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Like a crow, except I collect shiny info about Maine, New England, color, writing, cats, social justice, rural life, art+design, democracy & neurodiversity. She/Her 🥄😷🏳️‍🌈+ ♾️🌲♠️🍉🌻🌊🟧🐈‍⬛🐈🖤💜🤍🩶 🇺🇸❌👑❌🇺🇸

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 6d

🗳️ Voter Forum on Ballot Question 1 in Rockland 🗳️

This November, #Maine voters will be asked to vote on Ballot Question 1, legislation that—if enacted—would restrict absentee voting and make it more difficult for all Mainers to exercise their right to vote.

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Flyer advertising a Voter Forum on Maine’s Ballot Question 1

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Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 8h

Gear up, we need more 🐸

Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 20h

Your country needs you!

In Antifa 🐸 uniform. Join us.

#NoKings

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for sharing! 🙏 #Maine

Please note that parking for the event is in MacDougal Park lot or on Gay Street. The Church parking lot is reserved for hosts, panelists and those needing to park closer for accessibility. There is no parking on Court St. Thanks for your understanding 😊

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h

The Episcopalians have been activated. Repeat: the Episcopalians have been activated.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 13h

❌ VOTE NO on QUESTION 1 ❌

‼️Just say NO to voter suppression‼️ #Maine #MEPolitics

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 13h

❌ VOTE NO on QUESTION 1 ❌

🗳️ The key message here is that we all can do our part to preserve Maine’s voting rights. Maine’s election laws have served us all for generations without problems. 🗳️ #Maine #MEPolitics

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 13h

#Maine #Resist

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ColombianCris @colombiancris.bsky.social · 1d

This #Politico article on Young #Republicans across the country communicating on Telegraph chats with the most vile & dehumanizing language, is a must read. Some are fans of Hitler and rape. Some still work in the #Trump administration. Are we great yet #MAGA? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE
TO SAVE DEMOCRACY‼️
EVERY SATURDAY AT NOON
Park & Main Street,
Rockland, #Maine
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE‼️
Details at AudacityCAT.org/events
Website: AudacityCAT.com
Join: [email protected]

Pick up truck carrying a banner in its bed reading
FIRE the LIARs)
Restore:
• Free speech
• Due process
• Rule of law
• Decency
Protect:
• Public health
• Voting rights
• Human rights
• Workers' rights

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy depends on
our ‼️RIGHT to VOTE‼️🗳️

❌No on Question 1❌
saveabsentee.me 🗳️ #Maine
‼️SAVE ABSENTEE VOTING‼️

Red, white and blue chalking “NO on 1” on a sidewalk

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

An antifa membership card <would> go well with my ACLU membership card. Hmmmm 🤔

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

There is no membership card.
Anyone can be Antifa.
Everyone should be Antifa. 2/2

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

These folks didn’t like me CB posting an image in the comments of a BDN article!

The image reads:
THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION
CALLED "ANTIFA."
Antifa stands for anti-fascism.
World War Il veterans were Antifa because they fought fascism.
Anyone who is against fascism is Antifa. 1/2

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

There is no membership card.
Anyone can be Antifa.
Everyone should be Antifa. 2/2

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

"The image of the ugly American always competed with the image of the generous American. Now that the latter has disappeared, the only Americans anyone can see are the ones trying to rip you off."

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 1d

The president (or maybe not president) of Madagascar—a radio DJ who overthrew the island’s yogurt kingpin in a coup d’état—just fled the country in a French helicopter after Gen Z protests. I wrote about the most interesting island you know nothing about, with bonus pictures of me with lemurs:

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

Be in the loop! 🗳️

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(We the) People Over Politics @kudubro.bsky.social · 1d

Get your signs ready👇

And bring 🇺🇸 flags. Let’s show Mike Johnson that it’s not a “Hate America” rally, it’s a “Love America, hate Trump” rally.

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

Pledge here: secure.everyaction.com/go3KQMRQRE6C...

#Maine #MEPolitics

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 1d

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that there’s been a significant rise in crowdfunding for essentials like groceries, a shift from one-off emergencies toward everyday survival, across the US..

flip.it/Dd-58J

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries | Fortune

GoFundMe’s CEO says more Americans are crowdfunding everyday essentials like groceries as high costs and strained household finances persist.

flip.it

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 1d

Humans are slow on the uptake, unfortunately

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 2d

I am DECEASED 💀

I’m so old I wish I had more phone numbers memorized

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 2d

to think about their vote and put up their own signs! 🤞 End/🧵

Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 2d

We strongly encourage folks to make their own yard signs. You might even consider organizing a sign-making party with your friends and neighbors! If you do, we’d love to share photos on our social media channels.”

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Livka 🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸 @livkalearns.bsky.social · 2d

Additionally, we're asking folks to reserve signs for their own yards and property, rather than in a public right-of-way. We don’t have plans to purchase any more signs, and will instead be directing our resources to other avenues of public outreach.

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