What's more brave than a small town Pride parade? Our usual celebration with music, ice cream, and flowers went well.
The library is closed today, but I happened to be outside when the big white SUV drove in and the new owners of the Unity College campus got out. So many questions I forgot to ask them. I was two busy seeing their foreignness. They were wearing tzitzits so I guess that makes them modern orthodox Jews. New Jersey accents. They plan to use the campus only for summer camp. So now we will have an orthodox Jewish sect on one side of town, the Amish community on the other side, and the halal butchery in the middle. Gets more interesting here all the time.

10:50pm Unity Raceway
Multiple calls for a fight 
 (possibly more than 1) in progress
Deputies enroute

8:13am   Brooks 
Deputy is enroute to Brooks for a 9 year old having a mental break. 
The mom was transporting the child but was unable to control them. 
She pulled into the Fire Department to wait for the Deputy, 
and the kid took off town the road toward the intersection

10:31 pm  Warren
Cushing Rd, prison
Male, 26, Tylenol overdose
EMS dispatched

5:42 pm  South Thomaston
Meet plane at Terminal Rd, coming from Vinalhaven
Female, 75, shaking, low O2
EMS dispatched

May 28
Route 1 Warren by Lie Nelson Toolworks. Cows in the middle of the road.
One almost got hit, I called dispatch they are sending a Knox county 
sheriff out right now. 2 other cars are I have our hazard lights on, 
the cows will not move

7:40pm Belfast
Mcdonalds
McDoor Dasher was having a Mcargument with a Mcworker.
Now a bunch of Mcteens are inside.

6:27 am  Rockland
Broadway
Male, 40, altered level of consciousness, PD on scene
EMS dispatched

8:02pm  Lincolnville
Rt 1
14 yo suicidal female
EMS and Deputy dispatched

5:05am  Unity
Amish area
26 yo gave birth to a child at 4:30
Midwife is not comfortable with the bleeding.

8:13pm  Belfast 
Waterfront
Juveniles are throwing rocks at sailboats

9:03pm   Lincolnville 
Ferry terminal
Female has called 911 stating that she believes a man is trying to kidnap her.
2 deputies headed there.

12:00pm  Prospect 
N Searsport Rd
An obvious death of a 32 year old male

8:46pm  Unity
Waterville Rd
Mom has called dispatch because her son is shooting off fireworks 
and it is making her angry.
Deputy requested

4:30am  Liberty
Knowlton Shores Rd
An active family fight
One man has 2 bats in his hands and the other has a flashlight 
and using his cqrs high beams to search for the other guys.

This beautiful Sankey diagram shows how ranked choice tablulation went. It shows how the second (and third, etc) choices of candidates are distributed to the other candidates. It shows how the plan of Bellows, Jackson, and Pingree to bond together to get voters to rank them as seconds and thirds for each other worked to get one of them to win. It shows how the winner has a broad base of support. And as is happening in lots of places, in the CD2 rep race, the progressive Matt Dunlap won over the establishment endorsed candidate. Paul Lepage and Bobby Charles, the republican candidates for rep and governor, both have long, well documented histories of saying crazy racist things. I am enthused to work for the two democratic candidates as well as our state rep candidates.

The gardens and the light are peaking.

A facebook post about how to check out a boat with your library card got more attention and shares than anything I have ever posted. It's part of our Library of Things and it's simple. The boats are already at the lake; the item barcode is on a tag on a floating key ring with a key to the security cable of the boat; the user checks out paddles and life jackets as well and signs a waiver. Amish adolescents were our first takers, checking out 4 kayaks twice. I think we are the only LOT in the state with boats. We would like to put another rack of boats on Sandy Stream if we can find a good spot.

The primary is over and Graham Platner won it easily. I have never seen such a flood of negative articles and posts from mainstream media and the politial establishment in response to a candidate. AIPAC and its aligned journalists and politicos are especially virulent in opposition to him. He's not afraid to say that Gaza is a genocide, and in the senate, one or two members can create an effective opposition to things. The democratic primary for governor has me guessing that Pingree might end up on top. I love Ranked Choice Voting. It prevents someone winning with just 25% of the vote. The first step in the tabulation will be assigning the second choices of King voters to the other candidates and I think Pingree will get most of those. That will push her above Shah. Then someone else will be on the bottom and their second choices will be distributed. I'd be ok with Pingree, Bellows, or Jackson.

Prepping a statement here before a newspaper calls for it. There are two reasons I still support Graham Platner for Senate in Maine. First, I don't balance his past behavior against that of some imaginary flawless candidate; I balance it against the pedofile rapist in office, the unprecedented corruption of his administration, the genocide and warmongering supported by our current senator. Platner's policy positions are the same as mine; I stand for the radical changes he promotes. Second, I believe that people can change, can be transformed. I agree that if you believe in a transformational politics, you have to believe that people can be transformed.

So the WSJ reporter called and I said the above. She asked about Susan Collins and I said that she brings home the money to Maine, but she does so by trading her votes for support of wars and terrible nominees and authoritarian rule. Her votes are transactions for position and power not for the good of the country. The reporter asked about Platner support among other people I know. I told her that we have sort of an old lady focus group at the library and that we are voting for change. We'll see if I get quoted right. I'm a policy voter and here are the policies I look for from a candidate.