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Diane Payne

@dianelp.bsky.social
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Person who lives with dogs and cats. Writer. Gardener. Swimmer. Hiker.

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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A sad tragic essay about how America is not only using ICE to do despicable things to people, but how Trump and Vance are the ringleaders of this hatred. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
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Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Not Be Dead (Gift Article)
Pierre Damas Bel should still be alive.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If only the 4th of July ended at 5 pm. Tired of hearing fireworks blasting all week long. Tired of blind patriotism. Tired of pretending the men who signed the declaration of independence were saints. Tired of Trump. Is it July 5 yet?
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Before "Silent Spring" was "The Sea Around Us." It was published on this day in 1952.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Mr. Trump: Haitians in Ohio were “eating the pets” of their neighbors. Haitians “probably have AIDS.” Haiti is a “shithole country,” which is “filthy, dirty, disgusting.” Haitian immigration is “like a death wish for our country.” Haitians are “poisoning the blood” of the nation.
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Justices Clash on Whether Race Played a Role in Trump’s Bid to Deport Haitians
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
How I detest the week of 4th of July and endless explosives going off night and day.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Tell Congress: Say No to Payouts for Insurrectionists act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
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Tell Congress: Say No to Payouts for Insurrectionists
Email your Members of Congress and tell them to block the slush fund for insurrectionists.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots
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Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
cool new issue of Cutleaf, guest edited by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross. The stories were collaboratively written by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, Amanda Ellard and Madison Porter, and @dianelp.bsky.social and Ania Payne. Check it out here: cutleafjournal.com
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Cutleaf Journal
An online journal of short fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry, published regularly. Cutleaf Journal is a project of @eastoverpress.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Mother daughter story posted today for those who have endured remodeling jobs:
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Too Pregnant for Mice or Men - Cutleaf Journal
Week 32: Plumbers
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/03/2026
The Dept of Defense is lowering standards for everyone except the highly qualified, motivated people who belong to minority groups the White House despises. Based on his new recruitment policies, Hegseth cares more about winning culture wars than the real war he just helped start. trib.al/f2gGETs
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I wish more people were as (ideally considerably more) concerned about all the innocent people being murdered by the regimes of Trump and Netanyahu as they are about the price of gas. What about the price of those losing their lives over a senseless war?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/03/2026
Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from the widening war.
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The bombing of Iranian oil facilities is causing a health and environmental nightmare
Acid rain, toxic air, contaminated water and soil, and the possibility of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thank you @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social. We need to do everything we can to help getting detained immigrants released.
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Joaquin Castro Is on a Quest to Get Detained Immigrants Released
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Please take a minute to sign this petition.
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Stop the Execution of Charles "Sonny" Burton
Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution on March 12th in Alabama for a crime he didn't even commit. The State of Alabama does not even dispute that fact. Please sign the petition asking Governor Ivey ...
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Please sign the petition to show mercy to Sonny Burton.
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Opinion | He Didn’t Kill Anyone. Alabama Is About to Execute Him Anyway.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Here's a short diversion from the world's chaos: www.feelsblindliterary.com/payne13
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The Heavy Lawn Chair by Diane Payne — Feels Blind Literary
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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...
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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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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"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..."
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Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Better than bringing your immunocompromised friends soup is getting vaccinated for the flu and covid.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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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Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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.
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! 🐈‍⬛🏆🐈‍⬛ @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In Stratlight Mag today: straylightmag.com/fiction-nine...
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Fiction: Nine Lives by Diane Payne - Straylight
The girl is seven. The boys are older, maybe nine. From the kitchen window, she watches them try to blow the lid off a garbage can with firecrackers.  They hoot and holler. Then they see a cat, and on...
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"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...
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Maria Corina Machado is the opposite of Trump. Happy she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Needed some good news.
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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 · 28/09/2025
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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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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...
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Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirk’s Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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 | Circus
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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 · 12/09/2025
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...
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Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed
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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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 · 07/09/2025
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
thank you @claudineliterary.bsky.social for including me in your first issue! www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne
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Diane Payne | Circus
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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...
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
@yana.quest @aniking.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social 💚🐈‍⬛💚
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The biggest US copper wire manufacturers are still raising their prices even after most copper imports received tariff exemptions.  More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Screw Trumps tariffs. Feed the Gazans. Stop funding Israel's war against Gaza.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Sickens me knowing how many people are starving in Gaza.
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Trump is selling a pardon to a child sex trafficker by getting her to promise in advance she’ll exculpate him for the things I’m about to reveal that he did—and it may be the sickest thing a president has ever done. Will media cover it that way? Stay tuned. Not holding my breath.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Enjoying this cooler weather while we patiently wait and hope for rain. #SaugatuckDunes
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Will Myers @billcaphil.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"I ain't dead yet, mfer..." —Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket.
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Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
If we aren't going to abolish ICE, why not have them round up all the lawless Americans shooting fireworks illegally?
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