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@207_Builder @KJisms @shennabellows Yikes!

@KJisms @shennabellows

Lookie here.... It's "no comment" @shennabellows again. 🙄 We don't need a Governor who can't stand to hear our voices!

@PingreeHannah You Pingree, are part of the reason we are in a failing state. NO MORE DEMOCRATS. They destroy more than they help.

“Today I had a girl tell me I’m a role model” -Lesbian Liberal highschool math teacher making her sexuality the forefront of her classroom again Why can’t they just focus on curriculum? 🙄✨🌈

@newscentermaine 🙄Too bad they don't focus on real problems. So much wasted energy.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders joins Maine Democrats Graham Platner and Troy Jackson on his "Fight Oligarchy" tour, urging higher taxes on billionaires. newscentermaine.com/article/news/p…

For all his tough guy act and supposed caring about workers, @grahamformaine has ignored the workers at BIW, 4200 of them. He knows he’d get his ass kicked down the block by patriots and decent veterans.

@GAFollowers Why are they *ALWAYS* dancing?!

This Georgia middle school is going viral for how they release their students for summer break.

Let's examine what REALLY happened. When Donald Trump was a private citizen, a government contractor stole his private tax data and leaked it to the media. Because the government failed to protect his private records, Trump and his family sued the IRS for $10 billion. On May 18, 2026, the Justice Department settled the case. Trump agreed to walk away with zero dollars for himself. In exchange, the government put $1.776 billion into an "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to help ordinary citizens who say they were also unfairly targeted by federal agencies. The government also agreed to completely drop its ongoing tax audits against Trump's businesses. Trump declined $10 billion he was statutorily entitled to under 26 U.S.C. § 7431 and converted it into a compensation pool for other citizens, so calling this a corrupt enrichment scheme is factually backwards. If anyone else got that award they would have taken it and ran. Joe Biden and every other Democrat out there. The fund’s text explicitly says “there are no partisan requirements to file a claim,” meaning Democrats, independents, and Republicans are equally eligible. The audit waiver is bound to pre-May-18-2026 conduct, not “perpetuity immunity forever” as the ridiculous media and out of job former attorney Liz Oyer claims. Biden pardoned Hunter for crimes he was actually convicted of and Jim Biden while Jim was under two active federal investigations, with an 11-year window and zero public-facing remedy and the same commentators called that defensible. Literally. So the Biden family could issue pardon for crimes committed and active investigations but Trump, who was actually agreed and is statutory entitled to this money set up a fund to help Americans who were victims of political persecution, and the demented media is calling it some kind of corrupt act? Of course that same demented media wants judicial oversight. Would that be the judicial oversight that consistently rules incorrectly in any case involving Trump and gets overruled sometimes 9-0 at the Supreme Court? Not one prior U.S. president has faced this volume of criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and unauthorized disclosure of confidential financial records simultaneously, so pretending this is a normal political cycle is dishonest bs. The Obama administration used the exact same Judgment Fund mechanism in Keepseagle $760M, no congressional appropriation and the press called that justice. But it was actually much worse because in the Obama case this settlement was made against the advice of career DOJ officials who thought they could win at court. Trump personally receives zero dollars, zero damages, and zero direct financial benefit from the settlement the only thing he gets is the audit waiver as protect protection so he won’t be targeted by the same Weaponized government should they ever get power again. Congress will never legislatively compensate Jan 6 defendants, FACE Act defendants, or dismissed-case targets, so the choice was this fund or no remedy at all for documented victims of politically motivated federal action. The media is very dishonest in this country and there’s a lot of experts who are even more dishonest. I am not an expert at anything except research and common sense. It is just basic common sense that when you have a president issue blanket, pardons for crimes that nobody even knows about that may or may not have been committed on his way out, and the media doesn’t bat an eye, but then you have a president who is actually wronged and who uses his settlement money to help those who are also politically persecuted smeared as corrupt the problem is the media. -Insurrection Barbie

@brianstelter How do you still go out in public?

One of the great group shots of "The Late Show" staff posing on stage:

@jswriter65 @DannyDrinksWine S. King's books often don't translate well to film. Exceptions exist of course(Shawshank, Stand by me).

@DannyDrinksWine Compare Kubrick's movie with King's miniseries. That's all the defense Kubrick's movie needs--watch the King-scripted miniseries, which is godawful.

