Will Hayward
@willhayward.bsky.social
Maine policy and politics, elections, and minor league baseball.
C'mon Senator King, Republicans can do anyways if they want to! They don't because the stuff they'd pass without the filibuster is hugely unpopular, and the stuff Democrats would pass without the filibuster is hugely popular. bsky.app/profile/robi...
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
C'mon Senator King, Republicans can do anyways if they want to! They don't because the stuff they'd pass without the filibuster is hugely unpopular, and the stuff Democrats would pass without the filibuster is hugely popular. bsky.app/profile/robi...
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"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
No, *you're* the one checking the Maine Aurora Borealis Watch FB group every 3 minutes.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
No, *you're* the one checking the Maine Aurora Borealis Watch FB group every 3 minutes.
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I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Simply gotta give it up for the cosmos
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Simply gotta give it up for the cosmos
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US senators will say anything. "Standing up to donald trump gave him more power." No it didn't. That isn't true.
This is what bullies want you to think, and it's why they get stronger
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
US senators will say anything. "Standing up to donald trump gave him more power." No it didn't. That isn't true.
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Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
They're so mad he won a majority so there's no straight-faced way to try and say he has no mandate bsky.app/profile/mich...
Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
They're so mad he won a majority so there's no straight-faced way to try and say he has no mandate bsky.app/profile/mich...
Growing up in VA and working on a VA state house campaign in 2019, where we are now has seemed unimaginable for so long. bsky.app/profile/tani...
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Growing up in VA and working on a VA state house campaign in 2019, where we are now has seemed unimaginable for so long. bsky.app/profile/tani...
Don't look away. bsky.app/profile/radl...
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Don't look away. bsky.app/profile/radl...
It is truly stunning how often national commentators get basic things about Maine politics wrong, including what the candidates themselves are actually saying!
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It is truly stunning how often national commentators get basic things about Maine politics wrong, including what the candidates themselves are actually saying!
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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It’s worth thinking today of all the elections you *aren’t* hearing about because they were unopposed. In so many sheriff and prosecutor offices in particular, including in blue-ish or even solidly blue areas, “tough-on-crime” folks often reign for many years without ever being challenged.
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It’s worth thinking today of all the elections you *aren’t* hearing about because they were unopposed. In so many sheriff and prosecutor offices in particular, including in blue-ish or even solidly blue areas, “tough-on-crime” folks often reign for many years without ever being challenged.
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A massive result: Maine voters have rejected Question 1, a ballot measure that would have restricted mail voting and put into place strict new voter ID requirements. This outcome was no sure thing heading into tonight. The measure’s failure preserves current voter access in Maine, as 2026 looms.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A massive result: Maine voters have rejected Question 1, a ballot measure that would have restricted mail voting and put into place strict new voter ID requirements. This outcome was no sure thing heading into tonight. The measure’s failure preserves current voter access in Maine, as 2026 looms.
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Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
The definition of not meeting the moment: the Democratic leader of the Senate refusing to say whether he voted for the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor. bsky.app/profile/jben...
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The definition of not meeting the moment: the Democratic leader of the Senate refusing to say whether he voted for the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor. bsky.app/profile/jben...
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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
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No one should have to put up with this shit but in particular kids should not have to put up with this shit
Indoor trick-or-treat events. Candy dropoffs. Neighbors patrolling with whistles.
This is how Chicagoans are helping kids have a safe and ICE-free Halloween this year: blockclubchi.co/47qJSzi.
This is how Chicagoans are helping kids have a safe and ICE-free Halloween this year: blockclubchi.co/47qJSzi.
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
No one should have to put up with this shit but in particular kids should not have to put up with this shit
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once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
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sometimes when the process of what most of all to play out, of which is important. and what i'd all which to do, is take at the entire thing and in due time when it's the situation of what's ahead. after all of together i have many times said, let's just going on
Asked why he's refused to endorse Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries replies: "I have not refused to endorse; I have refused to articulate my position"
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
sometimes when the process of what most of all to play out, of which is important. and what i'd all which to do, is take at the entire thing and in due time when it's the situation of what's ahead. after all of together i have many times said, let's just going on
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Voting "is the last thing that gives us some type of responsibility,” said Foster Bates, president of the Maine State Prison chapter of the NAACP. He warned that Question 1 could strip incarcerated people of that right. Story by @themainemonitor.org.
Question 1 could stop Maine prisoners from voting - Maine Beacon
Some civil rights advocates are worried that Question 1 on next month’s referendum ballot could block incarcerated people’s right to vote. The coalition Voter ID for ME successfully petitioned through...
mainebeacon.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Voting "is the last thing that gives us some type of responsibility,” said Foster Bates, president of the Maine State Prison chapter of the NAACP. He warned that Question 1 could strip incarcerated people of that right. Story by @themainemonitor.org.
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Been a few years, we’re bringing back the Halloween display name 🎃👻
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Been a few years, we’re bringing back the Halloween display name 🎃👻
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this is why I voted for kodos
October 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
this is why I voted for kodos