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Judy Berk

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Maine and nature make me tick. I like to photograph too. Working to protect Maine’s environment since 1978.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." "it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present.

There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
We have friends everywhere. #NoKings
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This video I recorded has legs. It’s been all over.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
substack.com/@borowitzrep...
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Andy Borowitz (@borowitzreport)
Really the simplest way to get the Epstein files released is to somehow get them to Hegseth
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Well, this gives me hope! open.substack.com/pub/timothyr...
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Who the F—k is Graham Platner?
A few weeks ago, as I was getting ready for bed, an alarm sounded around the world.
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Marie Follayttar @mariefollayttar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Badassery as only Mainers can do.. this crew of MidCoast Mainers kayaked outside of the island retreat of Chief Justice Roberts today in a flotilla with signs reading, "shame," "protect democracy" and "you made a king."
a colorful array of kayakers on the ocean open like a flowerMainers in kayaks in the ocean outside the dock onto the island where justice john roberts spends summersbright kayaks and boats in the ocean protestingA mainer in a yellow kayak holds a sign reading shame
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Call now or forever hold your peace.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
No billboards in Maine but maybe someone could paint this on the side of a barn or hang it as a flag off of Route 1? Any other ideas? #MEpolitics
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Oh how I miss this kind of leadership. www.instagram.com/reel/DK5jGGq...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
WTF? The U.S. Regime has gone stark raving mad. What a power trip. “Just say no” Stockholm, and everyone else too.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
❤️🙏🏼Thank you, Maine Gov. Mills for standing up for America and speaking truth to power. “See you in court,” worked. “These bullying tactics. We will not tolerate them. Nobody in this country should tolerate them. You don’t appease bullies. They never stop.” www.youtube.com/live/Ns8y3tn...
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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 23/03/2025
================== RESISTANCE IS KEY! KEEP UP THE PRESSURE UPDATED 3/23 5:30PM ================== #MEPolitics #Maine #Portland #StrongerTogether To add event or corrections, please send email to address on calendar 4/6
PINE TREE ACTIVISM CALENDAR                           
SCHEDULED EVENTS – updated 03.23.25  5:30PM
pg 4 of 6 – Most recently updated calendar is always pinned.

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Share/Repost so Mainers know where to resist! 
Submit events, corrections: ptactivism@gmail.com
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APR 4, Fri 4-5:30PM (& every Fri) – Biddeford
Senator Susan Collins' office, 160 Main St., Biddeford, Maine
Stop the Coup Protest · Indivisible / Biddeford Saco Area SURJ 
Showing Up for Racial Justice: surj.org 

APR 5, Sat 10:00-12noon – Oxford Hills
Fair St. & Main St. South Paris/Norway, Maine
HANDS ØFF MASS MOBILIZATION – Oxford Hills Fights Back
handsoff2025.com – National Day of Action

APR 5, Sat 10:30-12noon – Wells
Wells Public Library, 1434 Post Rd, Wells, Maine
HANDS ØFF MASS MOBILIZATION – Wells Maine Fights Back
handsoff2025.com – National Day of Action

APR 5, Sat 11AM (& every Sat) – Portland
Monument Square, 456 Congress St, Portland, Maine
EVERY SATURDAY-11AM- MONUMENT SQUARE PROTEST
against this admin's assaults on the representative democracy. Speakers welcomed. Bring a friend. Creative signs applauded.

APR 5, 11AM – Presque Isle
365 Main Street, 04769, Presque Isle, Maine 
Rally in front of Social Security Office

APR 5, Sat 11-12noon – Farmington
196 Main St, Farmington, Maine
HANDS ØFF MASS MOBILIZATION – Farmington Fights Back
handsoff2025.com – National Day of Action



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Pine Tree Activism strives to publish confirmed events with accurate details as submitted or as found on a group's website. Last minute changes in venue or day/time may not be reflected.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A legal Waldo County, Maine resident has been kidnapped by ICE. Please watch and listen to this and help however you can. Thank you. #MAINE #ICE donorbox.org/support-impa... www.instagram.com/reel/DHjUaNh...
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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I found a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
U.S. 🇺🇸 BRAIN DRAIN IN PROGRESS. I guess that was a goal? Favoritism for uneducated people? www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...
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NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24
chart showing groups of opposition to Trump. Broad groups for lawsuits are Blue states, labour organisations, civil rights organisations, NGOs. Then there is a separate group for international rsponse and another one for non lawsuit response. A table of all actions is available here with any oppoistion highlighted: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing (worksheet "Actions with links")
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#Maine Senator Angus King “Time to subpoena, condemn, and impeach …the actions of President Trump and Elon Musk are illegal and unconstitutional and pose a grave threat to our national security, our democracy, and the rights of the American people…” www.king.senate.gov.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Senator Susan Collins is concerned. www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 27/02/2025
Trump will to BREAK the law & beg the Supreme Court for help—in order to save a buck over comply with the law and save countless lives! apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
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21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government
Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Ok that made me laugh
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/02/2025
TODAY: The Senate will vote on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director. This MAGA extremist has salivated about prosecuting journalists, government officials, nonprofits & ordinary Americans. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...
above an image of Kash Patel) MEET MAGA EXTREMIST KASH PATEL
(TRUMP'S PICK FOR FBI DIRECTOR)

Patel vowed to "come after the people in the media... who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections."

Patel published a full-on "deep state" enemies list full of government officials who've criticized Trump.

Patel had his 2020 appointment for Deputy FBI Director blocked by Trump's own hand-picked Attorney General, Bill Barr (Barr later made Patel's enemies list, by the way.)
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
OK #Democrats Let’s do it. theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...
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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk
Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hey #Maine #Mainers Wanna know how our senators voted on T’s cabinet nominees? Here you go. Too bad #SenatorSusanCollins sold her soul to sentence us to the likes of RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Russel Vought, and Lee Zeldin. Thinking, you may want to let her know how disappointed you are. I did.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Veterans Housing Education Energy Small Business These are the agencies Elon Musk is actively gutting. Firing thousands—while he rakes in federal contracts and the GOP prepares a massive tax break for the ultra rich. This is not government efficiency. This is a heist.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Best thing I have seen youtu.be/SPK_iBfFQNo?...
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'What The Hell Is Going On?': Melanie Stansbury Asks Why GOP Is Defending Elon Musk And DOGE Work
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“Secretary Kennedy will make death great again.”
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RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hailed By National Alliance of Funeral Directors
“Secretary Kennedy will make death great again," the group said.
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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Musk has made over $25,000,000,000 from tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts. That’s $25 Billion we as taxpayers have both given him directly and had to compensate for. You care about the deficit? Great! Give us our fucking money back.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Well, needed a relief from today’s political travesty. Here’s our garden sculpture AKA snow gauge doing its job. Nice to have a white winter for a change.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Give me a break - transportation dollars for communities based on breeding rates, not need for infrastructure?
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David Foley @davidmfoley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Americans: can you pass this multiple-choice test? You can try it multiple times. Immigrants applying for citizenship must pass it. Seven out of ten Americans can’t.
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Preparing For The Oath: U.S. History And Civics For Citizenship
Learn and Practice for the U.S. Naturalization Test. From the National Museum of American History and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
NEW: Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles
The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
More feee speech?
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Judy Berk @judyberk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So much for free speech
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
But Trump and Musk said they love free speech.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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Congressman Jared Golden @golden.house.gov · 08/02/2025
CFPB puts up real guardrails to protect Americans from abusive business practices. They put money back in people’s pockets. If there are problems, let’s fix them. But gutting or eliminating CFPB would be bad for working-class families.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.
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Today is a dark day when once there were so many winners. SIL, the Soybean Innovation Lab, will shutter its doors as of 4/15/25 as all USAID funding has ceased. Today I had to let go of a staff of 30. These individuals are not only unique experts in the field of tropical soybean, but also close colleagues and friends who are now unexpectedly out of work. The land grant system now loses 19 crown jewel Innovation Labs, across 17 states, that delivered high and measurable impact on very little investment. U.S. soybean farmers lose one of their best tools to expand their markets and U.S. standards globally. Local economies in emerging markets lose soybean as an incomparable engine growing wealth, prosperity, and economic development. International security is a loser, as local populations now fall back into poverty, unrest, and migration, due to greater food insecurity. U.S. influence loses as Innovation Labs operate on the ground in direct collaboration with hundreds of local businesses, organizations, and governments building strong and lasting friendships. Today we all lose. It is a shame. Innovation Labs like SIL are an investment for good on so many levels.
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