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It's Pre-Turkey Tuesday, Mainers!
Time to prep for Thanksgiving
Cloudy, high 49º, SW wind
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MAINE RESISTANCE
TUES, NOV 25, 2025
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#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#RESIST
REPOST & SHARE!
Updated NOV 25, 5:50AM
#Maine #MEpolitics
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Time to prep for Thanksgiving
Cloudy, high 49º, SW wind
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MAINE RESISTANCE
TUES, NOV 25, 2025
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#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#RESIST
REPOST & SHARE!
Updated NOV 25, 5:50AM
#Maine #MEpolitics
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Labeling Susan Collins a "coward" is far too generous. It implies that she would do better by Mainers if she wasn't scared of some mysterious force.
The reality is that Collins unabashedly votes for her beliefs. And those beliefs align with Trump 96% of the time. Vote her out.
#mepolitics
The reality is that Collins unabashedly votes for her beliefs. And those beliefs align with Trump 96% of the time. Vote her out.
#mepolitics
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Maine consistently ranks among the nation's leaders in voter turnout & strong civic participation.
The Guardian wants to hear from those of us motivated to organize, protest or become more involved this year; to tell our stories & share ways that individuals have initiated movements.
#MEpolitics
The Guardian wants to hear from those of us motivated to organize, protest or become more involved this year; to tell our stories & share ways that individuals have initiated movements.
#MEpolitics
People in the US: Have you gotten involved in activism or community organizing this year?
If you’ve been motivated to organize, protest or become more involved in politics, we’d like to hear from you
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Maine consistently ranks among the nation's leaders in voter turnout & strong civic participation.
The Guardian wants to hear from those of us motivated to organize, protest or become more involved this year; to tell our stories & share ways that individuals have initiated movements.
#MEpolitics
The Guardian wants to hear from those of us motivated to organize, protest or become more involved this year; to tell our stories & share ways that individuals have initiated movements.
#MEpolitics
@gtconway.bsky.social discusses Trump's sociopathy with @marcelias.bsky.social on @democracydocket.com.
Talk about two major influencers with solid history in American politics.
And yeah, say it loud America, "Trump is off his f*cking rocker and is evil."
Talk about two major influencers with solid history in American politics.
And yeah, say it loud America, "Trump is off his f*cking rocker and is evil."
“Donald Trump is a sociopath. Donald Trump is evil. Donald Trump is trying to destroy democracy because he only thinks of himself. These things are all inescapably true”
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@gtconway.bsky.social discusses Trump's sociopathy with @marcelias.bsky.social on @democracydocket.com.
Talk about two major influencers with solid history in American politics.
And yeah, say it loud America, "Trump is off his f*cking rocker and is evil."
Talk about two major influencers with solid history in American politics.
And yeah, say it loud America, "Trump is off his f*cking rocker and is evil."
Maine Governor and candidate for US Senate Janet Mills announces support for universal health care and calls on President Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.
#MEpolitics #Maine #JanetMills
#MEpolitics #Maine #JanetMills
11/24 As America’s health insurance crisis worsens, Maine Governor Janet Mills announces support for universal health care and calls on President Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits #maine #MEpolitics
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Maine Governor and candidate for US Senate Janet Mills announces support for universal health care and calls on President Trump to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.
#MEpolitics #Maine #JanetMills
#MEpolitics #Maine #JanetMills
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Elders Across the Country
Are Making A Difference
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American seniors grew up during the 60s and massive nationwide anti-war protests. Many of us have never stopped being involved in community and effecting positive change.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
Elders Across the Country
Are Making A Difference
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American seniors grew up during the 60s and massive nationwide anti-war protests. Many of us have never stopped being involved in community and effecting positive change.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Big PAC money, again, pulling puppet's strings and unfairly influencing elections.
$4Million, Heritage Foundation, Dark Money, Laurel Libby.
There is nothing good or wholesome about this.
$4Million, Heritage Foundation, Dark Money, Laurel Libby.
There is nothing good or wholesome about this.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Big PAC money, again, pulling puppet's strings and unfairly influencing elections.
$4Million, Heritage Foundation, Dark Money, Laurel Libby.
There is nothing good or wholesome about this.
$4Million, Heritage Foundation, Dark Money, Laurel Libby.
There is nothing good or wholesome about this.
The Guardian on the WE AIN'T BUYING IT boycott.
Organized by groups behind the No Kings protests, asking Americans to stop shopping at Target, Home Depot & Amazon from Black Fri > Cyber Monday, while also encouraging people to shop local and support community businesses.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
Organized by groups behind the No Kings protests, asking Americans to stop shopping at Target, Home Depot & Amazon from Black Fri > Cyber Monday, while also encouraging people to shop local and support community businesses.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
What is the latest Black Friday boycott – and will it work?
