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C.J. Brexley IV Mostly politism, sometimes track and field, sometimes a secret third thing, banned from leaving maine

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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1h
whats extra frustrating is this doesnt just apply to conceding to transphobes. for my entire adult life "moderates"/"centrists" have fallen for this lucy-with-the-football trick on basically every topic that doesnt already have 90%+ universal societal agreement
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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 2h
For every $75 cut from patient care in the Big Beautiful Bill, the much-vaunted Rural Health Transformation Program gives back just $1. This and other fact checks on Collins’ claims about RHTP #mepolitics www.mecep-action.org/fact-check-c...
mecep-action.org
Fact Check: Senator Collins’ rural health fund falls billions short of what the One Big Beautiful Bill takes away
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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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 2h
"hey fuck you guy" - mark zuckerberg, from the metaverse
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 2h
"this is roughly as useful as any median productivity improvement software released in the last decade and notably less useful than the best ones" just doesnt have the sex appeal necessary to create a trillion dollar bubble
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 2h
there was a guy with a spine deformation so bad it made one of his legs like 1/2-3/4 of an inch shorter than the other and that guy became the fastest human of all time named usain bolt. if you make one of the robots legs 1cm shorter it falls over and explodes.
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 2h
when you see those robots that can run and think "wow theyre so close to matching humans" remember that any deviation from perfect conditions and the robot falls over and explodes whereas a human woman can put on heels and walk normally
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 21h
whats really fun about this is the chaos its going to cause in state legislatures. say goodbye to any possibility of actual forward thinking policy or progress, every state will be scrambling to fix the giant medicaid deficit that has no reason to exist
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 22h
the weirdest part of the delusion has probably been that the only notable example that immediately comes to mind of people who may have genuinely learned something in this area is, hilariously, bill fucking kristol
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 22h
the average corrupt politician puts more work into obfuscating reactionary or bigoted messaging in their tweets than they do obfuscating when they are discussing their participation in crimes
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 22h
i am a rather cynical person in a lot of regards so mainly what has continued to surprise me is not how much corruption there is or how normalized it is, but how *openly an directly* its discussed by the people doing it, with zero fear of consequences. doesnt even cross their mind to obfuscate
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 22h
this is a good example of why efforts at "financial literacy" with the goal of widespread meaningful changes to socioeconomic conditions is a joke. save all you want and reduce your avocado toast intake to zero, you still cant access the "send an email, wipe out 100k in debt" button
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 23h
its why i have since day one maintained that we can welcome them into the tent but need to be disciplined in ignoring basically all electoral/political advice from "never trump" GOP, because virtually all of them still engage with this fantasy that their conservatism is meaningfully different
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 23h
its on the level of car-brain and gun-brain for americans where the idea that the last 50yrs of conservatism didnt directly lead to trumpism is so widely and automatically accepted in media the only thing these goobers can do is concoct ever more complicated ways these are Different Things
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 23h
a "hard to swallow" pill that a lot of dem voters and candidates and party members generally need to swallow is that the party, esp at the top, has a major corporate rot issue that needs to be totally excised. jeffries and schumer need to be removed from all power, centrists/consultants yeeted
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 23h
i want to permanently live in this parked at a rural walmart
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 23h
i like how "viral" just now means "it was really big on the racist site and not one single person who has physically entered a grocery store or done their own laundry in the last year heard about it"
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
drivers don’t think of themselves as ‘sharing the road’ with cyclists and pedestrians. they think they occasionally donate bits of road to us out of the goodness of their hearts and that doing so is optional
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
okay thank god for the clip industrial complex, i think jackson comes off a million times better in clips than in totality
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
he really needed a speech coach. theres just something that is specifically Not Good about how the semi-mumble comes off when contrasted with people speaking clearly for a race of this size but its too late. i think ordinarily he'd be up double digits but its far from ordinary times
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
jackson is a great legislator and not a very good campaigner and it feels backwards that this may mean he cant become a part of the national legislative body
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what gulf
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
its not books but i have been consuming a large amount of "analog horror" series on youtube to fill the void in my soul. Gemini Home Entertainment, Monument Mythos, Mandela Catalogue, the Arcadia Series, Vita Carnis are what I'd recommend if youre into it
