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Diane James

@dejay551.bsky.social

On the western slope of the Rockies. Having fun with fiber, food and slow-stitching.

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Who else AGREES with David?! 🀚

One. Of. The. Good. Guys. 😎✨

24.04.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 17614    πŸ” 5365    πŸ’¬ 530    πŸ“Œ 255

The Loan Programs Office (LPO) is one of the most quietly effective tools the federal government has. It is the center of our industrial policy providing loans that banks won't give for energy innovation. It funds real projects. Battery factories. Nuclear reactors. Geothermal energy. Car factories.

23.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3409    πŸ” 526    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 34
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Greetings and good morning it’s the Thursday farm rush hour with our forever farmily of farm animals

24.04.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2344    πŸ” 264    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 45
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THIS IS WILD‼️

Florida got $67M from a Medicaid fraud settlement. Instead of using it for actual health care, Casey DeSantis funneled $10M to a β€œcharity” she controls. That β€œcharity” passed it to anti-abortion and anti-marijuana groupsβ€”who then helped fund GOP campaigns. Both measures lost!

23.04.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13353    πŸ” 6231    πŸ’¬ 1097    πŸ“Œ 547

πŸ“ŒI'm sorry but the 80-year-old Dick Durbin saying he will retire AT THE END OF NEXT YEAR has to be the most out-of-touch Democratic thing I have heard this week.

πŸ“ŒChances are God will retire you first, sport. Step down NOW if you want to do something truly meaningful for the party.

-Thanks

23.04.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1407    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 27

Pete Buttigieg is really killing the game right now and we should all applaud him for it!!!

23.04.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2487    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 14

The Florida State University Faculty Senate approved a resolution asking that the administration to withdraw from the 287g agreement deputizing campus police to conduct immigration enforcement. The Florida International University Faculty Senate did the same.

24.04.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear white people,
David Hogg is not your son. Stop projecting your parental fantasies onto him. He's also not a child. Stop defaulting to infantalizing white men.
You all refuse to hold adult ass white men responsible for their actions and then wanna act surprised when they lash out.

24.04.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 640    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 17

Weekly jobless claims rose 6,000 to 222,000, up from the 216,000 reported last week.

So. Much. Winning.

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24.04.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3823    πŸ” 1036    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 38
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β€œCowardice is contagious β€” so is courage.”

β€œThat’s what we’ve been seeing month after month... Starting with some people demonstrating courage, and then other people looking around and saying I can do that, too. It’s in my power. I’m not just a victim of world events.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

24.04.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5362    πŸ” 1356    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 61
Graphic featuring DNC Chair Ken Martin speaking behind a podium. 

Below there's text that reads: 

BREAKING 

DNC and ASDC announces largest-ever monthly investment into Democratic state and territory parties.

Graphic featuring DNC Chair Ken Martin speaking behind a podium. Below there's text that reads: BREAKING DNC and ASDC announces largest-ever monthly investment into Democratic state and territory parties.

The DNC will be transferring over $1 million a month into state parties to fund on-the-ground organizing programs, training bootcamps, and critical staffing.

24.04.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1503    πŸ” 362    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 48

Sitting with the data that --

Black people are 3.23x as likely as white people to be killed during a police encounter

Black women are 3x more likely to die of a pregnancy or postpartum-related cause than white women.

Tripled violence, tripled harms.

24.04.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2270    πŸ” 676    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 35

the burning hatred i feel for the app-based replacements for mechanical interfaces we're being forced to use must pale in comparison to the rage felt by people who are actually trained in human-automation psychology

24.04.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Heritage Foundation's coup, Project 2025 plan, is still online as of this date (static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...). It is 900 pages.

Printed it out on both sides; it will take one ream of paper, about 4 ink cartridges, and a 4" 3-ring binder to hold it. DO IT. Read it, understand it.

23.04.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
The Economist cover with a badly wounded American eagle and the headline 1361 days to go

The Economist cover with a badly wounded American eagle and the headline 1361 days to go

Already exhausted?

24.04.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 642    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 10
A social media post by Vince Mancini (@VinceMancini
) reads: "hi what if we just did healthcare, childcare, and maternity leave instead." Below, a New York Post (@nypost
) article headline with a verified blue checkmark, posted 18 hours ago, states: "Trump mulls $5K β€˜baby bonus’ for moms in bid to reverse declining birth rates: report" with a link (trib.al/JABTnI5). The post includes two images: a person in a suit with a red tie speaking (left) and a pregnant woman holding a fan of $100 bills (right).

