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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 7h

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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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 3h

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. Philly Joe Jones as the Bebop Vampire. (*Not* Dracula. *For* Dracula.)

Philly Joe Jones, Blues For Dracula album cover

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 6h

"If Warren G. Harding had kept his hands off Teapot Dome, gas would be under two dollars a gallon."

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

Sir you should rename data centers TRUMP centers. They should emit a sinister glow and a deafening screeching sound at all times. Local communities should be required to sacrifice an innocent life to them. For your glory sir. It'll help with the election

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 15h

Oh my god, AI is the anti-life equation.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 9h

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 11h

the funniest part about this is that claude doesn’t have a separate feature called “vinyl mode” this guy is just giving premade prompts to feed to the normal chatbot

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 9h

This is similar to the big lesson of Russia's war in Ukraine: you can't worry about what dictators claim are things that "humiliated" them. They're going to claim they were "humiliated" no matter what, as with Putin. You have to act in your own national interests—and in the interests of democracy.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9h

I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

About a decade ago, Levandowski (of Waymo and Trump pardon infamy) founded a religion dedicated to the worship of an AI godhead. Did anything ever come of that? I can only find references from 2017.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 10h

I also did a deep dive into the history of this song — the Lionel Hampton-Sonny Burke one, not the Zara Larsson one — when I was writing my arrangement for Warren Wolf and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8u...

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WARREN WOLF | Frankfurt Radio Big Band | Jazz | Vibraphone | full concert

YouTube video by hr-Bigband – Frankfurt Radio Big Band

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 11h

Wait, wasn’t Suno supposed to be a creative tool? Your AI songwriting partner?

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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 11h

Ah, running the infinite personalized music feed through the earbuds, when the most transcendentally ethereally perfect passage plays, my God, it's beautiful, he wants to hear it again, he wants to share it—but what was the prompt? Nothing he tries seems able to recreate that haunting perfect sound—

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h

Can we go back to this part of the Schmitt poster: at best, what were these texts supposed to show or prove? i thought they’d be some mention of the Hawkeyes, however dumb they’d have been, but no, not even that. You couldn’t make them more boring if you tried.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

Weird the AI didn’t catch that

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16h

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not you.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 23h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was 18 I invented a shot, the "Tsushima:" sake poured over vodka to symbolize and commemorate Japanese naval superiority The next day my friends and I deeply regretted our decision, much like I imagine the Russian admiralty did

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Immanuel Wilkins basically blew my mind with a Coltrane tribute on Saturday. All this week he'll be at The Village Vanguard, site of three amazing live albums he dropped this year. (If you can get tix, you should definitely go) villagevanguard.com

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Immanuel Wilkins

Blending traditional jazz motifs with modern textures in works that reflect on the ongoing reverberations of historical events.

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 29/09/2026

It’s great to see the MacArthur Foundation including jazz musicians in the Fellows again. Craig Taborn last year and Wilkins this year are both great picks.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s refreshing that a significant number of Dems are running on a platform of “my opponents are monsters.”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Best Sen Schmitt meme yet

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone else noted (sorry, can’t find it now) it really feels like there was a coordinated campaign to boost Schmitt today, with the Axios piece floating him as Vance’s VP setting up his big gotcha attempt at the hearing. They just ignored the fuckup and moved to stage three congratulating him.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the funniest thing to happen in the Senate in a long time

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not what I want for my kids and I doubt it's what most other parents want, either.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"

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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Between him and Newsom the Democratic Party consultancy is generating sure-to-implode candidates on a scale that could create new galaxies of schadenfreude.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 29/09/2026

I kind of need Rahm Emmanuel to run so he can experience what it feels like to be humiliated on the national stage even more resoundingly than Bloomberg.

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Aaron D'Souza @aarondsouza.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is just the AI swarm using subway ads as a scratchpad and communicating via idiots wearing Meta glasses.

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah, the Bay Area tradition of buying ad space to send a message to like 10 specific people that you have tracked to a particular area has come to New York

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

entire paid ad landscape in SF is currently versions of this (punctuated by iPhone ads) if you see a soda ad it feels like seeing a rare bird

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 28/09/2026

How is this a subway ad? What is even going on here?

NYC subway ad that is just a string of code

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 27/09/2026

Well, that seems like an “awkward gesture.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

we really are so tremendously lucky that mamdani is actually genuinely interested in governing and capable of doing it well, the list of charismatic guys who can’t do one or the other is very long and he could have done so much damage to the movement instead we got this

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026

"Getting French-Canadians to the point of embracing the mindset of 'we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately' is an amazing feat. Only Trump could have made the US seem so awful that the Quebecois would embrace Canada First."

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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again

Rebuilding trust will take generations.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s so routine and wild, the degree to which everyone knows the NYT steals stories and doesn’t credit and it’s just a thing we all know is happening to our stories.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me: Bluesky is less annoying today Wife: Are you posting less

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