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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

(AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an [ICE] agent to stand trial for assault and falsely reporting a crime in the wounding of a man during the agency’s crackdown in Minneapolis. apnews.com/article/minn...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The entry deadline for this year's Youth Journalism International contest for students 19 and under is coming up fast! Check out the rules and details at www.YouthJournalism.org/contest. There are a lot of categories and many opportunities to win. Apply no later than Friday, February 13.

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Contest - Youth Journalism International

The deadline to enter the 2026 contest is Friday, February 13. Winners of the 2025 contest were announced during an online ceremony on Saturday, May 3. The list of winners, with their schools and citi...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Invading Greenland, it turns out, has a long history. I'm not about to swear this is the whole list of invaders before Trump, but it's a good start. We'll begin in 1906 with The Duke of Orleans. 1/

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Let me tell you what I’ve seen of the Somali community in Maine. My Somali neighbors are people with deep faith, families they cherish & determination to secure a better future for their children and grandchildren, much like every immigrant who came before them. www.pressherald.com/2025/12/03/s...

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Somalis are not 'garbage,' President Trump | Column

President Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. This makes yesterday's comments all the more repugnant.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

You can give a one-year digital subscription to all of the Maine Trust for Local News' papers -- including the Press Herald and Sun Journal -- for just $65. New subscribers don't have to read my columns, but what an opportunity to keep up with the news! www.pressherald.com/blackfridayg...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/09/2025

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It’s one thing to mourn a young man cut down too soon. It’s quite another to pretend Kirk, a racist who plugged an anti-gay, anti-women agenda, was a model American. www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/c...

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Charlie Kirk was wrong about Maine | Steve Collins

Our state isn't becoming a 'Third World dumping ground,' is it?

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.'" Name one.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Tired of the constant claims that this war is somehow our fault. Ukraine had only one choice: to defend itself against russia or to succumb and become cannon fodder in russia's future wars of conquest. As anyone with a clear mind can see, neither of these options is peace.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo” The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Not great

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way. Read here: newrepublic.com/article/1982...

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Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb

Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.” -Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Just want to encourage fans who love Van Morrison's old stuff but cringe at some of the crazy crap he's put out in recent years to give his new 'Remembering Now' a listen. It's a surprisingly lovely, hopeful record.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Extremely upsetting: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

That racism motivates decisions like giving Medgar Evers the heave-ho is obvious.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Take heart, students everywhere: Brian Wilson got an F in music in high school.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/06/2025

🔴 Zelenskyy: "We are not kids with Putin at a playground. He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/05/2025

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I remember when presidents went to war against poverty, disease and tyranny. Now our president thinks the enemy is @harvard.edu and turns a blind eye to suffering around the world as he cozies up to dictators.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Long before the House Freedom Caucus arose, the always-perceptive Mark Twain said that legislators possess "the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

To the degree that success is random, which it often is, the Sox have just had an unusually unlucky streak. Ultimately, they are likely to be pretty close to 50-50 in one-run games unless they're a terrible team. And they're not. With normal luck, they'd now be tied for 1st in their division.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Pretty sure Donald Trump is not helping himself by trashing Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A longtime Portland, Maine bishop, born into slavery in Georgia, never even hinted that he was Black. He passed as a white guy. It will be interesting to see how Pope Leo approaches the news that he had Black grandparents from New Orleans' Creole community. www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/p...

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Portland offers insight into Pope Leo’s Black heritage | Steve Collins

From 1875 to 1900, a former slave guided Maine’s largest diocese, passing for white.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Complaining about the "pencil terrorists" of the press in 2017, Paul LePage said, “For seven years, I’ve been enduring these people. If I walked across the Kennebec River, the headline would read ‘Governor can’t swim.’ That’s how bad they are.”

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

My son Kiernan at age 4: "Daddy, what did Grammy and Poppy call you when you were little?" Me: "Usually Steve." Kiernan: "Oh." Me: "What did you think they called me?" Kiernan: "Daddy."

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If the new pope had to be an American, I'm glad it's not Trump.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

See a guy proclaiming "I'm a total anti-vaxxer and proud to be one. Yes, I do think vaccines cause autism and are toxic and dangerous." These folks don't seem to comprehend that what they "think" is irrelevant. This is a matter of science not opinion. And the science is clear.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/05/2025

India and Pakistan are on the precipice of a possible military confrontation, nearly two weeks after a deadly terrorist attack on the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir set off aggressive statements between the nations. Here's a history of the dispute.

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A Timeline of India and Pakistan’s Tensions Over Kashmir

The April 22 terrorist attack in Kashmir inflamed a long-simmering conflict that could boil over into military confrontation.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

How shameful that the United States has fallen so precipitously in the rankings of where a free press flourishes best. We should be #1. Instead we're at #57, well behind South Africa, Armenia and Gabon, among others. Greenland, by the way, is doing just fine. rsf.org/en/index

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Index

RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.

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Steve Collins @stevecollinsyji.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trump's decision to wipe out Veterans Day and turn it into "Victory Day for World War I" is ridiculous on so many levels, but the worst is that he's eliminating the one day all year where the nation hails all of its veterans.

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