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Susan Collins didn't explain why her health insurance drought lasted just one year: By 1995 an assault-weapons manufacturer had literally created a job for her to funnel $$$ to her in advance of her next race. She later voted to exempt gun companies from lawsuits. tinyurl.com/2s4ztz4z #MEpolitics
🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 6h agoSusan Collins is showing just how out of touch she is. “I spent a whole year without health insurance…in ‘94” That was 3 decades ago, Susan, when insurance was $1500 annually… Thanks to Susan’s vote that helped pass Trump’s murderous budget bill, premiums are $1500 a month now for some folks.
Maybe the most notable bit here -- not a shocker -- is that the "Constituent Coffee" events Susan Collins holds for PR purposes in her DC office aren't actually open to all Mainers. You've got to be the right *kind* of constituent. (Presumably one who can be relied on to play nice.) #MEpolitics
Maine Newsroom@mainenewsroom.com · 19h ago10/6 The story of Senator Susan Collins refusing to meet with 17 female Maine elected officials who went to DC to talk to her about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination #maine #MEpolitics
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
Even now Susan Collins won't say she has any regrets about confirming the MAGA Christian nationalist who had publicly vowed to ignore the law and the provisions of the Constitution that put Congress squarely in charge of spending. tinyurl.com/mu5pxyz6 #MEpolitics
The opening was already there but Susan Collins's unconscionable support for Trump's wag-the-dog war of choice with Iran has definitely increased the size of the opening. #MEpolitics
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · yesterday“How is somebody supposed to survive?” Heating bills in Maine have soared about 80%, giving Democrats an opening to unseat Susan Collins in a race crucial to control of the Senate.
these brutal prison camps packed with innocent people should not exist the vile cruelty of this regime demands that we impeach, convict, and remove the orange fascist immediately
Status Coup News@statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 17h ago🚨 BREAKING: Martin Soto, a Delaney Hall detainee whose participation in DH hunger strike helped spark weeks of protests—is about to be released after 8 months in ICE detention. Gov. Mikie Sherrill helped facilitate his release. MORE INFO TO COME.
Troy Jackson is not a great speaker. But that makes him even more believable as a hardworking logger-turned legislator who’s looking out for people who work hard. But he had a very strong closing statement. I think he clearly won
We know Susan Collins would vote for Trump’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Alito. And Mainers can prevent that by voting for Troy Jackson. #mepolitics www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Seen enough? She may as well resign now. This is Collins defense of bribery. “Rights of contractors to make political donations?”As far as I’m concerned the practice should be completely banned. Otherwise you get compromised Senators like Collins. #MESen #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago"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)
"One of the more common things that the measles virus can do is cause hepatitis or infection of the liver. These children will be sick. Other children are developing severe and irreversible neurological damage because of brain inflammation, or encephalitis." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the country’s largest in three decades
More than 1,000 people have been infected and nearly 200 have been hospitalized as the state struggles to contain the spread of the extremely infectious disease.
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For folks who might want a reminder of Paul LePage's time as governor #mepolitics: - An anemic economy - Cutting and blocking health care for tens of thousands - Keeping people in poverty unnecessarily - Shortchanging towns and schools by $2 billion www.mecep-action.org/lepage-what-...
Paul LePage’s record: What Maine lost
LePage blocked policies approved by voters, cut services for families, shifted costs onto towns and households, and left federal funding unclaimed or unspent.
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While they give their closing statements, I'll say that Collins often seemed offended that anyone questioned what she'd done and, while Troy is not seen as a good debater, he definitely held his own. #mepolitics
The rural health transformation fund is quintessential Susan Collins. She wants credit for an inadequate fix to a problem she helped to create. And then that inadequate fix becomes even worse because of the Trump officials she voted for #mepolitics
Edwin Park@edwincpark.bsky.social · 16h agoWhile Sen. Collins pushed it during HR 1’s enactment the rural fund was always temporary & inadequate in offsetting the massive #Medicaid cuts. But she also didn’t seem to push back when the Trump Admin later barred most of the $ actually going to rural hospitals to mitigate some of these cuts.
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h agoTroy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
Oh. #MEpolitics
The 5 Senators—Including Maine's Susan Collins—With The Biggest Investments In Data Centers
Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting Senator. We found 26 Senators with at least $7 million in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse an...
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"I've seen Matt Dunlap treat people with respect when nobody was watching." Jeff McCabe, former Maine House Majority Leader, wrote about his years knowing Matt, from lending him a rifle during orientation to watching him sit down and actually listen to state workers at the State House.
-U.S. Service Members killed. -Hundreds wounded. -Thousands of civilians dead. And now he’s making flip comments about them taking out 2 American cities. Absolutely disgusting and abhorrent. It’s past time to invoke the 25th Amendment. Will our Republican colleagues find the courage to do so?
Go you good things: “Today the High Court has said what we have always known: we cannot dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us and won’t be felt by us,” Wendy Wales, DAMS HEG #auspol thepoint.com.au/new/261007-c...
Climate win: Hunter community group wins four-year legal fight in landmark High Court ruling
The High Court has ruled that NSW planning authorities must consider how burning exported coal overseas contributes to climate damage in Australia. Climate advocates say the ruling would reshape how f...
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Former Watergate prosecutor and US attorney notes that while Susan Collins has done a lot of hand-waiving in response to the corruption revelations in @propublica.org's bombshell report...she hasn't actually grappled with or refuted the substance of what's presented in the article. #MEpolitics
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
Trump stood at a rally and said "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." Then politicos rushed to explain what he "really meant." We won't sanewash him. Today's midday updates are up, paywall free:
Tuesday Updates: Media ‘Sanewashes’ Trump, Plague Claims Another Victim, More Tankers Struck – 10/6/26
Important updates. Paywall free.
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