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Diane Aurelia Burton

@daburton.bsky.social
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Applied Sociologist w. public policy emphasis; spent 10 yrs of my life assuring that low-level-radioactive-waste disposal in Nebraska would be safe (there's no LLRW disposal site in Neb); Air Force brat; progressive critical thinker; boomer; Ethnic Mormon

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h
Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What a bloody imbecile the MAGAts elected!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@stephruhle.bsky.social check out the mayor of Oakville,Ont… it has a Ford manufacturing site
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does she live at the White House?
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scaramucci seems to have forgotten the ‘Southern Strategy’ starting in the late 60s & reaching ‘fulfillment’ under Reagan. It’s the ‘Lost Cause’ mentality embraced by the GOP that led me to abandon the party of George Romney, Henry Cabot Lodge, et al. The current GOP is a front for Christo Fascists!
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Touché!
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looks snazzy! What are its dimensions?
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. A bad idea hamster www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He’s the kind of guy the junior officers or senior enlisted folks would have fragged!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
a woman standing next to Trump is now offering one of the more angry-sounding prayers I've ever heard
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump on Canada: "They act like they're totally innocent. They're not. They were very bad. But now they're being taught a little lesson. In fact, we just named a certain lake Lake America. Lake Ontario is now named nake -- and it actually passed"
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The law and order party, folks
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They are running for Governor, not the House...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The White House again denies access to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico despite court ruling. (visual essay from 2025)
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Marc Wing @6-rue-d-alsace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Trump and sons are making lots of money” by Ann Telnaes on Bluesky and Open Windows. “and the American people are paying for it” Please support Editorial Cartoonists, whenever possible directly, whose work is shown on Bluesky. This #EditorialCartoon was found on Open Windows.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
Quite the shot of Trump disembarking from Marine One last night. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The “white South Africans” would not ‘stoop’ to such low paid health care work! Musk & Thiel are the South Africans beside this move to import more bigoted hate mongers into our country… get a bloody clue folks!
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22/09/2026
Isn’t it chyronic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
JD Vance: "I just called them the fart left. I promise that was an accident."
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Monumental Obsession
The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
WAR CRIMES CONTINUE!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Very special InfoWars product announcement coming later today, just in time for RiotFest. I can guarantee it'll make your bones feel spicy and make your blood seem hot.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2026
Get started on today’s Rabbithole with this question from @radiofreetom.bsky.social’s article on what may be behind Trump's trade war with Canada. theatln.tc/cpIaIIkm
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
look at how bored the people behind Vance are as he pushes rank homophobia and tells terrible jokes
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kinda neglected deBlassio and Adams who could have released the information
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s all so embarrassing as a former, no matter how long ago, GOP
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Read The Odyssey in HS mythology class back in 1964
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Trump, while meeting veterans and touring the Medal of Honor Museum, can be heard ranting on a hot mic about his fake foreign investment numbers
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Touché! You go!!
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AI is giving off 2001: A Space Odyssey vibe… www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - I'm Sorry, Dave Scene (3/6) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was with the GOP when it was the progressive party of Margaret Chase Smith, Henry Cabot Lodge, George Romney, et al… took the ‘Southern Strategy’ starting with Nixon, I had hope with Ford, but by the end Reagan’s 1st term I finally realize that civil rights were no longer a priority of the GOP.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Haaretz: A week and a half before October 7, 2023 UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes.

In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel.

Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/09/2026
“Firing or forcing out everyone else in the Pentagon will not make Pete Hegseth into the secretary of defense America and its men and women in uniform need,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/bOK7f3J3
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026
President Trump, never one to pinch pennies on anything shiny and new, has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on pet construction projects around Washington, D.C. They’re not going well.
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sadly, the majority of folks who like to talk about communism and socialism have never read Marx. I read Marx as a senior in HS the fall of ‘64!
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 28/08/2026
Veterans ​and military families already KNOW how this ends. A war nobody has authorized ​is a burden our service members & families carry​ every single day. It's time for Republicans to give a shit about our troops and stand up to Trump and Hegseth. We need to bring them home. #OperationEpicFailure
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026
Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic on a land line phone to astronauts on the space station is an SNL cold open
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026
Howard Lutnick just demonstrated why he's called Nutlick during one of the pathetically sycophantic press conferences of all time. Here's a supercut:
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😳 Nutlick performs one of the most pathetic pressers of all time 😳
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I appreciate your work and am a paid subscriber!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I might have to rewatch the Drunk History episode on Nashville tonight.
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Drunk History - Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner (ft. Casey Wilson)
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 25/08/2026
"The Trump administration is, for the first time, threatening the demolition of the Kennedy Center if the arts institution isn’t allowed to follow its plans for the site, including adding President Donald Trump’s name to the front of the building."
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Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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