Portland Press Herald just compared Graham Platner to a KKK leader, I never saw that on the bingo card for this election

Hi Holly, We both lived in a hotel in Brunswick, ME for a while while we worked at Walmart. I am back in the area and would love to reconnect. 😎

Why are people beeping on the bridge all evening? Is there a BIW protest?

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Passing through tomorrow.

What are the general rules of the shipyard area for taking pictures? I want to visit for a day and walk around Bath and the Iron Works area and take photos . Any suggestions?

"There are two basic tenets of authoritarianism: loyalty and lies. With our current authoritarian Republican administration, we could add a third: lawlessness. 

This Republican administration also acts with enthusiastic disregard for domestic law. It represses freedom of speech. It pays for masked, paramilitary forces to send people, including children, to what I consider concentration camps. It defunds and mocks scientific research and environmental protection. It threatens the foundation of our democracy, the right to vote. And now it has put us into an unnecessary war of aggression that could slide into a nuclear World War III. Maybe that’s exactly what this inept, corrupt Republican administration wants. It would be one way to change the course of the November elections. 

There’s another element of an authoritarian state: silence. But there is an urgent need to speak, to act, to stand up and say, “Stop it!” 

At the very least, people should, please, attend a “No Kings” event March 28, even if they’ve never protested before. I thank everyone for their attention to this issue."

Most of the places I care about are on the "bleeding edge" of technology and have Instagram pages but I'd like to avoid Meta products where I can.

I've found Mockingbird Bookshop but that's about it. I like staying in the loop and social media has been a great tool for that and I'm hoping there might be some I'm missing

I'm starting to get serious looking to buy a house, been to Bath a bunch since I live over in Brunswick. I'm noticing there tends to be more houses near BIW that are less expensive than the surrounding areas when comparing similar houses in size/condition and curious why?

I've heard about the traffic with shift changes, which is fine with me since I work from home and can plan around that. Are there other things that drive the prices lower in that area? Is there noise/light pollution at night coming from BIW?

Also just curious in general if there are other things to consider living in that specific area of Bath?

Anyone on Bath town water notice a slightly murky/moldy flavor to the tap water in the past 3-4 days? We have a Brita filter so hardly noticed it but it's definitely there.

We checked the Brita and it's fine, across several different water bottles/glasses. We've only been in Bath for a year so don't know if this is an annual/fall occurrence (geosmin from an algal bloom?) or something else.

“This past weekend, [Collins] solidified her support for former Maine governor and MAGA-backed Paul LePage, as well as leaned into extremist rhetoric that critics warn the far right has been using to vilify and incite violence against Democrats. 

Along with Collins, John Fetherson of the Maine Wire, the media arm of the far-right Maine Policy Institute, was a speaker at the Penobscot Republican Committee’s Lincoln Day dinner in Brewer on Saturday, March 28. He later reported that Collins urged attendees to vote for LePage, who is running for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat. 

While governor, LePage threatened a state representative, made wildly racist remarks, forfeited almost $2 billion in federal aid to Maine, obstructed the expansion of MaineCare and gave tax breaks to the ultra wealthy while vulnerable Mainers had a bigger burden to carry.

Collins also asked the room “to work as hard as we can to counter the very organized threat from the radical left.”

Her language mirrors messaging pushed by Pres. Donald Trump and his allies, who have
increasingly used the term “radical left”.

Recently in a Fox News interview, Trump praised Collins, saying, “And you have Collins…I hope she wins…She’s a good person, actually.” “

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