Third Act Maine
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Third Act Maine is Maine elders committed to stopping all new fossil fuel investment and development. Our mission will be accomplished through the joyful practice of nonviolence, uplifting youth and developing community. Visit: thirdact.org/maine
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Third Act Maine Endorses Troy Jackson for Senate
Third Act Maine enthusiastically endorses Troy Jackson for the US Senate against incumbent Susan Collins. Like no other election in our lives, this one represents a clear choice between a...
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Third Act Maine enthusiastically endorses Troy Jackson for US Senate against incumbent Susan Collins. Pictured is Kathy Mikulka, chair of TAM's Democracy Committee telling Troy the news in person at a recent event.
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Worried about AI? Want something to do about it?
Follow us @quitgpt.bsky.social and visit bleedingthefuture.org to learn more about LTF and call on your elected officials to REJECT their money.
Follow us @quitgpt.bsky.social and visit bleedingthefuture.org to learn more about LTF and call on your elected officials to REJECT their money.
Bleeding the Future — Stop AI From Buying Our Elections
ChatGPT and Palantir are running a SuperPAC to buy elections. Take the pledge.
bleedingthefuture.org
September 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Worried about AI? Want something to do about it?
Follow us @quitgpt.bsky.social and visit bleedingthefuture.org to learn more about LTF and call on your elected officials to REJECT their money.
Follow us @quitgpt.bsky.social and visit bleedingthefuture.org to learn more about LTF and call on your elected officials to REJECT their money.
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We assembled a coalition of 52 orgs, including @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @indivisible.org, @stopbigmoneyaz.bsky.social, @votersoftomorrow.org, and @irreplaceableorg.bsky.social to call on every politician to decline Leading the Future's money and disavow their agenda.
September 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
We assembled a coalition of 52 orgs, including @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @indivisible.org, @stopbigmoneyaz.bsky.social, @votersoftomorrow.org, and @irreplaceableorg.bsky.social to call on every politician to decline Leading the Future's money and disavow their agenda.
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BIG AI IS BUYING OFF POLITICIANS. We're doing something about it.
As people demand action to stop Big AI from putting our lives in danger, execs from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z built a monster Super PAC to pay politicians to kill common-sense regulation.
Read this 🧵 to learn more.
As people demand action to stop Big AI from putting our lives in danger, execs from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z built a monster Super PAC to pay politicians to kill common-sense regulation.
Read this 🧵 to learn more.
September 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
BIG AI IS BUYING OFF POLITICIANS. We're doing something about it.
As people demand action to stop Big AI from putting our lives in danger, execs from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z built a monster Super PAC to pay politicians to kill common-sense regulation.
Read this 🧵 to learn more.
As people demand action to stop Big AI from putting our lives in danger, execs from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z built a monster Super PAC to pay politicians to kill common-sense regulation.
Read this 🧵 to learn more.
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ChatGPT is the only candidate running to INCREASE the unemployment rate. And he doesn't need your money! His AI Super PAC, Leading the Future, is already buying elections nationwide.
September 17, 2026 at 11:50 PM
ChatGPT is the only candidate running to INCREASE the unemployment rate. And he doesn't need your money! His AI Super PAC, Leading the Future, is already buying elections nationwide.
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Students to ChatGPT: you're fired. Cancel ChatGPT Edu and invest in humans. Share this with your campus group chat.
#quitgpt #boycottchatgpt #deletechatgpt #chatgpt #openai #education
#quitgpt #boycottchatgpt #deletechatgpt #chatgpt #openai #education
September 18, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Students to ChatGPT: you're fired. Cancel ChatGPT Edu and invest in humans. Share this with your campus group chat.
#quitgpt #boycottchatgpt #deletechatgpt #chatgpt #openai #education
#quitgpt #boycottchatgpt #deletechatgpt #chatgpt #openai #education
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"The impacts of the climate crisis on extreme weather and the creation of so-called weather whiplash events are driving a more erratic and unpredictable water cycle."
2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds
Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2026 at 3:43 AM
"The impacts of the climate crisis on extreme weather and the creation of so-called weather whiplash events are driving a more erratic and unpredictable water cycle."
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Come hear an interview with Goldman Environmental Prize winner Diane Wilson at Third Act’s Oct. 1 “Hope and Joy Series”! (She’s the author of “An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.”) Register at: thirdact.org/events/hope-...
September 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Come hear an interview with Goldman Environmental Prize winner Diane Wilson at Third Act’s Oct. 1 “Hope and Joy Series”! (She’s the author of “An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.”) Register at: thirdact.org/events/hope-...
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The part I never get is why he considers something an honor when he bestows it on himself. Try to imagine Lincoln building the Lincoln Memorial
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The part I never get is why he considers something an honor when he bestows it on himself. Try to imagine Lincoln building the Lincoln Memorial
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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The Independent's 3rd annual list of the world's leading environmentalists, this year including @thirdactorg.bsky.social 's Bill McKibben.
Check out the whole list! It includes Pope Leo, Erin Brokovich, Nemonte Nenquimo of the Ecuadorian Amazon, & many others whose work merits attention.
Check out the whole list! It includes Pope Leo, Erin Brokovich, Nemonte Nenquimo of the Ecuadorian Amazon, & many others whose work merits attention.
The Independent Climate 100 List 2026
Back for its third year, The Independent is proud to publish its list of the world’s leading environmentalists – marking the campaigners, change makers and innovators who are making a positive and sig...
www.independent.co.uk
September 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The Independent's 3rd annual list of the world's leading environmentalists, this year including @thirdactorg.bsky.social 's Bill McKibben.
