Good morning all! We've had requests to consolidate David Costello's local news interviews for his US Senate campaign in Maine for easier viewing access. So check out this page that has his most recent video interviews with local stations. #mepolitics www.costelloforsenate.com/news-intervi...

I love to see this camaraderie and sense of cooperation. It’s a model for Maine’s other primary races, and on both sides of the aisle. I already had my top 3 in mind and watching this combined effort cements my choices. I hope whoever wins gets to Blaine and brings the others along. #MEpolitics

What does a 7-month cruise season with 334 ships arriving look like if you live in a city that's a cruise destination? If you're in Victoria, it looks like this. We've launched a channel documenting the ships - and pollution - that call here. Get a local's POV

Today in Portland Holland America’s Zuiderdam cruise ship: Dumping 45 metric tons of contaminated scrubber wash directly into Casco Bay per hour. Destroying microorganisms, adding turbidity & acidity. Not sure how a scrubber works? youtu.be/dHW5UzVdTvI #banscrubbers #MEpolitics #cruiseships

It is clear that attitudes are hardening. There is a groundswell of opinion that cruise tourism is the antithesis of sustainable tourism and the voices of resistance are getting more organised, louder, more visible and more active. #cruiseships #cruisetourism jameshigham.com/divided-view...

With a great shout out to @cleanarctic.bsky.social for the work they are doing at @imohq.bsky.social As individuals, how can we help change shipping fuel regulations? By supporting organizations like Clean Arctic Alliance: cleanarctic.org

Dear Democrats: get on the data center issue asap. The American people are already there. They don’t want their communities polluted so Zuckerberg can power an ai chatbot that convinces their kids to commit suicide.

This is your early warning that Jackson Pollock goes out of copyright on January 1st 2027. Get ready for some horrible duvet covers.

Un frammento di un discorso sentito (non ricordo neanche quando né detto da chi): “Al risveglio corpo e mente devono ritrovarsi”. Oppure era “Al risveglio la mente rientra nel corpo”? La seconda forse.

The President of the United States is a traitor.

I keep hoping for an explosion of CSAs. They are a great way to maintain small local farms, alleviate financial risk for the farmer, and get access to less expensive healthier food.

Today Victoria hosts Queen Elizabeth for the day and Carnival Miracle tonight. Queen for the day, you say, well at least passengers will spend. Yes, and this is what we'll all breathe in every moment of its stay. Enjoy subsidizing the cruise economy with your lungs. youtu.be/B5b25P55jP8

Th Queen Elizabeth loading heavy fuel oil and marine gas oil in Seattle this morning. Owned by Carnival, the QE uses dirty fuel and open loop exhaust scrubbers in Alaska waters - but not in Washington state, where they have agreed to only use the marine gas oil which doesn’t require scrubbers.

Cruise ships promise escape — until pleasure turns to panic. Christos Lynteris traces why outbreaks at sea, from plague to COVID to hantavirus, still loom so large in the public imagination.

Charles Sidman is never going to back down. Bar Harbor will not book any advance cruises until litigation is over. Cruise tourism has effectively ended in Bar Harbor. The citizens have shut it down despite a weird seasonal ruling from Judge Walker. Cruise lines were so desperate to win, they lost.

It's the latest in a long-running legal saga over a citizen's initiative that Bar Harbor voters approved nearly four years ago, which placed a 1,000-passenger daily cap on people disembarking cruise ships. https://bit.ly/43mPkBA

Understanding the climate crisis speed demon- black carbon & how maritime shipping is accelerating the melting of ice & snow & why it matters. Kay Brown of @pacenvironment.bsky.social interviews Bryan Comer of @theicct.org to unpack the dangers of soot particles. #cruiseships #arctic #blackcarbon

There is no joy in cruise ship Norwegian Joy docked at Ogden Point. You won’t see anything like this in Victoria’s tourism brochures. It’s shocking and heartbreaking. With two ships here all day, it’s a combined total of 24 hours of emissions. We should all be ashamed. 😔 #yyj #yyjpoli #climatecrisis

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©️Robynne Limoges ‘Klimt’s Gold’

If most of us in the US just stopped paying taxes, the Trump regime would be fucked. #taxstrike

©️Robynne Limoges ‘Lost Boy’

Partly sunny, high 67º, breezy =============== MAINE RESISTANCE THUR MAY 21, 2026 =============== #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #GetInvolved ICE arrests on the rise. MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE: 207-544-9989 p1/4 – REPOST & SHARE! #Maine #MEpolitics

Makes me laugh to see Disney cruiseship ads right now trying to get you to go on a cruise with a giant mouse.

