Marian Dioguardi
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Marian Dioguardi
@mariandioguardi.bsky.social
Painter. You decide if it’s art. Thinker. Curious. Interested. Science! Beauty and beasts. Last but not least; Sumo.
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Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.
April 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
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April 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Holy wow, if this happens. Trump budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start www.usatoday.com/story/news/e... @usatoday.com
Exclusive: Trump budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start
The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.
www.usatoday.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This was a clear example of wasteful government spending, unlike the $20M/day the federal government gives Elon Musk to promote apartheid
April 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Hosting the Olympics and World Cup are going to be impossible. What athlete in their right mind would risk coming to the US now?
Head coach of MMA Australian team Renato Subotic arrived in the US to teach a seminar. Instead he said he was detained at the border: "No clear explanation, no chance to talk to anyone, no rights. They handcuffed me, put me in a car, and drove me to federal prison."
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April 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The director of the National Security Agency, the powerful U.S. wiretapping and cyberespionage service, was fired Thursday, according to one former and two current U.S. officials.
National Security Agency chief ousted after far-right activist urged his removal
Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired Thursday as director of the powerful wiretapping and cyberespionage service, according to U.S. officials.
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April 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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See photos of the aftermath of Russian strikes on Kramatorsk — a Ukrainian city where Russian authorities are trying to sell homes, even though they don’t control it.
Russia offers mortgages in Ukrainian city it doesn’t control
Kramatorsk, a city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, became the regional administrative center after Russian-backed separatists seized the city of Donetsk in 2014. Since the earliest days of Russia’s…
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April 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
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April 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.

And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
April 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Paul, Weiss removed from its site information about its pro bono work on topics like immigration, voting rights, LGBTQ issues and reproductive rights.

Paul, Weiss also retracted dozens of press releases, including previous statements denouncing antisemitic attacks and racism against Asians.
Paul, Weiss Said It Felt ‘Called Upon’ to Launch a Center to Fight Hate. Now It Won’t Talk About It.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Trump is sending a chill across the entire legal community.

His attacks on large law firms are cutting off the litigation lifeline for nonprofit public-interest groups who are challenging his policies — which is exactly why he’s doing it.

Connect the dots.
April 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I will go one step farther and say NEVER FUCKING USE GOV PROVIDED WIFI! I would not even when Biden was in office.
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.
April 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Trump and Musk just killed off the small program that keeps poor people from freezing to death.
April 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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CDC’s tobacco program wasn’t eliminated to save money. Federal employee salaries are only about 4% of the Federal budget. The Office on Smoking & Health was eliminated BECAUSE our work is highly efficient and cost effective. Make no mistake that tobacco companies won today.
April 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Cigarettes are the only consumer product that when used correctly kills the user. If you’re worried about chemicals in cereal and food, wait until you find out about the 7,000 chemicals in cigarettes, including at least 69 known to cause cancer.
April 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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It's easy to be angry and self righteous about this inexcusable, uncouth behavior but let's save some of that energy to organize and show these butts who's in charge
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
April 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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So it’s going well!
April 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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How long is it going to take reply guys to figure out that you can and should pursue multiple strategies to battle fascism?
But he's right. Once a Democrat is elected, there's no way to fire them other than by voting for Republicans. There's no primary process where we can pick better Democrats. How long is it going to take for people to figure this out?
March 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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bukele has said people will never leave that concentration camp and to date I believe nobody has, just a little fyi to add to the horror of this
Oh my God. The email contains an implied threat that any student who doesn’t immediately leave might be sent to El Salvador.

/technically it says “countries other than their countries of origin,” but the context right now, given everything going on, makes the threat clear.
March 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.

The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.

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March 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Update: The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,600 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.
'Am I going to survive?': Myanmar's quake death toll jumps to more than 1,600
The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,600 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.
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March 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Crimean Tatars mark Ramadan while in exile from the Crimean Peninsula. This is the fourth Ramadan since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The World's @ofmandaniel.bsky.social reports.
Crimean Tatars mark Ramadan while in exile from the Crimean Peninsula - The World from PRX
This is the fourth Ramadan since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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March 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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FL now has a bill for allowing child labor - they lost too many workers in their fields.
March 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM