🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice has escalated its demand for access to Maine’s voter registration records, now requesting that election officials turn over unredacted copies of voter rolls and every voter registration application submitted in the past 18 months.
RESIST
As a resident of Maine, I forbid my personal information given to the DOJ. Screw them
Speaking as a Mainer ... NOPE! The "Turd Reich" DoJ can go fuck the hell off and stay the hell out of Maine.
Is Susan Collins concerned?
Yeah they can take their escalation and stick it up their ass no state has to do that and is not legally obligated to do that. States rights. Welcome insurrectionist Nazi bastards to the other side of that sword you're falling on
Tell the DOJ to go and fuck themselves.
How is this legaL? and if they do not comply, what can the Admin do?
“I’m concerned.”—S. Collins
I’m sure the governor will express her condolences right before she tells them to take a long walk on a short peer.
No
trump is just the useful idiot that is being used to distract attention away from the evil powers that be. He should not be forgiven, but we need to start publishing the names of the scum that is trying to destroy humanity.
Hold strong Maine!
Maine, don’t do it, stand your ground and absolutely no!!!!!!!!
They will never stop cheating.
No. Just “no”. It’s a complete sentence.
What the fuck?
Why?
No explanation can be accepted. It would just be lies.
It's probably just a coincidence that Republicans want to know who the Dem Voters are and where they live at the same time they are increasing its number of violent, lawless Nazi Thugs in ICE by a factor of 10. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
States control elections. What justification is the DOJ using for this request?
They want to help rig the next election.
Trump, Pammy and Kristi Gnome wants it.
I need a Crispy Gnome meme, STAT!
Hope this helps.
No...just no.
😡😡😡
Resist, no, no, no!
Another hero that should have been mentioned in the text of this post - @shennabellows.bsky.social
Janet Mills might have to get involved and bitch slap the members of DOJ. dRump knows not to mess with Janet!
Let’s see her have a cage match with Bondi!
Pam won't do it. It'll ruin her face-lift. 😆
Geez! Hopefully she didn’t pay for that!
Lol! When you're born being hit with the ugly stick, this is the best the plastic surgeons can do.
All those years of the Republicans talking about states' rights--that's nothing but a joke now. Same with being "deficit hawks" and believing that government should not interfere with private businesses. Its been a long time since they've been anything other than liars and hypocrites.
Fuck no!
Fucking MAGA Republican assholes.
Can we just form 50 separate countries at this point and call us the divided states of America?
Great, family just moved back in March and yes we registered. 😬
This is all prep work to try to steal the elections. 1st the midterms, then the next presidential. Trump demonstrates daily that he only differentiates between truth and bold-faced lies when it benefits HIM to do so. Trump would sell out his entire family if he thought it would win him the election.
Drop dead
Resist
Don’t do it!
Nope. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Oh god
Hell no!
No means NO
😡👎
State's rights on elections. Period. Full stop.
Hang tough Maine
Tell DOJ you’ll consider their request as soon as ALL the unredacted Epstein files are released for public review.
Don’t do it.
How about we do that when you give us the un-redacted (except the victims info)Epstein files!
Tell the DOJ and Pam Bondi to pound sand!
Our voting data is PRIVATE! Maine must NOT comply!
No state should comply. And they don’t have to. The DOJ can go suck 🍆
But those of us in red states can be sure our governors will comply.
But they won’t ask you guys for it.
i am sure they will. we just won't hear about it because the states won't fight it.
Ooh, I don’t know about that. They are going to come after registered Democrats, mark my words. They want voter rolls to know who to go after.
I agree. Start a letter writing campaign to your state Reps and Senators demanding that they refuse to provide your personal voting data that they are NOT entitled to have. And I would call them, too, and give them a piece of my mind!
Fuck the DOJ!!
Can a person legally change their name to Fuck Donald Trump? Asking for a friend.
Why??
What is the motivation for this I mean it can't be good. Why are they trying to find out people's party affiliation and the ss number something sinister is intended with this.
