Zafra Whitcomb
@zafraw.bsky.social
Mainer, dad, data nerd, unrepentant progressive, theater and film enthusiast, reader of banned books, craft beer-friendly. Likes and reposts ≠ endorsements. Crypto and thirst accounts will be blocked.
Thank you, Mr. Stoppard, for pushing the world of the stage to its greatest heights of the last sixty years.
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The Language of Tom Stoppard, Ablaze With Energy and Urgency
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November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thank you, Mr. Stoppard, for pushing the world of the stage to its greatest heights of the last sixty years.
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Please help support But Still I Am One, or a similar organization in your community. #YouthHomeless #Unhoused #HousingInsecure #Homeless #Homelessness www.midcoastvillager.com/news/health/...
'You Can’t See it, But it’s There:' Waldo County Confronts Teen Homelessness
Across rural Maine, young people without stable housing are forced to sleep in spare bedrooms, parked cars, and borrowed sofas.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Please help support But Still I Am One, or a similar organization in your community. #YouthHomeless #Unhoused #HousingInsecure #Homeless #Homelessness www.midcoastvillager.com/news/health/...
Thank you, Maine voters #ProtectVotingRights #GunSafety
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Thank you, Maine voters #ProtectVotingRights #GunSafety
Maintaining a family tradition #Vote #IVotedToday
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Maintaining a family tradition #Vote #IVotedToday
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Immigration lawyer Aaron Reichlin-Melnick commented: 'Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?'"
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October 10, 2025
All of President Donald J.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Immigration lawyer Aaron Reichlin-Melnick commented: 'Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?'"
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I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Graham in Belfast! Town Hall at The American Legion” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai...
Graham in Belfast! Town Hall at The American Legion · Graham for Maine
BELFAST: I'm coming to you. We'll be at The American Legion from 6:00pm-7:00pm on Wednesday, Oct. 8th. I hope you'll come and check out this movement we're building to defeat Susan Collins and her mul...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Graham in Belfast! Town Hall at The American Legion” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai...
"It's like a muscle, belonging to a community. If you leave it for too long, it atrophies. You forget you were ever able to greet your neighbor. The world is full of strangers forever closed off to you ... I do not condone violence, but I do not condemn my people ...
September 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"It's like a muscle, belonging to a community. If you leave it for too long, it atrophies. You forget you were ever able to greet your neighbor. The world is full of strangers forever closed off to you ... I do not condone violence, but I do not condemn my people ...
"En boca cerrada no entran moscas"
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April 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"En boca cerrada no entran moscas"
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Winning bigly... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Donald Trump is speedrunning the history of presidential scandals
From Teapot Dome to his own prior impeachment, there are historical echoes to Trump’s brewing scandals.
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March 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Winning bigly... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Maine peeps - you must see this show!
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[Belfast Maskers'] first play of 2025, "Becky’s New Car" is a high-octane comedy by an acclaimed playwright. The run continues through March 16th at the Basil Burwell Community Theater (17 Court Street in Belfast).
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[Belfast Maskers'] first play of 2025, "Becky’s New Car" is a high-octane comedy by an acclaimed playwright. The run continues through March 16th at the Basil Burwell Community Theater (17 Court Street in Belfast).
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March 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Maine peeps - you must see this show!
belfastmaskers.com/.../beckys-n....
[Belfast Maskers'] first play of 2025, "Becky’s New Car" is a high-octane comedy by an acclaimed playwright. The run continues through March 16th at the Basil Burwell Community Theater (17 Court Street in Belfast).
belfastmaskers.com/.../beckys-n....
[Belfast Maskers'] first play of 2025, "Becky’s New Car" is a high-octane comedy by an acclaimed playwright. The run continues through March 16th at the Basil Burwell Community Theater (17 Court Street in Belfast).
"Musk will reinvent the US government in the way that the hyperloop reinvented trains, that the Boring company reinvented subways, that Juicero reinvented squeezing."
#StopTheCoup #BuildTheResistence
#StopTheCoup #BuildTheResistence
“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
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February 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Musk will reinvent the US government in the way that the hyperloop reinvented trains, that the Boring company reinvented subways, that Juicero reinvented squeezing."
#StopTheCoup #BuildTheResistence
#StopTheCoup #BuildTheResistence
#Project2025 Destroying our capacity for innovation and economic growth and crippling our national security and public safety infrastructure. That's a heck of an own goal...
#BuildTheResistence #StopTheCoup
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#BuildTheResistence #StopTheCoup
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February 8, 2025
Yesterday the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration announced a new policy that will dramatically change the way the United States funds medical research.
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February 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#Project2025 Destroying our capacity for innovation and economic growth and crippling our national security and public safety infrastructure. That's a heck of an own goal...
#BuildTheResistence #StopTheCoup
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#BuildTheResistence #StopTheCoup
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We’re looking to document changes in the physical appearances of federal buildings during the transition to the Trump administration. Use this form to send us photos of what you’ve seen.
Send Us Photos of Changes to Federal Buildings
We’re documenting how federal buildings are changing during the transition to the new government.
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February 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We’re looking to document changes in the physical appearances of federal buildings during the transition to the Trump administration. Use this form to send us photos of what you’ve seen.
Reposted by Zafra Whitcomb
Reposted by Zafra Whitcomb
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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The Audacity, a local group organizing Creative Action Together, starts weekly community singing protests this Saturday at Noon in Rockland. We welcome all opposed to the bigotry, corruption, and fascism of Trump and his minions. Gather at Chapman Park (Park and Main) every Saturday. [1/4]
February 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Audacity, a local group organizing Creative Action Together, starts weekly community singing protests this Saturday at Noon in Rockland. We welcome all opposed to the bigotry, corruption, and fascism of Trump and his minions. Gather at Chapman Park (Park and Main) every Saturday. [1/4]
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Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
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My reaction to the Feb 5h rally: wp.me/p2mf8z-11E
About Infiltrators and “Bad Actors” in Maine political rallies Feb 6th 2025
Normally I would post this directly to one of the political FaceBook pages in the area, but these blogs get more staying power if posted here. In case you have been hibernating in a hollow log in t…
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February 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
My reaction to the Feb 5h rally: wp.me/p2mf8z-11E
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Claudette Colvin wanted to share her story of standing up to Jim Crow laws in the 1950s with young people today. Maine author Phillip Hoose helped her do it.
Maine writer and civil rights pioneer team up on new kids’ book
Phillip Hoose collaborated on 'Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.
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February 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Claudette Colvin wanted to share her story of standing up to Jim Crow laws in the 1950s with young people today. Maine author Phillip Hoose helped her do it.
