thursday songs i am beside myself. The Womack Sisters, granddaughters of Sam Cooke, and of the famed Womack family are putting out 60’s sounds that feel like they were tailor made for me. This is transcendent.

Just hear Chauffeur on @wxpnfm.bsky.social And now this track. Yes, it will be played for the rest of the summer in this house. Wow!

Teams and sports are capitulating to Trump's sports ban threat left and right across the United States. Except for women's rugby teams. Even though they are attempting to ban trans athletes, several teams are not complying. Subscribe to support our journalism.

There is no career politician that deserves to lose her seat in power more than Susan Collins. We must all enthusiastically rally behind Troy Jackson and his candidacy. @troyjackson207.bsky.social

"We're well on our way to getting the government that we deserve."

X (it's not Twitter any more and hasn't been in years) is the red state diner of the internet: the place lazy journalists go to get a sense of what they think "real" americans believe based on a ridiculously reductive and wrong definition of what it is to be a real american.

Live your life so that at least ONE of your ex-wives might lie for you… #fuckICE #MEpolitics

Auto correct changed my chicken pot pie into a chicken pot Poe and now I must tear up the crust! — here, here! — it is the beating of the chicken's hideous heart!

Susan Collins is just a rubber stamp for the wealthy elite in this country. Working Mainers need a Senator who will fight for Medicare For All, not one who helps gut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

How many active ICE shitheels have an almost word for word history of violence towards women and mental health issues?!

People protesting the #Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency gathered in Portland gathered on July 14 after the death of a 26-year-old man from Colombia who was shot by federal #agents earlier in the week. #maine #ice #biddefordshooting

“ICE Pulled the Trigger, Collins Gave the Gun” is A+ messaging that should be on every screen until November. #mepolitics

England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup

Oh my #GOAT

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

I feel like we're going to get pundit teeth-gnashing for the next two months about who should have vetted what on Platner, but in Maine focus has apparently turned squarely to Collins, and the next two weeks of organizing to find a replacement has a clear event to tie to.

Graham Platner Clarifies He Covered Penis With Tattoo After Learning About Its Troubling History

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

BREAKING: Judge Sullivan has GRANTED Katie Phang's preliminary injunction concluding she has standing, has been harmed, and will likely succeed on the merits of her case demanding the full release of the Epstein files. Blanche has until 7/2 to respond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank you to Maine’s teachers, bus drivers, nurses, cafeteria workers, custodians– everyone who spends the year taking care of our kids and our communities. We appreciate everything you do. Enjoy your summer.

A few York Revolution players refused to wear Pride jerseys for Pride night, so the organization forfeited the game, will honor all tickets for future games, and is holding a free Pride festival that night, instead. That kind of response is impressive. yorkrevolution.com/york-revolut...

40 years ago today, The Smiths released 'The Queen Is Dead,' a masterpiece of wit, melancholy, and jangly defiance that remains one of the most influential and acclaimed albums ever made.

Oh please, I got autism from just reading the 1984 Bill James Baseball Abstract And what was Nomar up to during all those at bats?

if he thinks kids with autism will never be interested in baseball I'd like to invite him to review my bluesky timeline

Scandalous Tan forever beats authoritarian orange. Happy Barack Obama Appreciation Day.

Do I have the patience to wait and hope the U.S. is up 1-0 at the half to quote post this then? No, no I do not.

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE

Oh. Canada. Oh! Canada *+^%#% Canada Bettor Canadian Bosnian

Yeah, South Africa is going to need to build a wall.

You are correct about her hostility and bad faith with labor. @seiu.org #MSEA is still without a contract (Mid 2025) and our pay and staffing is so dismal that more and more people are walking out. I have two more weeks myself.

The Maine Wire recently alerted its readers to a scary Pride crosswalk in Bangor. I decided to investigate the situation for myself. It turns out, shockingly, that the Maine Wire is full of it. I stand proudly with the LGBTQ+ community, today and every day. #Pride2026 #mepolitics

I don't have a picture of my cousin Todd. He was part of the first wave of gay men to die of AIDS. The last time I saw him, I gave him a big hug & he cried because I wasn't afraid to touch him. Todd died alone & he's why I defend #LGBTQ rights!🏳️‍🌈 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed Happy Pride Month

This just means putting "A.i." companies under Trump's control, so no thank you. Instead, require "A.i." corps to remove all unlicensed content from their databases. ALL OF IT. And tax them 100% of their income and use that money to refund creators they stole from. That should take care of it.

The oligarchs who run this system want to work us to death. They want to monetize every moment of our lives and squeeze every dime out of our labor. That wheel they have us chasing all the damn time? Well, we built it. On June 9th, we're taking it back. #mepolitics

Tolkien: oh it's no big deal Tolkien: just the top guy in catholicism talkin' about gandalf Tolkien: nope nope not a big deal at all Tolkien: sorry you can never experience that, clive CS Lewis: Tolkien: but that's what you get for picking anglicanism Tolkien: lmao loser ass religion

And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

My final piece on Graham Platner and the US Senate race. At almost 5000 words, it's long but based on several meetings with Platner and others. I'm not arguing with people online, so there are no comments. Life is too short to be stressed. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

More than 12,000 signatures were invalidated because of fraud and other misconduct. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/26/p...

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

The federal prosecution against Kumar Abrego Garcia has been dismissed storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sanford imposes emergency data center moratorium, halting Mousam River project

Not sure what the Eisners should do about the current AI predicament they find themselves in, but this petition requesting that guidelines be updated for the future saying any comic using AI will be disqualified from the Eisners seems like a no-brainer. c.org/8N5Ydf8GVS

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Platner campaigned for the Red Flag law that Mills didn’t support. Seems pretty clear.

Unions (& the Labor Movement!) The folks who brought you the weekend #MEPolitics #Maine

Love baseball? Miss the days of reading through the box scores each morning, ad free? I built a thing. boxscore.email

Not only can a Bernie-style Democrat win in Maine in November, a Bernie-style Democrat is our party's best shot. I’ve been proving it deep red Aroostook County for years. #mepolitics @mainepublic.org

Susan Collins casts a vote against Trump but it winds up being just short of what's necessary to change the outcome. What are the odds? #MEpolitics

This is of interest (h/t t Maysle) www.dropsitenews.com/p/susan-coll... #MeSen #MePolitics