Glad to see a lot of Lewiston residents agree that $58 million is a lot of money to give a company to pollute your water and use your electricity. #mepolitics www.sunjournal.com/2025/12/16/l...

Voted to let 14 year olds in DC be prosecuted as adults and now to let migrant children be strip-searched, Jared Golden is showing his true colors as he is not running for reelection. If he ever surfaces in politics again, we will not forget his horrendous record. #MEpolitics

Vought, who Susan Collins voted for, is on a mission to gut climate research and this is another step. #mepolitics www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Thank you to all the great candidates who participated in the Democratic Party forum at the University of Maine in Augusta. It was helpful to learn more about who I might rank second and third after @shennabellows.bsky.social. #MEGov #mepolitics #VoteBlue

That looks nothing like Janet Mills but also Susan Collins has sent more than $400,000 (not a typo) to this group over the last few years...so Collins is literally paying for these gross and indefensible AI ads. Maybe somebody could ask her about them? #MEpolitics

Susan Collins has voted to confirm 2 more judges opposed to basic rights. Chamberlin & Crain both have records reflecting deep, consistent opposition to reproductive, LGBTQ+, & civil rights, per Planned Parenthood ME's Action Fund. #mepolitics www.mainedems.org/media/collin...

I'm old enough to remember a nation scandalized by reports that outgoing Clinton White House staffers had pried the W key off some computer keyboards on their way out the door in 2001.

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2025

This is the most narcissistic, petty display ever. It’s so obvious Trump is unwell, but what I don’t get is how this is allowed to happen to the people’s house. He’s a temporary occupant. He doesn’t own the joint.

Not sure why we have the 25th amendment if this doesn’t qualify.

Donald Trump’s businesses have sought to bring in at least 2,033 foreign workers to staff his clubs, resort, and winery since 2008. The Trump administration views the Trump businesses as exempt from the rules applied to others. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

There’s only one story tonight - Trump is unwell and unfit. Everything else is just detail.

The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech www.vox.com/politics/472...

Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength War is Peace

I went to college with a bunch of these people. It was obvious they were deeply unserious, hyper-ambitious hacks then. What I underestimated was the degree to which they were also aspiring authoritarians. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:

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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

A $1,776 'Warrior Dividend' won't buy obedience to unlawful orders. Our military answers to the Constitution, not a check from Donald Trump.

Lotta folks seem to assume Jared Golden's MAGA-lite shtick is a pose designed (however clumsily) to win over CD-2 Trumpers. But he's not running anymore! Doesn't siding with the GOP on an obscure vote like this debunk that idea? Seems like this is who Jared Golden actually *is*. #MEpolitics

This could have been an email.

NEWS: White House suggested to me that they’re dismantling the nation’s most important weather research institute bc Trump is mad at CO Gov. Jared Polis “If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”

If you know kids who watched even a minute of the Trump speech tonight, please read them this book (Killer Underwear Invasion) stat

Just an incredible piece of reporting and visuals here from @wsj.com 🎁🔗

A 21 percent dismissal rate in the past two months. That's unheard of. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision… When it comes to fighting climate change, you can’t manage what you can’t measure… gizmodo.com/americas-dir...

Measles outbreaks won't end in 2025 as cases mount in Utah, Arizona and South Carolina. Across the country, confirmed cases are nearing 2,000. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Trump’s healthcare message is a series of obvious lies

Trump has created a line of plaques in the White House that commemorates past presidents. It attacks Joe Biden and falsely claims Biden stole the election from Trump. This is what you get when evil mixes with dementia and both go unchecked. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...

Flu cases in New York City are rising earlier and faster than normal. Emergency rooms are seeing a sharp jump in flu patients. Health officials are urging vaccination and masking. www.healthday.com/health-news/...

“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks

it is terrifying and awful that this passed the House with any Dem support at all (and once again, the continued leadership support for Cuellar is unconscionable) call your senators and make absolutely sure this dies in the Senate, lives are on the line trans people deserve so much better

For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

again, this is who he's always been, and he's never really even tried to hide it. that tens of millions of people voted for this man is a withering indictment of this country.

In case anyone is still thinking that this administration still has our best interests in mind.

I know this is a bold stance in America, but I simply do not believe we should be declaring war on another country for “stealing our oil” when the oil is, in fact, under the ground of that other country

Remember when Colin Powell warned us of “a dark vein of intolerance” in the Republican Party? It’s only gotten worse. We need Republicans to strongly reject this.

More people turning on Trump because of Rob Reiner than masked men putting people in camps is one of those things that reminds me politics is like TMZ to the average voter

Wondering about the classification status of that information

Beautiful memory and does justice to the disbelief, the sadness, and why Rob Reiner’s movies will forever be etched in our hearts. 🙏 Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

He doesn't understand how anything works. It's truly shocking.

This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.

The story isn't 30 peoples' information is compromised. The story is the deputy CISO of a privately held 100-billion dollar company asked permission to use his generative AI on his private Discord, spectacularly failed to get it, then sicced his AI on the group anyway.

A Discord for gay gamers is in disarray after an exec at Anthropic forced an AI chatbot on the Discord. When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

I hate that it is this easy to predict what this fascist, genocidal regime is planning to do.

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...