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Maine's coldest case is a 1954 murder of a 12-year-old boy whose body turned up in Auburn. Police still hope to find his killer. www.sunjournal.com/2025/02/23/m...

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"You must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end?" - Maine Gov. Janet Mills

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Can anyone remember the last time someone challenged Trump to his face ... was it Nancy Pelosi pre-2020?

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This is really something

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James Taylor urges Americans to speak out and stand up.

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John Terhune's story about Maine mass shooter Robert Card's family is terrific journalism on every level. Read it. www.pressherald.com/2025/02/20/t...

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The America I grew up in: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - JFK

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Fifteen years ago, Maine's Susan Collins called Daniel Smeriglio "an angry young man." Now he is aiming to challenge her in a 2026 primary for the Republican Party's nomination. www.sunjournal.com/2025/02/18/a...

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Former Maine Chief Justice Daniel Wathen is going to chat with me at noon Thursday about the Lewiston shooting commission he chaired. Here's a little info on the event: lplonline.org/events/great... To register for the free Zoom session: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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There's something more than a little obscene about the world's richest man -- who spreads hate and lies constantly on social media -- calling for long prison sentences for 60 Minutes' journalists.

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NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

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An Old Dominion legal giant, Fourth Circuit Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III, said Danielle Sassoon, who quit as US attorney in New York rather than obey orders to let Mayor Adams off the hook “is someone who’s very principled and rigorously honest and plays it straight.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

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Next Thursday, I'll be talking with former Maine Chief Justice Daniel Wathen about the Lewiston shooting commission he chaired. It's a free program at the Lewiston Public Library at noon on Feb. 20. I promise you'll mostly hear from the judge. www.sunjournal.com/2025/02/12/j...

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Thomson Reuters wins AI copyright case, one of the first major tests of the law in the United States. Here is the ruling. "None of Ross’s possible defenses holds water. I reject them all" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

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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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This is a crystal clear violation of the First Amendment. The AP could call it the Gulf of Broken Dreams if it wants. And the government would have no right to try to force it to use any other name.

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The pope weighs powerfully to defend the "many men & women" & "entire families" who fled poverty & mayhem for the safety of the USA. Opposing the push for deportation, he calls for "a society that is more fraternal, inclusive & respectful of the dignity of all." www.vatican.va/content/fran...

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As is so often the case, @jayrosen.bsky.social has it exactly right. This is the world we live in.

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For a century, Fort Bragg was named for a Confederate general. Then, for two years, it was named Fort Liberty. Now, it is again Fort Bragg -- supposedly named for a WWII Maine private, Roland Bragg, who performed heroically during the Battle of the Bulge. www.sunjournal.com/2025/02/11/f...

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Employees rejoiced when the nonprofit National Trust for Local News bought the Portland Press Herald and 21 other Maine papers in 2023. But following financial losses, execs can't rule out layoffs, underscoring the challenges facing all media outlets. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/11/b...

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Not sure what to think after reading this by @aidanryan.bsky.social. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/11/b...

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A birthright American is ... an American. youthjournalism.org/being-an-ame...

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"PAUSING FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT ENFORCEMENT TO FURTHER AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY" (?????)

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South African Elon Musk keeps boosting white nationalists on X www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Anyone out there remember Time & Chaos and have any suggestions about similar program that's done better at keeping up with the times?

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Access the Sun Journal online for just $79 a year. That's a bargain. www.sunjournal.com/gift-subscri...

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It should come as no surprise, but The Boston Globe reports that rats are on the rise in the nation's capital. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/s...

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There's nothing like a Super Bowl halftime show to remind you that you're getting old.

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All those 'Patrick Mahomes is about to surpass Tom Brady as the GOAT' stories are looking more than a little silly

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After 16 years of preparation, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will disconnect from the Russian power system on February 8 and join the European common grid on February 9. www.riga.lv/en/article/b...

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Behind Closed Doors, Trudeau Says Trump Threat to Take Over Canada Is Real www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

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Kudos, by the way, to whoever named the Gulf of Maine after Maine so we don't have to rename it now. If it were, say, the Gulf of Massachusetts, we'd have no damn choice except to reprint all the maps.

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This isn't exactly comforting. www.poynter.org/commentary/a...

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Oh hey there @bostonglobe.com thanks for the awesome profile www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/06/m...

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A 1990 watercolor by William Thon titled "Maine Winter" from the Bates College Museum of Art. museum.bates.edu/objects-1/in...

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Maine state offices are closing at 1 p.m. on Thursday because of the expected storm.

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Our much-adored publisher here at the Sun Journal is leaving this month. Jody's departure is something none of us ever wanted to see. Plus, as always, it's never a good sign for the future when your bosses up and go. www.sunjournal.com/2025/02/05/l...

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Mostly what I see people saying: If we're going to build a new Riviera, how about we do it in the USA?

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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicial, in the same hands, ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." - James Madison in The Federalist

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Explaining [waves around] all this to my 9-year-old, and thinking of Emerson in 1851: “one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by the new records of shame…a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, ‘What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?’”

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"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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