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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?

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No Context Gillian Anderson @contextgillian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy Birthday to the Pilot episode of The X-Files

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026

Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's not about one US Senate seat. It's about all of us together. It's about a belief that we can take our government back from the very people who want to monetize us at every turn. The fomentors of inequality. The drivers of war and genocide and apartheid. We get to decide.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

He is so good at this

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Trump issues more Truth Social threats as the war expands and Republicans drown us in more debt to pay for it.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If I wasn’t already a member…

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

POINTS AT CHEST - “And that’s my Meritorious Service Medal from Operation Green Bloom. Saw a lot of good polyurethane strips die that day. Wasn’t sure we were gonna make it, but we kept our water filters locked and loaded. I can still hear the paramecium screaming in my sleep.”

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Did you know: The book that gets you an agent is rarely the first one you write. And the book that gets you an agent? It’s rarely the first to sell to a publisher. Stop putting so much pressure on yourself and just...write.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

Z using his platform here to boost Dr. Lorenzo Pace, who explains his sculpture "Triumph of the Human Spirit," located at Foley Square.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 17/06/2026

Donald Trump converted the White House into a money-making operation for himself, his family, and his closest advisors and biggest campaign donors. It's endless corrupt self-enrichment from a president who says he doesn't "think about Americans' financial situation.” No kidding.

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Joe Schmidt @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

As the title suggests, it is intended to help students & their families know their rights as well as rights of others in the community. As @mayor.nyc.gov says “Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.” Also in Spanish and eventually translate into 14 languages! www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Spanish language version of Know Your Rights comic. Group of people standing in front of the Statue of Liberty.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Good thread. Gerald L.K. Smith, who appears below, was broadcast to troops on the Armed Forces network postwar--despite earned reputation pre-war as fascist--w/ help of International Christian Leadership, comprised mostly of mainstream GOP pols.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Paul Pressler, who allegedly sexually abused 6 young men (2 of them minors at the time), “helped build a religious & political culture where public declarations of biblical morality became a shield 4 institutional corruption. If u praise Jesus loud enuf, there’s nothing you can’t get away with." 1/

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The dark legacy of Paul Pressler and the Southern Baptist Convention

The man who reshaped white evangelical politics also helped create a culture where victims of abuse never stood a chance

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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 04/05/2026

I'm willing to go out on a limb and say no author should ever feel embarrassed by their book sales figures. Ever. Here's a primer on what book sales data is available and what it tells us about the economics of the publishing industry.

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Why Book Sales Figures Are So Hard to Interpret (and Complete Sales Figures Nearly Impossible to Find) | Jane Friedman

We attempt to clarify the claim that half of all books sell fewer than a dozen copies—a statistic for which this newsletter is partially responsible.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Jeff Bezos and his wife are the lead sponsors of tonight's Met Gala. Now seems like a good time to remind folks of all the ways Bezos is shafting American consumers and Amazon workers — and how his wealth is putting our democracy at risk. www.commondreams.org/opinion/amazon…

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It Is Difficult for the Brain to Comprehend All the Ways Jeff Bezos Is Shafting Americans | Common Dreams

Like the robber barons of the first Gilded Age, Bezos’s consumption is of the conspicuous kind. But is luxurious lifesty

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Lots of talk about SCOTUS’s decision in Callais, but not many people have actually read it. This piece goes to the text of the opinion & pulls key language. If you only read one thing about Callais, read the actual words of the justices here. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

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What the Court Did in Callais—And Why It Matters

Absentee-by-mail voting was already underway in Louisiana’s primary elections when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Callais case on Wednesday.

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Cyndi Suzy Paramore @cfohunny.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I think this is 100% correct.

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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thanks for this thread. You are reading it right; Thiel, Musk, Andreesen, Karp, Srinivasan, et al, want to be kings of their own “network states,” freedom cities, devoid of regulations, so they can make even more money while extracting from the rest of us. That is their plan.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you look up “Roger Scruton Foundation Memorial Lectures,” the first lecture posted on RSLF’s website is a 2023 lecture by Peter Thiel (JD Vance’s mentor and benefactor).

