How Trump is hurting blueberry growers, in one paragraph. Too bad BDN doesn't draw these connections in the article. #mepolitics www.bangordailynews.com/2026/08/05/d...
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Hotelier by marriage, permaculture by night. Unclogs toilets. Learning trades one crisis at a time. Dad. Mainer. Formerly videographer. 合気道, ancestral health. Socialist libertarian? Nat'l news re-skeets & occasional peak oil takes & garden/chicken moments
If Susan Collins stopped writing blank checks to ICE and we clawed back that money instead, we could fund health care for the 31,000 people who are about to lose it thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill #mepolitics
Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · 2h agoThe Trump administration plans on spending $268.9 BILLION—or $2,358 per taxpayer—to undertake mass deportations. Ever wonder what that money could have funded instead? Check out EPI's new calculator to see what your state, county, congressional district, or town could have invested in.
"No one's sure why" because we have perfectly good computers sitting around that can't upgrade to Windows 11 and all the new hardware costs too much that's why
internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️@esquiring.bsky.social · 13h agoit is, at long last, the Year of Linux on the Desktop. www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
Exactly this. #mepolitics
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22h agoSusan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
I also have a tip for all you strivers and billionaire simps out there. In the US, you are roughly 90 times more likely to be present at a mass shooting than to reach 30 million net worth. You are about 2.4 times more likely to be killed in a mass public shooting than to become a billionaire.
Kate Ross@kateross.bsky.social · 19h agoLike the 5 families in tech turning everything into a subscription so you are renting for life. Pinkerton Detective Agency still exists (by acquisition) and is currently doing everything scuttle union organizing. Amazon & more hired them. Via @kimkelly.bsky.social
They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.
Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 22h agoSusan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
Ellison specifically builds his argument around selling himself as a trustworthy steward, and asks to be judged on his record, and then leaves out a huge chunk of his record. What does it mean to be an editor if you're leaving that unchallenged?
Look, they're not gonna stop doing it until it stops working
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump's about used up his power to shift markets with his lies, so now Bessant's relatively fresh reputation is on tap for strip mining
Earnings call predictions: 5 long term goals that are more or less entirely impossible under the current laws of physics; 2 overt, unpunished violations of the secrets act; 2 promises to undermine US interests abroad; 1 promise to re-establish Rhodesia.
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
america is a face culture that pretends it is not a face culture; trump is a particularly reputation (mas macho) variant of that culture. iran gets that america is a face culture, and that trump's entire schtick is built on never "losing", and acts accordingly.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d agoI don't think the average American and certainly not the average MAGA even gets the extent to which "humiliate your foe" is a core ethos of the Iranian approach to conflict
This NYT article on the once-ethical Paul Weiss law firm's abject surrender to Trump got extolled yesterday. But a friend points out it may have buried the lede: that Karp's Epstein ties presented a blackmail opportunity for Trump long before they went public. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
Susan Collins was never described as a "holdout" -- even though there's a good chance she'll ultimately vote AGAINST the nomination -- because everyone knows her decision will be made in coordination with GOP leadership and based on whether her vote is actually needed. #MEpolitics
Most of the news you see was put there by someone in marketing and pitched to a reporter as objective truth
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d agoThere are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
As US Senate candidate Troy Jackson releases his 1st campaign ad this week against Susan Collins, Jake Johnson, senior editor at Common Dreams, details Jackson's 1min vid response to Elon Musk spending $100-120M to sway campaigns across America, including Maine. #MEpolitics #JacksonForMaine #MEsen
Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 2d ago"Apparently Elon Musk has gotten off Twitter long enough to realize that he's got a real problem here in Maine," said Troy Jackson.
This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d agoHowever horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.
yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d agoStill can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
Emily Moreno requested a restraining order, citing an implicitly threatening message Miller sent her father. Here's a screenshot of the text, in which Miller seemed to imply he had some dirt of dirt on Moreno. However, Neither Miller nor Moreno answered my questions about what the text meant.
Sen. Bernie Moreno (paraphrased): On second thought, now that it's clear this is making me personally look awful, I say domestic abuse, lying about it, and failing basic standards of character like that has no place in the Republican Party, except at the top, and some other places too. Thank you.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d agosenator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
The lesson here is that Republicans will keep silent on spousal and child abuse until forced to. Even to the point of allowing a man who abuses a grandchild to get elected. If the media was nonpartisan this would be a 4 alarm fire.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d agosenator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
Was bluesky down Friday evening and yesterday, or was it just me? Also the PBS website would load but videos wouldn't play Then yesterday from about 11am on our ISP was so slow as to be basically down. Seems like several separate outages. Is this Iran retaliating?
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily
WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...
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by all means, let’s make the maine senate race about dobbs and elon musk
Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 5d agoVia @pressherald.com (gift link) Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid Collins "had friendly meetings with Musk in the past while also saying last year she was “very concerned” about some of DOGE’s moves" www.pressherald.com?p=7697086&uu...