Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

I'm not JD Vance. I didn't go sit in an air conditioned office. I was in the infantry.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

www.youtube.com Trump Epstein LIES BLOW UP IN HIS FACE after Mar a Lago records UNSEALED

Trump Epstein LIES BLOW UP IN HIS FACE after Mar a Lago records UNSEALED https://twp.ai/4ipGeV

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No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

Mark Warner: "That cabinet meeting earlier this week where everyone went around and basically paid kudos to the great leader -- it was something that frankly I would've expected out of North Korea, not out of a cabinet meeting in America."

Personally, I think this is more than he deserves, but I don't want to be petty.

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

White House wariness tempers GOP plans to share food-aid spending with states Concerns are mounting about benefit cuts that could hit President Donald Trump’s own voters.

House Republicans are considering plan to shift part of the cost for SNAP food assistance program to states -- which would leaving lower-income Arkansans reliant on Republican legislators to keep their families fed.
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

“Donald Trump will not be on the 2028 ballot because he cannot legally be elected. No party would nominate Trump because to do so would be to forfeit the contest. This is not open to interpretation. It was written in plain English into the Constitution itself, in the text of the 22nd Amendment.”

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77 A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.

Alexis Herman, a Democratic Party insider who grew up under segregation in Alabama and went on to become the first Black secretary of labor, died on Friday in Washington. She was 77.

"Played like a fiddle"

Obvious to anyone not wearing a red rube hat.

Trump Live Updates: Latest News on Russia-Ukraine, Education and More

Golf comes first. “Mr. Trump told aides he wanted to make it back to his golf resort in New Jersey before the end of the day.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Green eyed bobtail cat, Missy, looking to the left of the camera, her paw are crossed in front of her.

Love the Earth
It’s the only planet that has cats.

Happy Earth Day 😻

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.

The Secretary is unfit to lead.

Arkansas has announced plans to build a 3,000-bed mega prison in Charleston, AR. This $1 billion expansion to the prison system marks a major step backward for Northwest Arkansas and the state at large. Together we demand #NotOneMoreCell

True facts are true

So, this is pretty surreal...

But the @peabodyawards.bsky.social Nominee list just came out and @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social is on it.

An immense honor for our staff to be recognized amongst the very best in storytelling: www.pablo.show/p/were-a-pea...

Opinion | I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future Trump’s worldview is stuck in the 1970s, and his whole administration is a cruel farce.

“While Trump is doing his “weave” — rambling about whatever strikes him at the moment as good policy — China is weaving long-term plans.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

A town hall for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Tuesday quickly deteriorated into chaos, as police officers forcibly removed several protesters and subdued two of them with stun guns.

Read more: nyti.ms/42MLMZV

Great job @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social adding @pablo.show to the line- up.

SNL issues rare apology to Aimee Lou Wood following ‘mean’ White Lotus sketch

SNL issues rare apology to Aimee Lou Wood following ‘mean’ White Lotus sketch