Diane Payne
@dianelp.bsky.social
Person who lives with dogs and cats. Writer. Gardener. Swimmer. Hiker.
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.
The Trump regime is a violent disgrace, an embarrassment for our country.
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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.
The Trump regime is a violent disgrace, an embarrassment for our country.
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Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! 🐈⬛🏆🐈⬛
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November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! 🐈⬛🏆🐈⬛
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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...
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...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"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...
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...
Maria Corina Machado is the opposite of Trump. Happy she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Needed some good news.
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Maria Corina Machado is the opposite of Trump. Happy she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Needed some good news.
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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 🔥 🔥 🔥
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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 🔥 🔥 🔥
Older veteran: “87.”
Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”
Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”
🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome.
GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
September 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome.
GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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...
Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Revisit our stunning September CNF!!
Micros by
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September 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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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
Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ
September 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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
Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ
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Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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My God. Chills.
September 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My God. Chills.
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I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.
See this:
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dems should polarize this debate to the max.
Thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
September 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.
thank you @claudineliterary.bsky.social for including me in your first issue! www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne
Diane Payne | Circus
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September 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
thank you @claudineliterary.bsky.social for including me in your first issue! www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne
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...
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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August 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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.
More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.
August 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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.
More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.
Screw Trumps tariffs. Feed the Gazans. Stop funding Israel's war against Gaza.
July 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Screw Trumps tariffs. Feed the Gazans. Stop funding Israel's war against Gaza.
Sickens me knowing how many people are starving in Gaza.
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Sickens me knowing how many people are starving in Gaza.
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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.
July 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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.
Enjoying this cooler weather while we patiently wait and hope for rain. #SaugatuckDunes
July 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Enjoying this cooler weather while we patiently wait and hope for rain. #SaugatuckDunes
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"I ain't dead yet, mfer..."
—Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)
—Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)
“school administrators gathered everyone in the locker room and shared the news. There was a deep silence. Some players cried. One of them threw up.”
And then they organized to get their friend freed.
Moving piece by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
And then they organized to get their friend freed.
Moving piece by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How ICE’s arrest of a high school student activated a Massachusetts town
“We’re trying to find ways the community can defend itself.”
www.motherjones.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"I ain't dead yet, mfer..."
—Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)
—Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)