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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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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.

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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This ball hit Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s bat TWICE and ended up a single

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a bill which provided a strong footing for civil liability and punitive damages that attaches to Flock itself as well as the civil jurisdiction in question would do wonders for reining this kind of thing in.

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 02/09/2026

I am begging you to stop using AI to write your video scripts. Shortform content is becoming unwatchable and that's not even the crazy part

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Max Read @maxread.info · 11/09/2026

this kind of disaggregation is imo not a product of AI as such so much as the relentless and stupefying drive toward optimization, profit, visibility, kpis, views, etc. that predates (and necessitates) ai

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

America genuinely does badly need a ton more judges at basically every level, & I think one way to both fix SCOTUS and solve that very real issues is to rhetorically link SCOTUS expansion to a massive expansion of the courts generally + some kind of funding incentive to states to increase capacity

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/08/2026

Don't think I've ever been looking forward to a @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social breakdown as much as this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwF...

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The most confusing MLB play of the season, a breakdown

YouTube video by Jomboy Media

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Imagine if the media were as upset about actual fascism as they are of nonexistent “communism.”

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Making Count von Count watch a 0-0 half is rude.

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Brent/Barb 🏳️‍⚧️ @vibrent.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

my hot take is that this is the actual america 250. just a ton of different people coming together, showing people what makes America weird and fun. people being welcoming. and yeah there’s some bullshit too, which is also very true to America! but the good and community far outweighs it rn.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

a truly remarkable video. a truly, truly remarkable video.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/06/2026

After World War II, a hard-fought global consensus emerged: society must protect itself from rapacious capitalists and religious zealots who hold their childhood prejudices to be eternal truths. It was never perfectly understood, but latently, people realized that your liberation is mine.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

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Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 29/06/2026

like everything in this stupid industry, i believe this to be a pendulum and we'll eventually see clearer where this tech has value and where it absolutely does not belong. (also because the economics don't work out)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

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Andrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

plot predicting messi-ronaldo preference

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

literally watergate

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Buster Posey so out of his depth

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2026

I feel like the world is divided into people who think One Weird Trick will work and people who understand that it doesn’t

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

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Blake Tapper @blaketapper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A beautiful Pride month moment when these two men were able to get married on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2026

this is legitimately one of my favorite posts of all time

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12/06/2026

everything about this inbeom goal is pure art

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/06/2026

In an exclusive interview, Scott Pelley spoke about being fired from “60 Minutes,” and why he thinks Bari Weiss should leave her job as the CBS News editor in chief. He also responded to President Trump’s comments. Watch, read or listen to “The Interview.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Pouring on one half of the field and sunny on the other

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026

this is the most pathetic-ass letter i have ever seen

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

nick bilton is a bitch

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/05/2026

people spend enormous amounts of time fighting online about whether to talk about epstein and corruption or affordability and, look, it’s really not that hard to do both at once

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hey remember when Trump said he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and the super serious mainstream media swallowed it? 😕🤷🏼

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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Lucasfilm? Disney can't get young people into Star Wars bc Lucasfilm was a filmmaker named George Lucas. Asking why you can't get people excited about a Beatles cover band the way they were excited about the Beatles is a question that answers itself.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/05/2026

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

Comic. [Person 1 sitting at desk typing on laptop while Person 2 with shoulder-length hair stands behind.] PERSON 1: Aw man, speedrun.com removed my world record just because I listened to lateralus and ænima to get in the flow. PERSON 2: Oh, a copyright thing? PERSON 1: No, they don’t allow tool-assisted speedruns.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

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Pellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This hit me so hard this week.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

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How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court

The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.

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