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Dumb dogs…

Dinner is after walking 2 miles.

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Flowers…

Getting ready to storm bad!

Thundered for an hour and half while walking.
Started mostly in distance up road but got closer.
Right after I finished rained for 20 minutes or so

Continuing article on Breaking News

They joined a growing chorus of Democrats calling on Platner to end his campaign. The Maine Democratic Party said he should drop out. Many of his most prominent supporters in Congress withdrew their endorsements. Influencers and activist groups that had supported him said he had no way forward.


The pressure on Platner comes one week ahead of the July 13 deadline for general election candidates to withdraw from the ballot. If he did so, the state Democratic Party would then have two weeks to put forward a replacement candidate.

For her part, Collins denounced the allegations against her Senate rival but refused to weigh in on the internal Democratic Party dynamics at play. “These allegations are appalling. Nevertheless, it is not up to me to choose the Democratic nominee for Senate,” Collins said in a statement shared by a campaign spokesperson.

Platner, in a two-minute, direct-to-camera video posted on social media, did not say whether he would stay in the race. He called the allegations “troubling, serious and false.”

“Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false,” he said.
(Is that saying he did it but she wanted it or it never happened?)

If it comes to a new candidate

Potential replacements
If Platner does decide to end his campaign, attention would quickly turn to who Democrats would choose to replace him.

Two-term Gov. Janet Mills ran in the Democratic primary, but dropped out of the race in April after lagging well behind Platner, the oyster farmer and political newcomer. Other names mentioned by party strategists and Maine Democrats as possibilities on Monday included two losing gubernatorial candidates on this year’s primary ballot: Nirav Shah, former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention; and former state Sen. Troy Jackson, a logger who was endorsed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the governor’s race and campaigned alongside Platner.

Other names being floated by strategists Monday included Dan Kleban, a brewery owner who ended his Senate campaign shortly after launching it last year to endorse Mills, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who has a long list of progressive supporters, and state Sen. Joe Baldacci, who lost a congressional primary this year.

 FIFA disciplinary committee fines USMNT's Folarin Balogun $40,000, defends postponing red card suspension by 1 year
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The saga around Folarin Balogun's red card continued on Monday afternoon. Hours before the United States' Round of 16 matchup against Belgium (8 p.m. ET, Fox), FIFA released a lengthy statement from the disciplinary committee, announcing that Balogun has been fined $40,000 in connection to the red card.

The statement confirmed that the one-match suspension for Balogun's red card, which the striker picked up the card against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Round of 32, has been delayed by one year. Per FIFA, the team was informed of both the fine and the suspension on Sunday.

The disciplinary committee said that Balogun had been investigated by FIFA for two offenses: The red card, and then for re-entering the field to celebrate with his U.S. teammates, "despite his expulsion." The committee then found him "guilty of both infringements."

It is unclear whether the fine is related to the first offense or the second. Per FIFA, the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) "was declared jointly liable" for paying the fine, meaning that Balogun will likely not pay the full fine himself.


After Balogun's foul, which took place in the second half of the USMNT's win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, FIFA initially told the U.S. that it could not appeal the decision. But on Sunday, Balogun's one-match suspension was delayed. President Donald Trump, who said that he called FIFA president Gianni Infantino, later took credit for the suspension getting overturned.

Belgium, who said it was "astonished" by the decision, had an appeal officially denied on Monday morning. Mauricio Pochettino said Sunday that the U.S. had been "punished enough."

In FIFA's statement, it confirmed that Balogun normally would have served the one-match suspension during Monday's game, but that the disciplinary committee had applied "Article 27," which provides FIFA broad discretion to alter disciplinary measures.

Spain 1, Portugal 0 in early game.

Ref on field never called a yellow card.
I assume he could get yellow tonight and be like normal
Anytime after that you get another yellow even in another game counts as red card

Had a bit of a flash flood here in the holler, road under water in several spots, backyard went under a bit.  No real damage but there is some mess that will need cleaned up.

I didn't get that much no flooding.