@DianeDevine18
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Math coach with a passion for children’s literature
North of Boston, MA
Joined August 2017
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Diane Devine retweeted
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman reportedly bought up to $50 million in Shift4 Payments stocks—just weeks before SpaceX, a key Shift4 business partner, went public in the largest IPO in history.
That should *not* be allowed. readsludge.com/2026/06/18/na…
If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?
Diane Devine retweeted
This is 94 to 104 Fahrenheit..
Le pic de cette #canicule aura bien lieu entre demain et mercredi avec des valeurs quotidiennes de 35 à 40°C. Lundi et mardi, on pourrait atteindre les 44°C localement entre centre-ouest et sud-ouest. Superficie importante de températures égales et supérieures à 40°C attendue entre lundi et mardi.
Mercredi restera également bouillant avec les 40°C fréquemment atteints et dépassés.
Les températures devraient commencer à baisser un peu à partir de jeudi prochain. Une sortie de crise se matérialise plus franchement sur les modèles ce matin, à partir de vendredi sur la façade ouest avec des orages possibles mais bien plus tardivement dans le centre-est et le sud-est pas avant le lundi 29-mardi 30.
Quand on parle de sortie de crise, attention l'on resterait souvent sur des températures égales ou supérieures à 30°C au sud de la Loire.
La semaine suivante pourrait rester bien chaude et estivale, même si l'aspect caniculaire disparaitrait.
Diane Devine retweeted
"After a year of secret, behind-closed-door negotiations, the Forest Service authorized massive amounts of gas-powered chainsaw use in the largest contiguous Wilderness in the Lower 48 with no opportunities for public comment and no environmental review."
counterpunch.org/2026/06/19/…
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Don't forget that Pete Hegseth paid his accuser $50K in 2020, forced an NDA.
Police had her hotel key card, texts saying "stop," but declined charges.
His own lawyer admitted the payout was to save his Fox career.
The FBI never saw the full file.
Cover-up, not justice.
Diane Devine retweeted
The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely.
This is the Justice Department intervening on behalf of a polluter, against the people breathing the air it’s polluting.
That’s not protecting national security. That’s protecting Elon Musk.
Elon Musk just became a trillionaire. The community next to his data center is breathing smog-forming nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde.
nytimes.com/2026/06/16/clima…
Diane Devine retweeted
BREAKING: Lawrence: “In the report by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in today’s NYTimes, @JDVance began a White House meeting last year by arguing that it was time to invoke the Insurrection Act which allows the president to deploy the American military to put down insurrections and rebellions inside the United States. He did this after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by Donald Trump’s federal agents in Minnesota, when video recordings of the incidents showed that they did not pose any threats at all to the agents who shot and killed them. The Times reports Mr Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act SWIFTLY to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send, that paid agitators could not get away with disrupting ICE operations, would make sure no one tried it again. There was no evidence that either Mr Pretti or Ms Good had been paid activists.” 😳
Diane Devine retweeted
My cousin took this picture up in Boston. The Tartan Army placed the Scottish flag on these ducks.
😂🥰💙🇺🇸🏴🤍
Diane Devine retweeted
all you need to know about Charles Kushner:
"The NJ developer went to prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and witness tampering, having hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and then sending a videotape of the encounter to his sister."
nytimes.com/2026/06/20/world…
Diane Devine retweeted
Tim Snyder's right: US democracy can only be restored if we punish those who tried to overthrow it.
We failed after Jan 6. It's not just the useful idiots at the Capitol, or even Trump. We have to admit how many high-level people supported a plan to steal the people's vote. 1/
Diane Devine retweeted
WCGW - The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED; thus allowing: polio, whooping cough, influenza, etc,,
Diane Devine retweeted
🚨🇦🇱 BREAKING: Day 21 of mass protests in Tirana, Albania
✊️🇦🇱Over 350,000 people have taken to the streets, no longer asking, demanding Edi Rama’s resignation for selling Albanian land and Sazan Island to oligarchs and Kushner.
✊️The people have crossed the point of no return.
⚡️The old Albania is dying in these streets.
✊️🇦🇱NEW ALBANIA is rising.
#Albania #FlamingoRevolution
Diane Devine retweeted
Peter Thiel the Antichrist lizard has a secret society named Dialog. They convene yearly to plot how to kill the US democracy. You cannot make this shit up. This billionaire asshole is not done yet by escaping to Argentina.
Diane Devine retweeted
The defense for Flock Cameras, etc, is simple: “You’re in public, so you have no right to privacy.” But have you considered the endgame of that logic?
If privacy stops at your doorstep, then it is perfectly legal for a police AI drone to meet you at your driveway, follow you everywhere, and record every interaction you have all day long. Every single person, followed by a machine, every single day.
If that physical reality makes your skin crawl, then you cannot defend the digital version. An AI camera grid on the streets is just a robot cop following you that you’ve been told to ignore.
Diane Devine retweeted
Facts matter. Trump is trying to restrict mail in voting by giving the federal government control to decide who is eligible to vote. That’s supposed to be up to the states, but Trump has decided the states can’t mail ballots to anyone who isn’t on his list. Read here to understand the EO & the lawsuits challenging it.
open.substack.com/pub/joycev…
Diane Devine retweeted
Carl Sagan explains why humanity’s oldest illusion collapses the moment we look at the real scale of the universe.
“Here we are, like mites on a plum. And the plum is this little planet.”
“And the plum goes around an insignificant local star, the Sun.”
“That star is on the obscure outskirts of an ordinary galaxy, the Milky Way.”
“The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of other stars.”
“And this galaxy is only one among billions of other galaxies that make up the universe.”
“Now it is beginning to look as if even this universe may be one of an enormous number, maybe even an infinite number, of other closed-off universes.”
“So the idea that we are central…”
“That the reason there is a universe is us, is pathetic.”
“We have to understand the universe that we really live in.”
“Some of our myths and some of our religion are inconsistent with it.”
“It is time to change the myth.”
Diane Devine retweeted
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.
Think about that.
At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.
Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.
Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.
Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.
Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.
Governments usually spend money to build things.
This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
nytimes.com/2026/06/17/clima…
Diane Devine retweeted
Hydrogen peroxide alone does not dissolve or strip a polyurea or polyurethane coating, which is what was just added to the Reflecting Pool. However, applying industrial-strength peroxide can degrade the polymer structure, leading to swelling, discoloration, or delamination if the coating was improperly applied. So it's safe to assume the coating was not applied correctly to begin with. The substrate must be completely cleaned, dried, and properly primed before applying polyurea/polyurethane.
The damage is not the work of left-wing vandals. The damage was caused by the people who were paid $15 million for a job they are not qualified to do. This is a mixture of incompetence and ignorance. But hey, the pool guy was a Trump donor, so he got the no-bid government contract based on his donations, not his skill or knowledge.
Diane Devine retweeted
"It was not an easy childhood."
Omar Yaghi, whose parents were from Palestine, grew up in a refugee family of ten children, in a home with no running water and no electricity.
Last year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cage-like molecules that can capture and release smaller substances, like water.
#WorldRefugeeDay #WithRefugees