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Paul Nakroshis / ac1si

@portlandphysics.bsky.social
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Physics professor, father, trail runner, photographer, and mediocre pianist. Working on becoming fluent in French. Use Julia for all my computing. Amateur radio callsign: AC1SI and WSEL715 (gmrs) portlandphysics.me mainesight.com

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Paul Nakroshis / ac1si @portlandphysics.bsky.social · 5h
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You can always count on Susan Collins to be "troubled" by the policies her votes have enabled
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 7h
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Paul Nakroshis / ac1si @portlandphysics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
back teaching the introductory calculus based physics class this semester… I swear, grading exams like this is going to make me retire early. I mean seriously I have to wait through this mess.
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Hancock County Democrats @hancockcountydems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Susan Collins’s Flimsy Corruption Defense Collapses
The University of Maine is debunking a central lie in Collins’s story after the damning report on her pay-to-play scheme with a top donor.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This meme really asks one question: Is this the America you want? Because November 3rd is when Americans get to answer. Remember what you’ve seen. Remember what’s at stake. Then vote.🔵 #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PLEASE SHARE
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Paul Nakroshis / ac1si @portlandphysics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
shocked, just shocked!and so concerned🙄 VOTE Troy Jackson.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Paul Nakroshis / ac1si @portlandphysics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here’s an extremely well done report on the Hugging Face/openAI attack: youtu.be/xOi5nDH0lu0?...
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The Hugging Face cyberattack was way bigger than OpenAI said
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Jenn the Queen @jennb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"How sad it must be, believing that scientists, historians, scholars, and journalists, would devote their entire lives to deceiving you. But a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth and honesty."
—Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Paul Nakroshis / ac1si @portlandphysics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@petersagal.bsky.social here’s something for wait. Wait don’t tell me: apple.news/A-BkjYd_KTLC...
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Scientists Buried 2,000 Pairs of Underwear. Two Months Later, the Disturbing Result Confirmed Their Worst Fears. — Popular Mechanics
Adding a whole new meaning to the phrase “soiled underwear.”
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Senator Collins has officially missed all 3 of the town halls I invited her to — 3 chances to answer directly to the people she’s supposed to represent. We have the chance to build a government with leaders who truly fight for us, represent us, and listen to us. Now is the time, Maine.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026
I haven’t been indicted yet.
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🧪Rogue AI agents hacked a company. The real news: Some agents "assumed leadership roles within the group, assigning jobs & research projects to smaller teams of agents & supervising their progress. At some point, the agents began calling themselves a collective, & began tackling harder tasks."
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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 30/08/2026
🚨 OCEAN HEAT: We are entering uncharted territory. Record-breaking ocean temperatures are pushing ecosystems closer to dangerous tipping points. Fossil fuel corporations and big polluters are gambling with a liveable planet for profit.
Global sea surface temperature graph
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I know what it feels like to work 80 hours a week in the woods and still wonder if it’s going to be enough for your family. Nobody in power is suddenly going to make life easier for working people. We’ve got to fight for it. Watch our latest ad:
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"They don’t even comment on it. The Republican Party has turned pretty openly against liberal democracy....And meanwhile, pundits, reporters, the press — they’re obsessed with “Hey, did Francesca Hong once say that she thought we should cancel Thanksgiving?” 💯
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The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits
Jamelle Bouie almost never misses. In this video that’s just shy of 10 minutes long, he chastises American political & cultural pundits for their lack of mo
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model. She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus. Working class.
Alexandria with her project for ISEF 2007.  A young woman with square glasses, she stands in front of a cardboard display recounting her work on antioxidants.
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"At a time when families are struggling to afford housing, health care, & education, the [🤡 regime & its enablers] have been cutting support for basic needs & diverting huge sums of money to deportations" GOP enablers own this www.vote.org -Use it. Share it. Make sure we're ready to vote them out.
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Americans pay $2,400 in taxes to fund Trump’s deportation push, analysis finds
The Department of Homeland security said the administration’s deportation effort is saving the taxpayer money
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/08/2026
We need to protect Social Security for the next generation.
The Social Security payroll tax is capped at $184,500 in income. So if you're a nurse or construction worker, you pay Social Security on 100% of your income. But if you're a lawyer raking in millions, you only pay Social Security on a tiny fraction of your income. That is not right.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I dunno...I think it's time to stop interviewing James Carville.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder: progressive is mainstream
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 07/08/2026
'Mainers Aren't Stupid': Troy Jackson Says Voters See Through Susan Collins Charade
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'Mainers Aren't Stupid': Troy Jackson Says Voters See Through Susan Collins Charade
Democratic US Senate candidate Troy Jackson accuses Sen. Susan Collins of playing politics with her vote against confirming Todd Blanche as US attorney general.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My thoughts on MaineHealth’s disastrous decision to close Miles Labor & Delivery.
I'm angry. MaineHealth ignored the voices of mothers, fathers, doctors, nurses, and an entire community by voting to close the Miles Labor and Delivery Unit at Lincoln Hospital. This marks the 12th labor and delivery ward we've lost in this state since 2015. 

