Susan Collins helped Donald Trump slash Medicaid to the tune of $990 billion. She was instrumental in the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. She's been a rubber stamp for Trump's authoritarian, billionaire-first agenda that's crushing working class Mainers. In November, we will defeat her.

We'll never have billionaire or corporate PAC money, and I don't want it. This movement is about everyday working class people coming together and demanding a government that works for us – not just the wealthy elite. Join us today.

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate

Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President,...

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My response to Elon Musk.

"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.

Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 3h ago

President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect

Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.

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JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

Brian Klaas@brianklaas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

TY, Garry ..."Aspiring authoritarians never ask for permission; they see what they can get away with. The only way to ensure the integrity of the 2026 midterms is to demonstrate, now, that the ideals of the American Constitution are still worth fighting for."

Garry Kasparov@garrykasparov.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Talking about 2028 is dangerously naive; the danger is now. Trump is directing the military and justice department to go to "war" on US cities and his enemies, from TV hosts to former FBI directors. Keeping the 2026 midterms fair may be the last stand. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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US refunds $100 billion in tariffs struck down by Supreme Court, filing shows reut.rs/4wGw1jD

US refunds $100 billion in tariffs struck down by Supreme Court, filing shows

President Donald Trump's administration has refunded about $100 billion from tariffs that it collected before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down those ​duties, a court filing showed.

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We don’t see much of the hateful rhetoric here, but it’s hard to overstate how extensive and extreme Islamophobic messaging is over on X—often led by right-wing accounts with massive followings. It constitutes stochastic terrorism against prominent Muslims and against Muslim-Americans generally.

SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

The MAGA way

Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.

Whether you voted for him, his opponent, or didn’t vote at all, Abdul El-Sayed is inviting everyone into the same fight: get money out of politics and finally deliver healthcare that actually covers people. That’s a movement worth showing up for. #BlueWaveIn90Days

The Senate has confirmed nearly 60 Trump-nominated election deniers to the judiciary. The attorneys who prosecuted the Jan. 6, 2021 rioters want them to stop. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jan. 6 prosecutors urge Senate to stop confirming Trump's election-denier nominees

“The institutional denial of truth — especially by potential federal judges — is dangerous, yet it’s become all too clear that President Trump expects his nominees to provide evasive answers about bot...

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I would preface this question with two others: “Who won the 2016 election?” “Who won the 2024 election?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cook, who won the 2020 election? COOK: A joint session of Congress certified Joe Biden BLUMENTHAL: How many times have you rehearsed that answer with the White House? Who won the popular vote? COOK: So if you look at each state, the governor-- B: So you're unwilling to answer

SpaceX announces its first Moon landing.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h ago

(AFP) - A four-ton piece of a SpaceX rocket was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon on Wednesday .. @afp.com $SPCX www.yahoo.com/news/science...

Inbox: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is ordering every city agency to cut spending by 2.5% via "savings." This directive comes as the mayor's office is projecting the NYC budget deficit for the city's next fiscal year at $6.4 billion.

Please send your grocery and fuel bills to: President Donald J. Trump The White House Washington, DC 20500

Home of the Brave@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d ago

Don’t suffer from high prices in silence. Call 1-866-2PRICEY.

in addition to putting the legal defense of thousands of unaccompanied kids into the hands of a handful of conservative hacks, this will devastate orgs like KIND who do actual good work

so this is straight up evil. vile shit.

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · yesterday

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

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THE U.S. HAS DEPLETED NEARLY 80% OF ITS THAAD INTERCEPTORS, ABOUT HALF OF ITS PATRIOT MISSILES AND SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF OTHER PRECISION MUNITIONS DURING THE IRAN CONFLICT, PROMPTING SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDERS TO WARN THAT KEY STOCKPILES ARE DANGEROUSLY LOW. - CNN

The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous

The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.

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“THIS is why Bernie Moreno has been silent,” wrote Democratic strategist Ally Sammarco, in a social media post Friday on X. “In March 2024, the AP reported that he used a work email to create a dating profile looking for gay sex. Max Miller has some dirt on him.” www.rawstory.com/bernie-moren...

Strategist floats bombshell theory for MAGA senator's silence on daughter's alleged abuser

Critics have increasingly questioned the silence of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) regarding reports that his daughter, Emily Moreno, was allegedly abused by her husband, Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), but on Fri...

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What, you say serial harassers Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are taking steps to encourage *more* harassment? How utterly not shocking.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

“No one knows more about construction than me.” —A president who stupidly built a helipad on a slope, so it had to be torn apart and rebuilt because it, duh, wasn’t level.

In the November elections, to be radical is to be pragmatic.