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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The new Pingree ad, with Bobby Chuckles telling "young women considering an abortion" to come by his office and he will tell them "how special they are" to talk them out of it, is pretty daming. What a creep-show.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[ME02 song, To tune of "Particle Man" by TMBG] Florida man Florida man Wants to be a congress-man But only can, if he shuts his trap Florida Man Is he in Maine? Or F-L-A? Augusta today, is he really there? Or Ormond Beach, his actual lair? Travelin' man, Florida man

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Florida man Paul lepoage has got to go! Note" Paul LePgae has not had a permanent primary residence in Maine since before he was governor. Even as he ran in 2010, he was claiming his FL home as his primary residence. His Augusta address is a rented apartment he barely spends time in.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is the anti-Dunlap ad from CLF, comparing Dunlap to purple ketchup and frosted tips not the dumbest, cringiest, and worst ad of the season? Can't find the video online (probably for the best) but it reeks of "I'm a 50 year old man who thinks he knows how the kids talk these days, but I really don't"

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seriously, Jared, why don't you just change the (D) to and (R) at this point? It's not like it will actually change the balance of the House for your last 4 months in office. www.sunjournal.com/2026/09/21/j...

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Jared Golden endorses a vulnerable New York Republican

Golden, the Maine Democrat not seeking reelection this year, and U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-New York, worked together on lobstering-related legislation.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wow. Someone at CPAC actually looked at this and said "Yes, send it out." I guess all northern New England states look alike to some.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Susan Collins saying "Of course I'm voting for Bobby Charles" is exactly why she needs to go. So does Bobby.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gas up 8 cents just since this morning. Thanks Trump. Thanks Hegseth. You OWN this economy.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yesterday I received a lovely hand written postcard from a volunteer named Gail, asking me to vote for Troy Jackson. I was really impressed that Troy apparently has a team of dedicated volunteers who were sending personal appeals to Maine voters. Then I saw the postmark: Santa Barbara, CA.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ignorance is strength. War is peace. Freedom is slavery.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s bullshit all the way down. One was a gun bill passed after the Lewiston shooting when even Jared Golden decided gun laws are too loose. Another one involved someone else lobbying at the firm Troy’s son works at and was a variant of a bill Troy already supported. ME press fails to explain.

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think the Collins camp is so over funded at this point they’re just tossing anything up on the wall. The attacks will likely sharpen around a tighter negative as the campaign proceeds plus her fluff. We must keep up intensity on issues and Collins inability to meet the moment. #MESen #mepolitics

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Unpopular take: Apple and Google changing the name of Lake Ontario is not a political decision. Their systems are programmed to automatically update place names when they are changed by the USGS in their GNIS database. Not stopping this process is a politically neutral move.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/08/2026

Will asked what issues Dems are to the right on compared to 10 years ago, and got this laundry list. The problem is literally every single item here is either factually backwards or completely misunderstands how politics works. Let’s walk through it:

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Dennis M. Myers @dennismmyers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Murder on a Monochrome World is now available in Paperback and ebook. www.amazon.com/dp/1969950013

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is one of my favorite Annie Liebowitz photos, from Rolling Stone in August 1977. It was the same issue that had George Lucas's first Star Wars interview with RS, which is the actual reason I still own that issue... Somewhere.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Somebody posted the context for this and it's actually worse? He says the onus is on the "good Jews" to change the minds of their community and if they don't, the wrath they face is their fault. It's the same language David Duke used about the "Good Blacks" and the gang members in the early 1990s.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Apparently there are folks who would still rather punish the Democrats for not giving them their savior by electing Collins.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I can't believe there are people on the left who still actually care about Mitch McConnell, and are still somehow making it the Democrats' fault because Beshear won't go through some meaningless performative action that will not change the fact Mitch and his party have deprived themselves of a vote.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

OH NOES! Troy Jackson was charged with assault and paid a fine. WHEN HE WAS 19 YEARS OLD! Holy shit, if that's the best the Collins campaign can dig up, that means they are having a very hard time finding any real dirt to dig up on him. This is going very well for Collins.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The man who has never been a Democrat, never will be a Democrat, has spent his career speaking against Democrats, and even while running as a Democrat kept the (I) next to his name in the Senate, has absolutely zero right to demand one fucking thing from the Democratic Party.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is the dumbest take I have seen on Facebook this morning. Do we really need to go into why it's dumb?

