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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13h

not incidentally this is a very attractive message for Texas businesses as many are suffering from the repercussions of ICE activity

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Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 13h

"half of Scotland's paved roads spend more than they earn"

BBC: than half of Scotland's universities spend more than they earn - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c539mgyvyy9ro

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Think it's little understood outside Egypt just how authoritarian the government is, and how much worse it's getting. Have heard stories of journalists afraid to put their names to articles about facts of life like inflation, for fear of being arrested for undermining the regime.

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as much time as Trump seems to sit with some form of AI chat there is possibly one (or more?) AI company out there with access to the president's most unmoderated fever dreams; meaning there are probably multiple countries who've hacked into and watch that account religiously

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a new conversational English pupil, a gay longtime editor of Polish magazines, and yesterday we went down a rabbit hole discussing the English word stevedore and how beautifully Walt Whitman used it to celebrate male muscularity and vibrance in a way that invited both female and male desire.

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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 15h

Complaints have limited legal value outside their case, but the one suing for the murder of Renee Good is an important cultural document. It tracks a grand opera of horror and hate that culminated in the death of a woman at the hands of her government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CASE 0:26-cv-04231-LMP-DJF Doc. 1 Filed 10/01/26 Page 1 of 149
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
BRENT GANGER, as Trustee for the Next of
Kin of RENEE NICOLE MACKLIN GOOD,
Deceased, and REBECCA GOOD,
Plaintiffs,
v.
JONATHAN ROSS, individually; STEPHEN
MILLER, individually; KRISTI NOEM,
individually; COREY R. LEWANDOWSKI,
individually; THOMAS D. HOMAN,
individually; TODD LYONS, individually;
GREGORY BOVINO, individually; and JOHN
DOE FEDERAL AGENTS 1–10, individually,
Defendants.
Case No. ________________
COMPLAINT
INTRODUCTION
1.
On the morning of January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Macklin Good (“Renee”),
a thirty-seven-year-old United States citizen, poet, and mother of three, dropped her six
year-old son off at school, drove home through her own south Minneapolis neighborhood,
and stopped her car in the middle of Portland Avenue. Federal immigration agents were
operating there. They were masked, as was their practice throughout Operation Metro
Surge. Renee honked her horn to warn her neighbors. Her partner got out and began to
film. Renee stayed behind the wheel. She was not the target of any investigation, and she
was breaking no law that any federal officer had authority to enforce. Numerous vehicles,

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 13h

my brother works with this group and I can confirm it is legit - any dollar you can send to help them is very very important:

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14h

hey friends! our flight angels need to pay a $300 fee to get an unaccompanied minor on an international flight (the miles were donated) we don’t hold any money and everyone is a volunteer. if you have some extra bucks can you venmo me @ziibiing so we can make this happen?

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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 14h

Baltimore/DMV folks! Join us @redemmas.org tomorrow for a blockbuster discussion w/ @benburgis.bsky.social & Mike Beggs at 7pm about their new book THE BLUEPRINT: HOW SOCIALISM CAN WORK IN THE REAL WORLD, co-authored with @sunraysunray.bsky.social, (@versobooks.bsky.social)

Photo of Max holding a copy of The Blueprint by Mike Beggs, Ben Burgis, & Bhaskar Sunkara. Text on screen has time/date of the event.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 14h

we now have a twice-a-year injection that could END new transmissions of HIV, we just need govts to step up and figure out how it can be made availabe:

aljazeera.com

HIV prevention drug hailed as breakthrough, but who gets access?

Lenacapavir, a twice-a-year injection could transform HIV prevention, but it will not be available to all.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Several countries, including the UK, France and the Baltic countries did not receive an invite to a planned meeting in Poland that will focus on NATO’s future Trump and his cronies are doing everything to ruin NATO as Russia escalates across Europe. More gifts for Putin

politico.com

Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting

Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026

Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 15h

the Star Wars prequels were so bad also they somehow predicted so much of this

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it's been a real horror to see how few of my journalism colleagues have spoken up about the genocide much less the constant assasination of journalists Israel has conducted - if any other country on earth had executed this many journos there would be endless ink spilled to stop it - and yet -

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 17h

keep saying this, but seriously - living in Warsaw you confronted on an almost daily basis with photos of the disastrous ruin the city of Warsaw was in 1945 - and yet - even the Nazis were not even remotely this thorough

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Yeah, the ability of the two party primary to act as a lens that immediately magnified MAGA from a 15% party to a 50+1% party has been Not Great. I think the European experience shows the Racism Party can still grind it out, so it's not a perfect firewall, but you can't get one-shot like 2016

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it's almost like the MAGA actually *wants* Europe to wake up to its full potential rather than just go with the existing (and not good!) Pax Americana they'd default to otherwise

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one of the biggest problems with college towns, esp the Ivy League variety, is the "town and gown" tug of war, a battle too often won by the *undemocratic* gown - the last 100 years in New Haven, CT are probably the best example of this

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really glad to see this - no system of "justice" meted out by colleges is ever going to be as democratic and transparent as the system we already have

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one of the main liabilities of being a straight white Christian man is that for most of your life you don't have to do the math until at some point you get undone by someone who can

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thinking a lot rn about how Europe has insanely great third spaces, it's walkable, it has a good education system, it reallllly teaches WWII history, they have good social programs, etc, and none of that has seemed to help in preventing the rise of the far right

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The reason Canadians are choosing to hang out with the bears instead of the Americans is because we don't know which Americans are the 39%.

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interesting thread on the possibe decline in support for LGBT ppl among Dutch teen boys:

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Andrea Orzoff @arorzoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is what it's like in Poland actually and seriously it's just pure bliss

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Rick Pidcock @rickpidcock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you want to know why white evangelicals are so primed for violence, these songs are a HUGE part of it

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The long awaited day is finally here! "Weapons of Worship" is available now! If you purchase it online, please give it a rating or review on Amazon or Goodreads. 1/2

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remigration in action:

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is more comprehensive than either Dresden or Warsaw

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I dont think these flags have ever been seen in a photo together before outside of the Olympics

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate to say it, but I find this from Gideon Rachman pretty complacent. I agree that we are likely not heading for totalitarian dictatorship, but there is a lot more to democracy than just having elections and a peaceful transfer of power. www.ft.com/content/7783...

ft.com

Why Europe’s centre will hold

The 1930s are not a good guide to the politics of the 21st century

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