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Read our profane holiday issue early so you can argue about it this Thanksgiving!
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Listening to Derek’s lovely album dslobley.bandcamp.com/album/begemot
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Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social.
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More than 1,200 at-risk Mainers could lose housing under federal changes, Gov. Mills warns mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/17/m...
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📖 OUT TODAY! The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits is available at all major book retailers and many local bookstores across the U.S.
All proceeds from book sales go to support Worth Rises. Get your copy today and one for a friend!
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Another declaration of open warfare against the poor and disabled. The social contract in this country is officially in the shredder.
13.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"Why was it necessary to ban hemp in the deal that you supported that was supposedly focused squarely on reopening the government?" seems like a pretty basic question for Susan Collins and Angus King. #MEpolitics
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City officials more than triple the fine even for harmless snow ban violations during an especially hard winter for the non-rich.
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THIS WEEK!
TUESDAY: @biancatylek.bsky.social, co-author with @worthrises.bsky.social of, "The Prison Industry" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).
WEDNESDAY: Ray D. Madoff, author of, "The Second Estate: How US Code Made American Aristocracy" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).
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Our local alt-weekly @the-bollard.bsky.social wrote the most perceptive, flat-out entertaining review of our band's latest record. Super grateful, mostly on behalf of my friend Joe, the songwriter. No one has matched Chris Busby's close reading 🤯
08.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW Patreon:
Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga" (@plutopress.bsky.social)
Philip Kadish on "Great White Hoax" (@thenewpress.bsky.social)
Brent Z. Kaup/Kelly F. Austin on "Pathogens of Finance" (@ucpress.bsky.social)
Hamid Dabashi on "After Savagery" (@haymarketbooks.org)
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It’s good news that the Trump Administration is finally following the law and sending out partial SNAP payments. But it’s not enough. State lawmakers, including those in Maine, need to commit to funding the rest with our own money. No one should go hungry due to what’s happening in DC #mepolitics
03.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Still waiting (right?) for Mills or Frey or Maine DAs etc etc to tell folks what they should do if masked, armed groups of unidentified men try to grab them up off the street.
Should folks flee? Fight back? Call 911? Submit?
A basic question that deserved a clear answer months ago. #MEpolitics
I saw a wizard hat lost in the stars
Salvation Army man handing out jars
But they were empty
And so were the gas tanks of our cars
from “Wizard Hat Lost in the Stars” by Circus Devils, When Machines Attack (2013)
Susan Collins says she'd prefer that Trump not aggregate to himself the power to kill whoever he wants whenever and wherever he wants but is not sure she'll vote to stop him from doing so. #MEpolitics
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NEW FREE HELL!
Our guest is @philipkadish.bsky.social, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).
Support our work -- and get daily bonus content -- before we're labelled criminals under Trump's NSPM-7.
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This week in Hell!
TUESDAY:
Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness" (@plutopress.bsky.social).
WEDNESDAY:
Philip Kadish, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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This weekend’s Maine arts & entertainment highlights, sponsored by Lenny’s Pub, The Thirsty Pig, Ruski’s Tavern and other generous supporters of our magazine!
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"In the case of slave mode of production, the exploiters directly own the primary producers; in feudalism, both have complex relations to the land, but the lords use direct jural-political means to extract a surplus; in capitalism, the exploiters own the means of production and the primary producers are thus reduced to selling their labor power. The state, in each case, is essentially an apparatus of coercion that backs up these property rights by force." . - David Graeber
Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.
From: davidgraeber.org/articles/tur...
Portland real estate and restoration guru Tom Landry has some thoughts about dumpy properties. We do, too.
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Today's Bollardhead Substack post, in which we begin reruns of a long-lost comic series by New Yorker cartoonist Corey Pandolph!
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Read our exposé about the secretive financiers buying up Maine's tourism, landscaping and other indie businesses. The September issue is now online for free at thebollard.com.
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