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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1h

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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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 21h

This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm absolutely losing it. Everything in here is made up (we hired an actor, rented a car, did not use AI, obviously), but he just invents a whole-ass world. Boner pills are a helluva drug.

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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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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Welp let’s just get ahead of things and transfer all these names right onto the National Sex Offenders Registry

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 26/09/2026

Went for a run in the nor'easter and I feel like I could conquer a small army

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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Given how the Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb closure will likely continue until 2029 and green technology is going more available and cheaper (esp solar), wouldn’t be surprised if this further power a Green Industrial Revolution that US will be forced to partake in just bc of the economics

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 25/09/2026

I was just informed that last year I personally comprised about 5% of all trans women with a recurring character on a TV show

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 25/09/2026

Finally started watching The Diplomat. My god it's good

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 24/09/2026

I didn't really know what I wanted out of life until I transitioned, at which point I saw it with immediate and undeniable clarity The first years were by far the hardest. Agonizing. Then within a few years I had moved to NYC and had artistic community, great friends and was booking TV roles

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open.

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 24/09/2026

I'm sure it's no coincidence that this news breaks the day after we hear rumors about the Ellisons wanting to bring Elon Musk in as a co-investor

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026

One thing that encourages me is that despite individual Democrats capitulating on trans rights, I think if the polling holds, we will elect the most pro-trans congress and senate in US history.

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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 24/09/2026

I put on these glasses for the first time since I went blonde and looked in the mirror and let out an audible groan

me, blonde, with bangs, and big thick black glasses

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 23/09/2026

thank you! as a public trashfire with a storied history of completely self-destructing on social media, burning bridges, and generally being a jackass at the worst possible times, i believe very much that trans women aren't obliged to be role models and that our messiness doesn't make us undeserving

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 23/09/2026

I am a two-time Eisner nominated comics writer (ETERNITY GIRL, KIM & KIM) looking for a transfem comic artist professional interested in developing a new book with me to take out to publishers.

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 23/09/2026

checking my email repeatedly should make the email I want come faster. this should be an amendment to the constitution of the United States of America

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21/09/2026

settlement aside, it remains true that warner bros has killed better men than the ellisons

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 21/09/2026

shoulders back, tits up, slayyy

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 21/09/2026

Yes the only constant is change, but also, gentrification is a real problem

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 21/09/2026

Loving the NYC transplant discourse as a trans person who couldn't go back to my home state if I wanted to

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 21/09/2026

Agentic coding often makes me feel like when Ian McKellan broke down crying on the set of the Hobbit because he had to act with a green screen It makes me feel like the scene in Train Dreams where the logger who's been using an ax all his life sees his field taken over by idiots with chainsaws

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 21/09/2026

I think more than anything else this is a sign that Trump is losing his grip on power. I'm not at all convinced we'd have seen this level of solidarity a year ago

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 21/09/2026

Every trans person you know probably deals with at minimum some level of complex PTSD

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⿻ 🌱 Eileen Cyleen @eileen.actor · 21/09/2026

Wonderman is so good wtf how did they cancel this 😭

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can’t believe people are still posting this meme when Obama signed the Iran deal, Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, and Trump started a war in Iran

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The retconning of the Biden presidency as some milquetoast centrist exhibitionism is crazy. He did what ever progressive wanted with the Covid recovery, vaccinations, unions and climate. The stuff we also needed: more states, court reform, new VRA, impeachment—required us to have more senators.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Computer, enhance

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This ad is a pro-trans dog whistle virtuously designed to mislead hogs. “Washington needs to stay out of it” the only thing Washington is doing is trying to impose a national ban, Washington staying out of it means “no ban”