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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 46m

#NoblesseOblige is no way to run the U.S., #SecyBessant, behind whom cowers #Drumpf. They have no idea what 4± days without access to food basics is for the most vulnerable. He has whatever he needs and wants, and displays no sense of duty about what others don't have. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/b...

Treasury Secretary Bessent says SNAP food benefits could restart by Wednesday

SNAP food benefits could restart as early as Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 50m

The constant attacks from #WHmagaheadquarters on education, medicine, and science at all levels, has skyrocketed the odds that an explosion like this is not some mere accident or coincidence. As our world degrades, suspicions rise— as they should. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Explosion at Harvard Med School appears to have been intentional, authorities say

Authorities say there has been an explosion at Harvard Medical School, but no one was injured

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 6h

Nuclear tests, but no explosions. So, in other words, pretty much what we've always been doing for decades? The #WHMagabrain ignorance is not bliss, and never was. Policymaking by brainfart.

Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 23h

Racism by any other name. It's hard to see this move and those made before and after it by the #MagaMinistration any other way, without it shrieking hypocrisy. They'll brand it patriotism, but they don't care about patriotism, people, or politics— just power-putsches. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

“Where would America be without us?” A community of refugees is stunned by White House limits

In Minneapolis, where Somali refugees helped revitalize entire neighborhoods, the community was stunned by the presidential order capping annual refugee admissions at 7,500, the lowest number since th...

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 1d

If #Drumpf weren't a HUGE scofflaw, his whining that the court has to tell him how to fund SNAP might be excused. But he's so obviously slow-walking it that he's worse than a monster who keeps crying wolf. Just get it done or this hypocrisy will be added to your pile. www.axios.com/2025/10/31/s...

Trump asking court how to "legally fund SNAP" after judge's order

Food banks already experienced a surge in people as millions of families prepared for benefits to freeze.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 2d

#Clueless47 wagged his tongue while airing out his cranial cavity, updating the nuclear stupidity he prattled when he was #Clueless45. Meanwhile the #GOPhousehalfwits sit on their own cranial cavities, hunkered down in their hidden vacay hideaways. #SaveUSnow www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump push to restart nuclear tests could take years, cost millions, experts say

The Nevada Test Site — where the U.S. last tested a nuclear explosive more than 30 years ago — now relies on computer modeling, not physical explosions.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 4d

The #Drumph infamous aversion to reading must be rampant among his legal minions. How else to explain their glaringly sloppy case against #LetitiaJames. Proof that #Pain-Is-the-Point in their costly harassment of her life and peace of mind. #86DrumphAndHisMinions www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

3 words in Letitia James’ mortgage contract could doom the fraud case against her

James is charged with illegally collecting rental income on a second property. But her contract permits renting, according to POLITICO’s review of her contract and legal experts.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 5d

This again... Just spent an unplanned 1.5+ hours changing #GmailPasswords on multiple accounts since they may (or may not) have been among the 183 million recently leaked. Any wonder I'm not crazy about #Google, #Chrome, and their volatile security standards? www.nasdaq.com/articles/mas...

Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 8d

#MagaIncendiaries congratulate themselves for slashing jobs and budgets— except on their pet projects. Such idiocy is opening #US to disastrous new AI security breaches never previously possible, as we goad the world into escalating adversarial roles. #SaveUSfromMaga techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/t...

The glaring security risks with AI browser agents | TechCrunch

New AI browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity promise to increase user productivity, but they also come with increased security risks.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 9d

The National Review is totally missing the point. The current "administration" flouts every legality, rule and respectful governing tradition as #Drumpf revels in disrespect for anyone but himself. Destroying the East Wing wildly ratcheted up his megalomania. www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-on...

No One Is Tearing Down the Trump Ballroom | National Review

If anyone thinks that a future Democrat will eschew the chance to host major events on White House grounds without getting their shoes dirty, they’re nuts.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 9d

The reality of #AI : "the outages showed how dependent the world was on single points of failure on the internet." Amazon shares what caused 2000± sites to crash all at once. The "Big Three" dominating #CloudInfrastructure are clearly NOT infallible. #fixAInow www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline

AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 10d

#GishGalloping his way through Day 23 of the Shutdown, #Drumpf obliterates his undeserving targets: exploding boats and people on the high seas, Canada as a trading partner, the WH East Wing, federal employees fired illegally, slicing benefits from the vulnerable, as Johnson's GOP House torpefies.

Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 10d

This article exposes the list of corporate cowards ante-ing up for the #DrumpfBallroomGrift. Notice who's missing? Drumpf himself, though he claims he's a donor, as he hits up the taxpayers to cough up $230 million for daring to pursue his other crimes. #8647Magaman www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 10d

"Destroy first, don't even bother to ask for permission" is the #DictatorDrumpf modus operandi. It's so beyond lawless, and everything our country's Constitution and hard-won history decry. From razing the historic East Wing to exploding boats and people in ocean waters & much more. #MayhemAndMurder

Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 10d

#Drumpf lied on video he would not touch the East Wing. Then, with no effort to get any required permissions he sics his construction henchman on the East Wing, sloppily destroying it like a third world battle conquest, and he's STILL on the loose as the House GOP's shutdown "vacays" us all. #SaveUS

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 11d

Amazon's brainiac AWS went haywire a few days ago with bed flipping as just one of its outage impacts. Per this article, AI has a LONG way to go: “Computers are relatively dumb... if you don’t tell them what to do, they just run around in a panic” D-oh! #AIfail www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners

Some Eight Sleep mattress users had a rude awakening after the Amazon Web Services outage, with reports of beds stuck upright and haywire temperatures.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 11d

This article about Amazon's "cobot" plan to roboticize their warehouses makes no mention of the only concept that will make this work: UBI (Universal Basic Income) and its variants. We must get serious about this to avoid descent into a degraded dystopia. #SavePeople www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 12d

This is what #GishGalloping looks like, #Drumpfstyle in 3-D world. Far beyond mere debate technique, he makes Muskrat look like an amateur as he wrecks as much a possible before anyone can stop him. If they try, he just moves onto unleashing the next disaster. #SaveUS www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

Architects Urged a Review of Trump’s Ballroom. Cue the Demolition Crew.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 13d

249 years later, we reaffirmed the founding vision we are still growing into... hope you had a Happy No Kings Day! ❤️🤍💙

Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 14d

Tragically, the 9-day Gaza ceasefire between Israel & Hamas has broken in reality. #Drumpf touted himself as a Nobel-worthy peacemaker, but his lack of skills keeps people in mortal danger, as his actions always do. His #Magminions are no better at this than him, either. www.npr.org/2025/10/19/n...

Israel strikes Gaza as both Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire

Israel said Sunday it responded after "terrorists" attacked troops operating in the Rafah area with gunfire and an anti-tank missile. Hamas said it was unaware of the clashes.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 14d

What sensible government officials would consider firing live ammo over heavily traveled roadways and city areas to "celebrate" a military anniversary? Only immature irresponsible fools, who made things worse by haughtily defending doing so. #SaveUS8647etal. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Newsom closes highway section amid feud with White House over Marine exercise

The announcement came after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) traded jabs with the White House over the live-fire exercise Vice President JD Vance is attending in the area.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 19d

"Ceasefire largely holds." Not a sign that peace has arrived under Drumpf's purported Nobel-level brokering, negotiating, or "declaration" skills. The hard work is not something he and his minions have demonstrated any mastery at doing. The real protagonists must forge it for themselves. #DrumpfDims

Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 20d

"The pain Is the point" rears it ugly head yet again, causing inexcusable pain to #SpecialEducation among our most vulnerable in our precious citizenry. When will Congress and Scotus Wake TF Up and #8647now? T'row da Magats out and restore our country's former vision. www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

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Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 22d

Said before, saying now, will be said again: "The Cruelty Is the Point." When you put breaking the government above your oath of office, this happens, along with all else that gets reported on the daily. #SaveUSdemocracy #8647Drumphf

Diane A Curran @dianetime.bsky.social · 22d

The WH slegehammer/chainsaw crew is at it again. This time they excuse the wholesale destruction of their #gopShutdown by allowing designated #hatchetmonsterVought to hack away at federal workers, claiming the shutdown forces it. No one believes them, nor should we. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats

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