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Proposed autism registry is ‘dangerous,’ Maine disability rights activists say The Trump administration has announced a sweeping autism study that will use private medical records from federal and commercial databases.

Proposed autism registry is ‘dangerous,’ Maine disability rights activists say

“On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five…”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus once came into my coffee shop on Congress Street and gave me the name “Ronald Reagan” to write on the cup

New York’s forests are migrating. Here’s what the future might bring. — Times Union At Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve in rural Albany County, the white spruce trees are struggling. Planted in the 1920s at what was then the southern part of the trees’ range, the plot now has no white spr...

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him apple.news/A8-9JqIXeSyS...

Letter: Welcome to the future province of Maine Hear me out ...

🌲🤝🍁 www.pressherald.com?p=7440673&uu...

I like it. I think they fail various purity tests with some for employing Goldberg and Frum, et al.

Every year at about this time, on a sunny day like this, I will hear in my mind @bdhinds.bsky.social as John Proctor saying “Massachusetts is a beauty in the spring”

Screenshot of New York Times app with headline “Young Democrats’ Anger Boils Over as Chuck Schumer Retreats on Shutdown”

Love to be called young on the front page of the paper

Levar Burton Hotline Bling meme, but he is interested and pointing in approval in both images. top text reads "sound sustainable infrastructure" and bottom text reads "sustained infrastructure sounds"

because people asked for it, we have a 12-hour track of nothing but the sound of clean water flowing from our treatment plant back to the environment. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...

How dare Al Green disrespect the dignity and honor of a speech threatening our allies

Trump administration terminates Maine Sea Grant

As goes Maine, so does the nation. This Is a grant that provided $15.64 in value for every $1 This will hurt every coastal community in Maine.

May the current administrationstration be forever surrounded by the stench of old traps.

www.nationalfisherman.com/northeast/tr...

U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship WASHINGTON, DC—In an 86-14 vote, the Senate approved legislation Monday establishing PlatinumPlus Preferred citizenship, an exciting new program offering special benefits and discounts to select membe...

Unless you’re The Onion. This was from 1997: theonion.com/u-s-offers-p...

I listened to a podcast tonight with New Yorker writers comparing her to Margaret Chase Smith versus McCarthy. Good going Janet elevating your place in history overnight!

I am ready and willing to serve in my governor Janet Mills’s army.

If we have enough people with the knowledge and moral fortitude of Maine Governor Janet Mills, and the Associated Press- we might be able to save our Democracy

I had three notifications from an app on my iPhone: two in English and one in Chinese. I was surprised to find Apple Intelligence included the meaning of the Chinese one as part of its English-language summary.

Could feel my face shift driving across the New Hampshire state line like I was in the Severance elevator

In the past week my five-year-old daughter has asked me “is that a dash or a hyphen?” and “what is a comma for?” I was apparently much more ready to be a parent than I knew.

A screenshot of ChatGPT o1-preview on an iPhone. The user has asked “New Zealand/Boston workday overlap — best times for a call? What about Melbourne?” The model thought for two minutes and 37 seconds before responding.

I think this is the longest I’ve seen o1-preview think.

Press Herald push notification reading “Recount in Sanford election night tie goes to incumbent Republican accused of choking wife”

A+ headline writing @pressherald.bsky.social

If you are typing me a Slack DM, and it’s taking you more than a few seconds to do it, please for the love of god draft your message in another window or I’m going to be paralyzed watching your typing indicator until you’re done.

Jared Golden calls for wide-ranging overhaul of the U.S. House Maine lawmaker urges Congress to consider adding more House members and a host of other changes aimed at reducing partisan fervor

Maine's Jared Golden is calling for lawmakers to consider increasing the size of the US House, requiring independent redistricting, allowing multi-member districts & more that would shake up Congress drastically.

www.sunjournal.com/2024/11/21/j...

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@marcoarment.bsky.social I think the Overcast logo is being used here where it shouldn’t be… www.perplexity.ai/podcast

Advocates warn a Trump presidency could be a threat to Maine immigrants The president-elect has said he plans to oversee mass deportations when he takes office, and advocates are also worried about impacts on the asylum system.

Insightful story by @rachelohm.bsky.social on the impact of a Trump presidency on Maine's immigrant population www.pressherald.com/2024/11/17/a...

If you’re going to use the blackletter for other things, it should really match the masthead! (cf the “a” and “l”)

I have lived my whole life in homes with pictures of the first RFK like he was some kind of minor deity. Very jarring to see this.

Who beats her in two years? (I started a spreadsheet today as a therapeutic exercise.)

“Tu Stultus Es” is the “democracy dies in darkness” for the Idiocracy age.