OhioResidentsDatabase.com I was SHOCKED to see the info they put out to the public in different states. I looked up a friend in Ohio for their address and found they list EVERY neighbors name,age, address and voting affiliation on the street 😲
Pound lobstah, assholes.
Wonder if Susan Collins is concerned? Hmm! Hmm!
She probably thinks lessons have been learnt.
….she’s probably on the fence about it. Her constituents continue to vote for her.
"Nuts" would be an appropriate, simple worded statement.
Tell them no! States control voting!
Don’t do it!!!!
Why?
It’s an all out assault on Americans’ voting rights and in states rights. Which will be the first state to secede?
I hope Maine can hold out!
As a registered voter for more than 40 years. I have to say that I don't feel safe with my voter registration data in the hands of the Department of Justice.
So much for that whole State’s rights thing, huh? Seems they don’t actually want to give any power back to the States. Just the ones they like who do what they are told.
Yeah, let's see how that works out.
It’ll probably end with SCOTUS ordering states to turn over the info to DOJ.
😡😡😡NO
Please do what you can to stop this, Marc.
Fascists gonna fascist
And again, GO jump -- I could have used a MUCH nastier word.
This would be better with alt-text
Idk. I sort of think keeping an authoritarian government from obtaining personal data in voter rolls and feeding it into AI is a worthwhile thing.
1. This is bizarre, conspiracy-level bullsh*t, our voter roles can't even keep track of who died last year, let alone all their billions of social media posts. 2. Even if it were true, it doesn't justify excluding millions of people from participating in the community they built.
They've...already been feeding data into AI? They're asking for data protected by what's literally called "The Privacy Act." The *actual* conspiracy is that there was any voter sort of coordinated, nationwide voter fraud.
Also your second point is unintelligible, so agree to disagree, I guess.
I can see you're still talking, even tho I muted you, but I'm going to tell you a story to help you understand the level of competence we are dealing with in our govt. Millions of people change their name every year, & there's no direct way to change your name with the IRS.
The IRS does something called 1099 program, to verify names & taxpayer ID #s, in order to know when people change their names. I changed my name a while back, & the IRS opened a WHOLE NEW FILE under my SSN, because they could not figure out that a taxpayer w/ the same SSN, address, bday...
...earnings history, medicare number, & SSDI history was the same person with a different name. If you think those same people are analyzing all our social media posts, & somehow it's the alt-text that's the problem, you are a dipsh*t.
The NSA has been spying on all our cellular activity for decades. Alt-text doesn't change that. They can afford to run Optical Character Recognition, while most visually or cognitively disabled people can't. And the NSA doesn't handle voter rolls. Local clerks do.
So...my original post was in reply to the content of the social media post; I was saying I don't think enforcing federal privacy laws is a "distraction." I wasn't suggesting the gov't was monitoring the actual post. Not sure what the rage is about.
And if you think the NSA is giving every city and township clerk in the USA access to its spy database, again, you are a dipsh*t.
Palantir can though
And I'm sure Palantir has contracts with every city & township clerk in the USA. Because that's how that works. 🙄 Palantir can afford OCR. Fcking use alt-text, or you're a eugenicist. That's the deal. And if you're gonna be a eugenicist, at least be straight about it. No more dipsh*t excuses.✌️
This may not be a Epstein thing. They tried this in 2017 but didn't have the know-how to do it. Plus they had no cooperation from states. This is a 2025 thing. Already planned.
That's a side bet. Trump dumps into a new diaper every time he realizes that he lost in 2020 and he wants to fabricate proof that he won. Maine is just a stopover.
Sue to restrain the DOJ from governing by retribution. It's unconstitutional!
Please request the D.O.J to pound sand.
When is this Bullshit going to 🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑⁉️⁉️⁉️
GET FUCKED, FASCISTS! They want the name of every registered Democratic voter in Maine. The lucky ones will be shod dead in the mass graves. The rest will be slaves. FUCK OFF
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Targeting U.S. citizens now? Will there be Democrat camps next?
