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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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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 25/08/2026

Texas cannot enforce restrictions on some public drag shows after a federal judge again declared a 2023 law unconstitutional. “For those who find such activities offensive, the solution is relatively simple... just don’t go,” Judge David Hittner wrote.

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Texas’ limits on some drag shows found unconstitutional again

A federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have no UChicago connection, but Prof. Picker was always kind and encouraging to me in our interactions. Really saddened to see this.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

When you take Tom Lehrer not as satire but as a business plan. youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY?...

Storefront in Paris offering “deratisation” and “deinsectisation,” with images of the pests to destroy that includes a pigeon.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I wish this included “hetero sex outside marriage,” because if you’re ok with that but opposed to both birth control & baby outside marriage, you need a sex ed class.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Enjoyed, but see replies for corrections on sodium in soy sauce. I was ☹️ that it didn’t include the worst part of anti-salt hysteria: infant formula makers removed it from their product in 1978, causing thousands of babies to suffer longterm harm from insufficient chloride. cafe.com/article/the-...

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‘The Sole Source of Nutrients’: The Syntex Scandal and Federal Regulation of Baby Formula - CAFE

President Biden last Friday signed the Formula Act, a bipartisan bill that suspends tariffs on imported baby formula until the end of the year. On “The Milk of Life,” an episode of the Gastropod podca...

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

TIL that non asians salt their rice water

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SCOTUSGate @scotusgate.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A new petition asks the Court to reconsider PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins in Majestic Realty Co. v. Alex Salazar. The question: does a state violate the Takings Clause or First Amendment by forcing private commercial property owners to allow unwanted expressive activity?

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Petition Asks Court to Revisit PruneYard on Compelled Access to Private Property

Majestic Realty petitions SCOTUS to reconsider whether states may compel private commercial property owners to host unwanted expressive activity.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Forgot to say that while he did play “Streets of Minneapolis” Wednesday night, he redeemed himself by also playing

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@janeeckhout.bsky.social hi, hope you’re well — icymi someone seems to have hijacked your former Twitter account, including followers & old posts. Ironically it’s someone who claims to be a specialist in fraud recovery…

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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I am heartsick over this. Once again, innocent, defenseless people are dead because of baseless hatred. Hate speech leads to hate crimes. Politicians, public figures, social media, have to stop exploiting fear of those who are different and promoting hatred. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

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San Diego Mosque Attack Comes Amid Rising Reports of Islamophobia

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Oddly Kofman presents requirements for would-be parents of children born via surrogacy — background checks, psychological evaluations, home studies — as burdensome, w/o mentioning that this & much more is required for adopting children whom one did not pay to have born.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I googled but couldn’t find anything: does anyone know if Bob Dole ever apologized for his attacks on the Washington Post for reporting on Watergate? [listening to the audiobook of All the President’s Men for Arlington public library’s county-wide listen]

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Bag of Bones” is my favorite @stephenking.bsky.social novel so I knew he liked “Rebecca” and especially its famous opening line, but I’m not quite sure what he means by this blurb.

Quote from Stephen King saying of Rebecca: “Du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings.”

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

From the front matter of @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social translation of “The Iliad” (to which I’m listening, not reading, due to the irresistible glory of Audra McDonald’s narration)

Screenshot of ebook, highlighting this text: there are two types of conflict, one and one good. Bad conflict causes war and destroys communities, while good conflict motivated people to outdo their neighbors.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Like to take another hot topic, if someone agrees with me on birthright citizenship because they slaughtered a goat and read its entrails I’m not embracing that person or their goat.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Love that this is a thing. Hey @nytimes.com where is your Best Young American Economist 2026?

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I generally agree with this (including in contexts where I suspect some would disagree), but in this case the coin of the realm is SCOTUS citation and Randy Barnett wants to follow up his success against the Affordable Care Act.

