My thoughts on Graham Platner and his old Reddit posts.

blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.

Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out

The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.

Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.