I watched most of the Kennebec county dems gubernatorial forum and King was the only candidate to give a mealy non-answer to the direct question on tribal sovereignty. Everyone else gave a loud, direct YES to supporting sovereignty on day 1.

But I didn’t link the post initially, which is here: mainemorningstar.com/2025/12/22/o...

Creating an AI video of a bland corporate politician would be very easy. But generating an AI video of an eccentric kind of off-the-wall and deeply endearing person would be much harder. Even more reason to be skeptical of overly polished politicians.

The art and the messages that will resonate are deeply and unmistakably human. Robots and large language models could never be as creative, flawed and funny as a real person. Do more of the real person stuff and make it impossible to impersonate you

Political emails and texts were complete slop BEFORE AI even existed. These practices set the stage for what we see today, where few people trust any political message.

The antidote to that isn't to get better at AI and compete on the same playing field: it's to be radically genuine, open & honest

Are they actually being proactive? No. But some mckinsey consultant probably gave them the idea that actually proactively protecting against damage to their lines and equipment is expensive. Telling customers they are "aware" that outages might occur is pretty cheap. Brilllliant

Ask anyone in Maine what Angus King has done for them through his decades of elected leadership and you'd struggle to get an answer. This man has coasted on a reputation of being "independent" for years, despite the fact that he's in total lockstep with the corporate center of both parties.

King repeatedly makes sweeping speeches about defeating fascism — then votes to confirm Trump judges and to undermine what leverage Dems do have. The speeches get a headline from the Press Herald while King's actions in caving to authoritarians is distorted into some sort of brave serious leadership

Two years ago, I wrote about Kings decision to run for re-election at the age of 79 - and about the continued media deference to his moderate, pro-establishment politics. @mainemorningstar.com

mainemorningstar.com/2023/11/02/s...

I do. But that’s an irrelevant question. The Israel lobby is one of the most prolific spenders in US election history - it’s not just one PAC but a network of PACs and individual donors. And unlike Platner’s parents, those donations + relationships expect support for a genocidal foreign government.

I'm sure the AIPAC donations she's almost certainly going to accept will speak for themselves

"We have allowed tech companies to mediate the most basic functions of our lives, from cooking to travel to sleep. The AWS and ES outage is a stark reminder that we should do what we can to limit the control these tech companies have over our lives."

www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...

I recommend checking out the Data Vampires series from Tech Won't Save Us, to start: www.techwontsave.us/data-vampires