Diane R
@dianenyc.bsky.social
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Forever New Yorker and lifetime learner. 💙 🇺🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ally She/Her
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warren.senate.gov
After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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gbrockell.bsky.social
The jet was operated by Journey Aviation, who also participated in the South Sudan, first Eswatini and second Rwanda third-country removals.

Rich people lease their private jets part-time to companies like Journey in order to get a huge tax break from Trump’s first term.
A screenshot of the Dezers’ jet, N352BH, on the Journey Aviation website.
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gbrockell.bsky.social
It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.
The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.
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msgrumpybunny.bsky.social
Heartbreaking 💔

For the folks saying politics doesn’t affect you— this is proof that it does.
It impacts everyone.

Prayers up for the love ones, the community and first responders having to deal with this tragedy.
desia.bsky.social
The blast in Hickman County is both a human disaster and a warning sign — of what happens when democracy dies piece by piece and communities lose control over their own lives.
#Project2025 #Deregulation
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Tennessee’s Gag Order on Democracy
The Explosive Cost of Silencing Communities
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
D.C. stands to lose more than $40 million in homeland security funding, starving programs aimed at responding to terrorist attacks and other emergencies, after the Trump administration moved to slash federal grant funding by 90 percent.
Trump pledged to make D.C. ‘safe and beautiful.’ His administration cut $40M in homeland security funds.
The Trump administration cuts to homeland security grants in D.C. and 11 states has been paused by a federal judge while they are being challenged in court.
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dianenyc.bsky.social
NJ Dems. You know what to do.
mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Last night wasn't the first time Jack showed us his true MAGA colors...
dianenyc.bsky.social
Just awful. 😣

And FYI, if you go limp, as she appeared to, it -can- be used to charge you with resisting arrest. Something to know if you ever get handcuffed and taken it.
dianenyc.bsky.social
“In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence,” Kornbluth wrote. “In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.”
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Mike Johnson, one of the great cowards in American history, has cancelled votes again.

A reminder that by law a budget was supposed to have been passed and in place on September 30. There is no Republican budget; no process to create one; and Johnson is preventing Congress from working on one.
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jackjenkins.me
Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.
atrupar.com
Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
dianenyc.bsky.social
I’m just saying, if they decide to mess with NYC next. We’re ready for em.
dianenyc.bsky.social
She wants Trump and Netanyahu to help her topple the Maduro regime. Hard pass for a Peace Prize.
dianenyc.bsky.social
Someone reminded me that Kissinger once won the Nobel Peace prize and now it all makes sense.
dianenyc.bsky.social
What a sucky timeline we live in. 🤢
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views
dianenyc.bsky.social
Exactly. Such a weird, bad, choice for the prize.
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Machado has also expressed support for foreign military intervention to topple the socialist government of Maduro and personally appealed to Netanyahu for help with regime change in Venezuela. Trump has publicly praised Machado in the past.
self.agency
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, has praised Donald Trump as a "visionary" and approves of his military attacks on Venezuelan civilians
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 2d
The government has executed more people in 2025 than any year in over a decade — and there are five more executions scheduled over the next week.

Just a handful of states are responsible for these executions, and they’re increasingly out of step with public opinion.