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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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Clark retrofitting Musk's "woke mind virus" to any concept that doesn't fit his mental model of AI research is a good example of the way that "AI" functions as a political project with bizarre ideological component.
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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jeopardy: The answer is “You are.” *dog contestants cock their heads to one side
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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Freelancers work harder and with more bravery than anyone
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
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ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
encouraging everybody to follow @capitalbgary.bsky.social, one of the few outlets doing sustained coverage on the power outages in Gary
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is this like that Twilight Zone where it's normal to look like a pig alien
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Susie To Go @susietogo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@bridgettodd.bsky.social and @tangoti.bsky.social are doing some really good episodes about this, btw, in case you're interested.
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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026
What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"
A screenshot from Adobe Acrobat showing the toolbar which includes the following options:
Edit a PDF
Generated Podcast [New]
Create PDF Space
Export a PDF
Create a PDF
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):
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The US Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer. What’s the Holdup?
An extraordinary cancer statistic recently dropped in a major medical journal: zero.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
BIG NEWS! New podcast coming out THIS MONTH! Native people have been left out of the story of America—but without us you don’t know what happened. FIRST AMERICA tells the true story of how this country started and how we got here. Subscribe now, wherever you listen to podcasts.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Illinois expanded vote-by-mail because we believe voting should be easier, not harder. Now, Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General is threatening to withhold mail ballots unless states turn over voter rolls. That's not election security. It’s voter suppression.
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Incredible use of alt text 10/10
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When you make 1 trillion dollars, you have won the game. They should give you a parade and a gold statue. And then take away all your money and you start New Game+ with tougher enemies.
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026
TRUMP: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative from Alabama. KAITLAN COLLINS: I'm still from Alabama.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Possibly the most frightening talent of the brown bear is an uncanny ability to blend seamlessly into the environment in an almost chameleon-like manner, allowing them to easily surprise their unsuspecting prey.
A bear standing upright, behind a narrow tree.
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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DavidPBLRoss @davidpblross.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
AI gives more praise, less criticism to Black students via @hechingerreport hechingerreport.org/proof-points... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #aibias #stanford
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AI gives more praise, less criticism to Black students
A Stanford experiment found that AI feedback shifts on identical essays depending upon the identity and characteristics of the student.
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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Jfc
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Incredible. Thanks for sharing.
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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
How can any sane person watch these White House cabinet meetings and think they are watching rational people, they are all absolutely mad people? 😳
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm expecting a wheelbarrow-full of pardons for insider trading on January 19, 2029. Note that the prospect of those pardons helps to keep subordinates in line. Corrupt-cop style, make sure that lots of people get a little taste, then make clear that the pardon depends on continued loyalty.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Elizabeth Banks
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Daniel Golson @dsgolson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"What you made with Sora mattered" is one of the least true things that has ever been written
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2026
THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.
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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I was planning to post a joke about the Minotaur, but I lost the thread
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: young man in a hoodie looking morose and sitting on a swing set. He says “she’s breaking up with me…” Panel 2: next to him is a glyptodon, an early ancestor of armadillos. With his head in his hands, the young man says “what do I do glyptodon?” Panel 3: the glyptodon says “I’m like an early ancestor of armadillos. The young man angrily replies, “are you even listening man?”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The tech bros, led by Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison are wildly enthusiastic about the profit-making potential of sales of police-state surveillance technologies broadly similar to those developed by the Chinese Communist Party for their PSB.
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GoalieLax @goalielax.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026
Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker. It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 27/02/2026
I come not to praise Claude or whatever but giving unaccountable robot decisionmaking to thundering dipshits who just shot down their own drone with a laser does seem like wrong side of history business
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Kamala Harris: When this guy is talking about the economy is roaring… Who’s it roaring for when you put a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid? You know what Medicaid funds? Families with children, pregnant women, seniors, people with disabilities. Meanwhile, a $1 trillion tax cut for the richest people
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.
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Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts
The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'
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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Nice to see some good news. Here is additional reporting on the court ruling indepthnh.org/2026/02/18/a...
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ACLU-NH: Dept. of Education Backs Down on Unlawful Directive Targeting Educational Equity
In a victory for academic freedom and education equity, the U.S. Department of Education conceded the end of its February 14, 2025, “Dear Colleague” directive that sought to restrict diversity, equity...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2026
i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.
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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 11/02/2026
Dive deeper into what “doing your own research” means here:www.pewresearch.org/...
Bar chart showing that 'Doing your own research' means several different things to Americans.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/01/2026
skipping straight past "Italians and Irish aren't really white" and going straight for Swedes. lol
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