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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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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

revisiting "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" (book and movie) and "Nocturnes for the King of Naples" evetushnet.substack.com/p/vers-is-sh...

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“Vers” Is Short for “Reversal of Fortune”

Plus: Once I was the King of Naples!... Now I work at the Pizza Pizza :/

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

St Michael the Archangel by Allan Rohan Crite, 1967.

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

girl cat: ringing defenses of covid-cautious lesbian bar patrons boy cat: gifs of Audrey II from Little Shop with captions like "we stan a queen" and "she ate here"

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean this does sound like what I would expect a fey mood dwarf to do

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

done Ven Pierre Toussaint, pray for us

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Eddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s because Xi is coming on Wednesday and apparently my guys are a peace offering.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bonding with my cradle Catholic, Baby Boomer co-founder over that "Rise and shine, and give G-d your glory glory!" Noah's Ark song we both sang as part of our religious education

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

*disco music plays* Hallelujah! It's

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ooh, posting a rhetorical question on social media! bold move

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

not yet not yet not yet not yet not yet

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Ivan Plis @ivanplis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Urstalgia

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Chêne chapelle in Allouville-Bellefosse, France houses two small chapels built into a living oak tree. The tree was hollowed out by a fire started by a lightning strike in the 1600s. A chapel to Our Lady was built into the hollow, and a later hermit chapel at the top.

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

dear my two followers: Are you in any way connected to a Catholic school, as an educator, parent, or alum? Check out BCF's "Can We Talk? Starting Better Conversations About LGBT+ Questions in Catholic Schools." Link in comments!!!!!

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

La Jetee and the explainer is 12 Monkeys

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@commonwealmagazine.org version/variant of my "Nobody Converts Right" substack post... feat. Jesus Christ as early convert-skeptic www.commonwealmagazine.org/convert-alert

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Convert Alert!

Whether we are cradle or convert, eventually we discover that there’s more Church outside our one little alcove.

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'd like to report a bug: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Elsa Lanchester’s screen debut was a silent comedy film by Evelyn Waugh

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shane @shmtann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

my buddy @hplemke.bsky.social has a killer new record today and it’s bandcamp Friday so yall know the deal harrisonlemke.com/album/the-au...

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The Autumn Tape, by Harrison Lemke

14 track album

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Actors love to play characters being bad at acting, to make it look like acting is hard. Whatever. I'll be impressed by your acting skill when you show me you're capable of playing an actor acting better than you can actually act. That's good acting.

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This song pretty reliably makes me cry, no matter who does it. This version is no exception.

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The notification that flashed across the sky after the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur

TIME SENSITIVE
Your driver is on the way
Hashem (4.97 stars) is arriving in 4 minutes.

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the Holy Father reading my brother-in-law's book

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This was surprisingly fun but to get to 100 I definitely had to guess a lot of animals, plants, gemstones etc. It turns out earthworm is not a color. contrastquota.github.io/colors/

contrastquota.github.io

Color Counter!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

(And if you're worried about keeping elections on track in YOUR community, there's actually a LOT you can do!) (Many, many links to volunteer, donate, and "stay on top of actual news & not scaremongering" in the thread below!) bsky.app/profile/sara...

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. Alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all life's problems! 2. TOME, by Gore Vidal 3. Duff Man says a lot of things 4. The most humiliating day of your life... so far 5. Well kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They do NOT make prayer books like they used to

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

haunted by a chair? I'm seated tiff.net/films/trees-...

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What used to be called a bleg: Looking for articles, preferably academic, describing successful interest group lobbying for legislation in Canada,UK, France, Germany & if possible similar articles describing politics behind enactment of “public interest” legislation (climate stuff would be nice).TIA

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American Immigration Council @immcouncil.org · 10/08/2026

What happens when people follow all the rules asked of them from an immigration system, and still have no way to make a permanent home in this country? @daralind.bsky.social new piece for @newyorker.com examines our ongoing “Great Delegalization”: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.

More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

nate bargatze had a great bit about traveling to the past but not knowing enough to contribute anything, this has me thinking about a slightly different version where the ancient peoples are awaiting your technological insights and instead you hit 'em with Rawls

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Eve Tushnet @evetushnet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

also not waiting for likes, lol I have maybe four followers. But many opinions on books!!! for you the few, a feast

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miomancer @miomancer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

guard who only tells lies: i don’t miss him at all. i never liked the guard who always tells the truth therapist: what would he have said if i asked him what you’d

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tick-tock, just past seven o'clock. Today is August 4, 2026 in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday! Today is "There Will Come Soft Rains" day! This celebration has been scheduled in advance. This message will display even if none are left to read it.

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