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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 35m

show us one shred of evidence to support that, Markwayne Note: evidence does not include "people didn't vote for Republicans like they should have"

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 2h

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2h

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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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 44m

"We are researching just HOW rich we can make Mark Zuckerberg" totes legit

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h

"The courts have interpreted (Article I, Section 6) to give lawmakers broad protection for what they say in Congress. Republicans have used this protection to make outrageous accusations and to spread disinformation. That practice was on display in spades today."

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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Chuck (flightless) @mrcott.bsky.social · 16h

Another neighbor foster will be at @pawschicago.bsky.social in the next few days, this tiny kitten is extra small, looks like Halloween and her name is Cappuccino. If you're in Chicago and looking for a tiny pal please keep an eye on their website

All four pictures are of a tiny kitten with orange and black patchy coloring, she is very small and looks a bit like a cute alien

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 4h

My take is that Hunter is a failson and overall bad person but that he clearly was lawfare'd to hurt his dad.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

these are not difficult steps to take, guys

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

GOP: Voter fraud is real! Climate change is a hoax! Jack Smith went to an Atlanta Hawks game! Cutting taxes on the rich raises revenues!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

"Schmitt says he stands by his claim that Smith is a 'dirtbag' and a perjurer. And with that kind of commitment to the bit, he’s definitely a shoe-in for the VP spot." — @lizdye.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith

When gotchas go disastrously wrong.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

He says "imagine a theocracy with mad men at the helm that are actually threatening to destroy America; that would be a lot more expensive in the long run" Yes, Richie, that's why I think it was a mistake to elect Trump (again) and put the GOP to power

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

paramour is an excellent word that should be used more often

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

this is the attention to detail a combination of Trump staffers and AI brings

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 3h

looks like he's just getting ready to dash to his left

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 19h

If you’re an adult who now says Super Intelligence because that person said so, you are, in fact, not an adult at all. Pathetic

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

when you need to be cut off from the Diet Coke refills (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Trump, looking extremely orange with his eyes barely open, with Zuckerberg today at the WH

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 20h

You have staffers to know about sports and stuff so you don’t get embarrassed like this. The problem with hiring groypers is that all of their normal guy knowledge has been removed and replaced with theories about skull shapes.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 18h

jeez louise this is childish and stupid

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22h

rapist administration doesn't see any problems here, nope

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22h

will any of those toadies and sycophants there acknowledge that this is not how it is done, actually? Presidents don't just get to name random concepts or ideas or things willy-nilly

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22h

don't want no pointy-headed egghead intellectuals teaching our officers strategy and policy, nosirreebob ... meanwhile, the Iran war is going WONDERFULLY, we have won it 15 times over!

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 23h

Bluesky on this browser today is determined to not let me see posts older than 42 minutes ago...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Siri, is a Hawkeye like a Hawk?

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is highly amusing Schmitt definitely VP material, yessir

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

scenes from an authoritarian cult -- Trump signs an EO, and then all of his cronies keep clapping and clapping for him since none of them wants to be the first one to stop

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Trump’s nihilistic policies have starkly put the lie to the Reaganite promise of prosperity through assaulting the government. America’s wage earners now receive the smallest share of the nation’s income since relevant records began to be kept after World War II."

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my worst score at this game (other than ones where the site mistook me navigating the globe for my guess) www.maptap.gg September 29 94🏅 92🏆 92🏆 83🌟 78😁 Final score: 853

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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game

Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Textile embroidered art by Sophie Standing, British born textile artist #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring an elephant facing forwards

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

fun fact, but Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko were all YOUNGER than Donald Trump when they died...

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We seem to be amused that the president cannot remain conscious during virtually any Oval Office event. This is a very sick man. He is unfit for his job. It is an issue the country should take more seriously.

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fair play to Arsenal skipper Martin Ødegaard's father, he refused an offer from a law firm to set up an offshore company in a tax haven to manage his son's image rights when Martin signed for Real Madrid, saying everyone should pay taxes. 🔴⚪

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Ben Austwick / BiggusBennus @biggusbennus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still find it astonishing that Sir Ian Livingstone is the only person knighted for services to the UK games industry. Film, TV and sport are constantly recognised with knighthoods, yet one of Britain's biggest creative industries has had just one.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

akshully, Fauci had no authority to shut things down states did, and all Fauci could do was make recommendations and offer advice

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm more worried about the dark, dangerous road to authoritarianism, where the Republican Party's GPS seems to want to take us all

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's a good ad, and Husted is crap but it's interesting how we routinely have political ads (even ones I like!) use both "shit" and "fuck"...

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Johnson continued, "ultimately if we can get Medicaid to $0, it will be infinitely strong"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How embarrassing 😳

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