Maybe the coverage is different in Maine, but as a non-resident all I see regarding the Senate race is Mills vs. Platner. There are two other credible candidates that don't seem to get much attention.

Undocumented immigrants contribute $97 billion yearly in federal, state, and local taxes. They paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022. Bessent is galactically stupid. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/b...

My friends in California For your consideration Please take a moment to listen and share Momentum is building Xavier Becerra has the experience and qualifications to be a great governor Go to xavierbecerra.com

I advise JD to stop pretending he's a Catholic.

I haven't followed closely enough to know why the 12-term congressman, state AG, and federal Cabinet secretary is polling like he's a crackpot third party candidate, but so it is.

Seriously? This is how we say "thank you for your service" Abolish ICE.

Worth reading to understand why Trump is between a rock and a hard place.

Trump says he will send his ICE goons into airports starting Monday, turning travel into another stage for his authoritarian theater. Let’s be clear why this is even happening: Democrats introduced 7 bills to fund TSA. Every single one was blocked by Republicans.

Statistically you are more likely to be raped by Donald Trump than you are to commit voter fraud.

Democrats have tried on multiple occasions to fund TSA, FEMA, CISA and Secret Service. Blocked by Republicans who want funding for ICE/CBP thugs.

Republicans blocked Democrats' bill to pay TSA workers AGAIN. Then, they blocked our bill to fund all of DHS besides ICE & CBP...AGAIN. We've given Republicans every chance to solve this TODAY. They refuse unless Congress cuts a blank check to ICE. Not happening.

This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history. Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.

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President Hegseth though?!??

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Witkoff is completely out of his depth. He is a sociable but corrupt businessman with a low IQ negotiating with a national leader who has an intelligence background on a subject he knows nothing about. This cannot end well

Undocumented immigrants don’t vote Trump was not “exonerated” re: Epstein The board of peace is a huge grift The Melania movie was a bribe You pay the tariffs The boat bombings are murder The ceasefire is not a ceasefire Ice is not targeting criminals And on and on

Kevin Hassett is a moron.

Wow!

This is a great read re Phillip Glass' decision to drop the Kennedy Center performance.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

Senate Dems are going to fully fund ICE if they agree to more body cameras. And that, boys and girls, is why the republic is crumbling. We do NOT need more video of ICE atrocities! We have plenty. We need to STOP the atrocities, PERIOD! Defund ICE or go to hell. That is all.

Excellent article, inspiring.

Delusional. Will be a disaster if this clown is selected as Fed chair.

Our researcher @godin.bsky.social has collated our analysis so far on the fatal shooting of Renee Good on Jan 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into one shareable article. Read here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen. fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into... (First 3/4ths before paywall.)

A year-end special from me: The 25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin, in ranking order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

It’s the worst Presidency ever in just 11 months. Countless people killed. A shitty job market. Military conflicts everywhere. Ethnic cleansing. Terrorizing the American populace. Mass corruption. Terrorists and pedos pardoned. Measles back. White supremacist foreign policy. Voting attacks.

Despite anti-drug rhetoric, Trump has granted clemency to 100 people accused of drug-related crimes That includes felon Juan Orlando Hernández who is responsible for importing 400 tons of cocaine AND felon Ross Upbricht, a notorious internet drug trafficker

It doesn’t have to be this way 🤦‍♀️

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social explains it clearly

Affordability concerns are real because: - Tariffs raise import costs - Deportations make it harder to harvest crops - Attacking Obamacare hikes premiums - Budget deficits raise mortgage payments - Undermining the Fed risks inflation. It's not a hoax; it's a policy choice.

The whole Cabinet is a bunch of fucking weirdos.

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

Especially for the racist trash talk, but I think even more generally people see Omar, and hear that Minneapolis has the country's biggest Somali community, and assume that must be a substantial chunk of her voters. The numerical reality is nowhere close to that, there just aren't that many of them.

What the fuck is wrong with this man?

Tennessee is not a democracy. Gerrymandering, Gov. Lee interfering with local politics and constituent preferences, etc.

Why am I paying taxes so the White House can put out this bullshit?

Oh

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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Excellent. Send this to your friends in the National Guard and anybody you know in ICE or CBP.

This is true for every interaction with the press, including Leavitt's press briefings.

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."