There’s a lot going on, but I did not take a night off over the weekend and it’s catching up to me. Going to take the night off and get a good night’s sleep so I can be back at it tomorrow with a clear head for the next public hearing of the January 6 committee.
Beautiful photo. Thanks Buddy. And never put off taking the rest you need. You are vital to your readers and to our democracy. We need you...healthy! ❤️
In listening to each hearing I finding I need a few days to absorb and sort it all out they've been so powerful. Sleep is the best way to give your brain the time to put it all together. Your brain is actually more active in REM sleep than when you are awake. In REM, the brain is very busy processing and consolidating memory, integrating old and new memories, reinforcing pathways within the brain, developing rules from the patterns it discerns, gaining new insights, and even projecting future scenarios. That's why getting a good night's sleep is so important. We, the People, all of us this time.
I am writing to you as a concerned American who fears that our Democracy, something I have always been grateful for and certain that it would be forever safely guaranteed in this country, is now in peril. Donald J. Trump, whose actions and statements have given the green light to racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and violence, has proven in broad daylight, that he doesn’t give a hoot about it.
Had Robert Mueller indicted Trump and taken him off the streets as he deserved to be, our Democracy would not have come perilously close to extinction on January 6th, and you would not be in the unenviable position of having to decide on something as unprecedented as indicting a former president. Remember, though, that this would not have been a first if Richard Nixon had not resigned.
I write the following as a mental health therapist. Knowing full well that Biden had won in a free and fair election, Trump would have done anything, even allowing murder to have been committed, in order to foment the lie that the election was stolen from him. He would have stopped at nothing to overturn the election, no matter how illegal he knew his actions to be, for only one reason. Commentators endlessly suggest that Trump committed his actions against the law and our constitution in order to hold onto power. No, it’s more deeply psychological than that. His father imbued in him from childhood, that the worst thing anyone can be in this world is a loser. This is ingrained in every fiber of his mind and psyche. Accepting loss would be an existential threat to him--the same as dying. Therefore, he must propagate the lie to save his life. Being a loser is simply not an option. This is why Trump has manipulated his followers to have election officials in place who would overturn the election results if he runs again and loses. This cannot be allowed to happen. There are clear reasons why charges such as “seditious conspiracy” exist, and that the framers called for a peaceful transfer of power between factions in Articles 1 and 4 of our Constitution.
As a result of the January 6th Select Committee’s herculean effort of scrupulously laying out the facts, thus far the majority of Americans polled believe that Trump should be indicted and convicted for his crimes. For the sake of our Democracy, I hope that you will uphold your promise—that no one is above the law and if found guilty, regardless of the individual’s position and whether they were at the Capitol or not, they will be duly prosecuted. I trust that you will follow through and do your part.
The lobsters are moving North due to a warming Gulf of Maine, so get them whisk they are around. Sad to say, our democratic governor, Janet Mills, and her Central Maine Power brother, are gung ho for aquaculture salmon CAFOs. That’s like a hog confinement operation on steroids. One proposed in Belfast from a Norwegian company called Nordic AquaFarms would put out 7,000,000 gallons of warmed parasite laden water into the bay daily. There is a need for reliable electricity to keep the pumps running and oxygen flowing 24 seven. Last week the public utility commission approved a $63 million upgrade by CMP for Midcoast Maine, which will be paid for by the rate payers but its prime beneficiary seems to be Nordic AquaFarms. This is socialism for the corporations. The town of Belfast for many years had a huge chicken processing plant right on the bay downhill from downtown. The smell the dust the feathers the offal going directly into the Penobscot bay was wretched. Of course jobs were available and the environmental disaster was tolerated. A cleanup occurred partially due to the philanthropy of NBNA which helped remove the factory and replace it with a beautiful park. Now it appears that Belfast is enamored of the unknown number of jobs and the known environmental degradation of a foreign corporation building a plant hear that it is no longer allowed to build in Norway. It will again have an environmental and carbon spewing disaster at their door. The Belfast City Council is totally sold on this project. The only lever is emails and letters to Governor Janet Mills to ask her to back off her support. Yet the project may be killed off due to supply chain cost increases after all. The current financial projections did not include the enormous increase in concrete and steel and labor and electricity.
There are numerous proposed salmon factories along the gulf of Maine and no government or region or federal agency seems to be looking at that synergistic impact of all these plants dumping nutrients, viruses and warmed water into the Gulf.
These Norwegians claimed they are producing high-quality protein to feed people. However they are taking lesser value fish some even harvested off the shores of Africa, out of the mouths of poor people, they’re taking soy beans grown with Roundup and corn grown with Roundup and pig blood and any thing that is available according to the cost of the day to create fish food. This higher quality protein is only affordable by coastal elites in Boston,New York, Providence, New Haven. It’s not going to feed Mainers.
We ask your readers simply to NOT buy farmed salmon because no matter where it is grown,it destroys the estuaries and the livelihood of local fishermen like Buddy and the indigenous aquaculture already established such as oyster growing—just to make profits for a multinational corporation that is not welcome to build in their own country.
Beautiful photo. Thanks Buddy. And never put off taking the rest you need. You are vital to your readers and to our democracy. We need you...healthy! ❤️
Enjoy your early night Professor…the work you do is much appreciated!
Sweet dreams. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you’ve done for me with your regular communications. I’ve learned so much from you.
