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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13h
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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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans aren't very sharp. Their parents never taught them how to apologize.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Jesus weeps all across our nation for the children who have been arrested, detained, and transported to far-off centers with terrible living conditions and cut off from their families.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mark today as the first time Trump's approval rating dropped into the 20s.
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It isn't explicit, but we've seen this pattern before. 1) Black Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer's 2) Scientists want to study Black communities to figure out why and what insights this has for treatment/cause 3) Trump people cut the program, most likely because they think it's DEI.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 13/09/2026
Climate issues raising family costs: the cost of insurance for the typical homeowner jumped by 24 percent between 2021 and 2024, according to research by the Consumer Federation of America. Free-to-pollute isn’t free to you.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Impressive restraint and dignity by the honorable Zohran Mamdani when dealing with the Islamophobic and hateful Rudy Giuliani.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“I have a lot of men [at Ground Zero] right now,” Trump told German TV station N24. “We have over 100 and we have about 125 coming. So we’ll have a couple hundred people down here.” Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . In 2001, the Trump Organization had *12* employees.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yeah dude - the more I pay at the pump the less I fear nuclear attack by people who don’t have nukes and who wouldn’t be able to have them if you idiots didn’t tear up obama’s deal and start a self-defeating war about it.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As of Dec. 2019, according to the Atlanta Fed, the median household income of $66,000 was enough to afford a median-price home. "As of May 2026, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home—45% more than the median household makes." www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Housing affordability chart from WSJ. Qualifying income for a medium-priced home has skyrocketed above median household income since 2021.
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Suli Qyre @suliqyre.com · 08/09/2026
“There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life — we are never bored. We can’t be. There is always something new to be investigated. Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one…” — Rachel Carson, Lost Woods
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looking forward to living in America City on the shores of Lake America with a view of many Mounts America in the America Range, & the America Rivers that will flow across the America Plains, dividing toward the America Oceans to the east and west and north and south www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/u...
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Trump Posts Map Suggesting New Mexico Be Renamed as ‘New America’
The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Imagine a world where Biden is president: No threatened invasions of Denmark or Canada No war with Iran No trade wars WH and federal govt with capable, boring staffers No concentration camps Funding for medical and scientific research USAID Occasional malapropisms and doddering The horror.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On the other hand, this administration's ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans appears to be approaching infinity
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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." —The Misunderstanding, Albert Camus #BookologyThursday
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Vibrant Autumn Forest Sunset
ALT: Vibrant Autumn Forest Sunset
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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ICYMI: The California Senate advanced the Community NEWS Act (AB 2222) last night, moving a bill that would create journalist employment credits to help local newsrooms strengthen and expand essential community coverage. More below. ⬇️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m telling you - the default position of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of being found out, and fear of the American people.
nytimes.com
Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026
if I had presidential aspirations, I would be making clear that anyone who tries to take this sale has another thing coming
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/08/2026
Q: “Are either of you concerned that the reduction in funding for SNAP and the reduction in eligibility for SNAP will reduce access to food for children and families?” Sec. Kennedy: “I don't think it's gonna have that much effect.”
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Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Host, by the brilliant Bong Joon Ho (of Snowpiercer, Okja, Parasite, Mother, Mickey 17 and more). I love every one of his films that I’ve seen, but the Host was my first and remains indelible in my mind.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“People always come before borders, before definitions and institutions. “This realization stands at the center of Christianity. “Evil is not fought with evil. It is time to oppose the false realism that rearms minds, words, and nations with the realism of mercy.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Each of these cancers have been, historically, a near guarantee of an awful, painful, slow, miserable death. There is good news and we should share it.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This administration won't rest while there's a tree left standing.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Seeks to Lift Development Ban in National Forests (Gift Article)
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
While your community burns.... Two organizations in Washington are still awaiting $15 million in grants the Forest Service announced in September 2025 for projects to reduce wildfire risk. The groups expected the money months ago. Trump withheld the funds over "DEI." www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
DEI dispute delayed wildfire grants for area engulfed in blazes
A fight over USDA immigration and diversity policies held up $15 million in wildfire-prevention grants for an area in Washington state that’s now burning.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A hit dog will holler.
Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics. Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he's a miserable person who hates this country. It's because he's a radical, extremist Dumocrat.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This shouldn't be happening to them or anyone else, but the fact is they were fine with it happening to other people as long it did not happen to them, and the same is true of tens of millions of other voters. It certainly says something about the American electorate bsky.app/profile/brad...
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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A bighorn ram getting a good drink at the Borrego Palm Canyon desert pupfish pond on a hot Thursday last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).
A bighorn ram drinking from a pond.
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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What's behind this is that what didn't work was carrying guns and the cult of the operator, but those are for men; and what worked was whistles, taking children to school, doing children's laundry, feeding children, and candlelight protests, and those are for women. Leftism is, apparently, when men.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
For all the TRUMP = STRONG propaganda this is *exactly* what his “leadership” was like in Covid. Constant zigging and zagging, self-contradictory, incapable of commitment, wanting to have it both ways. It was a disaster!
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Normally, if in a single week the chief White House counsel and the White House press secretary were to announce their resignations, people might think there were problems behind the scenes. Or they were losing faith in their boss.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/08/2026
“It’s going to take us a little while to fabricate a case against an innocent guy.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/08/2026
Stephen Miller: "We get off of this ridiculous path of having our children get seventy to ninety shots. That is wantonly excessive. Remember, every one of these shots produces a profound immunological response." Vaccines are bad because they...work?
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Vaccine Lies, Direct from the Oval Office
“Nothing bad can happen,” Trump says—as measles levels keep rising.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Who would have guessed this absolute lunatic would refuse to concede that he lost the Republican primary for governor of Minnesota, besides everyone?
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