Check out the whole list! It includes Pope Leo, Erin Brokovich, Nemonte Nenquimo of the Ecuadorian Amazon, & many others whose work merits attention.
Check out the whole list! It includes Pope Leo, Erin Brokovich, Nemonte Nenquimo of the Ecuadorian Amazon, & many others whose work merits attention.
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Third Act has joined this coalition to fight an AI Super Pac.
September 21, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Third Act has joined this coalition to fight an AI Super Pac.
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Icymi, here's the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTBp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTBp...
September 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Icymi, here's the recording:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTBp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTBp...
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Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead.
- 25,000 people deported
- $410 million spent.
- UN aid used to sweeten the deals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- 25,000 people deported
- $410 million spent.
- UN aid used to sweeten the deals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead.
- 25,000 people deported
- $410 million spent.
- UN aid used to sweeten the deals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- 25,000 people deported
- $410 million spent.
- UN aid used to sweeten the deals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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For survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, the financial toll of advocating for justice can be immense--from lacking health insurance to losing out on work. Please read my @us.theguardian.com report on this harsh reality www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Epstein survivors struggle financially as they continue to heal their wounds: ‘It doesn’t just go away’
Legislation proposed by House Democrats aims to address survivors’ financial and medical burdens
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2026 at 1:57 PM
For survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, the financial toll of advocating for justice can be immense--from lacking health insurance to losing out on work. Please read my @us.theguardian.com report on this harsh reality www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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WKRN: “An estimated 762,000 Tennesseans live in poverty, 46,000 more than the year prior… Researchers add that number doesn’t capture just how many people are struggling.”
But hey at least Trump gets his ballroom & arch right @MarshaBlackburn?
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
But hey at least Trump gets his ballroom & arch right @MarshaBlackburn?
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
September 21, 2026 at 12:40 PM
WKRN: “An estimated 762,000 Tennesseans live in poverty, 46,000 more than the year prior… Researchers add that number doesn’t capture just how many people are struggling.”
But hey at least Trump gets his ballroom & arch right @MarshaBlackburn?
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
But hey at least Trump gets his ballroom & arch right @MarshaBlackburn?
www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
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In two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Big Oil's pleas to escape trial in one of a growing number of lawsuits seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate deception.
Here's what you need to know 👇
Here's what you need to know 👇
Boulder and Exxon’s coming Supreme Court clash, explained. | Center for Climate Integrity
As Big Oil tries to escape accountability, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of dozens of climate deception lawsuits. Here’s what you need to know.
climateintegrity.org
September 21, 2026 at 1:25 PM
In two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Big Oil's pleas to escape trial in one of a growing number of lawsuits seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate deception.
Here's what you need to know 👇
Here's what you need to know 👇
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Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.
September 21, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.
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Media workers are grappling with increasingly volatile press climate in US, with some detained and even deported
Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump’s ICE crackdown
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Media workers are grappling with increasingly volatile press climate in US, with some detained and even deported
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Matt Traldi, Greenlight America:
"Just a few individuals turning up at hearings can tip the scales in favor of renewables...Five or 10 people can take a project from 'political suicide' to something that could 'sail through.'"
www.canarymedia.com/articles/gui...
"Just a few individuals turning up at hearings can tip the scales in favor of renewables...Five or 10 people can take a project from 'political suicide' to something that could 'sail through.'"
www.canarymedia.com/articles/gui...
How to stick up for renewable energy projects near you
Showing up at local government hearings to support a proposed wind, solar, or battery project could be the most effective climate action you ever take.
www.canarymedia.com
September 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Matt Traldi, Greenlight America:
"Just a few individuals turning up at hearings can tip the scales in favor of renewables...Five or 10 people can take a project from 'political suicide' to something that could 'sail through.'"
www.canarymedia.com/articles/gui...
"Just a few individuals turning up at hearings can tip the scales in favor of renewables...Five or 10 people can take a project from 'political suicide' to something that could 'sail through.'"
www.canarymedia.com/articles/gui...
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Big AI is buying off politicians. Let's do something different. Like these folks:
BIG AI IS BUYING OFF POLITICIANS. We're doing something about it.
As people demand action to stop Big AI from putting our lives in danger, execs from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z built a monster Super PAC to pay politicians to kill common-sense regulation.
Read this 🧵 to learn more.
As people demand action to stop Big AI from putting our lives in danger, execs from OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z built a monster Super PAC to pay politicians to kill common-sense regulation.
Read this 🧵 to learn more.
September 21, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Big AI is buying off politicians. Let's do something different. Like these folks:
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Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025
US strikes on alleged drug boats may constitute ‘crimes against humanity’, UN finds
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025
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The solidarity of the media in response to Trump reveals a fundamental truth: The most successful way to respond to a megalomaniac like him is to unite against him.
It's also apparently, at least in this instance, one of the better ways to silence his bloviating.
It's also apparently, at least in this instance, one of the better ways to silence his bloviating.
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
September 21, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The solidarity of the media in response to Trump reveals a fundamental truth: The most successful way to respond to a megalomaniac like him is to unite against him.
It's also apparently, at least in this instance, one of the better ways to silence his bloviating.
It's also apparently, at least in this instance, one of the better ways to silence his bloviating.
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ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view.
This will severely interfere with legal access.
This will severely interfere with legal access.
September 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view.
This will severely interfere with legal access.
This will severely interfere with legal access.