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Cranky McBoomer

@3chordziggy.bsky.social
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Emperor of the Black Fly Republic, Maine. Musician with broke hands. Avid sewist, woodworker, dead-sewing-machine-fixer, proud son/grandson of WWI/WWII vets who fought fascists, following family tradition. Out of f*cks to give.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 13h
The New York Times reported in August that Susan Collins met with one of these dark money groups at a DC townhouse owned by Oracle. (Can't make this stuff up!) What was said at the meeting? Who are the people behind the dark money group? Only Susan Collins knows! tinyurl.com/ywn24d67 #MEpolitics
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Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 18h
It was the PAC's first expenditure since late August and it follows a recent report by ProPublica alleging that its chairman, Scott Reed, discussed concealing an illegal donation from a defense contractor to a different committee that backed Collins' 2020 reelection. bit.ly/4rIM3rQ
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Pro-Collins PAC takes out $2 million ad buy attacking Jackson
It was the PAC's first expenditure since late August and it follows a recent report by ProPublica alleging that its chairman, Scott Reed, discussed concealing an illegal donation from a defense contra...
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 17h
If Susan Collins didn't illegally coordinate with the super PAC run by her spouse's boss then the answer to the question is easy: 'There was no call. Period.' After all she had no way to know Kao gave the $$ unless the PAC told her! That they can't/won't say this gives the game away. #MEpolitics
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 17h
Last year, Wapo did a “prestige journalism” series on billionaires influencing US elections. Maine billionaire Leonard Leo was never mentioned. They did a sidebar on Maine, detailing Soros money in the state. Quick rundown on Leo and Maine. medium.com/@thcarter123...
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Leonard Leo Holy War Crusaders Target Maine
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 18h
Not being glib or facetious. I honestly think Leonard Leo has some sort of agreement w NYT senior editors or corporate to not cover him, except in positive and Leo approved ways. Nothing else explains 15+ years of NYT giving Leonard Leo cover. medium.com/@thcarter123...
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A decade of failing to persuade the New York Times to pay attention to Leonard Leo
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Tucker @tuckerinmaine.bsky.social · 18h
I already had severe concerns about how the military operated before I left the force a few years ago. Now those concerns seem minuscule compared to what we are seeing today. We need to stop and remove Hegseth. Vote for Troy Jackson so that Susan Collins can’t stop us from doing so. #mepolitics
Hegseth unveils Project Meridian, naming Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-lead the effort under the department's Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael.

"An effort led by America's best minds to study the future of warfare."
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Right-wing pollster with Susan Collins +2%. Put it in the blender and then forget about it. (And then open your contacts and text a bunch of folks to make sure they have a voting plan.) #MEpolitics
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Jack Smith's Stadium Seat @sifumokung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The only person winning is Vladimir Putin.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Susan Collins has had five years to give back Leon Black's money. She's had ten months to give back his wife's. Here's what her office did when we called. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-billiona...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Susan Collins's campaign took a check from Leon Black three days after the Times exposed his Epstein payments. It wasn't the last check from the Black household. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-billiona...
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.
Screenshot from New York Times article: "Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the I.R.S. over this tax break, for using it to subsidize its chief executive’s multibillion-dollar pay package. In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed. The I.R.S. is trying to claw back the company’s resulting $355 million in tax savings, court filings show."
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, Trump’s tariffs go into effect. Despite what Trump says, these sweeping tariffs will only hurt us— and all Collins can tell us is how concerned she is. Mainers need a Senator who will actually stand up to Trump and stop screwing over working people.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One week after this was published: Is Amy Abbott continuing to serve as the finance director on Susan Collins 2026 campaign? If so why hasn't she been dismissed? Has anyone asked? #MEpolitics
ProPublica article: The principals settled on hosting Collins for a publicity event at Navatek’s Maine headquarters in August 2019, where she posed for pictures with Kao and a model of the company’s experimental boat. Behind the scenes, the FBI saw in emails and company records, Kao orchestrated over $40,000 in donations from extended family in advance of the event. To avoid the legal cap on individual campaign contributions, the emails show, he told Collins’ team to reallocate his excess contributions to his father — which an agent highlighted and noted is against election law in a presentation to prosecutors — and sent them his father’s full name and address.