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Glad to see this important book from my old pal @wthrockmorton.bsky.social, who I got to know fighting US Christian right backing for Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill. Warren, a conservative Christian teaching at a Christian college, was a hero. He’s been fighting the good fight ever since.

Book titled The Christian Past That Wasn’t

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

2/ Thread with info & receipts re William Wolfe. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I ended up talking wayyyyyy too much about history

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Victoria Lurie is querying @vic-and-twisted.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#amquerying She's the Man meets Daisy Jones & The Six in THE FRONTMAN (100k, upmarket fiction). Found family and addiction struggles swirl around twins on the cusp of 1980s rock stardom. What's worth more: a legacy or a life?

The Frontman is a 100k upmarket fiction story about a 1980s rockstar whose twin sister has to step in and pretend to be him on tour while he battles a heroin addiction.

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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Incredible work by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social and @maris.bsky.social. Extra grateful to see my beloved BEATING HEART BABY included. 🥲

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Marin Takikawa @marintakikawa.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I'm late for #MSWL day but better late than never? 👀 I represent YA and adult across literary, upmarket, and speculative spaces, and am hungry to find my next obsession that I just can't put down! (1/4)

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a cartoon of snoopy reading a book while woodstock looks on

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy reading a book while woodstock looks on

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The addition of the London-based Influx Press will add about 75 titles of upmarket horror, literary short fiction, satirical fiction, and more to Diversion’s list and expand its international presence, Diversion founder Scott Waxman said.

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Diversion Publishing Buys U.K. Indie Press

The addition of the London-based Influx Press will add about 75 titles to Diversion’s list and expand its international presence, Diversion founder Scott Waxman said.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/03/2026

Amid anxieties about the state of heterosexual romance, depictions of realistic sex are more important than ever, Lily Meyer writes—so why are so many novelists shying away from them? theatln.tc/tUcOHgYl

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

10/7/16: WikiLeaks releases John Podesta’s hacked emails 10/8/16: Jeffrey Epstein forwards a link to the drop to Peter Thiel Associates of MAGA3X—created by Thiel ally Jeff Giesea—later spread false claims that the emails contain coded proof of Dems engaging in pedophilia h/t Peter Jukes 1/

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/02/2026

The writer Rod Dreher has spoken of fallen angels and portals to the demonic. Robert F. Worth spoke with Dreher to find out more about his worldview: theatln.tc/bRnrBxS6

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026

New in PN: We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab "Trump’s adulation of Putin could hardly offer a starker warning of just how far he's willing to go, & how much more damage he may be willing to impose, to maintain his grip on power, particularly if — as seems likely — that grip begins to flag"

publicnotice.co

We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab

The nihilism of the regime is its most terrifying attribute.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

MAGAs are promoting their “SAVE Act” as if their lives depend on passing it. Their promotion of SAVE is *everywhere* on X, but hardly anyone is warning what it really does or calling on voters to tell their Senators to vote NO. They claim to have 50 votes. They need 60 w/ the filibuster. 51 without.

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Laura-Louise Slattery @redheadpinupreader.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

⚠️ NEW BLOG POST! ⚠️ ✒️ 5 things I wish I knew before publishing my book 📖 redheadpinupreader.substack.com/p/5-things-i... #writer #authorsky #booksky #amwriting #writingcommunity #indiepublishing #indieauthor #blogpost #writersky

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carljungfranz.bsky.social @carljungfranz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

* Carl Jung’s analysis of Adolf Hitler was primarily psychological and symbolic, viewing him not as an individual man, but as a "collective" phenomenon who embodied the repressed desires and anxieties of the German people. * www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mtY...

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Trump & Hitler: The Dark Psychology of Power Through Jung’s Eyes (Backed by Depth Psychology)

YouTube video by Philozy

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