207-544-9989 is the number to the Maine ICE Watch Hotline. Please be detailed in your descriptions including how many people, vehicles or equipment present as well as location, time, and direction they may be traveling in.

Portland Public Schools published this notice in their community newsletter yesterday as rumors of ICE coming to town began to circulate: www.portlandschools.org/calendars/pp...

BREAKING — Mark Dion, Mayor of Portland, Maine just released this media statement re: ICE coming to the Portland and Lewiston. He says "While we respect the law, we challenge the need for a paramilitary approach to the enforcement of federal statutes." Full statement shared with me:

The Strongman Fantasy, from March 2024. May it break. snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...

Portland, ME peeps, I've heard general chatter as well as from trusted sources that ICE is headed our way this week.

January 5, 2026

The conversation on Threads

I’m blocking all the ai slop, fake, you name it sites... esp. prevelant on ig/fb - may do no good but it feels good

Globalism is part of human evolution. A good read to end another weird year aeon.co/essays/there... @aeon.co

Day 1 of my #AdventCalendar [sound up]

December 21, 2025

At the turn of the 19th century, American intellectuals "discovered" Appalachia and that they'd found "real Americans" living there, decedents of early 18c Brit-Protestant settlers trapped in Amber, untainted by subsequent immigration. The idea kinda stuck. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

NEW! "The simplistic authority of the self-help field appeals for a reason: who'd bother grappling with nuance & doing difficult personal work when a rando with fun glasses says all you really need is to live life as a breathing, shitting, and eating 'live, laugh, love' poster?" — @andreagrimes.com

Need a distraction? This guy makes the most wonderful experiences - this is his latest neal.fun/size-of-life/

November 30, 2025

Who else was gifted germs this Thanksgiving? Loved having family together. What are we sharing this time? 🤧🦠

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

politics in science sucks

it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened

Bea was ten too, but cancer got her. You’d have given her a good ranking - the perfect lake dog #lagottoromagnolo

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Characteristics of SNAP recipients, from new @pewresearch.org analysis: —87% born in the US, 13% born elsewhere —27% employed in all months of the year, 12% employed in some months, 61% employed in no months Full analysis and downloadable data: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

WAIT! @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social invented #mansplaining? How utterly fabulous.

@hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @senangusking.bsky.social good grief people DO NOT CAVE TONIGHT - there's a better way forward

Polls are open 7am - 8pm. You can register to vote at the poll. Vote! Your city matters! Details how here www.portlandmaine.gov/172/Election... 🗳️ #portlandmaine #maine

Great turnout to hear @colinwoodard.bsky.social f#nationhoodlab @salvereginauni.bsky.social @pellcenter.bsky.social give a turbo tour of #AmericanNations #nationsapart - history, data, context - best books to understand our current national dysfunction... #portlandmaine #civiceducation

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

They want us to riot… youtube.com/shorts/TBu1f...

It’s just stunning how much this administration despises the American people.

================== WED OCT 29, 7:30PM ET Starts in about 30 mins... ================== Love America Rally with @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Much to the dismay of those trying to tear us apart, the real power in this country is citizens coming together. #EveryEffortCounts #NonViolenceIsPower

It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes. This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in US history, & the time to act is NOW. www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-state...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Mainers: my new book, Nations Apart, has its "exclusive, worldwide premiere" in Portland the evening of Nov. 3 at Mechanics Hall, a ticketed event co-hosted by Longfellow Books. The subject: how we got here as a country and what we can do about it. Register: mechanicshallmaine.org/events/colin...

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

I read 11% of the ship is sick.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. “We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.” That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

"In 2020, [Portland, OR] approved building [middle housing] on lots zoned for single family homes... A new report from the City says, it's working. 1,400 new units built in just a few years and each one is $300,000 less expensive than a typical single family home." @nbcnews.com

Just a reminder... applications for the Class of 2026 are due October 20. Applications can be found online leadership-portland.org/apply/ - We are happy to answer any questions you might have!

Maine’s history with the Wabanaki Nations is not ancient history. It’s a living injustice that continues to shape our economy and politics. The path forward is clear: return land, repair trust, and reform laws that have kept the Wabanaki from full self-determination. www.mecep.org/maines-econo...