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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 6d

Maria Corina Machado is the opposite of Trump. Happy she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Needed some good news.

Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 7d

This administration does nothing to promote making Americans healthy.

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 12d

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 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18d

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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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 18d

I detest violence and am sorry Kirk was murdered, but I am even also sorry when school children get murdered. I am sorry the people at church got murdered in church today. I am angry that Democrats joined the House to pass a bipartisan measure to honor Kirk, with 95 Democrats joining.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 18d

Imagine living in a country with strict gun laws, a country that doesn't endure daily deaths by guns because it's been so damn normalized in America. America is a dangerous country.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 24d

America is such a doomed country right now. Sigh.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 25d

Trump is such a horrible president and person.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · Sep 16

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 @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 15

You should not have been fired for speaking the truth. I am disappointed WAPO and NYT are becoming such watered-down drivel that readers have more engaging profound conversations with strangers on the streets because writers are being silenced.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 14

The joys of living under a fascist regime.

Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 13

Sickening.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 12

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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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 12

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...

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed

www.nytimes.com

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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · Sep 9

My God. Chills.

“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a lot wage job. Rather than stand idly by while out constitutional freedoms are lost, i dissent.”
—Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 7

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Sep 7

I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Sep 7

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:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 31

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...

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 6

This regime is sickening America.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm a senior and I feel like RFK Jr would love to deny Medicare to people who have pre-existing conditions, which would be most of us. This regime is hateful and selfish.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks!

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really enjoyed this, Ani!

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks!

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks for including me!

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · Sep 1

thank you @claudineliterary.bsky.social for including me in your first issue! www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne

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