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This is not a time for retreat- it is a time for action.
On this day in 1876, Mary Ritter Beard was born. Her 1946 book, Woman as Force in History, criticized male historians for ignoring women. She argued that women “have been a force in making all the history that has been made.” A male reviewer called Beard’s book “rather waspish.” #WeTheMen
The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful
How come Mitch McConnell is still getting paid to be a senator, but Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Ted Kennedy are not?
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
1/2 What: Protest demanding that ICE release Debora Kapisha, RN When: Wednesday, Aug. 5 10:30 ET Where: Maine Medical Center, Western Promenade near 22 Bramhall St., Portland, Maine
BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
We’re told we can’t afford to keep labor and delivery care in rural Maine. But Susan Collins sure seems to always find the money to give billionaires another tax break. MaineHealth must vote to keep Miles Labor & Delivery open. Lincoln County deserves better. We all do.
Here's the audio of Susan Collins saying she would vote for Kavanaugh again -- basically an admission that she's not actually pro-choice. Unclear if she knew she was being recorded. (Our guess is she did not!) #MEpolitics
Susan Collins Randolph Fire Department Ribbon Cutting 7/11/2026
Listen to Susan Collins Randolph Fire Department Ribbon Cutting 7/11/2026 by Jackcooper881917 #np on #SoundCloud
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MAINERS: READY FOR CHANGE? VOTE TROY JACKSON FOR U.S. SENATE #MEpolitics #Maine #MEsen #JacksonForMaine
. NO MORE ICE KILLINGS A road construction sign on Brighton Ave in Portland, Maine was hacked to read "NO MORE ICE KILLINGS" this past Monday morning, two weeks after the murder of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. This should be a regular thing in every town and city in America. 📸 WGME #MEpolitics
1/ Lucy Goode Brooks (1818–1900) was an American slave who was instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia. Goode was born to the slave Judith Goode and a white man. #WomanToday
A win! The Department of Justice has withdrawn all criminal charges against three-time U.S. Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn.
7/31/1831 — b. Sarah J. Garnet, American educator, suffragist. The first Af-Am woman principal, New York City public school system (1863); founder, Equal Suffrage Club for black wmn, Brooklyn; superintendent of suffrage, National Association of Colored Women #womenshistory #EduSky #womensrights #woc
