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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At some point, there needs to be an awareness campaign. Measured YouTube criticism isn’t reaching the people that need to know.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He’s hanging onto relevancy by his fingernails, so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s grabbing onto whoever.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Jeffries has the charisma that thrives in boardrooms, which is kind of the problem.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The entire Republican Party and broader conservative movement need to be smashed to bits. Donor networks gotta be exposed and disrupted. All the outside machinery needs to be dismantled. And electorally it must lose over and over and over and over. We need a truth and reconciliation commission.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jumanji had me messed up. Surprising amount of body horror for a family film.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The ex-Catholic urge to experience punishment for my dirty rotten soul.

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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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I once heard about a guy who after a break up he went and got miserably drunk. He insisted that binge drinking was necessary to move on even though he also (quietly) wanted the break up.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When my grandmother was in hospice, she would cry out, “The nurses aren’t giving me my meds the doctor prescribed.” Long story, short. My grandmother was being influenced by the Dr. Oz show and she was mad that nobody would get her the supplements he was hawking.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At least it would be something fresh to explore. I can’t help feeling that Wolverine stories are monotonous at this point. In my opinion, rage is so deeply embedded in this character that it’s preventing any character growth from sticking long term. Can Wolverine exist without all consuming rage?

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s going in my mouth, regardless.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The stadium debacle couldn’t have blown up in front of a more worthy man. I love when apoliticism is exposed.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every time there's a software update something basic that's worked for like 10 years no longer works. Thank you to our big tech industry for Building The Future

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s wild you’re expected to celebrate SCOTUS not allowing the president to dismantle a voting method used by tens of millions at the 11th hour — and also, at the same time, it absolutely is a big deal and couldn’t be taken for granted.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

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Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wish self-professed allies to Queer people would stop and interrogate their own rhetoric whenever they become emotionally agitated and indignant towards the people they claim allyship on.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026

I advocate for withholding your vote from the leading anti-trans Dems, the ones calling us biological males and/or declaring they will be in favor of healthcare restrictions. So of course Will, who I have never had beef with, compares our anger to a cult and drives extreme harassment my way.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wish self-professed allies to Queer people would stop and interrogate their own rhetoric whenever they become emotionally agitated and indignant towards the people they claim allyship on.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I do not care if you are from a traditionally red state your job as a leader is to change that. It's not to chase what people have been told they already think it's to give them something else to believe in. And the way to do that is to show you are willing to fight for everyone...

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I do not believe you care about this

You are lying

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I am for the dignity and safety and equal rights of trans people everywhere. Fuck you. The end." "I do not believe you care about this issue. You are lying. In fact you're a straight up weirdo for fixating on kids' genitals so much. That is odd behavior. Let kids run around with their friends."

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I do not believe you care about this

You are lying

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

im still an "adult liberal" who has made peace with all manner of the horrid contradictions that undergird american life. im not into purity tests. but this is also a crucial moment. ive got kids who have to live here and for whom these are critical issues. i deserve to have expectations

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i don't believe talarico is a bigot. im pretty sure he isnt. but if he apparently "has to" answer bad faith questions in a way that appears to compromise on the rights of one group of people being repressed to get elected, it's fair to ask what else he will "have to" do once he's in office

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

To be fair, there’s a significant number of influential campaign consultants and candidates who also believe it’s important for Dems to focus in on punishing trans kids for trying to play sports too.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Whatever you do, poasters do not like being reminded of their failed political campaigns.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The most damaging political idea I've seen in my lifetime is the idea that government should be run like a business

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every time I hear Jeffries speak, I think about how I’m just happy he escaped the severance floor. Somehow.

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Milchick Severance

ALT: Milchick Severance

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m watching a documentary on World War II. The Nazi higher-ups were still praising Hitler’s genius while the Russians were only 12 miles from the city center of Berlin. Just like the Republicans still loyal to Trump as the party goes under.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

9/10 clinicians agree.👍 We’re waiting for you to stop flattering yourself and to get on with the exposing. It’s for your own health!

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That’s wild. At the Christian university I went, the religious studies class I had to take was thinly-veiled Christian supremacy propaganda. My intro to sociology professor was far more useful. Shout out to the professor who hated our course and instead showed Noam Chomsky docs.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Anyone gonna address that slapping mortgage on the side of a sports arena is a boneheaded idea? The last thing people trying to get a little escape from the harsh economic realities want is to think about mortgages while watching hoops.

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Will the ethics committee get any rest during this session?

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Des Ertsen @desertsentinel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m not clicking. I’m not engaging. Not until you interview an actual DSA representative. I’m sick and tired of people writing about DSA using only the first page of a Google search. Then falling back on easy, wildly inane, and outdated presuppositions and stereotypes to write fear monger slop.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Of course, it’s not just polling that matters here: Medicare-for-all would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have research showing it. For a Democrat to be unwilling to wholeheartedly embrace this policy in 2026 is disqualifying.

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