Read our profane holiday issue early so you can argue about it this Thanksgiving!

Listening to Derek’s lovely album dslobley.bandcamp.com/album/begemot

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social.

More than 1,200 at-risk Mainers could lose housing under federal changes, Gov. Mills warns mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/17/m...

A treasure trove of new Maine music awaits your click…

📖 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! worthrises.org/theprisonind...

Another declaration of open warfare against the poor and disabled. The social contract in this country is officially in the shredder.

"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

City officials more than triple the fine even for harmless snow ban violations during an especially hard winter for the non-rich.

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). www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

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 🤯

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) www.patreon.com/posts/new-bo...

Coming to a wall near you...

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

Wherein I pretend to be Tommy Mottola or some shit like that...

"You know none of us really have a name, right?"

Still 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

Hot off the pixel presses! Buy us a beer & read it now!

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

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. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

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.

Another typical Tuesday in Southern Maine...

never forget that you can just do stuff

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!

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.

Today's Bollardhead Substack post, in which we begin reruns of a long-lost comic series by New Yorker cartoonist Corey Pandolph!

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.

Several awesome live music shows tonight, plus this week's visual arts!

Just checkin' to see if anyone's still using Bluesky...

7:30. Wed Night Stereo Dreams 4 Year Anniversary at The Apohadion Don’t miss live performances from Graphic Melee, Dan Capaldi, and 8-BZA! 10/1 7:30pm. $5-$15. Stereo Dreams... Don’t sleep.

Our October issue is now online! Also, Jesus might be back.

Good morning, Mainers! Forecast for today is sunny & mid-80s. A great day to get out & oppose injustice. =============== MAINE RESISTANCE SUN, SEPT 28, 2025 =============== #NONViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated Sept 28, 5:AM #Maine #MEPolitics pg1/2

The Bollard Bulletin for Sept. 24, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/bollardh...

Revisiting this piece I wrote in April 2025. "State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

That weekend H.R. and Swamp Dogg both showed up to help us fight the fascists is THIS WEEKEND!

Real interesting cover sorry this month- in the Bollard, reported by Chris Busby.

SINGLE SHOTS TO THE HEAD SINGLE SHOTS TO THE NECK SINGLE SHOTS TO THE CHEST … of children and adult civilians

Janet should definitely run for Senate so we can keep publishing bulletins like this. @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social @gilliangraham.bsky.social @pressherald.com

Resurrected from a digital graveyard, the Maine superhero political satire comic by Mort Todd & Chris Busby!

Hear ye, hear ye...

Sunday Funnies... and not so funny... are up! From violence to waste to protest to more violence... so NOT so funny... Thank you and enjoy your week! www.patreon.com/posts/sunday... Become a member, keep thisishell.com free and the show completely listener supported.

“A few hours later, an email from Mills would land in each of our inboxes, ordering state and national flags lowered to half-staff in response to the horrifying assassination, on a college campus in Utah, of 31-year-old conservative activist and pundit Charlie Kirk.”

Which agencies? How do you know it wasn't just a bunch of kidnappers unaffiliated with any agency? #MEpolitics

Trump's thugs snatched and disappeared a parent outside a Portland elementary school yesterday morning. The child was left inside. The authorities have no answers. There is no law anymore, only resistance.

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

“According to OpenSecrets, Collins’ campaign committee and leadership PAC received over $715,000 from private equity and investment firms—more money than any other person elected to Congress during the 2020 election cycle.”

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.