Maggie R. Jones

Will Maine really choose a 77 year old senate candidate because that's what Chuck Schumer wants?

I know Janet Mills is popular, but she'll be 79 when the next senate term starts and the entire Dem base is crying out for a new generation.

When will they learn to stop shooting their own feet?

Frances Perkins, FDR’s Sec of Labor, inventor of social security, among other things.

And his friend who made it happen.

Nostalgia is the death of curiosity.

Hip-averse.

Californians are falling behind on student loan payments — and most ‘delinquents’ aren’t who you’d expect Newly revealed data shows that hundreds of thousands of Californians are struggling to make their monthly student loan payments.

11% of California student loan borrowers are 30+ days late on making their payments, according to a new California Policy Lab fact sheet: laist.com/news/educati... #CaLeg #PersonalFinance #StudentDebt #StudentLoans #California

This motherfucker is a brown tail moth caterpillar, and it will give you a poison-ivy-like rash while it and its uncountable brethren consume your fruit and oak trees.

Brown tail moths are assholes, especially the young uns. Apple and oak trees agree with me.

It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities.

Maybe it’s their culture

Did I do it right?

“The Bureau of Labor Statistics must remain above politics. Our job is to deliver economic data guided by law and statistical practice — not partisan whim. That’s why the firing of Commissioner Erika McEntarfer is so alarming. Dr. McEntarfer did nothing wrong. No serious observer claims otherwise. Commissioners don’t “cook” the numbers; they don’t even see them until after the estimates are complete. Dr. McEntarfer’s dismissal was unprecedented and she should be reinstated. For decades, BLS Commissioners — Republican and Democrat alike — have been respected professionals. BLS data has been trusted because its methods are public, vetted, and transparent. BLS publishes its sources, publishes its methods, and its data revisions follow a set schedule. The public doesn’t have to *guess* whether the jobs numbers are real. So why was Dr. McEntarfer forced out? Not because of misconduct. Not because of bad data. The only people making that claim are President Trump and his allies, who offer no evidence — only lies, character assassination, and intimidation. Their real goal is clear: to discredit independent statistics, slash budgets, and bully federal workers into silence. But BLS staff will not be intimidated. We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results. Our now-Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS. The numbers will remain accurate and nonpartisan. And if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you.”

🔥BLS Staff: "We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results... Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS... will remain accurate & nonpartisan... if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you." #StandWithBLS

“—meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!”

Control of the Senate could be decided in Maine. This oyster farmer is vying to unseat Susan Collins. Marine and Army veteran Graham Platner dives into one of the most closely watched races of 2026.

Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”

I heard someone say “We have poverty not because we cannot care for the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” And if that ain’t the TRUTH

I guess this is why my interlibrary loan request from Colby (Waterville) to Curtis (Brunswick) took a week.

A Chester in a window.

My great-great Uncle Ralph (Gould), author of Yankee Shopkeeper, left behind a letter to his sister in which he describes an assistant of some kind: “I feel he is an instance of God’s carelessness.” I can think of so many public figures I could apply this description to today.

Our fault: my husband and I went to see Interstellar in the IMAX theater in the Air and Space Museum, back row, raked seating, full theater. When the cameo happened, we looked at each other and shouted “MATT DAMON!” in our best Team America voices. All eyes on us.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau. For a full statement opposing this move, read:

Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous.
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

The Friends of #BLS protest the firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

The rationale for firing her is without merit and undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics that are a cornerstone of intelligent economic decision-making by businesses, families, and policymakers.

With Trump about to try to fake economic stats, it's not very helpful for leftists to say they were already cooked. They're not. I follow this stuff very closely and have for years. They're very good and assembled by civil servants who take their jobs very seriously.

Taken just last night, Saint Andrew’s, NB.

So many protesters on the rt 1 bridge between Bath and Woolwich it was hard to find a place to stand at the rail.

Wake Up, You Lazy Skin Sack. I’m a Songbird and It’s 4 A.M. Wake up my sleepy mouth-breather, it’s 4:01 a.m. and I feel chatty! I might be small but I’m a warm-blooded lunatic and I’m right outside your bedr...

"I’m a hungry chickadee. I’m going to warble the hell out of this yard. Did you know sound travels twenty times faster at dawn? That means it’s going to pass right through your skull into the meat."

A heavy, fluffy, cream-colored cat on a victim’s lap.

Yup.

As I mentioned, we can’t compare outcomes for children of divorce versus children growing up in other toxic situations. We are not advocating for or against divorce. There is no doubt in my mind that divorce is better for children than a toxic marriage—but we can’t measure this directly.

Very importantly: we do not see other types of family breakdown, including unhappy families remaining intact, which may lead to similar outcomes. The timing of divorce is something we can observe fairly precisely in our linked tax and demographic data.

Our design uses a sibling model, where children in the family experience different exposure lengths to the divorce. Children who are exposed to divorce for longer have lower earnings, higher mortality, and higher incarceration.

Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children's Adult Outcomes Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New NBER working paper with Andrew Johnston and Nolan Pope. We examine family dissolution, proxied by divorce (an observable breakdown), and how family circumstances and children’s outcomes change. www.nber.org/papers/w33776

A Zed and Four Noughts

My MA alma mater! Congrats Barbara!

“Stately, plump Mrs. Dalloway came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”