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There's a Fox "free preview" stream of the world series without commentators and I find this a weirdly pleasant way to watch baseball

Interestingly, neither Pingree or Charles seem to be advertising on streaming services. The only ME-Gov ad I've seen is variants on an IE attack ad on Charles' abortion stance

I just saw the most hilariously desperate "please vote early to stop the evil socialists you guys" ad here in Maine

Fuck this thing kinda kicked my ass, longer and tougher terrain than I was expecting

I shook his hand at a rally in 2012 but I don't really count that, otherwise my number is 1.

I've been polled twice today by GOP-affiliated firms. Get ready for the zone to be flooded with low quality Maine polls

Four mile run in the books, nothing else to do today, might as well wander downtown, maybe go to the bookstore, maybe have a beer

The problem is finding a mayor who will a) do this and b) not provoke a police strike

I would really like to understand why YouTube consistently serves me Rhode Island political ads

This is ridiculous conspiratorial nonsense. Mills ran a bad, lazy campaign. She is not well-liked by the primary electorate and didn't try very hard. End of story.

I see we are all playing the Cosmic Number game tonight on computer nerd bluesky

Fox News is on at the Mexican place for reasons unclear, but the people on The Five other than the token lib are freaked the fuck out and scrambling for copium

There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

The thing to understand about James Carville is that nearly 40 years ago he served as water boy for a star quarterback. Based on that job and that job only he has spent decades insisting he knows how to win Super Bowls. At best he knows how to fetch Bill Clinton’s water.

beyond not understanding that you retain a benefit — growing equity — that justifies continued taxation, what is happening is that these people don’t understand that their mortgage payment included a property tax payment that went into escrow. that, and simple selfishness, is what’s happening here.

You should pay property taxes but only when you have a mortgage is a bizarre belief

Dragged a friend out trail running today, reminded me how much fun it is to run with people, and him that running on trails is a lot harder (and more fun) than the treadmill

I was the Campaign Manager for a congressional campaign for like 2.5 weeks before it became clear the guy was a joke so I quit. He later was convicted of campaign finance fraud

Thats why "a couple" is the perfect number of beers. You have a couple, and then a couple more, but it's still just a couple of beers

I am literally actually screaming in my apartment. I have seen state legislative campaigns with better quarters than this

I'll just add, on the right, asking for more of your country is seen as "lacking gratitude" and it's not just directed at brown people or immigrants.

I just saw a Kia EV with the license plate "REDN3CK".

Susan Collins is trying to drop the Bill Greene bomb again this year, but the ad is way weaksauce compared to six years ago

10 miles this morning. Perfect running weather, but I may have pushed it a bit hard given my lack of recent volume

Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

Lol of course that game ends with Tua throwing a pick

The SNF football announcers seem to be convinced that the Ravens can win this game in regulation while down 8.

Fishies for dinner

Anyone got a good recipe for fresh caught trout?

I'm rooting for the White Sox because they usually suck and because "Guardians" is a stupid fucking name, the woke pope being a fan is a plus too, anyone got counterarguments?

Seems like I must have caught the fall stocking truck. Fat rainbow trout for days

Not just one year, it was "while she was running for Governor in 1994"

This Senate debate is pretty painful on both sides

Some fascinating development plans at Loon from LiftBlog: share.google/lp9TsBTurQEm...

Standing in line to buy new pants cause apparently I'm a 34 now. I was still breaking in a pair of size 40 Carhartts I bought less than a year ago.

Anthropic only having $4.6 billion in revenue was a reality check for me of how tiny these businesses still are despite trillion dollar valuations. Paramount Plus, for comparison, had $7.5 billion revenue for 2025

I was blocked by a moot for this lol

I saw HK denialism first as an obvious joke in a bumble profile, and then a few months later as obviously not a joke based on all the other stupid shit in the profile

If we all just switched to cursive and stick shift cars, we could cripple an entire generation. #seenonateeshirt

I used to say that I would stuff the gecko into a potato cannon and use it to hunt the LiMu but this little fuck gets it first

Just got called by the "Critical Insights" poll of Maine and holy shit did that bounce around

Maine's DOC commissioner is retiring, which means the state will no longer have a head jailor ironically named "Randy Liberty"

Andy Beshear is running for president and he's a lot better at it than Seth Moulton or Gavin Newsom.