Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Susan Collins is horrible on shipbuilding. You don't need to take my word on it. Vice President of IAM Local S6 Dave Sullivan tells me all the time. 4306107 0
Reposted by IsaakThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 12/10/2026The group Defending Main Street, long associated with Susan Collins, spent thousands attacking Troy Jackson in the wrong state.theintercept.comSusan Collins-Aligned Super PAC Buys Attack Ads in Portland... OregonThe group Defending Main Street, long associated with Susan Collins, spent thousands attacking Troy Jackson in the wrong state. 3429286 0
Reposted by IsaakIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. 14805001411745 1
Reposted by IsaakThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/10/2026BREAKING: Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.bit.lyFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter. 111262131 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 11/10/2026With the war in Iran driving up energy costs it’s gonna be a hard winter for a lot of us. No one has to face it alone. If you’re ever worried about staying warm this winter go to jacksonformaine.com/heat We’ve got a list of resources there to point you in the right direction. 17703257 0
Reposted by IsaakAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting! 201652406 0
Reposted by IsaakErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026I'm really sad y'all. I did not go into trans journalism to make "Dem capitulates on trans rights" my daily beat. It was a much better environment when I could count on everyone in our party, even the red state dems, to present a wall on this stuff. It just feels so bleak. 992354250 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Honored to have President Obama standing with us in this fight. This campaign is about working people taking their power back — and building a government that works for them. Now let’s finish the job. Get out and vote. 211262340 0
Reposted by IsaakAmy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Empathy Gap in the First Maine Senate Debate #mepolitics amyfried.substack.com/p/empathy-ga...amyfried.substack.comThe Empathy Gap in the First Maine Senate DebateJackson showed concern for Mainers, Collins for her reputation 34411 0
Reposted by IsaakErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A strike around the domination of production by the employer is hard to win. The employer is much more likely to cave on wages than this. When it ended, it was with a lot of opposition from the lesser skilled workers but the more highly skilled workers ratified the agreement by a large margin. 1112 0
Reposted by IsaakErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Automation lies. It tells people it makes their lives easier. It does not. It unemploys some and it centers all the profit in the capitalists while working the remaining laborers with ever more intensity. 1214 0
Reposted by IsaakMother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026BREAKING: The long and strange saga of Missouri’s redistricting battle is over. On Friday evening, the Supreme Court released a final opinion—with no noted dissents—that disallows Missouri Republicans’ ultra-gerrymandered congressional map ahead of November’s midterm elections.motherjones.comSCOTUS smacks down Missouri's MAGA mapIn a final ruling, the Supreme Court has blocked Missouri Republicans' gerrymander. 11368101 0
Reposted by IsaakKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Northeast is about to get slammed by a nor’easter and the biggest concern isn’t the expected flooding, downed trees, and power outages, its that Trump has already denied eligible disaster aid for past storms and state and local budgets can’t absorb much more on their own. 59722 0
Reposted by IsaakNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now. 25996342 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 25/09/2026An incredible victory and a powerful reminder: we are always stronger together. Thank you, nurses. Solidarity forever. ✊❤️ 010617 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Congratulations to the nurses of Central Maine Medical Center, who voted overwhelmingly tonight to form a union — with 91% voting yes! CMMC nurses stood together, stood up to Prime Healthcare, and refused to back down from fighting for themselves and their patients. 2494129 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine. 321132455 0
Reposted by IsaakKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him. 14984041894 0
Reposted by IsaakAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare. 325880 0
Reposted by IsaakAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Saving local Newspapers is one of the most important projects of guarding democracy. They do more than anything to enable community action, & they help hold corporations & landlords to account and expose and correct the small local exploitations that cause so much suffering and drain so many lives. 16421 0
Reposted by Isaakbillboard @billboard.com · 17/09/2026Ms. Rachel Will Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Gaza Aidbit.lyMs. Rachel Will Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Gaza AidMs. Rachel says she will match Macklemore’s $1 million donation to Palestinian aid organizations and urges other celebrities to do the same. 6563153 0
Reposted by IsaakEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Democrats currently win elections when people are so angry and frightened by what Republicans are doing that they take a chance on a party they neither like nor trust. Ask yourself: Is that likely to lead to broad popularity and a mandate for Democratic priorities? 116321 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Folks… what this campaign is about is pretty simple. 7364107 0
Reposted by IsaakPortland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 09/09/2026Read the poem ‘Mushrooms’ by Myronn Hardypressherald.comRead the poem ‘Mushrooms’ by Myronn HardyMaine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. 011 0
Reposted by IsaakLauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny. 28761701244 0
Reposted by IsaakNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right. 561923302 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I’ll never take that for granted — and none of us should. This Labor Day, thank you to every worker, organizer, and union member who keeps this country running and keeps the fight moving forward. Solidarity forever. ✊ 1025649 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I’ve been a member of five labor unions in my life. I’ve seen firsthand what working people can accomplish when we stand together. The rights and protections workers have today weren’t handed to us. Generations of workers and organizers fought for them, stood their ground, & refused to back down. 383132678 0