A social media post by Vince Mancini (@VinceMancini ) reads: "hi what if we just did healthcare, childcare, and maternity leave instead." Below, a New York Post (@nypost ) article headline with a verified blue checkmark, posted 18 hours ago, states: "Trump mulls $5K β€˜baby bonus’ for moms in bid to reverse declining birth rates: report" with a link (trib.al/JABTnI5). The post includes two images: a person in a suit with a red tie speaking (left) and a pregnant woman holding a fan of $100 bills (right).

What if, indeed.

23.04.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4305    πŸ” 532    πŸ’¬ 357    πŸ“Œ 48

We called the Right β€œsick” because they celebrate cruelty and don’t care if our kids die from curable diseases, whereas they call us β€œsickβ€œ because we want due process and equal rights.

24.04.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3243    πŸ” 743    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 27
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Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks Reality is catching up with Elon Musk.

Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks.

23.04.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

In 1930s in response to Great Depression,FDR created programs to even the playing field between the β€˜haves’ 1%(millionaires) & β€˜have-nots’ 99% (YOU!). Social Security, Unemployment,Medicare,co pensions,bank regulations. Repubs been pissed and trying to claw back benefits ever since-DON’T LET THEM!!

24.04.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1726    πŸ” 435    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 21
A post by Senator Peter Welch (@SenPeterWelch
) with a verified blue checkmark says: "That pesky Constitution! President Trump complains about losing in court, even with his nominated judges, because he violates due process, a right we all have." It quotes Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump
) saying: "I’m doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals, but the Courts, even the U.S. Supreme Court, block me. They’re intimidated by the Radical Left. Justice Alito wants to dissolve the pause on deportations. He’s right! We can’t give everyone a trialβ€”it’d take 200 years."

A post by Senator Peter Welch (@SenPeterWelch ) with a verified blue checkmark says: "That pesky Constitution! President Trump complains about losing in court, even with his nominated judges, because he violates due process, a right we all have." It quotes Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump ) saying: "I’m doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals, but the Courts, even the U.S. Supreme Court, block me. They’re intimidated by the Radical Left. Justice Alito wants to dissolve the pause on deportations. He’s right! We can’t give everyone a trialβ€”it’d take 200 years."

If only there were a lesson in there for him about due process…

23.04.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2369    πŸ” 281    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 15
A post by Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz
) with a verified blue checkmark says: "He’s taking a break from destroying your retirement plan to try to save his own." It quotes a Politico (@politico
) article from 9 hours ago: "Musk stepping back from government work amid plummeting Tesla sales ow.ly/J4VL1066GHK."

A post by Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz ) with a verified blue checkmark says: "He’s taking a break from destroying your retirement plan to try to save his own." It quotes a Politico (@politico ) article from 9 hours ago: "Musk stepping back from government work amid plummeting Tesla sales ow.ly/J4VL1066GHK."

Musk must be exhausted running from the consequences!

23.04.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4446    πŸ” 628    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 18

The American Association of University Professors and other groups will ask a federal judge in Massachusetts to block the Trump administration’s revocation of visas and detention of noncitizen students and scholars nationwide. The lawsuit follows a wave of over 1,000 visa cancellations

23.04.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3626    πŸ” 627    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 8
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you: mayday loves ify
me, an intellectual: mayday loves the wheel backstage

23.04.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3388    πŸ” 319    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 12

Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.

23.04.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 31203    πŸ” 5049    πŸ’¬ 634    πŸ“Œ 256

I remember election night 2015 and the overwhelming relief- like a boot taken off my chest- when Harper and the CPC were sent packing.

Get out and vote folks.

I wouldn’t wish the lost Harper years on anyone. That was a true dystopia. We’re still repairing.
#cdnpoli #exln45 #vote #neverCPC

24.04.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1509    πŸ” 377    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 20

All other issues aside, there's going to be major "prompt engineering" burnout for some if not all usecases.

Having to create precise verbal instructions is way more taxing & ultimately less rewarding than browsing stock, or sketching, or talking ideas w/ a human artist, or just writing the copy.

24.04.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 590    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 20

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