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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12h

If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 18h

Elon Musk wants more tax cuts from Susan Collins. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 19h

You’d think the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee would be holding oversight hearings, but no. She has her own contractor conflicts she’d prefer not get investigated. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 21h

"Collins appeared to be betting that Jackson, who is known as a bit of an uneven campaigner and has never run in a statewide general election, would stumble. Instead, he held his own against a five-term senator in a duel that was, at times, quite testy." #mepolitics www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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Takeaways From the First Maine Senate Debate Between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson (Gift Article)

Senator Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, clashed with the Democratic challenger Troy Jackson over President Trump, ICE and more.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 23h

Collins has a bad case of Senateitis. She never told a story about constituents’ needs. As Troy said, we can’t eat road salt!

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And this was last century, in 1994, when Collins ran for governor! #mepolitics

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lack of genuine regret or remorse for her Kavanaugh vote gives away how incredibly heartless and insensitive Collins remain to the pain and suffering her vote(s) inflicted on Mainers and voters across the country. #MEpolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There was such a contrast between Collins' ideological lie about Medicare for All, her claim it would do away with all private insurance VS Troy talking about people with chest pain being afraid to go to the hospital due to no coverage and that's why everyone should be covered. #mepolitics

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Tucker @tuckerinmaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Susan Collins remains incredibly out of touch with Mainers. Still no regret on Kavanaugh, tried to use lacking healthcare for one year (one!) as some sort of shared struggle, and continues to talk about Maine electric prices while failing to stop the Iran war and attacks on renewables. #mepolitics

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The rural health transformation fund is quintessential Susan Collins. She wants credit for an inadequate fix to a problem she helped to create. And then that inadequate fix becomes even worse because of the Trump officials she voted for #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

While they give their closing statements, I'll say that Collins often seemed offended that anyone questioned what she'd done and, while Troy is not seen as a good debater, he definitely held his own. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jackson notes that Collins voted for Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, who has backed Trump's tariffs. She says she's done a bit to help with tariffs. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nah. Most people on Medicare have supplementary plans. They're always available in countries with universal coverage.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jackson is eloquent on the ICE murder in Biddeford. Collins says the shooting shows ICE needs more reform and training. Doesn't want to abolish ICE. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins: Troy wants big government to take over the whole health care service. (Of course that's not what Medicare for all does.) Jackson: We can do M4A if we don't waste money on tax cuts for the rich and forever wars. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins said she had ONE YEAR without health insurance! One year! And then goes through policies she's worked on. Jackson: I support M4A so people can get health care. It's horrible if someone has chest pain but won't go to the hospital bc they don't have health care. Can afford. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins: No one's done more for rural health care than me. We don't need big government to take over health care or to get rid of private insurance. Jackson: SC has always had health care but she's made it worse for others. She doesn't want a way for everyone to get hc, like M4All. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins to Jackson: A lot of your bills were rejected. How do you think you'll get things done in the Senate. Jackson: You don't understand legislative process in Maine. I let others go ahead with their bills so they get recognition. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jackson to Collins: What will it take you to admit you were wrong about Kavanaugh? Collins: I look at qualifications. But this overlooks that Collins vouched for Kavanaugh, including in her last race, saying he wouldn't overturn Roe. Collins: Troy wasn't always pro-choice. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins is trying to pin Trump's favorite charge for political enemies, mortgage fraud, on Jackson. Jackson says he was in Augusta 5 days a week so it fit the criteria for FHA loans. And while there he fought for everyday Mainers. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Troy is really holding his own.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins says the ProPublica allegations are "completely false." (Previously they've debunked similar claims from her.) And now she's pointing to a grant for UMaine that was before the corruption PP reported on. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins says she really only voted for Trump over 70% of the time, not 96%! Except it's the CQ data, which is what everyone uses. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Collins is saying she voted against the OBBA, defends her allowing the bill to go to the floor, saying the little rural hospital fund got through because of it. Jackson (approx quote) "Collins is like an arsonist who starts fire, wants credit for getting a little water to put it out." #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We all know that the whole country is facing an affordability crisis but Collins blames Jackson and Dems in Augusta. Jackson is digging into details on the harms caused by the OBBA and the Iran War. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jackson's start includes a question about whether anyone should trust Collins to pick the next Supreme Court Justice, along w/introducing himself and the his policy accomplishments. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As she gives her opening pitch, Susan Collins is having trouble taking a full breath and does not look particularly well. #mepolitics

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And how does that even make sense? Who is he welcoming? U.S. passports are held by U.S. citizens.

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For folks who might want a reminder of Paul LePage's time as governor #mepolitics: - An anemic economy - Cutting and blocking health care for tens of thousands - Keeping people in poverty unnecessarily - Shortchanging towns and schools by $2 billion www.mecep-action.org/lepage-what-...

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Paul LePage’s record: What Maine lost

LePage blocked policies approved by voters, cut services for families, shifted costs onto towns and households, and left federal funding unclaimed or unspent.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had't. Thanks for flagging it.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#mepolitics folks: For Dunlap to win, he'll need ticket-splitters who also vote for Susan Collins. What sorts of folks are these people? Thoughts?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bill Green is back, once again telling Mainers to vote for Collins. Somehow I don't think he helps as much this year. He retired in 2019, a year before Collins' last race, there's been some demographic change and a lot has happened since then. #mepolitics www.facebook.com/share/v/1FaC...

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And why is Troy's 20 years in Augusta singled out but not Collins' 30 years in DC?

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"One of the more common things that the measles virus can do is cause hepatitis or infection of the liver. These children will be sick. Other children are developing severe and irreversible neurological damage because of brain inflammation, or encephalitis." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the country’s largest in three decades

More than 1,000 people have been infected and nearly 200 have been hospitalized as the state struggles to contain the spread of the extremely infectious disease.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

El-Sayed said something like “Bernie Sanders has been talking about Medicare For All forever” I wonder if he knows longtime Detroit Congressman John Conyers was talking about & introducing bills for Medicare For All long before Bernie.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I really wonder why Trumpers love to capitalize words so much.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Susan Collins has been saying for years that she's detailed oriented and good at getting money. So it turns out that she did that for government contractors who illegally donated to her and then she got them contracts the military didn't want. #mepolitics theintercept.com/2026/10/05/s...

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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.

Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Log Cabin Republicans? The Maine GOP platform still says “marriage is between a man and a woman.” That’s 14 years after (and three year before the Supreme Court) Maine voters changed our law so gay and lesbian couples could marry.

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