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This map makes me so happy. Protests this Saturday all over the country! #nokings #handsoff #maineresists #50501
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June 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
June 14 - Be the Tank Man #resist #june14 #maineresists #nokings #handsoff
May 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Thank you @senangusking.bsky.social for standing up for democracy!
Margaret Chase Smith’s words ring more true — and urgent — today than when she first spoke them. Americans should put aside politics and return to what unites us: the Constitution. We can disagree about policy, but we cannot waver on our commitment to our founding principles.
April 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This could never happen in Americ…oh wait, it does everyday now. #handsoff #nokings
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April 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So proud of my Portland peeps. #handsoff #portlandmaine
April 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Oh wait, we didn’t mean to launch that nuclear bomb! You should have checked with us before firing back!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @senangusking.bsky.social for this important history lesson. I appreciate your commitment to our constitution.

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American Conversations: Senator Angus King (I-ME), on Paul Revere's Ride
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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April 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This has got to stop now!
April 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Ask @patagonia.com to stop manufacturing in El Salvador. Their complicity with with Trump administration is inhumane.
“It’s a road map for consumers who are curious about how they can make a difference,” says Fair Trade USA founder Paul Rice. “Ultimately, it’s a book of hope.”
April 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
#handsoff Portland, Maine! Loved this artwork.
April 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Facebook is deleting Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletters…
April 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
WTF is wrong with these people!?! Our government is doing PR about its illegal kidnapping and imprisonment of immigrants, showing how we inhumanely treat them. It’s impossible to not equate this with the Nazis.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Here’s the full text transcript. You decide.
March 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I do not think in the year 2025 that we should continue to accept a reality which sees women paid just $0.75 for every $1 men are paid for doing the same job.

If we want to achieve economic justice in this country — that means equal pay for equal work.
March 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
WOW! Just WOW! The lack of insight and empathy is astounding. So many older people are living month to month.
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Why are Maine State Police calling the Feds on someone pulled over for speeding? Are they required to?
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/19/c...
Feds detain 17-year-old immigrant on his way to work in Maine
A Border Patrol agent told his mother that she has the option to be deported with him. "But he is going to be deported either way.”
www.bangordailynews.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I want to share with you three rules for fighting tyrannical fear and intimidation, gleaned from discussions I’ve had with a number of people who have lived in repressive regimes. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-respond-to-fear-and-intimidation
March 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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March 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Yes a shutdown would have consequences.

And a Republican President, Republican House, and Republican Senate would be responsible.

They have acted in a unilateral and unprecedented way.

Democrats cannot cave. They must fight back.
March 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I find "listen to the women" excellent advice in this specific case and... in life in general. ♀️

#VoteNO 👎
March 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I'm voting NO.
March 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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If Republicans want a partisan power grab for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they won’t be getting any help from me.
March 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Part two:
March 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM