Diana
@dianapesti1.bsky.social
Books, cats, gardens, architecture, art, music, dance, culture, nature, science, truthful news and journalism, animals, and other interests as I encounter them. Fellow Twitter refugee looking for hope. My handle there was diana@realpestilence.
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I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
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There is nothing an American president could do worse for his own people than starving the poor right before Thanksgiving.
Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:
Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
There is nothing an American president could do worse for his own people than starving the poor right before Thanksgiving.
Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:
Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:
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Understand what this means. Trump & Republicans are using your tax dollars and mine to pay other countries to literally torture and sexually assault people ICE abducted and deported from the US -- all without due process or any evidence they had committed a crime. Are you okay with that? I am not.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Understand what this means. Trump & Republicans are using your tax dollars and mine to pay other countries to literally torture and sexually assault people ICE abducted and deported from the US -- all without due process or any evidence they had committed a crime. Are you okay with that? I am not.
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After Tuesday’s elections, Republicans are even more desperate to prevent free and fair elections in 2026. In this video, I lay out the eight things we should all expect next and what we can do to fight back. youtu.be/7rSwJPz2MRo?...
8 Ways Republicans Will Subvert The 2026 Election
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
After Tuesday’s elections, Republicans are even more desperate to prevent free and fair elections in 2026. In this video, I lay out the eight things we should all expect next and what we can do to fight back. youtu.be/7rSwJPz2MRo?...
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The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
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Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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The same Supreme Court that just acted overnight to unleash ICE raids that break apart families and brutalize people in LA, couldn't find the time in 2024 to fast-track Jack Smith's case against a sitting president for trying to overthrow our government.
Their priorities tell you everything.
Their priorities tell you everything.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court lifts restrictions on Los Angeles immigration stops, clearing the way for federal agents to conduct sweeping immigration operations.
Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up US citizens
The Supreme Court is clearing the way for federal agents to conduct sweeping immigration operations in Los Angeles, the latest victory for President Donald Trump’s administration at the high court.
bit.ly
September 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The same Supreme Court that just acted overnight to unleash ICE raids that break apart families and brutalize people in LA, couldn't find the time in 2024 to fast-track Jack Smith's case against a sitting president for trying to overthrow our government.
Their priorities tell you everything.
Their priorities tell you everything.
or any day.
Say what you want, but Mitch McConnell isn't getting nearly as much hate as he deserves today.
September 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
or any day.
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Trump’s contradictions on farmworkers echo a long history of romanticizing farming — one bound up with race, nature, exploitation, and the nation’s identity, says a historian of agriculture and labor.
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By @dcsackman.bsky.social, University of Puget Sound
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By @dcsackman.bsky.social, University of Puget Sound
‘These people do it naturally’: President Trump’s views on immigrant farmworkers reflect a long history of how farming has been idealized and practiced in America
Historically, farm work in the United States has been carefully constructed to appear natural, including the racism and labor exploitation that characterizes it, a scholar writes.
theconversation.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Trump’s contradictions on farmworkers echo a long history of romanticizing farming — one bound up with race, nature, exploitation, and the nation’s identity, says a historian of agriculture and labor.
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By @dcsackman.bsky.social, University of Puget Sound
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By @dcsackman.bsky.social, University of Puget Sound
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A photograph of a row of barracks at the Granada incarceration camp in Colorado. The photograph was taken on August 29, 1944.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
August 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A photograph of a row of barracks at the Granada incarceration camp in Colorado. The photograph was taken on August 29, 1944.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!
Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
August 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!
Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...
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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis 🗃️
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis 🗃️
May 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis 🗃️
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis 🗃️
I think this was the first book I checked out from the library for myself as a child, & a series I loved and re-read often. #books #kidlit #fiction #literature #nostalgia #comfortreads
April 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I think this was the first book I checked out from the library for myself as a child, & a series I loved and re-read often. #books #kidlit #fiction #literature #nostalgia #comfortreads
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#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #flagandcross #gorski #perry #tisby #white #christian #nationalism #socialist #hate #atheist #muslim #threat #flag #cross #churchandstate
April 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Republicans want Americans to die. No other explanation
April 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Republicans want Americans to die. No other explanation
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
Tell Trump and the GOP: Do NOT Defund our Libraries and Museums
An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
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#BookSky
The audiobook includes music, singing, the sounds of running waters-- The novella is a story of fairy and of magic and of the beauty of language
The audiobook includes music, singing, the sounds of running waters-- The novella is a story of fairy and of magic and of the beauty of language
April 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
#BookSky
The audiobook includes music, singing, the sounds of running waters-- The novella is a story of fairy and of magic and of the beauty of language
The audiobook includes music, singing, the sounds of running waters-- The novella is a story of fairy and of magic and of the beauty of language
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Educators.
I am doing a webinar on Friday April 11 about how to interest students in climate using Trump's interest in Greenland. Free. Register at the link below.
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#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
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I am doing a webinar on Friday April 11 about how to interest students in climate using Trump's interest in Greenland. Free. Register at the link below.
❄️💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Greenland, Trump, and Melting Ice: teaching climate and climate change in today’s uncertain world.. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email...
Greenland’s back in the news courtesy of Donald Trump and his focus on the Arctic Island provides an ideal catalyst for stoking student interest in climate and climate change.
During this interactiv...
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April 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Educators.
I am doing a webinar on Friday April 11 about how to interest students in climate using Trump's interest in Greenland. Free. Register at the link below.
❄️💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I am doing a webinar on Friday April 11 about how to interest students in climate using Trump's interest in Greenland. Free. Register at the link below.
❄️💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🧪 🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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"The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them." — Erasmus (d. 1536)
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April 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them." — Erasmus (d. 1536)
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It won't stop with the American born children of immigrants, either.
Trump asks Supreme Court to strip birthright citizenship—despite nationwide block.
His order denies U.S. citizenship to children of undocumented parents, attacking the 14th Amendment itself.
This isn’t just policy—it’s an attempt to rewrite who gets to be American.
His order denies U.S. citizenship to children of undocumented parents, attacking the 14th Amendment itself.
This isn’t just policy—it’s an attempt to rewrite who gets to be American.
March 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It won't stop with the American born children of immigrants, either.