Two Newfies
@twonewfies.bsky.social
Responsible human for two gregarious Newfoundland dogs in Ellsworth, Maine.
Reposted by Two Newfies
There’s no place like home. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
There’s no place like home. ❤️
I got to meet Gerard Baker when we were both involved in a press event for the Ken Burn PBS documentary series about national parks. I remember laughing with him until it hurt. I also remember listening to him until it hurt. He's a master at using "interpretation" to confront and find truth.
‘The Rushmore story is hard to tell’: how an Indigenous park leader revealed the monument’s dark side
As memorial marks 100 years, Gerard Baker, park’s Native American ex-superintendent believes if Rushmore’s story is told the right way, ‘people are going to be leaving pissed’
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I got to meet Gerard Baker when we were both involved in a press event for the Ken Burn PBS documentary series about national parks. I remember laughing with him until it hurt. I also remember listening to him until it hurt. He's a master at using "interpretation" to confront and find truth.
Two Newfies are clean again, if only briefly. Today was their first visit to the groomer since June. I fully expect that they'll sneak into the river by the end of the day.
October 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Two Newfies are clean again, if only briefly. Today was their first visit to the groomer since June. I fully expect that they'll sneak into the river by the end of the day.
I'd like to be a card-carrying union member before I retire, voluntarily or otherwise.
Workers at Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks Organize a Union Under NFFE | National Federation of Federal Employees
With over 97% voting in favor at both locations, approximately 600 workers are joining the union.
nffe.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I'd like to be a card-carrying union member before I retire, voluntarily or otherwise.
“You don’t get pearls out of oysters without irritants” ... so then this story is among Acadia's lingering irritants.
The Last Fish House on Otter Creek - Island Institute
On a warm July afternoon, Steve Smith sat outside a fish house in Otter Creek on Mount Desert Island, telling stories. There was the time it was “Blowin’ like a bastard from the north,” and his skiff ...
www.islandinstitute.org
August 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
“You don’t get pearls out of oysters without irritants” ... so then this story is among Acadia's lingering irritants.
Duh-Oh. This was completely predictable, yes? ... "Canceling the 2025 (Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey) means OPM will not be collecting or publishing governmentwide data on federal employees’ views this year of their jobs, colleagues, agency leaders or overall workplaces."
After months of postponing, OPM opts to fully cancel 2025 FEVS
The cancellation comes after OPM indefinitely delayed FEVS earlier this year, due to the Trump administration’s “urgent” changes for federal employees.
federalnewsnetwork.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Duh-Oh. This was completely predictable, yes? ... "Canceling the 2025 (Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey) means OPM will not be collecting or publishing governmentwide data on federal employees’ views this year of their jobs, colleagues, agency leaders or overall workplaces."
"A database search at the time of publishing yielded 92 people enslaved in Hancock County, with five individuals in Ellsworth."
Maine resident shares history of enslavement in the state
ELLSWORTH — When Vana Carmona, a Portland resident, visited her family’s graves at a cemetery in Gorham in May 2014, she didn’t anticipate coming across a gravestone with an unknown
www.ellsworthamerican.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"A database search at the time of publishing yielded 92 people enslaved in Hancock County, with five individuals in Ellsworth."
Michelle Norris on PBS and NPR funding cut
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I was recently "consolidated" from NPS to the Office of the Secretary. Not sure NPS has standing to advocate for me anymore. Opposition messaging is now more about loss of services than people.
"There are also dozens of categories across the Office of the Secretary not included in a previous list."
"There are also dozens of categories across the Office of the Secretary not included in a previous list."
Interior increases targets for layoffs
An internal document shows that the department has expanded the number of units where federal employees could face dismissals based on details like
www.eenews.net
July 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I was recently "consolidated" from NPS to the Office of the Secretary. Not sure NPS has standing to advocate for me anymore. Opposition messaging is now more about loss of services than people.
"There are also dozens of categories across the Office of the Secretary not included in a previous list."
"There are also dozens of categories across the Office of the Secretary not included in a previous list."
