This is unsustainable. #cruiseships #Portland #Maine #banscrubbers 📷 @mswnola.bsky.social

On summer in Venice Fragments of a writer’s life… ”Oh, nothing much. I stayed in Venice, mostly. Worked. Swam at the Lido. Went out more than I’d like to admit. Danced. Saw a lot of art. Broke my own heart. The usual.”

Today Victoria hosts Caribbean Princess, wandering on by from Alaska on the way to the actual Caribbean for the winter cruise season. Here's your reminder than Princess Cruises is a convicted felony ocean polluter.

Moshe, what were you thinking????

“The defining feature of the 21st century is disregard for the sanctity of human life. The livestream is a deathstream with no way to turn it off.”

In June Bar Harbor had their highest sales tax receipts in their history. The only loss they are feeling is the loss of air & water pollution & cruise passenger congestion. @localmattersbh.bsky.social

There will be massive cruise ships in our harbor all week. What damage are they doing to the water of Casco Bay? How many micro organisms that are vital to the food web are destroyed when they are forced through the scrubber’s sulphuric acid bath? #Portland #maine #banscrubbers #cruiseships

So, again, it's worth pointing out that one of the authors of this piece, David Keith, created and then sold the carbon removal company "Carbon Engineering" to Occidental Petroleum, who *VERY EXPLICITLY* intend to use it to expand fossil fuel extraction......... ketanjoshi.co/2023/09/03/c...

"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is telling that on this "SUN Day" where we celebrate the promise of renewable solar energy (www.sunday.earth), the NY Times runs fossil fuel-friendly op-ed promoting a "technofix" that would actually DISRUPT solar energy (www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...). (h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social)

Johan Deckmann IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DESIRE TO PLEASE EVERYONE

1st thing comes to mind seeing these big, belching, corporate behemoths is a t-shirt made by a guy I knew, of a grizzled old Mainer holding a can of Bud, middle finger sticking straight out sideways, saying "Friggin' outta state bungholes." Coastal Maine loves tourists, but hates these polluters.

I read these articles as they emerged in print. I know how hard it is to write with a broken heart from the broken heart of America, and @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has more courage than most of us to keep writing anyway.

Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiB...

What should be a beautiful, crisp, serene Sunday morning in our harbor is absolutely destroyed by this monstrosity. #Portland #Maine #cruiseships @pinetreeactivism.org 📷 @mswnola.bsky.social

How much is the cruise industry contributing to pay for the shore power which is reducing the pollution they are causing?

We’ve been studying what happens to zooplankton when it gets sucked into a cruise ship’s scrubber. @junolocal.bsky.social calls it “a sulfuric hell chamber.” The cruise ships use live sea water to flush the toxins out of their dirty exhaust and that water is filled with life that gets destroyed.

Susan Collins hasn’t held a town hall since Bill Clinton was president. I’m holding 21 town halls across the state in the next month.

“But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.” Do not submit. #RESIST We are the many. They are the few. #NONViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts

substack.com/@robynnelimo... Please watch and inform every Democrat Representative and Senator. Of all the horror in Trump’s so-called budget bill, this clause and the explanation by a chief UK economist will show us all how he plans to trick Congress in giving him all the powers of a true dictator

Sunbathing. #caturday

MAINERS! – It's been said 85% of Mainers live within 15 miles of the coast. One of the largest impacts on coastal cities is the presence and negative effects of giant cruise ships. Follow @portcruisecontrol.bsky.social for proposals, analysis, and reporting on these polluting behemoths. #MEpolitics

The Facebook algorithm must know that I have no use for cruise ships. It just served me this video. @jolocktov.bsky.social @loveisphere.bsky.social If Cruises Were Honest | Honest Ads youtu.be/wjaHaivkQVM?...

