Marc Malon

So, i guess they could get him back after all abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-…

“I don’t think the public really understands what veterans who serve in combat go through and see. You don’t unsee the things you’ve seen." — Scott Surette, Mail Handlers maineaflcio.org/news/mail-hand…

RECAP: Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & restrictions on the rights of LGBT students suffered losses tonight in school board races. I tracked these results in 4 boards tonight, so a 🧵 on each ICYMI:

These people are really sick. Circulating an obviously fabricated worksheet showing how transgender bottom surgery is performed, stating that surgeons could make the penis "stand out like a lighthouse." Sad attempt to get Libs of Tik Tok's attention. midcoastvillager.com/news/education…

All the happy tears for Will Campbell 🥹 @Patriots 📺: #NFLDraft on NFLN/ESPN/ABC 📱: Stream on @NFLPlus

Which, to be clear, should be so.

I'm old enough to remember when being a 9/11 conspiracy theorist meant the end of a political career.

The Secretary of Defense’s own public affairs director ran an op-ed calling for him to be fired for incompetence tonight. A few hours later SecDefs response is shitposting in the DNC’s replies like he’s a midwit MAGA social media influencer after a few pops

No I get it. The Maine Wire is a useful tool to distract people by demonizing LGBTQ people, Black folks & immigrants. That way they don't realize your organization exists solely to enrich your wealthy benefactors on the backs of the working class.

This is madness. Chris Krebs was a public servant, a GOP appointee, who *did his job* ensuring the 2020 election was secure. For our government to target him like this is appalling & Stalinesque. Any person who reveres our constitutional republic should speak out against it.

That's crazy! Hey, is this your Editor & Chief spreading disinformation about vaccines & quack cures on @MainePolicy's news site?

OUR PLAN IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND IS JUST A NEGOTIATING TACTIC BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE PERMANENT AND WE WILL BE THE WORLD LEADER IN TEXTILES AND NOW THERE IS A PAUSE AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL BUT ALSO WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN AAAAAAHHHHHH

The assignment editor at Fox whose job it is to find transgender athletes to talk about on air while the stock market crashes

When the people at FOX News try to spin this as something positive, remember that they all have multimillion dollar contracts, haven’t stepped foot inside a grocery store in years, and couldn’t give two shits about you. This is a disaster, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords. Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant that he had gang connections. The disposition of this case, based on a judge’s review of the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected legal status, preventing his deportation. Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected; indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld.

Steve Robinson is the biggest baby in #mepolitics

As the victim of antisemitic violence related to the protest movement on campus, I want to say two things about it: It is entirely understandable, even reasonable, that people will see the Columbia defunding as somehow protecting Jewish students. It does not.

Whoever is the intern @NRCC that tweeted this racist shit needs to be fired.

What a fascinating development.

We condemn in the strongest terms the arbitrary firings of probationary employees at the Togus VA Medical Center. We demand that Congressional leaders step in and cease this attack on critical services for our nation’s veterans!