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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

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I saw lots of pitcher plants by the bog walk of the Bangor City Forest. They are red and green and attract and eat bugs.

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What a stupid and massive waste of money.

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Why are they doing this?

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Talking to my students about how they use AI, many said they use it to help with some research and to write outlines of essays Finding the info, distilling a thesis, and figuring out how to structure key info into a coherent argument is the whole point of academic writing Why bother otherwise

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

A friend who lives near Eastport told me businesses in Calais (which has a border crossing) that usually open for the summer and have lots of Canadian customers either have not opened this summer or opened and are struggling to survive. #mepolitics

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RFK Jr. is making it more difficult to enroll in Obamacare www.politico.com/news/2025/06... Given this, I have to share this great video of his uncle, Ted Kennedy, in 1978, calling for universal healthcare. youtu.be/LhYtMmw9OVk?...

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The whole article is well worth reading. The Catholic priests who showed up today made a real difference in the lives of immigrants. There's a real model here for the Catholic Church nationally and for other Christian denominations.

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In 2018 I asked Jared Golden, then not in Congress, how he would address Trump’s attacks on immigrants. He said he’d stand up for his Lewiston neighbors and other immigrants. Now he attacks and smears other members of Congress who do so, implicitly backing Trump’s message and tactics. #mepolitics

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I usually watch TikTok videos while I work out, and this came across my feed tonight and I had to catch my breath from audibly sobbing. I can’t believe this is happening in our country. A US citizen in LA tries to question why an older maintenance worker is being taken, so they take him too

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Court invalidates NSF 15% indirect cost cap. Strong ruling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk and DOGE broke numerous aspects of Social Security delivery Rather than fix the damage, the Trump administration has simply stopped reporting the data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Susan Collins pretending to be upset that the Project 2025 architect and Christian Nationalist she helped confirm as OMB head after he promised to break law...is now doing the sort of stuff he promised to do. Arsonist complaining about the heat, falling debris etc. tinyurl.com/3ekpemy7 #MEpolitics

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The United States really isn't going to be able to host the Olympics or World Cup.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

So, I’m really angry about this. This is utter and complete nonsense that can serve only to delegitimate an order that is constitutionally binding on the executive branch. Even if they do comply, it’s the kind of thing that builds support for noncompliance. It cannot be normalized.

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

Beloved Ohio high school soccer star kidnapped by ICE and deported www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Corruption watch:

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This week, the #BureauOfLaborStatistics, which is responsible for America’s most important economic numbers (CPI, PPI and Non-Farm-Payrolls etc.) said it was “reducing sample in areas across the country,” noting that its “current resources can no longer support the collection effort.” #ThisIsBad

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Such restrictions would devastate Maine health care delivery. #mepolitics

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This is terrific: two dozen generally right-of-center public interest & law groups join in a letter saying Congress must not adopt Senate budget language "that would require courts to impose financial bonds before issuing temp restraining orders or prelim injunctions against the federal gov't." /1

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A newly unsealed court filing states that Vance Boelter and his wife were “preppers” with a contingency plan in the chance of impending catastrophe.

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

#mepolitics

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This Friday, June 20 the bishop of San Diego - Pope Leo's first ecclesiastical appointment - is going to be doing what Brad Lander did today at the federal courthouse in San Diego. Will masked ICE goons arrest the bishop too?

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Trump's tax bill would kill rural hospitals by (in part) kicking lots of patients off of Medicaid. Susan Collins thinking the solution to this is to throw some extra $$$ at hospitals rather than just letting Medicaid patients keep getting care is maybe the most Susan Collins thing ever. #MEpolitics

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Democrats can do both! Visit hospitals that will be hurt and ICE detention facilities.

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Any corporate executive who signs off on a bribe to Trump should be prepared to explain their crimes in front of Congress and to the public when Democrats retake power

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Three dead, dozens sick from Listeria in premade chicken meals sold at Walmart & Kroger. In normal times, CDC would issue a HAN. Instead, we’re wasting energy revisiting thimerosal myths while real threats go unchecked.

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“Reader said that agents would not tell her what immigration laws her employee violated, threatened her with assault of an officer for asking questions and told her she was not allowed to follow their cars or know where her employee was being taken.”

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Marco Rubio made being denied entry into China part of his Twitter bio for ages. Now he is doing it to the rest of the world.

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Why Trump is whining about the new Fox News poll: ▶️ 7 points net negative on Immigration (disapproval up 5 points since April) ▶️ 15 points net negative on foreign policy ▶️ 18 points net negative on the economy ▶️ 30 points net negative on inflation ▶️ Voters oppose his budget bill by 59%-38% 😱

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This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

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