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Elizabeth Peavey

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  • 1 month ago | thebollard.com | Al Diamon |Samuel James |Elizabeth Peavey

    This Flight TonightThe wing of the plane dips out of the murk and the ground sparkles with the lights of Scarborough or South Portland or Westbrook. It’s been raining in Portland all afternoon, and now, at 10:30 at night, the sky is ink. I’m not sure exactly which direction we’re heading, or which way is home. It’s been a harrowing trip.

  • 1 month ago | thebollard.com | Al Diamon |Elizabeth Peavey |Samuel James

    Our immigration policy is always white supremacyOn Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, resulting in the removal and imprisonment of Japanese people— immigrants and U.S.-born — from areas “lying to the west of [the] Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains in Washington, Oregon and California”. FDR issued the order, which invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, at the recommendation of Lt. General John L. DeWitt, who oversaw the purge and incarceration.

  • 1 month ago | thebollard.com | Al Diamon |Samuel James |Elizabeth Peavey |Phoebe Kolbert

    The Coming FirestormOn the bus to Philadelphia at dusk, I am listening to Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky,” thinking, as I always do when listening to that song, about how a man who grew up Orthodox Jewish might have come to write such a banger Christian anthem.

  • 1 month ago | thebollard.com | Samuel James |Elizabeth Peavey |Al Diamon

    A (w)Rench in the worksThe last thing U.S. Sen. Susan Collins wants to face in the 2026 Republican primary is a certified Trumpsicle. Such a race would agitate the scuzzy underground of anti-Collins sociopaths with their predictable troglodytic gripes (She’s female! She voted to convict Trump! But mostly, she’s female!) that inhabit the GOP catacombs, avoiding daylight, trans people and vaccines.

  • 2 months ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Jessie Banhazl |Sara Hogan |Chris Busby

    Joe Soley in his Old Port corner store a few years ago. photo/John DuncanJoe Soley enters the That’s My Dump! Hall of Fame “The root disease that afflicts the world at the present day is the supremacy of the commercial point of view. … The commercial mind is neither benevolent nor malevolent — as little as science is. It seems at times to be beneficent; at other times it seems to be almost fiendish — as in the case of the atrocities perpetrated on the Congo.

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