THE CRIPS HAVE TAKEN OVER OGUNQUIT TOO! LATIN KINGS HAVE POPHAM BEACH, MS-13 GANGBANGERS CONTROL SUGARLOAF, SINALOA CARTEL RUNS ACADIA & YOU CAN’T CAMP AT BAXTER WITHOUT PAYING OFF SEX MONEY MURDA! @Bobby4Maine AMERICA’S CRIME FIGHTER PLEASE SAVE US! 🙏🇺🇸

Derek was visibly shaken when he told me this story of seeing ICE go after a black woman in a car with her toddler. "Immigrants are our union brothers & sisters. We all work side by side with these folks & we’ve come to know them & love them & all of a sudden they’re in fear of coming to work."

Massive anti-ICE rally in Portland, ME today. 🧵

Just for fun

My latest column on the ICE surge in Maine & the inspiring work of ordinary Maine people to slow down the fascist machinery and protect our vulnerable neighbors. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

I want to thank @maineaflcio.bsky.social and @aobrien2024.bsky.social for shining a much-needed light on the real stories that impact the working class of Maine.

"This is just an age-old tactic to pit workers against workers, divide the working class and deflect their attention away from the people who are robbing them blind: billionaires and corporations." app.publicnewsservice.org/story/me-uni...

National Nurses United also at Susan Collins's offices today to urge her to stop doling out $$$ to ICE. Busy day for Team Collins! #MEpolitics (via @aobrien2024.bsky.social)

Susan Collins is a major financial supporter of the fake think tank that operates the disinformation outlet overseen by the guy below: tinyurl.com/ymrbbvpm Why does she funnel so much money to such awful folks? Why does the Maine press look the other way? #MEpolitics

7 people just died in a tragic plane crash in Bangor last night. Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson when he finds out the victims may have been immigrant attorneys:

When our union sisters and brothers were under siege by masked ICE agents this past week, faith leaders stepped and formed a human chain in front of the factory.

Badass alpha male Steve Robinson of the Maine Wire has been LARPing with ICE in Portland. As he told a podcast recently, “I was ready to go see some protestors tear gassed...I thought we were going to see some purple-headed weirdos thrown to the ground….just kind of dull.”

My wife is having too much fun making anti-ICE videos.

Sinclair's local affiliate in Maine couldn't find one Mainer to go on camera & express support for ICE. Instead they resorted to reading comments from randos on the station's Facebook page.

Only on BlueSky do people call you a Nazi for bashing Nazis on the wrong platform.

I am forever grateful for Dr. Shah but our next governor should be Troy Jackson.

This is what we call BlueSky brain.

Two hairdressers and a stylist working full-out for 90 minutes before his speech at The Dracula Ideas Summit to make this guy look as absolutely fucked up as possible. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dr. Nirav Shah, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for Maine governor, is a self described University of Chicago free market guy. I think we can do better than a Milton Friedman stan.

In 1843, the Rev. Joseph C. Lovejoy sent a message to slave catchers coming to Maine to kidnap asylum seekers: "We have earth here for tyrants, but no air." I wrote about what the Maine abolitionist movement can teach us about combating fascism. andyobrien.substack.com/p/we-have-ea...

Context for anyone freaking out about the "Pine Guard"

My wife & I came up with a flag to greet ICE when they come to Maine.

As much I've resisted writing about Richard Coffron over the years, I decided to do a little profile on him after his latest "Pine Guard" stunt. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

Nurses in Maine are militant & they don't take any shit.

So much for the tolerant left!

A local Maine writer here writing about what's apparently about to happen.

A source says local police were requested to “protect” ICE agents during raids, which will involve over 200 federal agents. Currently, the source says, there are 50 ICE agents in place. Anyone arrested will likely be processed at the ICE facility in Scarborough. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

So much for the tolerant left!

Jesus Christ.

"Objective" Maine press still not touching this salient story -- just like they tiptoed around Susan Collins backing of (and failure to repudiate) Rep. Lucas Lanigan (R-Sanford) who's been indicted for allegedly choking his wife to the point of bruising and signs of internal bleeding. #MEpolitics

Platner's campaign said his average donation in the fourth quarter was $25, and he received more than 182,000 contributions. That's huge. Sorry, Bluesky. Graham isn't going away. www.axios.com/2026/01/06/g...

Sen. Susan Collins helped fund the campaign of a Christo-fascist Maine legislator who called for the military to kidnap Governor Janet Mills. Paul is just one of the many fascists Collins' PAC has donated to. 🧵 mainebeacon.com/reagan-pauls...

Susan Collins maxed out to this person's campaign in 2024. (In a functional media ecosystem, this would be an above-the-fold headline at all of Maine's prominent outlets and Collins's financial connection to Paul would be noted in the story.) #MEpolitics

Lithuanian atheist socialist Michael X. Mockus was the first man convicted of blasphemy in Maine. He was arrested in 1919 & charged with three counts of blasphemy, invoking an old statute written to protect the religious beliefs of state residents. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

I distinctly remember in the first Trump years when people would be like “no, you can’t call them fascist”

I wrote a piece analyzing the scandal surrounding Gateway Community Services, fevered anti-Somali conspiracies & the rancid hypocrisy of Maine Republicans when it comes to their own crimes. andyobrien.substack.com/p/medicaid-f...

Brilliant piece

Hey Mainers, make sure you note on Bobby’s garbage posts that his social media guy is a despicable fascist piece of shit.

Maine GOP candidate Bobby Charles’ social media guru ran digital campaigns for the far-right Alternative for Germany, anti-immigrant French politician Marine Le Pen & the UK Independence Party. For more check out my Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Rep. Reagan Paul works for a far right political consulting firm that ran campaigns for European fascist parties like French anti-immigrant politician Marine Le Pen's National Front and the far-right Alternative for Germany. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

Hate has always been a grift. Here are som thoughts on the anti-Somali bigotry of the current moment and the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Maine. andyobrien.substack.com/p/when-the-f...

A month before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Janet Mills voted against a resolution calling on President George W. Bush to take measures to avert a war with Iraq. Mills was one of just four House Democrats to oppose it. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The same “Graham Platner is a misogynist” op-ed by Lily Macone that ran in the Bangor Daily News on Monday is in Press Herald & Kennebec Jornal today. As someone who submits a lot of op-eds, editors don’t let you run them in both rival papers. Guess they're making an exception. 🤔

US Senate candidate Graham Platner & Maine gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson have been up in Houlton supporting striking nurses!

Nurses with the Maine State Nurses Association/NNU are striking for safe staffing, and improved patient care! Tell hospital CEO Jeff Zewe to stop union busting & bullying nurses! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Covering Democratic primaries is depressing. Writing about Republican politics is much more fun! I present to you round one: Maine Policy Institute CEO Matt Gagnon versus young MAGA upstart John Salamone! Fight! open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

Gubernatorial candidate Angus King the Third promises us 10% of what we want in this earthshaking op-ed. This must get the crowds stomping their feet & hanging from the rafters at Chamber of Commerce breakfasts.