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This one buy, by the way, is larger than my entire budget as a Clean Elections candidate in Maine.

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But the PAC also just happened to have some really great video footage of my opponent. Wonder how they got that? Because, of course, there's no coordination going on between Laurel and, say, my opponent's treasurer, who happens to be the House minority whip. Because that would be illegal.

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Hey-hey! I was served my first attack ad against myself last night! Paid for by Laurel Libby! I love that Medium Buying, the Ohio-based company she paid $100k to on 9/30, decided to use the wrong aspect ratio for Instagram. Very savvy!

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Hard to believe how broken and ethically rudderless major journalism outlets have become. Sad stuff when you can't tell whether you're being screwed by ethically bankrupt journalists or by AI bots pretending to be humans. They have succeeded in making "trust nothing and no one" the default position.

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Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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Oh, dang, Mamdani on Theo Von. People are going to hate it, but I love it. We need to be unafraid to talk about how awesome government can be for us. For everyone. Politics isn't just about preventing negative things. It's also about delivering the awesome! We can live in amazing places!

Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Man, Six Stories a Semester came out even better than we'd hoped. I tell ya! Grab it for yourself here: bookshopofbeverlyfarms.com/cool-stuff/s...

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 02/10/2026

This is crazy. Young people need places to go out and have fun. Did a kid die? For sure. But kids die on motorcycles every week and no one calls for banning motorcycles or raising the driver's age. We know kids' brains are being poisoned by social media and AI, but they drive the whole economy!

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Boulder Faculty Assembly passed a resolution calling for no extension of the OpenAI contract. Vote was 39-8-1 after suspending the bylaws. Everyone at CU Student Government public comment has been fired up about their corresponding resolution, talking about trust and societal impact. So energizing.

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Very good debate coverage! Sounds like LePage got dog-walked. Dunlap even got in a "I've lived in Maine my entire life" jab. LePage is giving off Janet Mills' "why am I running for this office again?" energy.

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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I understand the impulse, but I'd bet good money you could leave and nothing would change and your mental health would be way better. That's been my experience. It's where the bad people are.

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Just delivered a $150,000 check to Susan Collins' office with @mainedems.bsky.social. A copy of the check a defense contractor funneled to her super PAC through a fake company. He's in federal prison. Her super PAC kept the money. Senator, you answer to us. On November 3rd, we answer back.

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worm restraint @ctsmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Despite the headline, the news here for me is back-to-back polls with Troy at 50% or better, with both pollsters among the most reputable. That did not happen in the Gideon race, and definitely not this late in the race.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 01/10/2026

Universal basic income ensures that everyone has the ability to express basic demand for basic goods and services. This is market improving. Markets can't differentiate between 0 and Ø. A store can fail because not enough customers. But is that because they didn't like it or they did but were broke?

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026

in July an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. just 6 months prior, agents abducted 100 people in 3 days during "Catch of the Day" I joined Mainers monitoring an ICE facility despite harassment, making memorials, protesting Congress, and caring for their neighbors @us.theguardian.com

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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too

ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach

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

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

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

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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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Yes, it's ill-informed people. Yes, it's the business model relying on sensationalism. But it's also the hollowing out of the media, in general — zero time to go beyond first google hit for additional sources, most staff being overworked kids in their 20s who never even got decent training.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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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 · 30/09/2026

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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Wait. THIS is what he got censured for?

Right. They clearly felt the need to shoe-horn him in and I didn't think he had anything to say that Joe or Lou didn't have in their bag. It's not like he was the only ex-player or ex-Yankee or World Series winner on the broadcast. What's the point?

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I was ready to hate Girardi, but having him and Lou together was really good. I could do without Rizzo on the field, personally.

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

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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.

I do think people have become more free with decorum issues in general since the pandemic; more casual dress, casual speech, casual time-keeping, etc. Pandemic showed how little clothes lots of Emperors were wearing. But also the president being a swearer has trickled down.

We had a trigger warning on the front page of the Sunday Telegram! I'm obviously not opposed to people being careful about their language and how it will be received, I just find it fascinating the way people seem to predict how their language will be received and how they come to those predictions.

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