposed Elon Musk's DOGE for accessing and exfiltrating sensitive data. Days after he went public, he was driving his car and discovered his brakes had been cut.... www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

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He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Science textbooks narrow-mindedly coalesce around a very narrow range of theories, while new age bookshops are refreshingly diverse.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Parente said during the grand jury sessions, prosecutors used vouching, which he called a "101 no-no for any prosecutor," kicked out grand jury members who disagreed with them, did not disclose that a No True Bill – which indicates no indictment – had been returned to either the defense or the public. Parente also said that after receiving the No True Bill from one grand jury, they re-presented their case after excluding grand jurors who disagreed with them. The grand jury then returned a True Bill to indict the "Broadview Six."

Parente also said that while Judge Perry thought only 30 lines in the transcript had been redacted, prosecutors actually left out entire pages and never informed her.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Wonder if I could claim I've got Trump Derrangement Syndrome as a result of Trump's actions and thus have been wronged. Wonder if they'd try to claim that TDS isn't a real diagnosis lol

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

kilmar abrego garcia's lawyers should publicly demand a chunk of this money, i'm dead serious

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

the president was fined $200 for late reporting on MILLIONS in trades. i just this morning paid a bigger fine than that for guessing a little wrong when i made my estimated quarterly tax payments last year.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

all this odyssey-posting has got me thinking about this again

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2026

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/05/2026

7 months to go

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
David Young
Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 08/05/2026

Double Fine is unionizing aftermath.site/double-fine-un...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

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