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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙

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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 18h
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Advocacy Center of Tompkins County is the local rape crisis center serving Ithaca and the Cornell area. 24-hour hotline: (607) 277-5000 Address: 314 W. State St./MLK Jr. St., Ithaca, NY 14850 If you are an alum, please direct what you'd normally donate to the school to The Advocacy Center.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another unreasoned, unargued, flawed "emergency" finding on the Court's now-established Trump Track
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Expansive Federal Database for Voter Screening (Gift Article)
Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just can't... "As the midterm cycle enters the home stretch, in other words, this guy’s closing message has nothing to do with the affordability crisis or the nation’s ongoing war, and everything to do with “bringing back mental institutions” and fearing furries who fly airplanes."
ms.now
Alabama’s Tuberville worries aloud about airline personnel joining ‘the furry community’
In the closing weeks of his campaign, the senator is focused on “bringing back mental institutions” and fearing furries who fly airplanes.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes!!!
theguardian.com
Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver
Fariba Hashimi, who is based in Italy, powered home second in the women’s road race near Nagoya in Japan, calling the triumph ‘something special’
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of course he lied. And lied. And lied. That was expected, as he flushes American credibility down the toilet. More serious questions remain. He bragged about appropriating another country's wealth. How the FUCK is that acceptable in an organization committed to international cooperation?
nytimes.com
Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at the United Nations (Gift Article)
President Trump’s remarks about oil reserves, the drug trade and his peace efforts contained falsehoods and exaggerations.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Comprehensive account of ICE's attempted murder/abduction in Austin.
texastribune.org
Migrant shot by ICE in Texas said he tried to pull over
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez legally entered the country in 2024 via the CBP One app and applied for asylum, his attorneys said. But he missed a court hearing after the notice went to the wrong address.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Because there is no problem that cannot be solved with a new "Force," complete with awesome uniforms...
axios.com
Trump wants an "AI Force" to fight "doomers" — and a scramble for AI czar is underway.
Officials and executives inside and outside the administration are now jockeying to be Trump's AI czar.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, FFS!
aje.news
Critics in meltdown over US cheese giant Tillamook halal label
Critics have launched a boycott campaign against US cheese giant Tillamook over its new halal labelling.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The headlines should read "Trump still harbors fantasy of unleashing military on civilians."
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
OK, now on to the seriously sick stuff. "the directive aims to create a new external committee with the power to veto awards in the nation’s vast biomedical research portfolio that do not conform to Mr. Trump’s political agenda"
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Moving the bar for satire. He actually said this. "top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the .... ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage."
nytimes.com
Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Howdy @icandie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There's that word again. It does not mean what you think it means.
nytimes.com
Trump Calls A.I. Fears a Hoax. Inside the White House, the Debate Is More Complex. (Gift Article)
The president seems driven chiefly by the sense that A.I. is the way to economic growth, and nothing can be allowed to stand in its way.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much else going on, this was easy to miss. So, if you intend to build a golf course, and your bulldozers "accidentally" kill members of a protected species, you get off scot free. Makes the Endangered Species Act meaningless.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is voting in Russian-occupied Ukraine. Voting under the barrel of a gun. This is what the Trump regime envisions for us.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What does this say about the news organizations that retain access? If any of them care about their credibility, they will boycott the White House in solidarity.
nytimes.com
Live Updates: CNN, Politico and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FAFO. Anodyne messages of "non-divisiveness" are increasingly being seen as what they are: immoral cowardice. Genocide is genocide, and there is NO getting around it.
cnn.com
Fellow opening acts quit after Ed Sheeran tour drops Macklemore | CNN
Finneas, Irish artists Aaron Rowe and Beoga, and the Danish band Lukas Graham quit the tour after Macklemore was dropped over his “Free Palestine” comments.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No words.
