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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seven minutes of Jon Stewart zeroing in on the giant gap btwn Susan Collins words and actions [15:52]: "No one plays the 'I'm actually quite concerned and upset about this thing I am actually going to vote for' better than the poster child for troubled acquiescence...Susan Collins." #MEpolitics

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Will Republicans Divorce Trump Over Xi Embrace? Probably Not | The Daily Show

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good. Dude is dirty to the core.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But if you’re picking apples, you are by definition outside and don’t really need to worry about carbon monoxide. I’m not sure what you’re asking me to do.

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Matt Dunlap @dunlap4congress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New poll from UNH has us up 6 points in ME-02 (margin of error +/- 3.9%). This race is trending in the right direction, but polls don't win elections, votes do. Chip in and help us keep this momentum going: secure.actblue.com/donate/dunla...

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[RED SIREN EMOJI] #MEpolitics

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026

This belongs in the Smithsonian.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins +3% in a new NY Times poll. Fyi it was out in the field entirely or almost entirely before @propublica.org's bombshell story dropped on Tuesday. Every call, every door knock, every text to a friend/relative/former colleague is going to count here, folks! #MEpolitics

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the right answer from Troy Jackson on this. The story coming out of Susan Collins and her team simply doesn't add up and anyone paying attention can see it. #MEpolitics

Troy Jackson tweet: Then why did Senator Collins want to personally call Martin Kao to thank him just seven days after his $150,000 secret donation was cashed?

Come up with better lies.

C-SPAN tweet: Sen. Susan Collins' (R-ME) campaign manager Steve Abbott on communications surrounding alleged campaign finance violations: "We're not the 1820 PAC...we do not communicate with the 1820 PAC..."

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Susan Collins campaign with a press conference on the @propublica.org story but the set-up only underscores the problem: The guy talking is the spouse of Collins 2020/2026 finance director who traded e-mails with Kao re: falsifying donor info. Of course he says nothing wrong was done! #MEpolitics

Susan Collins campaign manager Steve Abbott at a press conference.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do Voters Care Whether Susan Collins Is Corrupt? - New York Magazine

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@propublica.org reporter @mtredden.bsky.social pushes back on Susan Collins claim that there's nothing to see here because she was exonerated on all this years ago. #MEpolitics

Maine Public interview with ProPublica reporter Molly Redden:

As you know, Collins' response to these allegations is throughout your story, and today her deputy chief of staff released another statement. It accuses ProPublica of relying on Kao's 'outlandish statements' and seems to dismiss the story by saying the FBI already investigated the matter and that Collins' campaign fully cooperated. It goes on to say that the issues were resolved in 2021.

Sure, I mean, none of that is really true. We did not simply take the word of Kao. We conducted our own investigation of his claims. You know, we've got the receipts. We put together timelines. We published emails that we looked at that undergird a lot of our reporting. You know, we really stress tested his claims, and also the FBI stress tested his claims, and that's part of what we're reporting here. But not only that, you know, I think they're hiding the ball here a little bit. They claim that all of this was resolved, but we reported, and we show our evidence, that anti-corruption agents at the FBI were asking about Collins, probing her activities and her campaign staff's activities as recently as late 2024. This was a new investigation that might have implicated her and and her staff. This was not something that was tied up in a bow several years ago. This was something that was happening. It was a live issue right up until Trump's DOJ leadership totally dismantled the FBI and DOJ teams that were handling this public corruption probe.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is too far in the rearview mirror for me to remember what percentage were in play. I do remember the regular drum beat of southern democrats announcing they were switching party affiliations, a general thirstiness for campaign money and Clinton capping it all off with his grand triangulation.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ableists? Eugenicists? Rascists? Lesbians? KN95 masks? Please clarify.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A prominent election denier with ties to Ginni Thomas was implicated in a far-reaching corruption plot involving Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). ProPublica reported that Martin Kao, former CEO of the Hawaii-based defense firm Navatek, told FBI agents and

