www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “On the campaign trail, Green sought to link Menefee with big-money politics, accusing his challenger of being aligned with “Trump crypto cronies”, ”

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

New York Democrats have introduced a bill to tax 100% of all funds any New Yorker receives from Trump's January 6th slush fund.

Chat, it’s just hard to even show how big it is

Hungary’s new prime minister has halved his own salary and cut the wages of his ministers to regain public trust and “set an example”, after years of corruption. Péter Magyar announced that he would reduce his annual pay to 45.6m forints, less than half the 93.6m paid to his predecessor Viktor Orbán

Officials have confirmed multiple fatalities after an 80,000-gallon vat of white liquor ruptured at a facility in Longview, WA. https://www.koin.com/news/washington/major-chemical-explosion-longview/?cid=bluesky_ 

Catholic Church nails it. Beautiful and perfect

They should do that Jubilee show with the Pope. Like "1 Pope vs 20 Conservatives Catholics Who Just Converted."

Fun fact: Crows 🐦‍⬛ wag their tails when they’re happy.😃

"everyone" = men with money

thomas is very obviously mainlining the most putrid far right slop imaginable

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Americans are optimistically choosing between food and medicine.

So that’s the plan!

THREAD 🧵 The UN's International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament (#IWDPD) commemorates campaigners who strived to end conflict. Here are nine women you should know about ⤵️

It's the anniversary of the meeting of Constitutional Convention:

Bad-ass Pope Leo XIV bitch-slaps Pete Hegseth, while inviting @anthropic.com co-founder @colah.bsky.social to his press conference: "[I]t is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

What a fantastic project. Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social #250to250 “A series of 1 min stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history.” #WeAreAmerica250 youtu.be/_Z5yXXMJ4WQ?...

United States Representative Chrissy Houlahan shares how the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, proposed by Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith, changed the military forever. #WeAreAmerica250

My dad survived 19 trips across the Atlantic on convoys during The War. www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-a...

Erin Brockovich’s website that has a map of major AI data centers in the U.S. that are either operational or under construction.

Obama had 11 attempts on his life. Biden had 5 attempts on his life. Bet you never heard of them. Because MSM never reported on them. Why? The WH asked for them not to, so not to invite copycat scenarios. Trump promotes them.

How it felt being in Kyiv last night

Don't know if anyone can use this, but I put it together because it's a tool I needed myself. These are multiple, alphabetical examples of Jeffrey Epstein's handwriting. #EpsteinFiles ellieleonard.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York. n.pr/42UTS21

No truer words were ever spoken...

💸 #grift #grift #griftity #grift

I’ve been to events in the Mellon ballroom and it’s pretty big!

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.

Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social linktr.ee/public_citizen

FETTERMAN CONFRONTED: “I’m a breast cancer survivor, I had a double mastectomy, and the Trump administration took my health care away… And you’re standing with him.” Fetterman can barely talk. Painful to watch as usual.

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So yesterday Trump posted a video of him crashing Stephen Colbert's final show, and literally throwing him in the garbage, and of course, I had to FIX it. #DonaldTrump #StephenColbert

If you are going to be lost at sea, you could be rescued by an otter.

🚨 The Trump DOJ has now moved to dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and several other Oath Keepers who participated in the January 6th insurrection — with prejudice — meaning the charges cannot be brought again.

ICYMI — Israeli settlers installed screens in a square as if it were a soccer match, cheering every bomb that explodes the homes of families in Lebanon… dystopian… (From Trita Parsi) @tparsi.bsky.social

Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space

Seven years after this speech, Lewis Powell wrote the memo that launched the machine designed to dismantle every word of it. Medicare, Medicaid, voting rights, public education, consumer protection —all targets. The Great Society wasn’t destroyed because it failed. It was targeted because it worked.

Trump has announced the closure of the country’s primary bee research lab, which has sparked alarm among farmers, beekeepers, scientists, and people just like you and me as the honeybee population collapses across the country. Ballrooms and wars or bees? Nov 3rd, 2026 youtube.com/shorts/IotX-...

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Shapiro: I was shocked when we discovered that within minutes of presenting ourselves as individuals who were in distress, this chatbot began dispensing medical advice. When pressed further, it said, “Hey, here’s my medical ID number.” That is against the law in Pennsylvania, and so we took action

The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

Physical attack (Havana Syndrome) & intimidation force Investigative Journalist Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez who has blown the lid off dark secrets at Zorro Ranch to leave the country Powerful people involved w/Epstein will do whatever it takes to keep his secrets secret www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...

This is like trying to drill for oil through the ruins of Pompeii. Chaco canyon is one of the most significant native archeological sites in the United States. Absolutely disgusting to even propose it

John A. Klinner Ariana G. Savino Ashley B. Pruitt Seth R. Koval Curtis J. Angst Tyler H. Simmons Benjamin N. Pennington Robert Marzan Jeffrey O’Brien Declan Coady Nicole Amor Noah Tietjens Cody Khork The thirteen lives lost.

Pastor realizes he can't edit live streams after being rude

McGovern: Can you explain what is happening with the Iran war powers resolution that was scheduled to be voted on this evening? Are we not voting on it because the American people are sick and tired of this illegal war that is costing tens of billions of dollars?

After auctioning Late Night Show memorabilia, Stephen Colbert raised nearly $2.5 million for @wck.org and the humanitarian efforts of José Andrés and chefs feeding victims of war and disasters around the world. 👏🕊️❤️ latenighter.com/news/late-sh...

Stop pretending this is about cracking down on fraud when Trump literally let people who stole hundreds of millions in Medicare and Medicaid money walk free. One guy stole $1.3 billion and served 14 months of a 20-year sentence. When a reporter asked the DOJ about it, they refused to answer.