Prosecutor Says Federal Officials Gave Wrong Information About ICE Shooting www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u... Surprise, surprise.

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u... Good God! What a bunch of amateurs babysitting a vacuous old man.

Hypocrisy, narcissism, & bigotry as foreign policy. What has happened to that shining city on a hill? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... So many questions. Will the US invoke Article 5 with NATO? Will we execute US drug dealers on sight or arrest them for treason? If illicit drugs are weapons why did the president pardon Ross Ulbricht? Will Don Jr & RFKJr get Purple Hearts?

Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u... Which part is indoctrination guv? Is it that he may have loved someone who might be transitioning? Or is it a culture that glorifies guns and sees violence as a solution?

www.nytimes.com/video/world/... I’ve been taught to beware secondary devices and attacks targeting rescue workers. I have no doubt that this was just such an attack by the IDF on Palestinian journalists and rescuers.

Per the NYT, Stephen Miller will be recruiting civilians with law enforcement backgrounds to help federal agents in DC. It sounds like something out of Soldier of Fortune. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

The view across Tuckerman’s Ravine towards Boott Spur today, at about the midpoint between the ravine floor and the head wall.

Look what the wind blew in.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/w... Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, are you going to threaten Israel’s funding or ban American students from studying there?

$1000 fee on migrants seeking asylum? Is that the going rate on the SS St. Louis?

Monument Square, Portland, Maine, today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u... There are some good officers speaking out, but it makes me sick that this could happen. Annapolis may be a service academy, but it’s also college. Midshipmen should be exposed to challenging and new ideas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u... The Nuremberg defense will not work.

I’m far enough from retirement that I can probably weather this storm. I’m afraid to look at my sons’ 529 plans. This is an effed up country. You struggle to keep your head above water and hope that your kids will do better than you did. Then some dunce comes along and ruins everything.

Rep. Jared Golden : Donald Trump = Tulsi Gabbard : Bashar al-Assad. They’re both apologists.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u... Is this a principled stand or shoring up support to withstand a challenge in 2028?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/w... HSA is now saying that the French scientist had confidential information from Los Alamos National Laboratory on his electronic device. So they denied him entry rather than arrest him? Doesn’t scan.

Boiling sap today. It’s not the most efficient way to boil, but I don’t have a sugar house. I do have maple trees that I tap every year though & produce 7-10 pints of syrup each year this way.

“‘To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY.’ Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social message.” - keyboard warrior, keying up some distractions.

This is a meme shared to me today by some firefighter co-workers. I’m a blue dot amidst a sea of red co-workers. Normally they would never share this with me. Face? Meet leopard. Public opinion has definitely turned against this administration.

March 11, 2020 was the start of the COVID-19 shutdown in the US. It was scary. I disinfected the ambulance after every respiratory call, wore a mask even in the station, and worked vaccine clinics. The Trump admin is like a new virus that will test us. We’ll take action, and we’ll get through this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u... More cronyism.

“The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said.” NYT, Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed with Elon Musk.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b.... More meddling with the Washington Post. I miss my subscription, but it was becoming clear that WaPo wasn’t going to be free of Bezos’ bias.

Horst Kruger, from the afterword of “A Crack in the Wall”

www.mainepublic.org/news/2025-02.... USDA is now investigating the University of Maine for alleged Title IX infractions. Hold fast Maine!

www.pressherald.com/2025/02/11/s... Memo to myself: find someone to run against Susan Collins yesterday. Is she naive or does she think she’s fooling us? Again & again she makes a show of standing on principle when her only principle is allegiance to party & power.

Birches

What will happen to towns if DOE is shut down? A state mediator warned our union that it would be the end of federal education grants, and consequently lead to cuts in other municipal departments. I didn’t believe Congress would let it happen. Now I’m not so sure.

Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

My DOGE.

“Unfortunately, the sheer depth of American exceptionalism is such that this country’s political, media and economic elites have a difficult time believing that anything can fundamentally change for the worse. But that, in fact, is what’s happening right now.” Jamelle Bouie, NYT

Sometimes I need to Just Row.

Adding to the reading list.

Time for this again.

Placed my seed order today!

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b... Government control of the media. Are we no better than Hungary?

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u... Making popcorn while the circus burns.

Beers at Well & Good then dinner at the opening night of Vesta. Vesta was packed. Dare I say that NoYo has a night life?

Goodbye WaPo. Hello NYT. I canceled my WaPo subscription of more than seven years after Bezos squashed the editorial department’s presidential endorsement, killed Ann Telnaes cartoon, and Jennifer Rubin quit. I hope the Sulzbergers are better. Now, what to do about my Britbox addiction?

Hello Bluesky. Bye Facebook.