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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 16m

This is an outrageous violation of civil rights.

Maine Morning Star @mainemorningstar.com · 36m

Maine State Prison absentee ballot breakdown underscores challenges for voting while incarcerated mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/03/m...

Maine State Prison absentee ballot breakdown underscores challenges for voting while incarcerated • Maine Morning Star

Several people who are incarcerated in Maine’s largest prison said they didn’t receive their absentee ballots from corrections staff until Friday, Oct. 31, though the materials arrived at the…

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 5h

Under the Eisenhower administration, the top marginal tax rate was 91 percent.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5h

"The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide."

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

www.theguardian.com

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egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · 12h

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 5h

The transcript of the full conversation is pretty newsworthy, I think. Even if just the part about him believing other countries are blowing up nuclear warheads underground.

www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.

www.cbsnews.com

Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 5h

Minorly surprised that Bari let CBS publish this whole transcript, but here it is. I'm only at the part where Trump believes lots of countries are detonating nuclear warheads underground, but ... hoo-boy!

www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.

www.cbsnews.com

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 1d

There are ways of saying that it's automatically disqualifying. I agree with you, but I don't have a vote. Not my party.

Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 2d

This administration is telling people loudly and clearly that they think they can kill whomever they want whenever they want. It's incredible how confident some people are that the administration will never want to kill them. Good luck!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 2d

Lemme guess: They're going to reduce the tax burden, help small businesses, reduce regulations, and run government more like a business?

Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 2d

The BDN asked each candidate about how they would address four key issues: homelessness, housing, municipal spending and public safety.

We asked City Council candidates about the biggest issues facing Bangor. Here’s what they said.

www.bangordailynews.com

Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 2d

This is almost definitely the case. When I see the really hyperbolic shit, I ask myself, "do I know a Mainer who acts/thinks/talks like this?" And the reason I love Maine is that I've been here long enough that I feel like I've met just about all the types of Mainers, and some of these ain't them.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 2d

Also noticed at least two adult men in costume with their own bag taking candy. C'mon, man.

Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 2d

But also one kid had an American flag wrapped around a pillow strapped to his stomach and when I asked him what he was he said: "childhood obesity."

He got extra candy.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 2d

We live in the sticks, and have for the past 25 years, so I've basically never had a trick or treater. But last night we went to our friends' house and I got to do the candy-handing-out and it's the most fun thing ever.

SO MANY K-POP DEMON HUNTERS.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 2d

Seems kinda bad!

Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 4d

Window shopping for 2026 ACA marketplace plans is open for almost all states, and open enrollment is only days away. Millions of marketplace enrollees are seeing 2026 premiums spike due to expiring premium tax credits. See our paper with state-level estimates: tinyurl.com/zndd97k7

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Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, look, we've made it on to the app owned by the guy who likes AI-driven fighting machines! Score!

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 3d

Facebook's newest suggested reel. What a cancer on society that place is. Just a haven for the worst among us.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3d

This is crushing. Decades of cool uniform stuff nobody else covered, gone

I remember thinking the internet would be better at preserving work than the pre-digital age, and it feels increasingly clear the opposite is true

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 3d

#mepolitics

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 3d

This pub is becoming must-read as the purge of anyone with a conscience working in our military seems to be ramping up.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 3d

Marine Corps fires senior officers and top enlisted leader of Osprey squadron trib.al/SFyV7rr

Marine Corps fires senior officers and top enlisted leader of Osprey squadron

The commanding officer, executive officer, and senior enlisted leader of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268 were all fired.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 3d

Holy smokes. Literally nauseating. How can people look at this shit and think it's ... good?

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 3d

Journalist and the media are so broken that the Economist feels the need to post this trolling click-bait garbage. God, it's depressing.

The Economist @economist.com · 4d

There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles

Trump 2028

There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles

econ.st

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 4d

Beverly Farms, MA bookshop news!

Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 4d

Hannah's here to introduce the new pod. Find it here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 4d

Hannah's here to introduce the new pod. Find it here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 4d

But even if that person is just a bad person, who has everything they could ever need and is still a total dickface, they don't deserve to freeze and starve. No one does.

I think that's baked into just about every philosophy and religion known to humanity, but still seems to elude much of the U.S.

Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 4d

I don't really think there are all that many lazy, good-for-nothing, jerk-faced malcontents, honestly. I think just about all people are "good" when they are able to meet their basic needs as humans. Most "bad" behavior is at root a result of fear and shame and desperation.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 4d

All of these articles about "we triple-pinky-swear that all these SNAP folks have jobs!" are so depressing.

It's crazy how many people have internalized shit like "lazy people deserve to freeze and starve." Even lazy, good-for-nothing, jerk-faced malcontents don't deserve to freeze and starve.

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