Nancy Kish
In listening to each hearing I finding I need a few days to absorb and sort it all out they've been so powerful. Sleep is the best way to give your brain the time to put it all together. Your brain is actually more active in REM sleep than when you are awake. In REM, the brain is very busy processing and consolidating memory, integrating old and new memories, reinforcing pathways within the brain, developing rules from the patterns it discerns, gaining new insights, and even projecting future scenarios. That's why getting a good night's sleep is so important. We, the People, all of us this time.
ooh, how serene.
I can't wait for tomorrow's hearings....
I wrote the following letter to Merrick Garland:
Dear Attorney General Garland,
I am writing to you as a concerned American who fears that our Democracy, something I have always been grateful for and certain that it would be forever safely guaranteed in this country, is now in peril. Donald J. Trump, whose actions and statements have given the green light to racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and violence, has proven in broad daylight, that he doesn’t give a hoot about it.
Had Robert Mueller indicted Trump and taken him off the streets as he deserved to be, our Democracy would not have come perilously close to extinction on January 6th, and you would not be in the unenviable position of having to decide on something as unprecedented as indicting a former president. Remember, though, that this would not have been a first if Richard Nixon had not resigned.
I write the following as a mental health therapist. Knowing full well that Biden had won in a free and fair election, Trump would have done anything, even allowing murder to have been committed, in order to foment the lie that the election was stolen from him. He would have stopped at nothing to overturn the election, no matter how illegal he knew his actions to be, for only one reason. Commentators endlessly suggest that Trump committed his actions against the law and our constitution in order to hold onto power. No, it’s more deeply psychological than that. His father imbued in him from childhood, that the worst thing anyone can be in this world is a loser. This is ingrained in every fiber of his mind and psyche. Accepting loss would be an existential threat to him--the same as dying. Therefore, he must propagate the lie to save his life. Being a loser is simply not an option. This is why Trump has manipulated his followers to have election officials in place who would overturn the election results if he runs again and loses. This cannot be allowed to happen. There are clear reasons why charges such as “seditious conspiracy” exist, and that the framers called for a peaceful transfer of power between factions in Articles 1 and 4 of our Constitution.
As a result of the January 6th Select Committee’s herculean effort of scrupulously laying out the facts, thus far the majority of Americans polled believe that Trump should be indicted and convicted for his crimes. For the sake of our Democracy, I hope that you will uphold your promise—that no one is above the law and if found guilty, regardless of the individual’s position and whether they were at the Capitol or not, they will be duly prosecuted. I trust that you will follow through and do your part.
Sincerely,
Rest up! And then we should all buckle up!
Love that solstice light on the water.
Blessings upon you both. Take good care of each other.
Your live tweets are keeping me grounded - thanks for your contribution to our continued democracy
Well deserved rest . Thank you and Buddy!
Beautiful sentiment and gorgeous photo. Rest well, professor.
So glad you are taking care of yourself. You do so much, some of us worry a bit about about you.
The lobsters are moving North due to a warming Gulf of Maine, so get them whisk they are around. Sad to say, our democratic governor, Janet Mills, and her Central Maine Power brother, are gung ho for aquaculture salmon CAFOs. That’s like a hog confinement operation on steroids. One proposed in Belfast from a Norwegian company called Nordic AquaFarms would put out 7,000,000 gallons of warmed parasite laden water into the bay daily. There is a need for reliable electricity to keep the pumps running and oxygen flowing 24 seven. Last week the public utility commission approved a $63 million upgrade by CMP for Midcoast Maine, which will be paid for by the rate payers but its prime beneficiary seems to be Nordic AquaFarms. This is socialism for the corporations. The town of Belfast for many years had a huge chicken processing plant right on the bay downhill from downtown. The smell the dust the feathers the offal going directly into the Penobscot bay was wretched. Of course jobs were available and the environmental disaster was tolerated. A cleanup occurred partially due to the philanthropy of NBNA which helped remove the factory and replace it with a beautiful park. Now it appears that Belfast is enamored of the unknown number of jobs and the known environmental degradation of a foreign corporation building a plant hear that it is no longer allowed to build in Norway. It will again have an environmental and carbon spewing disaster at their door. The Belfast City Council is totally sold on this project. The only lever is emails and letters to Governor Janet Mills to ask her to back off her support. Yet the project may be killed off due to supply chain cost increases after all. The current financial projections did not include the enormous increase in concrete and steel and labor and electricity.
There are numerous proposed salmon factories along the gulf of Maine and no government or region or federal agency seems to be looking at that synergistic impact of all these plants dumping nutrients, viruses and warmed water into the Gulf.
These Norwegians claimed they are producing high-quality protein to feed people. However they are taking lesser value fish some even harvested off the shores of Africa, out of the mouths of poor people, they’re taking soy beans grown with Roundup and corn grown with Roundup and pig blood and any thing that is available according to the cost of the day to create fish food. This higher quality protein is only affordable by coastal elites in Boston,New York, Providence, New Haven. It’s not going to feed Mainers.
We ask your readers simply to NOT buy farmed salmon because no matter where it is grown,it destroys the estuaries and the livelihood of local fishermen like Buddy and the indigenous aquaculture already established such as oyster growing—just to make profits for a multinational corporation that is not welcome to build in their own country.
Thanks for your attention.
Thank you, Heather! Your letters and interviews are keeping us informed and enthralled. Now out west, I miss the fresh lobsters!
Good idea Heather - get some much deserved rest!
Rest well! Lovely photo. Aaaaah!