Ted Cruz interrupted during ESPN appearance by fired-up crowd chanting, "TED, YOU SUCK!"
25 years ago, on a clear September morning, an otherwise ordinary day became one of history’s darkest. Through the darkness, we also saw the best of humanity.
BBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.
I’m not sure people appreciate how radical this is. A pro-active process to inform locals when there is a cruise ship health risk. No other port to my knowledge has done this. It is why @portcruisecontrol.bsky.social exists. Never would have happened without @wespelletier.bsky.social ⚓️💙⚓️
Portland Cruise Control_Maine@portcruisecontrol.bsky.social · 6d agoRemember the confusion when the Insignia arrived last October with a #norovirus outbreak? Portland now offers an opt-in text alert for when cruise ships arrive outbreaks. Sign-up here: public.alertsense.com/SignUp/?Regi... Learn more here: t.e2ma.net/message/ieto... #PortlandME #cruiseships
The 2027 cruise schedule includes 102 cruise ships. 26 days with 2 ships at once. Some days the floating cities will reach almost 10k population. No restriction on fuel. No decrease in air pollution. No elimination of scrubber wash contaminants in Casco Bay. Is this what Portland wants?
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Today 9/8 at 5:30 pm on zoom the HHS+ PS Committee will meet. The Opt-in Text Alert for when cruise ships arrive with an outbreak will be presented by Bridget Rauscher of Public Health dept. portlandme.portal.civicclerk.com/event/8346/f... #Portland #Maine #PublicHealth #cruiseShips #norovirus
The Guardian - Air pollution from ships may be more harmful than road traffic emissions, port study finds Scientists say ultrafine particles in cruise ship emissions associated with reduced ability to resist common viruses www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Air pollution from ships may be more harmful than road traffic emissions, port study finds
Scientists say ultrafine particles in cruise ship emissions associated with reduced ability to resist common viruses
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⚓️PSA⚓️ There will be 63 more cruise ships coming to Portland before the season ends. If you'd like to avoid the pollution, passengers & plague we suggest you use Port Call: maine.portcall.com#!?tab=2&port... Vision of the Seas arrived @ 8 am & will depart @ 6 pm #cruiseships #Portland #Maine
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/
Meet the attorneys Harmeet Dhillon installed to turn the Civil Rights Division against its mission - Public Citizen
Introduction On July 8, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon tweeted that she had sworn in more than 100 new…
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ICE arrested this Mainer and sent him to Guatemala "accidently" and in defiance of a judicial order. He didn't even have a deportation order issued against him. Susan Collins' body cameras won't fix behavior like this #mepolitics #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2026/08/05/m...
ICE to return Maine man after ‘inadvertently’ deporting him
The agency told a judge it 'inadvertently removed' the 31-year-old Portland resident after misidentifying him during the January enforcement surge.
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Butler’s 34-year military career spans the Spanish-American War in 1898 through WWI. He rose through all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major General. He received 16 medals and was one of only two Marines to be awarded the Medal of Honor twice for separate military actions. /2
The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...
The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations - The American Prospect
How can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.
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Elon’s a walking monkey paw so the way this works is destroying the value of the earth by several thousand trillion dollars
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2mo agoMusk: “SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if we accomplish our goals”
Selling his stake in World Liberty Financial brought in $65.6 million (pp. 855, 867) Most, if not all, of that money came from a firm backed by the UAE's National Security Adviser. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The week of June 15th Part 2 *underlining represents Maine based musicians
Tuesday, June 16th *underlining represents Maine based musicians
Don’t know why Trump is diddling in Europe with the reflecting pool looking like shit. Totally irresponsible to leave town at such a critical time
The week of June 8th Part 1 *underlining represents Maine based musicians
The week of June 8th Part 2 *underlining represents Maine based musicians
When he barricades himself in there, we’re just going to have to build a sarcophagus around the block and put one of those signs that lasts into the next epoch that this is a poison place that should be shunned and left undisturbed.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "Between the drone-proofing, missile-proofing, & drone capacity, we can have all sorts of military -- I hate to use the word snipers -- but we have great sniper capacity. It's built for our snipers, not enemy's snipers. And bc of the height we get a very clear view of everything all over DC."
I understand the Platner campaign’s logic in withdrawing from the 5 scheduled debates, yet this move cuts short important policy discussions and conversations and shortchanges Maine voters, most of whom haven’t fully focused on June’s primary election. I hope he’ll reconsider #MEpolitics
Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.
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Portland to weigh repairing or rebuilding its historic Expo
Portland to weigh repairing or rebuilding its historic Expo
A recent assessment found that the 110-year-old building may need $30 million in repairs.
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