Purchase of Kennebec dams is worth celebrating | Douglas Rooks www.pressherald.com/2025/09/25/p...

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

Susan Collins says shutdown can be averted. Now to prove it. | Steve Collins www.pressherald.com/2025/09/23/s...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

It’s one thing to mourn a young man cut down too soon. It’s quite another to pretend Kirk, a racist who plugged an anti-gay, anti-women agenda, was a model American. www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/c...

"A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.'" Name one.

Help my colleagues join the union at the Maine Trust for Local News. Please sign this petition to management. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

Tired of the constant claims that this war is somehow our fault. Ukraine had only one choice: to defend itself against russia or to succumb and become cannon fodder in russia's future wars of conquest. As anyone with a clear mind can see, neither of these options is peace.

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo” The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

Not great

NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way. Read here: newrepublic.com/article/1982...

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.” -Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Just want to encourage fans who love Van Morrison's old stuff but cringe at some of the crazy crap he's put out in recent years to give his new 'Remembering Now' a listen. It's a surprisingly lovely, hopeful record.

Extremely upsetting: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

That racism motivates decisions like giving Medgar Evers the heave-ho is obvious.

Take heart, students everywhere: Brian Wilson got an F in music in high school.

Exactly so.

🔴 Zelenskyy: "We are not kids with Putin at a playground. He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

I remember when presidents went to war against poverty, disease and tyranny. Now our president thinks the enemy is @harvard.edu and turns a blind eye to suffering around the world as he cozies up to dictators.

Long before the House Freedom Caucus arose, the always-perceptive Mark Twain said that legislators possess "the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."

"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"

To the degree that success is random, which it often is, the Sox have just had an unusually unlucky streak. Ultimately, they are likely to be pretty close to 50-50 in one-run games unless they're a terrible team. And they're not. With normal luck, they'd now be tied for 1st in their division.

Pretty sure Donald Trump is not helping himself by trashing Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen.

A longtime Portland, Maine bishop, born into slavery in Georgia, never even hinted that he was Black. He passed as a white guy. It will be interesting to see how Pope Leo approaches the news that he had Black grandparents from New Orleans' Creole community. www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/p...

Complaining about the "pencil terrorists" of the press in 2017, Paul LePage said, “For seven years, I’ve been enduring these people. If I walked across the Kennebec River, the headline would read ‘Governor can’t swim.’ That’s how bad they are.”

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

My son Kiernan at age 4: "Daddy, what did Grammy and Poppy call you when you were little?" Me: "Usually Steve." Kiernan: "Oh." Me: "What did you think they called me?" Kiernan: "Daddy."

RIP, David Souter, a solid judge.

If the new pope had to be an American, I'm glad it's not Trump.

See a guy proclaiming "I'm a total anti-vaxxer and proud to be one. Yes, I do think vaccines cause autism and are toxic and dangerous." These folks don't seem to comprehend that what they "think" is irrelevant. This is a matter of science not opinion. And the science is clear.

A man has to know his limitations. www.sunjournal.com/2025/05/06/m...

India and Pakistan are on the precipice of a possible military confrontation, nearly two weeks after a deadly terrorist attack on the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir set off aggressive statements between the nations. Here's a history of the dispute.

How shameful that the United States has fallen so precipitously in the rankings of where a free press flourishes best. We should be #1. Instead we're at #57, well behind South Africa, Armenia and Gabon, among others. Greenland, by the way, is doing just fine. rsf.org/en/index

Trump's decision to wipe out Veterans Day and turn it into "Victory Day for World War I" is ridiculous on so many levels, but the worst is that he's eliminating the one day all year where the nation hails all of its veterans.

Looks like more reporters will be looking at the possibility of prison to protect confidential sources. So be it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

👀 New York Post new cover!

Trump's idea of peace in Ukraine is, as it has been all along, letting the Russian invaders keep the fruits of Putin's illegal, intolerable war. But Ukraine and those who defend freedom are not going to give up. Surrender is not peace. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Stephen Miller is profoundly un-American.

I wrote about a Facebook scam today. www.sunjournal.com/2025/04/22/m...

3 Adams Case Prosecutors Resign Rather Than Express Regret to Justice Dept. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/n...

An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Has Simply Disappeared’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

Glad to see a respected news guy take the helm at the National Trust for Local News. www.pressherald.com/2025/04/21/n...

"Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity." - Pope Francis RIP.

Glad to see this. We can't allow thugs to get away with violating the law.

Putin's version of a truce isn't quite what most of us envision.

You have to watch a riled-up Angus King trying to be a combo of Paul Revere and Chicken Little. www.youtube.com/live/5YHvpx3...

We're all taking the Fifth on this, bsky.app/profile/theonion.com. But if everyone in Maine is going to be detained, can we delay it until, say, January and then put us all up somewhere along the Gulf of Mexic... er America? DOJ Plants Gun On Maine — theonion.com/doj-plants-g...