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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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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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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A massive flock of snow geese, who have come from the Arctic to spend the winter in the Skagit Valley near Seattle, gradually taking flight like waves: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh that’s a terrible blunder by Diggs to get the penalty

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

None of the “this guy sucks, actually” takes on Fetterman from 2022 accounted for these kinds of dramatic changes to a political leader’s orientation toward their peers and constituents. This guy is not well enough to serve and is — functionally if not spiritually — not the person voters elected.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.

A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”

Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections. And when he sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We need to tear this party down to the studs. Sorry but there's no place for this kind of outright performative trash in the name of good manners. He was a bad person that made life a nightmare for many, many Americans, including YOUR CONSTITUENTS. You know this is true.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

a victim's statement is evidence.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/06/2026

As a kid, my very religious, conservative parents would tell me how *blessed* I was to be born in the best country in the world. Yet, neither had a passport and they'd only left the US to visit Niagara Falls. Makes me wonder how closely Christian Nationalism correlates with never having been abroad.

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Alecia Armold @lec-mae.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For Pride Month, I chose @emilystjams.bsky.social book Woodworking from my TBR pile. It is so good 😭🩷🩵 100/10 stars ⭐️

The novel Woodworking by Emily St James. The cover has a purple hue and features school chairs stacked up. The book sits on a cream colored footstool.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Torn between being extremely ashamed of my country and pride month

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

People will say "there's no sexual assault allegations" and again, that's the conversation they want you to have instead of "this guy is playing a part to get in power". We know zippo about him. This is not about the sex. These are women who's hearts and minds he liked to fuck with. Power shit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

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Alecia Armold @lec-mae.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

My local indie movie theater is currently having a Jewish film festival & I went to see this today, about Israeli transgender pioneer Efrat Tilma. It was so good!! Highly recommend if you get a chance to see it.

Red movie poster with the back of woman’s head with longish brown hair. The name of the film is The First Lady, about Israeli transgender pioneer Efrat Tilma. It is part of the Jewish Film Festival at Midtown Cinema.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/04/2026

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Remember the wave of chattering class solidarity we saw after Sarah Huckabee was politely declined service at a restaurant? Get ready bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Every publication should publish the names and outlets of the people who attend tonight because most of us will want to be sure we never make the mistake of listening to them again.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

(getting dressed up in a tuxedo to go see an 80-year old racist insult comic who is also a serial sex offender and also responsible for the deaths of innocents across the globe) I'm a journamalist!

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Alecia Armold @lec-mae.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Timeline cleanse! This ball mysteriously appeared on my deck & Henri thanks the kind stranger who put it there @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Tennis ball is in the air and a brown and white pitbull mix dog is leaping for it. He is on a deck with string lights and flowers in the background

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

When people say the Swalwell allegations are a distraction from Trump/Epstein (they are all part of the same bigger picture), I have to wonder why these people even supposedly care about Trump and Epstein. Do you care about sexual violence or don’t you? Why do you only care about some of it?

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 11/04/2026

Politico: A former Swalwell staffer agreed not to disparage him in discrimination settlement, document shows The California Democrat has claimed that no one on his staff signed an NDA during his tenure. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

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A former Swalwell staffer agreed not to disparage him in discrimination settlement, document shows

The California Democrat has claimed that no one on his staff signed an NDA during his tenure.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The letter fragment I've seen from Swalwell's attorney threatening defamation bears several things that, in my experience in this area, makes me immediately suspicious of Swalwell and his attorney and reflect meritless thuggery. /1

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/04/2026

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

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Alecia Armold @lec-mae.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Muted the livestream so fast. I know there will be lots of jokes but honestly it makes me so sad how he ruins everything good. Trump doesn’t care about science, these astronauts or any of us.

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Alecia Armold @lec-mae.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Is this a joke? Whose to say with my favorite chaotic geriatric author

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

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Alecia Armold @lec-mae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A few of my favorite signs from #NoKings today in Harrisburg PA

White protest sign says Minnesota thanks for showing us how to fight for freedom

A few people standing side by side with their backs to camera, protest sign on middle persons back says we the people will not forget the cowards in congress who kept silent

Protest sign with large black lettering says ICE OUT with pictures of thimbles above the words Dicks Go Home. Sign is accurate.

Protest sign that says no more kings with colorful artist drawing of king in 1776 and king drawing of trump with a maga hat

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 24/03/2026

you don't use violence to build things because you can't control violence. it's depressing that so many people need this explained to them over and over again

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

For years, when we had conversations about intersectionality, I attempted to include the experiences of children & was dismissed. This is changing. Which is good. What would be GREAT is more people, adults really, being able to hear how much sense it all makes when a child says the same thing.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

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CNN @cnn.com · 16/03/2026

Michael B. Jordan has won the Oscar for best actor in a leading role. The "Sinners" star got an ovation from the stars in the audience as his name was read. Follow live updates: cnn.it/4baD2Bc

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 16/03/2026

Michael B. Jordan's reaction to winning his first ever Oscar. See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.”

Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

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