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“Golf of America” by Jane H, a member of ARRT! (Artists' Rapid Response Team), a project of the Union of Maine Visual Artists

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If you've never been part of a government procurement process, it might be hard to understand just how much of a "go to prison" thing this would have been at any point from 1946-2024.

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Nice work if you can get it. Now watch for MAGA to try to limit the same SEC transparency requirements that allow reporting like this. So inconvenient when the end goal is easier corruption and insider trading. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

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BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

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Nice list by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. (#3 "Tesla is in deep shit.") @rbreich.bsky.social

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Okay, nerds, buckle in! It's time for some SCIENCE. Back in the late 1960s, a scientist got some government funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Atomic Energy Commission to look for interesting bacteria living in extreme environments. 1/x

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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

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If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

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The nation’s largest #egg farmer made a $219 million profit in the last quarter — up from just $1.2 million the quarter before the flu outbreak began, in early 2022. Tell me again how you’re sure egg producers aren’t using the avian flu as a cover for price #gouging? apnews.com/article/reco...

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"One thing I would recommend is if you’re going to cancel your subscription to the Washington Post, don’t entirely remove those dollars from the news space. Take that money and at least invest it in an organization or a publication that you think is aligned with your values."

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On #WaPo, I’ve changed my mind and I’m going in the opposite direction. Let’s be clear: Bezos isn’t kissing DT’s butt in his editorial pages to save the Post, but to protect Amazon’s market dominance. And in fairness, the newsroom is still putting out crucially important stuff. (1/5)

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A reminder for these times.

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NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

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What if we all donated our tax returns to #Ukraine this year? And where would we send the check?

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House Republicans just passed their budget resolution, paving the way for massive tax cuts for the wealthy. The cost? Health care for millions of Americans, including 350,000 Mainers on Medicaid.

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How can anyone assert that utility-owned distributed energy will be cost competitive after seeing the evidence of how utilities game consumers and regulators over the transmission system? www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra...

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Context for Trump going after Maine’s Mills and her clapback: When LePage — who called himself “Trump before Trump” decided to run against Janet Mills, a lot of pundits thought the race was going to be close. He used trans issues in the race. Mills whipped his butt, winning with a 13 point margin.

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

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Oh good. The U.S. export business I work for can pay bribes now. Just what we needed. Already texted our CEO to expect extortion in near future — and market loss when we refuse. #crimepays #cultureofcorruption www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...

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House Republicans have released their proposed budget. It’s as bad as I imagined. It puts a giant bullseye on health care coverage, while giving at least $4 TRILLION in tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. The American people need to know the stakes—and how Democrats are pushing back.

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So now having a tattoo of Michael Jordan proves you're a criminal who deserves to be at Gitmo?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/americas/luis-castillo-venezuela-migrant-guantanamo-bay-trump.html?smid=bs-share

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The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

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"DeepSeek is the canary in the coal mine. It’s warning us that when there isn’t enough competition, our tech industry grows vulnerable to its Chinese rivals, threatening U.S. geopolitical power in the 21st century." Lina Khan on the dangers of not breaking the market power of the Tech giants:

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Like and share if you didn’t. And if you do believe power corrupts. And if you don’t want an unaccountable gazillionaire with huge government contracts to have the keys to the whole federal payments system, able to stop or make payments outside of the constitutionally approved budget. (1/2)

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So grateful that advocates and legislative leaders are calling for greater tax fairness. Especially with D.C. politicians poised to give still more tax cuts to billionaires and corporations. Maine has made modest progress in the past decade on this, but not enough. (1/3)

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Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

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Just a random picture with the reminder that Maine gets most of its heating oil from Canada.

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Maine Republican Party.

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Things like this happen when ideological billionaires incapable of caring about others are in charge of public safety. America has once again been sold a bill of goods without a warranty.

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What are the chances that an Army run by this boozy bozo would crash a Blackhawk helicopter into a plane at a DC airport tonight? I mean, really.

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As well as misspelling the name of Colombia, Donald Trump is going to push our allies into the loving embrace of China. But don’t say we didn’t tell ya. We did

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Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity Trump: Trade war! Colombia: OK Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights Colombia: Good. Was that so hard? Trump: They gave in!

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