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Amy Fried

@asfried.bsky.social

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Political scientist, kayaker Emeritus, UMaine Political Sightlines at https://amyfried.substack.com/ Books on how U.S. conservatives weaponized distrust, New England politics, professionalizing polling, and perceptions of public opinion as a resource

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · Nov 12

Blueskyers, I’m a retired political scientist, still actively writing and doing more real politics, whose core research has been on the history and political uses of public opinion. But I've done research other topics, too! My 1st pub was on abortion politics, the latest on ranked choice voting. 1/5

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 4h

Wild stuff.

Of course, Susan Collins voted against 85 Biden nominees -- virtually all of them highly qualified.

Needless to say, none of them was a self-avowed Christian nationalist; vowed to break the law in office; or denied the outcome of the 2020 election. #MEpolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 3h

This political hit job on Dunlap, which only quotes national Dem figures and not a single person from ME, let alone ME-2, makes me angry. It has no mention of why people in the district are done with Golden, probably because the reporter doesn't know. #mepolitics

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Democrats Are Done With Vanity Candidates

Party insiders worry about running long-shots or no-shots who’ll drain money and energy.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 3h

You've got to be joking. It was the worst murder of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust.

Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 3h

Study: Medicaid Expansion Linked to Better Cancer Survival at 5 Years

Remember when LePage tried to block it? It took until he was gone for us to have it. Mills expanded Medicaid on her first day in office. #mepolitics www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

Medicaid Expansion Linked to Better Cancer Survival at 5 Years

Residents of rural, high-poverty areas derived greatest benefit versus non-expansion states

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, an anti-semitic conspiracy theorist.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 3h

Who do you think was most wrong on October 7?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 5h

This is floridly delusional.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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404 Media @404media.co · 7h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 8h

Hard to take DHS seriously when they say citizen recordings are illegal but they’ve got a whole reality TV setup documenting their actions.

Post by Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

“ICE is not only chasing Don every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.”

The post’s text is followed by a screenshot of security camera footage showing an ICE cameraman filming as officers seize two individuals.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 9h

They’re much more important on people’s lawns vs right of ways.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 10h

Also a good example of how all of these people are totally poisoned online.

Even people with retrograde views on gay people, etc. rarely act/speak this way when in the presence of actual human beings. Only after swimming in a sewer of online hate do they think this is normal and acceptable.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 9h

The No on 1 campaign has more money though and, as far as I know, they are the only ones knocking doors.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 9h

cc: Janet Mills

#mepolitics

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 9h

People like signs but they’re not the best use of resources. A sign making gathering where people also phone bank would be great though.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

The obvious question here is how you can indict when you're "just getting your hands around" the evidence.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 13h

That's how someone described Question 1 people on Reddit!

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From the Maine community on Reddit: Question 1 campaign is a bunch of lying liars

Explore this post and more from the Maine community

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 13h

This is how the Washington Post described what Collins is purportedly trying to do. So weak. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like BS:

Collins told reporter she has circulated a tentative plan to reopen at least parts of the government. While the plan is still preliminary, it would AIM TO SET A DEADLINE FOR A DISCUSSION on ACA subsidies and strike an agreement to advance some appropriations bills. #mepolitics

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#mepolitics

Susie Crimmins @scrimmins.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, if Amazon has a picture snapped by the delivery guy that shows the box without all that extra tape, etc., etc., for example. I think someone has made the box recipient a beleaguered (whether they’re knowing or unknowing) and unfortunate participant in some kind of a misguided scheme.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 14h

@aobrien2024.bsky.social is a must read on the Newburgh ballots, #mepolitics tweeps. (I also recommend my latest Substack post on deception by the No on 1 campaign, which has a section on how they're misleadingly using the situation. amyfried.substack.com/p/misinforma...)

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 14h

Amazon Suggests Stolen Ballots Placed in Box After Delivery #mepolitics open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

Amazon Suggests Stolen Ballots Placed in Box After Delivery

And Steve Robinson bends over backwards to defend his source's innocence.

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