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@CourtneyMeehan3 @RachsRamblings1 @Billybobwalter1 I agree. I had to take some creative license here.

@RachsRamblings1 @PatchoSombrero @Billybobwalter1 Marijuana is the entire state really.

The topic of Maine regions came up with @Billybobwalter1 today and this is the best map I could find. In general I agree with the regions themselves but not the names. Not enough characters here so I will put my list from South to North in the comments below. What say you?

@nirav_maine The Highlands? New weed store? 😂

During my recent visit to The Highlands, over 100 older Mainers not only shared their hopes for the future of the state, but also how they'd like to contribute to making that future a reality. As the state with the oldest average age in the country, older Mainers have a lot to offer our communities and our economy, and as governor I look forward to engaging with them in new ways for the betterment of the state.

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry. The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine. The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true. The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either. The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought. The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to. The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus. He is confident. He has always been confident. The confidence has never been the problem. The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

Great thread. Worth the read

Recognize the warning signs of far-right extremists: 1. Full-time job 2. Literacy 3. Loves their family and country 4. Common sense 5. Obeys the law 6. Knows what a woman is 7. Knows we haven’t had a king for nearly 250 years God Bless America 🇺🇸

@TheMaineWire Complimentary cappuccino and Depends

Here's the crowd for the Platner and Elizabeth Warren rally:

@grahamformaine Guy had a stroke and still has more functioning gray matter than you.

We don't need another Fetterman in the Senate.

Just shut mine off on my TV with these instructions. You should also.

Maine doesn't need another term of this.

Bruh 😭

If you hate billionaires, go all the way, pussy. Ditch the iPhone, the laptop, the tablet. Get off the internet. No Amazon, no big box stores, no Starbucks. Grow your own food. Thrift your clothes. Walk everywhere. And obviously no working for, buying from, or interacting with any company that scales beyond a farmers market. Enjoy your abundance.

BREAKING: We just caught another interesting trade. Representative Sheri Biggs just filed a purchase of up to $250,000 of Bitcoin, $BTC. This is one of the largest Bitcoin purchases we have ever seen by an active member of Congress.

@grahamformaine Your prediction will age about as well as this one.

In precisely 200 days Susan Collins will lose her seat. November 3. Mark your calendar.

@magine_3037 He likes the booze. DC Dems will get him drunk and blackmail him as their useful idiot à la Eric Swalwell.

In 200 days this clown will be Maine’s next Senator or he will go back to selling oysters to mommy. Either way, he will still be a liar and making apologies daily. #Maine #NoQuestionsPlatner

Just when you think you've seen it all from Maine public schools, they pull something like this...

No truer words spoken

@mikesright76 @grahamformaine And what are you gonna do after you confiscate and spend it all in 6 months? Take an economics class before embarrassing yourself like this

@grahamformaine Don't let these people keep their fortunes. It should be straightforward to find all the 2-4 thousand billionaires and confiscate it. Pass legislation so they don't exist and make sure that tax rates are high enough in certain brackets so they can't rebuild it.

Trump gave two huge tax cuts to billionaires. Like Bush before him. And Reagan before him. The billionaire class is out of control, and a reasonable tax on fortunes over $1 billion is long overdue.

I see so many middle-aged people give up and put one foot in the grave. 3-4 hrs/week is a small price to pay for health.

People Platner has attacked online: Mentally Handicapped Women White people People who live in rural areas Rape victims People Platner has defended online: Communists Terrorists Hamas Socialists