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A good example of journalism as stenography. Not even the *slightest* attempt to assess Lutnick's claims.
thehill.com
Lutnick says $5K dividend would not use taxpayer dollars
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that the $5,000 dividends President Trump promised U.S. adults earlier this week would not come from taxpayer money. In an interview with NBC News at…
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Victor Jara, who was murdered in the aftermath if the US-backed right wing coup in Chile on 9/11, 1973.
youtu.be
Victor Jara - La Partida
YouTube video by Victor Jara - Música
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Are you serious? For Trump to "personify" a nation "moving on," he would have had to have some emotional reaction to the horror in the first place. He never did. Literally from day 1, he has sought to turn this national tragedy to his advantage, to make it about himself.
nytimes.com
25 Years After 9/11, Trump Personifies a Nation Moving On (Gift Article)
The president has de-emphasized and shifted the war on terrorism at a time when fear of foreign attack has receded into the background of American life.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He urged his cult followers to vote illegally. “I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do." Between this and his $5K vote bribe, he has broken the law. In a world not corrupted by the Roberts Court, he would be impeached, convicted, and prosecuted.
thehill.com
Trump leads convention in pledge: ‘You go to h—’ if you don’t vote
President Trump closed out the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday by urging attendees to pledge to go out and vote in November’s midterm elections.  “Please raise your right h…
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"On our quiz, some of you failed to mention a key element of the Nigerian Prince scam: the promise of undeserved wealth in return for a small investment. Now, let's watch Trump's Dallas speech, to see how it's done..."
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We had gladiator fights, chariot races, and now, tossing out bread to the mob. We are living in ancient Rome, and are witnessing a declining consulship desperately clinging to power. We know how that ended.
npr.org
Democrats blast $5,000 payment promise ahead of Trump, Vance speeches in Dallas
President Trump promised to send every adult citizen $5,000, but only if Republicans maintain control of Congress in the midterm election, drawing a strong response from House Democrats.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You've all perfected the Nigerian prince scam. Now let's move on to something more challenging.
cnbc.com
Trump says oil and gas prices won't fall until 'right after' midterm election
President Donald Trump said energy prices that have been elevated due to the Iran war will not come down until after the midterm elections.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
snopes.com
US airman's widow was allegedly denied benefits because Iran war is undeclared. Here's what we know
Maj. John “Alex” Klinner died in a plane crash in Iraq. His wife said benefits for his family "are being dictated by semantics and public perception."
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please read and keep abreast of this isaue.
nytimes.com
How Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Would Work (Gift Article)
The plan, which two dozen states have challenged as unconstitutional, puts in place new requirements about who can receive mail ballots.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pigs at the trough.
nytimes.com
Trump’s Convention Offers an Unusual Fund-Raising Opportunity for Republicans (Gift Article)
Republicans are hoping to use the Dallas extravaganza as a fund-raising opportunity, with some local parties charging as much as $20,000 to be an “honorary delegate.”
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When Congress voted to rename French fries to "freedom fries" on its cafeteria menu, I though we had reached the height of childish stupidity. Not so.
nytimes.com
Trump Posts Map Suggesting New Mexico Be Renamed as ‘New America’
The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fifth Circuit, with another stunningly medieval finding. Next up: you have no right to the air you breathe.
finance.yahoo.com
Federal court tells lead-poisoned Jackson, Mississippi residents they have no constitutional right to clean water
The U.S. constitution offers the right to bodily integrity, but that doesn’t include clean water.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Says the two-bit grifter who stole money from a children's charity, who spends his days golfing, who spends his nights tweeting, who wastes billions in working people's money on his grotesque vanity, including an unnecessary, murderous war which he still managed to lose.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Because Trump's military leaders are at war with the US military.
aljazeera.com
Why has the Trump administration ordered staff to take polygraph tests?
Reports of dwindling US weapons stocks have triggered an unusually sweeping hunt for leakers inside the Pentagon.
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 @ted-diamond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Executive caught secretly diverting Congressionally appropiated funds to pay for war
thehill.com
Pentagon sought to divert NIH funds for defense use, top House Appropriations Democrat says
The Pentagon is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster the agency’s budget, according to the top Democrat on the House Appropria…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
cbsnews.com
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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