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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
An excellent illustration of the absolute failure of Susan Collins and the GOP. Placing RFK jr in charge of HHS serves nothing and no one. The exception Trump and his corruption. #mepolitics
Please, please read this and share it with everyone. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Susan Collins thinks it’s a good idea to let a wealthy crank with a famous name destroy our health care infrastructure. Has anyone asked her why? #mepolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Susan Collins probably thinks this has nothing to do with her. She’s wrong. #mepolitics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
CHICAGO…
One of the best signs I've ever seen Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend
Ya think?
I kind of think Jared Golden (who has a likely primary challenger) and his Republican opponent Paul LePage are going to regret their full-throated support for tariffs. #mepolitics
Does Susan Collins care about the integrity of the SSA? Time to prove it, Senator. #mepolitics
Exactly! Lee was a traitor. Full stop. His (largely imaginary) reputation was created by Jim Crow segregationists long after his death.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Susan Collins seems to care a great deal about the cost of living last fall. Not anymore. Has anyone asked her why? #mepolitics
Hopefully there are some civil rights attorneys helping him to make a 1st amendment defense. If not some of us might need to burn some more flags.
This is something I could get behind for Maine. #mepolitics
Who could have guessed she’d go the poor persecuted Christian route?
This is corruption in broad daylight. Somebody is going to get very rich building (or pretending to build) a concentration camp in TX. We have a right to know who. Who’s following the $? @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
Susan Collins helped bring concentration camps to America. Now blood is being spilled. That blood is on her hands and won’t wash away. The legacy of a GOP loyalist. #mepolitics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That money is ending up in somebody’s pocket. Find out who’s getting rich and then you’ll have a story worth telling.
Who’s following the money? Somebody made a pile of $ on this fiasco. Public money. We have a right to know who.
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge. This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest. After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
This is worth your time (14min): the internet is not cigarettes, it is junk food. youtu.be/9euKCrTyMEc
Susan Collins seems to support the destruction of the CDC. Has anyone asked her why? #mepolitics @pressherald.com @bangordailynews.bsky.social
Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
The good people at the CDC care about the welfare of humans. Susan Collins clearly doesn’t. #mepolitics
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Fair point. I don’t give a rat’s ass about the Democratic Party. But I care deeply about my country and our democracy.
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
What a delusional crock of horseshit. Susan Collins is shameless, disgusting failure. #mepolitics @bangordailynews.bsky.social
Life in America. Thanks to Susan Collins. #mepolitics
Susan Collins was first elected to the US Senate in 1996. #mepolitics
Will @apnews.com be reporting on who got rich on this embarrassing fiasco? Follow the money. It’s always about corruption now.
Susan Collins providing one more demonstration of shameless indifference. #mepolitics www.reddit.com/r/Maine/s/pM...
Susan Collins helped create this. #mepolitics
After 28 years in the Senate, this is what Susan Collins has achieved: fully corrupt and incompetent. #mepolitics www.economist.com/united-state...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
This is the govt that Susan Collins worked 28 years to bring us. Complete corruption with no regard for anything else. #mepolitics
Susan Collins is responsible for this. Americans will die because she is weak, ineffective, and corrupt. #mepolitics
This is what Susan Collins wants life in America to be like. #mepolitics
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
Two huge protests are happening right now. A big one in DC that’s growing and a giant one in NY.
This is corruption. Susan Collins is responsible for this. #mepolitics
A rally in Alaska ahead of the meeting between President Trump and Putin.
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
it's weird being part of a global laughingstock nation www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
This is the corruption that Susan Collins helped create. The US economy is being looted. And Sen Collins is protecting the looters. History will not be kind. #mepolitics
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government. (I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
It’s 2025 and Trump is president. Now everything is stupid all the time.
