David Puelle

Yes. But. This is not a Trump problem. It is a Republican problem. They swore for years they wanted dismantle our nation. The are fundamentally debasers. Can’t govern. Don’t want to govern. Are small, base, mean and the true problem. Trump is a symptom. Republicans are the disease.

It gets worse and worse. One page of items newly exempted from tariffs and THREE pages of items with new tariffs slapped on them! What a joke! If you see outlets falling for Susan Collins's stunt -- highlighting the former but ignoring the latter -- please let us know! #MEpolitics

Susan Collins and Joe Manchin posing with a guy at left who used the same sword to try to intimidate Somali-Americans in Lewiston (tinyurl.com/x489mum6). Absolutely vile stuff. (He's employed by the Leonard Leo-sponsored disinformation outlet to which Susan Collins is also a donor.) #MEpolitics

People are claiming that Elon Musk messed with Starlink in Ukraine because Trump asked him. I think a more likely reason is that Ukraine damaging Russian data centers embarrassed Elon by showing how many of his Twitter followers are nonexistent and how much traffic on Twitter is driven by bots.

Anyway this story came out three weeks ago today. Susan Collins and her team have engaged in a lot of hand-waving and false umbrage-taking...but other than a couple weak feints that have since been debunked, they haven't disputed let alone rebutted any of the article's key claims. #MEpolitics

Worth reading Amy Fried's series on Susan Collins and abortion -- and passing it along to any Mainers you know who are under illusions about where Collins actually stands on the reproductive freedom. #MEpolitics

Wow one of Susan Collins campaign's county co-chairs (not identified as such by @pressherald.com of course) is tired of complaints about Susan Collins! #MEpolitics

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

Companies linked with Trump's two eldest sons have received over $6 billion in government contracts. Some are established companies that invited the sons to join their Boards, but more are new start-ups with zero experience that are *magically* receiving massive contracts. Corruption gone wild.

Oh. #MEpolitics

Seven minutes of Jon Stewart zeroing in on the giant gap btwn Susan Collins words and actions [15:52]: "No one plays the 'I'm actually quite concerned and upset about this thing I am actually going to vote for' better than the poster child for troubled acquiescence...Susan Collins." #MEpolitics

New poll from UNH has us up 6 points in ME-02 (margin of error +/- 3.9%). This race is trending in the right direction, but polls don't win elections, votes do. Chip in and help us keep this momentum going: secure.actblue.com/donate/dunla...

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This belongs in the Smithsonian.

So @propublica.org debunked Susan Collins www.propublica.org/article/debu...

Susan Collins +3% in a new NY Times poll. Fyi it was out in the field entirely or almost entirely before @propublica.org's bombshell story dropped on Tuesday. Every call, every door knock, every text to a friend/relative/former colleague is going to count here, folks! #MEpolitics

This is the right answer from Troy Jackson on this. The story coming out of Susan Collins and her team simply doesn't add up and anyone paying attention can see it. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins campaign with a press conference on the @propublica.org story but the set-up only underscores the problem: The guy talking is the spouse of Collins 2020/2026 finance director who traded e-mails with Kao re: falsifying donor info. Of course he says nothing wrong was done! #MEpolitics

Do Voters Care Whether Susan Collins Is Corrupt? - New York Magazine

@propublica.org reporter @mtredden.bsky.social pushes back on Susan Collins claim that there's nothing to see here because she was exonerated on all this years ago. #MEpolitics

A prominent election denier with ties to Ginni Thomas was implicated in a far-reaching corruption plot involving Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). ProPublica reported that Martin Kao, former CEO of the Hawaii-based defense firm Navatek, told FBI agents and

These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"

Holy smokes. #MEpolitics

Yeah this is super duper illegal. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins, corrup as hell! #MEpolitics

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Susan Collins Delivered Maine Up to Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

@newrepublic.com picks up the story. tinyurl.com/73zwdptw #MEpolitics

New outlet, same legacy conceit that frames a 73 year-old woman who's been working in DC since the 1970s as someone without agency over her actions/predicament, at the mercy of dark forces beyond her control. The question isn't 'How much can she take.' It's 'Why won't she DO anything?' #MEpolitics

Even the crickets were embarrassed.

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

This is the first honest pro-Susan Collins letter we've seen in months -- which may mean it's the first one not coordinated with Collins's campaign: Vote for Collins, the writer argues, so that the 'undeserving' don't get health care. Sounds about right. #MEpolitics

I looked it up and there's actually no rule that says @pressherald.com has to run a column by a health care lobbyist trying to trick readers into thinking Susan Collins has been great for Maine hospitals. But they do it anyway because they have a thoroughly distorted view of their role. #MEpolitics

Monday we learned via The New York Times that recently Susan Collins secretly met with the folks behind Stronger America -- one of the dark money groups fueling her candidacy -- at a corporate-owned DC townhouse. tinyurl.com/46aezdfs Not aware of a single Maine outlet having noted this. #MEpolitics

Can't recall any 2020 ads directly taking on Susan Collins fake brand -- or basically calling her a liar. This seems positive. #MEpolitics

"I do not believe ICE should be allowed to make arrests unless there are extenuating circumstances..." You're a US senator! Holy smokes! It's only because Maine press treats her like a pundit rather than a govt official with power that she thinks it's OK to answer like a pundit. #MEpolitics

A flat-out lie from Susan Collins. Easily debunked. tinyurl.com/bdew29dy #MEpolitics

We’re not changing it.

We're pretty jaded about Maine legacy media (!) but still amazed that a month ago Susan Collins got caught on tape saying she'd vote for Kavanaugh again if she had the chance; NY Times reported it; and Maine outlets studiously ignored the disclosure and the obvious questions it raises. #MEpolitics

Political Cartoon of the Year!

New Overly Attached Girlfriend just dropped

Seems like Susan Collins has been gone too long for Team Collins to know how to spell the name of the state she supposedly represents 👀🚨

This is great. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins is out arguing "my procedural vote [for the Big Beautiful Bill] did not determine whether that bill advanced." That's bonkers nonsense. There were a few senators holding out and Collins coming off the fence paved the way for passage. Everyone understood this at the time! #MEpolitics

Just quit. Quit your job. Go away.

Admitting that the dangerous, lawless agency that you sent $70,000,000,000 -- after it terrorized your own constituents! -- is using that money in a way you didn't expect isn't exactly exculpatory! (In fact it's an indictment.) #MEpolitics

2nd article in 2 days from @randybillings.bsky.social and @pressherald.com that quotes Susan Collins spokesman but no one on Troy Jackson's side. Every election the Maine press consolidates behind Collins but the blatant bias over the last week or so is unlike anything we've ever seen. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins setting her Potemkin village campaign apparatus in motion: The part of the race when she pulls up in a bubble of dozens of red-shirted supporters (to intimidate any critics) and pretends to have unscripted chats with pre-selected small biz owners as "reporters" snap photos. #MEpolitics