cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53345202

Plan to vote early this midterm season.

Start here: https://www.vote.org/

Newly public emails and texts show how school leaders sought advice from conservative organizations and then debated behind the scenes over their new rules to exclude transgender students from sports.

An LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Maine has obtained hundreds of documents showing a school district’s anti-transgender policies were shaped by right-wing activists.

24 Allies, a citizens group in the Pine Tree State, made a sweeping public information request of Regional School Unit 24, then obtained 900 pages of internal documents between school district officials and two right-wing political groups. Those included Maine First, a conservative political organization founded by anti-transformer Republican state lawmaker Larry Lockman, and the Maine Policy Institute, a so-called parental rights organization.

Seems like ICE always claims that the person wasn't who they meant to shoot and that they posed a threat, even if it always turns out to be lies.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49274836

Though, FWIW, it seems an independent won in 2024:

wp:2024 United States Senate election in Maine

This means he can be replaced with another Democrat

Per the NYT

Graham Platner can be replaced as the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine if he withdraws from the race by next Monday, and state law would then give the state Democratic Party until July 27 to name a replacement.

After a woman accused Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, of rape, he denied the allegation but said he was taking time to “reflect” on his path forward.

The songbird population at Acadia National Park has become smaller and quieter over the last half century.

Archived copies of the article:

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The Democratic Senate candidate from Maine voted to pursue a moratorium on all but rooftop solar projects while the town developed permitting rules. He says that’s compatible with his calls for energy-permitting reform.

Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.

Researchers studying the crustacean’s early life cycles find clues that can help the fishery that depends on them plan for a warmer future.