Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Spending time on anything not 100% local, quality, trust and engagement was ALWAYS a delusional blast of hopium being sold to newsrooms by greedy publishers and their overpaid "consultants," but I'm glad people are coming around to it.

This is genuinely hard to believe. These people are simply cruel and drunk on power. Why?

Man, look at these proud American warriors staving off the forces of antifa! Heroes!

I'm going to need someone to explain to me the air force base for Qatar we're building in Idaho.

Nothing says: "I'm capable and prepared to lead this news organization to new heights" than a memo asking "Can all of you please tell me what you're doing here?" that's sent on a holiday weekend Friday, ordering it done by Tuesday, that also promises "I'll keep it just between us!"

"Feels Like Hell" takes Portland, Maine’s @weakenedfriends.bsky.social from their moody alt-rock New England chilliness into a warmer climate.

If there really is some kind of antifa organization (which there isn't) I'm going to be kind of bummed never to have been asked to join. How many weird leftist meetings does a guy gotta go to before they give him the secret knock?

Genuinely don't understand this. I have no idea why she'd want to muck around in a primary. Does her team think the various already-announced folks will drop out? She's been promised the 100m Gideon raised so she thinks it won't matter? I thought for sure she was going to retire.

This is embarrassing. There is actually some interesting stuff to dive into regarding the "Mississippi miracle" and the education industry's abandonment of phonics in favor Lucy Calkins-style whole reading, which they are now regretting, but this is uninformed nonsense.

It's so bad. Houses of cards look indestructible compared to this.

Trump's "Peace Deal" Mirage: Distraction As Escalation in Zionist War on Gaza & Region Continues High level discussion between 2 excellent analysts of West Asia & the bigger picture, Vanessa Beeley & Fiorella Isabel. open.substack.com/pub/fiorella...

Are you telling me that inventing and propagating unmanned aerial vehicles that can kill anyone at any time and in any place was a bad idea? That ... it could be used against us? I just don't see how anyone could have seen that coming. Good thing the Army is looking into it.

It's hard to believe a reporter would ask that question. I don't know what to believe anymore.

The very distillation of current federal policy in many areas: Kick people in shins and then punish them when they yell, "stop that!"

Tomorrow, Portland, Maine-based indie punk outfit Weakened Friends is sharing their new album, 'Feels Like Hell,' out on October 10th via Don Giovanni Records. Today, they're sharing a new single, "Smoke and Mirrors," and an accompanying video.

The country was basically founded on making sure "oops, wrong Frank Miranda, sorry we kidnapped you" isn't allowed. But the random anonymous folks in the masks are the Patriots who love our country, I guess.

No shit? I've been waiting for someone to say they would lower taxes and run the state like a business!

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It's all a metaphor, remember.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

This is objectively very funny.

All of this is intellectually bankrupt.

“The [Appropriations] Committee, chaired by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), writes the legislation that allocates federal funds to the numerous government agencies, departments, and organizations on an annual basis.” - Senate website #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2025/10/06/s...

Good for Houlton.

City council candidates, Bangor/Portland/wherever, say things like, "We need to reduce crime," and sure thing. But "crime" is a very broad category and the methodologies for addressing it are both well-known and routinely ignored by these types of candidates. Can someone ask a follow up or two?

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

You read this yet, or what?

Did the Maine Wire really think they'd get away with, "oh, man, can't believe these ballots turned up in an Amazon box. Guess we'll never know what happened, but it calls into question our entire electoral system!!!"

But other than the crazy stuff, he wants to lower taxes and treat government like a business, I bet.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Just incredible disdain for the profession. Like the Red Sox buying the Savannah Bananas and making Tyler Gillum the manager.

Chellie's been stepping up her game.

You know what the answer to every question in a headline is, right?

For Banned Books Week, I wrote a piece about reading dragon books with my 13yo and how things got…complicated. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

We are completely cooked. www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...

Why can't those people on the left understand how good it feels to dress up like video-game soldiers and administer beatings to innocent folks who happen to look different than me?!? If only they'd walk in my shoes for a mile, they'd know.

This is what happens when you give cowards power.

I mean, yeah, that's Craig Hickman and he's right. All the people dunking on him in the replies are dummies. Dude knows more about the cannabis industry that just about anyone — it's the largest agricultural product in Maine and he's one of the few politicians to take it seriously.

In all the cop shows folks love, there are all these bad guys with guns firing back, and the awesome cops are shooting at them from behind cars, and it's all dangerous and exciting. When do people notice that ICE only comes for people who don't — who can't — right back?

It's official: Speaker Johnson will not bring the House back into session next week. Mr. Speaker: Do your job! Come to the table. Help Democrats reopen the government and protect health care. Swear in Rep. Grijalva. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

This is insanity.

It's crazy that it needs to be said, but even if you know that people are drug dealers actively dealing drugs, 100% for sure, it's not legal to just murder them. Dealing drugs is not a capital offense. You're supposed to, ya know, just try to stop them and arrest them. Otherwise, it's murder.