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This 💯%. She’s owned by her donors. Owned by Trump’s henchmen. Owned by her poor judgement. The only ones who don’t get a piece of her are her constituents.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That was a period when Democrats were trying to win the country club set and shed their blue collar down market taint. They voted for Reagan’s agenda because they lost the plot and then lost power then lost any moral high ground Tragedy all around.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

She’s just another grifting Republican.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah this is super duper illegal. #MEpolitics

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Susan Collins, corrup as hell! #MEpolitics

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A fair chunk of this is Collins' spokesperson saying she doesn't like what the president is doing while showing no evidence that she's meaningfully tried to stop it #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2026/09/21/m...

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Maine’s Senate race: Where Susan Collins and Troy Jackson stand on immigration policy

Maine has garnered national attention amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, and the issue looms large in the high-stakes U.S. Senate race.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pre-October surprise. The polls aren’t reflecting the breaking news that the entire Democratic caucus are trans Wiccan Communist cannibals.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No longer any point in pretending. She’s just all in and accelerating while she can.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans can’t govern. Susan Collins is a Republican. Vote accordingly.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@newrepublic.com picks up the story. tinyurl.com/73zwdptw #MEpolitics

TNR headline: Susan Collins Quietly Casts Anti-Abortion Vote Ahead of Election
The Maine senator voted in favor of a Donald Trump judicial nominee who served on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy center.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Compromising photos of awkward white guys doing the Macarena.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hairless cats tattooed with your logo.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want a police action on Christmas

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m 100% team progressive, but if we are going to remain intellectually honest, we can and should blame Biden for Olestra, mullets and the instability of magnetic north. He should have done better.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New outlet, same legacy conceit that frames a 73 year-old woman who's been working in DC since the 1970s as someone without agency over her actions/predicament, at the mercy of dark forces beyond her control. The question isn't 'How much can she take.' It's 'Why won't she DO anything?' #MEpolitics

Collins Needs to Defy Political Gravity Again — and Trump Isn’t Helping
A Canada trade war, an ICE shooting and Iran. How much more can Susan Collins take from Trump and still win?

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But it brought us the nightly bombast of Bill Putnam on WWLP channel 22. He mattered.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/09/2026

Even the crickets were embarrassed.

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David Puelle @dpuelle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Her internal polls must have shown this last week because her digital ads dialed up the nasty factor hard. She’s given up playing the high road grande dame and has opted for no holds barred dog fight.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is the first honest pro-Susan Collins letter we've seen in months -- which may mean it's the first one not coordinated with Collins's campaign: Vote for Collins, the writer argues, so that the 'undeserving' don't get health care. Sounds about right. #MEpolitics

Bangor Daily News letter to the editor: Vote for Susan Collins to keep people off Medicaid

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I looked it up and there's actually no rule that says @pressherald.com has to run a column by a health care lobbyist trying to trick readers into thinking Susan Collins has been great for Maine hospitals. But they do it anyway because they have a thoroughly distorted view of their role. #MEpolitics

Press Herald headline: Susan Collins is a champion for Maine hospitals | Opinion
Time and again, the senator has proven she will answer the call to support rural healthcare.
Posted 4:00 AM
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Monday we learned via The New York Times that recently Susan Collins secretly met with the folks behind Stronger America -- one of the dark money groups fueling her candidacy -- at a corporate-owned DC townhouse. tinyurl.com/46aezdfs Not aware of a single Maine outlet having noted this. #MEpolitics

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't recall any 2020 ads directly taking on Susan Collins fake brand -- or basically calling her a liar. This seems positive. #MEpolitics

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"I do not believe ICE should be allowed to make arrests unless there are extenuating circumstances..." You're a US senator! Holy smokes! It's only because Maine press treats her like a pundit rather than a govt official with power that she thinks it's OK to answer like a pundit. #MEpolitics

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