the framing of this article is absolutely infuriating --- not at all objective journalism.

A tiny coastal community

and

battling an international wind energy giant

so, right up front, establishes a narrative of a david vs goliath fight to the death, with nimby luddite climate-deniers cast as the poor little good bloke, being assailed & attacked by a nasty oppressive bully who wants to... provide more green renewable energy for us.

why does abc keep doing this shit?

#abc #bias #neutrality #auspol #RenewableEnergy #falsenarratives
RE: social.chinwag.org/users/abc_b…

#GOP #republican House, Senate and Executive Branch routinely #intimidate witnesses, #suborn #perjury, and present outright #falsehoods to create #falseNarratives intended to whip up the public into #fear #hysteria and #hate.

The #republicans systematic strategic #weaponization of the government against public #freedom, ability to #vote, #speak, and participate in #public life are a #direct #threat to #democracy.

#Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials

Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."

by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025

AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.

"A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'

"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.

"Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'

" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'

"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections.

"A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

"In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.

" 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.

"The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'

"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.

"The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.

" 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'

Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.

"The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.

Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."

Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/07/29/maine-rejects-justice-departments-request-for-lists-of-all-voters-election-officials/

Archived version:
https://archive.md/K91De

#District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbgTUr2rq4

#TheRushHour #DaveNeal

12min mark: #SuperRichBullies are gonna bully aka #defamation #coercion #FalseNarratives

16.40 min mark 25 hours long. Congressmember #CoreyBooker's #filibuster.
Contents: #Signalgate, telling the #GNP to get up off their arses & do their job to protect #Democracy, #civilrights, etc.
'Let's get into #goodtrouble'

26.28min. mark 🎉 Someone won an election in #Wisconsin : #SusanCrawford (D) won for the #WisconsinSupremeCourt. #FuckElon!!

29min. mark #TaxTheRich

#AlexStamos, the fmr #Facebook chief #security officer who founded the #Internet Observatory 5 yrs ago, moved into an advisory role in Nov. Observatory #research manager Renée DiResta’s contract was not renewed in recent wks.

The collapse of the 5-yr-old Observatory is the latest & largest of a series of setbacks to the community of #researchers who try to detect #propaganda & explain how #FalseNarratives are manufactured, gather momentum & become accepted by various groups.

#NationalSecurity

Information security is said to be everyone's responsibility. As social media drives false narratives, #disinformation, along with other malicous agendas, the need to be #information #resilient has never been so important as it is today! More at... https://maolte.ie/blog/145-information-resilience-and-security #subversion #securityawareness #security #cybersecurity #datasecurity #informationsecurity #socialmedia #falsenarratives

#FalseNarratives have emerged as a result of the #EnergyCrisis.
1. #EnergyTransition contributed to the #EnergyCrisis, ergo we need to invest more in #FossilFuels
2. W/o #energymarket, we would have had lower prices, so we need state intervention.

4/.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acdb87

A #Surge of #AntiTrans #Laws Ignore #criminology

A variety of #myths, #falsenarratives, #badscience, and #misconceptions undergird #RepublicanParty's #antitrans #legislation.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://thecrimereport.org/2023/05/16/a-surge-of-anti-trans-laws-ignore-criminology/

There are no shortcuts to #sustainability.

One cannot demonize #Russia and create #falseNarratives about them in the hope of creating behaviour change.

DON'T LIE.

As an example the EU are saying stop showering and "Stick it to Putin," but it would not surprise us if many in the #EU were having steaming, hot #showers to support Putin against #BidensWar.

#proxyWar #afghanistan2p0 #refugeeProducer

Wonder what Julian would be thinking about the current push for a fresh, new war #distraction?

Maybe he would ask, at what time do we process the #warCriminals from the last 20 years? Starting with #GeorgeBush, #TonyBlair, Obama and Hillary and the military generals who supplied them #falseNarratives.

#imprisonList

@arh
But you are ignoring the facts.

You are aware that their are entire departments devoted to feeding the 24-hour news cycle and creating distractions and #falseNarratives, right. Just last week they tried to fuel narratives that #ElSalvador was a corrupt and an extreme authoritarian regime, because bitcoin.

Rich people also have PR firms that guide them on how to achieve X while signalling Z.

Be careful not to dismiss something because someone we might not like presented it.

@seasharp
Try to use #Invidious rather than #Youtube. Its for your own #health and the sake of #publicHealth generally.

Seeing #YouTube ads is needlessly demoralising and you may find yourself getting caught in a #reactionary loop, just wanting to counter the #falseNarratives you see can be harmful, and impedes creating the alternative.

It's more difficult to #BeTheChange when #reacting. Better to ignore what the #legacySystem puts out if you can. Its an endless stream of #publicRelations.