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Rhyan E. Romaine

@rhyanr.bsky.social

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Let love rule-- Leonard Albert Kravitz. ❤️✌🏻 She/Her. Literal tree hugger. How can I be helpful? #Maine #grants #HigherEd 📍 Occupied Wabanaki land (Maine, USA)

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 10m

Does he really think we can't see him moving the goal posts?

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1h

House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted Tuesday that he would not swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva until Democrats relent and end the government shutdown.

Grijalva, speaking alongside Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, on Wednesday, said the delay “is not procedural. It’s intentional.” 🧵

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 13m

Correct.

For me, cinnamon is a warming spice for cold weather months. Is that weird? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 29m

Photograph showing a lake and tree line. The photograph was taken inside, framed with floor-to-ceiling paned windows. The distant trees are mostly evergreens, with dots of maples.

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 38m

Love Sherrod

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 21h

LMFAO.
You're right.

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 21h

My spam catcher does a good job of snagging them, but I deliberately went to look.

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 21h

The speed with which I'd be fired for this

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 21h

So good.

I got 4 fundraising texts today 🙄

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 1d

Samesies, pal.

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 1d

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 1d

🦞 🥾🫐🌲We're happy for you to visit whenever you like, Elie!

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 1d

Yeppers.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 1d

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 1d

But don't try it in Outlook or .pptx

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

Today, Maine observes Indigenous Peoples' Day. We honor the lands and legacies of the Wabanaki Nations — Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki.

I look forward to passing legislation in the Senate to protect tribal sovereignty, which has been trampled for too long.

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 2d

Paint by number > Jigsaw puzzle

I like to create. It's not enjoyable for me to put together something someone else broke.

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 3d

People: Are you sure you're going to be ok at that cabin by yourself with no Internet?
Me: Oh, my nervous system and I are quite sure.

#selfcare

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 4d

Cinnamon toast is a fall/winter breakfast food.

I will be taking no further questions at this time.

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 5d

This is not the way, friends.

This is how Maine ends up in the national news cycle and friends text me lame jokes about us.

Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 5d

Protesters undress to oppose gender policy at Augusta schools

Three people partially disrobed as advocate Nicholas Blanchard challenged the school board's recognition of transgender students under the federal policy.

www.pressherald.com

Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 6d

Nice

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6d

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

zeteo.com

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 10d

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

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Eastman Johnson @jejohnson.bsky.social · 10d

The Boston Rocker https://www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson/the-boston-rocker

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 11d

So jealous.
I'm at an airport (but coming home!)

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Rhyan E. Romaine @rhyanr.bsky.social · 11d

He's scared and trying to gaslight us into submission.