Ethan Brownell

"Question 1 is mostly about making absentee voting harder and that matters." Mainers, if you are undecided on Question 1, please take the time to find out what it would really do. I am voting No on 1.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

With this and the DOGE shenanigans, I wonder if you could just put certain keywords (greatness, nuclear family, tradition, etc) into grant applications and the AI auto-approves it.

Governance by CTRL+F DEL

Misinformation in Maine’s Voter Suppression Referendum Began with a Deceptive Title Petition tactics hid absentee ballot limits. Question 1 proponents then used Newburgh ballots to mislead further.

“Question 1 is packed with burdens that would make absentee voting harder for Mainers. Since the campaign started, there have been stories galore, predominantly from and about seniors and people with disabilities, about how it would be harder to vote by mail.”

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As someone who teaches at a school with an unelected, unaccountable board, just showing up at school events so students and families can at least know your face/name - that would make worlds of difference. Maybe this is the norm in your system, but very much not in other places.

not that it will happen but at the very least any reporter who wrote about trump “distancing” from project 2025 owes their readers an explanation for why they published obvious lies

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Federal workers are about to have their livelihoods upended because of this shutdown. We'll hear talk about "sacrifices" that the American people need to make. Meanwhile, Trump is bailing out Argentina with $20 billion worth of taxpayer dollars.

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

Bin-go

I'm not a political genius, but I'm pretty sure the party that published a 600-page manifesto on how they want to shut down the federal government are the ones who shut down the federal government.

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

If only Congressional Republicans had a mechanism to hold the president accountable. Too bad the Founders didn’t think of that.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Here's another perspective on this. He's bragging about having 24 karat gold in the Oval Office while he is actively attempting to deny the poor in this country of food, housing, and healthcare, and farmers are going bankrupt. Let that sink in.

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

None of this is strategic, it's just foolish. You can't just will industries to exist & none of these taxes (paid by the American people, of course) go to supporting/starting these industries.

he was instrumental in getting trump to pardon war criminals during trump’s first term and is participating in war crimes at the moment. i bet if you pushed him just a little bit he’d tell you that his much vaunted “warrior mindset” just means a willingness to kill civilians

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted just days after President Trump issued a public demand for the DOJ to act "now" to prosecute him, sources say.

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics.

This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

@carykingdom.bsky.social and he must speak entirely in verse

The Trump administration fired nearly 20 immigration judges this month alone – on top of the 80+ that have been fired this year.

The move will likely make the backlog of immigration cases even worse.

Trump’s agenda was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.

several SnailBonez™️ skeleton snails with a skull for a shell that actually look pretty sick but I mean,

several OctoBonez™️ brand octopus skeletons on a shelf along with a SpiderBonez™️ spider skeleton

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

Oooof. Was mulling over the Bugle one, but daaaang.

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Labeling an entire class of people extremists based on one shooting would be bad enough - but the shooter wasn't trans. The only trans person involved in this was surprised and horrified by what happened and began cooperating immediately with police

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"