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Tiffany Bridge

@tiff.is
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Shouting, swearing, DC, WordPress, lifting, other duties as assigned. 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

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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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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 29/09/2026
Reading a recap of how this Schmitt/Smith/Klobuchar went down and the whole thing reads like one of those clickbait stories on Threads where some smarmy asshole trying to get over on their wife gets bright low by their own paper trail. But it’s real.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Transphobia is just sexism, hope all the TERFs who’ve supported ending my trans rights can go stare long and hard in the mirror, then get a good therapist.
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The GOP are genuinely evil. They do nothing but make the world worse for more people, especially the most vulnerable. There isn't a single unique value they hold that's morally justifiable or goes toward making humanity safer or kinder. I wish there was a hell for them to go to.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember, it was this guy getting beaten up off U St that was the excuse for the National Guard’s deployment to DC.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 25/09/2026
Sssh, nobody tell that guy about the place in the basement of the Days Inn.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 24/09/2026
Ah yes, my middle finger sure did get a good workout in those days. My kid and I would bond over flipping them off on the Beltway… [wistful]
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump's efforts in DC are not to create a utopia of safety. They're building a dystopia of weapons, violence, and state control — trimmed in gold. From @hayesbrown.bsky.social:
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Opinion | Donald Trump dreams of a beautiful police state
Trump saying snipers and drones will be deployed at his 250 foot tall triumphal arch in Washington perfectly meld his aesthetics and violence
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 23/09/2026
The Diet Coke from the back of the fridge that’s so cold it turns into slush when I pour it over ice. 🤩😍🤩😍
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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 23/09/2026
Insane OP username pull but setting that aside yeah the one drum I refuse to stop beating, much to my boss's consternation (sorry James!) is that *everything needs to look and feel cool*. UX needs to be as viciously and ruthlessly optimized as performance, and right now it just plainly isn't, at all
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 22/09/2026
This delights me.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 21/09/2026
As we enter another flu/COVID season, a reminder that you can get it as a walk-in at Costco and then they’ll sell you ice cream afterward. It successfully bribes my kid, maybe it will work for you.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 20/09/2026
I mean I think the KenCen/USIP stuff is about his fear of his own mortality and the desire to literally carve his name into the stones, but... yes, in general, I do need y'all to understand this. And then I need you to remember that people live here. A LOT of people.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 20/09/2026
No photo for the bot, but today drove past a trio of National Guard just standing, tightly clustered with their backs to each other, like at any moment somebody might sneak up on them. At 2:30 in the afternoon. On a quiet residential street.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
It's September, where part of the day is windows-open weather and part of the day is "oh shit I left the windows open and the AC is on" weather. So I made an automation on my phone that checks the weather hourly, and if the temp is above a certain number, it alerts me to go close the windows.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
It has been helicopters over my neighborhood ALL DAY and if we are going to have to put up with this shit, It had better be Happening.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 17/09/2026
Looks like it wants ear skritches, tbh.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 17/09/2026
*spittake*
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 16/09/2026
Because I don't have legacy corporate systems to work on anymore, I'm gonna fuck around and update to the new MacOS right away. I like to live dangerously.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 16/09/2026
Man, if I was looking for a reason to delete all my socials and walk into the sea, tonight’s discourse really delivered.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 15/09/2026
The internet told me to use leftover butter chicken as a grilled cheese filling and it is a *fantastic* idea.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 14/09/2026
“Training wheels for investigative journalists” is the sickest burn I have read on this website today.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 14/09/2026
Oh, will he be lying in state in the Capitol, then?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 13/09/2026
The life changing magic of purging your shit into a contractor bag.
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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Welcome to my Creole-Spanish fusion restaurant, Bayou Tapastry
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 12/09/2026
Oh my god. I just need somebody to appoint me Supreme Benevolent Potentate of ONE of these systems (not the water system; just the ticketing system!) and I will FIX YOUR SHIT.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
it must be infuriating to be a New Yorker today listening to all these 9/11 tributes from conservatives who don’t believe New York counts as America on any other day of the calendar
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we need to identify whichever White House personnel is fucking with our whey protein supply and ice them out at the gym. nobody spot them. no you can't work in. yes I take 30 minutes between sets on that equipment you wanted
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 08/09/2026
Tom Lehrer predicted this too.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 07/09/2026
Listen; I badly need this crossover.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 06/09/2026
We saw Coyote vs ACME today. Lots of Looney Tunes deep cuts for the enthusiast, but there’s also a particular musical gag I am still giggling about.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 05/09/2026
My tiny act of pettiness is, every time LinkedIn shows me that someone is celebrating an anniversary at [former job], I use the emotional support reaction emoji.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This would be a fucking cascading disaster for women.
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones (Gift Article)
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 05/09/2026
I do not need more t-shirts. I do not need more t-shirts. I do not need…
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 05/09/2026
@ngwatchdc.bsky.social NG on the Wharf
National Guard at theWharf for no good goddamn reason
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 04/09/2026
I went from 0 to "I cannot wait for this book" in the space of this thread.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 04/09/2026
My SIL compared living in DC during Trump II to being in the first two rows of a Gallagher show.
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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is what freedom looks like in the center of our nation’s capital:
A bunch of secret service vehicles and barricades on Pennsylvania Ave in front of the OEOB and White House. A crane for the stupid ballroom looms in the distance  National Guard members standing around in front of the White House visitor centerMultiple signs in front of the White House telling people to stay away and warning of K9 dog patrols.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Stroking the sword while lamenting the social realities. Says Skeletor knowing this one confuses y’all sometimes so to translate: Skeletor would like to murder some people with his sword due to how they’ve ruined the world but Skeletor also knows that can just make them martyrs. Got to pull the whole thing out by its roots.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 02/09/2026
I love this movie and will shout its praises all the days of my life.
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matt oak @mattoak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we used to be a functioning society
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 31/08/2026
I bought a Trader Joe’s tote a couple weeks ago just to see what they hype was about. Today I packed three beach towels, three swimsuits, and two adult-sized pairs of Crocs in it. Turns out I am a sucker for a good, cheap tote bag.
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