Sunbathing. #caturday

===================== MAINE RESISTANCE EVENTS ** SEPT 20, 2025 ** ===================== #RESIST through #PEACEFULProtest #STOPtheCUTS-HEALtheWOUNDS #NONViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts REPOST & SHARE! Updated Sept 19, 9:20PM #Maine #MEPolitics pg 1/4

How to ruin a beautiful Saturday in Portland Maine. The massive Majestic Princess, fouling our air & water. The ship received an F in Water Quality Compliance from @foeus.bsky.social because it uses a scrubber, turning air pollution into toxic water pollution. foe.org/cruise-lines...

@cruiselaw.bsky.social : “everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know.” www.cruiselawnews.com/2025/09/arti... #cruiseships

Venice now 🤩

Arnold Clover is back! A thrilling story about music, obsession and revenge……a literary labyrinth of mystery & Venetian delicacies. Bravo @davidhewson.com #VeniceBooks #Venice #Vivaldi #Casanova

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

Arnold Clover is back! A thrilling story about music, obsession and revenge……a literary labyrinth of mystery & Venetian delicacies. Bravo @davidhewson.com #VeniceBooks #Venice #Vivaldi #Casanova

Suicide by Greed

Eventually the cruise ships left the historic center of Venice but they haven’t left the lagoon. What is the damage inflicted when cruise ships burden historic port communities? #cruiseships #Venice the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2017/12/suic... by Michelle Lovric

When is the city of Portland going to take cruise ship pollution seriously? The time to ban scrubber wash discharge is now.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Delighted to see the Pacific Northwest Coast @fairsailing.bsky.social is now part of this community @jolocktov.bsky.social

Paddle anyhow.

We just added the wonderful, helpful & very informed @loveisphere.bsky.social to our Cruise Control Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/L6rKBpg It also includes GCAN members: @radreduction.bsky.social @fairsailing.bsky.social @karlahart.bsky.social

The Trump administration’s decision to the repeal the endangerment finding is irresponsible, illegal, detached from reality, and will cost lives. ​ ​ The public comment period ends on September 22, and your participation is crucial.

they created an entire Avengers of people who would get ripped to shreds by the Workwear dude

HARM TO WHALES Collisions with vessels are the one of the most frequent causes of premature death for several highly endangered marine mammals, including the North Atlantic right whale. www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mamm... via @biologicaldiversity.org #cruiseships #vesselstrikes #Maine

Frickin' cruise ships.

2 cruise ships in Portland today with 6,505 people on board Brilliance of the Seas does not use a scrubber because it burns clean fuel with a 0.1% sulphur content. If this #cruiseship can burn clean fuel, why can’t all the cruise ships that come to Portland burn clean fuel? #Maine

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

One of Juneau’s quietest areas may be one of its busiest within a few years, with hundreds of thousands of visitors arriving via cruise ship and bus to new large-scale tourist attractions in the midst of the forests on Douglas Island. www.juneauindependent.com/post/a-devel...

On "THE MOST WATCHED SENATE RACE FOR 2026" & building a robust org for the working class in the state of Maine: "There is no point in living a good, small, fulfilling life when the community around you is being ripped apart for somebody else's benefit." ~ @grahamformaine.bsky.social Well alright!

The Brilliance of the Seas cruise ship hurtling towards Portland at 14.5 kn in an endangered right whale habitat. The recommended speed is 10 kn. Why do the cruise ships go faster than the recommended speed? They are all told it is an endangered right whale habitat. #cruiseships #Maine

The Island Princess barreling towards Portland at 15.2 kn this morning in an endangered right whale habitat. The recommended speed is 10 kn. And people wonder why there are vessel strikes! #cruiseships #Portland #Maine #rightwhales #endangeredwhales

I dreamt about getting lost in Venice last night. But the vaporetto guided me home.

================== SEPT 14, SUN 2-4:00PM MVHS, Thorndike, Maine ================== Maine Event of the Day: Democratic Candidates for Governor Forum Q&A with: @shennabellows.bsky.social @anguskingiii.bsky.social @hannahpingree.bsky.social & Troy Jackson FMI/RSVP: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...