Good morning from ME. It is a glorious 57 degrees at sunrise.

"Maine veterans showed up outside Senator Susan Collins' Portland office this weekend with 168 lunchboxes, one for each schoolgirl killed in the Minab school bombing, and 13 portraits memorializing the 13 American service members killed in the war in Iran." (From Common Defense)

A male Baltimore Oriole perches on the branch that is holding the hanging nest with his nestlings.

A full grown cat for $3.00. Seems like a good deal in these inflationary times.

It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.

McMorrow on the UFC fight at the White House: "More and more Michiganders are struggling because of the decisions of this president, and he's throwing himself a birthday party. It just rings 'let them eat cake.'"

it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+

People need to go to jail. I hope the next Democratic Administration understands the assignment.

Good morning from ME. We finally have much needed rain, and the garden is rejoicing.

So it's obvious Trump wanted an Iran deal done on his big-boy birthday, and he wanted it done before his UFC fight and bouncy house party starts. It never mattered whether there was an actual deal or Iran agreed or Israel agreed. He was going to announce a deal. We should not assume this is real.

Happy President Obama Appreciation Day! #Pinks #USDemocracy

Good morning from ME.

BREAKING: Trump’s FBI in an act of “straight-up intimidation” raids a pro-democracy, voting organization in Ohio, with 100+ agents menacing staff & volunteers on the streets & at their schools. With Trump's DNI nominee, loyalist Jay Clayton, expect more voter intimidation. youtu.be/wQajlQlxboA?...

This is a clip from the live stream showing the tarpaulin put up so that people couldn't photograph Trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Centre Trump actually applied for a 12-hour stay of execution so that this tarpaulin could be put up and done in the middle of the night

Good morning from ME.

Reminder: This could have been avoided, but the world's first trillionaire believed he was smarter than the experts.

CDC activates for New World Screwworm Emergency Response. There are now 5 active responses in the Emergency Operations Center: thehill.com/policy/healt...

This is obscene and a massive failure of our country and elected officials. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Morning!

Could not pick one this morning!

Was expecting fog! Love foggy mornings.

Scenes from a morning bike ride: Rhododendron and Lupine. What’s not to love about flowers in unexpected places?

Sunset this evening in Northern Ireland. #sunset #clouds #photography #Scape

Happy Friday from ME.

🧊✈️ SOUTH AMERICA ⛓️🌎 😲 An Eastern 767 (tail: N700KW) departs Louisiana, trafficking chained humans to Colombia & Brazil 🇨🇴🇧🇷

@farshorebooks.bsky.social has acquired a new middle-grade series by Jennifer Killick, bestselling author of the Dread Wood, Serial Chillers and Crater Lake series, all published by Farshore. 👇

Good morning from ME. Sunrise 5:01 am.

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

Mboko suffered what looks to be a pretty serious knee injury today in her singles match. Terrible news for her but also for Serena.

More economic warning signs, with data. Compliments of the great Paul Krugman. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Former Cleveland Congresswoman Marcia Fudge lobbies with this guy.

The pine pollen is so bad today that it looks like fog. Everything is hazy.

Platner's tattoo was unequivocally bad. I think the smart thing would have been to get it covered or removed whenever he learned that it had Nazi associations. But I also kind of get him rationalizing it to himself. Removal/cover up would look like shit because it was a giant, dark tattoo.

Is there a Parker Malloy fan club? Because I really, really want to join. She's brilliant, fearless, and funny. And jeez 'em, can she write.

All the economic warning signs are blinking bright red. Credit card debt 90 days delinquent is at a four-year high. 90-day delinquent car payments are at an all-time high. Average Americans simply cannot afford to live. Now we learn there will be an estimated 1.65 fewer jobs in 2029.

Following the U.S. entry ban on Omar Artan, Africa's best referee of 2025, FIFA could reassign him to a match in Canada or Mexico in less than an hour. Instead, it does nothing. FIFA is complicit.

And Susan Collins has been an enabler of this malfeasance. We must vote her out.

www.maptap.gg June 10 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 93🎉 92🏆 Final score: 953

The Trump Administration has denied entry to a FIFA World Cup Referee. The ref is from......Somalia. Of course.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Just learned that, in my state, only 450,000 cast a vote out of 3.3 million registered voters 🫩 Y'all I'm so tired of this. If you hate Lindsey Graham, only you have the power to get rid of him. PLEASE vote Annie in November. I'm begging at this point. Just show up. Bare minimum.

Good morning from ME. I missed the sunrise (again) today. Instead of sunrise, how about our neighbor, looking for his supper.

Nike put up a billboard in Compton of Serena Williams in honor of her comeback. “The GOAT’s Back.” Beautiful gesture to honor the greatest of all time in the city where she first began to play tennis on the community’s public courts. Long live the legend. 🐐🥹

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace failed to advance in South Carolina’s gubernatorial primary, derailing one of the strangest political careers in recent memory

"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature." -John Burroughs

How did Susan Collins clear the field and face no primary challenger this year? Well, last time both her right-wing challengers faced threats and intimidation from Collins's GOP cronies...who were surely acting on their own without the direction of Collins or her campaign. #MEpolitics