What do they claim they are going to use it for?
Maine fights back against DOJ, Texas bows down and does as Trump orders. 🤨
Democracy ends in crooked courts
More tyranny from the DOJ and the office of the First Felon. He is looking even worse than Putin. Beginning to look a lot like Joseph Stalin. Hope Maine's voter registrar doesn't give in, but goes to court to fight this.
Sen Collins is concerned
Mere rumor. She's still considering whether or not to express her concern.
😆
She sure as Hell should be. Those voter files are private information, protected by both Federal and State laws. They must go to court to stop this.
🙄😂
Gripping those pearls….
So tightly
But is she VERY concerned?
Not yet
Ah. FIRST they must release the UNREDACTED Trump/ Epstein files!! 😠
Fair trade
Yea, go FUCK yourselves!
No, NO, & Fuck No!
😡
Correction: The Dept of Justice has died and morphed into tRumps "Dept. of Injustice" !!
DON'T FOLD TO THIS CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION... JEEP SAY NO!!
Crickets from the states' rights crowd, as always.
Hopefully Maine's response ..... 🖕🤣
Fascism today and tomorrow are the goals.
jfc
"The department (DOJ) acknowledged Maine’s concerns about privacy but brushed them aside, insisting it would keep the data confidential." They already proved they were unreliable about confidentiality when they allowed DOGE to mine our data!
Sure, they won't release it. They'll just keep their list of people to enslave and murder safe until the camps and logistics are fully in place to persecute and murder every Dem voter. I 100% guarantee they won't let it fall into anyone ELSE'S hands. They'd be found out.
We the american people letting things like this go on , Really !
Hold strong. None of there business!
Their. Opps
🖕🏻🖕🏻Blondie the biggest cockroach in the Trump Administration!
Why? So they can come for all democrats?
🎯
No fuckin way Maine is gonna comply with this illegal order.
I don’t know-we’ve been a little shaky lately. 🤞
Hold the line Maine!
Love isn't always on time.
The DOJ should go piss up a rope!
Then wrap it around their…
😉
Ween salutes you. 🫡
🤔 I’m a sailor and this is a new one for me… but I like the imagery 🏴☠️
I hope Bellows and Mills continue to refuse to follow these illegal demands. Bondi can get bent.
The US DoJ can go fuck themselves.... When will anyone have a plan to combat this administration...
Exactly - Since WHEN can a US POTUS alter the legendary #SmithsonianMuseum content, #KennedyCenter Honors, STATE election rolls,......WTF is happening?
The CIA always has a plan for these scenarios...it's just a matter of will to carry it out.
The repubes will use it to intimidate voters. FFS where are the courts?
time for maine to send bribe-di a single page with a giant middle finger
Please, somebody tell them to GET FUCKED. See also: Privacy Act.
Elections are state affairs. The feds have no role.
That would be a fuck off
Once again, we have a lawless request from a lawless DOJ because a lawless president has told his sycophantic lapdogs to do what he wants them to. Trump is once again trying to totally bypass the constitutional guarantee that states run their own elections, including federal elections.
What are they doing? They are pushing what Yrump won rhe election.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS THEY ARE TRYING TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY
Is Susan Collins disturbed?
Yes. But right now she is concerned. 😉
…"The 'D' in this column now stands for 'Detained'"…
Is Susan Collin considered yet?
UNFUCKINGCONSTITUTIONAL. TAKE THIS SHIT TO COURT😡
Yeah, Fuck that. Bellows will stand firm. Mills will stand firm. MAINE will stand firm (except for the MAGA crybabies).
Now the department of Injustice.
Fuck them!
trump won’t be pushing Maine around anytime in the near future…
It’s a purple state…and one that largely hates Susan Collins.
He’s still mad with the Governor of Maine. All he knows how to do is seek revenge.
Setting up the “blue states cheat….see they wouldn’t hand over their voter information”. When is it time to start the actual fighting?
