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Martin

@truemartin.bsky.social
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Rockford (west siiiide)... nyc... Chicago... And now, rural nw Ohio... It's been a strange trip. We succeed through community. Always.

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13/10/2026
Bryan Cranston pays tribute to RJ Mitte
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Jose Carlos Fajardo @fuzyjoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here is a collection of my favorite Golden State Valkyries photos from this season. Feel free to share! Thanks! #valkyries #Ballhalla #ValksFam #goldenstatevalkyries #wnba #photojournalism #photography
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#BookSky 🕵️
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Finish every day and be done with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth. On April 23,2026, a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seriously 💥
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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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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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Broken windows policing is a debate, but how come we never debate fixed windows governing?
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Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This history of the Galveston Movement by @bestonetx.bsky.social provides a compelling argument about the benefits of #immigration and a model for how its advocates could develop a pragmatic, community-based response to nativist restrictionism. 🗃️ #academia clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/09/22/f...
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Forgetting the Galveston Movement
The Galveston Movement provides a compelling example of the benefits of immigration and a model for how its advocates could develop a pragmatic, community-based response to nativist restrictionism.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hispanic Heritage Awards - the humanitarian award - went to the people of Minnesota. Antonio Tijerino, president and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, said a local man invited national leaders to visit in February. They came and left inspired by how people rallied to protect their neighbors.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Boo-sty Shackleford @ginerso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well uh, this is weirdly accurate
Top half of the image is Chuck E. Cheese. The bottom is Elizabeth Holmes. They somehow have the same vacantly earnest and untrustworthy facial expression
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Mel MCXIV ♿️🏴‍☠️🇺🇸😈✊️🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺 @melmcxiv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I can afford $9.25 in Dolly's name on Dolly's Day, 9/25 ... what about you?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm just gonna say that I have a friend who worked in the WTC on 9/11 and overslept and still can't talk about what happened to the people who arrived to work on time. I know people who perished there and at the Pentagon. I worked a block from the WH that day and was part of the evac.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 The 1930 Watsonville Anti‑Filipino Riots is another forgotten chapter of American history. The violence that took place was disgusting. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Jan. 19, 1930 | White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wow. $15,000-20,000 refundable tax credit (you get the money like a grant if your taxes aren't as high as the benefit) for keeping journalists hired. $15,000 for hiring new ones. $7,500 for hiring part-time. For-profit, nonprofit, **sole-proprietors** — doesn't matter. How did this happen???
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California Legislature Passes Nation’s Largest Proposed Investment in Community News
Historic effort provides support to local news outlets for hiring or retaining local journalists, AB 2222 now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Silenthilldude👻🇬🇹 @silenthilldude.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you
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Martin @truemartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A guy drives a lady to New York. A while later, they have lunch together at a Jewish deli.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🎞 Network, 1976
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. www.notus.org/immigration/...
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...
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Elizabeth @lizard714.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Each generation inherits a little less nature and somehow learns to call it normal. Our grandparents remember rivers teeming with fish. Our parents remember trees filled with birds. Today, children grow up amidst concrete, plastic, smoke, heat, and silence.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
News from the frontlines:
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Neil Stone
Dr Neil Stone

This is smallpox 

You've never had it or even seen it 

Because of vaccines
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~ Charles Darwin
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When scientists say it’s not too late to address the climate crisis, we really mean it. Resources to work through your climate emotions and then get involved in activism are always linked in my bio.
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2026
public libraries ftw
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Minnesota will return 1,376 hectares of forest to the Fond du Lac Nation of the Ojibwe people. The community will recover ancestral lands and combine traditional knowledge with modern science to manage forests and protect biodiversity.
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s time for another round of Good Climate News, my evidence-based weekly newsletter and video series that looks at recent progress on climate. Read more in the latest edition at the link below. goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-49...
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United For Democracy @weareufd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Seattle festival shooting makes SCOTUS’s Hawaii ruling look even worse. Hawaii said no concealed guns on private property open to the public without the owner’s permission. The Roberts Court struck it down 6–3. Gun rights over lives. Again.
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