850 people in small-town Maine 13 months before the election. Mainers have never been more ready for change.

Good headline.

What a hateful and stupid man.

Leave it to Norwegian media to say the most obvious thing, years after it was apparent to anyone with a brain. www.nrk.no/urix/donald-...

What?!? Why?

As Trump and his goons strip Americans of our constitutional rights, the silence of the nation’s leadership class is deafening. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/america-without-a-leadership-class

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This is an assault on menstruation and menopause believe me.

Beyond the coast there is beauty.

Keyword “suspected”.

Pentagon Officials Ridicule Hegseth’s Plan to Stop War Department Leaks Three current Pentagon insiders told The Intercept that new Department of War rules are an egregious assault on press freedom. theintercept.com/2025/09/21/d...

With so much else happening, I missed this www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

We told @time.com that journalists shouldn’t trade their independence for access to Pentagon spin. “Agreeing not to look where the government doesn’t want you to look and, by extension, not to print what it doesn’t want you to print, is propaganda, not journalism.”

One of the most life altering books for me in the past five years

Recommend Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments all the time, but it is one of the great books about the fact that history is a story told through choices portersquarebooks.com/book/9780393...

Joke

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

I wonder what will happen to that fox newscaster who suggested eugenics practices? I wonder if he will get fired like all the folks who didn’t grieve Kirk ?

Page 1 of my book Mill Town. Not my words but words to live by in America today.

Meanwhile on TruthSocial... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Why is Maine speaker receiving bomb threats? Plural.

This should be in the headlines of every actual news source but it somehow is not. This is violence writ large…a horrifying American tableaux

If you want something written about the human genome that is not complex science, then this is a good place to start. 🧪

I’m also looking for book excerpts. Future or past. Editors agents and publicists - get in touch?

Hey scholars! I'll be editing your NON-PEER-REVIEWED work at a new journal from ASEH called Germinate. Send me your fiction, photography, essays, memoir and more that explore the environmental present with its past.

Seems relevant today

What world do we live in!?!?!?

Carrying such things as PFAS and dioxins

The Hamburg team (Professor Alan Kramer) of our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant BLOCKADE is looking for a FOUR YEAR PostDoc to work on blockade as 'slow violence' in the Great War-era Middle East. Please share! www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

SEMINAR FOR JOURNALISTS 🗓️ October 27-30, 2025 🔹 The cost of the seminar & accommodation is fully covered (we do not cover travel expenses and insurance) 🔹Details: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/call-for-participants-seminar-for-journalists-2025-27-30-october,1788.html

Get to work, @clientearth.bsky.social.

Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

I mean apnews.com/article/chin...

“It was pretty grotesque to watch… All they do is fellate.” @karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com don’t mince words about tech CEOs groveling at Trump’s White House dinner. Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Chicken not chicken

Noooooooooo Scientists Believe They’ve Found a Groundbreaking New Energy Source–And It’s Virtually Unlimited - Popular Mechanics

More Maine stuff

Maine stuff

Fascinating short list for the Cundill History Prize: the world’s leading award for history writing. With a $75k purse! www.cundillprize.com/news/2025sho... @princetonupress.bsky.social has quite the showing.

Ready, set, read !!! this incredible biography about Peter Matthiessen from @lancerichardson.bsky.social

Does anyone know if they will apply the Uniform Code of Military Justice in these cases ? If not, not sure this forces “military rule in civilian law” (I mean , it’s still a bad idea -)

Low birth rates because of environmental factors —

I ask this EVERY DAY too...what war? A war takes two sides to fight.

It's about time the working class of Maine supports a working class candidate. #milltown