I live in Maine, and I haven't met Graham yet, but we share a number of folks in common. I hear he's really the real deal, and I agree with this assessment. Folks are truly pumped about him. No one I know is pumped about Janet. She has been an ok governor, but that's it.

Here's to the politicians praising Trump YESTERDAY.

Being willing and able to change one’s views based on new information and experiences is an important quality in a leader. Kudos to President Jackson for his support of Question 2 and a true extreme risk protection order law. #mepolitics

Readers need to stop saying what they would have done differently. This is the authors world. A good author will give you the structure and the emotion and the reason. It's their world. If you don't like it there are many other books. Close, stop, return and move on.

happy Indigenous People’s Day

Diversity of tactics.

There is one good thing about being a morning person (I hate it, thanks). It is 115 on a Sunday afternoon and I have nothing more to do this weekend. Let the sloth begin.

@roxanegay.bsky.social you are in the NYT crossword puzzle today.

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

I am going to be so mad at what I imagine in my head the words in your post say.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…” Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

Please make it stop.

I see it works well.

Weekend (and beyond) reading pile: I'm doing this (yay): Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb I'm doing this (sigh): People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn I love Madeline Miller's wiring so I need to read Circe! All hail the Queen. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. #booksky

*Cries in American* 😭

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

Please everyone, don't normalize what is going on. Mostly because I can't and I need friends in the insane asylum as this slowly drives me insane.

Amazing. I was there last month and my coworkers did a bit of shopping. I wonder if they know those things are collectors items...the last commerce in Portland

I checked many things off my todo list. It was a successful day as an adult and an employee. The week spent worrying about the list is part of my process for this glorious feeling.

I’m concerned about Susan Collins’ grasp on reality.

Why I support the Red Flag referenda (Q2) in #MEPolitics

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

Americans have become so desensitized to violence that I'm not sure most get the gravity of this

This is how you protest an absurd fascism political military movement

My favorite trope is people who try to convince others that Percy Shelly is just as famous as Mary Shelly. I was an English major and never read him. I read her in high school. He is a niche she is literary canon. If it weren't for her five people would know who he was.

I was looking for a non dairy food that was full of probiotics this morning and I was reminded why we have RFK Jr as HHS Sec. I was looking at Kimchi and I found a post that asked if it was safe because this person said had a lot of sodium and people in South Korea had a high rate of stomach cancer

One of the things I have learned after a chaotic childhood is that while I can handle a crisis like a champ, I don't have to exist like that. I can have boundaries and make my area of the world comfortable and welcoming.

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Weekend Reading Pile The Fifth Season by NK Jemsin - mostly though this. So good and different, deserves the hype. Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher - for some spooky A Rome of One's Own Emma Southon - snarky and insightful A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway - everyone needs therapy #booksky

To some, mainly some white Americans and government officials, Assata Shakur was a controversial figure. To others, including many Black Americans, she was a revolutionary, oppressed and wrongly convicted. Read more:

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

So the safest thing to do is to make your own food and do not eat raw vegetables (I am sure that is still problematic) because we all have time for that.

You'll be reading a short semi nonfiction peace about Rome going to the Sabines and asking for wives and then you remember the big ole painting 'Rape of the Sabine Women' and two things happen. 1. You know this is not going to do well. 2. You used your Art Degree and say suck it to the nay sayers.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

I wonder how the 'audiobooks are not books because you don't absorb the information' or 'I have to listen to audiobooks on 2+x speed because I read sooo fast' people function in their daily lives, since presumably they have to have conversations.

The Manosphere Republicans don't realize that there are only two options when it comes to marital endings. They can support no fault divorce or poison can make a comeback.

Reading the news these days I can't stop thinking that the right is really pushing a race and culture war so we don't notice we should be having a class war.

Weekend reading pile - To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth (almost done) - Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (a few chapters of non fiction a day) - Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (No idea why) - Clockwork Boys by T Kingfisher (My first T Kingfisher) #booksky

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Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

An amazing book, a quick read, but so much in such a short time. It's an Uban Fairy Tale and it is magnificent. #booksky

I work in supply chain. My boss had a conversation this morning with a brand about how much they will have to raise prices. Price hikes were started in July and will continue for the foreseeable future. Plan accordingly.

Because of insurance there is a strong chance I spend a few days a month with a migranes. The sheer joy of being able to get my prescription and not have a migrane and have zero side effects is is like no other feeling.

I was talking to an old neighbor on the social meeds tonight. She was diagnosed with Breast cancer. This is the 4th friend who has gotten diagnosed in 11 years. Two have died. One has gotten the cancer diagnosis twice Ladies, trans men, and non binary with dense breasts get them things checked out