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Diane Payne

@dianelp

Person who lives with dogs and cats. Writer. Gardener. Swimmer. Hiker.

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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 ...

Please take a minute to sign this petition.

05.03.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | He Didn’t Kill Anyone. Alabama Is About to Execute Him Anyway.

Please sign the petition to show mercy to Sonny Burton.

05.03.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Heavy Lawn Chair by Diane Payne β€” Feels Blind Literary

Here's a short diversion from the world's chaos: www.feelsblindliterary.com/payne13

04.03.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 shopβ€”companies count on our loyalty. This Valentine’s D...

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...

13.02.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only the rich care about that money. Decent humans care that people who sexual abuse others are punished.

11.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is terrible.

07.02.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To me it's sickening that so many people lusted after Epstein, wanting to be a part of his perverted, abusive circle.

05.02.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry Bezos laid you folks off.

04.02.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.

"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..."

29.01.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am dreading every 250th celebration.

26.01.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There was never a reason to murder Alex Pretti. All those ICE thugs piled on top of him, Alex showing no resistance, yet, they shot him repeatedly with the intent to kill.

25.01.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE is so damn violent.

12.01.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Better than bringing your immunocompromised friends soup is getting vaccinated for the flu and covid.

05.01.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet. Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.

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.

19.12.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 448 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 11

Newt is always telling fibs and trying to induce fear. He's such a despicable anti-single mother scumbag.

18.12.2025 12:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.12.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

10.12.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 973 πŸ” 233 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 16
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07.12.2025 12:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't it fun watching America being taken over by this oligarchy regime?

02.12.2025 16:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Mr. Trump said that β€œmany friends” had asked him to pardon Mr. HernΓ‘ndez: β€œThey gave him 45 years because he was the President of the Country β€” you could do this to any President.”

The Trump regime is a violent disgrace, an embarrassment for our country.

30.11.2025 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! πŸˆβ€β¬›πŸ†πŸˆβ€β¬›

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social

14.11.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8

Thrilled to be included on this list!

15.11.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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13.11.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 24813 πŸ” 8390 πŸ’¬ 861 πŸ“Œ 534
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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.Β  They hoot and holler. Then they see a cat, and on...

In Stratlight Mag today:

straylightmag.com/fiction-nine...

07.11.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

"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...

29.10.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even SNL barely ridicules this regime.

19.10.2025 21:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you imagine working for this asshole?

19.10.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have we ever had such an openly vile president who constantly shows his disdain for Americans in such violent (and juvenile) ways?

19.10.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Maria Corina Machado is the opposite of Trump. Happy she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Needed some good news.

10.10.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This administration does nothing to promote making Americans healthy.

09.10.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0