Big billionaire bucks are behind all these platforms. techfundingnews.com/bluesky-quie...

Michael B. Jordan just won his first-ever Oscar for best actor, and thanked director Ryan Coogler for honoring "original ideas" in Hollywood.

If you want to question my integrity and you are replying to me. I'm blocking you. I'm not here to argue with any of you. I know that's how many of you get down, but I'm not that person.

You gotta know when to leave the party. When it's time to go home. Sir, you're 85, relax, unwind, and remember, you have more days behind you than ahead of you. I'm 53, and even I recognize that.

I think this is the best summary and most powerful observation. “You can’t end indifference without accountability”

I understand that SURJ National just endorsed Graham Platner. I'm familiar with SURJ quite well, I started the Boston chapter back in 2016 and still work with organizers from Boston and Maine chapters. Lot of thoughts on this, but until I unpack it with some colleagues, I'll mostly be quiet.

I stand corrected. She is not a new entry in the Maine Senate race. ☺️

My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Only 3-5

This is the Senate candidate in Maine that I just mentioned, who I'm looking forward to meeting with soon.

For folks interested in the Maine Senate race, there's actually a newcomer to the race, Andrea LaFlamme. I'm planning on sitting down and talking with her, just like I did with Graham Platner. I haven't endorsed anyone for any race in the state.

The idea that this platform is safer for Black women is laughable. The racist trolls here just have a better vocabulary and are too refined in their minds to actually just use the N words.

The idea that I need to prove anything to some rando on a social media app, when I have an almost 20-year track record of my work in Maine and beyond, is ludicrous. Just because you are new to me doesn't mean I'm new to the game.

I'm just going to say this, my life in Maine isn't lived through what the media reports. I am friends or personally familiar with many political folks here. Like, we have each other's personal phone numbers. I'm not arguing with people based on what they read, when I've broke bread with folks.

This is absolutely the truth about Mills and Maine politics. That woman isn't progressive. I'll stand on that. Some of my closest friends worked with her in the legislature, and let's just say, no, she won't have my vote in the primary.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

honestly,

This post is one of the many reasons I haven't written part 2 of my piece on Graham Platner. People are more interested in clinging to their beliefs than listening to someone who isn't a traditional journalist who isn't white but lives in Maine. I'm so tired of people outside of Maine.

People on here are definitely bold. So, as a 24-year resident of the state of Maine, whose work includes leading one of the oldest anti racism organizations in the United States. As well as being a pretty well-known member of Maine's Black community, I'm a dolt because I actually have met Graham?

Other cultures and societies around the world have a long-term view. The U.S. does not.

They did .

My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

He has no plan for the American people either

My latest piece, my concerns about AI and Pete Hegseth. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Wow this was an amazing show!!!

Folks in Maine, have you checked out my latest project yet? From Away to ME with Moon and Shay. Our first guest was gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Nirav Shah. youtu.be/0fBxC56X_zk?...

Important read for Maine folks. themainemonitor.org/immigration-...

Support Black owned businesses in Boston

Latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

After not making the splash they expected to in Portland, ME, the CBP/ICE thugs went to the rural town of Skowhegan (pop. 8,600) to snatch up a busload of workers from "Backyard Farms", a greenhouse operation specializing in supplying fresh tomatoes year-round to residents and markets across Maine.

Rep. Dan Goldman to ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one."

ICE is still very much in Maine. My latest on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Nothing to look at here, America... move along. --Epstein business partner Peter Thiel

This is partly what this Administration was counting on; people either not remembering or remembering it all differently. And it worked, unfortunately… …it’s like if they *do* remember it, it’s because it was initially working for them. They didn’t expect to be affected by it like last term.

Ten years after his first term, watching white folks clutch their pearls over Trump's racism feels disingenuous. It's like folks have no memory.

My latest on Substack, where I talk about ICE at the Winter Olympics and Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Tonight's Substack, on ICE "leaving" Maine. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Entire 🧵 is a must read.

This right here.

My evening thoughts on Susan Collins over on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

The performance activism that's emerging in this moment is annoying. So, I wrote about it. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

"Community and care are vital at this moment but so is the envisioning of something better that seeks to repair harm and create wellness. It is letting go of what no longer serves us, moving beyond fear and to a collective rage that allows for the creation of something better."

I deactivated my TikTok, and I'll miss my decompression scrolling.

Today's front page on @lemonde.fr

This is skin crawling to me because it’s being valorized as bravery But what it really is an admittance that she is so accustomed to the attacks she gets being minimized and their being no defense that there is no point in acting like any care for her would be respected

I wrote some reflections on what it feels like being Black in Maine during this ICE surge. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

Absolutely support the Maine Solidarity Fund

I've suggested we point these folks to Mexico or Peru, Maine.

You are potentially marked for death just for showing up. @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social