😩🤬
This is absolutely illegal. We have a constitutional right to keep our vote private.
Epstein Epstein Epstein
They're clearly building a database of "troublemakers" (Democrats)--just as the Stasi did. We are in very serious trouble, folks.
Tell them to pound salt.
Can’t vote our way out of this if we can’t vote. It will be illegal to vote in Blue states soon
DOJ is now the department of injustice, criminality and cronyism.
Everything he touches is corrupted.
Hold strong Maine!
Hell no Maine!!! They know it's not mandatory👎👎👎👎
I LOVE this Bellows person. Thanks to them profusely please
She's been amazing 💙🌲
They can fuck right off.
Why aren't either of the State Senators fighting for their constituents? I get Sen. Collins, she has gone full "concerned" MAGAt. Why is Sen. King letting this go on?
Susan Collins is a complete moron and so freaking old it's ridiculous.
Someone's got to help Interior Design Barb paint the border wall with black paint, right?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
I’m in TX & just watched the GOP bootlickers further gerrymander this state into white, I mean anglo, oblivion. I’ve moved on from just saying it in an echo chamber on social media. I’m engaging in my community. Protest is next on my long list of doing something meaningful.
Hell NA!
How is this legal?
Fuck NO you bastards! We are not stupid like Maga's, we know you have nefarious intentions for that shit!!!
Who the fuck do these fuckwads think they are?
Resist, Maine.
Im a Maine voter on the rolls and i do not give my consent!! 😡
Likewise.
What happened to States Rights? Maine needs to tell the DOJ to read the Constitution.
I assume the response was to tell DOJ to do something anatomically impossible?
They are locating Democrats not just immigrants. 6 red states have sent troops to occupy our capital. This is a war.
The attack on Democracy continues. #TrumpCrimeWH fascist dictator pigs.
Talk about governmental over reach
Wow! Where will this all end? DOJ is truly weaponized! SCOTUS is Weaponized. Trump is the Weapon!
Why does DOJ think they are entitled to this info?
If the State of Maine would like me to help draft a response to this request, I am more than able.
DOJ is trying the intimidation game, they see it's not working so they're doubling down. Legally there's nothing they can do to compel Maine that won't get shot down in court. They'll certainly try but unless they send the military in to force the issue, they're powerless
Again why do they want this information
I believe want email addresses etc. From my own experiences, the GOP have a very active spam email system that floods your inbox almost daily with funding requests and GOP news. The GOP have the best spammers in the business.
I’ll probably read them as often as I read other emails. Pretty much junk mail to me and trashed regularly.
It's more than emails; they already have those from registered voters. Plus, they are Nazis, so it is something far worse than that.
We need to be thinking about that as a reality. Who are they going to target next who are they going to harass?
The info they're after includes all in the image below. I believe it's so they can collate it with all other info they've scraped from databases at various agencies to have an ever-increasing master list of everyone, for whatever singling out purposes they may want in future. Nefarious, at best.
Yup, same thought. IBM in Germany type of thing.
Well you know.... fuck the DOJ.
That's nefarious. Nothing to worry about. WTF do they want Maine's voter registrations?
This is no longer an impartial Department Of Justice. This is a Department working for Trump and the Republicans. Period.
Shocker! Nope.
True
The Battle is on... themoralalgorithm.com/the-vigilant...
Trump wants to unseat the Maine governor and is using mafia tactics to do so
For what it's worth, I've contacted Susan Collins and Angus King about this and do something to stop this steal! I feel this private info will be used for vote manipulation and retribution against Democrats. Probably even arrest and incarceration for being Democrat. It's coming.
Why are they singling out Maine? 😉 is that legal?
Did you hear that Janet Mills told Trump "See you in court'? That's why-she stood up to him. He hasn't forgotten.
Yes & was in awe! I know that’s why he’s after her. fdt
Oh hell no ‼️
the governor should give up the unredacted voter rolls when the 🍊💩🐒 gives up the unredacted Epstein files!
