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David Marshall

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When you discuss other people, you should emphasize that they are People, not that they are Other.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3h
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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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 8h
Update: The America.gov chatbot now refuses to answer "political" questions or offer "judgments about past elections" 🤔
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 15h
Tatis was NOT sent by the 3B coach, lol. He was held and just said eff that!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Time for this classic again.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.
theguardian.com
Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
Doing the January 6th Commission but for DOGE could splash this on TV and social media for weeks. Imagine the impact.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026
There are plenty of things that are fine to do in your personal life that are not appropriate to ask colleagues to do because they might FEEL pressuring, even if you genuinely just want to share a thing you love doing. Sex parties are very much at the extreme of this scale!
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If the Astros and Rangers both lose just give the White Sox a bye into the next round. No team with a losing record should be treated as a division winner. Sorry not sorry.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/09/2026
I told the 3-year-old I love him very much and he immediately hit me with “thank you”
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk O @elonmusk
Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.
What should be done?
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
4:51 AM • Mar 27, 2022
Read the full conversation on Twitter
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
youtube.com
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@cjzero.bsky.social — do you have the original broadcast of this? I’d love to see a wide shot!
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Phillies loss today and the Cubs losing both ends of a doubleheader, the Padres just need to win 1 of their 3 home games against the Diamondbacks to play their wildcard series at home.
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The MLB app needs to show calls as overturned instead of just contradicting itself.
Two alerts on a phone screen, one showing Shohei Ohtani striking out, the other showing he walked.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is my favorite post of this immortal thread. The only way this saga gets any better is if there is a leg of this journey involving a rice truck. IYKYK
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Important to consider that Trump has also shut down green card interviews worldwide except Hungary and Poland (where Christian nationalists are losing power), and refugee admissions worldwide except for white South Africans (who are upset they no longer have Apartheid) It's a Great Replacement:
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Somebody made a knockoff game but forgot to spam it with fake 5-star reviews before advertising it.
An App Store page for a game that has a single review, with an “average” of 1.0 stars.
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William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 2024 the former CEO of a defense contractor made a stunning confession to two FBI agents. He alleged that was the ringleader of a massive pay-to-play operation, bribing senators with campaign contributions in exchange for govt contracts. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As soon as we put A.I. on weapons systems we blew through Asimov's 3 laws of robotics. And we don't even have a good robot yet.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
wbur.org
Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
CarterNixon @CarterNixon
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It's funny how a blue check mark used to be how you knew it was the real person and now it's more to signify that you're reading tweets by the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Lukashenka: Even if we wanted to supply potash to the West, there's nothing to supply
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Redacted @joshghiloni.me · 20/09/2026
There’s a roofing company in the town I grew up in with a billboard that says hot shingles in your area looking to get nailed and I cringed so hard the first time I saw it I almost drove into a ditch
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 18/09/2026
NEW: Seattle is about to ban supermarkets from using your data to set individualized prices and coupons to curb price gouging and discrimination. The big grocer lobby is pissed, and is spamming Seattleites with scary text messages. Read in @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...
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Seattle Is Poised to Ban Supermarket Algorithmic Price Discrimination - The Stranger
This coming Tuesday, in an effort to crack down on price gouging and discrimination, the Seattle City Council will vote on a bill prohibiting large grocery store companies from using customer personal...
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hi if you are in Minneapolis and are this 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog, get medical attention immediately!
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 18/09/2026
In a Manhattan federal courtroom today, a lawyer for the Trump administration argued that Article II of the Constitution lets the president fire a federal employee because he’s Black, and there’s nothing a court can do about it. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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DOJ says recent Supreme Court ruling shields Maurene Comey firing
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18/09/2026
Step 1: Slip Trump a copy of the 1951 Defense Agreement, but with the name changed. Step 2: Describe it in the most favorable light possible, since he won't read it anyway. Step 3: Trump goes on "Truth Social" and proclaims himself a genius negotiator.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reads like an Onion headline, but it’s just…true.
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wait. Am I….am I playing right field for the Rockies?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Under Trump, the IRS is refusing to release its usual annual estimate of how many taxes go unpaid. Gee I wonder why www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Billions in Taxes Go Unpaid. Under Trump, the I.R.S. Won’t Say How Much.
The absence of the annual estimate on the tax gap could make it more difficult to assess whether more taxes are going unpaid since President Trump took office.
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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What a fiasco.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
cbsnews.com
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for six days. ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to. Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org
findahmedsoliman.org
Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool
Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I’m not voting for anyone because I oppose genocide.” Guess what, no you don’t.
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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Did you move to town and I didn’t know it?
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
America’s Added Fuel Cost Clock: now online and available live on the web for you to see the numbers climb in real time :( hoping if and when prices fall I'll get to the savings in real time... patrickdehaan.com/fuelclock.html
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is deliberately withholding and redacting documents that legal residents need to prove their status. Claiming they can't find the documents is bad enough. But to turn them over only after redacting them to the point that they're useless is another level of evil.
nytimes.com
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Make sure you're ready to vote — and remind a friend while you're at it! California voters, head to registertovote.ca.gov to register or confirm your registration details are up to date.
Happy voter registration day!
Whether you've recently moved, turned 18, become a citizen, or just haven't checked your registration in a while, protect your freedom to vote by making sure you're ready to cast your ballot by November 3.
registertovote.ca.gov
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