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“Many universities have engaged in what scholars call anticipatory obedience, which is to eliminate still-lawful policies and practices I think out of the very misguided hope that somehow it will keep the Trump administration off their back,” said Johnathan Feingold, a Boston University School of Law professor who studies antidiscrimination law. “And I think it does reflect that the commitments we’ve seen to diversity, equity and inclusions have always been somewhat shallow on universities.”

May 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM

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Lol it's funny to me this sticker is on a car with Illinois plates?

Car seen in Maine with Illinois plates and a red bumper sticker that reads "save a lobster, boil a tourist"

May 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM

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It was great to see governor Janet Mills speak at the Maine tourism conference today. I have a lot of respect for how she's standing up against and resisting Trump's regime. A solid 90% of the crowd stood up to give her a standing ovation. It's nice to see the support in real time!

Maine governor, Janet Mills, stands at a podium giving a speech at the Maine Governor's Conference on Tourism in Bangor, Maine.

April 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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I love this headline.

MAINE OFFICIALS REFUSE TO SIGN TRUMP AGREEMENT.

www.pressherald.com/2025/03/27/m...

March 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM

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I think it's cute that my dad loves to send me videos of sunsets 🥲

March 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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I love that the snow has melted enough, so I can see the bright green moss again 💚

March 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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The stream, high and rushing, after a couple days of melting snow and ice.

March 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM

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Oooh don't fucking mess with us! Y'all about to fuck around and find out. We're not the cornered prey Trump thinks we are. I believe in the resiliency and supportive communities of Maine. We're going to love each other and support each other like you've never seen before

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March 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM

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MORE !

March 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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I think about this a lot as someone whose job is to promote tourism at a Natl Park. It brings jobs and $$ to the community, but at what cost? It seems like every year they manage to cram more and more people into a small island town. Do u think about those ripples?

Land Sickness by Nikolaj Schultz

Unable to pass through, I turn around and look back towards the ocean. My gaze wanders from the mainland on the other side and back to the old woman, whom I can still glimpse beneath the cliffs. Perhaps her story is more complicated than this one-sided narrative of loss. Chances are that, as one of the island's inhabitants, her economic conditions depend on me and the tourism destroying her land. Just as the problems follow me regardless of the choices I make, perhaps her life too is caught in an irresolvable riddle between survival and destruction, between gain and loss. This must be enough to render any sane soul crazy: knowing that the land belonging to you and your successors is disappearing, while being aware that this vanishing, due to economic and territorial organization, secures your way of life. An excerpt from Land Sickness by Nikolaj Schultz

March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Land Sickness by Nikolaj Schultz is sooooo good and I'm only a few pages in. A fictionalized travelogue of living through climate change.

February 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM

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Good morning! 🌞 Some poetry by fellow Mainer Edna St Vincent Millay. Edna was born in Rockland in 1892

Recuerdo

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

We were very tired, we were very merry
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

February 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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We've seen this beautiful owl two days in a row, now. Such soulful eyes and so gosh darn fluffy!

Beautiful barred owl with soulful eyes rests on a homemade fencepost on a snowy day.

February 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM

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Followed some coyote tracks to a cool little ice bridge. You can see them cross it and also some fun bird imprints!

Snowy scene along a stream with tall pine trees and coyote tracks

Ice forms a small bridge across a stream

Coyote prints in the snow and some bird imprints.

Close up of the bird imprints, wings outstretched

February 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Found a $650 Johnstons of Elgin cashmere sweater at goodwill for $15. Realized there was a hole in the elbow, so I bought some cashmere thread on Etsy for $7 and the match is pretty perfect for my mend! Weeee! Thrift, mend, repurpose! 🩷