Maggie R. Jones

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

She got her start mimicking Olympia Snowe and claiming her hero is Margaret Chase Smith. A look at her voting record shows she’s a right wing radical who opportunistically switches position if her vote isn’t critical. MCS rolls over in her grave any time someone calls Collins a principled moderate.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

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Peasant and Nestrobber, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

Absolute best halftime show ever

Good grief. As a Mainer, I was ready to stan, but that just made me uncomfortable and kinda nauseated.

Uncanny valley. Non-human. Touch some primal nerve of revulsion.

ICE surge sparks community involvement in Aroostook beyond protesting People are offering aid to immigrants, dropping groceries on porches, offering rides, volunteering at hospitals and food pantries and checking on neighbors.

Is ICE turning The County woke?

Probably not but: "Many northern Mainers...have joined grassroots activist groups and attended ICE observer and de-escalation training. Others have offered mutual aid to neighbors and sent money to help immigrant families."

Interesting read. #MEpolitics

Mayor Mamdani stands behind a podium with other administration officials and community leaders with large signs saying Free Tax Prep.

Dr. Nichola Davis smiles at Mayor Mamdani while speaking behind a podium.

Mayor Mamdani speaks to reporters while behind a podium.

Yesterday we kicked off NYC’s Free Tax Prep season. That means filing your taxes at zero cost, keeping every dollar of your refund, and not getting ripped off by for-profit companies. 
 
Nearly half of all New Yorkers qualify. Get help—virtually or in person—at nyc.gov/TaxPrep

I demand the part be played by a woman who was actually hatched out of an egg. This is the only way to be faithful to the mythology.

‘We’re fed up:’ Midcoast students walk out to protest ICE Students from several schools in the region met at the Sagadahoc Bridge in Bath on Monday afternoon to speak out against immigration arrests.

‘We’re fed up:’ Midcoast students walk out to protest ICE

My margin of substitution is towards Starbucks only when no other coffee is available, because it tastes like burnt dirt.

If the constitution isn’t already reining them in, what makes you think some pansy-ass legislative language is going to do it? They’re violating the highest law in the land already. You are complicit in their crimes and this is nothing but cynically performative.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: Protest against ICE presence in Maine

Portland, Maine. I’ve never seen so many people in Monument Square, and I’m sure many of them are my friends and loved ones. I wish I was with them, even if it will be -1 F tonight.

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ICE detains 18-year-old USM student in Westbrook Sandrine Koumba said she doesn’t know why her son, who has no criminal record, was detained after a minor car crash Tuesday.

Portland Maine

ICE detains 18-year-old USM student in Westbrook www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/i...

DHS says they have a “list” of around 1,400 people to round up in what they’re calling “Operation Catch of the Day” — a completely disgusting and inhumane name for their terror campaign in our state.

The TACO cycle:

Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.

So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

7. Troublemaker, by El Lissitzky, 1913

Ooh, new project.

When you're willing to toss your Leica, shit has gotten real.😳

To be young and dreaming of a 9 to 5 The low-fire, low-hire job market is making it hard for young people to enter the workforce.

"People who start work in a recession tend to earn less over the course of their careers, von Wachter’s research found, making for more divorces, smaller families, and worse health." Prof. Till von Wachter, faculty director of CPL's UCLA site interviewed -> www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Mitigating the Stress of Housing Instability: The Impact of Housing Choice Vouchers on Social Supports, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Justice Involvement - California Policy Lab JOURNAL ARTICLE: Mitigating the Stress of Housing Instability: The Impact of Housing Choice Vouchers on Social Supports, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Justice Involvement The Housing Choice Voucher ...

In 2019, Sonoma County overhauled its system for awarding Housing Choice Vouchers and more than 12k people signed up for a new lottery. A new study (in Housing Policy Debate) focuses on the outcomes of that lottery and the people who were selected to receive a voucher capolicylab.org/mitigating-t...

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This is awful. So many business tied to a true working waterfront.

This is hilarious, but I gotta put in a good word for the Moccamaster. Ours is 15 years old and still makes coffee every bit as good as the first pot. Before splurging on it we’d gone through at least one cheapo coffeemaker per year (the hard water of Ithaca, NY, is not kind to coffeemakers).

Um . . .

“Trump suggested he gave the speech because chief of staff Susie Wiles said he needed to.”