The Maine woods in morning, early November 2025:

Roque Bluffs, Down East Maine:

Oh, and this is Ellie, one and a half and the sweetest dog we’ve ever known:

The view from the top of Pigeon Hill, Steuben, Maine:

Maine Morning, clear, windy and cold:

The cove at dusk:

You knew that the decay -- the moral decay -- among the GOP and its flaks in the media would be provably bottomless when, faced with the Epstein revelations and emails that say Trump spent several hours with a girl in Epstein's house, they headed to a "well, she didn't look 15" moment. 1/4

Democrats do not appear to understand who and what they are dealing with. Today's GOP is not about cutting deals in the name of consensus; it is about the exercise of power, about holding onto offices through vote suppression and extreme gerrymandering; and about remaking the government

Back to New Hampshire, and passed along to this autumn red blueberry barren:

Back in Maine; Pinkham Bay from Pinkham Bay Bridge.

No Kings, Portsmouth, NH MAKING THE EFFORT

No Kings, Portsmouth, NH

Please find one near you. Bring your friends, loved ones, the guy with the dog outside the bagel joint.

Sunset after a rainy day Down East

Huh.

Maine

Autumn in an old blueberry field.

A year old; the sweetest girl.

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@rparloff.bsky.social. Thanks for your and Anna Bower’s relentless coverage of these cases. You guys and Chris Geidner are essential follows.

Exactly. The effort is because they want this authority — the plenary power to disappear people — for wider use. Eichmann making the railroads efficient comes to mind.

Bad day for the markets, America, and the world. What can you do? Well, run around with a Golden

Little Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 5, 2025

@nero-wolfe.bsky.social I am a huge Nero-Archie (Saul, Fred, Cramer, Fritz, hell even Theodore) fan. Good to know others are still out there!!

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Can we agree now: he’s a fucking moronic lunatic.

Just finished William Kent Krueger’s little masterpiece, The River We Remember. Not an O’Connor book. Really good.