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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 3h

If you need another reason to abolish the death penalty, here you go. What barbarism. Inhumanity. The worst of us.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 11h

Whelp, that's enough Red Sox for one year.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 11h

I still can't believe Erik Miller just pitched in an elimination game.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14h

Use code DMCRACYROCKS for a $20 bonus when you build your first Same Nation Parlay! Government shutdown, hospital closure, and your incumbent winning reelection! All three must hit!

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 21h

The people who love AI are the same people who think everything is just a box to be checked. "Ope, it's a rule we gotta work on suicide prevention. Let's just hit the AI button on that and we'll be good to go! Next!" Nevermind we're trying to keep our servicefolk from offing themselves. Whatever.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 21h

I haven't seen any news coverage yet of Cameron Hamilton's announcement that he has re-defined the entire field of emergency management to include only preparedness and response activities related to coordinating police, fire, and EMS. Seems like something that should get some attention.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 21h

I'm constantly baffled by the AI proponents who point to an LLM output and say, "look it can do art!" Quite simply: No, it cannot.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wait. THIS is what he got censured for?

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know it pales beside the naked pay-for-play, but the whole reason PACs can spend as much as they want is because they're legally not allowed to coordinate with campaigns, which have fundraising limits, and literally no one seems to be denying that Collins and the 1820 PAC are clearly coordinated.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is 4:12 in the afternoon and I have already completed 4 separate political surveys. BRING ME MORE.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now do bar-band gigs. I've been getting the same money to write articles and play music for the last 25 years and, if anything, the pay is going down, because more people than ever are lining up to do it for free.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah, I see there's bipartisan support for disenfranchising athletes to the benefit of rich old men!

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Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The @pablo.show theory of AI remains undefeated

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey @jamesxmyall.bsky.social - the ad where they say New Hampshire pays a lot less for ACA plans than Mainers do has been effective. Do you guys have a good explainer for what's going on there? How does state policy affect the price of plans on the marketplace and what has Maine done?

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A 51% from UNH has my attention!

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think this article and headline framing beg the question! $350k out of $35m? So, 1%, and some of it was reimbursed by DHS? So, less than 1%? Is just the use of credit cars AT ALL indicative of a "permissive spending culture"? Feels like I'm missing something.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not sure I can remember a trigger warning in the Sunday Telegram before? Is there an in-house or AP style guide for which types of tragedies are particularly upsetting and require editor's notes?

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Man, the Press Herald is on its last legs. Can't even cut and paste into the CMS competently anymore:

Weird line breaks mean someone cut from a pdf directly into the content management system and didn't even bother to fix the line breaks.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dang, the "still comes up" really got me. Can't imagine why all those women whose rights you put on the burn pile haven't just shut up about it. The nerve!

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whelp, maybe this is end, finally. That's insane.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/09/2026

Congratulations to the nurses at the Central Maine Medical Center who, in the face of relentless union-busting, stood strong in the fight for better patient care and overwhelmingly voted to form a union with @nationalnurses.bsky.social! When we fight, we WIN! ✊

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Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Six Stories a Semester, our new literary magazine, is a real thing you can now hold in your hands. It looks so good right by the cash wrap at Papercuts bookstore in JP!

At Papercuts bookstore in Jamaica Plain, Boston, a bookseller smiles as he sells a customer a copy of the new literary magazine Six Stories a Semester

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

thehandbasket.co

I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

… Literally RNC Comms Director Zach Kraft warning that Democrats want “full-blown communism” on a split screen with Trump palling around with the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New from @umlcpo.bsky.social / @today.yougov.com in Maine: 8/28-9/14 U.S. Senate Jackson 48% Collins 43 Another candidate 1 Undecided 6 Will not vote 1 So much to unpack in this, check it all out via the link for topline, methodology, etc.

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Center for Public Opinion Polls | Research

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 24/09/2026

From 2017 to 2024, rates of violence in Maine prisons fell 36% and rates of staff use of force fell 69%. New research finds the Maine Model is off to a strong start, though more work is needed to achieve its goals. bit.ly/4hlKmM0

brennancenter.org

Improving Maine’s Prisons

An early look at correctional transformation in Maine shows promise. While there is more work to do, other states should consider adopting similar reforms for their own systems.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is just so, so wasteful. Millions of dollars up in literal smoke for no reason at all, to do nothing of value, all just part of an elaborate ponzi scheme so that people will keep sending 401k dollars into a propped up stock market of nothing.

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Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This ish is TONIGHT, y'all. You coming? I'd get there on the early side, like 6:30, if you want to chit-chat. We start the program at 7 p.m. SHARP.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New UNH survey has a result I find genuinely surprising. Don't think media can influence opinion? Well, somehow, essentially every Republican in the state believes that "election fraud" is a problem, while essentially zero Democrats have that opinion.

Data shows Republicans basically all believe election fraud is a problem, while democrats don't think it's a problem at all.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's just so disingenuous to suggest you're unique in thinking of pinching pennies on municipal budgets. Just say which programs and people you don't want to fund anymore. Which ones? Who? Budgets go up unless you cut services or people. That's the only way they don't go up.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

how seriously is a voter to take this new information, if the response is simply "woah susan collins is corrupt. better not vote for her!" vs "susan collins has shown herself to have betrayed mainers and she should step down immediately"

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Someone has broken through the blockade! I don't know how long this is going to last us, though.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spent a little time this morning emailing Senator Collins and calling for her to resign. I don't care if it's fruitless. She's been caught red-handed and it's the only right thing to do. www.collins.senate.gov/contact/emai...

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Email Senator Collins | U.S. Senator Susan Collins of Maine

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Susan Collins of Maine

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah, the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC, well-known for their deep pockets and good work in the community.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just think someone caught engaging in something so flagrantly illegal and untrustworthy should not be given legitimacy granted by appearing on the ballot. Not without a fight. It strikes me as morally incoherent and politically weak to shrug and say “let the voters be the judge”

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

While I get the thinking behind not demanding Collins resign now, I also think it’s absurd nobody is calling for it given how clear and brazen that act of corruption was

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I honestly can't remember a story demonstration corruption in such cut-and-dry fashion. Usually there's SOME wiggle room. But here, no. Collins was just straight up selling influence. Wild.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I basically answer every survey call, since I want to know what the pollsters are poking around on, but the surveys this cycle are BRUTAL. Essentially all push polls that are impossible to take in less than 20 minutes. There's no way that data is worth anything.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Troy Jackson responds: “This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, & then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time & has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.”

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, going over to Facebook to see if the Collins story has made its way there. Wish me luck.

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Um, this is a pretty big story!

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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For the late-night crowd, my first campaign radio ad, targeting listeners of Maine afternoon drive time sports radio: youtu.be/FkqkA3l4ZTg

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Sam for House 104 Campaign Ad, WJAB 96.3 FM, 2026

YouTube video by Sam Pfeifle for Maine House 104

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