When the staff of Senator Collins greets you with, “I will ask you to leave 3 times & then I’ll call the police.” I guess we need to hold trainings on visiting Collins’s offices. People need to know before they show up. He needs de-escalation training. mainemorningstar.com/2026/06/24/p...

How long before they mandate what is delusional? Poof 💨 our reality is state mandated & those of us who dissent are deemed unfit & locked up. Think this doesn’t impact you? You can never examine one of these orders alone. Look at the whole chessboard & their goal is eugenics & annihilation.

Trump's DOJ released a dubious legal memo this morning that signals the Trump admin wants to force more people into psychiatric institutions via bad faith and incorrect interpretations of ADA, Section 504, and Olmstead. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In Maine, people from out of state are “from away.” Apparently, Susan Collins only cares about money from away, not people.

Susan Collins says Kavanaugh’s vote & the gutting of reproductive rights has not impacted Maine. It has cost Maine millions of dollars. That’s not “no impact” Susan.

As @susanrinkunas.com reports in her piece the fall out from Collins decision to vote to confirm Kavanaugh and other abortion rights gutting Republican operatives as judges on scotus/fed courts is more than substantial. Her Republican bootlicking has cost Mainers millions. #mesenate

Digging into the apportionment data seems to corroborate that Trump is indeed using taxpayer dollars — from the "Big Beautiful Bill" — to at least partially pay for the ballroom. Four days ago, $352 million of the OBBBA Secret Service money moved from unallocated to "White House Security Measures."

102 Maine attorneys warned her that Gorsuch was nominated because Trump ‘pledged to only choose pro-life judges.’ She refused to listen to their extensive legal expertise & defends her vote by stating she supported justices who voted differently. She dodges accountability again. 2/2

No surprise. Susan Collins was lying to her constituents in Maine about her rubber stamping vote for Kavanaugh who gutted Roe v Wade.

230 Maine attorneys wrote her that ‘if Judge Kavanaugh is seated on the Supreme Court he is likely to cast the fifth vote, making a majority, to erode or eliminate federal protections for a woman’s right to choose.’ She told us if Kavanaugh was hostile to roe that would be disqualifying. 1/2

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."

and of course never ever let Susan Collins lecture anyone again on how she is a good judge of character. As I said before - I have lived in Maine - have knocked on tens of thousands of doors of Maine houses up and down the coast back in the day. I'd vote for a ham sandwich over shady Susan.

This is where @warren.senate.gov tells @grahamformaine.bsky.social, “Way to win big. Fight hard.”

No doubt about it. Republicans - if they are still in charge of both chambers of Congress after 2026 - will come after social security during last two years of Trump.

That was my point -- that despite that she "only" won by 48%. Were still plenty of people who votes for others. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins is now running an ad about her support of Maine airport while using imagery of the airport in... Zurich, Switzerland #mesen #mepolitics

Susan Collins canceling the game and taking her ball home because Democrats (supposedly) aren't being nice to her. Good luck trying that at your job. #MEpolitics via @dabbs346.bsky.social

We can continue tuning into our daily soaps (aka political saga) or we can do the work of building the bench. Happy Election Day.

This. So much this. (From someone who chose not to shower today and now wonders if he has the energy to cook 😂)

What is violence? What do you imagine when you think of that word? What do you feel? How do you define it?

In rural America, the winning strategy isn’t more ads. It’s community. | Opinion

Mutual aid is everything, and the future of successful campaigning will be investing in the community. Not millions in attack ads, texts or fancy mailers. Read my op ed in the Portland Press Herald online today, and catch it in print on Friday! #mepolitics

I am not naïve enough to believe that Washington can be fixed. We may be able to make change, but I did coup watch in 2020 I don’t assume a smooth transition of power.

No winner. We would go to round 2. It is a ranked choice election.

