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  'In its first year, the bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every man, woman and child in a household making $150,000 or less — $12,000 for a family of four — and use the estimated $4.4 trillion in revenue raised over the next decade to address the most pressing crises facing working families.' - Bernie Sanders US Senator from Vermont March 2nd, 2026 https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-and-khanna-introduce-legislation-to-tax-billionaire-wealth-and-invest-in-working-families/ ~ CNN June 2nd, 2026: 'A University of New Hampshire poll released last week found that 10% of primary voters named her as their first choice.' https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/01/politics/maine-senate-janet-mills-graham-platner ~ NBC News June 14th, 2025: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/maine-senate-results ~ Pew Research December 10th, 2025 'Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have...

  So the primaries are over and it looks like most of us survived with our ideals intact, if not our grocery budgets. What brings forth change doesn't kill us so it must have made us stronger according to Nietszche. I'm waiting for the change to materialize like a windfall profit chocolate carmel mocha coffee kind of strength. These dreams infect us as we wish upon the stars. Tomorow will be better than today even if the WiFi is not working to tell us so.  Graham Platner soundly raced on to victory with a margin that set the corporatists mouths agape as they tremble at the thought of Bernie's 5% billionaires' tax going to the rest of us so we can afford to attend cage matches at absurd places and steamed peas in a lightly salted cannola oil high in healthy omega3 when we air travel - you know like the good people do. Janet Mills who was only polling at 10% got 19% despite suspending her campaign, a nice thank you to the Governor who helped shape Maine into the relative...

  - Janet Mills Bluesky 'Under Governor Mills leadership, Maine's uninsured rate dropped the fastest of any state in 2021 and in the last few years has been lower than ever.' http://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/issues/health-care Governor Mills gave Maine the lowest poverty rate in the nation. 'Maine’s 2022-24 average supplemental rate was 6.7%, the nation’s lowest. The comparable U.S. rate was 12.7%.' https://www.pressherald.com/?p=7651784 'At 14, Gov. Mills had a steel rod inserted into her back due to her scoliosis, leaving her immobile for nine months. She’s also openly discussed surviving an abusive relationship, serving as a mom while district attorney, and losing her husband of 29 years following a stroke.' - Democratic Governors' Alliance https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/icymi-op-ed-praises-gov-janet-mills-grit-and-accomplishments/ 'Mills briefly attended Colby College before moving to San Francisco,[5] where she worked as a nursing a...

  Page 2 'By Ella Fitzgerald’s 18th birthday on April 25th, 1935, drummer/bandleader Chick Webb had already given the teenage singer a life-changing gift. She’d been scraping by on her own in Harlem, even after winning first prize at the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Contest in November 1934. A few months later, Webb was finally convinced to listen to her sing, urged on by a couple of his sidemen. In early March 1935, Webb gave Ella her first “live” tryout with his band, playing for a fraternity dance at Yale University. A couple of weeks later, he hired her after a longer tryout at his orchestra’s home base, the Savoy Ballroom.' https://www.wbgo.org/music/2023-04-25/ella-fitzgeralds-auspicious-debut-on-the-national-jazz-scene-with-drummer-bandleader-chick-webb - Keith @ Bluesky Personally, I know I did write the lyrics to those songs because I know what color 'violent green' is. I became intrigued by a Rolling Stone Magazine story about Dan Rather being assaulted by two peo...

- Janet Mills Bluesky - Portland Press Herald Bluesky June 1st, 2026 Governor Mills is still on the ballot for the June 9th  Democratic primary  and she has not conceded to nor endorsed any of her opponents (she has endorsed Hannah Pingree to replace her a Governor) nor has she filled out the required paperwork to  officially withdraw  from the race. She has stated that tho she ran out of funding (after passing the  millionaires' tax )  she's still got a lot of fight left in her . She has ranked up a very impressive tally of achievements for the Pine Tree State. 1. Governor Mills-led Maine was ranked 2nd best in the nation for quality of life in 2025 by CNBC. ~~~ 2. This year Maine is ranked the 3rd best state for women by Wallethub. ~~~ 3. Maine was ranked the 2nd best state to retire to last year. ~~~ 4. The Times of India says Maine is ranked the safest state . 5. Bar Harbor , Maine is ranked the best small town to visit in the US  in 2026 by US...

I believe I wrote the lyrics to Matchbox 20's 'Unwell' after I found a hypnotic trigger and became crazy in 1997. It is one of a number of songs I believe I wrote the lyrics to in the period between 1984 and 2008. I believe I wrote the lyrics after a lot of strange things happened to me. I once saw a shadow appear in the form of a 6" tall man pushing against a book leaning out of my bookshelf in the glow of my oil lamp and as I was watching it the book fell to the floor of my hut. Crazy or weird ? I believe I had my bicycle stolen by someone in a helicopter. The helicopter had landed at the cul de sac at the end of 118th Ave. N. in St Pete off of 9th St N. Something told me to leave my bike at the end of my path leading to 118th Ave. and I walked almost all of the way up the avenue when the helicopter landed. It looked like a Coast Guard helicopter. I walked back to look but my bike was gone. I believe I saw the Archangel Michael push against a large semi truck in my ...