DianaRD
@dianard.bsky.social
Energy Social Scientist | Researcher
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"Yesterday featured a striking spectacle: A three-and-a-quarter-hour televised Politburo meeting, in which the highest-ranking government officials of the world’s oldest and once greatest democracy abased themselves ridiculously before their presidential idol."
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All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’
An emperor president surrounded by a sycophantic cabinet is a dangerous thing.
www.thebulwark.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Yesterday featured a striking spectacle: A three-and-a-quarter-hour televised Politburo meeting, in which the highest-ranking government officials of the world’s oldest and once greatest democracy abased themselves ridiculously before their presidential idol."
www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
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🔥 Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social to Will Cain : "Do you know how many Republicans joined Dems in Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the Democrats voted for it. 0 Republicans voted for it. Spare me your both sides rhetoric."
August 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🔥 Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social to Will Cain : "Do you know how many Republicans joined Dems in Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the Democrats voted for it. 0 Republicans voted for it. Spare me your both sides rhetoric."
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Trump’s and Patel’s lies about the National Guard on January 6 fail for many other reasons, see here for example:
www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...
www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...
Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory and a Smear: Still, No Evidence of Trump Order for 10,000 Guard on January 6th
Debunking a new conspiracy theory that Trump ordered the National Guard to be ready on January 6, and that the select committee withheld information.
www.justsecurity.org
August 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Trump’s and Patel’s lies about the National Guard on January 6 fail for many other reasons, see here for example:
www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...
www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...
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Trump deploying National Guardsmen in DC exposes one of his big lies about January 6th.
Kash Patel falsely claimed for years that the Democrats failed to take Trump up on his offer to deploy the Guard on Jan. 6.
But Trump could have deployed the DC Guard himself and didn’t. Now he does.
Kash Patel falsely claimed for years that the Democrats failed to take Trump up on his offer to deploy the Guard on Jan. 6.
But Trump could have deployed the DC Guard himself and didn’t. Now he does.
August 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Trump deploying National Guardsmen in DC exposes one of his big lies about January 6th.
Kash Patel falsely claimed for years that the Democrats failed to take Trump up on his offer to deploy the Guard on Jan. 6.
But Trump could have deployed the DC Guard himself and didn’t. Now he does.
Kash Patel falsely claimed for years that the Democrats failed to take Trump up on his offer to deploy the Guard on Jan. 6.
But Trump could have deployed the DC Guard himself and didn’t. Now he does.
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Part II of our series on the broken oil royalty system in North Dakota: They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped. @northdakotamonitor.com
They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped.
Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fail...
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Part II of our series on the broken oil royalty system in North Dakota: They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped. @northdakotamonitor.com
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ARIZONA: Exactly what people said would happen is happening.
This is what @GovBillLee, Sexton and the @TNGOP have inflicted upon Tennessee with their privatizer pals.
This is our future.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
This is what @GovBillLee, Sexton and the @TNGOP have inflicted upon Tennessee with their privatizer pals.
This is our future.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
ARIZONA: Exactly what people said would happen is happening.
This is what @GovBillLee, Sexton and the @TNGOP have inflicted upon Tennessee with their privatizer pals.
This is our future.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
This is what @GovBillLee, Sexton and the @TNGOP have inflicted upon Tennessee with their privatizer pals.
This is our future.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Jennings: I just know that when we go to CNN in Washington and do a show, they send guards out with us to walk us out 200 ft. to the street.
Lathan: They don’t do that for me.
Turner: Me either.
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Lathan: They don’t do that for me.
Turner: Me either.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Jennings: I just know that when we go to CNN in Washington and do a show, they send guards out with us to walk us out 200 ft. to the street.
Lathan: They don’t do that for me.
Turner: Me either.
(ht: @acyn.bsky.social)
Lathan: They don’t do that for me.
Turner: Me either.
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Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.
Definition of terms:
“these people” = Latino migrants
“Inner city people” = Black people
“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping
Definition of terms:
“these people” = Latino migrants
“Inner city people” = Black people
“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping
Trump on undocumented farm workers: "People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They've tried, we've tried, everybody tried. They don't do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally ... they don't get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die."
August 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.
Definition of terms:
“these people” = Latino migrants
“Inner city people” = Black people
“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping
Definition of terms:
“these people” = Latino migrants
“Inner city people” = Black people
“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping
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ICE officers told a couple they could leave the U.S. with their child and return to Russia, which they had fled seeking political asylum. Or they could remain in immigration detention but their 8-year-old son would be taken away and sent to a shelter for unaccompanied children.
Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families
The practice appears to be a more targeted version of the mass separation of migrant children from their parents from President Trump’s first term, which caused a global outcry.
nyti.ms
August 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ICE officers told a couple they could leave the U.S. with their child and return to Russia, which they had fled seeking political asylum. Or they could remain in immigration detention but their 8-year-old son would be taken away and sent to a shelter for unaccompanied children.
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Last fall, @propublica.org and @documented.net broke the story that Russell Vought, Trump’s current budget chief, said he planned to put career civil servants “in trauma.”
Now, we're investigating the full extent of Vought's impact on the federal government. We need your help… 🧵 1/
Now, we're investigating the full extent of Vought's impact on the federal government. We need your help… 🧵 1/
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Last fall, @propublica.org and @documented.net broke the story that Russell Vought, Trump’s current budget chief, said he planned to put career civil servants “in trauma.”
Now, we're investigating the full extent of Vought's impact on the federal government. We need your help… 🧵 1/
Now, we're investigating the full extent of Vought's impact on the federal government. We need your help… 🧵 1/
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Community colleges, which educate roughly 40% of all undergrads in America each year, are the collateral damage in President Trump's war on elite universities. nyti.ms/40P5pzo
August 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Community colleges, which educate roughly 40% of all undergrads in America each year, are the collateral damage in President Trump's war on elite universities. nyti.ms/40P5pzo
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WHAT?!
These people are going to turn me into a conspiracy theorist.
August 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
WHAT?!
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Trump's FBI & CIA directors are spreading misinformation about the Durham report annex, claiming it shows the Clinton campaign created the "Russian collusion hoax."
It actually "concluded ... the email from 7/27/16 & a related one dated 2 days earlier were probably manufactured."
By Russia.
It actually "concluded ... the email from 7/27/16 & a related one dated 2 days earlier were probably manufactured."
By Russia.
August 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Trump's FBI & CIA directors are spreading misinformation about the Durham report annex, claiming it shows the Clinton campaign created the "Russian collusion hoax."
It actually "concluded ... the email from 7/27/16 & a related one dated 2 days earlier were probably manufactured."
By Russia.
It actually "concluded ... the email from 7/27/16 & a related one dated 2 days earlier were probably manufactured."
By Russia.
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When they show you who they are, believe them
August 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
When they show you who they are, believe them
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👀 WILLIAMSON COUNTY — local Republicans beefing with each other, seems @SenJohnson & @LeeReevesTN and the big money-backed establishment Repubs are refusing to accept that they lost control of the local party to the grass roots.
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
August 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
👀 WILLIAMSON COUNTY — local Republicans beefing with each other, seems @SenJohnson & @LeeReevesTN and the big money-backed establishment Repubs are refusing to accept that they lost control of the local party to the grass roots.
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
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FBI Director Kash Patel is citing emails that were fabricated by Russian intelligence to claim that the Clinton campaign made up Russia’s interference in 2016.
The Durham report found these emails “were ultimately a composite of several emails…obtained through Russian intelligence hacking.”
The Durham report found these emails “were ultimately a composite of several emails…obtained through Russian intelligence hacking.”
August 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
FBI Director Kash Patel is citing emails that were fabricated by Russian intelligence to claim that the Clinton campaign made up Russia’s interference in 2016.
The Durham report found these emails “were ultimately a composite of several emails…obtained through Russian intelligence hacking.”
The Durham report found these emails “were ultimately a composite of several emails…obtained through Russian intelligence hacking.”
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NEW via Bloomberg:
The FBI’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the Epstein Files blacked out Trump’s name before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted.’
The FBI’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the Epstein Files blacked out Trump’s name before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted.’
August 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NEW via Bloomberg:
The FBI’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the Epstein Files blacked out Trump’s name before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted.’
The FBI’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the Epstein Files blacked out Trump’s name before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted.’
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ICE doesn't even have a detention center in Hawaii. The men have been put in a federal prison there. Very far from home, and presumably their lawyers. Via @missionlocal.org
ICE arrested these immigrants in San Francisco and sent them 2,400 miles away—to Hawaii
One may be mentally impaired, said a judge who granted him a continuance prior to his arrest.
www.motherjones.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
ICE doesn't even have a detention center in Hawaii. The men have been put in a federal prison there. Very far from home, and presumably their lawyers. Via @missionlocal.org
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