I'm privileged to hear loon calls fairly routinely from my backyard along the Union River in Maine
Everything you need to know about loon calls
YouTube video by Bangor Daily News
youtu.be
July 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I'm privileged to hear loon calls fairly routinely from my backyard along the Union River in Maine
As kids, Tim and I got to attend a couple of games in the renowned 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds & Boston Red Sox. 50 years on, I've switched sides. On Monday, we traveled together to Fenway to witness one player hit both an inside-the-park home run & a grand slam. Sox prevail 13-6.
July 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
As kids, Tim and I got to attend a couple of games in the renowned 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds & Boston Red Sox. 50 years on, I've switched sides. On Monday, we traveled together to Fenway to witness one player hit both an inside-the-park home run & a grand slam. Sox prevail 13-6.
Roosevelt Campobello International Park is facing a critical funding shortage ... simply because the people who used to know how to move the money aren't around anymore.
Roosevelt park to operate with fewer staff, citing loss of funds
Roosevelt Campobello International Park (RCIP) is facing a critical funding shortage as a result of an unresolved delay in part of the annual payment from the U.S. National Park Service (NPS).
quoddytides.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Roosevelt Campobello International Park is facing a critical funding shortage ... simply because the people who used to know how to move the money aren't around anymore.
Yesterday, here on my little patch of Maine, I saw a moose, a bald eagle, and a whole mess of fireflies.
June 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Yesterday, here on my little patch of Maine, I saw a moose, a bald eagle, and a whole mess of fireflies.
“It’s hard for me to understand how gutting ‘America’s best idea’ isn’t America’s worst idea,” said Sen. Angus King.
What the public lands fight means for Maine
Mainers have as much of a stake in the current political fight over the future of federal resources as anyone else.
themainemonitor.org
June 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“It’s hard for me to understand how gutting ‘America’s best idea’ isn’t America’s worst idea,” said Sen. Angus King.
"This is not a well-thought-out plan, but something executed with malice by an organization supposedly focused on eliminating waste, fraud and abuse."
What it is like to be a federal employee in 2025
The National Institutes of Health limps along on invisible crutches, its significance on life support, its staff feeling diminished, dazed, and confused.
federalnewsnetwork.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"This is not a well-thought-out plan, but something executed with malice by an organization supposedly focused on eliminating waste, fraud and abuse."
All of this in the name of authoritarian political theater? What good is this actually doing anyone? ... The audio is just chilling.
The NYPD and ICE mistakenly arrested a Chilean woman who is a permanent resident in New York City and left her poor frightened 12 year old daughter on the street alone.
She was released approximately six hours later.
This is the fearful state of America.
She was released approximately six hours later.
This is the fearful state of America.
June 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
All of this in the name of authoritarian political theater? What good is this actually doing anyone? ... The audio is just chilling.
This may be a first: two Newfies spooning? Truth be told, they were both just jockeying to sit on my left foot.
June 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This may be a first: two Newfies spooning? Truth be told, they were both just jockeying to sit on my left foot.
Former DOGE minion notes the federal government proves not to be rife with waste, fraud, and abuse. Expected "easy wins" and found none.
🔊 Listen Now: Former DOGE engineer shares his experience working for the cost-cutting unit
All Things Considered on NPR One | 8:11
one.npr.org
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Former DOGE minion notes the federal government proves not to be rife with waste, fraud, and abuse. Expected "easy wins" and found none.
Wait, this is the person we've entrusted to safeguard public lands & national treasures?
Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum recently directed Tyler Hassen to reorganize the Interior Department.
federalnewsnetwork.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Wait, this is the person we've entrusted to safeguard public lands & national treasures?
Alleged family lilacs from Norway are blooming like gangbusters again this year. (Secret ingredient may be Newfie poop fertilizer dense with carrots scooped from the dog yard)
May 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Alleged family lilacs from Norway are blooming like gangbusters again this year. (Secret ingredient may be Newfie poop fertilizer dense with carrots scooped from the dog yard)