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Mainers:
BALM is offering a FREE street medic bridge training for people with medical experience (EMT/WFR and above) this Friday, Feb. 6, in Orono. Meals will be provided. If you're interested, please comment or DM me and I'll get you the link. It's 6 hours, meals provided.
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BALM is offering a FREE street medic bridge training for people with medical experience (EMT/WFR and above) this Friday, Feb. 6, in Orono. Meals will be provided. If you're interested, please comment or DM me and I'll get you the link. It's 6 hours, meals provided.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Mainers:
BALM is offering a FREE street medic bridge training for people with medical experience (EMT/WFR and above) this Friday, Feb. 6, in Orono. Meals will be provided. If you're interested, please comment or DM me and I'll get you the link. It's 6 hours, meals provided.
Please signal boost!
BALM is offering a FREE street medic bridge training for people with medical experience (EMT/WFR and above) this Friday, Feb. 6, in Orono. Meals will be provided. If you're interested, please comment or DM me and I'll get you the link. It's 6 hours, meals provided.
Please signal boost!
Please remember, tragic as those killings were, Alex Pretti and Renee Good are just the latest victims of ICE, not the first.
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Please remember, tragic as those killings were, Alex Pretti and Renee Good are just the latest victims of ICE, not the first.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Still pissed at Senate Dems. They had no end game, nor contingency plans, and Schumer was clearly in on the defection. They have no backbone to endure the shutdown or replace their old inept leader. We can do better!
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Still pissed at Senate Dems. They had no end game, nor contingency plans, and Schumer was clearly in on the defection. They have no backbone to endure the shutdown or replace their old inept leader. We can do better!
Why aren't Democrats obstructing this travesty?
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Why aren't Democrats obstructing this travesty?
No one who wasn't indoctrinated into puritan capitalist bullshit ever WANTED to work. We are just seeing more people throwing off their programming.
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
No one who wasn't indoctrinated into puritan capitalist bullshit ever WANTED to work. We are just seeing more people throwing off their programming.
Insomnia derived sitcom idea:
Sir Paul McCartney gives away all his money and retires to a small Welsh village. Episodes- he tries to write a theme song to promote village tourism but they're all too good to work. The village council has to pass an ordinance blocking him from the annual talent show.
Sir Paul McCartney gives away all his money and retires to a small Welsh village. Episodes- he tries to write a theme song to promote village tourism but they're all too good to work. The village council has to pass an ordinance blocking him from the annual talent show.
April 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Insomnia derived sitcom idea:
Sir Paul McCartney gives away all his money and retires to a small Welsh village. Episodes- he tries to write a theme song to promote village tourism but they're all too good to work. The village council has to pass an ordinance blocking him from the annual talent show.
Sir Paul McCartney gives away all his money and retires to a small Welsh village. Episodes- he tries to write a theme song to promote village tourism but they're all too good to work. The village council has to pass an ordinance blocking him from the annual talent show.
My vision for America. In no particular order, but I'll start with an easy one -1. single payer health care
March 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My vision for America. In no particular order, but I'll start with an easy one -1. single payer health care
A little bit of good news
Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.
This rare, intelligent species of crow is taking flight in Hawaii again
Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.
www.npr.org
February 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A little bit of good news
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Contrary to my earlier request, the Democrat still can't seem to get their messaging act together! Mealy mouth whining would be the charitable way to describe it. Ridiculous.
February 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Contrary to my earlier request, the Democrat still can't seem to get their messaging act together! Mealy mouth whining would be the charitable way to describe it. Ridiculous.
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Please please please Dems get your act together and start speaking the people's language!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How do Democrats harness #DarkWoke? | Peter Rothpletz
Democrats’ current approach to political messaging is broken – and party leaders have no conception of how to fix it
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Please please please Dems get your act together and start speaking the people's language!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's hard for me to commit as fully to opposing el cheetoh and his goons as I might have when I was young, when I know the shitstem we are trying to rebalance is a corrupt late stage capitalism mess that only serves the privileged, while shoveling a tattered pablum of "democracy" down our throats.