You can’t be polite to these people. Tell them to read the constitution,then go fuck themselves. Give them lube if you want.
She has told Donald to fuck right off. Next year, we have a fascist running for governor & im sure Donald wants him in place.
We have to normalize saying fuck what that guy wants.
🤣🤣🤣...I see you're not the shy type MH.
My initial thought exactly!
He’ll give up the Epstein files right after his tax returns and his healthcare plan. Approximately two weeks.
yes. under audit 😏
I think that if the DOJ wants voter records, they should ask the voters individually to send them their voter registrations. People should decide on what information they want to share with the government.
This is so on-brand for a sexual predator's administration. They don't understand "no means no."
WTH
Stand strong Maine!
Maine should send DoJ a few blank pages, with instructions to roll ‘em and stick ‘em.
Nope, don’t do it
Nazi Germany wannabes! Why are we letting this happen?
the DOJ is a criminal branch. of our government.
Just fucking refuse!!!
But Putin said Trump should have them. Siberia turns their rolls over to Putin. Everybody does it according to Vlad.
What a disgusting banana state USA is nowadays. Western democracies strive to be less dependent on USA. It will take some time, but it will be the reality.
Why would they need this information? This sounds like another round of Trump revenge.
Right. Are they going to start sending threatening letters to dems?
Tell them to fuck straight off to some red state who will gladly do their bidding !
Maine to DOJ: FUCK OFF!!!
They should just say they don't know what happened to them. Last time anyone saw them was on a desk somewhere.
It can’t do that. Privacy Act of 1974: This federal law restricts how federal agencies can collect and use personal data. Even if voter data is publicly available under state law, DOJ must comply with Privacy Act requirements before accessing it
They don't care about the law.
Also does this regime follow the law or constitution?
Privacy acts tend to have exemptions for law enfocement; this one is no different: see 5 U.S.C. § 552a(b)(7). The ability of the DoJ to meet its requirements should not be in doubt. www.justice.gov/opcl/overvie...
Privacy acts, DoJ rules and volumes of case law also require that law enforcement demonstrate probable cause to demand things covered by privacy laws and the 4A. There's no legal justification for demanding the handover of an entire state worth of data. I imagine you probably already knew that.
The DOJ requested election records from Colorado, including those from the 2024 and 2020 federal elections. In response to this request, Colorado's Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, provided the DOJ with a publicly available version of its voter file and data showing voter history.
Why do they want the data? Your link says "for law enforcement purposes." What law did Maine break?
Maine has large refugee populations & there are lots of family farms here.
They didn’t
That's rather beside the point. The question is whether the DoJ can make a colorable assertion of the need for the requested records so as to investigate alleged law breaking by the State.
What’s the “alleged law breaking?” NAME IT.
Or, idk you could RTFA and follow its links. "The DOJ cited compliance with the National Voter Registration Act as the basis for its request." So presumably they're asserting some sort of NVRA infraction.
Well. Prove it. In court. Seems like illegal search and seizure unless they have a warrant with some proof of a crime.
It’s most likely not why they want the data.
They’re bustin’ balls cuz the lady Guv told Don to stuff it. A great moment. Don would cream his underwear sticky to have LePage back…..
That was inappropriate. I shouldn’a said that about our prez, cuz it’s his Depends that he’d cream sticky, & the nice thing is that his pull-ups have the elastic leg holes to prevent leakage.….
Sure. I think we all know well enough what's going on. Question is, which side will prevail? DoJ has broad investigatory powers to which courts traditionally show deference, so...
Can't you always say, "I think they are breaking the law?" we need the information to prove otherwise... very close to the presumption of guilt.
Who makes the decision on the validity of DOJ’s claims?
Ultimately, a court; a district court in the first instance, then if appealed, the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Then if appealed again, SCOTUS.
WHAT ALLEGED LAW BREAKING?
That would be the law breaking which the DoJ alleges, BMW. They've not been very specific, and they're probably lying, but that's where we are.