I have an idea. Lease the town pier to a commercial fishing fleet.

Cruise ships are disaster for the climate and Cascadia A study released by Seattle Cruise Control estimates that each year, pollution generated by Seattle's cruise business is equal to about half of Seattle's entire annual greenhouse gas emissions. #Cascadia #Seattle #cruiseships #shorepower

The latest in the Bar Harbor cruise ship saga: The town will not book any new advance cruise ship reservations until litigation is resolved. In their determination to win at all costs, the cruise industry loses. #BarHarbor #Maine #cruiseships

Thank goodness this was stopped. The beaches and villages of the Yucatan Peninsula are already under threat from over tourism, developers, sargassum, global warming, and cruise ships. Greenpeace Mexico was a huge driver in the petition to the Mexican government. 🫶🏽💚🏝️🐠

Mahahual saved from Sheinbaum's clutches. She had accepted Royal Caribbean's park project in 2025. Sure to have a huge negative environmental impact. Locals and environmental organizations protested against it. Sheinbaum now backtracks, paints it as an environmentally responsible decision.

I don't think I've written more than a single paragraph in a notice of voluntary dismissal before, but ICE deported one of my clients during his habeas case and it feels like I have to leave some record of what happened to this man. Like flowers on the grave of a life in this country.

The closing of a community treasure, Fresh Approach closes after 34 years of serving the eclectic & wonderful West End neighborhood in Portland. via @the-bollard.bsky.social #Maine

The Boys Are Back in Town. ======================= MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE: 207-544-9989 For reporting ICE & CBP presence & actions Run by Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (MIRC) Report abusive LEO behavior at: [email protected]. ======================= Yesterday in Portland, Maine:

Sunny, high 89º, gusts to 35mph =============== MAINE RESISTANCE WED MAY 20, 2026 =============== #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #GetInvolved ICE arrests on the rise. MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE: 207-544-9989 p1/6 – REPOST & SHARE! #Maine #MEpolitics

Prima ho pensato “È mossa, peccato”, poi mi sono detto che questo caro amico è così, è una cometa che passa in certi momenti ed è difficile fermarlo in un’immagine, perché quando lo vedi in un posto è già andato altrove, a scoprire cose nuove.

La città è di chi se la prende, alla fine. Di chi la occupa, di chi la vive, di chi è presente.

©️Robynne Limoges ‘Untitled’

Romaine Brooks, Self-Portrait, 1923

Miroslav Hák, On the Balcony, 1944

The Trump DOJ’s $1.7Bn taxpayer funded “Anti-Weaponization” Fund to compensate Trump supporters who claim to have suffered at the hands of the Biden Admin would be considered laughable - if it weren’t so wasteful, unethical, and outrageous. Congress must end this self-serving madness! #MEpolitics

=============== *DAVID COSTELLO* ZOOM TOWN HALL! =============== Wed, May 20, 7:00-8:00 PM Come join US Senate Candidate David Costello as he discusses his background and platform as he seeks the nomination to take on Susan Collins in November. #MEpolitics Read more on his background & RSVP:

When a nation accepts that paying to rape countless children is not disqualifying to be President of the United States and steps over 2 wildly qualified women to get there, a lot of unspeakable nightmares will follow. Call your 2 Sen and 1 Rep: 202-224-3121 Enough. #RemoveTrump

It would rock if something could get better instead of worse

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

He’d have my vote!

“I want to discourage cruise ship passengers from coming to Barcelona,” Collboni, who is seeking reelection as Barcelona’s mayor, stated outright. #Barcelona #cruiseships #passengertax

The closing of a community treasure, Fresh Approach closes after 34 years of serving the eclectic & wonderful West End neighborhood in Portland. via @the-bollard.bsky.social #Maine

Chance of showers, sunny & hot =============== MAINE RESISTANCE TUES MAY 19, 2026 =============== ICE arrests on the rise. MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE: 207-544-9989 #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #GetInvolved p4/5 – REPOST & SHARE! #Maine #MEpolitics

Chance of showers, sunny & hot =============== MAINE RESISTANCE TUES MAY 19, 2026 =============== ICE arrests on the rise. MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE: 207-544-9989 #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #GetInvolved p1/5 – REPOST & SHARE! #Maine #MEpolitics

“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”

Cloudy>Sunny, 66º, light breeze =============== MAINE RESISTANCE MON MAY 18, 2026 =============== ICE arrests on the rise. MAINE ICE WATCH HOTLINE: 207-544-9989 #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #GetInvolved p1/3 – REPOST & SHARE! #Maine #MEpolitics