Dan Dinsmore

In love with #Maine. Priors: @mainemonitor, @PressHerald, @bangordailynews #whodey

[Dan Dinsmore @Dinsmore]

@Dan_Hoard Thank you, @Dan_Hoard . These are always among the best content on this site.

Lawrence looks massive, especially next to Jordan Jefferson, who's listed at 6-4. There's no way, Jefferson's that tall.

[Cincinnati Bengals @Bengals]

RT and ❤️ for a chance to win a signed Dexter Lawrence II Bengals helmet!

[U.S. Open Cup @opencup]

History ❤️ @Hearts_SC

[Dan Dinsmore @Dinsmore]

@zimwhodey @JoeyB Loved the Carl Pickens episode, @zimwhodey He and Darnay Scott were a lot of fun.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs" https://t.co/T8GXep1s5b

[Jim Friedlich @JimFriedlich]

From this morning’s @PhillyInquirer:

[Eli Canfield @CanfieldEli]

Biggest game in 20 years, let's go

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

Oh jeez. Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories https://t.co/faXpP2FmXh

[Dan Dinsmore @Dinsmore]

The state of #Maine is finally being held accountable for years of violating the Sixth Amendment.

Thanks to @SAHogan and the @mainemonitor for years of high-level, public-interest reporting on the subject.

[ACLU of Maine @ACLUMaine]

BREAKING: A judge has ruled that Maine must end its public defense crisis and provide attorneys to people who cannot afford their own. This order is a landmark in the years-long struggle to require the state to live up to its Sixth Amendment obligations. https://t.co/ULWhTjJ5tq

[Aidan Ryan @aidanfitzryan]

The Maine Trust for Local News, which owns the Portland Press Herald, Lewiston Sun Journal, and 20 other papers, is laying off 49 employees and dramatically reducing its print production to save costs and focus more on digital. https://t.co/DF2iY0iAFg

[Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs]

🚨🚨 High-level Trump sources tell me the White House is now uncertain if they can get the Russians and Ukrainians to stop fighting because this episode with @ZelenskyyUa raised questions about whether he can move forward toward a peace deal. It also raises questions about whether US will pause aid to Ukraine. But Trump is NOT seeking regime change in Ukraine. No discussions about who in Ukraine might be a better leader than Zelenskyy.

Ukrainian officials have reached out this afternoon to senior White House officials desperate to get the deal back on track. But that will not happen today, I'm told. Trump is unwilling to talk to Zelenskyy further today.

When Rubio and Waltz went into the Roosevelt Room to ask Zelenskyy to leave, Rubio made it clear that any further engagements today would be counterproductive. Waltz told Zelenskyy he had made a tremendous mistake, and it was a grave disservice to Ukraine and to Americans, both.

No phone calls between Trump and Putin have been scheduled. But multiple European officials have called top Trump officials since Zelenskyy left asking how the minerals deal can be salvaged.

Trump fully intended to sign the minerals deal today. Two official binders were prepared -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his Ukrainian counterpart and the two presidents were going to sit at a conference table in the East Room and then trumpet their success at podiums.

But there were suspicions before Zelenskyy arrived today that it might fall apart. Because the Trump admin had been pushing for weeks for a minerals deal signing at the ministerial level, and Ukraine had refused. Zelenskyy wanted security guarantees.

US officials thought negotiations would be much harder with **Putin** so today have been been in disbelief that it has been Zelenskyy who has been more difficult, making maximalist demands, sources told me.

[Steve Collins @SteveCollinsSJ]

It hasn't even been a year.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this.

The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

ProPublica is recording the casualties of the DOGE purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government. https://t.co/twnlfIUzOm

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did https://t.co/YiVmOiJLwk

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

This guy got two Bronze stars in Iraq and clerked for Roberts before landing at SDNY

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

They can't spin this away. The Trump administration contacted air traffic controllers, offering buyouts to leave their jobs. It's a very easily proven fact.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

This is quite incredible. The US Justice Dept, under Trump, is defending its birthright citizenship Order by arguing that immigrant children covered by the Order cannot be citizens because... the children of Native Americans aren't US citizens.

[Sen. Susan Collins @SenatorCollins]

After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.

Our military is under tremendous pressure right now. Active conflicts in the Middle East and Europe combined with escalating threats in the Pacific, all against a backdrop of severe financial challenges and four years of ineffective leadership by the Biden Administration, make this an especially critical time for those who lead our military. The next Secretary of Defense will be responsible for managing a massive bureaucracy that includes nearly three million employees and a budget of nearly $850 billion. In addition, our next Secretary faces long-standing procurement and supply issues that continued to worsen under the Biden Administration.

In sum, the Secretary is going to be facing a number of incredibly complex problems that are going to require highly skilled management ability. I am concerned that Mr. Hegseth does not have the management experience and background that he will need in order to tackle these difficulties. His limited managerial experience involved running two small non-profit organizations that had decidedly mixed results.

I am also concerned about multiple statements, including some in the months just before he was nominated, that Mr. Hegseth has made about women serving in the military. He and I had a candid conversation in December about his past statements and apparently evolving views. I am not convinced that his position on women serving in combat roles has changed.

Women comprise nearly 18 percent of our active-duty military. They continue to make critical and valuable contributions to our national defense. I have long advocated that women who wish to serve in and can meet the rigorous standards of combat roles should be able to do so. And numerous women have proved that they can accomplish this difficult feat.

Currently, thousands of women are serving in combat roles and many others serve in non-combat functions. Their service is essential to the success of our military.

Mr. Hegseth also appears to lack a sufficient appreciation for some of the policies that the military is required to follow because they are codified in the laws of the United States of America. While I understand his points on the importance of up-to-date and workable rules of engagement, our prohibitions against torture come from American laws and treaties ratified by the United States, including the Geneva Conventions.

Therefore, I will vote against the nomination.