Don't they need evidence suggesting a crime has occurred/law been broken? What was submitted to the court that constituted a likelihood that a crime was committed? "Just because" has traditionally not met that already very low bar.
They probably do need something that looks like evidence. They might possibly get around to that eventually. I think right now we're still in the trash-talking phase of the enquiry.
So … we should all expect the US government to be able to search any of us for any reason because they “feel” something?! Illegal search and seizure. It’s actually the 4th amendment. Although I’m sure the US Supreme Court will just ignore that too.
"The DOJ letter cited the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to justify its demand." So presumably they're asserting one or more of those laws.
Yeah I had the same question. I don’t watch any news. I will listen to Midas’s podcast every once in a while but I can only listen to it in small quantities it’s too depressing. What is the reason for this? Or the motive?
Voter suppression is the motive. And the more data the DoJ has, the greater the opportunity to find cracks, or supposed cracks, into which they can insert levers. www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...
Thank you for getting back to me appreciate it
So they can rough up anyone who registered as a democrat.
This is what fascists do. They figure who their enemy is.
They want it so they can see where they can gerrymander in that state too. It's all about cheating?
Privacy and Protection of private data laws like HIPPA are subject to piercing by LE, but there has to be a legitimate investigation predicated on probable cause in order to invade that privacy. In other words…a Court issued Subpoena not a bunch of angry lawyers.
There's no specific probable cause. Fishing expeditions that there *might* be something illegal is not good enough to invoke that.
What law is the DoJ seeking to enforce?
According to the DoJ, the National Voter Registration Act.
But they have no probable cause.
According to them, they do. And respectfully, you're not in a position to know, one way or another.
Anyone who can read and understand legal language can form an opinion. Is that a skill set you possess?
Anyone who can write joined up sentences would have said "I think that they have no probable cause." Try not to abraid your knuckles as you drag them.
Ah yes, your response capability is still an ad hominem, just with slightly fancier words.
Right now, they're not complying with much. This Fascist Authoritarian coup started over 10 yrs ago. Most Americans didn't care enough to stop them. (One who watched it all)
Sounds good on paper, but this regime has yet to obey any law standing in their way.
Like laws stop the Republi-nazi's
Problem is they've collected data from Soc Sec, IRS and other agencies and they've made a huge database. They want to run that against voter data to find migrant voters. We know they won't have much luck there. But that data collection has lots of uses. Palynyr sp?. Has been very involved in this.
That can't be legal. Even this Supreme Court wouldn't go along with that. Or would they?
And where is Sen. Susan "The Wind" Collins? Shouldn't she be standing up for her state's rights?
Just say, “I Think Not. F U‼️”
And again, the answer should be ‘No’.
Why?
Oh hell no. Purely weaponized DOJ.
The trump regime is a large pod of orcas, picking off and killing everything that epitomizes “America” one by one. We. Need. To. Stop. Them.
How?
Maybe we need a 2025 Version of Gandhi’s Salt March. We DEFINITELY need MASSIVE numbers of people to take action. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Ma....
Detain, Convict, Deport Give them some of their own medicine
How about "NO," as a complete sentence???!!!??
OK, in return we’ll take The Unredacted Epstein Files.
Trump’s revenge for a strong woman not bowing down to him. This is so fucked up!
DOJ has no authority in this matter
Give them NOTHING!
Dear Fascism, GFY Signed, We the People
The Trump gov’t war on democracy escalates. Where’s the MSM press reporting on this 24/7? With that question, I’m afraid that Trump will be successful (like him staying out of prison and stealing the presidency).
This DOJ cannot be trusted any further than you could throw them. Using Trump and his cronies logic this request is bull shit just because I think so. After all that is the logic they use for all their illegal fishing expeditions. Who needs evidence when you have I think so.
Yer what hurts?
Maine: I'll give you the unredacted voter rolls if you give us the unredacted Epstein files.
Just say no. DOJ had lost its good lawyers. Say I will see you in court.