Time after time, rural Mainers get the same raw deal. Our voices are silenced by powerful people wearing fancy suits in air-conditioned boardrooms, people who make a lot of money cutting deals whose brutal consequences they're too far above us to ever see. 

It’s past time that we fix our broken, profit-centered healthcare system that leaves many of us struggling to get care and most of us struggling to pay for it when we do. We must pass Medicare For All. We must defeat Susan Collins – and every Trump puppet in D.C. who votes to destroy essential public services in favor of tax cuts for the billionaires and corporations.

Lincoln County, this is my message to you. You stood together, you raised your voices, and you raised hell. I am proud to stand with you all and to call you my brothers and sisters in this struggle. 

Your solidarity and willingness to organize your community across partisan lines is the model for how regular people fight back against a system that’s been holding us back for too damn long.

Because here's the truth. Working Mainers are not from the left. We're not from the right. We're from the bottom. And we must rise together.

In solidarity,

Troy
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...
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What Keeps Me Up at Night
Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I'm for Medicare For All. Susan Collins is not. Instead, she helped advance Trump's $990 billion in healthcare cuts just last year. That's why Big Pharma and Big Insurance are trying to buy her another six years in Washington. They will fail.
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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So-called moderates love to frame their concerns as fear over losing elections but conveniently ignore that running moderates instead of people with bold vision and clear moral leadership failed to beat Trump 2 out of 3 times!
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
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Donald @rabbitoh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
As a reader, I feel privileged and respected when the writer produces such a work that both subject and author are honored. @chanda.blacksky.app's memorial of Vera Rubin felt like a gift dropped out of a clear summer sky.
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Paul Nakroshis / ac1si @portlandphysics.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Jared Golden is an embarrassment to Maine— did he not read the Bill he voted for today? I mean, you have one job as a Congress person which is to read the bills that you vote on. Grade=F
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Washington is full of Big Pharma and Big Insurance lobbyists dedicated to blocking Medicare For All. Maine is full of organized, working class people who understand that healthcare is a human right. I know whose side I’m on.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Susan Collins lied to Mainers. She helped destroy Roe v. Wade, she advanced Trump's $990 billion Medicaid cuts, and she gave ICE $70 billion continue its rogue terror campaign. Together, we will replace her with a Senator who gives a damn about the working people of this country.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/07/2026
I don’t personally love this outcome, but this is how it should be done: suspending your campaign with class. Uplifting the likely nominee. I bet many Mainers are proud of Jordan Wood today.
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hotelalhamra.bsky.social @hotelalhamra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Given Jackson's strong showing yesterday, Bellows quickly doing the right thing is going to separate the rest of the candidates into those who actually care about our democracy and beating Collins, so will also drop out today, and those who are just narcissistic attention whores.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He should have gone to prison for pressuring Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. That’s the very definition of election interference. We all heard the call.
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Bright Saver | Plug-In Solar @brightsaver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There's a lot of different ways to highlight the accessibility of plug-in solar. @billmckibben.bsky.social nailed it in his mention with @canarymedia.com "The solar revolution is the great sunny hope of our time, now everyone can participate." www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
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A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/07/2026
This is Susan Collins giving the most feckless response to ICE killings possible. She mastered the art of saying almost nothing while people are dying. The only proper response to the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero is outrage. VOTE HER OUT
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
GET OUTRAGED AMERICA TRUMP just did this The DAMAGES he just did today WILL BE IRREVERSIBLE !! AND THE DO NOTHING REPUBLICANS GO ALONG WITH HIM AMERICA Once again I say What have we become?
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Yesterday, ICE fatally shot a 26 year old father in Biddeford. This is not the Maine or the America I want to live in. We must put an end to this. Susan Collins voted to give $70 billion to ICE with no reforms. I’d abolish it. We need to come together as a community and demand a better future.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Across this state and country, working people are demanding a new kind of government. One that puts our needs over the greed of corporations. One that invests our money in our communities, not wastes it on endless wars and tax cuts for billionaires. I know whose side I'm on. JacksonForMaine.com
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