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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14h

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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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026

No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim

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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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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the President or others."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s. The. Little. Kitty. and she’s evidence of being spectacular. As she napped during my Evidence class.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grumpy Face Blacky Whitey will always get up for a bedtime snack, even when she’s sooooooo comfortable. She’s one of the best kitties ever to grace the tiny kingdom of Skinnerville.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most Bluesky targeted ad I've ever seen lmao

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Promoting peace is an active endeavor. Today, we must ask ourselves whether we are truly making creative efforts to promote world peace, or whether we are simply trying to stop the hemorrhage of war and better prepare ourselves for the war we assume is still to come.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DRONE TARGETS JOURNALISTS These images from the @afp.com show the aftermath of an Ethiopian drone strike today, on the headquarter TV station of the local Tigrai TV network in the Tigrayan city of Mekele, as war rages on. No info on casualties, Tigrai TV has been off air since the attack.

AFP photo showing the destruction caused to the headquarter building of Tigrai TV in the city of Mekele

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why does it feel like everything is broken

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

Look who's traveling with Trump again today! #TravelWithNatalie (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)

pic of the lovely Ms Harp with an umbrella walking to board AF1

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MeanCat has resumed his sunshine-powered plotting and scheming. He suggests we settle our affairs sooner than later. He’s got big plans.

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Matt Ramsey @onenerdyopinion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bonus Picture, with extra pictures of the kiddos showing off some of the festival merch.

Selfie of a disheveled man and a reddish-brown dog snuggling in a bed while sharing a grey blanket.

Closeup of a reddish-brown dog wearing a tiny German hat.

An orange kitten, blurry from motion, almost wears a tiny German hat.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Words to live by: “baby’s in his find out era.”

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MeanCat, history’s greatest monster, lounging and plotting on a lovely afternoon.

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s a video of a dog welcoming its owner home from the front – because we need something to keep us sane.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On top of the immorality of casting Russian aggression and Ukrainian self-defense as the same, there’s a huge practical problem: doing so prolongs the war. Putin and Russia are the ones choosing war. They’re doing it in pursuit of conquest. We get peace only when they’re forced to choose otherwise.

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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A good example of the fact that U.S. Christianity is far from monolithic. That diversity is increasingly evident in this election cycle

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You've got to wonder how long the Safaricom connection will last. In the last few days, there have been Tigrayans on TikTok posting goodbye messages to friends and followers, as many expected to go offline with the breakout of war, as was the case from 2020-2022.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

UPDATE: As war rages on in Ethiopia, @netblocks.org has confirmed what it calls a "subnational internet disruption," in the country's north. Phone/internet is disrupted across the Tigray region. A very bad sign. Comms blackouts in our region are typically implemented when atrocities are planned.

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The really messed up thing is that it’s a lot less likely to happen with fires, because fires are exciting and departments will always send stuff to go to a working fire. Not so for medical calls. Lots of places won’t send an ambulance over the county / city line to the next group. Kills people.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everyone watches Trump do this and somehow assumes it won't happen to them, and everyone eventually gets proven very, very wrong

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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In PA in Jan of 2025, Gen Z new registrants were almost evenly split between Dems and GOPs. Fast forward to now, Dems have approached and exceeded a 40 pt share margin among Gen Z new registrants.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here is an otter snoot to help you through the day.

A playful fisheye close-up of Steve the otter’s snout and whiskers in a bright indoor setting.
There is no text baked into the image.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m counting on this comments section to get me through this semicharmed kinda life today…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the middle of Crim Pro class, Big Eyes and her bestie Alien Baby Agent Orangey aka Ruby aka Rubes simply had to have a snack together.

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The image Putin sees in his nightmares

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Brazil does not fit in anyone’s backyard,” he says

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Myanmar is another serious crisis at risk of slipping from global attention, per Guterres: "These and so many other conflicts show what happens when power gets out of control, force outpaces diplomacy, military budgets soar, and accountability goes out the window."

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ukraine is the next specific conflict on his list, and he cites civilian death specifically. In Sudan, he says, "a war for raw power fed by outside actors has become a war on civilians....And a country being torn apart as the world looks away."

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brazilian President Lula met with Zohran Mamdani in New York and invited him to visit Brazil in the future.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21/09/2026

Also, FTR: The final number of pastors, seminarians and former pastors running for Congress as Dems this cycle *after* the various primaries is now actually eight. Some are long-shots, but most are either in competitive races (or, uh, suddenly/unexpectedly competitive races?) or strong favorites.

James Talarico (seminarian) Texas PC(USA)
Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott IA-3 ELCA
Rev. Lindsay James IA-2 PC(USA)
Rev. Freddie Haynes III TX-30 PNBC
Pastor Robb Ryerse AR-3 Progressive evangelical (Source: us)
Rev. Adam Hamilton Kansas UMC
Rev. Emanuel Cleaver MO-5 UMC
(Former Rev.) Anna Golladay TN-3 UMC

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