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Midcoast. Blue. Green.
Pls
@senangusking.bsky.social
- your voice mails are full at 10:16am ET - this is unacceptable! Pls have your staff re-open the phone lines so we can reach you
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Senator Angus King (@senangusking.bsky.social)
News from the office of Independent U.S. Senator Angus King of Maine. Following/reposting does not equal an endorsement.
https://senangusking.bsky.social
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As of 8:45am ET today you cannot leave a message for
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at his Augusta or DC office bc the mail boxes are full. Call again at 9am and let’s try to reach a staffer. I left him messages last night not to CAVE and he did anyway
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Kyle Cheney
16 days ago
JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegseth’s incursion on Oregon’s sovereignty.
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Raider
23 days ago
Donald Trump is the first president in US history to deny food to citizens.
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
23 days ago
Still, this is a band aid for a much larger crisis. SNAP supports 170,000 Mainers, and the Trump Administration’s refusal to fund it will push hunger to its highest level in nearly a decade. I’ll say it again: THEY HAVE THE MONEY TO KEEP SNAP GOING. They’re just choosing not to. (2/3)
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Wiscasset
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Wiscasset Maine!
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
about 1 month ago
This year’s class of 22 MacArthur Fellows includes not one, but *TWO* Mainers! What makes this so special is how both recipients have used their genius to highlight the Indigenous experience: Jeremy through his extraordinary basketweaving, and Margaret through her game-changing cartography. (1/2)
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Two Mainers awarded prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius grants’
Jeremy Frey, a Passamaquoddy artist, and Indigenous cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce both received the $800,000 award.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/10/08/two-mainers-awarded-prestigious-macarthur-genius-grants/
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Pine Tree Activism📎
about 2 months ago
@pressherald.com
would like to hear from federal workers and others in Maine who expect to see impacts from the federal government shutting down at midnight Tuesday, Sept 30.
#Maine
#MEpolitics
#Shutdown
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Cate Denial
about 2 months ago
@skpawlicki.bsky.social
was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately:
storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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Women's History Illuminated
Women's History and the National Historic Landmarks Program
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/0100dfdb7155492390fde5557633de66
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Clara Jeffery
about 2 months ago
RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)
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Bye bye Marvel movies Superheros are supposed to champion free speech
#Kimmel
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Stunning. Thank you
@clarajeffery.bsky.social
WTG MLPS Institute of Art
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3 months ago
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈
4 months ago
“if it looks really easy in common sense, it means that 20 people have already thought about it and tried it before you, and they've all failed because it's still around.”
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Department of Things that are True exhibit A
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4 months ago
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Marie Follayttar
5 months ago
Mainers are outside @SenatorCollins’ Portland office demanding she
#VoteNo
on the
#BigBadBill
that will throw Mainers off of Medicaid, tax the rich & fund the deportation machine.
#MEpolitics
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Watch it all live:
www.dailypress.senate.gov
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Home - U.S. Senate Daily Press
Senate ScheduleThe Senate began the “vote-a-rama” at 9:35 a.m. Many votes are expected throughout the day. Senate Hearings & Meetings
https://www.dailypress.senate.gov/
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Senator Angus King
5 months ago
This bill is literally taking food out of the mouths of children to give tax breaks to millionaires. It's wrong and it's immoral. I'm urging all my colleagues to vote no so we can start over and work together to deliver a responsible, bipartisan spending bill.
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Democrats
5 months ago
Juneteenth is a powerful testament to the resilience of Black Americans. While we celebrate the fight for freedom and justice, today also serves as a reminder that our work is far from over.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
5 months ago
A short video about Juneteenth:
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What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
https://youtu.be/E7UaaAyPqPY
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Senator Angus King
5 months ago
On June 19, 1865, the last slaves in Galveston, Texas rejoiced as they received word of their freedom. 160 years later, we recognize
#Juneteenth
as a celebration of their strength, resiliency and dreams, and recommit ourselves to working toward a more just and fair society.
