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civil rights lawyer, leftist, amateur musician, gamer, bi black guy. lifelong chiefs/royals fan. 🇹🇬 🇺🇸.
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warren.senate.gov
I’ve been asked to weigh in on the debate over whether to bring an iced coffee to an interview.

It doesn't matter.

Iced coffee is NOT why it's hard to land a job right now, and it's NOT why Gen Z can't get ahead.

Our economy is rigged. We need to change that.
September 30, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
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.
September 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM
davidwave4.bsky.social
I'm gonna need more folks to boosting Tinashe's new album Popstar on this platform. It's a genuinely excellent record from a seriously underrated artist.
September 30, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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popcrave.com
Pitchfork gives ‘Popstar’ by Tinashe a score of 9.0.
September 30, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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katelynburns.com
your favorite bar can't be a safe environment for revolutionary praxis if it goes out of business
September 23, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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jpbrammer.bsky.social
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
September 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
davidwave4.bsky.social
We’re already seeing Black women at the vanguard of left politics. Everyone from Darializa Avila Chevalier to Melat Kiros to Angie Nixon. Not surprising that the most energetic and potent force in Democratic politics rn is led in part by Black women.
karenattiah.bsky.social Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15d
Actually I think the high rates of unemployed black women would push Black women further to the left—- affordable / free health care especially.

But no. The right wing is targeting Black voters saying that left-wing policies are communism. Basically.
September 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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jamellebouie.net
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
September 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
davidwave4.bsky.social
Chiefs looking really good so far.
September 15, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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billbarnwell.com
The various Chiefs running backs had one *game* with 60 or more rushing yards all season in 2025.

Kenneth Walker just racked up 60 on one *play*.
September 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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ryanlcooper.com
that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts
mtkonczal.bsky.social Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 28d
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
September 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader who galvanized the modern women’s movement, challenged sexist assumptions and fought for gender equality, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4cVollO
September 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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bernkastl.bsky.social
taps the sign like very aggressively
September 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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aftermath.site
The Lovers is a sapphic romance that will restore your faith in the power of indie animation

aftermath.site/the-lovers-stu...
The Lovers
August 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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alexip718.com
I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era.

US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes
alexip718.com Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · Aug 28
Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE.

This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · Aug 27
“The Berkeley International Office announced Wednesday that it will pause international students’ applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training “for the foreseeable future.”
August 31, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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amandamull.bsky.social
No greater tribute to Dolly than depicting her as she always preferred to be: stacked and snatched
people.com People Magazine @people.com · Aug 25
🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV

Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.

Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video.

📷: Getty
August 25, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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jamellebouie.net
August 25, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app
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Excerpted paragraph from KBJ's dissent from Supreme Court's latest bullshit order, reading as follows: In the end, though, what makes today's ruling so off-base is the Court's lack of situational awareness regarding this equitable judgment. It treats the Government's stay application as if the whole point is merely to demonstrate that the Plaintiff States' claims are not justiciable. Taking its eye off the ball, the majority misses the Government's actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.
August 25, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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democrats.org
NEWS: Angie Nixon has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida!
A photo of Angie Nixon, with text that reads: "Midterm news: Angie Nixon wins Florida Democratic primary for U.S. Senate."
August 19, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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katelynburns.com
"Democrats in any race are going to be smeared as tranny-loving commies regardless of how many times you call trans women 'men'."

Please subscribe! www.burnsnotice.com/democratic-c...
Democratic Candidates Must Beware of Betraying Queer Voters
New data from the Human Rights Campaign shows how much power LGBTQ voters have at the ballot box
www.burnsnotice.com
August 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
davidwave4.bsky.social
Mangione getting to cop to the murder and escaping jail for it would solidify him as a folk hero. Top tier lawyering if they can make it stick
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 14
While pleading guilty in federal court on stalking charges on Friday, Luigi Mangione said that he shot Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare executive. His lawyers said they would argue that his plea means he cannot be tried for murder in state court. nyti.ms/4cobEjb
August 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
I find the discourse around "wokeness" to be dishonest and tedious, but this is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago and I think it remains correct: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I could go on, but I think you get the point. These things are real; they happened. To believe that the disadvantages of race, class, and gender imposed lawfully over centuries never occurred or entirely disappeared in just a few decades is genuinely “radical” in a negative way; to believe that creating those disadvantages was wrong and that they should be rectified is not. The idea that no one ever succeeds based on advantages unrelated to their personal abilities is likewise radical, and also ludicrous. But you can, perhaps, understand why one of the richest men in the world would consider the opposing idea—that where many people end up in life is the result of unearned advantages—to be a “woke mind virus” that should be eradicated. That kind of thinking leads to higher marginal tax rates for people with private planes. Some people so deeply resent the implication that they possess any unearned advantage that, in Republican-run states all over the country, the same folks who were recently shrieking about free speech and oversensitive snowflakes are busy using the power of the state to ban discussions about factual matters that might hurt their feelings, such as descriptions of racial segregation in the story of Rosa Parks. The irony here is that by framing everything they don’t like as a symptom of pervasive oppression against white people or Christians that must be rectified by the state, they have themselves adopted the inverse of the logic they decry as “wokeness.” They believe that America’s demographic majorities are the targets of broad institutional discrimination, which is unjust not because such discrimination is morally abhorrent but because it is targeted at the wrong people.
August 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
davidwave4.bsky.social
New Tinashe album is gonna be wild.
August 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app
begging y'all to check out my book about this goofyass ideology, how it has taken over the law, and what we should do about it

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
August 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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kateriga.bsky.social
🚨 Kansas voters once again reject GOP efforts to trick them into losing abortion rights. The no vote prevails on an amendment that wouldve replaced the indy commission with direct (partisan) elections for Supreme Court justices — which the AG promised would "slowly & quietly" let GOP stock the court
August 5, 2026 at 2:22 AM