Diane Payne
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Person who lives with dogs and cats. Writer. Gardener. Swimmer. Hiker.
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Catherine Rampell
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If we play our cards right, soon weāll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots
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Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
5 days ago
cool new issue of Cutleaf, guest edited by
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
and Michelle Ross. The stories were collaboratively written by
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
and
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
, Amanda Ellard and Madison Porter, and
@dianelp.bsky.social
and Ania Payne. Check it out here:
cutleafjournal.com
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Cutleaf Journal
An online journal of short fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry, published regularly. Cutleaf Journal is a project of @eastoverpress.
https://cutleafjournal.com/
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Mother daughter story posted today for those who have endured remodeling jobs:
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Too Pregnant for Mice or Men - Cutleaf Journal
Week 32: Plumbers
https://cutleafjournal.com/content/too-pregnant-for-mice-or-men?fbclid=IwY2xjawRpYLlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe9Bh8Fj6B-SONNDGPxxtzMpOM-cT5HBFyKbiV4WCA9e939amaIazbBUsfKWc_aem_i8uSPzgM6I-0Iw-7USWKxQ
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The New Republic
about 1 month ago
The Dept of Defense is lowering standards for everyone except the highly qualified, motivated people who belong to minority groups the White House despises. Based on his new recruitment policies, Hegseth cares more about winning culture wars than the real war he just helped start.
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I wish more people were as (ideally considerably more) concerned about all the innocent people being murdered by the regimes of Trump and Netanyahu as they are about the price of gas. What about the price of those losing their lives over a senseless war?
about 2 months ago
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Mother Jones
about 2 months ago
Israelās bombing of Iranās oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from the widening war.
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The bombing of Iranian oil facilities is causing a health and environmental nightmare
Acid rain, toxic air, contaminated water and soil, and the possibility of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/bombing-iran-oil-facilities-risks-health-environment-acid-rain-contamination-water-soil-air/
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Thank you
@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social
. We need to do everything we can to help getting detained immigrants released.
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Joaquin Castro Is on a Quest to Get Detained Immigrants Released
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/joaquin-castro-immigration-detention-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.YYYq.ovJ8u7LV2Ze9&smid=bs-share
about 2 months ago
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Please take a minute to sign this petition.
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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 Didnāt Kill Anyone. Alabama Is About to Execute Him Anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/opinion/governor-ivey-sonny-burton-alabama-clemency.html
2 months 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 ā Feels Blind Literary
https://www.feelsblindliterary.com/payne13
2 months 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:
actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...
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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. Weāve spent decades building savings, choosing where to bank, where to invest, and where to shopācompanies count on our loyalty. This Valentineās 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 itās 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. Heās 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
3 months ago
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Better than bringing your immunocompromised friends soup is getting vaccinated for the flu and covid.
4 months ago
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Scott Horton
5 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
5 months ago
It is driving me crazy that Iām not seeing widespread coverage of these statements by the President. This is a big deal! If a news organization isnāt 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 āmany friendsā had asked him to pardon Mr. HernĆ”ndez: āThey gave him 45 years because he was the President of the Country ā you could do this to any President.ā 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
5 months ago
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine
6 months ago
Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! šāā¬ššāā¬
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social
@aniking.bsky.social
@tiffmzlee.bsky.social
@freybytheway.bsky.social
@dianelp.bsky.social
@ezhang77.bsky.social
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George Conway āļøšŗšø
6 months ago
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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.Ā They hoot and holler. Then they see a cat, and on...
https://straylightmag.com/fiction-nine-lives-by-diane-payne/
6 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 Democratsā 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
6 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.
7 months ago
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Mindciteš„
7 months ago
Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?" Older veteran: ā87.ā Younger veteran: āOut here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.ā Older veteran: āItās just beginning.ā š¦ š¦ š¦
#ResistanceUnited
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Sherrilyn Ifill
8 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 Kirkās 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
8 months ago
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine
8 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
8 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
8 months ago
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Lucia Romano, MBA
8 months ago
My God. Chills.
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David Corn
8 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
8 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
8 months ago
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine
9 months ago
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Robert Reich
9 months ago
The biggest US copper wire manufacturers are still raising their prices even after most copper imports received tariff exemptions.Ā 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.
10 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 Israelās harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gazaās 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
10 months ago
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Seth Abramson
10 months ago
Trump is selling a pardon to a child sex trafficker by getting her to promise in advance sheāll exculpate him for the things Iām about to reveal that he didāand 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
10 months ago
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Will Myers
10 months ago
"I ain't dead yet, mfer..." āRichard Pryor (and America, apparently)
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Robert Reich
10 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?
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Catherine Rampell
11 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 presidentā...
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 Netanyahuās 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
11 months ago
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Good grief. Any bets how this will unfold?
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim ź¹ķģ± š«
11 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, itās fascism.
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Erika Dreifus
11 months ago
It's not even 11am, and the day is getting bleaker all the time.
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