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No this is okay because the DOJ said Nixon was good now or something so you're in the clear homie, you were merely communing with the dead spirit of an american hero
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Former Watergate prosecutor and US attorney notes that while Susan Collins has done a lot of hand-waiving in response to the corruption revelations in @propublica.org's bombshell report...she hasn't actually grappled with or refuted the substance of what's presented in the article. #MEpolitics
Daily News column:

Maine Senator Susan Collins will be forced in four upcoming debates with her Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, to address the facts reported in ProPublica’s bombshell exposé that she accepted illegal campaign contributions from a government contractor in exchange for help with a Pentagon deal. To date, her response has been limited to attacking her accuser as a liar for cooperating with the FBI to deflect voters’ attention away from his incriminating testimony.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Collins denied without a factual response the detailed ProPublica allegations that she had accepted donations from defense contractor Navatek in return for millions of dollars in U.S. Navy contracts:
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
bro you cannot let susan collins own you on a "youve been in the legislature a long time" line when shes been in office as long as ive been alive. how do you fall for that and start talking about "process" my guy come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
one thing i got absolutely astronomically wrong was worrying that dunlap would lack appeal to progressives and hes been kind of a rockstar. quietly one of the strongest candidates of the entire field of dem candidates for higher office in maine right now
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lmao this fuckin dumbass man. how do we pass a law to make him stay in florida?
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i know this sounds crazy but jackson is actually coming off as *too* folksy for this senate race for a state full of rural poor people
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i was friends with bill greens daughter in college. he is not a nice man.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remarkable how many salient facts about Susan Collins remain bottled up until years after it wouldn't been helpful for local media to have disclosed them: --Green's sister worked for her --Bought her last house from the family that owns BDN --Her mom was on a @mainepublic.org board #MEpolitics
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the first and only time i developed a crush on a celebrity was hayley williams when i was like 13 and she remains a true queen
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
collins isnt remotely wiping the floor with jackson or anything but his sort of mumbly passive way of speaking has allowed her to look strong and competent
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i really wish troy jackson was better at debates/speaking generally. collins is weakest in face to face confrontations and its ominous that she felt confident enough to accept 4 debates against jackson when she can barely even speak
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
pee pee poo poo
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Susan Collins vote to advance Trump's Big Beautiful Bill the day after Stephen Schwarzman sent her super PAC $2M hits pretty darn different after ProPublica's pay-to-play revelations. Does anyone doubt Schwarzman has Collins phone number? Or that they spoke before he forked over $2M? #MEpolitics
mainebeacon.com
Susan Collins advanced Trump Tax Bill after receiving $2 million from private equity billionaire - Maine Beacon
As she gears up for a tough midterm race against a progressive challenger in 2026, Sen. Susan Collins is struggling to shake her reputation as a sellout to corporate interests. A new report out last w...
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Terry from Reno 911: I Was Murdered
ALT: Terry from Reno 911: I Was Murdered
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Late-Millennial Citizen Kane foundational film
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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maine legislative Republicans are making a bold pitch to voters today, effectively promising to cut $1.3 billion in health care and/or education over the next budget cycle #mepolitics
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The folk understanding of the car market where the American consumer is not at fault for buying horribly stupid vehicles is always so wild to see. In what universe did they stop producing sedans?
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
returning to the earth as fertilizer is a dignified part of the life and death cycle and because of that i choose to believe rowling will remain encased in a coffin, as she converts entirely into a mass of the black mold from her apartment
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i like that media orgs work the same as chunks of land during feudalism. maybe if im a good enough serf i could be given a minor local or regional tv station
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh. #MEpolitics
forbes.com
The 5 Senators—Including Maine's Susan Collins—With The Biggest Investments In Data Centers
Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting Senator. We found 26 Senators with at least $7 million in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse an...
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
rowling still mad bc she knows 100 years after she dies her grave will still be the most used all-gender toilet in the world
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i am now the owner of a chest freezer and i have never been more powerful
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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-...
mecep-action.org
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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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goosebumps teaching me all suspicious situations will result in my death
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