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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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nils2.bsky.social @nils2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It really is a crime family. “If Kushner wasn’t the son-in-law of the President, he would be under investigation by the F.B.I.,” Virginia Canter, the ethics lawyer, said. “No one else could get away with this.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of the most frightening things about the Republican attempt to overthrow our democracy is how many people are completely unaware that the Republicans are attempting to overthrow our democracy.

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nils2.bsky.social @nils2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Bill Pulte and Scott Bessent. Hoping it’ll be a Cabinet cage match for Daddy’s attention… Scott Bessent: “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,” Bessent told Pulte. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.” www.politico.com/news/

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/03/2026

"Hegseth and company are promoting an ultimately nihilist cult of death," writes @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social. "Meanwhile, America’s own dead are dishonored, as Trump has used their repatriation to display his Maga merch and fundraise off the victims of war."

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Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death | Jan-Werner Mueller

The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence

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