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Rob Haile

@rh871.bsky.social
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Father, husband, son, brother, cyclist, hiker, gardener, sailor, paramedic, union firefighter & shop steward.

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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 7h
Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u... Another check on the “Is this fascism?” checklist.
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Remember these?
Lockable automotive gas cap.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Graham Platner at Portland, Maine’s, Pride Parade.
Maine US Senate candidate Graham Platner and his wife Amy at the Portland , Maine Pride Parade.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
AI slop & oligarch pessimism tinged with Jeffery Berk Zionism in my morning paper. I have no interest in the status quo these people are trying to protect.
Full page ad from TruthTells.org conflating Zohran Madani & Graham Platner. Accuses Mamdani of ruining NYC and promises that the same thing will happen in Maine.

The top of the page is an AI generated picture of a Mamdani look-alike wearing fishing gear and a Platner look-alike in a suit.

There is a sign on a stack of lobster pots that says, “ Maine Working Tough Dependable,” but the “n” in “dependable “ looks like an “I.”
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The NYT is reporting that Israel has been eavesdropping on senior US officials negotiating with Iran including Steve Witkoff which begs the question: if a tree falls in the forest . . . .
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Prosecutor Says Federal Officials Gave Wrong Information About ICE Shooting www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u... Surprise, surprise.
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Prosecutor Says Federal Officials Gave Wrong Information About ICE Shooting
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u... Good God! What a bunch of amateurs babysitting a vacuous old man.
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Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Hypocrisy, narcissism, & bigotry as foreign policy. What has happened to that shining city on a hill? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... So many questions. Will the US invoke Article 5 with NATO? Will we execute US drug dealers on sight or arrest them for treason? If illicit drugs are weapons why did the president pardon Ross Ulbricht? Will Don Jr & RFKJr get Purple Hearts?
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Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u... Which part is indoctrination guv? Is it that he may have loved someone who might be transitioning? Or is it a culture that glorifies guns and sees violence as a solution?
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Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/video/world/... I’ve been taught to beware secondary devices and attacks targeting rescue workers. I have no doubt that this was just such an attack by the IDF on Palestinian journalists and rescuers.
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Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a sec...
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Per the NYT, Stephen Miller will be recruiting civilians with law enforcement backgrounds to help federal agents in DC. It sounds like something out of Soldier of Fortune. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
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Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The view across Tuckerman’s Ravine towards Boott Spur today, at about the midpoint between the ravine floor and the head wall.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Look what the wind blew in.
Mary Poppins silhouette on a US Forest Service trail sign on North Baldface, Evans Notch, Chatham, NH.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w... Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, are you going to threaten Israel’s funding or ban American students from studying there?
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MSN
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
$1000 fee on migrants seeking asylum? Is that the going rate on the SS St. Louis?
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Monument Square, Portland, Maine, today.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u... There are some good officers speaking out, but it makes me sick that this could happen. Annapolis may be a service academy, but it’s also college. Midshipmen should be exposed to challenging and new ideas.
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? (Gift Article)
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u... The Nuremberg defense will not work.
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Justice Dept. Lawyer Who Criticized Administration in Court Is Put on Leave (Gift Article)
Erez Reuveni is the latest in a series of career officials who have faced punitive action after refusing to comply with a directive they deemed illegal or unethical.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I’m far enough from retirement that I can probably weather this storm. I’m afraid to look at my sons’ 529 plans. This is an effed up country. You struggle to keep your head above water and hope that your kids will do better than you did. Then some dunce comes along and ruins everything.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Rep. Jared Golden : Donald Trump = Tulsi Gabbard : Bashar al-Assad. They’re both apologists.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u... Is this a principled stand or shoring up support to withstand a challenge in 2028?
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Top Senate Republican Protests Trump Bid to Withhold Spending (Gift Article)
Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, joined top Democrats in insisting that the president does not have the power to “pick and choose” what to fund.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/w... HSA is now saying that the French scientist had confidential information from Los Alamos National Laboratory on his electronic device. So they denied him entry rather than arrest him? Doesn’t scan.
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U.S. Says Decision to Turn Back French Scientist Had Nothing to Do With Trump
The Department of Homeland Security said the academic was denied entry because he had “confidential” data from an American lab, not because of his views on the president’s policies.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Boiling sap today. It’s not the most efficient way to boil, but I don’t have a sugar house. I do have maple trees that I tap every year though & produce 7-10 pints of syrup each year this way.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“‘To all Houthi terrorists, YOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY.’ Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social message.” - keyboard warrior, keying up some distractions.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is a meme shared to me today by some firefighter co-workers. I’m a blue dot amidst a sea of red co-workers. Normally they would never share this with me. Face? Meet leopard. Public opinion has definitely turned against this administration.
Satirical firefighter meme of an old man with a surprised look on his face. The text at the top of the meme says, “Conservative firemen finding out why the old guys looked at them funny when they said they will only vote Republican.”  At the bottom it says, “Did y’all think the national voting to not endorse a party who historically cut funding was a conspiracy or something?”
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
March 11, 2020 was the start of the COVID-19 shutdown in the US. It was scary. I disinfected the ambulance after every respiratory call, wore a mask even in the station, and worked vaccine clinics. The Trump admin is like a new virus that will test us. We’ll take action, and we’ll get through this.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u... More cronyism.
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Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights (Gift Article)
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said.” NYT, Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed with Elon Musk.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b.... More meddling with the Washington Post. I miss my subscription, but it was becoming clear that WaPo wasn’t going to be free of Bezos’ bias.
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Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Horst Kruger, from the afterword of “A Crack in the Wall”
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
www.mainepublic.org/news/2025-02.... USDA is now investigating the University of Maine for alleged Title IX infractions. Hold fast Maine!
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USDA Launches Compliance Review of University of Maine for Title IX Violations
UMaine is a federally funded land-grant institution that receives over $100 million in USDA funding.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/11/s... Memo to myself: find someone to run against Susan Collins yesterday. Is she naive or does she think she’s fooling us? Again & again she makes a show of standing on principle when her only principle is allegiance to party & power.
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Sen. Susan Collins will support RFK Jr. as US health secretary
The Maine Republican, considered a key swing vote for many Cabinet picks, did not respond to questions about why she thinks Kennedy is qualified for the role despite his history of criticizing vaccine...
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Birches
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
What will happen to towns if DOE is shut down? A state mediator warned our union that it would be the end of federal education grants, and consequently lead to cuts in other municipal departments. I didn’t believe Congress would let it happen. Now I’m not so sure.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda
Perception is reality.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My DOGE.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“Unfortunately, the sheer depth of American exceptionalism is such that this country’s political, media and economic elites have a difficult time believing that anything can fundamentally change for the worse. But that, in fact, is what’s happening right now.” Jamelle Bouie, NYT
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sometimes I need to Just Row.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Adding to the reading list.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Time for this again.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Placed my seed order today!
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b... Government control of the media. Are we no better than Hungary?
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Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u... Making popcorn while the circus burns.
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Interior Department Says Gulf of Mexico Is Now ‘Gulf of America’
Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Beers at Well & Good then dinner at the opening night of Vesta. Vesta was packed. Dare I say that NoYo has a night life?
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Goodbye WaPo. Hello NYT. I canceled my WaPo subscription of more than seven years after Bezos squashed the editorial department’s presidential endorsement, killed Ann Telnaes cartoon, and Jennifer Rubin quit. I hope the Sulzbergers are better. Now, what to do about my Britbox addiction?
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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hello Bluesky. Bye Facebook.
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