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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h

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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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10h

How cool

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Protest in Democracy spotlight would not be complete without some analysis of climate protests: "The right may remain protected on paper while arrests, prosecution, financial penalties and lengthy legal proceedings gradually raise the price of exercising it."

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When the right to protest remains, but demonstrating comes at a price

Since the 1950s, Europe’s democratic and human rights system has developed through the gradual strengthening of protections for political expression, assembly and dissent.

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the lesser-known joys of retiring - if one is lucky/privileged enough to be able to do so - is not needing to give a fuck about whether to bring ice coffee to an interview. Or about interviews in general. Or about job-hunting in general.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

👏 Register to vote 👏 Verify your voter registration *and* polling place. Make a plan to vote, and cast your ballot early and in-person if you can. (Early voting begins on 10/19 in TX) Make sure others are prepared as well. Drive people to the polls if you can.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If they deserve to be impeached — and so many of them do — then the House should impeach them. Maybe the Senate won‘t convict but it’s still worth the effort to remind people that laws still exist and that Democrats still defend it. Also, as noted here, make ‘em sweat.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@marypeltola.com I want to put this in terms an Alaskan hunter might understand. When an armed hunting party goes drunken into the woods, yelling about how much they hate deer, chanting and singing their hatred, are they a threat to the deer?

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

I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not the first study of its kind, either. As a side note, I always add mental and sometimes actual additions to "Medicare for All". 1) It needs to be *better and simpler* than what Medicare has become. 2) "All" should mean ALL, including undocumented immigrants. And yes, I know that's a harder sell

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's funny when people are simultaneously condescending and wrong. (Well, more boring than funny, tbh.)

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our cats seem to have quickly adjusted to our temporary canine guest. Mostly by either ignoring him or by standing their ground and giving him A Look until he decides that there's something interesting in the other room. Cats With Attitude.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When talking about Trump/Republican policies being implemented at federal agencies, there should be much more emphasis that the worst decisions are being made by Republican leadership at the agencies, and not by people at the agencies who know what they're doing.

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Calling for "red states" or "farmers" or whoever to suffer because many of them support Trump and other Republicans is calling for a form of collective punishment. Which would be grotesquely unethical and arguably against the Geneva Convention.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026

After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl

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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections

After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/09/2026

I wrote this the day after, 25 years ago. whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/11/t...

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If it's partisan to defend the law, what does that say about the other side of the divide?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People who continue to pursue a technology under these circumstances are either massive liars or truly believe this and are persisting anyway, and either way they are rotten people who should be removed from all forms of power and access.

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminders: - There are still millions of unreleased Epstein files. - Mitch McConnell is still missing. - (... approximately eleventy hundred other things to remember ...) Thank you for your attention to these matters.

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a hell of a picture. You may have to squint to see Io and Ganymede - I did - but they're there. (As far as I can tell from a quick background check, this is real, not slop.)

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026

i really answered my own question yesterday: how do you get out of feeling useless and crawl out of a depression blackhole? raise $1300 for a mom to pay her rent and buy her kids food and clothes. remember that mutual aid is as important for the helpers as the recipients.

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy 60th Anniversary to Star Trek, and big thanks again to Lucille Ball for rescuing the original series from oblivion. (Yes, really.) www.startrek.com/news/how-luc...

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How Lucille Ball Helped Star Trek Become a Cultural Icon

The actress and her studio helped bring The Original Series to life.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Accusing AI critics of not doing the reading is funny because usually it’s AI users are the most likely to have not done the reading So what now then

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...

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Facts on the ground

Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026

"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons

A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'

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Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's *always* the 1% fucking shit up for everyone, even in microbiology.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think Mamdani's press efforts, and really the last say five years, have shown us that we desperately need more amplification of press releases. we also need journalism. but when government initiatives disappear unknown, it can be really dangerous for democracy. 1

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I was a political consultant to Dems - thankfully I'm not - I'd suggest emphasizing that not only do Trump & his GOP constantly lie at an unprecedented level, they're *obvious* about it. They know their supporters don't care, and they don't think their opponents can or will do anything about it.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wish this were happening in every community in America that is under assault by ICE. But I’m proud of Danbury. Thousands came out tonight to protest ICE’s brutality - including this horrific new tactic of disappearing parents at school bus stops.

A crowd marches through a city street holding signs in support of human rights, with several people linking arms at the front of the demonstration.

A large crowd gathers outside a covered stage, holding protest signs opposing the Trump administration and calling attention to immigration, healthcare, and other issues.

A crowd of marchers holding a large banner that says “Ae the people melt ICE”

Senator Chris Murphy speaking out the rally.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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