More photos (via Portland Press Herald) from Wednesday's protest in Waterville over Angus King's appeasement of Trump. Word of the protest apparently led King to cancel his speaking engagement at Colby College. #MEpolitics

Reminder. From two months ago. #MEpolitics

Trump dips below 40% approval on @gelliottmorris.com's tracker for the first time.

Growing list of reasons Trump should step down: - Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring - Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment - Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power - Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy

With news of the final minting of the penny, I'm reminded of this @cgpgrey.bsky.social video I watched 13(!) years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT... The Trump Administration is terrible in infinite ways, but ending production of the penny is one of their very, very few good decisions.

@senangusking.bsky.social Needs to resign so that Gov. Mills can appoint someone who will work for us. I'm pretty sure Joshua Chamberlain would agree with me on this one!

This helps Maine: “Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-ME, had inserted the provision at the behest of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.” Because it starkly illustrates why we need to get rid of this part over state & country corrupt Senator. #resist #mepolitics #MESen #VoteBlue

NEW: Independent poll from Maine People’s Resource Center has Graham Platner over Susan Collins 45-41% while Janet Mills trails Collins 46-42%. Platner leads Mills in a ranked-choice run-off 53-47%. tinyurl.com/2z9wynr7 #MEpolitics

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

YES: Democrats have this horrible habit of not asking for things they can't get. Which means there is no opportunity to ever build expectation that those things should happen. But Trump is now implicitly implicated in child sex trafficking, either as a client or a trafficker. He should be removed.

Wow. Susan Collins inserted the provision into the spending bill that gives GOP Senators $500k (per device) for judicially sanctioned probes of their Jan 6 actions. #mesen #mepolitics rollcall.com/2025/11/12/s...

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Also, the HHS Secretary sold cocaine in college and was a heroin addict for 14 years so it is RICH whenever they go after people for old drug offenses.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

cc @senangusking.bsky.social #mepolitics

Wow, that’s crazy. Republicans lied and are screwing you over? Who could have seen that coming?

A good reason why we shouldn't elect the children of sitting elected officials: their loyalty may be to family rather than voters. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/11/a... #mepolitics

Trump nearly won Latino voters last year. Democrats just won many of them back.

back in the 60s, conservatives didnt trust the gop establishment. they saw them as giving in to the left. they staged an insurgency and took over the party. this led to goldwater who was destroyed. but then they got reagan bush ii gingrich trump this is the model.

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

Did @senangusking.bsky.social stand strong for Mainers? No. But will he get what he wants from the Trump Administration? Also no. #mepolitics

Resign.

Angry Democrats exploded in fury after details emerged of the Senate agreement that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Angus King is a constant source of disappointment. He is not willing or able to meet the moment. #mepolitics #shutdown

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

There's one central rule in working against autocrats - if they see you as weak, if you attempt to appease, you are creating a permission structure for them to escalate, to take more. Ds are strong right now, and he is weak. We need to use our strength to get more for the American people, not less

also...like, the D party isn't all one thing. different people in the party have different priorities and work for somewhat different goals. it's not some massive conspiracy where they're all trying to fool you.

virtue signalling is good actually

If this truly is the end of this debacle, Maine lawmakers should reflect on how unprepared the state was to handle the withdrawal of critical federal funds. This won’t be the last long shutdown and we need to set up better contingencies. #mepolitics

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

Trump says, End the filibuster, pass all these voting restrictions, and we will lock in Republican power forever. “You’re not supposed to admit openly that you want to do these voting restrictions in order to rig the elections in your favor and create one-party rule.”

Credit where its due...though "Susan Collins votes to let Trump kill whoever he wants" would've been snappier! #MEpolitics

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Also consider how many people didn't show up because they were upset there weren't any concrete demands on power. There needs to be concrete demands attached to these things or none of this is going to matter.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

This is a stunning political realignment--Mamdani lost Jews, Catholics, and Protestants but won by sweeping "Other" and "None." As a Jewish voter in the 33% I hope my neighbors (literally) in the 63%, who were flooded with dishonest mailers, social media, and texts, will now keep an open mind.

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.* Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

King talks like Trump is a dictator, but votes like Trump is a normal Republican. #mepolitics

Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State. Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Very big #MEpolitics news. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/05/j...

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Election night is looking like a clean sweep for Dems so far! - Mainers rejected Question 1 - Mamdani won the NYC mayor race - Dems won governor races in NJ & VA No results yet for the redistricting race in CA. Any other major races folks are watching?