Diane Payne
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Person who lives with dogs and cats. Writer. Gardener. Swimmer. Hiker.
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Stop the Execution of Charles "Sonny" Burton
Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution on March 12th in Alabama for a crime he didn't even commit. The State of Alabama does not even dispute that fact. Please sign the petition asking Governor Ivey ...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-charles-sonny-burton-in-alabama/
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Please sign the petition to show mercy to Sonny Burton.
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Opinion | He Didn’t Kill Anyone. Alabama Is About to Execute Him Anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/opinion/governor-ivey-sonny-burton-alabama-clemency.html
7 days ago
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Here's a short diversion from the world's chaos:
www.feelsblindliterary.com/payne13
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The Heavy Lawn Chair by Diane Payne — Feels Blind Literary
https://www.feelsblindliterary.com/payne13
8 days ago
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I just wrote a
@theactionnetwork.bsky.social
letter: Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS. Write one here:
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Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS
As older Americans, we hold enormous economic power. We’ve spent decades building savings, choosing where to bank, where to invest, and where to shop—companies count on our loyalty. This Valentine’s D...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/turn-up-the-heat-melt-the-companies-that-profit-from-ice-and-dhs?source=bluesky&
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"But it’s Mr. Trump who has remade the United States in the image of the Latin America...: a place where masked men routinely leap out of unmarked vans to snatch citizens, where people are disappeared and human rights activists publicly killed..."
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Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/prospera-honduras-trump-pardon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.8puF.CZuPialITuC3&smid=bs-share
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Better than bringing your immunocompromised friends soup is getting vaccinated for the flu and covid.
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Scott Horton
3 months ago
Catherine Rampell: America is so safe now that immigration enforcement agents with no badges can enter your home while contractors are doing work, manhandle them, detain them, and leave your house a bloody mess.
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Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/trump-is-walloping-construction-businesses?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Patrick De Klotz
3 months ago
It is driving me crazy that I’m not seeing widespread coverage of these statements by the President. This is a big deal! If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.
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Mr. Trump said that “many friends” had asked him to pardon Mr. Hernández: “They gave him 45 years because he was the President of the Country — you could do this to any President.” The Trump regime is a violent disgrace, an embarrassment for our country.
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine
4 months ago
Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! 🐈⬛🏆🐈⬛
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@aniking.bsky.social
@tiffmzlee.bsky.social
@freybytheway.bsky.social
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@ezhang77.bsky.social
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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In Stratlight Mag today:
straylightmag.com/fiction-nine...
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Fiction: Nine Lives by Diane Payne - Straylight
The girl is seven. The boys are older, maybe nine. From the kitchen window, she watches them try to blow the lid off a garbage can with firecrackers. They hoot and holler. Then they see a cat, and on...
https://straylightmag.com/fiction-nine-lives-by-diane-payne/
4 months ago
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"Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/nazi-tattoo-graham-platner-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.367X._OV2DrZWoHS7&smid=bs-share
4 months ago
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Maria Corina Machado is the opposite of Trump. Happy she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Needed some good news.
5 months ago
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Mindcite💥
5 months ago
Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?" Older veteran: “87.” Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.” Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.” 🦅 🦅 🦅
#ResistanceUnited
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Sherrilyn Ifill
5 months ago
Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome. GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
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Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/opinion/kirk-killing-trans-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE8.susF.HuigMzHVjdGt&smid=bs-share
6 months ago
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine
6 months ago
Revisit our stunning September CNF!! Micros by Tiff M.Z. Lee
@tiffmzlee.bsky.social
:
www.claudineliterary.net/tiffmzlee
Diane Payne
@dianelp.bsky.social
:
www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne
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Diane Payne | Circus
https://www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne
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Wajahat Ali
6 months ago
Maybe the people who baselessly blamed transgender people for Kirk's murder and spread disinformation and hate should apologize. Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...
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Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/opinion/trump-bolsonaro-conviction-democracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU8.azTI.LPiFzLh0wLwq&smid=bs-share
6 months ago
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Lucia Romano, MBA
6 months ago
My God. Chills.
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David Corn
6 months ago
I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.
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thank you
@claudineliterary.bsky.social
for including me in your first issue!
www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne
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Diane Payne | Circus
https://www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne
6 months ago
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/bernie-sanders-robert-f-kennedy-jr-resign-hhs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iE8.5wNR.jpS8v3y4xbb6&smid=bs-share
6 months ago
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine
7 months ago
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Robert Reich
7 months ago
The biggest US copper wire manufacturers are still raising their prices even after most copper imports received tariff exemptions. More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.
