I take it Melania didn't make a tier...

Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival@docfestival.bsky.social · last yr.

Deadline Today - Toronto Documentary Film Festival filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocum... We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options: audience feedback & interviews. —— #documentary #docfilmfestival

So you can’t afford groceries, gas, healthcare, utilities, or your mortgage. But hey, I got gold horses.

Beauty in the minds of Ukrainians despite civilian attacks by Russia. Note Ukraine is only attacking the petroleum centers in Russia. Only recently they've attacked Russian military leaders. I respect this. Keep the pressure on Putin. Polls suggest only 25% of Russians support continuing the war.

Jan@janstreit.bsky.social · 13h ago

Ukrainian artist, Aleksandr Smahlyi colored pencil & pastel

Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.

Since Jan6th riot, major social media initially took strong action against accounts spreading election falsehoods. Over the past few years, they have scaled back efforts, partly due to political pressure GOP AGs and lawmakers weaponized the posts allowed. Do not repost these lies esp in Michigan.

How Republicans pushed social media companies to stop fighting election misinformation | CNN Politics

The public got a taste of the new normal this summer, when social media was flooded with misinformation following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the platforms said no...

cnn.com

The World Population Review’s 2025 rankings: Texas ranks 34th overall out of 51 states, down six spots from the previous year. Other red states like Oklahoma (27th), Kansas (24th), and Missouri (31st) also rank in the mid-to-lower range. New GOP House legislation lowers the bar. Vote D in midterms!

Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13h ago

States with the lowest literacy rates shouldn’t be banning books, they should be reading them

A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

nytimes.com

Chipotle isolated a single source of Jalapeno peppers contaminated with Salmonella. They figured it out. RFK Jr. can’t

Bluesky is like “oh you like dogs? Let me personally alert you every time one dies.”

Seems like most republicans are abusers or corrupt.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 14h ago

NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”

Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.

A 66-year-old man from Brush Prairie, Washington, is accused of killing a bald eagle. According to officials, the man accused of killing the eagle kept chickens "not far" from where the dead bird was found and that a veterinarian's exam revealed two shotgun pellets in the eagle's head, killing it.

WA man accused of killing bald eagle with shotgun

A 66-year-old Washington man is accused of killing a bald eagle. Officials say that a veterinarian's exam revealed two shotgun pellets in the eagle's head, which caused its death.

yahoo.com

Missouri voters have defeated a ballot measure that would have created the nation’s most difficult standard for citizen initiatives to amend the state constitution. No other state has a standard that high. Money can't buy Michigan.

Missouri voters reject making it harder to pass amendments

Amendment 4 would have required constitutional amendments proposed by initiative petitions to pass by a majority

spectrumlocalnews.com

Progressive activist wins Democratic primary in one of the country’s biggest House races. Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence is the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s 7th District, NBC News projects, a key battleground in the fight for the House majority. Other state primaries:

Progressive activist wins Democratic primary in one of the country’s biggest House races

Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence is the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s 7th District, NBC News projects, a key battleground in the fight for the House majority.

nbcnews.com

Musk has taken credit for the last presidential election and has promised to spend whatever is needed to take the midterms. As of 2023, the top 1% of US households owned 30 cents of every dollar with above-average net worth. The remaining 167 million Americans owned about 2.6% — or $3.6 trillion.

Wealth of the American 1% and the rest of the US | USAFacts

As of 2023, the top 1% of American households owned 30 cents of every dollar.

usafacts.org

one dozen rats at a keyboard@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 14h ago

Everyone’s expectations got skewed over the past week but Abdul El-Sayed getting $70 million spent against him in a state he lost a primary by like 20 points eight years ago and still winning last night is probably the most impressive electoral accomplishment of the decade.

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.

New work requirements on social services force even the disabled to work. 82 of the 100 senators are millionaires and don't have to work. Even if they're voted out they're assured employment by the big corporations they cater to as no show jobs or lobbyists. It's a vicious circle of money.

Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social · 13h ago

The problem is, even if there is a process, it relies on people being transparent and the senate enforcing the rules. And that is clearly not going to happen in this regime.

How we say good morning….

THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......

We see that our political system is broken, then keep behaving as if it worked. We need serious change, and it's time to take bigger swings.

Our next president.

M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social · 15h ago

THIS 👇 HERE, PETE BUTTIGIEG....

Consider the current plight of farmers and the wealth this could generate, the cartels it would put out of business, the jobs it would generate and spending in the economy. What's the hold up? The powerful liquor lobby. Pharmaceutical research - already treats eye disease, anxiety, pain, addiction.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 12h ago

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

Our young people remind me of the passion of my generation. Considering the age of Congress don't they remember that very unpopular insane racist daily televised war? The recession? The wealthy, like 🤡, didn't serve. Not a single senator has been in the military because they're rich. 82 millionaires

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 23h ago

MacFarlane: I think it's an anti-establishment era we may be entering here. Look at all the different ways in which people are bucking against establishment. If El-Sayed is somebody who channels people who don't want the establishment to run and to reign, he's going to have a big night…

Awww….That idiot (aka Putain de Merde) in the White House missed the legal deadline for screwing up birthright citizenship. I liked the cartoon. I don’t care who boots him out of our country.

At 15 I was forced to marry my rapist, an illiterate, bed wetting, sadistic, unemployable, terrified of mommy dirty tricks "man" who impregnated me. Took me 9 years after lying about my age at my min wage electronics job to earn enough to save up for my escape, suffered thru abuse/hysterectomy at 23

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h ago

It was over for Max Miller politically when he said his wife couldn’t have been abused because she offered to make him dinner 6 days later. He may not have known it when he said it, but that was the end. You have to be a sick bastard to come up with that as your defense.

Thank you to everyone who voted today. And a special thank you to everyone who volunteered and helped at the polls! 💚