While others scramble for deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, activists hope to leverage shopping behavior for societal change
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It's Pre-Turkey Tuesday, Mainers!
Time to prep for Thanksgiving
Cloudy, high 49º, SW wind
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MAINE RESISTANCE
TUES, NOV 25, 2025
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#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#RESIST
REPOST & SHARE!
Updated NOV 25, 5:50AM
#Maine #MEpolitics
p1/2
Time to prep for Thanksgiving
Cloudy, high 49º, SW wind
===============
MAINE RESISTANCE
TUES, NOV 25, 2025
===============
#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#RESIST
REPOST & SHARE!
Updated NOV 25, 5:50AM
#Maine #MEpolitics
p1/2
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's Pre-Turkey Tuesday, Mainers!
Time to prep for Thanksgiving
Cloudy, high 49º, SW wind
===============
MAINE RESISTANCE
TUES, NOV 25, 2025
===============
#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#RESIST
REPOST & SHARE!
Updated NOV 25, 5:50AM
#Maine #MEpolitics
p1/2
Time to prep for Thanksgiving
Cloudy, high 49º, SW wind
===============
MAINE RESISTANCE
TUES, NOV 25, 2025
===============
#NonViolenceIsPower
#EveryEffortCounts
#RESIST
REPOST & SHARE!
Updated NOV 25, 5:50AM
#Maine #MEpolitics
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In the Rangeley Lakes region of western Maine, an ambitious effort is underway to conserve tens of thousands of acres in historic #Wabanaki territory.
The Magalloway Conservation Initiative aims to safeguard woods and wildlife while also protecting public access to the region.
#Maine #conservation
The Magalloway Conservation Initiative aims to safeguard woods and wildlife while also protecting public access to the region.
#Maine #conservation
'Once in a generation' opportunity protects wildlife, working forest and recreation in western Maine
What if there was a large landscape in northern New England where animals could migrate in a warming climate? Where development was prohibited but sustainable forestry was still allowed? Where outdoor...
www.mainepublic.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In the Rangeley Lakes region of western Maine, an ambitious effort is underway to conserve tens of thousands of acres in historic #Wabanaki territory.
The Magalloway Conservation Initiative aims to safeguard woods and wildlife while also protecting public access to the region.
#Maine #conservation
The Magalloway Conservation Initiative aims to safeguard woods and wildlife while also protecting public access to the region.
#Maine #conservation
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The Trump Administration is making the shortage of physicians worse, and health care more expensive.
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The Trump Administration is making the shortage of physicians worse, and health care more expensive.
Well now. . .
"Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students" – in today's Bangor Daily News.
"Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students" – in today's Bangor Daily News.
In case anyone is wondering what kind of campaign Collins intends to run next year, now we know. No achievements, only hate:
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students
Collins' office said she signed onto the petition because she agrees with President Donald Trump’s interpretation of Title IX.
www.bangordailynews.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Well now. . .
"Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students" – in today's Bangor Daily News.
"Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students" – in today's Bangor Daily News.
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Google and Palantir shouldn’t exist. It’s long past time to break them up.
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Google and Palantir shouldn’t exist. It’s long past time to break them up.
Reposted by Pine Tree Activism📎
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NOV 27 - DEC 1, 2025
WE AIN'T BUYING IT!
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Nationwide Boycott of Target, Amazon, & Home Depot
Learn why & how to take action: weaintbuyingit.com
#WeAintBuyingIt
**SHOP LOCAL – ALL DAY, EVERY DAY**
It builds community & builds local economy.
#ShopLocal
NOV 27 - DEC 1, 2025
WE AIN'T BUYING IT!
================
Nationwide Boycott of Target, Amazon, & Home Depot
Learn why & how to take action: weaintbuyingit.com
#WeAintBuyingIt
**SHOP LOCAL – ALL DAY, EVERY DAY**
It builds community & builds local economy.
#ShopLocal
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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NOV 27 - DEC 1, 2025
WE AIN'T BUYING IT!
================
Nationwide Boycott of Target, Amazon, & Home Depot
Learn why & how to take action: weaintbuyingit.com
#WeAintBuyingIt
**SHOP LOCAL – ALL DAY, EVERY DAY**
It builds community & builds local economy.
#ShopLocal
NOV 27 - DEC 1, 2025
WE AIN'T BUYING IT!
================
Nationwide Boycott of Target, Amazon, & Home Depot
Learn why & how to take action: weaintbuyingit.com
#WeAintBuyingIt
**SHOP LOCAL – ALL DAY, EVERY DAY**
It builds community & builds local economy.
#ShopLocal
Not to mention the massive data centers needed by AI.
Far as I'm concerned, it is bad all the way around.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
Far as I'm concerned, it is bad all the way around.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
I'm not a "you need to..." kind of guy, but jeezum, AI–with its massive, polluting, neighborhood-killing data centers–is predicted to consume up to 15% of the nation's energy within 5 yrs.
