Donna Bailey

On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message.

“Fight for us”

“Fight for working class Americans”

“Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty”

5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message.

“Nah”

Some things that didn’t suck in 2025 (really) • An Arm And a Leg In states like Nebraska and Virginia, new laws could help a ton of people. In states like Nebraska and Virginia, new laws could help a ton of people.

This might shock you, but not all health care news was totally sucky in 2025. Like new state regulations for insurers and debt collectors. Our first episode in a series about this year’s little wins:

"Talking" about health care later isn't going to do anything for people whose premiums are doubling or even quadrupling.

Prices are getting locked in. "Talking" about this LATER is TOO LATE.

New Yorker cartoon sums up where we are at.

COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors | CNN The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors.

Covid vaccines may help people fighting cancer. Will they still be available after Kennedy trashes the U.S. vaccine programs?

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

We Can Do Better Than Bad and Worse | Dunlap For Congress YouTube video by Matt

NEW: Matt Dunlap is in! State Auditor and former Maine Secretary of State running against Jared Golden in the Democratic primary for Maine's second congressional district. #MEpolitics

It’s Banned Books Week. Flex your 1st Amendment right and read a banned book. Or, donate a banned book to your local library. Or, do both.

Hey @scottwiener.bsky.social, please make this one of your next causes.

Happy National Tradesperson Day!

America’s unions celebrate the incredible skilled trades workers who build and maintain our communities. Thank you for your expertise and hard work that powers our country and makes us strong!

Disney stock down 1.26% today

Good morning.

2022 — a confession:

Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data. https://cnn.it/4mZjjHQ

Trump tariffs and green energy rollbacks push household electricity bills up 10% US energy secretary said energy prices could hurt GOP in midterms, but blamed Democrats for price increases

More electric bill increases are coming. When you suppress wind and solar, you force the grid to call up expensive fossil fuel plants that set rates higher, and the higher costs land in your utility bills.
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America's drug dealers, child sex traffickers and serial killers have a special message for Donald Trump:

Holy shit.

New #AltCitizen assignment just dropped y’all, have fun!!!!

New work rules could deny food stamps to thousands of veterans • Maine Morning Star NEW YORK — After a year in the U.S. Navy, Loceny Kamara said he was discharged in 2023, because while on base he had developed mental health issues, including severe anxiety and nightmares, and had…

New work rules could deny food stamps to thousands of veterans | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/13/n...

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A definitive timeline | CNN Politics A timeline of Trump’s interactions with Epstein and Maxwell reveals a long pattern of social proximity and one that stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s public downplaying of their friendship.

“A .. CNN review of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein—backed by records, photos, videos, interviews & messages—shows a long, close relationship until at least the mid-2000s .. with Epstein saying Trump was his ‘closest friend for 10 years’ in 2019.”

@kfile.bsky.social
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Summer is coming to an end. If your child received SUN Bucks grocery benefits, make sure to use them before they expire. If your child is eligible and you have not received benefits, apply at mymaineconnection.gov before August 15th.

For more information: vist.ly/32yau

Note, #mepolitics

Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records

In December, RTR launched BIRLS.org along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See www.birls.org/updates - RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.

Who watches the watchdog? • Maine Morning Star We all know the cliché: Knowledge is power. The corollary, though, is that anyone who has a near-monopoly on knowledge will have enormous power to shape public perception. That enormous power brings…

Who watches the watchdog? Check out this commentary on why fixing the office of the Maine Child Welfare Ombudsman will take radical restructuring. mainemorningstar.com/2025/07/31/w...

South Portland author’s novel is Reese’s Book Club pick 'Spectacular Things' by Beck Dorey-Stein is set in the fictional town of Victory, Maine, but features recognizable Portland-area landmarks like Becky's Diner and the Casco Bay Bridge.

“Spectacular Things” went on sale July 1 and on the same day, Witherspoon was on Instagram announcing it was her book club’s official July pick.

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

A woman with a 20-year psychiatric history began taking an immunosuppressant. Suddenly, her seeming schizophrenia vanished.

Nixon 1973: "I am not a crook,"

Trump 2025: "I never went to the island."

Maine lawmaker gets trespassing notice after hometown parade argument “They told me I needed to leave. I tried to calmly reason with them, saying I’m a resident of the community,” Mike Soboleski said. “They didn’t want to hear it.”

“They told me I needed to leave. I tried to calmly reason with them, saying I’m a resident of the community,” Mike Soboleski said. “They didn’t want to hear it.”

We said release the files not the accomplices, idiot.