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Maine politics columnist, a founder of Youth Journalism International, servant to 2 collies, with a beloved wife & 2 adult children. UVA grad. Red Sox fan. Sifter of quirky old tales & objects. My work: https://www.sunjournal.com/author/steve-collins
Purchase of Kennebec dams is worth celebrating | Douglas Rooks www.pressherald.com/2025/09/25/p...
25.09.2025 15:58 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.β
Bowing down to a bully never works.
And we canβt become numb to this corruption in plain sight.
This is delusional but you donβt have to read the whole thing.
Boils down to: heβs shutting down the government because he thinks heβs a king.
Susan Collins says shutdown can be averted. Now to prove it. | Steve Collins www.pressherald.com/2025/09/23/s...
23.09.2025 15:58 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. Itβs like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Letβs get a grip on whatβs happening here.
21.09.2025 00:56 β π 59195 π 16372 π¬ 1354 π 635Itβs one thing to mourn a young man cut down too soon. Itβs quite another to pretend Kirk, a racist who plugged an anti-gay, anti-women agenda, was a model American.
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There's truth in that!
09.09.2025 12:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"A lot of people are saying, βMaybe we like a dictator.'"
Name one.
Help my colleagues join the union at the Maine Trust for Local News. Please sign this petition to management.
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Tired of the constant claims that this war is somehow our fault. Ukraine had only one choice: to defend itself against russia or to succumb and become cannon fodder in russia's future wars of conquest. As anyone with a clear mind can see, neither of these options is peace.
11.08.2025 16:17 β π 243 π 61 π¬ 6 π 2Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to βkillβ police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and βthe Gestapoβ
The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondiβs Department of Justice.
Not great
11.08.2025 01:30 β π 29 π 6 π¬ 4 π 2NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
βWhen the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciaryβs duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.β
-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Just want to encourage fans who love Van Morrison's old stuff but cringe at some of the crazy crap he's put out in recent years to give his new 'Remembering Now' a listen. It's a surprisingly lovely, hopeful record.
16.07.2025 21:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Extremely upsetting: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of βTargeted Political Violenceβ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
14.06.2025 15:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That racism motivates decisions like giving Medgar Evers the heave-ho is obvious.
14.06.2025 11:14 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Years later, the principal reversed it and changed it to an A.
11.06.2025 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Take heart, students everywhere: Brian Wilson got an F in music in high school.
11.06.2025 17:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have no idea.
11.06.2025 17:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly so.
11.06.2025 17:37 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0π΄ Zelenskyy: "We are not kids with Putin at a playground. He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."
07.06.2025 07:48 β π 2185 π 759 π¬ 45 π 41NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS
5 years ago: βAn incalculable lossβ
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
It might!
23.05.2025 21:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I remember when presidents went to war against poverty, disease and tyranny.
Now our president thinks the enemy is @harvard.edu and turns a blind eye to suffering around the world as he cozies up to dictators.
Long before the House Freedom Caucus arose, the always-perceptive Mark Twain said that legislators possess "the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."
23.05.2025 12:04 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe move Story to first for a start? I know it's a big mess. And I don't know any of these guys enough to say who can switch where. Just agree that it's time to make changes. If we must stumble through, let's give the young guys a chance to start promising careers now rather than later.
20.05.2025 16:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's time to bring up a couple of our potential superstars. But let's leave Devers alone. He's in a groove.
20.05.2025 15:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone.
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"
Of they'd just won half their one-run games, the Sox would be in first place.
18.05.2025 15:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0