Mike Tipping

Some semi-recent projects: A knife holder for Maggie, some cherry paperweights for my Labor Committee colleagues and one of a series of gavels I've been turning.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

My new favorite Amazon review:

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

Wait, let me guess - she’s deeply concerned

Is that the Veritas router plane? How do you like it?

Yiiiiiikes

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

‘We have the receipts’: Democrats call out Collins on false statement about her vote to advance Trump budget - Maine Beacon Maine Democrats say Sen. Susan Collins’ efforts to justify her procedural vote to advance Senate Republicans’ budget bill don’t hold water — and Collins needs to be held accountable for her role in ad...

Maine Democrats are calling out Sen. Susan Collins for voting to advance the recently passed Republican budget bill — and for her attempts to justify that vote. The bill is expected to result in tens of thousands of Mainers losing access to food assistance, heating aid, and health care.

Trump supports a right wing coup plotter, so now you'll have to pay more for beef and coffee.

‘No State’ Can Afford To Mitigate GOP Budget Cuts, and ‘That’s the Point’ When issues such as abortion were raised on the 2024 campaign trail,...

‘No State’ Can Afford To Mitigate GOP Budget Cuts, and ‘That’s the Point’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/no-stat...

It's far from the first American concentration camp, but an awful reversion to some of the darkest chapters of our history.

Unconscionable.

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.

“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”

The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.

Don’t ever forget.

We're going to keep tax fairness alive and keep working to unrig our tax code.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Maine lawmakers pass $1.6 billion ‘messaging bill' to reverse cuts to state pension system • Maine Morning Star Maine Legislators said they hope to send a message about the importance of public service with the passage of a bill that would undo previous cuts to the state pension system — to the tune of more tha...

This is an important reminder of how much we've taken from retirees to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy.

Nearly every Maine House and Senate Republican voted to repeal child labor protections - Maine Beacon Nearly every Republican lawmaker in the Maine House and Senate voted in favor of rolling back the state’s long-standing child labor protections by supporting LD 644, a bill that would repeal nearly al...

Last week, almost every Republican lawmaker in the Maine House and Senate voted in favor of rolling back the state’s long-standing child labor protections by supporting a bill that would repeal nearly all state-level work-hour limits for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Maine’s public transportation options are limited. Lawmakers would like to change that. Public transit options currently meet only about 11% of the state’s total transportation needs, according to a recent report.

"The community transportation bill introduced by Sen. Mike Tipping would increase interagency coordination, create a state coordinator of mobility management and establish eight regional hubs to make better use of federal funds for public transportation."
www.pressherald.com/2025/05/18/m...

G.O.P. Tax Bill May Hurt the Lowest Earners and Help the Richest

Impact of GOP tax bill by annual income:

17K to 51K: -$700

4.3 million or more: +$389,000

Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

My bill would prevent this from happening in Maine.

themainemonitor.org/private-equi...

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why. Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...

In the case I'm familiar with, they set rents higher (with the help of an algorithm) and made more money while having more vacancies.

"Keeping the heads in the beds above all else is not always the best strategy," is the way RealPage's CEO put it: www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

Lawmakers consider bill to require legislative approval for Juniper Ridge Landfill contract Under a proposal before lawmakers, the state would need legislative approval to renew the contract to operate the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town.

"Sen. Tipping said that bill would give the public more input[...]

'Ensuring that before any other decisions are made about this major state-owned facility, that the legislature, and through them, the people of Maine, would have a say.'"
www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

With waste issues piling up, Maine Legislature weighs more oversight of Juniper Ridge • Maine Morning Star Maine legislators are seeking greater oversight of the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill.

"Tipping put forward another proposal that was heard Monday seeking to address forever chemicals from landfill leachate entering groundwater and surface waters." mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/28/w...

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.

“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account. Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.” There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.

"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."