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
By this logic, Germany ‘earned’ all of Norway in 1940. I wonder if Susan Collins agrees. #mepolitics
Media are remarkably incurious about why a 15-year old was working for Donald Trump as a "locker room attendant" at Mar-a-Lago before being recruited as a "massage therapist" by Trump's good friend Ghislaine Maxwell. Open the damn Epstein files! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wow, this is great. Once again, the "real America," or what we hope is real, poking up its head. h/t bsky.app/profile/oisi...
Susan Collins is responsible for this. #mepolitics
President Trump continues to decimate the senior ranks of the FBI with the unlawful firings of career agents, all of whom hold non-political career positions with civil service protections. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
This 👇
Now that Susan Collins’ republican party is running our government, everything has to be stupid all the time. Stupid or corrupt. Or both. #mepolitics
Susan Collins wants Americans to die. #mepolitics
As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
A spokesperson for one of the top officials involved in the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp told me they had “no responsive records” when I asked for correspondence in a six month period that included the name of the facility or the site where it is located. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
You might think that Sen Collins (Senate Appropriations Chair) would be interested in this. You’d be wrong. #mepolitics
Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this. Definition of terms: “these people” = Latino migrants “Inner city people” = Black people “We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping
The US Supreme Court is corrupt because Susan Collins helped make it that way. #mepolitics
Susan Collins did this. #mepolitics
Follow the money. This is mostly stupid. But some people are going to get very rich, pretending to build a nuclear reactor for the moon. Always corruption.
You know how dogs will happily gobble up another dog’s barf? That’s what I think of when I watch yet another set of techbros decide to revive yet another failed, incredibly stupid idea in the hope that it might just work for them. Call it the Barf Eater Theory of the 2020s Tech Economy.
Susan Collins spent 28 years in the Senate, working to establish the Republican Party in power in Washington. Because of her, now all the stupid people are in charge. And everything is just so, so , so dumb. Quite a legacy. #mepolitica
Everything is either corrupt or stupid now. Sometimes both.
They are so painfully dumb. So so so dumb.
This is the sort of person that Susan Collins thinks should be a federal prosecutor. #mepolitics
The Washington Litigation Group is the latest firm to join a coterie of pro bono organizations that have emerged in recent months to challenge the Trump administration, which is already facing about 375 lawsuits.
New: Ghislaine Maxwell was technically ineligible to be transferred from to a minimum-security federal prison camp-- and the Bureau of Prisons had to waive a rule to facilitate the move, according to public records and a federal prison expert. With @lawofruby.bsky.social
I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history. With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
This almost inspires me to move to Martha’s Vinyard just to open up a farmer’s market
Mexico is going to pay for it
The President doesn’t want OTHER people enriching themselves out of public service. Sen Collins doesn’t care at all. #mepolitics
Susan Collins is looking after herself as usual. Won’t cross DJT when it matters. Corruption is a small price to pay for power. #mepolitics
So Susan Collins just voted to give Trump a $1B airplane as a present? Tell me more. #mepolitics
It is time that Democrats not only match what Republicans are doing with gerrymandering, but exceed it. Every Democratic controlled state needs to be looking to redrawing their maps -- not to gain 5 seats like in TX, but cumulatively 15, 20 or 30 seats. We must use every tool available.
All this thanks to Susan Collins and the GOP. #mepolitics
This is Susan Collins’ America. #mepolitics projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Susan Collins is responsible for this. #mepolitics
Whoa! Only 15% say they’re better off financially. CBS News Analysis: Six months in, Trump’s approval among young people has cratered.
Cowardice is contagious.
NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
just me making my periodic psa that most of the "drones" you read about in war coverage are in fact small (and not even that small! like a 12-foot wingspan!), prop-driven cruise missiles
If you're a pilot, you've already gotten this notice. Trump is capping off his golfing trip to Scotland, with a golfing trip to New Jersey. At work, for America.
Pres Trump has authority to impose arbitrary, stupid tariffs because Susan Collins wants him to have that authority. #mepolitics
Susan Collins did what she does best, when faced with an important, ethical decision. Nothing. Maine still has an embarrassing joke in the Senate. #mepolitics