asfried.bsky.social
Political scientist, kayaker
Emeritus, UMaine
Columnist at crashbarry.com
Books include At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump; More Than Blue, More Than Yankee: Complexity and Change in New England Politics
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Trump can’t fire Powell. No authority. And Powell knows that.
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PE (pulmonary embolism)
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My oncologist said the Lafayette Cancer Treatment Center in Brewer could not operate without immigrant physicians. Almost all the doctors my husband saw went he was at Eastern Maine Med for a PI (he was admitted
via the ER then hospitalized for 10 days, 3 in intensive care) were immigrants.
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People should mind their own business regarding what people do with their own bodies and show basic respect and courtesy about what they want to be called. It’s basic politeness.
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Noem, Bondi & Co. are asking us to get used to a brutal and unaccountable secret police force because of scary hypotheticals about home terror attacks. Meanwhile, judges, state lawmakers and others courageously do their jobs in public each day despite very real home terror attacks. /4, end
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Bad call by Clyburn.
Cuomo is an arrogant asshole who emphasizes self-protection and retribution over good governing.
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It’s a step toward authoritarianism, not good at all.
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I say that as a political scientist who did a lot of work on American public opinion and political psychology.
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Got it. I kind of wonder if most people posting that have a real nuanced or in-depth understanding of it. Broad directional sentiment (nice phrase!) is probably the most to expect from most.
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Why do you think she doesn’t understand it? My mom would have in the past. (And despite having Alzheimer’s and being 98 still might.)
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Collins is still waiting on the vote on DACA,that McConnell promised her if she voted on the Trump tax scam first time around. She will cave.
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I kind of wonder if he is going to make the leap to PR for an elected official, like the Mario Moretto did when he went to work for Golden. www.linkedin.com/in/mariomore...
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With more than half (54%) of Americans reportedly now getting news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube vs TV (50%) and news sites (48%), viral video clips become all the more important for reaching the public to show what mass deportation really means. bsky.app/profile/chad...
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Bye troll.
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Nah. If AI is writing for you, you're not really thinking or writing. Same with summarizing work you haven't read.
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#mepolitics
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Mine, too. And he just could not watch baseball after they left Brooklyn.
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The (Brooklyn) Dodgers broke the color barrier then broke the hearts of Brooklynites. But this is a good move.