Reposted by IsaakJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE. 69392285069 0
Reposted by Isaaksouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁nytimes.comICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant. 9332581065 0
Reposted by IsaakZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I was reading an author recently talking about how we don't appreciate the way that email isn't siloed. That is, you don't have to be in gmail to talk to someone else in gmail. The norm is so powerful, it'd be unthinkable to change it. All email is interoperable. Social media could've been this way. 4591099 0
Reposted by IsaakJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/08/2026At this point I'm pretty sure no one who negotiates with this administration expects it to either offer a reasonable deal or to honor the terms of the deal once it's been set. The question is whether to treat it like the unreliable bully it is. We have Canada's answer, for now at least. 811545245 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I don’t give a damn whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican. If you work hard and want a better future for your family, I’ll stand with you. That’s how we change things — together. Thank you to everyone who came out to IAMAW District Lodge 4 in Lisbon Falls Thursday night. Solidarity forever. 622165 0
Reposted by IsaakBangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Maine Democratic Party Chair Charlie Dingman called it “a major victory for Maine voters.” (via Maine Morning Star) www.bangordailynews.com/2026/08/18/p...bangordailynews.comAfter pushback, DNC votes against changing rules around ranked-choice votingDemocratic National Committee members voted against a proposal to restrict ranked-choice voting in presidential primaries at their meeting in Austin, Texas. 022 0
Reposted by IsaakMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Yesterday I drove by the spot where last month ICE murdered Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. A memorial with flowers and signs remains. It was an important reminder that we cannot forget the individual victims of ICE terror. May his family get justice someday. 91789304 0
Reposted by IsaakJames Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"I can't believe the secret police used the blank check I wrote them to buy electrocution gloves" #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2026/08/14/s...pressherald.comSusan Collins pans Trump administration’s plan to buy shock gloves for ICE agentsThe five-term incumbent was in Kittery on Friday kicking off a statewide bus tour of Maine that will be a centerpiece of her reelection campaign. 32713 0
Reposted by IsaakRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Iran's greatest ally in their war against the United States remains the United States 351689230 0
Reposted by IsaakMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/08/2026'Supposably' is a word. supposably = “as may be conceived or imagined” supposedly = "allegedly" 721051233 0
Reposted by IsaakJames Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Biden passed an asylum ban by executive orders, set a new low for inhumane detention conditions, set records for border deaths, and kept title 42 for far longer than Trump did. NYT folks wonder why nobody Wants to talk to them and then they publish shite like this. 312128 0
Reposted by IsaakKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is a terrific response, but they can go even further -- the weak attack on "communism" gives Democrats a great opening to call out Trump's massive cronyism and corruption. 181106184 0
Reposted by IsaakNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026..that is not their real fear. Their fear is that the left will go on to win the general election, and, like Mamdani in NYC, prove that the left can govern. They are willing to throw the general election to Republicans by smearing the left and demoralizing the Dem base to avoid that outcome. 151286239 0
Reposted by IsaakNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026So NYT reports that Third Way will spend $15-million to discredit democratic socialism ahead of the presidential elections. “Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.” Except... 23968223 0
Reposted by IsaakTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting. 325412890 0
Reposted by IsaakMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country. 2206547807 0
Reposted by IsaakGod @thegodshow.com · 01/08/2026Remember when David Hogg was running for DNC chair and the establishment stepped in and said we needed a responsible adult and then gave us Ken Martin, who throws his phone at his staffers? Also the DNC is $2 million in debt. But centrists still demand they should be in charge. 724111492633 0
Reposted by IsaakTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I’m a fifth-generation logger and the son of a public school teacher. My dad worked 16-hour days, and it still wasn’t enough. Susan Collins didn’t stand up for working people then—and she certainly isn’t standing up for Mainers now. Watch our first ad: 19763230 0
Reposted by IsaakEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026INSIDE WASHINGTON: Trump hath fucked around when he endorsed against Cornyn and forced Thom Tillis into early retirement. Now, he not only might found it in his Todd Blanche fight. He might lose the Senate as Talarico and Cooper ascend. #NCSen #NCPol www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukTrump betrayed a Texas Republican despite warnings. Vendetta may cost him the SenateTrump’s decision to throw John Cornyn and Thom Tillis under the bus might cost him for the remainder of his presidency, Eric Garcia writes. Worse, he refuses to learn from the mistake 826943 0
Reposted by Isaak🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 27/07/2026"No voters have agency except for me," is the solipsism that has broken our system. 0437 0
Reposted by IsaakAmy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Republicans’ planned attacks on Troy Jackson are scattershot and contradictory. He’s a radical but also a an insider and a flip flipper!! Geez. #mepolitics www.politico.com/news/2026/07...politico.comHow Republicans plan to conquer Troy JacksonRepublicans have 100 days to sink the newly-minted Democratic Maine Senate nominee — and they're throwing everything they have at him. 3155 0
