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Well, yes. I'm also a small business person existing in this reality. The only way for this nonsense to stop is for the screaming to get (much) louder.

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 15h

Not at all. But its time to play hardball with the US (and others) over trade.

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Shane Ross aka Mr. Snippy-snip 🎞⚔🎞 @comebackshane.bsky.social · 15h

Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss talks about how men need to hold other men accountable for rape and sexual assault.

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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City’s top lawyer mounting a robust defence and providing a full explanation to each of the charges from the Premier League. #ManCity #PremierLeague

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18h

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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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 30/09/2026

Can we read these essays? Can we have them read their essays aloud on national TV? Can we have whomever decided this 'punishment' in stocks outside Cornell with baskets of tomatoes handy?

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 30/09/2026

They were stealing petrol. There is no great 'operation'.

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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A mural in Seattle. #AbolishICE

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 29/09/2026

One of my favorite paintings.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 28/09/2026

Captain Iran holding his own too. It is amusing seeing superpowers held/defeated by 'minor' countries.....

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 28/09/2026

..who are now out on bail. Big terrorists these.

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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Political Cartoonists are the best. deAdder rocks it every time he sits down and draws his next masterpiece.

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 27/09/2026

Choosin' Texas is a perfectly adequate song about dodging a bullet when a toxic man chooses a different woman so we should applaud her happy escape.

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 27/09/2026

Xi would have found it repugnant in the extreme.

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 27/09/2026

Well yes. Technology enabled them to have creative careers. So will this new tool.

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 26/09/2026

I have never seen, in my 60 years on Earth, a Chinese leader swagger into Washington and be obviously, by far, the most powerful person in the room. It was incredible. Xi has solved the potential "Thucydides Trap".

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 26/09/2026

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 26/09/2026

This!! I've been saying this since Friends United was bought out by Meta. Social media is a national security issue. The idea that the US and China can just flood the world with their billboards in people's hands is crazy. We'd ask questions in ANY OTHER MEDIUM....

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Mark Tierney @marktierney.com · 26/09/2026