"What’s basically wrong with Kubrick’s version of 'The Shining' (1980) is that it’s a film by a man who thinks too much & feels too little; and that’s why, for all its virtuoso effects, it never gets you by the throat and hangs on the way real horror should." --- Stephen King Full Excerpt: "Stanley Kubrick‘s version of 'The Shining' (1980) is a lot tougher for me to evaluate [than 'Carrie' (1976)], because I’m still profoundly ambivalent about the whole thing. I’d admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fall flat. I think there are two basic problems with the movie. First, Kubrick is a very cold man—pragmatic and rational—and he had great difficulty conceiving, even academically, of a supernatural world. He used to make transatlantic calls to me from England at odd hours of the day and night, and I remember once he rang up at seven in the morning and asked, “Do you believe in God?” I wiped the shaving cream away from my mouth, thought a minute and said, “Yeah, I think so.” Kubrick replied, “No, I don’t think there is a God,” and hung up. Not that religion has to be involved in horror, but a visceral skeptic such as Kubrick just couldn’t grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel. So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters and made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones. That was the basic flaw: Because he couldn’t believe, he couldn’t make the film believable to others. The second problem was in characterization and casting. Jack Nicholson, though a fine actor, was all wrong for the part. His last big role had been in 'One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest' (1975), and between that and his manic grin, the audience automatically identified him as a loony from the first scene. But the book is about Jack Torrance’s gradual descent into madness through the malign influence of the Overlook, which is like a huge storage battery charged with an evil powerful enough o corrupt all those who come into contact with it. If the guy is nuts to begin with, then the entire tragedy of his downfall is wasted. For that reason, the film has no center and no heart, despite its brilliantly unnerving camera angles and dazzling use of the Steadicam. What’s basically wrong with Kubrick’s version of 'The Shining' is that it’s a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little; and that’s why, for all its virtuoso effects, it never gets you by the throat and hangs on the way real horror should. I’d like to remake 'The Shining' someday, maybe even direct it myself if anybody will give me enough rope to hang myself with." (From Stephen King's interview to Playboy, 1983) P.S: On this day, 46 years ago, "The Shining" (1980) had its limited release in the USA & Turkey.

@C_Farthammer Guess Bellows figured out the easiest way to get her desired outcome is to just strike whatever she objects to right the hell off the ballot.

Sheena Bellows is Dangerous to Maine:

@atensnut Drone?

I don’t understand how this is being filmed. 🤷‍♀️

@MarcoFoster_ Never cared for Howard Stern.

Fran Lebowitz on the billionaires: “Every time someone suggests [a wealth tax] they say I’m moving. Go! They add nothing to New York. In the 19th century, those robber barons, they employed people. All this money magic employs no one. Goodbye, go. We don’t need you”

@mattvanswol Our leaders are not protecting us.

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!! An Atlanta judge let a man WALK OUT OF JAIL EARLY for BEATING a woman's face so badly, he SHATTERED HER ORBITAL BONE on a public train... ...TWO MONTHS AFTER HIS RELEASE, HE ST*BS A WOMAN TO DE*TH ON WALKING PATH!!! HE GOES ON TO ASSAULT A POSTAL WORKER WITH A ROCK BEFORE HE IS CAUGHT BY POLICE... In January, Jahmare Brown got on top of and beat a female attorney as she stepped off a MARTA train to go to work in Atlanta... he broke her NOSE and then shattered her ORBITAL BONE. She needed 25 STITCHES. ...MARTA Police charged it as a MISDEMEANOR!!! The incident report DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THE BROKEN BONES. Brown was sentenced to 120 days... but he was released early, and only served 60. He was out in March. Two months later, he beat a postal worker with a ROCK and st*bbed Alyssa Paige to de*th at noon on the Atlanta Beltline. If Brown had served the full 120 days the court gave him, he would have STILL BEEN IN JAIL the day he k*lled her. Alyssa Paige would be alive. STOP. LETTING. VIOLENT. OFFENDERS. OUT. OF. PRISON!!!!!!!!!!

@ronrule Yep. It'll need to be gradual so those in their 40', 50's, etc, experience minimal disruption. Of course our leaders are incapable of managing such a course of action.

$500 a month paid to social security for 40 years gets you $2k a month in retirement and $0 for your kids when you die. $500 a month in the S&P for 40 years gets you $20k-$27k a month in retirement and $3.1 million to your kids when you die. It’s time to end social security.

@FlorioGina Lets also not pretend it matters. She peaked as an ancillary member of the Office cast.

Most of Mindy Kaling's early career was full of punchlines and witty comebacks about how she would never lose weight because she was content with her curves and disinterested in conforming to the unfair beauty standards. Now she says she achieved her drastic weight loss by "food moderation," hiking, and strength training. The fat celebs and influencers only hid behind the battle cry of body positivity in the past because they couldn't conform to the beauty standards. But now that Ozempic is here, they can and so they do. Good for her, she looks great. But let's not pretend this is due to hiking.

@JonathanTurley Sorry JT, but this has become a weakness for out country. Our enemies abroad are exploiting it.

I strongly disagree with the push for a constitutional amendment to bar foreign-born legislators. foxnews.com/politics/mace-… While I have suggested the possible tinyurl.com/f86u4tce, I cannot think of anything more antithetical to our founding than barring foreign-born citizens from Congress. As a nation of immigrants, it is a reaffirmation of our heritage to have these citizens serve in government...

@JeffBezos I'm all for cutting taxes, but everyone should have some skin in the game.

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

@Billybobwalter1 Yeaah. Pretty tough to put a positive spin on this one.

I was talking to some idiot yesterday who was like “local Mainers don’t care if he jerked off in porta potties.. they’ll forget about it in a few days” Bullshit.. tell that to boxcar Willy and spankin Rankin. He’ll never outlive that.

@libbyemmons Wonder if Greta feels like a dope yet? Fully expect a book in her 30's about how she was exploited by left wing groups. Maybe drags her parents into court.

Remember when Greta Thunberg was used by global elites to terrorize everyone about the climate-pocalypse? And now the UN has walked back the model that spawned the terror, but the damage done to our kids with climate anxiety has already been done.

@matthewstoller Go Amish.

Trump's base is bleeding, he only beat Massie by 10 points despite $25m in spending. But his base won't abandon him until the stock market declines. His base are the olds, and they have a lot of financial assets.