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have said it for years: if Obama decided to go into comedy, he would absolutely kill. He kills it in the current episode of Life, Larry & the Pursuit of Unhappiness.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Again, for the people who say I was unjustly judging Hasan Piker because I had obviously not heard anything he said. Here's the thing. Maybe he does say good thing. But when he makes demonstrably false dogwhistle statements like this, the "good" things become irrelevant. This is who he is.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

That's because we decided maybe you're right, because your candidate just doesn't excite us. Earn our vote.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Someone asked me, after I said AES needed to distance himself from Piker, (Have oyu actually listned to him"? Yes, I have. Rape apology is rape apology. It is not conditional.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Perspective. This had not really occurred to me before it makes sense that the majority who have a generational memory of being ethnically cleansed from Arab countries are going to represent the most right wing, anti-Arabic part of the ruling party. Not the "white colonizers" that leftists hate.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Leftists: We won! So y'all centrist corporate shitlibs are going to vote for the nominee, right? Vote blue no matter who? Normie Dems: Nah, we decided you're right. They just don't excite us. They have to earn our votes.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Unless all of the other 51 Republicans (Mitch is still absent) are voting yes, I predict Thune has Fetterman's vote. Since the main objection was the weaponization fund, the supposed change to the deal will persuade Fetterman he can support Blanche. This gives Collins room to vote no.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hey, has anyone noticed that the leftists yelling at Beshear, and predicting Mitch would be declared dead the moment the deadline passed, have been really quiet lately? Could it be because Mitch is NOT dead and they are embarrassed?

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I cannot think if a better way of putting it:

Left: What you think generative AI will be (Janet from The Good Place)
Right: What generative AI actually is (DEREK!)

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If Democrats underperform the 2018 modterms, in a year where disapproval of Trump is hitting the roof, we will know exactly who to blame, and it's not "The Democrats."

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But WE (the actual Democrats) are the ones "dividing the party."

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Sarah Hardy @swhardy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I was knocking on doors today in Farmington - someone I talked to said that a Collins canvasser had been there a few days ago. When she asked the canvasser a question he said "I don't know, I'm from Colorado." So she is using out-of-state money to pay for out-of-state canvassers. #mepolitics

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibl

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Mystery Men Invisible Boy

ALT: Mystery Men Invisible Boy

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So apparently a maine Republican legislator who doesn't understand the laws he's passing is claiming Troy Jackson is not eligible to run for the Senate because he says state law does not allow anyone to run for two offices at once, and the sore loser law doe snot allow it. Bullshit. For 2 reasons:

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And so it goes This is not going to go well for the Maine Democratic Party.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Don't mess with Maine women. I'd love to know what shit he's talking about her, but I am totally here for the beat down when it comes.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hey guys, can we stop making the Republicans hiding Mitch McConnel the fault of the Democrats? Again? If the Republicans want to short themselves a vote in a nearly 50/50 Senate, I say Mitch can take all the time he wants to recover. Let him have the rest of his term.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is a misstatement of the provision, framed to exploit the inherent anti-Semitism of the Left by invoking the "dual loyalty" trope. The provision does need to be removed, but it is NOT a physical merging of US and IDF forces. .

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For some reason this has been running through my mind a lot lately. youtu.be/g_JQshF4MK8?...

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Only an Expert

YouTube video by Laurie Anderson - Topic

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Non sequitor take: William Shatner and Ben Folds should have made a second album.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Troy Jackson is sending out victory texts before the Democratic Party have officially announced him the winner, since the convention is still several days away. A lot can happen in 5 days. He needs to stop gloating.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Dr Nirav Shah and Shenna Bellows have withdrawn from the Maine Senate nominating contest, basically locking it in for Troy Jackson. Congratulations are in order for Susan Collins on getting another easy win. (I'm still voting for Jackson, because I am pessimistic, but still have hope in miracles).

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Now that Bellows has dropped from the race and it is looking like Jackson has the lock on next week's nomination, I would like to express my disappointment and congratulate Susan Collins on her new term.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Unpopular take: It's popular now to say that Trump was in charge of the election he is calling fraudulent in 2020 while Obama/Biden were in charge in 16/24. The Constitution puts the job of selecting electors for presidential elections on the states. The states ran all three elections not the feds.

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