January 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's hard for me to commit as fully to opposing el cheetoh and his goons as I might have when I was young, when I know the shitstem we are trying to rebalance is a corrupt late stage capitalism mess that only serves the privileged, while shoveling a tattered pablum of "democracy" down our throats.
I'm not going to endlessly point out all the harm el cheetoh has initiated, but this one....... just the perfect example of him not giving a single solitary fuck about anyone.
Trump has rolled back a Biden order that mandated negotiations to the lower cost of drugs for people using Medicare and Medicaid.
Medicare had just announced 15 more drugs whose prices they were going to bring down in negotiations with Big Pharma.
Medicare had just announced 15 more drugs whose prices they were going to bring down in negotiations with Big Pharma.
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm not going to endlessly point out all the harm el cheetoh has initiated, but this one....... just the perfect example of him not giving a single solitary fuck about anyone.
I'm interested in educating myself in economics, with an eye towards eventually understanding how (or if) some sort of steady state system would function. Any suggestions of entertaining and intelligent sources that explain how the sytem really works? #booksky
January 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I'm interested in educating myself in economics, with an eye towards eventually understanding how (or if) some sort of steady state system would function. Any suggestions of entertaining and intelligent sources that explain how the sytem really works? #booksky
Part 2: Elites of both parties know this and have no incentive to solve the "problem". It's a handy issue to keep their bases riled up and political suicide to contribute to higher food prices.
January 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Part 2: Elites of both parties know this and have no incentive to solve the "problem". It's a handy issue to keep their bases riled up and political suicide to contribute to higher food prices.
Maine farmers have long employed migrant workers picking apples and blueberries, and more recently our struggling dairy farms. Our all important tourist industry also employs many foreign workers. They are an integral part of our economy, as they are all across America, keeping the cost of food low
January 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Maine farmers have long employed migrant workers picking apples and blueberries, and more recently our struggling dairy farms. Our all important tourist industry also employs many foreign workers. They are an integral part of our economy, as they are all across America, keeping the cost of food low
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
Maine has long had a goal of recycling 50% of its waste stream and after decades has never come close. If a eco conscious, albeit low budget, state like Maine can't manage to reform the system to do that relatively simple task, I have no hope that the entire world can change to keep us below 2⁰C.
December 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Maine has long had a goal of recycling 50% of its waste stream and after decades has never come close. If a eco conscious, albeit low budget, state like Maine can't manage to reform the system to do that relatively simple task, I have no hope that the entire world can change to keep us below 2⁰C.
Sometimes, when a guy asks his partner to calm down, he's actually asking them to self regulate and stop lashing out. Sometimes.
December 23, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Sometimes, when a guy asks his partner to calm down, he's actually asking them to self regulate and stop lashing out. Sometimes.
Amazon warehouse in Queens messing with the strikers, icing up the street and sidewalk, and disabling their own sprinkler system which endangers the workers inside and probably violates their occupancy permit and their insurance terms. youtube.com/shorts/so0A0...
Amazon warehouse water system gushes out onto striking workers’ picket line
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
youtube.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Amazon warehouse in Queens messing with the strikers, icing up the street and sidewalk, and disabling their own sprinkler system which endangers the workers inside and probably violates their occupancy permit and their insurance terms. youtube.com/shorts/so0A0...
Is there any scenario where a moderate republican can make a name for themselves over the next 4 years by mildly resisting the Drump agenda and be poised as a viable presidential candidate in 2028? (Assuming the cheetoh in chief hasn't made himself dictator for life by then)
December 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Is there any scenario where a moderate republican can make a name for themselves over the next 4 years by mildly resisting the Drump agenda and be poised as a viable presidential candidate in 2028? (Assuming the cheetoh in chief hasn't made himself dictator for life by then)