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Cara D

@cdiacono.bsky.social
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Fiction writer, college teacher, haver of solo adventures. NO PRIVATE MESSAGES, please. Also not interested in doomers, anti-American venters, or anyone lacking the ability to think critically. :)

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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is amazing.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
FYI!
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thinking abt the occasional dogpiles I slip into on this site. The phenomenon of the influential journalist who has a stable of fanboys & -girls who pounce like attack dogs on anyone who takes issue with an opinion of the journalist's. Anyone else encountered this? I wonder abt the psychology of it.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think this needs more love! 😆
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Particularly eye-opening one from HCR. Should be shared widely. She quotes from an article by Michael Luttig talking about a nightmare scenario in which Mike Johnson goes along with Maga loyalists and refuses to seat Dems elected in the midterms. We need to be ready to fight back if it comes to that
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A news organization *calmly* dedicated to recording the ongoing crisis, with a view to a future rebuilding. unbreaking.org
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Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Underrated skeet!
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Article with more info about Musk's latest anti-democratic shenanigan: popular.info/p/the-hidden...
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Public service announcement (edited from a repost elsewhere on Bsky): The criminal Musk has set up a scheme in the form of a website, votesafe dot org, in order to steal voter information. Never click on or share the direct link, and please share this everywhere so others won’t fall prey to it.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A simply titled post, "Alaska Days," with glancing impressions of Alaska and thoughts on LeGuin's THE DISPOSSESSED and nature and loneliness caradiaconoff678990.substack.com/p/alaska-day...
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Alaska Days
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately....”
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The USPS Board Of Governors has the power to protect vote-by-mail, but they are not doing their job Join @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social & tell them to Deliver Our Ballots: actionnetwork.org/letters/deli...
actionnetwork.org
Deliver Our Ballots - Tell Postal Service Leadership We Demand to Vote-by-Mail
The USPS Board of Governors has power the protect vote-by-mail, but they are not doing their job. Will you send them a message?
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you live in WA state, sign this Citizens Resolution to express support for a bill outlawing corporate spending to influence elections and ballot measures in the state. fixdemocracyfirst.salsalabs.org/wa-plan-to-u...
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People Only Elections
We can undo Citizens United in Washington State and get corporate and dark money out of our elections!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Justice for Pierre Damas Bel. Justice for Pierre Damas Bel. Justice for Pierre Damas Bel. Justice for Pierre Damas Bel. Justice for Pierre Damas Bel.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good old DR! I have only just learned that she has a Bluesky account. I was devoted to her in grad school, although I believe I only made it through the first volume of the dozen-plus novels in PILGRIMAGE.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, OH, on recent ICE arrests there. youtu.be/gzdqiotF1Y8?...
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A Statement from Viles on Yesterday’s ICE Arrests
YouTube video by Haitian Community Help & Support Center
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
AIPAC's money well spent! theonion.com/spiteful-aip...
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Spiteful AIPAC Spends $30 Million On Loud Bird Perched Outside Abdul El-Sayed’s Window
ANN ARBOR, MI—In an effort to irritate the recent winner of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary at all hours of the night, a spiteful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) reportedly spent...
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I just happened across this very interesting theory article about the source of DJT's appeal. "His emotional freedom is an identification magnet for anyone who has ever been rejected or underestimated...." critinq.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/f...
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Fascist Temptations in the Era of Trump
Lisa Wedeen While the bulk of my empirical work has focused on authoritarian imaginaries in Syria and Yemen, here I want to take what I have learned in the Middle East analytically and use it to re…
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One can donate to the Haitian Support Center in Springfield to help. The thought of people being deported back to Haiti is horrifying. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
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Hundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning, Aug. 9, to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I write about the "sad princess" Russian tale updated to Dallas, TX, in my latest Substack entry. caradiaconoff678990.substack.com/p/sad-girl
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Sad Girl
Who can make the princess laugh?
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Interview with Des Revol's sister. Zines are threatening to the current regime. newrepublic.com/article/2132...
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My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines
The sister of a defendant in the Prairieland case, which targeted Texas ICE protesters, speaks out.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anyone in the Seattle area especially, consider supporting Tatiana Brown's grassroots movement as she runs for State Senate. You can of course support even if you don't vote in District 37. She's looking for $7 or $37 a month.... www.tatianaforwa.org
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Help Des Revol, currently incarcerated as part of the Prairieland travesty of justice. I cannot wait to see this one overturned. fnd.us/free-des-rev...
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Help Artist Des Revol and His Family
Our friend, Daniel "Des Revol" Sanchez Estrada, has been wrongly arrested and convicted over a box of zines. Please help us raise funds to cover expensive legal fees in order to appeal, and any other ...
