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Mainer 📎

@mainelife.bsky.social

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Mainer, Reader, Pickleball Junkie, Ohio State Buckeyes Fan, Maker, Baker, Hiker. Aspiring banjo player. Kindness matters. People matter. Character matters.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 9h

Fully agree.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 12h

I'm starting to like Platner. He speaks truth to power.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 14h

Probably.
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Are Democrats About to Blow It in Maine?

By backing Janet Mills over a grassroots outsider, party leaders may be repeating the same mistakes from 2024

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

This is indescribably sad. She will bring wit, wisdom, and smiles to heaven.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

I have not. I love Mills as Governor, but feel she is too old to start a Senate term. And she takes away a lot of campaign points against Collins: age, insider, establishment.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

How are you feeling about Mills entering the race?

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timcon8.bsky.social @timcon8.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from Santorini.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

So beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from ME. Sunrise 6:51 am.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3d

Will Maine really choose a 77 year old senate candidate because that's what Chuck Schumer wants?

I know Janet Mills is popular, but she'll be 79 when the next senate term starts and the entire Dem base is crying out for a new generation.

When will they learn to stop shooting their own feet?

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent article about a guy who maybe can retire Suzy.

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Guy Who Wants To Beat Susan Collins Is Concerned. No, In A Good Way!

Meet Graham Platner!

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 It’s so good.

Mary Wood @maryrosewood.bsky.social · 3d

🧵The implicit beauty of reading was instilled in me from the womb. I know my mother, who read to me constantly before I could for myself, whispered words to me through her belly. When I was old enough, my grandmother, gifted me ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and Helen Keller’s ‘The Story of My Life.’

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

1 in 7 Mainers face food insecurity. Senator Collins’ party took away SNAP benefits.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

Put. I would put. Sheesh. We need an edit button. I need an edit button.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

Every single member of his care team goes above and beyond anything we could imagine every day.
From the first life flight, everyone exceeded expectations. I would out his doctors and specialists up against any NYC or LA care team. They are brilliant and caring. Quite the combination.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

One more reason I feel blessed to live in Maine: Maine Medical Center; Southern Maine Palliative Care, and Gentiva Hospice.
The doctors, nurses, and staff at all three agencies are extraordinary people.
We have been managing my husband’s terminal illness for 18 months, and are nearing the end.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

Ridiculous. He is killing Americans with his idiocy.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

The opposite end of the state! Hello.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning from ME. Sunrise 6:49 am.

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 4d

I respect the state of Maine. We have not been perfect, but we do try to rectify past wrongs.

Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 4d

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Nurturing Native Knowledge - Island Institute

Like most kids growing up on the Penobscot Reservation at Indian Island, just north of Bangor, Donna Loring traveled across the river to Old Town to attend high school. She didn’t like it. In those da...

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