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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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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 9h
Democrats control state government in Minnesota but they are still cutting public higher education funding: www.highereddive.com/news/univers...
highereddive.com
University of Minnesota eyes $225M in budget cuts
Senior leaders attributed its financial woes to “shifting enrollment trends, unpredictable state and federal funding, and rising costs.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 8h
this is so boring but it is incredibly frustrating to see the supreme court be so malevolently silly about third-country removal. there is no balancing of equities that could possibly favor the government, which already HAS THE DETAINEE IN JAIL. are they ordering too much room service?
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 23h
it's literally this simple
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 21h
just on the topic of men speaking up, i remember being at a party with a friend. some stranger was mouthing off about abortion and I was pretty ready to fight him. my friend, mustering 100% of his strength and midwestern anti-confrontational effort, not making eye contact, got in there first.
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 21h
oh really? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite donald rumsfeld
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue third-country deportations, for now
huffpost.com
Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh man, this is what klob is made for. i wish we could make up a job for her that was just doing this and someone good could be governor
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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wanna make sure I understand this correctly. The interim police chief says that the previous police chief had a lack of staffing in leadership positions around him and thus had no ability to track their budget and that led to enormous amount amounts of overtime. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
startribune.com
Interim Minneapolis police chief says he inherited a budget ‘mess’
Police leaders acknowledged during a City Council budget meeting that overtime was handed out too loosely in years past and said they’re now monitoring it more closely.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...
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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello! I could use some help paying my wonderful neighbor's October rent if anyone has extra. She is still stuck inside as a single parent who absolutely can't risk abduction. She makes (and shares) really beautiful postres even with the limited donated groceries she has. Venmo: @Anne-Kosseff-Jones.
Image of a tinfoil square baking pay filled with a creamy dessert that is topped with chopped strawberries and nuts.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 28/09/2026
This is a BFD - one of the charter airlines doing ICE flights has been sold off, thanks to pressure from smart folks with spines. Raise a glass to the financial misfortune of those who’ve been profiting off of ICE’s detention apparatus; may they not be the last.
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everbake pan spray is the real deal shop.kingarthurbaking.com/items/everba...
A perfectly demolded golden Bundt cake
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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The article mentions the hobby horse I’m on. Getting an autistic child into a school in which they are comfortable should be *top priority*. Autistic children miss far more school than non-autistic kids due to many factors. It’s unacceptable—but typical—that the district didn’t act on this.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
theguardian.com
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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6 to 8 pm
every other Friday
free dinner and childcare Saint Paul Lutheran Church
2742 15th Ave S, Minneapolis
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
well well well who's laughing now (the person who only drinks water in almost any circumstance, that's who)
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Daddy Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 25/09/2026
This part - there's no paid staff, there's no marketing budget, this is all just people helping each other out. Dollars and items go directly out to where there is need.
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you bike in Minnesota, help flood the MnDOT comments to showcase the near-insatiable demand for better bike funding in Minnesota.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 23/09/2026
Thanks again for caving @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov!
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
things need less attention. mind your own business.
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OhMarie @mariepluscats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This white south african "refugee" thing and them being the ONLY refugees is just like, the most obviously racist thing I have ever HEARD of there was a This American Life episode about them last year that made me furious
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Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.northsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Minneapolis Police Department is sucking the goddamn life out of our city. Crime going up? More money for cops! Crime going down? Must be doing something right - more money for cops! It never ends, and here we are.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/09/2026
youve never heard choosin texas by ella langley? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite gigi hadid? (that's a supermodel btw)
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
GO OFF!!!!!
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats will be like "i'm the only thing standing between you and Trump!" and then don't stand in the way of anything
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
there's like 3 things in society that are genuinely, across-the-board harder for men than for women and being bisexual is one of them
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
just want to say that when a politician campaigns on/publicly states transphobic positions it will actually be reflected in policy and is not some sort of 4d chess electoral rhetoric move
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 21/09/2026
if MPD would simply just explain all the line items on their budget overspending, none of this would be happening. but they refuse, and the mayor is calling the expectation that they answer to council "a circus." all to weaken city council even more than they already were with strong mayor in 2021
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve seen this thread about twenty times in the last two hours and nobody seems to have noticed that it’s from a complete rando and cites no sources?
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
eu.courier-journal.com
KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive
Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
15 years ago today, Troy Davis was murdered by the state of Georgia. I still think of him today. I wonder if he knows how many people were transformed by his life and death.
A yellow button with a photo of a Black man with glasses and the words “FREE TROY DAVIS! Campaign to End the Death Penalty” in black text.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
REPUBLICANS: We will kill you and your children DEMOCRATS: We don't know how to run against this REPUBLICANS: We will kill five specific children for being gay at sports. This is the biggest problem we face today DEMS: They make good points, we must kill these children BOTH: And Gaza obviously
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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
attack ad: the most frothing at the mouth intense former baseball player, screaming straight at the ump over the head of his anxious looking children. text: "Republicans want this man to look in your daughter's underwear. [Candidate] won't let him."
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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why is Frey protecting police fraud?
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 21/09/2026
pointing out once again that the minneapolis police department have yet to answer these questions on line-by-line budget overspending from 3 months ago. brian o'hara tried getting out of showing up that day, gave no answers. he's gone now, MPD refuse to answer, and frey wants EVEN MORE power
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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who! @ithadtobewho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Go birds
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026
i am closing in on 50 years old and just want to be a guy living a stable and peaceful life after many decades of tumult and chaos and trauma. i want to stop being hypervigilant. tired of being kicked in the head because we’re political footballs apparently
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