Steve Collins

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.

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

Not great

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.

NEWS --> 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...

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”

-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.

Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’

Extremely upsetting: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

That racism motivates decisions like giving Medgar Evers the heave-ho is obvious.

Years later, the principal reversed it and changed it to an A.

Take heart, students everywhere: Brian Wilson got an F in music in high school.

I have no idea.

Exactly so.

🔴 Zelenskyy: "We are not kids with Putin at a playground. He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

It might!

I 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."

Maybe 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.

It's time to bring up a couple of our potential superstars. But let's leave Devers alone. He's in a groove.

"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.

To the degree that success is random, which it often is, the Sox have just had an unusually unlucky streak.
Ultimately, they are likely to be pretty close to 50-50 in one-run games unless they're a terrible team. And they're not.
With normal luck, they'd now be tied for 1st in their division.

Pretty sure Donald Trump is not helping himself by trashing Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen.

Portland offers insight into Pope Leo’s Black heritage | Steve Collins From 1875 to 1900, a former slave guided Maine’s largest diocese, passing for white.

A longtime Portland, Maine bishop, born into slavery in Georgia, never even hinted that he was Black. He passed as a white guy.
It will be interesting to see how Pope Leo approaches the news that he had Black grandparents from New Orleans' Creole community.
www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/p...

Complaining about the "pencil terrorists" of the press in 2017, Paul LePage said, “For seven years, I’ve been enduring these people. If I walked across the Kennebec River, the headline would read ‘Governor can’t swim.’ That’s how bad they are.”

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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My son Kiernan at age 4: "Daddy, what did Grammy and Poppy call you when you were little?"

Me: "Usually Steve."

Kiernan: "Oh."

Me: "What did you think they called me?"

Kiernan: "Daddy."

RIP, David Souter, a solid judge.

If the new pope had to be an American, I'm glad it's not Trump.

November 8, 1969 Lewiston Evening Journal