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Like a crow, except I collect shiny info about Maine, New England, color, writing, cats, social justice, rural life, art+design, democracy & neurodiversity. She/Her 🥄😷🏳️‍🌈+ ♾️🌲♠️🍉🌻🌊🟧🐈‍⬛🐈🖤💜🤍🩶 🇺🇸❌👑❌🇺🇸

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 4d

🗳️ Voter Forum on Ballot Question 1 in Rockland 🗳️

This November, #Maine voters will be asked to vote on Ballot Question 1, legislation that—if enacted—would restrict absentee voting and make it more difficult for all Mainers to exercise their right to vote.

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Flyer advertising a Voter Forum on Maine’s Ballot Question 1

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2h

Happy Columbo's Day! Celebrate by doing one more thing on your personal to-do list, even if that thing is just watching your favorite episode.

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 2h

‼️DIRIGO, Vote NO on 1 ‼️
No unnecessary barriers to voting. Don’t modify our trusted election laws. #MEPolitics #Maine

Yellow hand-lettered lawn sign staked in grass with view of road, trees and shrubs in the background

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 3h

🇺🇸🌟VOTE NO on QUESTION 1🌟🇺🇸
‼️Protect Maine Voting Rights‼️

There’s no good reason for 27 restrictive changes to our election laws. We should be making it easier—not harder—for Maine citizens to exercise their right to vote 🗳️

Chalking on a sidewalk reading
⭐️NO on 1⭐️
VOTING RIGHTS
ARE ON THE LINE

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 3h

Knowing is half the battle! #Maine

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 19h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 16h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 15h

Hey friends! Come pick up a free, hand-lettered “No on 1” sign for your lawn at the Rockland #Maine Farmers Market on Thursday morning, 10/16. Several different designs….first come, first served 🪧🪧🪧 https//www.rocklan...

Yellow lawn sign, colorfully hand-lettered to read
NO ON
KEEP
VOTING
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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 15h

Hello #Maine — where will YOU be on Saturday 10/18 for the next No Kings protest? ❌👑❌ FMI NoKings.org and ActivateMaine.com

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 15h

If you read the comments on Maine Question 1, you realize the # of people who believe “voter fraud” = rampant, who think elections = chaotic, + say ranked choice voting = allowing citizens to vote multiple times ≠ 0. Bold of ‘em to think it’s convincing 🙄 Voter suppression is immoral & undemocratic!

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 14d

Antifa legend Wood Guthrie, "Tear the Fascists Down"

"Good people, what are we waiting on?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3xU...

Tear The Facists Down

YouTube video by Woody Guthrie - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 17h

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low.”

Gee, I wonder why?

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Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 20h

"Business leaders – panicked to the point of paranoia about a candidate whose most radical position seems to be 'free bus fares' and not, you know, 'seize the means of production' or 'wheel out the guillotines' – will surely salt the earth out of spite, but they'll just be hurting themselves."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Jude 🌈, Simon 🐈‍⬛, Jolene 🐈, Flower 🐈‍⬛, Rachel 😷🏳️‍🌈 @rachelgoes262.bsky.social · 1d

This time last year, I would post Flower on “stray cat Sunday” saying how I wanted to trap her before Halloween to keep her safe (didn’t happen until Nov).

She was the last cat I needed to get to safety so we could move.

Now she is a beloved family member who gets bedtime stories every night.

Flower is a black and white cat. We see her from behind. She is looking at a Frog and Toad book that is being read to her in bed.

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

🗳️ You are invited! 🗳️

#Maine #MEPolitics

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Trump posted a drawing of the arch in a wordless Truth Social post overnight Friday.

Trump Teases Apparently Huge Triumphal Arch Across From Lincoln Memorial

Trump posted a drawing of the arch in a wordless Truth Social post overnight Friday.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 2d

‼️ 40% of registered voters (~350,000 people) used absentee voting in 2024 and 60% of seniors ‼️

P.S. The #Maine Secretary of State’s office estimated the voter ID requirement would cost the state more than $1.3 million the first fiscal year and about $156,000 every following year💲💲💲

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 2d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.