The great @izzy-diaz.bsky.social yesterday

The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark, by Robert K Elder (Paperback, NEW) The movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. Robert K. Elder's i The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors...

1 remaining copy of The Film That Saved My Life, an understated but moving collection of reminiscences.
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US troops who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Excellent work by Paula Ailén at @artsallianceofstfd.bsky.social

How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists

Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

and yet the intensity of reporting around trump and affordability has not reached 1/10000th the intensity it had under biden. the msm is not emphasizing this issue and its because theyre trying to help trump and the gop.

Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago

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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

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Minnesota Is Restoring the Voting Rights of Tens of Thousands - Bolts Editor’s note (March 3): Governor Tim Walz signed House File 28 on March 3. Elizer Darris has thought many times about how it must feel to hold one of the... Read More

Wisconsin already has among the harsher rules in the country — since many people who're not presently in prison are barred from voting because they're on parole and probation.

Roughly half the states in the nation allow anyone not in prison to vote, including recently in neighboring Minnesota:

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER EUROPE

Thousands of records are being brutalized with margins never seen before allover Europe from West to East
In 3 centuries of world climatic history there had never been anything remotely close to this.
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Most extreme day the world has ever seen

I fear it's being overlooked that next term, the Supreme Court will likely strike down:

•what's left of the Voting Rights Act
•all bans on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors
•the last remaining pillar of McCain–Feingold's campaign finance reform

... while upholding bans on trans student athletes.

Shoot The Messenger, Part II

Had the honor of working with @sensitivityandpowr.bsky.social today. Todo lo mejor, Sol. Eres excelente.

life drawing of a figure model from the back. pencil

life session today

The "unable to independently verify the language" implies that they are fully confident that the question was asked, and slightly less confident about how it was answered.

And for *some reason* Reuters didn’t put in the headline that the answer was “NO, IT’S FOR WHITES ONLY”

Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...

"Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

Vexatious litigation initiated or funded by right wing billionaires is one of the more potent attacks on free speech.

89% of Americans want the files released according to a CBS/YouGov poll

I'm adopting it

Opinion: 16 years with minimum wage falling further behind the cost of living Opinion: Raising the minimum wage is good for business as well as workers.

When the minimum wage doesn’t go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009.

The federal minimum wage peaked in buying power way back in 1968, when it was worth $15.09 in 2025 dollars.

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simplest explanation is that the court conservatives believe trump is sovereign and thus free of all limits on his authority