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Maybe this is me projecting my sensibilities onto others, but I have to think anyone who's served in the military for at least a decade must think this guy's a moron.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 7h

You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h

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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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 3h

Just saw that a playwright (who I will not name) who I think is, if not outright bad, at least still very much still forming as an artist, is offering playwriting classes. Could I do that? I'd love the extra dosh and I'm at least as good as they are.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, there *are* edge-cases. Some ppl (all genders) get blotto bc they don't want to be responsible for their sexual choices. Traumatized people freeze up. Addicts can black out but seem conscious. There are manipulators & liars, of both sexes. That's why it's good to be as clear as possible

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly. While it's human nature across all genders to give off conflicting signals sometimes, my (admittedly limited) experience is that the difference between being sure someone wants to have sex with you and being unsure is *colossal.* I've never experienced anything close to an edge-case.

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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 4h

This show is so good. Ethan Hawke as a fuckup alt weekly writer/used bookstore owner stubbornly sticking his nose into the dirty doings of the powerful. Now they're adding Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones. I'm excited.

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Danny Bowes @dannybowes.bsky.social · 4h

"This is your brain on drugs," no question, but this is a battle of two giants

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Merely Matt is crowdfunding I NEED A MIRACLE s2 @merelymatt.bsky.social · 5h

Happy International Podcast Day! Listen to, review, yell about, or give money to a podcast that needs it today

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 5h

Again: let's see it! If you're this confident, then surely you won't mind sharing with the rest of the class, right?

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 5h

So fucken wild that the only two shoo-ins for Best Actress at this point are Julianne Moore and the second lead of an $800,000 horror movie.

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 6h

My favorite new show in a while. Really hope there’s a Dinklage episode this season as well.

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 7h

A fun way to track one’s increasing decrepitude is to watch as all the actors you never imagined playing Santa or Scrooge play Santa or Scrooge.

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 13h

The thing about firing Bari Weiss is, do they have someone *else* in mind to slyly by imperceptible degrees transform 60 Minutes into a right-wing propaganda outlet while somehow retaining its longstanding audience? What’s the plan now?

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Obviously there's a billion worse things happening in the world, but no single cultural development has knocked *me personally* on my ass more comprehensively than podcasts having to become a visual form to survive.

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Ashley Quach @sassquachcomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here is my book that comes out next week! Starring Sophie is a Christmas book, yes, but it's also about being brave enough to take over a show that just isn't Dazzling in the way you think it should be... and isn't that a lesson we all need, every day?

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Talarico people know to wallpaper the world with this clip, right?

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That ELSINORE movie will have to be absolutely terrible for me to even mildly dislike it.

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The SLOW HORSES tv show has I would say like a 12% more optimistic worldview than the Slough House novels, most notably in Diana Taverner being a smidge nicer and significantly more competent than her counterpart in the books.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Contrasted with the journal: bsky.app/profile/wsj....

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Actual headline in today's WaPo.

Headline: At every turn, Trump's ideas for aiding US consumers run into resistance.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's naive to think it's a coincidence that the concerted assault on universities came right at the moment university admins were starting to take sexual violence and racism seriously.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

jezebel.com

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

First tweet:
Harry Heymann @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
2 replies, 5 reposts, 545 likes, 13K views

Reply tweet:
Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
7:18 PM · Sep 26, 2026 · 196.2K Views

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Never gets old, seeing which opinions are off limits to objective journalists and which opinions get published in news stories in the omniscient voice

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really quite enjoyed Anvita Dutt’s BULBBUL (on Netflix). One of those movies where you figure out the story very quickly but you don’t mind because it’s so well told. Self-consciously attempting to make a dark fairly tale often flops, but Dutt’s impressive first-timer visual command lands it.

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

While 20 million is amazing these days for anything non-IP, I honestly thought Brad Pitt and a dog being best friends and saving each other a lot would open higher

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

HOW ARE PEOPLE THIS EMBARRASSING BEATING US THIS BAD

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This screenshot of a Rolling Stone writer sneering that people who claim they haven’t heard of “Choosin’ Texas” are lying for clout is how I learned of the existence of “Choosin’ Texas.”

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Wooden Overcoats @woodenovercoats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wooden Overcoats: Rudyard Ruins Everything A Very Mini Series DAY FOUR is out now Has Eric Chapman finally lost? Find out in the extraordinary conclusion to our 10th Anniversary series! Listen to 'Wooden Overcoats' wherever you get your podcasts!

Eric Chapman outside a church and yelling at the sky in Wooden Overcoats: Rudyard Ruins Everything Day Four - available now on all the podcast apps

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This remains my skeleton key to so much of what I see online.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think this is bad and would prefer that Kamala Harris was appointing IJs rather than Donald Trump

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.

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Amira Najjar @loremistress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

STEAL THE STARS Secret govt facility. Alien artifact. People who are NOT supposed to fall in love. Obviously this goes ✨ extremely✨ well. I love how grounded and intimate it feels despite the huge sci-fi premise. The conspiracy hooked me & the increasingly terrible human decisions kept me there.

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Wooden Overcoats @woodenovercoats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wooden Overcoats: Rudyard Ruins Everything A Very Mini Series DAY THREE (of four) is out now Why is Georgie swinging an axe? Find out now by listening to 'Wooden Overcoats' - wherever you get your podcasts!

Georgie Crusoe with an axe in the small (but incredibly dense) Piffling Woods, in WOODEN OVERCOATS - find on your podcast app now!

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is anyone else in Jersey’s whole world suddenly purplish-yellow?

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stroll into the exec's office like I got a dick down to Ecuador. Write "Shark Heist" on the dry erase board. Then draw a vertical line NOT through the S in Shark, but instead through the s in Heist. Then dump my ice coffee all over his desk

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Re Interview Drink discourse, the one time I ever pitched around Hollywood, they offered me water and coffee everywhere we went. The attached showrunner told me: "Never accept it. Remember, LA is huge. This isn't a week you're gonna spend in meetings, it's a week you're gonna spend in a car."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(me, next in line to be interviewed after you, spaghetti bolognese spilling out of every pocket of my cargo pants) he's right you look like an asshole

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Holy crap, that's right - No Expanse, no Orphan Black! Fuck that list

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes I think about how the tagline of the 2002 Count Of Montecristo movie was "Count on revenge"

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Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We need more "iced coffee" discourses on here. This is exactly the kind of low-stakes high-emotion flamewar that powers much more popular microblogging sites. I'd be happy for Bluesky to get about 20% sillier if that's what would keep it alive.

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