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Withering Heights
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✨StarChick68💫 ➡️🐸 @starchick68.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
damn it www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Mass shooting reported at Seattle Center
Police and aid crews responded to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Getting the word out about the latest federal attack on the nation's culture and memory preservewa.org/fighting-for...
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Advocacy Alert: Fighting for Section 106 — Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
On Friday, July 17, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation proposed a sweeping rewrite of the regulations that implement Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). If...
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Any Washington state resident in favor of universal health care, please consider signing this pledge--a sort of pre-signing of the initiative petition. Help universal health care get on the ballot. wholewashington.org/pledge/?link...
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Pledge to Sign - Whole Washington
Whole Washington needs your help to get universal healthcare on the ballot. Show your support with this easy online action.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Trump’s own fraud investigator just admitted there’s no fraud. So there’s no excuse left for killing mail-in voting—except the real one: he can’t win a fair count. Stop him in 30 seconds 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Plan To End Mail-In Voting
Contact Congress today!
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My turn finally to add to the Adjunct Writers Caucus Substack! Higher-Education Games of Pretend open.substack.com/pub/awpadjun...
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Higher-Education Games of Pretend
The Adjunct Dispatches: Notes from the Margins of Higher Education
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In dust we trust oh yeah @dustcongress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
😆😹
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just heard about this. www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-...
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Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It's highly likely that the country will survive Trump. The question isn't whether we'll survive it but whether we learn from the mistakes that led to Trump being elevated in the 1st place. Do feel free to come @ me if you disagree (& even see this). Curious what the thoughtful objections would be.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our AWP Adjunct Caucus treasurer's turn at the Substack: open.substack.com/pub/awpadjun...
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The “Word-work” of the Adjunct
The Adjunct Dispatches: Notes from the Margins of Higher Education
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Please read, and then please submit a comment!
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Everybody, please submit a comment. Deadline is July 2.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Useful! From Indivisible! Read and learn! protectdemocracy.org/executive-ov...
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How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections
2026 will be different from any election in American history. The Trump administration is wielding the full power of the government against our own elections.
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Reposting this one too, which has a bit more info in the initial tweet!
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Push back against the latest nonsense from Russell Vought. Push back hard. Do it in the next 19 days!
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
open.substack.com/pub/awpadjun... Our Adjunct Caucus's Vice President has her say!
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A Seat at the Table: Adjunct Faculty, Shared Governance, and the Cost of Being Left Out
The Adjunct Dispatches: Notes from the Margins of Higher Education
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Dark historical fantasies in my newest entry in Notes on Loneliness open.substack.com/pub/caradiac...
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Waiting to Get Swept Away
...and let history do the honors
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Our AWP Adjunct Writers Caucus president rocks! open.substack.com/pub/awpadjun...
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The Joy They Use Against Us
The Adjunct Dispatches: Notes from the Margins of Higher Education
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Funny headline seen in Moscow Times weekly email: "Xi's Just Not That into You." 🤣🤣
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I put up a new entry in my Substack, but the topic is beginning to bring me down, and it doesn't seem to be something people want to read about, either. If anyone reads and likes this, I will consider not deleting it! caradiaconoff678990.substack.com/p/loneliness...
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Loneliness and Other Unmentionables
You've got to use what you've got
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is the real election worry. Article tells people at the end to call their Secretaries of State. Trump Has Eliminated Election Safeguards and Installed Loyalist Election Deniers in Key Roles open.substack.com/pub/rightsan...
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Trump Has Eliminated Election Safeguards and Installed Loyalist Election Deniers in Key Roles
“The election denial movement is now interwoven within the federal government.”
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
So cool
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If anyone has time to read this Paul Krugman substack transcript or watch the video, of his interview with a Hungary specialist, it's certainly educational. Even just skimming it is. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary
Democracy wins big
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Seen in a letter to the editor of the Lewis County (WA) Chronicle, not exactly a leftist hotbed: "We are all familiar with the acronym TACO, meaning Trump Always Chickens Out. I would now suggest TAMALE, or Trump Always Makes A Ludicrous Error." Not bad, eh. Hope it catches on!! 🤣
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My novel MARIAN HALL, which has been on submission for years and revised quite a number of times, has gotten nice encouragement from The Black List. www.instagram.com/p/DW1qf6CFEH...
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The Black List on Instagram: "Check out the projects our readers loved, only on blcklst.com."
39 likes, 7 comments - theblcklst on April 7, 2026: "Check out the projects our readers loved, only on blcklst.com.".
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
And here's that same expert again on how all that dear T might have left is a war-based coup to try to stay in power after the midterms. It's heartening because it shows how weak T is but reminds everyone not to stay complacent about that. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Cara D @cdiacono.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Here's an expert explaining why it's more than just performance.....
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