Jeff Allen

Engineer at AE Hodsdon Engineers; thinker of strange what if we... thoughts, husband & friend.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BOOM: Elon Musk amplifies the moment Sec. Marco Rubio said it PERFECTLY on communists and leftist terrorists

"One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism is that it 'sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.' That's actually NOT TRUE. Communism does NOT sound good in theory. The world that envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul."

"The world communism envisions is a world without God."

"[Leftist terrorism] is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good."

"It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can!"

"The fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice and liberation and overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world."

"Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian."

🔥🔥🇺🇸

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I am personally a big fan of making voting day a national day off for everyone so that they can vote in person.

We have so many random, stupid holidays, the least we can do is give everyone off a day of work so that they can come and vote in person.

What do you think?

[Jeff Allen @JeffinBangor]

This is a really good question.

[Mainer's Motive 🇺🇸 @MainersMotive]

Why are the wildfires always in Canada? Certainly, we have woods, wilderness capable of fires. We have forest fires as well, but as many? Suspicious?

[Lola M @LolaMMaine]

Good leaders protect their communities and the people who live there. They don’t release criminal illegal immigrants back onto our streets to reoffend.

Why shield criminal activity and deliberately make neighborhoods less safe? Real leadership means cooperating with federal authorities to remove threats; not tying the hands of local law enforcement.

Prioritize citizen safety and the rule of law.

[Lola M @LolaMMaine]

Raised $16.3 million on empty promises, spent all of it, and have literally nothing to show for it. At least they're good at demonstrating socialism/communism in action! 🤣

[TheUnquirer @unquirer]

Waterville Maine - Deceased Mother On Voter Rolls - Confronts Mills

-Resident notices red flags when she voted in early June. Noticed her deceased mother was still on the rolls.

-Second video, her father who is registered receives a new registration card in the mail. Woman uses that moment to inform the city he is already registered & to ask if her mother is still "good to go" - the answer is yes.

[Maine Wire Jon @MaineWireJon]

Editorial: Maine Isn't Thriving. It's Falling Behind and Augusta Doesn't Want to Admit It.

By Jon Fetherston

For years, Mainers have been told everything is fine.
If you question the direction of the state, you're accused of being negative. If you point to declining rankings, you're told the statistics are misleading. If you raise concerns about taxes, energy costs, education, crime, or the economy, you're dismissed as being partisan.

Enough.

Maine has real problems, and pretending otherwise won't solve them.

A policy memo recently distributed by Common Sense for Maine compiles a series of statistics from publicly available sources that paint a troubling picture of where the state stands today. While every ranking has its own methodology and individual statistics can be debated, the cumulative message is impossible to ignore.

According to the memo:

Maine leads the nation in child abuse rates…roughly double the national average.

Maine's infrastructure ranks dead last, receiving an F grade.

Maine experienced the nation's largest increase in electricity rates during 2025, with rates rising 36.3 percent.

Maine ranks last in property tax burden.

The state is projected to experience zero job growth between 2027 and 2029.

Maine has the fourth-highest individual tax burden in America.

Maine ranks 46th in ease of starting a business.

Maine's public education system ranks 41st nationally.

Maine ranks 43rd in overall freedom.

Maine's economy ranks 43rd in the nation.

Those aren't conservative talking points.

They're warning signs.

And yet, many of the politicians seeking higher office this November appear determined to campaign as though none of it exists.

Instead of talking about skyrocketing electric bills, they talk about Donald Trump.

Instead of discussing why Maine families pay some of the nation's highest tax burdens, they debate national political controversies.

Instead of explaining why businesses continue to struggle or why young people leave the state after graduation, they recycle the same partisan talking points heard on cable television.

Meanwhile, the problems continue to pile up.

Parents wonder why educational outcomes continue to lag.

Homeowners watch their property tax bills climb year after year.

Small businesses face rising energy costs and increasingly burdensome regulations.

Communities struggle with housing shortages, addiction, child welfare failures, and aging infrastructure.

These are not Republican problems.

They are not Democratic problems.

They are Maine problems.

Yet denial has become the governing philosophy in Augusta.

Rather than acknowledging shortcomings, too many elected officials prefer to celebrate incremental successes while ignoring broader declines. They point to ribbon cuttings while roads crumble. They tout new spending while families struggle to afford groceries, heating oil, electricity, and housing.

Mainers deserve honesty.

No governor creates every problem facing a state, and no legislature controls every economic force. Inflation, federal policy, demographics, and national trends all play a role.

But leadership matters.

After years of one-party control in Augusta, voters have every right to ask whether the policies being pursued are producing the results they were promised.
If Maine ranks near the bottom in economic growth, business climate, tax burden, infrastructure, and educational outcomes, it is fair to ask whether the current approach is working.