We need to stop this tech oligarch caused madness.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
We need to stop this tech oligarch caused madness.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
AI is going to consume 13-15% of the nation's energy in 3-5 years. For what? For what?
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Let's hope it's a giant red wave of exits.
BIG BREAKING NEWS: 👇
More republicans plan to follow MTG’s lead and retire early before midterms to intentionally hand power of The House of Representatives back to the Democrats early…
Trump is totally FUCKED!
Enjoy. 😎🤚
More republicans plan to follow MTG’s lead and retire early before midterms to intentionally hand power of The House of Representatives back to the Democrats early…
Trump is totally FUCKED!
Enjoy. 😎🤚
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Let's hope it's a giant red wave of exits.
I'm not a "you need to..." kind of guy, but jeezum, AI–with its massive, polluting, neighborhood-killing data centers–is predicted to consume up to 15% of the nation's energy within 5 yrs.
We need to stop this tech oligarch caused madness.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
We need to stop this tech oligarch caused madness.
#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
AI is going to consume 13-15% of the nation's energy in 3-5 years. For what? For what?
AI Data Center Mania is 'Epic Bubble,' Says Brad Conger
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Don Christen was a prime example of using one's ability to organize and educate around an issue to effect positive change.
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said: "It's the organizers who are gonna save us. Find someone who organizes better than you, and do that thing, too."
#Maine #MEpolitics
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said: "It's the organizers who are gonna save us. Find someone who organizes better than you, and do that thing, too."
#Maine #MEpolitics
Maine's best known marijuana advocate Don Christen, dies at 72
In 1989, Christen founded Maine Vocals — a grassroots organization dedicated to ending marijuana prohibition. The group started protests, music festivals and was a force behind a state referendum in 1...
www.mainepublic.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Don Christen was a prime example of using one's ability to organize and educate around an issue to effect positive change.
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said: "It's the organizers who are gonna save us. Find someone who organizes better than you, and do that thing, too."
#Maine #MEpolitics
As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said: "It's the organizers who are gonna save us. Find someone who organizes better than you, and do that thing, too."
#Maine #MEpolitics
Who else has the feeling this is going to be a dramatic frikkin' holiday due to our gov't's current war madness?
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Who else has the feeling this is going to be a dramatic frikkin' holiday due to our gov't's current war madness?
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USAF B-52 PAPPY12 entered the Gulf before turning around heading north. May have been a practice run or trying to throw off flight watchers like the Iran pre strike movements.-Intel Frog on X
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
USAF B-52 PAPPY12 entered the Gulf before turning around heading north. May have been a practice run or trying to throw off flight watchers like the Iran pre strike movements.-Intel Frog on X
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Live now! Join me on Thinking Live, with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social, talking US, Russia, and Ukraine
snyder.substack.com/live-stream/...
snyder.substack.com/live-stream/...
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Live now! Join me on Thinking Live, with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social, talking US, Russia, and Ukraine
snyder.substack.com/live-stream/...
snyder.substack.com/live-stream/...
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I wish I could say that this is unbelievable, but its actually exactly what I expect from this regime.
The Pentagon is going to investigate Mark Kelly for...stressing the importance of following the UCMJ?
apnews.com/article/pent...
The Pentagon is going to investigate Mark Kelly for...stressing the importance of following the UCMJ?
apnews.com/article/pent...
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. t...
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I wish I could say that this is unbelievable, but its actually exactly what I expect from this regime.
The Pentagon is going to investigate Mark Kelly for...stressing the importance of following the UCMJ?
apnews.com/article/pent...
The Pentagon is going to investigate Mark Kelly for...stressing the importance of following the UCMJ?
apnews.com/article/pent...
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This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
Reposted by Pine Tree Activism📎
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
How much of this is because Musk/DOGE got what they wanted, both in data harvesting from multiple agencies and revenge against USAID.
How soon we forget.
How soon we forget.
The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How much of this is because Musk/DOGE got what they wanted, both in data harvesting from multiple agencies and revenge against USAID.
How soon we forget.
How soon we forget.
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When he was governor, Paul LePage gutted working-class Mainers and then flew off to his luxury Florida beach home.
Maine is done with politicians who put billionaires before working families.
Paul — do Mainers a favor: go home to Florida for good.
Maine is done with politicians who put billionaires before working families.
Paul — do Mainers a favor: go home to Florida for good.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When he was governor, Paul LePage gutted working-class Mainers and then flew off to his luxury Florida beach home.
Maine is done with politicians who put billionaires before working families.
Paul — do Mainers a favor: go home to Florida for good.
Maine is done with politicians who put billionaires before working families.
Paul — do Mainers a favor: go home to Florida for good.