RIP @allagashbrewing.bsky.social Two Lights 💔

In 1970, the 5th grade students at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write to someone they admired and ask what makes a good citizen. Joel Lipton, then 10 years old, wrote to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz. Schulz's response is relevant even today:

Anyone making cute sunnies that jam the surveillance ones?

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

People talk about Orwellian too much in a dreary cliche sense and in not in a "lol George would have loved this" way.

Someone needs to wrestle the wheel of this campaign and put it in park.

Exactly what we should be expecting from our own free press.

Platner has royally screwed his party and his state. He should get no right to dictate anything other than a letter of apology in which he withdraws from the race and then leaves public life.

⚰️⚰️⚰️

I can hear the leaf springs from here.

Bar Harbor’s 250th fireworks were 10/10, lasted 45 minutes?! My favorite part was the crowd on Agamont Park overlooking the harbor. With each pause after a volley, thank you style clapping and cheering only to be delighted when they started up again. ❤️🤍💙 🇺🇸

❤️🤍💙

The French team’s post-game wrap-up language is so classy. And no whining about the refs despite the yellow card distribution. US pro teams can take a lesson.

#AT40 "Sundown" was written about his affair with the girl would later give Belushi his lethal drug injection. Seriously.

It was drummed into me as a young officer that when I spoke in uniform, I commanded a moral and legal authority that I did not personally own, but had only borrowed. And that to implicate others in endorsing my own individual opinions, however earnestly held, was a kind of theft of authority.

If you grew up in or near Quebec, this is a delightful bit of colour

there are an absolute fuckload of American companies whose origin story is a variant on “immigrant salesman hooks up with Delaware sailor who has pickle industry ops expertise, plausibly” and it feels pretty good when they let you know they remember

Man, the Supreme Court might as well by shooting off a t-shirt gun. A little something for everyone to hope for, a few to love and most leave generally disappointed.

😟😎

Cool Sankey diagram of the ranked choice voting results of Maine’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. Think how transformative this could be if more states adopted it.

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

Well, that was a fucking ride.

The news

Literally the best post in bluesky history. This is the Kenneth Arrow of posts

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

it’s pretty funny how my foreign policy feed is basically AXIOS: 🚨BARAK RAVID REPORTS TRUMP IS ON “THE BRINK OF A DEAL WITH IRAN” *2 minutes later* CENTCOM: WE JUST LAUNCHED A NEW ROUND OF STRIKES ON IRAN IN RESPONSE TO IRANIAN AGGRESSION AND DRONE LAUNCHES

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

Anyone have a gift link they’d like to share?

🐺

File this under “I Hate It When I Know People Are Having Fun” a subset of Crotchety Mainer Complaints.

Please don’t do this again, Maine. You are hobbling your own future population.

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!

My dad (4th generation potato farmer) was disparaging this practice (of milk producers) back in the 80s. Maybe no one knew about PFAS, but they suspected septic sludge was not good for farmland.

🩱

Things I did not expect to learn today: The Vatican had its own web domain (dot va) The Vatican has an infographic team The infographics are very good and, despite being fairly non-religious, I can find common ground with it. I’m legitimately impressed.

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

He’s still got it.

*Duran Duran voice* Glo- Glo- Glorious

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

❤️

"Against all authority... Except my mama". Happy Mother's Day!

The 90s were dark, kids. Don’t get it twisted.

BREAKING: GameStop, #$GME, is offering to buy eBay, #$EBAY, for $125 a share, per WSJ

This painting, titled "She Did Not Turn" (1974) by British artist David Inshaw, exemplifies his pastoral style blending realistic landscapes with wonder and mystery. It depicts a woman walking down a track through vivid green and brown landscape under a dark sky with a rainbow and floating clouds.

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Check out this dog! She comes equipped with 2 sub woofers!

I've Eaten Several Oysters in Maine: Here is What the National Media Doesn't Understand About Platner