rep @pingree.house.gov can you pls bring Mainers to see it and honor these officers?

this is funnier seeing it for the first time on Thurs, 10 minutes after he got picked to lead DHS

Been thinking about this. If I ever wondered what I would do when the fascists come for my neighbor, it’s now. I pray to have the courage needed to step forward and say Absolutely Not Acceptable in a loud voice.

Dear @senangusking.bsky.social Trump posted this morning that members of Congress should be hanged. I spoke to staffers in your and Sen Collins’ offices expressing dismay and asking them to publicly call for a return to decorum and decency. What is your response and what will you do?

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

As of 8:45am ET today you cannot leave a message for @senangusking.bsky.social 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

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. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Donald Trump is the first president in US history to deny food to citizens.

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)

Wiscasset #Maine #NoKings Marshal estimated 1700

Wiscasset Maine!

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)

@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

@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/...

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

Bye bye Marvel movies Superheros are supposed to champion free speech #Kimmel

Stunning. Thank you @clarajeffery.bsky.social WTG MLPS Institute of Art

“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.”

Department of Things that are True exhibit A

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

Watch it all live: www.dailypress.senate.gov

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.

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.

A short video about Juneteenth:

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.

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)

It’s the post, and the thead continues with important info:

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.

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)

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..." 🧵 🧵 🧵

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/

Minnesota showed up for #NoKings - love & respect from your neighbor in #Maine

Better photo of Wiscasset ME bridge full end to end with happy peaceful ralliers #NoKings

Wiscasset ME bridge was full of happy peaceful ralliers! #NoKings

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 ...

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-...

Share this everywhere! www.nokings.org No Kings

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...

Senator Collins in quoted by the NYT as being disturbed.

Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

U.S. Institute of Peace leaders regain control of HQ after judge declares DOGE takeover "null and void"

Maine is part of both these new lawsuits opposed to Trump Admin tying up essential funds #MEPolitics

Well done! Pushback. Works. Trump Admin reverses course and is restoring climate-related information.

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/…)

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...

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

Pushback. Works.

Grandmother-y lady living in house made of candy offers children a nice hot meal

I’m not not saying God is on our side but the rain held off until EXACTLY 12:59 #SingOut!

My favorite passage from @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest essay. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...