Democrats have returned nearly three times more ballots than Republicans so far, a glimpse at voter enthusiasm. https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-06-02/early-voting-data-show-maine-democrats-outpacing-republicans

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Sen. Susan Collins told the DHS chief that the newly imposed visa fee for highly skilled workers the Trump administration placed – $100,000 – is impacting rural hospitals in Maine. mainemorningstar.com/2026/06/02/r...

The Obama Presidential Center opens this month and it looks ready to receive people from all over. I spent a few moments on Saturday evening capturing the campus with a fiery sunset as the backdrop. Love the warm glow from within, too

Here are a few more shots

June 1, 1950: “It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”

Well deserved!!

The corruption never stops.

Expect us. #WomenSupportingWomen #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #MIDTERMS2026 #VoteBlueForSoManyReasons #WomenForward 🩵💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 H/t: #WestVirginiaFederationOfDemocraticWomen

If you’d told me on January 7th 2021 that everyone in this picture would be pardoned and be paid $1 million each for reparations, I’d have said you were insane. It turns out that it’s American voters that are insane.

Jeez! I can hear the pejoratives, just thinking about it!

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….

Looking forward to Trump accepting this like the adult he is.

My new deal for Maine Health Care is guided by the principle no one should be sick because they are poor or poor because they are sick. Check it out on our website: bellowsformaine.com/policy

the weird thing is there have been some absolutely massive D swings in OK special elections....

You Tell Trump,Bernie.......

Fannie Lou Hamer's America Sisterhood

Ain’t I A Woman?

If Henson’s analysis is accurate—and I think there is strong evidence it may be, as it fully aligns with the Trump regime’s MO—the regime is currently working to cleave all official information gathering and storage from mandated Fed agencies and move it under the sole control of the Executive.

On this day in 1851, Sojourner Truth, a suffragist and abolitionist from New York, spoke at the Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron. She probably never used the refrain “Ain’t I a Woman,” but she did mock white men who opposed women’s rights. #WeTheMen blogs.loc.gov/headlinesand...

Silencing freedom of the press. Essential for all dictators.

‘No Kings’ movement planning nationwide protests on King Trump's 80th birthday.

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

DHS: “Everything is fine at Delaney Hall, ICE is treating everyone perfectly, there are no hunger strikes, ignore all the members of Congress who’ve been inside and said otherwise. What’s that? No, you cannot send health inspectors here, absolutely not. Trust us. We never lie!”

Susan Collins would prefer that no Maine legacy media outlet write a story exploring why so many billionaires are so thirsty to reelect her...and so that story never gets written. It's not much more complicated than that. #MEpolitics

BREAKING: The South Carolina Senate abruptly adjourned its special redistricting session Tuesday without passing a redistricting bill. The GOP effort to redraw the state’s congressional map to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district in time for the midterm elections is now all but dead.

Nothing to see here, just the son of the President marrying the daughter of the accountant of a notorious child sex trafficker who was best friends with the groom's father. Oh, wait, you didn't know Junior's current new wife is the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein's accountant?