Another story that is somehow evading "mainstream" press.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d ago

Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.

Rules for thee, but not for me, right Paul?

MAGA Candidate Rages After ICE Targets Family Member For Deportation—And The Hypocrisy Is Rich

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Trump's Big Bad Bill has taken food assistance away from 7,000 Maine kids. It's shameful. mainemorningstar.com/2026/09/30/a...

The billionaire class doesn’t want a government that works for the working class, they want a government that works for them instead.

Brisket is gone from barbeque menus. Beef too costly. Free chips and salsa disappearing from TexMex joints. Tomatoes too costly. This is what will bring the downfall of the regime.

The real cause of death was Leonard Leo’s “courageous” Catholic Supreme Court judges, after perjuring themselves in confirmation hearings.

Global Abortion Rights News@globalabortionnews.bsky.social · last wk.

An autopsy found that Tierra Walker of Texas (who repeatedly asked for an abortion to save her life only to be repeatedly told "the baby is fine") died of “hypertensive cardiovascular disease with superimposed preeclampsia.” The real cause of death was the Texas abortion ban.

DOUBLY TRUE FOR MAINE: Do not take election results for granted. Do not take negative political ads as truth. DO your due diligence on Collins's voting record and grift. DO check your voter registration. DO #VOTE early. Organized money always wins - until organized people show up. #MEpolitics

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · last wk.

It doesn’t matter what polls or the pundits say — we can’t afford to take anything for granted with the midterms as the regime threatens to sabotage this election. That’s why our organizers are busy bringing new voters into our coalition and recruiting more volunteers to protect the results.

There have been a couple news stories quoting Mainers who either hadn't heard about the @propublica.org's corruption revelations or didn't think they represented anything unusual or unusually disturbing. Here's a video Mainers can send folks in their lives who fall in those categories. #MEpolitics

We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins

YouTube video by ProPublica

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“Maine has this history of welcoming refugees and asylum seekers... There’s a reputation here of a supportive community. People have settled here feeling this support, and now that's being pulled out from under them." ~Panagioti Tsolkas, MIRC maineindependentnews.com/politics/ice...

‘Afraid to go about their normal lives’: How ICE raids are harming Maine’s economy

James Myall, a policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy, said people are staying away from work, school and local businesses.

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Sure looks like the Secretary of the Interior is about to invoke emergency wartime powers to use taxpayer funds to build a bunch of data centers on public land, without any public input: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-doug...

What’s Doug Burgum Doing With Defense Production Act Authority?

It sure looks like things are adding up for widespread data center construction on public lands, without public input

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"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

Susan Collins chairs the committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE's two biggest jailers both send her campaign checks. She's one of nine. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Susan Collins's campaign finance director and her husband's boss both conspired with a felon to receive $$ that he couldn't legally give. And that's just the stuff in e-mails that's beyond dispute. So yeah. #MEpolitics

The New York Times reported in August that Susan Collins met with one of these dark money groups at a DC townhouse owned by Oracle. (Can't make this stuff up!) What was said at the meeting? Who are the people behind the dark money group? Only Susan Collins knows! tinyurl.com/ywn24d67 #MEpolitics

It was the PAC's first expenditure since late August and it follows a recent report by ProPublica alleging that its chairman, Scott Reed, discussed concealing an illegal donation from a defense contractor to a different committee that backed Collins' 2020 reelection. https://bit.ly/4rIM3rQ

Pro-Collins PAC takes out $2 million ad buy attacking Jackson

It was the PAC's first expenditure since late August and it follows a recent report by ProPublica alleging that its chairman, Scott Reed, discussed concealing an illegal donation from a defense contra...

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If Susan Collins didn't illegally coordinate with the super PAC run by her spouse's boss then the answer to the question is easy: 'There was no call. Period.' After all she had no way to know Kao gave the $$ unless the PAC told her! That they can't/won't say this gives the game away. #MEpolitics

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · last wk.

PPH memoryholes Susan Collins camp's answer from the day before -- when her deputy chief of staff said Collins DID call Kao. (tinyurl.com/2pja4fhj) Beyond that, notice her team being careful not to outright *deny* a call. Trying to hedge in case evidence of a call surfaces. #MEpolitics

Last year, Wapo did a “prestige journalism” series on billionaires influencing US elections. Maine billionaire Leonard Leo was never mentioned. They did a sidebar on Maine, detailing Soros money in the state. Quick rundown on Leo and Maine. medium.com/@thcarter123...

Leonard Leo Holy War Crusaders Target Maine

By Tom Carter

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Not being glib or facetious. I honestly think Leonard Leo has some sort of agreement w NYT senior editors or corporate to not cover him, except in positive and Leo approved ways. Nothing else explains 15+ years of NYT giving Leonard Leo cover. medium.com/@thcarter123...

A decade of failing to persuade the New York Times to pay attention to Leonard Leo

By Tom Carter

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I already had severe concerns about how the military operated before I left the force a few years ago. Now those concerns seem minuscule compared to what we are seeing today. We need to stop and remove Hegseth. Vote for Troy Jackson so that Susan Collins can’t stop us from doing so. #mepolitics

Right-wing pollster with Susan Collins +2%. Put it in the blender and then forget about it. (And then open your contacts and text a bunch of folks to make sure they have a voting plan.) #MEpolitics

Political Poll Bot@pollresults.org · last wk.

Maine US Senate Sep 28 - 30, 2026 Susan Collins (R) 48% (+2.0%) Troy Jackson (D) 46% Don't know 6% co/efficient (B) 1240 LV View Poll

The only person winning is Vladimir Putin.

@darren32359.bsky.social · last wk.

Susan Collins has had five years to give back Leon Black's money. She's had ten months to give back his wife's. Here's what her office did when we called. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-billiona...

Susan Collins's campaign took a check from Leon Black three days after the Times exposed his Epstein payments. It wasn't the last check from the Black household. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-billiona...

And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.

Today, Trump’s tariffs go into effect. Despite what Trump says, these sweeping tariffs will only hurt us— and all Collins can tell us is how concerned she is. Mainers need a Senator who will actually stand up to Trump and stop screwing over working people.

One week after this was published: Is Amy Abbott continuing to serve as the finance director on Susan Collins 2026 campaign? If so why hasn't she been dismissed? Has anyone asked? #MEpolitics

I’m listening. We all should be. Video: buff.ly/tnaKUD8

Here's Mary Ann Lynch popping up for a 'woman on the street' quote in an LA Times piece on Susan Collins in 2020. The unavoidable inference is that legacy media outlets let the Collins campaign choose who gets quoted in their stories. PR masquerading as journalism. Unforgivable. #MEpolitics