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Chelsea Lane

@somechelsea.bsky.social
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Mainer, reader, knitter, Red Sox fan, trivia nerd, museum enthusiast/professional. she/her

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The two pictures are 11 years apart. On 10 May 1933, the Nazi Party staged an ideological spectacle of the burning of 'un-German’ books. 2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber and crematorium V, 1944. #Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead people.
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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Chart showing major rise in Black reps after 1965 Civil Rights Act
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2026
on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)
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Opinion | The Last Thing Trump Wants to Do Is Save America
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
America's Richest People Are Not its Most Generous
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice: State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Either Susan Collins has the power to get ICE out of Maine and isn't using it OR despite voting with Trump 96% of the time and being a GOP team player for 29 years she *doesn't* have that power -- in which case she's utterly useless. Meanwhile she not even writing stern letters on this. #MEpolitics
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 24/01/2026
6 arrested during protests near Portland hotels suspected of hosting ICE agents * Free to access
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6 arrested during protests near Portland hotels suspected of hosting ICE agents
It was loud — and that was the point.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
microdosing the horrors by being awake
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.
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KILLY krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 10/11/2025
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My thoughts on Graham Platner and his old Reddit posts. blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...
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A white millennial man said some racist and sexist stuff...and...??? | Shay Stewart-Bouley
From the moment that Maine oysterman Graham Platner announced his bid to unseat Republican Susan Collins from her U.S. Senate seat, the political world and Maine have been on fire. Within hours of dro...
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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We’re expecting a tsunami of food insecurity in our state and across the country,” said Anna Korsen, deputy director of Full Plates Full Potential, a Brunswick-based organization that focuses on ending childhood hunger in Maine. #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2025/10/12/t...
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Thousands of Mainers face loss of SNAP benefits as program undergoes historic cuts
The changes will put more pressure on food pantries, which are already seeing a rise in need and warning that they won't be able to fill the gap.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 08/10/2025
The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you. And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it. This is not about politics. It's about people. Let’s break it down:
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/08/2025
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
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Social Security now requires Maine parents to visit an agency office to register newborns
The change — immediately criticized by pediatric health advocates — eliminates a program that allowed parents to fill out a form at the hospital to secure a Social Security number for their children.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/03/2025
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
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Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article)
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
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Angela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
NEW: Want to know how Kendrick Lamar's incredible Super Bowl halftime show came together? I got the scoop for you. www.wired.com/story/true-s...
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The Wild True Story Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
From the start, Kendrick Lamar wanted to turn his life into a video game for his big Super Bowl halftime show. The team tasked with doing that knew what to do—right down to sourcing a vintage GNX.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/01/2025
Good news for folks who want to support local booksellers www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
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Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books (Gift Article)
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 27/12/2024
American cities remove homeless encampments as part of “sweeps” and take the belongings of the people they move. ProPublica asked them to explain what was stolen from them and how sweeps have affected them. It’s devastating. projects.propublica.org/impact-of-h…
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The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps — ProPublica
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so they could explain what they lost in their own words.
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Chelsea Lane @somechelsea.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
So happy to hear this! Fascinating woman. I was lucky enough to visit the house while her family still owned it, and it’s a gorgeous spot.
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