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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Health care affordability is a big problem. Why? Consolidation and market power have a lot to do with it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

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When Voters Worry About ‘Affordability,’ Many Point to Health Care

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ngl I tried this out as a kid after seeing it used in the Anne of Green Gables series (screenshot from Rilla of Ingleside). Did someone recently load a lot of older Irish & Scottish/ influenced (as Prince Edward Island was) text into Grammarly’s corpus?

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Not getting away from home as much as I’d intended today, but enjoying my own tree.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The UVA-Duke score changed from a tie to Duke being up by 3 the moment after I Googled it (the change occurring with a little 🏀 bopping the Duke score up, which I’d find cute if it weren’t Duke). Might have to credit my friend’s concern that I’m bad luck for @uvamenshoops.bsky.social

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Remember it has to be incentive AND ability. (Antitrust reference)

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Um is @duolingoverde.bsky.social paying any attention to the sentences by strangers it’s pushing into my feed?

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Apparently before Princeton Review’s list of the top party schools, prospective students had to rely on ministers.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I suspect only @schraubd.bsky.social will understand* my being awake at this hour due to going down a rabbit hole to explain why someone is being wrong (at least it was in a book, not on the internet!) * Understand it not bc he’d be so foolish, but bc it used to be a routine behavior for me

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Come to the mid-Atlantic region, they said. We have seasons, they said. No one told me that 3 seasons would happen in 4 days.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Is my difficulty in finding “artistic” to be an appropriate word for this unsigned toilet, a sign that like F. Scott Fitzgerald (as voiced by his Bildungsroman stand-in), I can see beauty only in obvious things?

Amazon listing for the “HOROW Artistic Bidet Toilet”

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It feels very much like being a New Yorker to fall in love with a guy and then once he moves into your little space, not be able to stand having to see him ALL THE TIME.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A friend shared this asking if I’d written it, as it hit almost everything I had complained about to her, including the comparison to 41 Shots. The only thing it’s missing is “this is more like a Bob Dylan protest song.”

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Extraordinary how old-fashioned this advertisement is. The New York Times surely ran something very similar for Reader’s Digest at some point in the 1920s, probably with a similar image of an attractive woman who wanted to become “interesting.”

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

One of the more frustrating moves by the conservative courts in recent years has been, after declaring that nothing can be racist unless you can show proof explicit racist motive, to act as if citing explicit racist statements by Trump or his underlings to prove racist motives is a form of cheating.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Was randomly reminded of an email I received 13 years ago.

Screenshot of a Nigerian scam email that reads like a Victorian novel.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“One night in Bangkok” came on the radio in the Uber and I inflicted the facts of its coming from a Broadway musical and that musical’s revival on my polite driver. chessbroadway.com

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CHESS | Official Broadway Site

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher star in Chess, Broadway’s boldest move yet—with music by EGOT winner Tim Rice and ABBA’s Benny & Björn.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Also this is the first one of these @wired.com videos to impress me with the expert they got. Who’s heard of this private investigator or that scientist? But Jacques Torres! youtu.be/EBcMa_o37E8?...

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Jacques Torres Answers Chocolatier Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I hear complaints from other people that YouTube shows them AI slop and I feel sorry for them. Meanwhile the algorithm tuned to my preferences shows me FOOTNOTED food videos. youtube.com/shorts/UE-fa...

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growing moldy beans to make the most important condiment in my cuisine

YouTube video by daywithmei

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Going all in on overcoming my fear of library books that @nytimes.com created many years ago with its bedbug article, by now bringing the book right into bed. www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/g...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It must be really nice to be able to simply assert that reverse causation isn't a problem and then magically we're in causal inference land. (Yes, that's what they do here.)

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This reminds me of the tech-bro smoothie called Soylent.

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Pallavi Guniganti @guniganti.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I wanted to recommend this article to a friend as soon as I saw it, but then felt uncomfortable about doing so when I saw this. Surprised that in an article about up-to-date meanings, the editor didn’t flag it.

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