There it is. Susan Collins cancelled the Appropriations hearing where Dems were going to move to kill the DOJ slush fund (tinyurl.com/s5vty7tm) because she wants to *keep* the fund. Sick and twisted. And disqualifying. This is what's on the line in November. #MEpolitics via @dabbs346.bsky.social

Pride Month reminder that Susan Collins voted to DEFUND MAINE SCHOOLS over that state's policy of not stigmatizing trans kids in after school activities. Whatever you think of the policy, it's bonkers and unforgivable to have voted to DEFUND the entire state's school system over it. #MEpolitics

Targeted communities movement data is not abstract. It can become a map of vulnerability. It maps human life. And history shows us clearly:
systems built for one purpose are often expanded for another. Especially in moments of political fear. Stop flock in South portland & everywhere.

Maine voters are talking about changing their votes in the primary.

I’m looking forward to Rachel Walls fine art opening free access to the Dahlov Ipcar collection near the Portland museum of art. We need more women of color curators, collectors & gallery owners. Rachel manages the work of the first woman artist with a solo exhibition at the MOMA. Go Rach!

Why is Sara Gideon buying the voter file?

New from our team: How the American people can get back the money being stolen from us through rampant corruption by those in power. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

========== CANDIDATES: A reminder for candidates and their teams from Marie Follaytar – long-term Maine political strategist and organizer in disability justice who currently volunteers with Disability Voters of Maine – on the importance of not shutting out folks with disabilities. #MEpolitics

@democrats.senate.gov should offer amendment to ICE/CBP funding to block any spending on this. Fetterman's wife was a Dreamer. Cornyn ran pro-Dreamer ad in 2020. Force a vote: Deported Despite DACA: Dreamers Face Uncertainty Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

My letter supporting Shenna Bellows for Governor. #MEpolitics www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/13/o...

How many people were left to believe that the COVID vaccine would prevent them from getting COVID? Too many. It's never too late to start masking again. You can find a mask bloc near you here: MaskBloc.org

I know women sacrificing themselves now for cis white men running for office who have done harm. When can the silence be broken? How can we help women share their truth & be cared for? How many people truly support the silencing of women for the cause?

Not impressed with #FrontierAirlines customer service. Someone actually told DIL she should have taken her stuff before evacuating. With a baby. And they’re being jerks about rebooking her since she can’t get through an airport without ID. Do better.

Last senate cycle if we complained about it, we were condemned.

Doing this is decried by Mainers. I love it. I did it though.

This is unbelievable in Maine politics. Go Penobscot County Democratic Committee!! I’m cheering you on with deep respect. Jared golden & Sara Gideon & Janet Mills were all chosen by the DSCC or DCCC. Let Mainers decide! www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/07/p...

Our fleet is persevering! #FreedomFlotilla #flotilla2026 #EndTheGazaBlockade Watch Livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=aRl3... @freegazaaustralia.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @rumboagaza.bsky.social @pfpalestine.bsky.social @thousandmadleensnl.bsky.social

Susan Collins’s Supreme Court is changing the maps while an election is underway. I’m a Supreme Court voter, are you?

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

This event was also for @shennabellows.bsky.social who is running for Governor & is our Secretary of State. She ran against Susan Collins in 2014. They are both from Hancock County Maine.

Apparently, Graham and Janet are engaged in the same project meeting susan Collins in November. That was the message to the deaf community tonight on the news. This is what happens when you use AI to auto caption and don’t correct it. This is why auto captioning is not accessible.

My name is Shenna Bellows As your next governor, I’ll stand up to Trump, protect democracy, and deliver a new deal for Maine to make Maine the most affordable state in the country.

It's official: Louisiana's Republican governor just suspended state congressional elections so lawmakers can pass a new gerrymandered map first.

An excellent article by @mariefollayttar.bsky.social in the Portland Press Herald yesterday about the importance of making digital communications and content accessible. I want to throw this piece at every elected official and candidate running for office. Accessible content reaches more people!