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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h

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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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

people like my parents or people back home often ask me if the reason why the industry is being killed in slow motion is due to AI, and it's a 15 minute long conversation to understand the real reasons why, at the heart of which are: people who own TV don't make TV and don't want to make TV

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My demand for Democrats over the next few years is repeal, tribunals, tearing down all the bullshit and motherfucking prison for the crooks

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another good resource for folks who have complicated ballot questions is BlueVoterGuide.org Just input your address and your ballot will come up. In MA, you can see the 10 Qs and who endorses a yes or no vote.

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Blue Voter Guide: Vote Fast, Smart, and Blue

Blue Voter Guide helps you make quick, informed, pro-democracy choices by showing what's on your ballot, with endorsements from trusted, forward-looking organizations.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

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bluevoterguide.org

Blue Voter Guide: Vote Fast, Smart, and Blue

Blue Voter Guide helps you make quick, informed, pro-democracy choices by showing what's on your ballot, with endorsements from trusted, forward-looking organizations.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would go so far as to say most people with virus induced fatigue have no idea that’s what the cause is, and they are stumbling from pillar to post trying wellness hacks to solve the problem. Some don’t want to know even if I mention the possibility.

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Jen the Tired RN @jenthetiredrn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A warning for my fellow celiacs:

Light Brown Sugar - Packaged in the follow configurations:
1. United, Net Wt. 50 Ibs., (22.68kg). Item Number
810051. Distributed By: United Sugar Producers & Refiners, Minneapolis, MN 55439.
2. Good & Gather (Target), Net Wt 2 lb. (32 oz) 907g Item Number 817773. UPC 0 85239-08454 0. Dist.
By Target Corp.,
Batch numbers -
United Brown Sugar 1. MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26228, MHD26229, MHD26223, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26223, MHD26225, MHD26226.
2. Good & Gather Batch Numbers: MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26228, MHD26229.

Powdered Sugar
1. United 6X, Net Wt. 50 Ibs. ((22.68kg), Item Number 810087. UPC 7 85921-07090 4. Distributed by: United Sugar Producers & Refiners, Minneapolis,
MN 55439.
2. Crystal Sugar, Net Wt. 25 Ibs. (11.3 kg), Item Number 810097. UPC 0 70090-08090 9. Distributed by Crystal Sugars Corporation, Moorhead, MN
3. Good & Gather, Net Wt 2 Ib. (32oz) 907g. Item Number 817774. UPC 0 85239-08455 7. Dist. By Target Corp. Minneapolis, MN 55403.
Batch Numbers
1. United Batch Numbers: MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26229.
2. Crystal Sugar Batch Numbers: MHD26230
3. Good & Gather Batch Numbers: MHD26223, MHD26224, MHD26225, MHD26226, MHD26227, MHD26228, MHD26229.

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❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was fun!! I’ll be back next Saturday too! (Join me!!)

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❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey Massachusetts! We have ten ballot Qs this year! As you prep to vote early (from 10/17 - 10/30) or by mail (depositing your ballot in your local dropbox!!) for Dems up & down the ballot, here’s a handy short guide about those Qs from Progressive Mass to use & share w fam & friends! #NoKings

PM PRSGRESSIVE
MASS
Your Progressive Guide to the 2026
Statewide Ballot Questions

VOTE YES ON 1
to expand the public records law to cover the Governor & Legislature. We're the only state that doesn't do that.

VOTE YES ON 2
to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, including public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid.

VOTE NO ON 3
to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our elections in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers

VOTE YES ON 4
to enable voters to register & update registration on
Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to clerical errors, and this reform is proven to increase voter turnout.

VOTE NO ON 5
to protect our state's ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. If Q5 passes, the rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services.

VOTE HOW YOU WANT ON 6
Q6 came up shy of our endorsement threshold: members valued nature and water conservation, but were concerned about dedicating existing funds, rather than raising new ones.

VOTE YES ON 7
to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth.
We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements

VOTE YES ON 2
to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, including public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid.

VOTE NO ON 3
to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our elections in their tavor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers.

VOTE YES ON 4
to enable voters to register & update registration on
Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to clerical errors, and this reform is proven to increase

VOTE NO ON 5
to protect our state's ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. If Q5 passes, the rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services.

VOTE HOW YOU WANT ON 6
Q6 came up shy of our endorsement threshold: members valued nature and water conservation, but were concerned about dedicating existing funds, rather than raising new ones.

VOTE YES ON 7
to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth.
We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements result in fewer homes being built.

VOTE NO ON 8
to protect our state's cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs in 2016, and we shouldn't turn back time and destroy local economies.

VOTE YES ON 9
to protect our state's landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.

2026 BALLOT QUESTIONS
* YOUR PROGRESSIVE GUIDE
There are QR codes with the following labels:
LEARN MORE & SHARE
FIND YOUR POLLING LOCATION
TRACK YOUR BALLOT
CHECK YOUR VOTER REG.
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VOTE BY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
EARLY VOTING IS OCTOBER 17 - 30

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.

