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Whenever you read trans rights are an issue, remember where it started. Who fueled the hatred. Far right Catholic Nationalists. Evangelicals piled on, as infantry does, but it was Leonard Leo Catholics generals, w below the belt politics, who created the issue. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Shame on @benkail.bsky.social for playing along w/ this nonsense. Voting to advance a bill so you can make changes ISN'T A THING. Anyone can propose changes. It's also Susan Collins SECOND excuse. First she said she defers to the Majority Leader on procedural votes -- an obvious lie. #MEpolitics

Steve Collins with the most important Maine political column of the year. Big credit to him for covering a dark story the rest of the Maine press is studiously ignoring. Couldn't have been easy for him -- he was boosting Susan Collins as recently as last year. #MEpolitics

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Susan Collins: Vote for me to help me stop my own party but not really

============ SUSAN COLLINS: Vote for me to help me stop my own party but not really This time, her shtick about legislative efficacy might be overwhelmed by voters’ anger at Trump. You can read the first eight paragraphs for free and get the gist... #RetireSusan #VOTE #JACKSONforMAINE #MEpolitics

RAGA is a key link in the Leonard Leo strategy to move issues to his Supreme Court, where he has over 90% success rate. Mifepristone is a good example. EPPC writes flawed report. Students for Life amplifies. RAGA files suit. The lose, appeal to Supreme Court. www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/10/23/e...

Susan Collins is falsely claiming she's won tariff exemptions, and media outlets are letting her get away with it. In fact, the admin is swapping some 50% tariffs for other 50% tariffs, as they did when they swapped out road salt. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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If someone is interfering with your right to vote, tell an election official right away – don’t let them scare you away. You should also call the Election Protection Hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE to file a report and connect with non-partisan support. Learn more + make a plan to vote: ACLUMaine.org/Vote

There's a reason Press Herald and even Susan Collins's normally deferential hometown paper ran this story a month ago today: It's credible, damning and includes e-mails to support it's bombshell claims. Challenge anyone to read it and not come away thinking Collins is corrupt as hell. #MEpolitics

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You may have heard reports that some voters aren't seeing the right candidates on their printouts after they vote. ALWAYS check your printout and make sure your candidate choices are right. If you have any issues, notify your poll site manager and call 866-OUR-VOTE before you leave the poll site.

Misleading Susan Collins ads: Imagine that! www.factcheck.org/2026/10/ads-...

Just weeks from election day, Mainers still have questions and you still haven't given answers, Senator Collins.

Another week, another Susan Collins pay-for-play scandal. Susan Collins owes Maine taxpayers an apology. But more than that, we deserve a change November 3rd.

Susan Collins is on the side of owners and Troy Jackson is on the side of workers. It's not much more complicated than that. #MEpolitics

I think today’s a good day to drop the ACLU Defending Our Vote website. Filled with tons of good information as to how to join a task force for Defending Our Vote, to knowing your rights, to what to do when intimidated, and making sure you have a plan. #Pinks 🔥👇👇👇👇👇👇👇🔥 www.aclu.org/campaigns-in...

DON'T LET YOUR VOTE FLIP Advice for voters in Tennessee, the two machine system they have there, and how to ensure who you voted for is what was recorded. #TennesseeVoting

🚨 The developers of PHP have just released new versions that patch two critical vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution on any website running PHP (which is virtually all of them). www.php.net/archive/2026...

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

I had an encounter today with a guy who was most likely an ICE agent. It was weird, but I'm hearing from folks in ME and in other states that ICE is changing their tactics. Please read and share, especially for Maine folks. shaystewartbouley.substack.com/p/weirdo-or-...

EVERYONE votes early in Georgia. It's not just Democrats. So in 2024, you could see that Rep areas were more excited and led turnout. The left axis is 2020 Dem Pres %. 2024 early vote was negative (GOP) and the R-squared was .10, which forecast the narrow Trump win in that cycle.

The donor list for Trump's ballroom is finally public, and it blows the lid off a huge can of worms. There’s a LOT here, so let’s break it down:🧵

New story: In 2025, the FBI was examining the actions of Sen Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and Rep. Joe Wilson as part of a sweeping bribery probe. Then Trump’s campaign of retribution demolished public corruption investigations. www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Senator Collins, Mainers aren’t stupid. Your household owns oil stocks that went up during the war in Iran. You denied it. The facts say otherwise. And Mainers are paying the price for a war you voted five times to keep going.

Imagine the future you want to see, then go VOTE FOR it.

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

It’s not hyperbolic to say that NOT VOTING in this election could RUIN YOUR LIFE! Early voting is already happening in Maine and it is EASY! No lines. No waiting. Just go to your town office, request a ballot, fill it out right there and hand it back. I just did it in less than five minutes.

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Two weeks, people! Really think this is the closing message. Paint it on the side of a barn. Print it up and hand it out in front of the grocery store. #MEpolitics

IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

Women got the right to vote in this country by ONE VOTE (In Tennessee. It was amazing.)

It's disheartening to see the largest publications in the nation not cite original reporting from independent/individual reporters. Not one mention of @marisakabas.bsky.social's work in ID'ing Tommy. Instead, the WSJ implies that Tommy came forward himself. Disingenuous, at best.

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. 😳

they've run out of ideas so now it's just susan is key to MAGA majority

Susan Collins did NOT sign the Congressional letter to CBP, urging it to exempt personal prescriptions from a new rule restricting imported medicine. King signed the letter. The change dramatically impacts those who rely on lower-cost Canadian meds. #mepolitics www.wmtw.com/article/new-...

Have not independently verified this. #MEpolitics

In case you’re wondering who Susan Collins is working for… A vote for Collins is a vote for billionaires’ interests. A vote for Troy Jackson is a vote for the interests of everyone else. Couldn’t be clearer.

Excellent/thorough story from Bangor Daily News last week that seems to have escaped notice (lots going on!) detailing how Susan Collins participated in the sort of behavior that Trump alleged NY AG Leticia James was engaged in. He indicted James over it! #MEpolitics

Been in the room where it happens...and in that room voted for anti-gay judges (tinyurl.com/4u52a744), pulled support for the signature LGBTQ rights bill once it had a chance to pass (tinyurl.com/u997299s) and voted to DEFUND Maine schools to stigmatize trans kids (tinyurl.com/y2z7rd54)! #MEpolitics

Susan Collins hasn't changed? From 1997 - 2016 she voted with the GOP on party line votes 59% of the time. In 2017 she voted with Trump 90% of the time. In 2025 she voted with him 95%. So many media folks desperate to make the pickle Collins finds herself in someone else's fault. #MEpolitics

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

The annual IRS report on who pays taxes was due in July. It's still marked pending. Why? If the tax scam worked for you, they'd be shouting the numbers from the rooftops. Instead they're burying the fact that it was a handout for the richest 1%. Wake up.