Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@reuveninmaine

Retired plumber, cat lover, photographer, Life-long liberal Democrat, political & news junkie, speaks fluent sarcasm. Born & bred New Englander. Have no use for MAGAts or Preznit Barking Mad. 🚫DMs 🚫crypto 🚫hook-ups “Let hate sit alone.”-Chasten Buttigieg

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Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· 9d

Was it something I said? I guess “life long Democrat” wasn’t sufficient. 😂

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· 10d

So, the leopards got around to you? *urp*

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· 13d

No, it’s not a “critical blow.” It’s Susan seeing he’ll have the votes without hers so she can say she voted against him without upsetting their ruler. She does this all the time by agreement with leadership.

Screen grab of an article in the New Yorker about how Susan Collins votes against the administration by arrangement when her vote wouldn’t matter.

Thune has protected vulnerable Republican senators from having to cast potentially embarrassing confirmation votes, but only to the extent that he could avoid crossing Trump. Mullin told me that Thune instructed Republicans to allow Collins the flexibility to vote no on some nominees, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth-a former Fox News host dogged by allegations of heavy drinking, sexual assault, and financial mismanagement. (He denies the drinking and the assault.) According to Mullin, Thune reminded his Republican colleagues that Collins, who's up for reelection next year in Maine, "is probably the only Republican who can get elected to a statewide Senate seat there."

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· 15d

And this:

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· 15d

Photo shows two men standing in back of a refrigerated trailer. Headline: CORONAVIRUS
N.J. parks refrigerated trucks in Newark to store bodies as COVID-
19 deaths mount

A Google search screen grab shows two lede paragraphs describing the accompanying photos. They read: Makeshift Morgues Go Up in...
Mar 31, 2020 — Workers build shelves for a refrigerated morgue truck outside Wyckoff
Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, ... The largest temporary morgue in New York City...

The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com >….
Hundreds of covid-19 victims in
New York still stored in...
May 9, 2021 — ... trucks along the Brooklyn waterfront. More than a year later, hundreds remain in the makeshift morgues on the 39th Street Pier in Sunset Park.

A screen grab shows two lede paragraphs about Covid deaths:

Coronavirus: New York ramps up mass burials amid outbreak
Apr 10, 2020 - Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus continues to rise.
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com › picture
Workers bury the dead in mass grave on New York City's Hart...
New York City officials have hired contract laborers to bury the dead in its potter's field on Hart Island as the city's daily death rate from the [covid virus]

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· 28d

Must be a requirement to be so stupid you cannot look at a map. This is where most of the Canadian fires are. In the Boreal Forest that covers Canada from Yukon to Newfoundland. It is extremely sparsely populated, some parts are hard to reach if not unreachable. About 2.5 million square miles.

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· 28d

Wonder if he was able to get that look for under £30.

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jul 14

This is stochastic terrorism. How many fervent MAGAt ammosexuals are going to see this as an invitation?

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jul 13

This is today’s WaPo, 12 July 2026

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jul 10

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jul 7

Willie Mays tells a story on himself about his first game against Satchel Paige:

Willie Mays describing when, as a 17-year-old, faced Satchel Paige for the first time:
"It was 1948. Satchel had a very, very good fastball. But he threw me a little breaking ball, just to see what I could do, and I hit it off the top of the fence. And I got a double. When I got to second, Satchel told the third baseman, 'Let me know when that little boy comes back up.' Three innings later, I go to kneel down in the on-deck circle, and I hear the third baseman say,
'There he is.' Satch looked at the third baseman, and then he looked at me.
I walk halfway to home plate and he says, 'Little boy!' I say, 'Yes, sir?' because Satch was much older than I am, so I was trying to show respect.
He walked halfway to home plate and said, 'Little boy, I'm not going to trick you. I'm going to throw you three fastballs and you're going to go sit down' and I'm saying in my mind, 'I don't think so! If he threw me three of the same pitch, l'm going to hit it somewhere.
He threw me two fastballs and I just swung...I swung right through it. And the third ball he threw, and I tell people this all the time, he threw the ball and then he started walking. And he says, 'Go sit down!' This is while the ball was in the air.
He was just a magnificent pitcher."
~Willie Mays Comes Home
GQ Magazine interview 2010

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jul 6

Cartoon depicts a huge crowd labeled scientists facing one person labeled as a man who saw a YouTube video. The lone man is saying “Yes, you are all wrong.”

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jul 4

A serious piece from Andy Borowitz.

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jun 27

HRH Prince William is actually 6’3”. Just sayin’.

Photo shows HRH Prince William standing next to President Trump showing the height difference where Trump is shorter by at least 4” (10cm). Prince William is actually 6’ 3” (190cm), Trump claims to be the same, but clearly he isn’t.

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jun 22

Did run across this on a post in FB. I’m certainly not a materials expert, but this seems to make sense.

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jun 6

Some more:

Reuven in Maine ראובן במאיין 🦋 🇺🇸🇺🇦@reuveninmaine· Jun 2

In fact, Donald’s name should be removed from all government buildings he defaced, and all monuments to himself should be removed or torn down. His name should become an epithet, like Benedict Arnold or Qisling. And…