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
5 months ago
Let me be clear: the President does *not* have the authority to take us to war with Iran without the approval of Congress. The last thing we need is to be thrust into another forever war. Congress must assert its Constitutional authority and insist on blocking further hostilities with Iran. (2/2)
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It’s the post, and the thead continues with important info:
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5 months ago
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Kyle Cheney
5 months ago
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Suit Up Maine
5 months ago
35,689 people in 51 towns & cities across Maine showed up for
#NoKings
to peacefully protest the Trump regime’s authoritarian takeover -- that’s 2.5% of our state’s population! Tallies below come from organizers & attendees, confirmed with photography. Let us know if we missed your town! (1/4)
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jen sometimes aph 🌻
5 months ago
via
@douglandry.bsky.social
"I just got back from the Trump parade and I have to say it was legitimately the worst executed mass attendance event I’ve ever seen One overarching thought: how do you spend $80 million and fumble the basics? Many more thoughts..." 🧵 🧵 🧵
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Erik Ledbetter
5 months ago
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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Minnesota showed up for
#NoKings
- love & respect from your neighbor in
#Maine
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5 months ago
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Better photo of Wiscasset ME bridge full end to end with happy peaceful ralliers
#NoKings
5 months ago
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Wiscasset ME bridge was full of happy peaceful ralliers!
#NoKings
5 months ago
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Elizabeth D. Leonard
5 months ago
Today is the day! May the anti-tyranny, anti-fascism, pro-democracy, pro-human decency protests/marches all across the land & globe be peaceful & joyful & SUCCESSFUL in dragging us back from the brink of the abyss, summoning people everywhere ...
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Maine Matters
5 months ago
Complete list of No Kings rallies in Maine, plus some tips on what to bring. New rally just added: Kittery, "No Kings", 11-12:30, John Paul Jones Park
#NoKings
#Maine
#MEPolitics
amymacdonald1.substack.com/p/important-...
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Important No Kings updates
3 rallies in Portland; 7 new rallies. Complete list & what to bring
https://amymacdonald1.substack.com/p/important-no-kings-updates?r=41xcf
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Jen Taub
5 months ago
Share this everywhere!
www.nokings.org
No Kings
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
https://www.nokings.org/
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Rebecca Solnit
5 months ago
This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful."
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
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American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/american-spring-nonviolent-protest-accelerating/
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Timothy Snyder
5 months ago
Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
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CBS Evening News
6 months ago
U.S. Institute of Peace leaders regain control of HQ after judge declares DOGE takeover "null and void"
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U.S. Institute of Peace leaders regain control of HQ after judge declares DOGE takeover "null and void"
A dramatic standoff between the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Trump administration ended this week, with a federal judge ruling the government's efforts to dismantle the think tank were illegal.
https://cbsn.ws/4dsEzBS
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Maine is part of both these new lawsuits opposed to Trump Admin tying up essential funds
#MEPolitics
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6 months ago
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Well done! Pushback. Works. Trump Admin reverses course and is restoring climate-related information.
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Maine friends: I'd like to invite you to attend my choir's concert next Sat & Sun 3pm at Damariscotta Baptist with 2:30 pre-concert talk on why this program is a deeply anti-fascist exhortation of Hope over Fear, including yours truly. $20 people under 18 free 1/…)
6 months ago
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Mueller, She Wrote
7 months ago
NEW: Hegseth had at least a DOZEN signal chats going, set up using an unsecured "dirty" line on his private phone from his Pentagon office.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Exclusive | Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for Official Pentagon Business
In one case, he told aides on the encrypted app to inform foreign governments about an unfolding military operation, people familiar with his management practices said.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-signal-chats-defense-department-pentagon-ec9a4daa?st=T6CCqw&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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southpaw
7 months ago
You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.
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Pushback. Works.
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7 months ago
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Grandmother-y lady living in house made of candy offers children a nice hot meal
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7 months ago
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I’m not not saying God is on our side but the rain held off until EXACTLY 12:59
#SingOut
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7 months ago
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𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕘 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕤
7 months ago
My favorite passage from
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
’s latest essay.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Quietly signaling support for
#Maine
trans kids Welcome to the
#resistence
sisters
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7 months ago
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Jodie Foster will play Gov Mills in the movie we all want to see. I will not be taking questions She saw him in court. We won
#MEPolitics
#thatsmile
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7 months ago
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Pine Tree Activism📎
7 months ago
===================== MAINE RESISTANCE EVENTS MAY 3 - MAY 9 ===================== The People's Protests Are Working, Folks. WE ARE THE MANY. WE WILL NOT STOP.
#RESIST
through
#PeacefulProtest
#STOPtheCUTS-HEALtheWOUNDS
REPOST & SHARE! pg1/6 – Updated Sat, May 3, 8:45AM –
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Lincoln County Indivisible Maine
7 months ago
From sea to shining sea…
#MayDay
#MePolitics
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