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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · 1h

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Nirav Shah enters race to become Maine’s next governor

In addition to serving as director of the Maine CDC, Shah, a Democrat, was a top federal health official in the Biden administration and is now a visiting professor at Colby College.

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · 5d

Super mega congrats!

The Maine Millennial @mainemillennial.bsky.social · 5d

He's here!! 6lb 13oz of cuteness. Everyone is happy and healthy.

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · 13d

To play for all teams once owned by or offshoots of, Paul Brown

Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · 14d

Refs in the Bills-Pats game seem so happy calling all those penalties. Glad they are having fun throwing all that bright yellow laundry #SNF

Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · 17d

They should play two regular season games in Portland every year IMHO. One could always be against UNH as UNH is actually closer to Portland than Orono.

Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · 24d

They are the pepperoni rolls of uniforms

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ACOG @acog.org · 27d

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27d

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence

President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence.

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · 29d

Wait he’s still their ST coach? Wow. Left side of line on that FG attempt gave Browns a written invitation to block that kick

Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Sep 19

Hi Dorit, I'm watching this too. Looks like one of the voting recs is to require everyone to get a prescription for a COVID shot, even those 65 and older? That's the way I'm seeing it unless I'm missing something

Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Sep 10

Regarding Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Gov. Janet Mills, (D) a potential Collins challenger, said “I have serious disagreements with many of her votes, but that’s for another day to discuss,” to reporters on Wednesday @rachelohm.bsky.social reporting #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2025/09/10/g...

Gov. Mills mum on reports that she is interviewing staff for a Senate campaign

During a visit to Sanford on Wednesday, the governor said again that she is 'seriously considering' a run for U.S. Senate, but did not address media reports from Washington, D.C., that she is intervie...

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Sep 10

OK, but that still doesn't explain Atlanta Falcons fans. @bomani-jones.bsky.social @tlazarczyk.bsky.social

Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · Sep 10

The great sportswriter Roger Angell made that argument about sports fandom in his article about the 1975 World Series for The New Yorker. And he was right.

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What I do know is that this belonging and caring is what our games are all about; this is what we come for. It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look—I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring—caring deeply and passionately, really caring—which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naïveté—the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball—seems a small price to pay for such a gift.

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Sep 3

Another great column by Press Herald's Leslie Bridgers www.pressherald.com/2025/09/03/m...

Mainers have many different methods for dealing with ticks

Experts say there's only one right way to remove a tick, but what you do with it after is mostly up to you.

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Aug 29

I hear Excalibur is a good one

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kennedy “is trying to fully dismantle the nation’s vaccination apparatus, regardless of what science says or what most people want. And less than a year into his tenure as health secretary, he is succeeding brilliantly.” We are all at deep risk unless we push Congress to actually act. NOW.

Opinion | The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Aug 29

One of several top CDC officials to leave their post this week—after Kennedy fired the agency’s director for refusing to “rubberstamp unscientific, reckless directives"—is telling all.

Including that Kennedy has never been briefed by any of the center’s scientists on major diseases. trib.al/j3PrEDR

CDC Official Makes Shocking Confession About RFK Jr.’s Intel

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in total chaos—and a recently departed leader is telling all.

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Aug 28

"I see no basis for her firing," Collins said of the removal of CDC director Susan Monarez @pressherald.com reporter @rachelohm.bsky.social on scene at Collins event in Old Orchard Beach #mepolitics
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Susan Collins ‘extremely alarmed’ at Trump administration firing of CDC director

Maine's senior senator reacted Thursday to the firing of U.S. CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was let go by the administration this week following a reported clash with Health Secretary Robert F. Kenn...

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Aug 28

Agreed, but I got over it :)

Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know this is not your point, but this flashed me back 35 years to students in college Lit classes debating the prof on obscure points, always beginning w/ a sigh & launching into a 10-minute soliloquy parsing James Joyce. I would think "my tuition is paying for this?" @claricesnarling.bsky.social

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · Aug 27

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Maine Med addressing bat problem in neonatal intensive care unit

Hospital officials say they are working on various measures to prevent "bat incursions"

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Aug 20

A+ content!

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News Guild of Maine @newsguildofmaine.bsky.social · Aug 19

We, the workers of the statewide Maine Trust for Local News are excited to kick off our new campaign to bring the entire company under One Big Union. As our work grows increasingly unified, so should our representation.

It's time to bring the whole company together. Sign out petition here!

Support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News

Under nonprofit ownership, the Maine Trust for Local News is building a business model that could be a roadmap to sustainability for local news organizations across the country. We are here because we...

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Joe Lawlor @joelawlorph.bsky.social · Aug 19

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ICE agents in Maine arrest local pastor who supported immigrant community

Michel Tshimankinda was detained by ICE last week. His family is raising money to try to get him home.

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · Aug 19

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

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