“This is perfect,” Amy Abbott, the reelection campaign finance director, emailed Kao after discussing his father’s contribution. “We are so grateful for ALL the Kao support!”
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m listening. We all should be. Video: buff.ly/tnaKUD8
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's Mary Ann Lynch popping up for a 'woman on the street' quote in an LA Times piece on Susan Collins in 2020. The unavoidable inference is that legacy media outlets let the Collins campaign choose who gets quoted in their stories. PR masquerading as journalism. Unforgivable. #MEpolitics
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@apnews.com stacks the deck for Susan Collins in a piece on blowback for her role in Roe's demise, giving a 'woman on the street' quote to lobbyist Mary Ann Lynch, a Collins crony/campaign surrogate who's had TWO pieces flaking for Collins in @pressherald.com THIS MONTH ALONE! #bias #MEpolitics
AP: “I think I’ve tried to not have my allegiance to party make me blind to what may be a better path from time to time,” said Mary Ann Lynch, a Democrat supporting Collins. “Neither party, in my view, has a monopoly on the truth and how best to do things. So I think it’s really important to have people who will reach across the aisle.”
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A former Republican state senator, Harriman has been a Susan Collins-aligned GOP talking head for decades at this point. #MEpolitics
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m glad ProPublica is rebutting Susan Collins’ dishonest attempts to explain away allegations that her campaign took a bribe from a defense contractor and Trump killed the FBI’s probe into the scam.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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NPR @npr.org · 21/09/2026
A self-described "folkie to the bone," Giddens sings and plays banjo and fiddle in this interview. Her latest album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, takes its name from an Emily Dickinson poem. n.pr/3V0v7AQ
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Rhiannon Giddens' banjo connects her to her ancestors: 'The spirits come through'
A self-described "folkie to the bone," Giddens sings and plays banjo and fiddle in this interview. Her latest album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, takes its name from an Emily Dickinson poem.
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SMcDonnell @smcdonnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is rich. Former Maine Gov Paul LePage is upset (concerned) that his family was deported. "They aren't playing fair".
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
September 18, 2026 According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon. Diesel moves most of the consumer goods in the United States.… heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 18, 2026
According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WATCH: Trump’s DHS stooge Markwayne Mullin justifies racist ICE goons beating the shit out of American teenagers on their way to enlist in the Marines. #AbolishICE
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Cranky McBoomer @3chordziggy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And that's the thing Would you recognize The bells of truth If you hear them ring? --Leon Russell
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Cranky McBoomer @3chordziggy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Young man stopped by and asked if I was voting for Collins. He was brown-skinned, prob west asian heritage. New car, admitted he wasn't from Maine. Told him what I thought of her, to go home, and know that Rs don't want him in America, can't take Elon's money with him when he's deported.
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Matt Dunlap @dunlapforcongress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Paul LePage vetoed Medicaid six times. He gave his wealthy friends a $900 million tax cut. He said Social Security was "welfare, pure and simple". That's who Paul LePage is, and it's why he won't fight for your family in Washington. I will. Watch our new ad. 📺️
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Richard Levine @richlevine6.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Obviously, the 2nd senator from Maine should be more ideologically aligned with Angus. Mainers, you know what to do this November.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Maine outlets treat Susan Collins the way some high school papers treat the principal: Unfailingly polite, given a chance to rebut any criticism and gets an adulatory column every few issues. But even at the high school level, lots of young journalists realize that this is not the way. #MEpolitics
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This really is underreported. Please read.
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Maine Beacon @mainebeacon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Susan Collins' vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh wasn't the only consequential abortion rights vote of her career. From opposing the Women's Health Protection Act after Roe's future was clear to confirming anti-abortion judges and supporting abortion funding restrictions, here's a look at her record.
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Collins’ anti-reproductive rights record extends far beyond Kavanaugh vote - Maine Beacon
One of Sen. Susan Collins’ most infamous votes was her 2018 decision to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who played a key role in overturning Roe v. Wade. But Collins, who has claimed to...
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Matt Dunlap says he's a better shot than "Floridian" Paul LePage! (Sounds like a challenge???) #MEpolitics
Matt Dunlap: I'd beat this Floridian in a skeet shooting contest any day of the week.
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Tucker @tuckerinmaine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Incredibly disheartened by the decision to close yet another birthing center here in Maine. Unfortunately we are continuing to see the results of a failed healthcare system that has been driven even further to the brink of collapse because of this admin and Susan Collins. Vote her out. #mepolitics
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/08/2026
Trump on El-Sayed: "If he succeeds, the Dumocrats will gain 4 Senators, 8 Congressmen, many Electoral and Popular Votes, a stacked Supreme Court with 23 Justices, and I will be, sadly, despite the great job we are doing, the last Republican President!"
Trump on El-Sayed: "If he succeeds, the Dumocrats will gain 4 Senators, 8 Congressmen, many Electoral and Popular Votes, a stacked Supreme Court with 23 Justices, and I will be, sadly, despite the great job we are doing, the last Republican President!"
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The problem in American politics today is not anything that the Democratic Party is doing or not doing, but that the GOP is now entirely a criminal, authoritarian and seditionist network that has ceased to care about winning elections. They're a problem that can only be fixed with prison sentences.
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Cranky McBoomer @3chordziggy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Tired of hearing "tRump" plans this or thinks that. That is dangerous, so knock it off. Miller, Vought, that crowd, they think and plan. That addled felon is fed all sorts of crap, and is constantly being set up by the cronies. I want to see more about them, not the felon.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Another Trump administration effort to smear a man they murdered goes down in flames. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Substance FBI agent saw in van of man fatally shot by ICE in Houston was salt, family attorney says
An FBI search warrant application said an agent found bags in the van that he believed could contain drugs, which was disputed by the DA and a group representing the victim’s family.
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Cranky McBoomer @3chordziggy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Here in Maine you can sue an individual if your Constitutional rights are abridged. Wonder if ICE superiors have informed their goons of this?
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Portland: "[Susan] Collins has blood on her hands again". tinyurl.com/4pa6dcyy #MEpolitics
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@arimelber.bsky.social with an 11-minute primer on Susan Collins's broken promises -- worth sharing with Mainers in your life who are not big readers and prefer video. #MEpolitics
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Susan Collins' BROKEN VOWS may hand Dems The Senate: Ari on Maine's MAGA Problem
MS NOW’s Ari Melber delivers a special report on accountability for Sen. Susan Collins. (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/07/2026
Rubio Vows To Dismantle International Criminal Court theonion.com/rubio-vows-to-dismantl…
“The only foreigner who should be telling Americans how to live is Santa.”

Greg Degutis, Systems Analyst
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Cranky McBoomer @3chordziggy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
For all of those who hate "big government" because they don't think it does anything for *them.* Be sure to drink plenty of clear liquids.
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cuuixsilver.bsky.social @cuuixsilver.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is a great article, written by someone who actually understands the Maine context. I voted for Betsy Sweet, so it really resonates for me. … I wonder if she would run again. 🤔
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Here's a taste of @cmoneyburns.bsky.social Portland Press Herald-bashing Portland Press Herald op-ed which is hidden behind a paywall. #MEpolitics
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