Diane Payne
@dianelp.bsky.social
Person who lives with dogs and cats. Writer. Gardener. Swimmer. Hiker.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...
Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS
As older Americans, we hold enormous economic power. We’ve spent decades building savings, choosing where to bank, where to invest, and where to shop—companies count on our loyalty. This Valentine’s D...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...
"But it’s Mr. Trump who has remade the United States in the image of the Latin America...: a place where masked men routinely leap out of unmarked vans to snatch citizens, where people are disappeared and human rights activists publicly killed..."
Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM
"But it’s Mr. Trump who has remade the United States in the image of the Latin America...: a place where masked men routinely leap out of unmarked vans to snatch citizens, where people are disappeared and human rights activists publicly killed..."
Better than bringing your immunocompromised friends soup is getting vaccinated for the flu and covid.
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Better than bringing your immunocompromised friends soup is getting vaccinated for the flu and covid.
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Catherine Rampell: America is so safe now that immigration enforcement agents with no badges can enter your home while contractors are doing work, manhandle them, detain them, and leave your house a bloody mess.
Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Catherine Rampell: America is so safe now that immigration enforcement agents with no badges can enter your home while contractors are doing work, manhandle them, detain them, and leave your house a bloody mess.
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It is driving me crazy that I’m not seeing widespread coverage of these statements by the President.
This is a big deal!
If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.
This is a big deal!
If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It is driving me crazy that I’m not seeing widespread coverage of these statements by the President.
This is a big deal!
If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.
This is a big deal!
If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.
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.
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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
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September 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Revisit our stunning September CNF!!
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September 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Revisit our stunning September CNF!!
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social:
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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
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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