The NY Times is obsessed with who counts as “working class.” Here’s my latest on what its narrow definition misses. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

It would be great if reporters quoting Tony Buxton would also note that he is a corporate lobbyist. He hasn’t chaired the Maine Dems for like 50 years. Republicans & corporate Dems are running the same script against Graham as the GOP did against Sara Gideon.

People should support resources to teach English to people here who don’t speak it because that gives opportunity to everyone and is better for everyone; that is dynamically different from how this gang is treating that: using a popular true sentiment — that immigrants learning English is Good — to…

That’s misleading. He said they are closer to people who are in poverty than to billionaires. He was making a point about extreme wealth. Honestly, this whole discourse about who counts as “working class” is just a right-wing smear against class-based politics. It’s a total distraction.

Interestingly, no one ever asks Susan Collins how she defines "working class." Too busy retyping her press releases. #MEpolitics

483 accounts have blocked me on this app. Let’s see if we can reach 500 by the end of the day.

Anti-Obama Hillary supporters called themselves PUMAs in 2008. Angry online Bernie Bros started #BernieorBust. What should we call the #NeverPlatner Democrats? Here’s my latest substack. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

. @aobrien2024.bsky.social has a nice post of Gerald Talbot’s legacy #mepolitics open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

I wrote about Maine Civil Rights leader Gerald Talbot and his legacy. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

Susan Collins is paying to get eyeballs on a testimonial from Lindsey Graham about how good a friend she is to Israel. #MEpolitics via @aobrien2024.bsky.social

Debt of gratitude owed to Andy O’Brien & Jean Hay Bright for deep digging beginning decades back & extending to present. Great stuff for all those claiming any actual interest in wHy MAiNeRS kEeP vOtiNg fOr “cONcErNeD cOlLiNs” www.amazon.com/Tale-Dirty-T...

In my latest piece, I write about how Susan Collins & the Bangor Daily News used lies, smears & dirty tricks to defeat her Democratic opponent in her first Senate campaign in 1996. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

Wow that must mean the cemetery behind my house is full of Nazis because the Celtic cross is on a bunch of grave stones.

Susan Collins ran a disgustingly antisemitic campaign in 2020 and she's back to invoking medieval anti-Jewish tropes -- in this case the scheming, power-mad Jew with a hand in everything. Maine media's determination to look the other way on this stuff amounts to complicity. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins sends out a blatantly antisemitic cartoon of Chuck Schumer to her supporters.

Bluesky liberals: Graham Platner is unquestionably an unrepentant Nazi. Graham: Neo Nazi scum deserve to die.

Bluesky is an echo chamber for left-leaning people with personality disorders.

He wasn’t a guard. The Marines had a barracks there. A good friend was a guard there after the torture scandal because he was in the Maine National Guard & Bush called them up. He’s not evil either. He didn’t have a choice. Stop blaming troops for the decisions of politicians.

That’s actually a great idea. I love Quebec.

Congratulations to SPACE workers in Portland on forming their union with UAW Local 2110! maineaflcio.org/news/space-g...

The Maine AFL-CIO is proud to endorse Troy Jackson for Governor & Graham Platner for U.S. Senate because we know they are strongest candidates to take on the oligarchy and put working class people in the driver's seat!

"I'm saying as a Black woman — within two generations of my family members who couldn't vote less than 100 years ago, women couldn't vote & relatives who were Black couldn't vote - I am begging that everyone get out & vote for Graham Platner." www.facebook.com/share/v/18rW...

Can we stop with the Susan Collins isn’t an extremist?

My latest column examines the demographic shifts in Maine that have fueled Graham Platner's rise. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

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Maine racial justice educator & writer Shay Stewart Bouley has a message for Dems who say they won’t support Graham Platner after Mills dropped out.

I think one issue is that a lot of people seem to be under the impression that Collins is somehow not actively courting the bigot votes despite being a national Republican in 2026:

I’m never leaving this platform.

Janet Mills to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Doing a wellness check - Bluesky are you ok? Are you ready for Senator Graham Platner?

It seems pretty sexist to dismiss Amy as some servant to Graham when she is so critical to this movement. But I don’t expect you to understand movement politics.

Once again Andy O swings for the fences & sends it out of the park. The contrast between sickly corporate whorebags, in Collins n Mills, & system outsider Mainer who is not afraid to call a scummy situation what is it & help organize community defense against, Platner, is rarely so clearly defined.

Densely packed with breath-taking & breath-takingly depressing facts. Someone really did their homework for the rest of us 🏆

This is how this person reacts to a woman having a miscarriage? Deranged.

In my latest column I discuss the pro-Collins private equity vultures bankrolling the latest negative ads against Graham Platner & how these bottom feeders have profited off killing Maine businesses & selling them for parts. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

Yep. Well they don’t want to appear pArTiSaN!

Susan Collins using every chance she gets to make clear she's on the side of bigots and bigotry. Truly vile stuff. This kind of white supremacist-adjacent shtick wouldn't fly in a less dysfunctional media ecosystem. She would get confronted about it and pay a reputational price. #MEpolitics

"As scores of Eid-celebrating Somalis headed for the Masjida Salaam mosque recently, Maine Wire writer Jon Fetherston stood outside on a public sidewalk yelling questions at them and later waving a sword." #MEpolitics

Susan Collins poses with bottom feeding racist Jon Fetherston who has been harassing Somali-Americans in Lewiston. Last month he went to a local mosque on Eid to wave this sword around.

Governor Mills has vetoed a temporary moratorium on data center projects. She said she would have signed LD 307 if it included an exemption for a project now underway at the former Androscoggin Mill in Jay. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

It's amazing how brazen Susan Collins camp is about this sort of thing. But it's also pretty pathetic that they have to call in favors to get anyone to say anything good about her. #MEpolitics

Take that Bluesky lol

Got another Collins mailer telling me to thank Our Senator® for curing the ‘betes. As usual, the ordinary Mainer in the ad is a MAGA dude with a son who worked in Collins’ office.

Bluesky users have repeatedly told me only white people support Graham Platner.

@troyjackson207.bsky.social We need to talk about Troy Jackson More. He is running for Maine Governor and has done A LOT of work for our state in the Maine Senate. Here are some of his latest tax proposals. www.reddit.com/r/Maine/s/56...

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These accounts have to be Republican plants.