4-year olds get birthday cookies cookies for breakfast.

Political science research clearly shows that Question 1 would make voting harder. Why would we want to do that? (gift link) #mepolitics www.pressherald.com?p=7506109&uu...

Drop whatever you’re doing and read the last 15 pages of this 161-page opinion. I’m serious. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Big, exciting personal/professional news! Today I start a new job as the legal director at @maineequaljustice.bsky.social! MEJ works to advance economic security for all Mainers by providing legal services, advocating for fair public policies, and organizing with low income communities.

“But, Toad,” cried Frog, “you will miss all the fun!”

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

A strong statement from Sen. Thom Tillis.

“We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one,” says the director of the Maine Council on Aging. She is fighting a ballot measure that would restrict ballot access, greatly affecting older voters, this fall.

also chipocalypse is so dumb. like uh oh are the doritos ok

If Kalen DeBoer really wanted the W he would have pierced his nipples at halftime.

Waiting for Alabama to kick off, explaining to Micah that while Syracuse and Tennessee are both wearing orange, Tennessee's is that throw-up orange, that puke inside a pumpkin orange. It's important to teach our children.

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

Yeah. It’s happening here.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

We asked rural Trump voters and independents what they thought about cutting taxes for billionaires. Here's what they told us. #TaxFairness #TaxFairnessNow #MEPolitics

Big news in Brunswick.

Every single word spent dishonestly attacking Zohran is a word not spent attacking Trump’s Big Ugly Bill, which Republicans are trying to pass as we speak. Jeffries is failing to meet the moment.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Peter Stager assaulted an officer with a flagpole. Daniel “D.J.” Rodriguez, drove a stun gun into the neck of a Capitol Police officer. Julian Khater, pepper-sprayed Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the face. Sicknick later died. Trump pardoned them all.

In new breaking research from @prri.org, we find that 3 in 4 Americans oppose Trump's military parade. prri.org/spotlight/mi...

Another problem with this country is it’s being run by middle aged men on a comical level of steroids. Which are famous for making people insane.

I keep saying it but Trump v Anderson is going to be a top 5 anti-canon one day. I know no one agrees, I don’t care.

Proud of Democracy Maine for helping to take on the Trump administration over Americorps funding.

Anybody else notice the weird lens effects in a couple scenes (Chandrila, the indoor imperial bureaucratic gathering) in ep. 1 of the new Andor season? I'm not a fan.

It was a bad day, but at least we got this

A little chametz before sundown.

#HandsOff in Brunswick, ME

Good morning to you on this Friday. It's been a busy news week. Here are among the latest stories we're following: The Maine Principals' Association and a southern Maine school say they won't comply with President Trump's demands over transgender athletes.

The moral depravity of the moment is inseparable from attacks on the rule of law and the deep constitutional rot in the United States.

And if you sign on to the amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie, you’ll have an extra argument that — if and when Trump comes for you — he’s doing it as illegal retaliation

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

MILLETT: "Y'all could have picked me on Saturday, and put me on a plane." ENSIGN: "Your honor, nothing of the sort is presented by the record here."

They want a domestic manufacturing boom while ensuring that consumers have no money to demand domestically produced goods

Sugarin'

The Trump Administration is targeting the University of Maine and @golden.house.gov says, “Okay!”

This is supposedly being done in the name of Jewish safety, so let me say loudly and clearly: not in my name.

Trump take hour

Mark Sears beats the buzzer and Alabama wins

Hello world - we're here! The New England Labor Housing Initiative is a new project to support labor union-led efforts to address the affordable housing crisis and homelessness. Check out our website: www.newenglandlaborhousinginitiative.org

Every time a career lawyer is pushed out, you can assume they were told to do something illegal.

Free law review title: "Thank You, I Won't Forget: The Roberts Court and Democracy"

Questions to consider - - How high does the price of heating oil need to be to justify creating new oil wells in North Dakota or another refinery in New Jersey? - How many jobs will that create? - Are Mainers willing to make that trade-off? #mepolitics