That isn't negativity.

That's accountability.

Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this election cycle is that several of the leading Democratic candidates continue to campaign as though Maine is headed in the right direction. They speak passionately about national politics while offering few concrete answers for the issues affecting families in Bangor, Lewiston, Presque Isle, Machias, Sanford, Rumford, or Portland.

The reality facing everyday Mainers is becoming harder to ignore.

Higher taxes.

Higher electric bills.

An aging population.

A shrinking workforce.

Businesses choosing to invest elsewhere.

Young families questioning whether they can afford to stay.

None of those problems disappear simply because politicians refuse to acknowledge them.

The first step toward fixing Maine is admitting that Maine needs fixing.

That requires leaders willing to confront uncomfortable facts instead of explaining them away.

This November, voters should ask every candidate one simple question:

If Maine is doing so well, why does it rank so poorly in so many of the measures that matter most to working families?

Until Augusta is willing to answer that question honestly, the state's decline will continue, not because Maine lacks potential, but because too many of its leaders refuse to admit there's a problem.

@TheMaineWire

[Maine Wire Jon @MaineWireJon]

If you lived in Maine in 2026, will you ever be able to walk past or use a porta potty and not...think of @grahamformaine ??
What a legacy...

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

On behalf of the largest police news outlet in the world, we're officially calling for the resignation or termination of this officer IMMEDIATELY.

A female Fort Worth police officer was caught on camera threatening to ticket a retired federal law enforcement officer and Christian street preacher for “offensive speech.”

The officer told the man that if someone is offended by his preaching, then “we have a problem” and said she would issue him a ticket. When he asked if she was really going to ticket him for offensive speech, she replied, “Yes, I am.”

This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment. Police officers do not have the authority to ticket people for speech that offends others. That is the exact opposite of how freedom of speech works in America.

The fact that this officer targeted a retired federal law enforcement officer who was simply preaching makes this even more unacceptable.

Departments that employ officers who openly disregard the Constitution need to clean house. This kind of behavior erodes public trust and makes every good officer’s job harder.

Pass this along so more people see what is happening on our streets.

#FortWorthPD #FirstAmendment

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

They put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a group of Doberman puppies.

I love how he just lays down, rolls over, gets dog piled, and then does it again… I could watch this shit all day. Lol

[Jeff Allen @JeffinBangor]

@MaineWireJon @shennabellows @grahamformaine @TheMaineWire Thanks Jon, keep it up!

[Jeff Allen @JeffinBangor]

@SteveRob If only some Capitalist would come along and help she/her…

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

🦋

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

The 1970s 4th of July… when your parents would hand you a whole box of sparklers, Black Cats, and bottle rockets with nothing more than a casual “Don’t blow your hand off, now!” before heading back to the grill.
Sparklers for the toddlers (who immediately tried to write their names in the dark), potato salad that had been sitting out since 10 a.m., and the occasional bottle rocket that may or may not have been aimed anywhere near your cousin.
But the part that really gets me? The whole neighborhood dragging lawn chairs into the street, passing around cold drinks, and just sitting there together watching the sky. No phones. No schedules. Just laughter, the smell of gunpowder and charcoal, and that quiet feeling that you belonged to something bigger than yourself.
Those nights gave us more than we knew at the time — a little independence, a little trust from the grown-ups, and the kind of simple, shared joy that sticks with you for life. We learned how to be careful without being scared, how to look out for the little kids, and how good it feels when a whole street stops and looks up together.
As we head into another Independence Day, I’m grateful for those memories… and for the freedom that still lets us make new ones with the people we love.
If you grew up in that era, what’s one 4th of July memory that still makes you smile? Drop it below — I know some of y’all have stories. 👇
Wishing everyone a safe, joyful, memory-making holiday. ❤️🇺🇸

[Johnny Cadillac @lippyent]

🇺🇸 Dont let me Down!!

[𝕏erias @xerias_x]

Imagine this is the World Cup ⚽️

[Jeff Allen @JeffinBangor]

@CrazyVibes_1 Well done sir.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard is GOING OFF on Islamism. She's NAILING it!

"Patterson NJ is proud to call themselves the 'first Muslim city.' They are working to implement these Islamic principles forced on people through laws or violence."

"This is ALREADY UNDERWAY in places like Houston! It is already happening HERE, within our borders."

"The bottom line: the threat of Islamism...there is no such THING as individual liberty. As Charlie said, it is fundamentally incompatible with our nation's foundation of freedom."

"When we understand our freedom comes from God, and no one else, we understand the seriousness of this Islamist ideology threat. Because it means they deny God is the one who has bestowed this right to freedom in every one of us." @TulsiGabbard

Time to WAKE UP, Westerners.