isn't it amazing what you find digging through old News Papers

Trump hopes Susan Collins wins because he knows she won’t stand up to him — she’s proven that time and time again. Unlike her, I’ve stood up to the President before — and won. I’ll do the same in the Senate.

The fight to protect and defend survivors is personal to me.

oh holy shit how'd I miss this one

Sports have never been a part of my life, But watching someone I love for whom sports are so important literally put off his transition to be able to keep playing (only to get benched by a transphobic coach anyway) and having to face giving it up to be himself is heart breaking

I do feel like 2000% more ink gets spilled by Americans talking about JKR's transphobia and the need to defeat Harry Potter than about actual laws passed by transphobic American Republicans

so some weirdo commented a cartoon of someone being sent on a Christmas train to uh Auschwitz? so hows your day going?

if people are puzzled why Platner is still a thing, this right here is a big part, acting like Mills very mild issues are somehow on the same level as Platner's disqualifying problems (and lack of any qualifications in general) well then its easy to de fault back to Platner

While she was serving our country, Betsy was sexually assaulted.  @grahamformaine.bsky.social — the rapists are to blame, not women like Betsy.

you know for whatever its worth, the only things about the New Harry Potter uh thing? (movie? show?) I've seen is people being upset about it because JRK is the worst, I've not seen a single person across social media post anything close to wanting to see it, even in the context of "but I won't"

there's no book I read from the time I was little through my teen years that damaged me or traumatized me, and there were lots that looking back had *gasp!* sex! in them which when I was little I just didn't understand and I ignored because I was there for magic and action not kissing

GenZ [derogatory]

I'm voting for bad-ass Democracy Grandma.

It’s time to re-stack the deck for working people and fight back against a system that favors the rich at the expense of everyone else.

I worked hard to lower the cost of insulin for the over 100,000 Maine people living with diabetes, including signing a law years ago to cap the cost of insulin at $35/month for those on state insurance. I'll continue to advocate on their behalf in the Senate.

fact check: FALSE!!!!!

you can actually read what he said to CNN how he's "proud" of the "struggles"

Happy Greek Independence Day. 🇬🇷

this was the front page of Maine's largest paper today

any ways, when she was AG Janet Mills actually took on Big Pharma, over the Opioid crisis, and won, she spent the money she won for Maine to get enough Narcan for every police and fire department in the state, and when the GOP Governor LePage wouldn't distribute it, she did, herself in her car.

no matter if people understand that they're saying "The Jews" when they believe in a shadow conspiracy of elites trying to queer children for nefarious reasons, what they're describing is a century old Nazi idea about Jews turning German youths gay.

it remains wild that what remains the most dramatic moment of someone standing up to Trump, directly to his face, really the ONLY time, so far during this term, has been memory holed because it was an old lady cringe lib

so people over 60 are all the same cognitively as 5 year olds... as I was saying about agism just being normal now on-line

I wish I could beam this into the minds of everyone who claims to care about trans rights, the current "Grooming" anti-trans backlash is just off label antisemitism. The logic of the Nazis used as the framework for a modern panic, and in turn to prep minds for pure antisemitism

I know I'm the only one who cares that the internet bullied Dianne Feinstein literally to death, that agism and sexism was used to push an old lady who was ill with shingles to return to DC before she was well and work hard to prove she wasn't dotty, and for what exactly?

see the only evidence for Feinstein being "confused" is she looked old, because she was old. and hey someone young did run against her... what don't want to talk about him? what an improvement Kevin de León would have been am I right? I mean youth is so important lol

The Other thing about the cult of Harry Potter is there's SO many Middle Grades/YA magic book series that are SO! much much better than HP at it best and never fucking get their flowers and will never, it sucks The Old Kingdom by Garth Nix Young Wizards by Diane Duane Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud

I remain kinda confused why this exists, I mean I get that all media is now just mining any recognizable ID for any blood out of the stone but any JRK problems aside, the definitive version of this already happened, it's like remaking Lord of the Rings movies, why would you?

People in Maine treasure their right to vote. The SAVE Act undermines that right. I’ve fought to stop voter suppression efforts in Maine, and I’ll do the same in the U.S. Senate.

Madison Cawthorn was literally the minimum age to get into Congress, 25, he was also a bonkers right wing only for the content Congress troll. I'd be more than happy with Maxine Waters (heck, I'd take her over my current rep who's 70 and no where near as fun)

yeah like naked gross agism is just okay on-line you can speak with frothing at the mouth dehumanizing hate for the "olds" and people act like you're not out of your mind for some reason? wild I think government should look like America and that includes old people, sorry.

so I'm not naive, I know being elderly and also physical disability have always made people uncomfortable and caused them to be bigoted but I feel like last few years people have gotten more comfortable just being nakedly bigoted

Those ULINE-branded cardboard boxes you're getting? The billionaire running ULINE spent $800,000 bankrolling an anti-trans referendum in Maine, USA. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

why? no really? is there a secret weightlifting part of being a House chair I'm unaware of?

the national gas price average today: $3.977 California is rocketing toward $6 gas

Graham Platner's main two defenses for his rape comments are "oh it was so long ago" (14 or 10 years ago!) and "it was one time when I was having a hard time!" so very correctly the Mills campaign points out he was using offensive slurs all the time just 4-ish years ago

These comments are shameful. While my opponent was saying this not long ago, I was fighting as Attorney General and Governor to deliver progress for Maine people.

oh man someone trying to bring back the East Palestine Train Derailment really reminded me how all through Biden's Presidency the left kept trying to latch onto things to proclaim Biden the worst and a monster

This answer is just so wild "yeah my love of Maine caused me to just get over that PTSD, which its kinda bad-ass I had isn't it? but don't worry I didn't go to any kind of gay therapy or anything"

oh man remember that time the NYT published a swastika crossword and like no one got fired or really explained how it happened and the world just went "eh whatever"? I think about that one a lot. Thats kinda when I knew it was bad bad, it got worse

people are so fucking weird (also this "joke" is ironic since Platner is in fact rumored to have been a coke dealer)

the other thing is, Graham basically said he decided to just get over his PTSD, not that he uses that word, "oh yeah I reconnected with my community and I'm fine now" just a flippant dismissal of how hard "getting over" combat trauma is.

an extra special fuck you to John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich for missing the easiest fucking vote imaginable and voting to confirm Markwayne Mullin.

and compare, Janet Mills on this issue

Medicare for All is also a slogan as is Single Payer since what both look like can very by a lot depending on plans personally speaking, I support Universal Healthcare, because its vague, however we get everyone covered as fast as we can is good by me.

a few things 1. combat stress makes you support date rape? how interesting lets ask other vets about that? 2. when you're sad and isolated you turn to hating women? yikes! 3. okay but at what point did you get better Graham? or was the 2021 homophobic jokes unrelated to combat?

it should never be left out of the story that when Trump came into office they froze new hiring for air traffic controllers, backed off, but did fire hundreds of FAA employees impacting air traffic control DOGE took a bad problem and made it must worse.

Great afternoon with the Topsham community at the Wild Duck Restaurant and Pub! I'm grateful for your support — together, we're going to give our state a fighting voice in the Senate.

I also hated being a child, I hated going to Disneyworld I still don't understand that, I worked out the toothfairy wasn't real like... idk I was 5? I refused to touch anything for children by like 2nd grade?

A month ago, the national price of gasoline as $2.93 a gallon. Today it's $3.94. One man is to blame: Donald Trump.