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❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is today, in 45 mins! Go grab some lunch and then join a big, hopeful, optimistic group of romance authors, readers, and warriors of democracy! Come give it a try! You don’t have to stay for the whole time!! But do check it out!! It’s weirdly fun and you’ll feel good after!!

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 26/09/2026

The first midterm ballot in New Hampshire has been cast, in New Boston. Using voter file data through our partnership with @l2-data.bsky.social, we estimate Chris Pappas (D) has banked 1 vote.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/09/2026

Instead of standing up to Trump’s deportation and death machine that has brutalized their workers, DoorDash is lobbying for the regime’s legislative priorities — including a bill to weaken DC home rule. Delete your account and app until DoorDash speaks out against ICE’s brutality and violence.

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Delete DoorDash: our demands

Our demands for DoorDash on ICE raids, H.R. 9720, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not

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❌ 👑 Indivisible01027 @indivisible01027.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Check your registration! Send the link to your family, colleagues, friends, and neighbors. #Democracy #VOTE

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026

Millions of Americans will take action on October 17 to make it clear to the regime that we won’t sit by while they threaten to sabotage the midterms. Join a No Kings event to drive massive early voting and recruit tons of volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!

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❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm attending Indivisible's event, tomorrow, Sat. 9/26 at 1 pm ET “Fated States and Indivisible Phone Bank Party #2” - sign up now to join me and an inspiring group of romance authors and readers as we work to save the world !!

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Fated States and Indivisible Phone Bank Party #2 · Indivisible

Attention Romancelandia! It's time to put all the hope, love and joy that romance novels give you into our next Fated States event! Join Jen and Sarah, hosts of the Fated Mates Podcast, and special g...

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And when people ask what should the Democrats do, particularly in light of the fact that the President retains a veto: plenty. I will start with the petty: do not invite the President to give the SOTU. Have him send a letter. A more substantive approach: it is time to audit the Executive Branch.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Downballot is doing something fairly (entirely?) new in election analysis. Lots of people have tracked primary TURNOUT, which has some relation to election outcome. But they argue that tracking CHANGE in primary turnout is a far more reliable predictor of election outcome. Which could mean blowout.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m genuinely shocked at the people on here who think long covid isn’t real. Seriously? Your actuaries, departments of health even the freaking department of defense know it’s real. Apparently people used to think MS wasn’t real. There’s a long history of telling sick people they’re crazy.

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Elizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BTW, the CDC just changed the rules again saying healthcare workers can return to work 4 days after testing + for Covid, meaning they will be treating patients during their peak infectiousness. If anyone was considering not wearing a respirator or mask in a doctor’s office or hospital

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WE'RE PHONEBANKING AGAIN. you should join us!

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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❌ 👑 Indivisible01027 @indivisible01027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe firing experienced leaders was a STUPID idea. This is pathetic.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026

Thread. This was a journey. Literally.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧵MISSISSIPPI & MISSOURI No early voting *but* both have in-person absentee voting 📢 STARTING TODAY ‼️ MS Form to request absentee ballot + rules & how-to's (scroll down) www.vote.org/absentee-bal... MO Form to request absentee ballot + rules & how-to's (scroll down) www.vote.org/absentee-bal...

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Early / In-person Absentee Voting Dates

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, that’s just Stephen Speilberg in a respirator at the Lucas Museum opening during a Covid surge, like a BOSS.

Photo of a reporter talking to Stephen Speilberg, who is in a dark suit and black respirator mask on

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Poll “died on toilet” you cowards

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve seen a lot of older people wearing masks in my neighbourhood. I don’t know how the rest of society walks past that clear signal for help. If you see someone in a mask or respirator, you should wear one… at the very least…

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 21/09/2026

We want to know how you feel about the job we’re doing at The Sick Times. Please help us by taking this quick survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/SS6ZH8S

A black background with white text reads, “If you have 5 minutes, we’d love your feedback on our Long COVID journalism. What do you say? Take the survey. The Sick Times.”

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Pat-HEX-myth (love, with a routing number) @patri.xyz · 21/09/2026

I have updated my terms of service, and Disney now owes me one million dollars.

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Austin Powers Dr Evil's Iconic Pinky Pose

Alt: Austin Powers Dr Evil's Iconic Pinky Pose

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Kimberly #MaskUp Ratliff, MSc @kimberlyratliff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're voting absentee by mail in NC, see below for recommended mailing deadlines for your ballot. #ncpol

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-…

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror
Image Calls VP ‘Loser’ Right To His Face

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026

AI air traffic control — what could go wrong? Starts today.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

* U.S. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION TEMPORARILY HALTS FLIGHTS INTO NEWARK AND PHILADELPHIA AIRPORTS DUE TO COMMUNICATIONS ISSUES WITH SOME FREQUENCIES AT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FACILITY -- AGENCY @reuters.com

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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That’s Today! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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