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1 week ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
This America PromptsHere are some headlines and topics as writing prompts for you to cover for “This America” publicationUse the links below as a starting point in your research. Write an op-ed or creative work on your theme. If you submit an op-ed essay, use 4 topic tags you feel best promote your work. For a dystopian short story, use “Dystopian Fiction” for your first tag, then 3 tags to promote your story, and “This America” for your fifth tag.
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2 weeks ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
ExistentialismI sometimes fall into existential musing… or, “navel gazing” as some might dismiss it. For me though, such musings are endless sources of inspiration. Many of my artworks and much of my poetry emerges from pondering the unponderables. The spark, initially, was a combination of Carl Sagan’s observation, “You are star stuff” and an interview of Neil deGrasse Tyson in which he expounded on Sagan’s theme.
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
Merry Christmas — NOTAround 80% of toys sold in America are made in ChinaThe production of toys, Christmas trees and decorations is usually in full swing by now. It takes four to five months to manufacture, package and ship products to the United States. Toy makers, children’s shops and specialty retailers are pausing orders for the winter holidays as the import taxes cascade through supply chains.
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
Food Safety in the Trump EraWhat will be the tipping point to inspire MAGA to turn on Trump? During the Pandemic, the panic buying, and supply chain interruption, shelves were empty. Americans got their first experience in generations with wide spread food scarcity, however minimal. Corporate price gouging also drove up costs in the recovery period. While Trump’s policies in his first term worsened our troubles, you couldn’t really say the problems were wholly his our our fault.
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty |Jason Provencio
Space TourismThere’s a huge misogyny problem with how people are going after the women on Bezos’ cock rocket grand tour. To be clear, I think space tourism is obscene. I think the people who make that trip are as blind to the optics as were the 17th and 18th century aristocrats taking the Grand Tour. From around 1750 to 1860, tenants who’d subsisted on those aristocrats’ land for generations were removed — often with brute force — from land by the .
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
Trump Constitutional CrisisYou expected better from your convicted-felon-in-chief? U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg (chief judge of DC’s federal court) wrote that the government’s “conduct betrayed a desire to outrun the equitable reach of the Judiciary.”Boasberg ruled on March 15th, ordering Trump officials to return to America all planes carrying deportees to CECOT, the infamous El Salvadoran prison cum concentration camp.
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
ICE/Gestapo TyrannyA scrollable table of those disappeared by ICE as of 10 April 2025Below is a spreadsheet of the disappeared. I haven’t tried an embed link like this before. I hope it works for you, my readers. On the list are people who’ve just been snatched from their homes, from their lives. We know from news reporting that more than 70% of those taken have no criminal arrest records. Note how many “unknown” and “unidentified” are on the list.
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1 month ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
Global Trade WarThe sex-pest-in-chief is telling the world to “Just shut up and take it.”Trump is burning the world to rule it. In a late-night social media rant, Trump promised to impose “large scale” economic retaliation against our allies, Canada and the EU if they band together to defend themselves against Trump’s global trade war. He accused them of trying to “do economic harm” to the US. Trump set fire to our closest alliances and blames them for defending themselves.
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2 months ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
What Fresh Hell Is This? It’s economic brutalism. And it’s all part of the plan. Author, D. Denise Dianaty·FollowPublished inThis America·5 min read·--Trump imposed tariffs on the sub-Antarctic islands of Heard and McDonald. There are no human inhabitants. They have zero trade with America. One of the tiny frozen islands is home only to penguins. Photo by Rod Long on UnsplashNorfolk Island is a remote outpost territory of Australia. The nation of Australia received a 10% tariff.
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2 months ago | 
medium.com | D. Denise Dianaty
Member-only storyTrump’s U.S. DollarThe deliberate weakening of the dollarAuthor, D. Denise Dianaty·SubscribePublished inThis America·4 min read·--Undermining the U.S. dollar globallyThe coercive vision labeled the “Mar-a-Lago Accord” (Accord) harms America’s ability to finance its deficits. The dollar has long been a global anchor currency. Yet the Trump regime is actively undermining the status of the U.S. dollar as the world’s leading global currency.