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Screw Trumps tariffs. Feed the Gazans. Stop funding Israel's war against Gaza.
8 months ago
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Sickens me knowing how many people are starving in Gaza.
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/24/gaza-starvation-israel-restrictions/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwY2xjawLu_lZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt22C1ndYPGllW4OHPdF9uEFucsi3gUdQ8fY6cigmtcfdh1Do2-TesPXWPBc_aem_txE_ZZSUSujtZz1DpS5G8w
8 months ago
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Seth Abramson
8 months ago
Trump is selling a pardon to a child sex trafficker by getting her to promise in advance she’ll exculpate him for the things I’m about to reveal that he did—and it may be the sickest thing a president has ever done. Will media cover it that way? Stay tuned. Not holding my breath.
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Enjoying this cooler weather while we patiently wait and hope for rain.
#SaugatuckDunes
8 months ago
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Will Myers
8 months ago
"I ain't dead yet, mfer..." —Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket.
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If we aren't going to abolish ICE, why not have them round up all the lawless Americans shooting fireworks illegally?
9 months ago
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Catherine Rampell
9 months ago
Where is the business community?? In addition to the obvious humanitarian consequences here, this would mean something like a quarter of a million people who currently have legal permits to work would be forced out of their jobs. That is something employers will notice
www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...
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Exclusive: New Trump administration plan could end asylum claims and speed deportations for hundreds of thousands of migrants | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States and then make them immediately deportable as part of the president’...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/politics/migrants-asylum-claims-deportations?Date=20250625&Profile=CNN,CNN+Politics&utm_content=1750856924&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLJ-ghleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnHB_xhmAo5FqVMbAbIn_DnN_XJrKwUv5KHqvicBrG7n_-ZRyIbseHlLf5oT_aem_b41PhRqclqzntzhkXDqMWg
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Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...
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Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran-war-senate?akid=s81744..8lvREt
9 months ago
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Good grief. Any bets how this will unfold?
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫
9 months ago
ICE agents detain people coming out from hearings at immigration court who have upcoming scheduled hearings. ICE agents unilaterally grabs them and drags them away. When people abiding by the law get arrested, and the government openly defies the law, it’s fascism.
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Erika Dreifus
9 months ago
It's not even 11am, and the day is getting bleaker all the time.
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The Guardian
9 months ago
Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins
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Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins
Excavation crews begin sealing off site in Tuam, Co Galway, before full-scale dig starts on 14 July Preliminary work aimed at identifying the remains of nearly 800 infants is starting on the site in Tuam, Co Galway, as Ireland continues to wrestle with the traumatic legacy of its mother and baby homes scandal. Catherine Corless, a local historian who first sounded the alarm about the dark past of the institution run by nuns from the Bon Secours order, uncovered the names of 796 infants who are believed to have been buried there between 1925 and 1961, some in a disused subterranean septic tank. There were no burial records. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/16/preparatory-work-to-identify-remains-of-800-infants-at-irish-mother-and-baby-home-begins?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Is anyone else already dreading a week of fireworks exploding in your neighborhoods. I know it's not July 4 yet, but anticipatory dread is already setting in for my critters and me.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez
9 months ago
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance |
Military.com
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Military and Veteran Benefits, News, Veteran Jobs
Military.com helps millions of military-connected Americans access military and veteran benefits and news, find jobs and enjoy military discounts.
https://Military.com
9 months ago
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 months ago
ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE:
whistlebloweraid.org/beans
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Daily Beans Fundraiser - Whistleblower Aid
Daily Beans Listeners Fundraiser for Whistleblower Aid The American rule of law has survived many challenges, but now faces one of the most serious threats in our history. Checks and balances within o...
https://whistlebloweraid.org/beans
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𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩
9 months ago
All along its goal was to gain access to critical government information and personal data to sell it off to the highest bidder.
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
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We must protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness forever
A vast collection of peer-reviewed science shows that if the proposed Twin Metals mine was built along the rivers and streams flowing into the Wilderness, pollution and environmental degradation would...
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/we-must-protect-the-boundary-waters-wilderness-forever?source=bluesky-share-button&utm_source=bluesky&share=065b33ae-d943-4313-a9fb-41749e444ed8
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