Janet Mills tweet: In Maine, ICE has separated mothers from their children, taken nurses and law enforcement officers, and threatened businesses. This is not normal. @SenSusanCollins and Congress cannot continue to fund this agency without real accountability and real reform. Graham Platner tweet: Why are we negotiating over things that are ALREADY illegal and banned by the Constitution? I knew Democratic leaders were stupid and ineffectual. I had no idea they were THIS stupid and ineffectual. PBS reporter tweet: NEW - HOUSE DEMS SPEAK: House Dem Leader @RepJeffries just told me in his news conf that he wants a ban on deportation of US citizens as part of a deal on DHS conduct and the immigration crackdown.

Tale of two campaigns:

Twitter isn't real life and this is nothing more than a snapshot of a single moment...but consecutive tweets in our timeline from Janet Mills and Graham Platner had 369 and 97,000 views, respectively, when we captured this image. #MEpolitics

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Gavin Newsom goes VIRAL at European forum with world leaders

youtu.be/RWcNsbHiU18

Well, if it is ok now to oust nasty foreign leaders and abscond with them, one might wonder-will this open the door to the deed being done to the USA leader?

Well, your view is polling in the minority. Thankfully.

Maine - Democratic Senate Polling Leads:

All: 🟢 Platner +20

Women: 🟢 Platner +22
Men: 🟢 Platner +19

Under 50: 🟢 Platner +60
50-64: 🟢 Platner +21
65+: 🟢 Platner +1

Non-College: 🟢 Platner +21
College: 🟢 Platner +19

Z to A Research / Nov 18, 2025

On Maine right-wing radio this morning, Susan Collins says she was “responsible for not only putting the bill together, but also managing it on the Senate floor, dealing with proposals to change it…”

So why did she slip in the provision to pay GOP Senators 500k?
#mesen #mepolitics

Maine has a crowded field of Democratic Governor race hopefuls. It makes sense that one or more will swap races and go for the 2nd Congressional District seat currently held by Golden.Mainstream press is speculating it will be Troy Jackson.

Jared Golden has announced he is not running for his seat.
Maine politics get more interesting every day. Does the traditional party go with Matthew Dunlap who has previously announced or does someone new emerge?

I was there. I would estimate (who knows) about 1500 people.
Rockland three towns away estimated 1200 people.

Note lack of hair. His other MAGA hats in prior phots leave alot of hair out. Thoughts anyone?

Maybe they were looking for a contact lens

We are brief as summer lightning We are swift as swallow's flight We are sparks that spiral upward In the darkness In the night We are frost upon a window We won't pass this way again In the end, dear Only love remains Garnet Rogers [Image: white font on background of midnight blue that fades to teal near the bottom]

Summer Solstice
14/20 "Summer Lightning"
garnetrogersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/summer...

Written by Garnet Rogers

Performed live, accompanied by Doug Long on guitar

#MusicSky #folkmusic 🎶

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Great rendition by Garnet Rogers. I believe Bob Franke wrote it.

Finally someone with a soapbox saying it

file:///Users/lyndamunro/Downloads/ctl_mayjune25---presidents-message.pdf

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

Republicans Slip Nonprofit Killer Bill Into Budget Plan The “nonprofit killer bill” is hidden at the very end of Republicans’ massive 389-page budget package.

The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” includes a clause giving Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Treasury Department says is a terrorism supporter.

The bill is in the reconciliation process, meaning it only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

A video that says everything about this regime.

A Newark Mayor attempting to visit a detention facility opened in his city without permits is handcuffed and detained by agents.

Apparently Ras Baraka is now being held at the local ICE field office.

Authoritarianism.

(🎥 News 12 New Jersey)

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part of why white supremacists & the wider right have worked so hard to falsely frame immigration as an "invasion," & why it has manufactured propaganda about a "great replacement," is to create the pretext for precisely this: an authoritarian government that gets to decide who it gets to disappear

So it is prologue to prohibiting overseas press and films, I suspect.

National Law Day of Action -- May 1st

Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public

lawdayofaction.org

"Maine Lawyers for the Rule of Law..."
www.maineruleoflaw.org

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Zelenskyy asks Trump “Don’t you have a black suit?”

from another bsky account stolen

Ironically, HeadStart started under Nixon