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Pine Tree Activism📎 @pinetreeactivism.org · 10h

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WHAT ARE WE VOTING ON IN NOV?
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For info on Questions 1 & 2 in Maine,
(live link): isledems.org/maine-electi...

VOTING DAY is TUES NOV 4, 2025

Screen grab of block of text, with buttons to click for "Learn more About Question 1" and "Learn more About Question 2" and the text:

What are we voting on in November 2025?

QUESTION 1: “Do you want to change Maine election laws to eliminate two days of absentee voting, prohibit requests for absentee ballots by phone or family members, end ongoing absentee voter status for seniors and people with disabilities, ban prepaid postage on absentee ballot return envelopes, limit the number of drop boxes, require voters to show certain photo ID before voting, and make other changes to our elections?”

QUESTION 2: “Do you want to allow courts to temporarily prohibit a person from having dangerous weapons if law enforcement, family, or household members show that the person poses a significant danger of causing physical injury to themselves or others?”

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Pine Tree Activism📎 @pinetreeactivism.org · 3d

#SaveMaineAbsenteeVoting #VoteNOon1

Here's the list of events for the big weekend push. Go here for the webpage with live links and scroll down a bit:
saveabsentee.me/events/

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent clip on the history of hostile architecture in NYC-it’s current form seen in the leaning benches in subways &lack of any seating (except Amtrak Lounge) in Moynihan station impacting ppl who are unhoused, older, and/or disabled. Of course, Robert Moses & his legacy are responsible for this.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16h

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids.

www.lawdork.com/p/the-kavana...

The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later

"What a sick world." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Sue @modcur.bsky.social · 16h

For anyone planning to run against Jared Golden in the primary or as an independent, a quote for you
"I imagine that’s because most of my colleagues believe, as I do, that the president's actions thus far — even those with which I strongly disagree — do not constitute impeachable acts." 10/25/25

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 18h

Join us for a concert and rally featuring The Ballroom Thieves and Griffin William Sherry as we fight to SAVE ABSENTEE VOTING IN MAINE!

Afterwards we’ll be knocking on doors before the critical November 4 referendum.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 21h

miss piggy in music videos: thread

Miss Piggy in the music video for Here I Go Again by Whitesnake.

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Politico @politico.com · 2d

The Trump admin won’t tap emergency funds to pay for federal food benefits, imperiling benefits starting Nov. 1 for nearly 42 million Americans.

Trump administration won’t tap emergency funds to pay food aid

The move means 42 million people will miss SNAP benefits in November unless Congress acts.

www.politico.com

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Pine Tree Activism📎 @pinetreeactivism.org · 2d

The most recent, and arguably the most in-depth and interesting, article about Graham Platner, his past, and the tattoo controversy. Sums up and refers to a lot of the other articles.

I urge reading through it all before jumping online to quote bits.

#Maine #MEpolitics #GrahamPlatner

How ‘Big Tent’ Are Democrats Willing to Go?

Many in the party say it needs a wider range of candidates to run. Does that include people with Nazi tattoos?

www.theatlantic.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The federal government shutdown has reached a tipping point. On November 1, people across the United States will lose access to food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. The choice by the USDA to not access the $6 billion contingency reserve is deliberate.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Great points from @leahlitman.bsky.social explaining how conditions for Trump's $230 million heist were partly created by SCOTUS, the immunity decision, and unitary executive theory. Trump cited immunity ruling in docs seeking this money.

So much packed in here:

newrepublic.com/article/2022...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

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International Society for Biocuration @biocurator.bsky.social · 2d

Still a few days left to sign up!

International Society for Biocuration @biocurator.bsky.social · 6d

Just 1 week to go to the Annual General Meeting.
There'll be a short update on ISB business, followed by talks from our Early and Advanced Career Award Winners, Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken.
All are welcome. You do not need to be an ISB member to attend.
Sign up: forms.gle/wDX7MGHQwgoz...

ISB 2025 Annual General Meeting Registration

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, October 27th, 2025 along with presentations by our two biocurator career award winners, Tiago Lubi...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3d

24 October 1911 | A Czech Jew, Raul Zeisner, was born in Znojmo.

Deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.

Vintage passport-style photo of a man with slicked-back hair, wearing a suit and tie, with a light background and a slight stamp visible in the top left corner.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 4d

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.

I made a video explainer about why.

Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

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JDub @jwaggo.bsky.social · 4d

Increasing reports of ICE being deployed to the Bay Area. @bayresistance.bsky.social is organizing TONIGHT 6pm Weds Oct 22. Register for Zoom link:
✅ Know Your Rights
✅ Get Trained
✅ Day 1 Mobilization Plan
✅ Unite around STAY OUT OF THE BAY

Register now: actionnetwork.org/events/stay-...

Black illustration with yellow text in cursive of Bay Resistance

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 5d

Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 5d

FUNDED in under 18 hours!

I'm gonna have to order more shirts...

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 6d

By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt!

If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

HOP Shirt

A T-shirt with the legendary Portland frog rendered in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama HOPE image

www.kickstarter.com

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 5d

Maine has just announced that due to the @GOP shutdown, SNAP benefits will not be distributed on time in November. This impacts our children at a disproportionate rate.

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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 7d

Pertussis (whooping cough) cases have exploded in the US in the past 2 years. Get your Tdap if you’re due (every 10 years for adults)

BTW, as of this morning, it looks like all the case counts for 2024-25 have been scrubbed from the CDC website 🫠

As of early September, CDC officials have documented more than 20,000 whooping cough cases across the U.S. this year, compared with 19,302 during the same period of time last year.

Altogether in 2024, there were 35,435 documented cases of whooping cough across the U.S., including 655 in Colorado. That was a huge jump over the 7063 cases in all of 2023. Large states, including New York and California, logged high numbers of pertussis infections in 2024. So did some less-populated states like Idaho, Washington and Oregon, each of which reported more than 1,000 cases of whooping cough.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 6d

In all seriousness, seeing Trump demolish the East Wing to build a gilded ballroom for his wealthy donors is stomach-churning stuff.

The Administration claims no congressional approval or historic-preservation review was needed before demolition began.

That should alarm everyone.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 6d

I guess his symbolic destruction of the office just wasn’t cutting it.

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

www.washingtonpost.com

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International Society for Biocuration @biocurator.bsky.social · 6d

Just 1 week to go to the Annual General Meeting.
There'll be a short update on ISB business, followed by talks from our Early and Advanced Career Award Winners, Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken.
All are welcome. You do not need to be an ISB member to attend.
Sign up: forms.gle/wDX7MGHQwgoz...

ISB 2025 Annual General Meeting Registration

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, October 27th, 2025 along with presentations by our two biocurator career award winners, Tiago Lubi...

forms.gle