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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10h

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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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 8h

I'm becoming known for rejecting unnecessary apologies--with kindness and love, but firmly. Women & those with minoritized identities, especially, apologize too much, IMO. Not checking work emails on a Sunday is beautiful, not apology-worthy. . I practice radical acceptance of humanity. #PassItOn

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13h

SCENE: An office in DC. February 2024. JACK SMITH: I’ve got to make a secret trip to Atlanta to co-ordinate with my co-conspirator in my campaign to bring down Trump. No one can even know I’m there. AIDE: You’re the most well-known prosecutor in the world. Maybe send some underling?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this a sign of the apocalypse?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kid: Dad, do you believe in Santa Claus? Me: Yes, of course! Kid: And the tooth fairy? Me: Definitely! Kid: And that Chris Rufo earnestly believes in colorblind equality? Me: No, son, no one with two brain cells to rub together could believe that.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Outstanding. This is what the internet is for.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

Death took a step backwards.

It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.

Death glanced sideways at the servants.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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vena cava 🩸 @trannieoakley.blood.gay · 12/09/2026

ok but that's a crazy name for a kid

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The credibility of anything that the president promises to do, no matter how plausible or implausible, if his party retains a majority of both chambers of Congress, should be viewed through the fact that his party currently has a majority of both chambers and hasn't done that thing

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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazing, but holy smokes we shouldn’t be here as a society.

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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazing, but holy smokes we shouldn’t be here as a society.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/09/2026

"Dude, now the library is, like, just across the quad from my dorm room. I can totally go study every morning on the way to Psych 101. Or just before lunch. Or, like, right at the end of the day. Or maybe late at night, if they’re open that late." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dud...

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Dudes, Have You Seen the Library They’ve Got Here?

“I mean, you know how we spent all of high school telling each other we were totally going to start staying after football practice to spend some quality tim...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/09/2026

Imagine the self restraint to wait two and a half decades to tell this story for the first time.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I said Petty is better than Dylan and they duct-taped me to my seat?

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Essentially every star less massive than ~70% of the Sun’s mass that ever formed in the history of the Universe is still shining today

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ahem…

A screenshot of a mobile app interface for Apple Maps titled "Report an Issue" against a dark background, asking, "What issue do you want to report about Lake America?" Below the question, three selectable options are listed: "Name is wrong", "Location on map is wrong", and "Something else", with a red hand-drawn circle emphasizing the first option, "Name is wrong."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

To folks who think caving on things like “Lake America” doesn’t matter in the long run… It does. It invites more such ego-serving It suggests that there’s no push back. It teaches people to expect more of the same. It matters.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jackson State choir. And God.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's not gonna be a *real* Lake America until the algae starts to bloom.

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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As I've said before: always, always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social . Beautiful, moving piece.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Time Warp" is about the changing mores and morals over a very short amount of time because of postwar generational cultural shifts and the influx of mass media and how it affects the younger generations political outlooks ("jump to the left," "step to the right," etc.) In this essay I will discuss

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/08/2026

this meme has been haunting my thoughts, unwanted and unbidden, all week

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Like so many others, listening to Dolly tonight. Started with Light of a Clear Blue Morning but not stopping there.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thanks to @aoc.bsky.social for helping give me (and many others, I imagine) the courage to share my maternal health care story. www.thehandbasket.co/p/miscarriag...

While I’ve gotten through the highest high of being pregnant to the depths of despair in miscarriage, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been publicly walking us through her egg freezing journey. Two distinct processes, to be sure, but both with the spectre of motherhood at their core. It is, in my view, a radical act to so thoroughly demystify an otherwise opaque process; and I do believe her radical transparency helped give me some of the courage to share my experience with you. I’ve rid myself of the cobwebs of shame that I hadn’t even realized had been spun around me.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Someone forgot to consult with his steakholders

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