Diane B.

Diane B.

@prvoice.bsky.social

Native New Yorker. Lifelong Democrat. Fiercely opposed to Trump, ICE brutality, and authoritarian rule. Unwavering defender of democracy, women’s and civil rights, a free press, integrity, and truth. Animal-shelter champion. Ice-cream connoisseur.

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Within days of each other, Musk’s Starlink restricted Ukraine’s ability to protect itself while Zuckerberg’s Meta suppressed No Kings’ SM accounts, disrupting protest communications. Two billionaires. Two powerful platforms. Think about that. Vote everybody. Your freedom—and lives—depend on it.

It’s not a great record to run on, and the leaks from the administration show that at least some insiders are aware of how unpopular and dangerous that record is.”

Must read today’s post. “After ten years of Trump insisting that reports of his cooperation with Russia were a hoax, here we are, watching one profoundly unpopular man tear apart the global system under which we have lived for eighty years in order to climb into bed with Vladimir Putin.”

heathercoxrichardson.substack.comOctober 18, 2026Tonight Lingling Wei, Alex Leary, Thomas Grove, and Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has proposed a meeting next month with Trump and China’s pres...

Yesterday, Zuckerberg removed No Kings’ national Facebook & Instagram accounts—on protest day. Zuck, Musk, Altman, Amodei, Thiel & Karp use platforms to support candidates who enrich them. Trust none of their products. Nov. 3: Don’t rely on social media for polling waits or free rides. Plan now.

No women will be promoted to admiral in the U.S. Navy this year for the first time in more than a decade. Pete Hegseth personally blocked the promotion of seven senior officers without cause. Five of the officers are women or people of color. Their mere presence emasculates him.

Trump: demands an immediate and permanent end to the conflict on current lines. Zelensky: accepts the proposal Putin: Rejects the proposal Trump: Zelensky is the problem.

Ukraine took out threeYandex data centers offline in a matter of days, Russian bot traffic plummeted—and Trump is squealing. Cloudflare data shows bot traffic from the Yandex network fell to just 0.4% of its two-week peak-the drop is real, and the midterms are weeks away. Slava Ukraine!!

Kennedy is allowing well over a dozen —I can’t keep count — toxic, deadly chemicals banned worldwide to be sprayed on our food, he’s fired thousands of scientists and without their oversight every day there are recalls of tainted, dangerous food…

the EPA is saying yes to industries allowing them to dump lethal chemicals in our water, the list is mind boggling …now this!! When will the country rise up before Kennedy and his psychopathic administration have completely poisoned our entire country and every American ??? VOTE BLUE!!

Trump’s calls for Zelensky’s removal is the last straw. No longer can there be any doubt that Trump is owned by Putin.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social leads with this gem: So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S. national security position of support for Ukraine and our European allies, Trump is openly backing Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.

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As always, an excellent summary of global events with historical context. READ this. “On Friday, despite the fact that Russia is backing Iran, whose military is killing U.S. soldiers, Trump proudly announced he was removing sanctions to let Russia sell its oil on global markets...” #Trump #Ukraine

MS NOW reports that the Trump admin has not invited the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe monitors to observe the U.S. midterm elections—the first time since 2002. Of its 57 member countries, only Russia and Belarus had previously refused these observers. Now the U.S. joins them.

In an outrageous assault on America’s national forests, Trump issued an “emergency order” opening 59% of them to logging! Most of the trees are over 100 years old. They play an ESSENTIAL role in fighting climate change, providing wildlife habitats, and surviving wildfires. Follow the $. STOP TRUMP!

Trump’s FCC is cutting internet access for over 100,000 public schools & libraries.This is about denying education,blocking pathways out of poverty,widening the digital divide.The internet is a necessity, not a luxury, for communities that rely on public resources to stay connected & move forward.

All these deadly recalls—weekly, often daily —are all because of Kennedy and Trump. WAKE UP AMERICA! Vote blue as if your life depends on it, because it does.

This is a really important development. FINALY major media outlets take a stand against Trump’s fascist suppression of the free press—the underpinning of our Democracy. Fox News, ABC, NBC and CBS just SUSPENDED their shared TV coverage of Trump after he banned CNN from the White House.

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Notice how much rates have risen – especially for 2027! Part B Drug Medicare Insurance (UHC) monthly rate: 2017-$22.50 2018-$26.80 2019-$28.10 2020-$40.90 2021-$40.90 2022-$40.90 2023-$40.90 2024-$78.70 2025-$113.70 2026-$163.70 2027-$238.30😱 Yearly deductible 2026-$130 2027-$300😡 Vote Blue!

Tristan Snell@tristansnell.bsky.social

BREAKING -- Trump RAISES prescription drug costs. He just reversed all the cost caps that had been negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid -- over 120 MILLION Americans. He's pro Big Pharma -- and pro Big Insurance. He doesn't care about you. It was all LIES.

Until the Republican led Congress rubber stamps her nomination and she turns around and exposes it was a lo a lie, like the malignant Kennedy.