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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 2m

I can't believe these businesses are accepting these ads. (Well, of course I can, because I'm an adult, in the US, in 2025, but it's deeply repulsive.)

Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 6m

Things that are really serious. Like the #TrumpsteinFiles, pray?

Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 17m

You are mistaken, sir, as to my thoughts. Stop trying to put words in my mouth.
This discussion is at an end.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 18m

I know this is a pipe dream, and frankly I'd prefer Graham Platner run for DINO Golden's seat than US Senate - he's got good ideas, some problematic associations in the past (Constellis), but I think the red hats in CD2 would vote for him.
I think Janet should retire and be Maine's elder statesman.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 18m

And really, "have won previous elections" cannot be the primary reason to vote for this or any candidate. I deeply respect our Governor but I don't want her to be our junior Senator. I'd much rather see her take DINO Golden's seat and work with Chellie for real good for Maine and American democracy.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 26m

Explain to me why I should try to have a conversation with someone who believes insulting me, then goes on to demonstrate that his mind is closed to possibilities other than Governor Mills. No thanks.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 46m

failure to vote to impeach tRump, to her failure to use her power as chair of Appropriations to fight back against tRump's and the Junk Drawer's refusal to disburse monies already appropriated, etc. She had the ability to do something about it and failed Mainers by sitting on her goddam hands.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 46m

IMO, we need to demonstrate that, yes, Collins brought money to Maine businesses in the past, but that good is vastly outweighed by her laissez-faire attitude to the reThugs' destruction of American democracy, from her vote to confirm truly awful tRump nominees from Kavanaugh to RFKjr, to her

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1h

Sure, deflect to the ad hominem. What a waste of time insulting - or trying to insult and failing - is.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1h

but they never then seem to get to the yes or the no, and so they appear to both fail to answer the question AND to deflect to some other topic (of course, that does happen, with republicants). Speaking for the sound bite destroys the listeners' understanding of the actual position of the answerer.

Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1h

Regrettably, far too many questioners interrupt, talk over, cut off, etc., whatever justification or explanation is offered, so far too many respondents seem to think they have to get that part in first. Given the way the internet question-and-answer culture is at the moment, it's understandable,

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1h

Some questions genuinely ARE "yes or no" questions. That's not to say the the respondent isn't entitled to, and should be given the opportunity to, explain or justify the answer, but the first part of the answer needs to respond to the question asked, and the explanation, etc., comes after.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 9h

I do like Dunlap.

Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 9h

At least tulip bulbs actually existed in the real world.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 9h

Mass murder.

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Darlene Cypser @darlenecypser.bsky.social · 1d

People often cite the initial lines of the Declaration of Independence but rarely the end:

"we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 21h

It's actually a vulva, but I guess that doesn't scan quite as well. It's necrotic, whatever it's called. JFC. (But I can see why he hates being accurately depicted, given that he is THE VAINEST human presently on the planet.)

Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 21h

Economically hostile. TOTALLY unlike the tRump Tariffs, right? HTFG.

Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 23h

I really don't care, do you?

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1d

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1d

Are you coming to Augusta soon?
Would you do a forum discussion with Mills and Platner?

Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1d

the buckets in the image are full of gasoline.

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1d

No one worth listening to is "attacking Janet Mills". She's been a very acceptable and is a respected Governor, but I'd rather see her challenge our DINO Jared Golden for his seat in Maine's CD2.
Platner would easily appeal to the northern/western Maine conservatives AND CAN GET ELECTED.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Lynn Spann Bowditch @bowreader.bsky.social · 1d

Gershon Baskin, if you knew about this last year, why are you only making it public now? How many lives has your silence cost? Collabos never end well.

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