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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Historian Heather Cox Richardson sees Jackson’s bid for Senate as path to reclaim democracy mainemorningstar.com/2026/09/29/h...
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Historian Heather Cox Richardson sees Jackson’s bid for Senate as path to reclaim democracy • Maine Morning Star
Historian Heather Cox Richardson described a Troy Jackson win as a step toward reclaiming American democracy Monday night in Portland.  “This is our moment,” the widely known scholar and Maine residen...
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SMcDonnell @smcdonnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@troyjackson207.bsky.social interviewed by @hcrichardson.bsky.social was so good. You can watch it here. www.c-span.org/program/camp...
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pumpkin spice season is the worst possible time for this to happen.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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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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Debbie Coffee @dcoffee1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He's not saying there is anything fraudulent about the ACA- He's talking about insurance BROKERS that commit fraud by signing up fake enrollees.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to voter her out!
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/09/2026
Maine. Troy Jackson is running on lowering costs, protecting Maine’s water, creating good union jobs, and making sure data centers pay their own way. He’s putting working people and Maine communities at the center of his campaign.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/09/2026
Shark sightings have gone up in Maine this year, but no one knows exactly why—or what to do, Tyler Austin Harper reports. He spoke with scientists who are mystified by the rise:
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Sharks!
More and more people have spotted great whites in Maine this year, but no one knows exactly why—or what to do.
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I found time between scheduled events today in Belfast to canvass with Maine’s Coordinated Campaign “50 Days Out” weekend. Response from voters is great! I received similar responses phone banking last year for Mamdani! “Thanks for canvassing!” “All the Ds have my support!” Troy, Matt, Hannah, & Leg
Map of today’s turf area up “the Passy” in Belfast, ME View of the Passagassawaukeag River from the footbridge in Belfast, ME View of Belfast Harbor from the footbridge. Boats are moored in the harbor on a beautiful fall afternoon. A
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Q: On the checks, we have $40t in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote? T: I'm doing it as a reward for having to put up w/Biden Q: You also offered tariff refunds-- TRUMP: Not you Q: And that didn't happen T: You're the worst
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Matt Dunlap @dunlap4congress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you've locked in your heating oil contract, you already know prices are through the roof. No family should have to choose between staying warm and putting food on the table. We need real solutions that lower costs and ensure affordable energy for everyone. Here's a start: end the war in Iran.
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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 08/09/2026
==================== TROY JACKSON for MAINE ==================== HOW TO HELP: ✨Donate to: JacksonForMaine.com ✨Sign up to help with any of over 120 Maine Dem canvass events happening around Maine the next two weeks. Find your town here: 👉 www.mobilize.us?country=US&o... #MEpolitics
Photo of a gray framed window from outside, with reflection of tall balsam firs in the upper half and a sign for "TROY JACKSON for MAINE sign in the lower half.
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Indivisible Bangor @indivisiblebangor.org · 07/09/2026
Go @troyjackson207.bsky.social go!!! #MEPolitics #SeeYaSusan
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Jill Piggott @jillpiggott.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thanks to anyone who can help support Jackson. We are way behind in cash & deluged in negative ads, but Jackson is consistently polling ahead of Susan Collins & running a good ground game informed by his years as a labor organizer. www.jacksonformaine.com
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Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President,...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Susan Collins’ billionaire backers like Elon Musk are doubling what Democrats are spending on this race. They’re scared of our movement. Mainers will see through their bullshit in November.
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice job, Troy’
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oops. 🥴 www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Here is more about the Bates DEI “exposée.”
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Matt Dunlap @dunlap4congress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Paul LePage said he was "all for" the tariffs jacking up your prices, and admitted they'd hurt Maine families. Last week, he said the opposite. He can't keep his own story straight, or he's hoping you can't. Either way, he owns being "all for" the tariffs, and Mainers are the ones paying for it.
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Look who was in Maine, today I’m referring to the guy from Florida as well as the Speaker www.bangordailynews.com/2026/08/17/p...
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Paul LePage aims to serve in Congress as long as ‘health and sanity’ allow
LePage will be 78 by Election Day and would be one of the oldest freshman congressmen in history if he wins the seat.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 15/08/2026
Is the Maine news on your social media feed AI-generated? How you can tell.
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Is the Maine news on your social media feed AI-generated? How you can tell.
Stories written by humans at Maine news outlets are often scraped, re-written and repurposed by artificial intelligence for social media engagement, fraying the state's online information ecosystem.
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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 14/08/2026
Good for Maine Senator Angus King (I) blasting the electric shock glove purchase and "gross violation of our rights." Where is our other senator, Susan Collins, on this? Oh, yeah... #MEpolitics
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NYT writer and photographer visit Somerset Countu in August: A Maine Town, Once Dependent on a Paper Mill, Tries to Move On www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/b...
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A Maine Town, Once Dependent on a Paper Mill, Tries to Move On
For over a century, Madison Paper Industries was a small Maine town’s economic engine. A new owner moved in, but uncertainty persists.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
mainebeacon.com/maine-physic... Maine physicians are urging Sen. Susan Collins to answer for her record on abortion rights and health care as Congress prepares to leave Washington for its month-long August recess....
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Maine physicians press Collins over abortion, health care votes ahead of Senate recess - Maine Beacon
Maine physicians are urging Sen. Susan Collins to answer for her record on abortion rights and health care as Congress prepares to leave Washington for its month-long August recess. During a virtual p...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our fight has never changed. From universal healthcare to reproductive rights to dependable childcare, now's our time to say to the system: This isn't working.
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
American Conversations with @pingree.house.gov & @hcrichardson.bsky.social — streaming live tomorrow at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Save this link: youtube.com/live/TgZjTrmoH74?featur…
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thr president decides to give Senator Collins some suppprt: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/15/n...
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Trump says ICE should do traffic stops, despite new suspension after shootings. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe
President Trump wrote on his social media site ICE is “doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done.”
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What does JD think? That we are fools?
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“ICE agents ordered to end most vehicle stops after deadly Maine shooting”
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Dispatch from Maine: Biddeford witness saw gunshot victim bleeding from head www.centralmaine.com/2026/07/13/b...
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Biddeford witness saw gunshot victim bleeding from head
One resident who saw the shooting said he heard the man who died say 'I tried to stop.'
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Maine friends:,
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I’ve been impressed with Maine political journalists and analysts, and political scientists, who have been providing excellent commentary in the media today. Great work!
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Headline in online Maine newspaper, the Bangor Daily News:
No, Patrick Dempsey is not running to replace Graham Platner is the headline in an online article in the Bangor Daily News.
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Giving the polling about a possible Platner replacement, various news stories and the rumor mill, I'm reupping this Substack post. It's from before the primary. #mepolitics amyfried.substack.com/p/jackson-pl...
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How Troy Jackson or someone else could replace Platner
There's a pull the emergency cord scenario
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile, here’s how Ohio’s governor, a Republican, responded to today’s decision.
X post from Jonathan Martin: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement on the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Mullin v. Doe, regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS):

"Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling allowing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to be canceled or expire.   

"Today’s decision is a legal decision.  As I have stated in the past, the policy to remove these individuals from this country is a mistake.

"As a result of today’s ruling, the over 10,000 Haitians who have been living in Ohio (mostly in the Springfield area) legally through TPS will now be here illegally and will be subject to immediate deportation. This also means that while these Haitians were working and contributing to our community and economy yesterday, today it is now illegal to employ them."The situation in Haiti could hardly be much worse.  The violent gangs run most of the country.  The government barely functions.  And, the economy is in shambles.
"Further, our federal government has an advisory against traveling to Haiti, and our Federal Aviation Administration prohibits U.S. carriers from flying there because of the danger to planes of being shot at by the gangs. 

"But, more importantly, changing the immigration status of these individuals is not in the best interest of the United States nor Ohio."
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Maine, 8:37pm, June 23,2026
Looking west at a golden sunset over a harbor with a docked tugboat in silhouette on the left of the image. Longer view of the sunset, dock, and tugboat.
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Apparently he gave “people” ideas.
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Pretty Khemyst @prettykhemyst.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026
The Obamas greeted the first 100 visitors today youtube.com/shorts/-Zloe...
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Obamas personally greet first 100 guests at new presidential center
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
These 15 soldiers died during Trump’s war in Iran: Cody A. Khork Noah L. Tietjens Nicole M. Amor Declan J. Coady Jeffrey R. O'Brien Robert M. Marzan Benjamin N. Pennington John A. Klinner Ariana G. Savino Ashley B. Pruitt Seth R. Koval Curtis J. Angst Tyler H. Simmons Kevin Melendez Sorffly Davius
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Maine and the American Slave Trade:
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Tony Parry @tonyparry17.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Tribute at the #WorldCup to the 168 innocent girls MURDERED by US forces under the command of #TrumpThePaedo.
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mainers, do we have results from RCV tonight?
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Karen Kusiak @kkusiak.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
And school budgets pass on the first vote all over the state www.bangordailynews.com/2026/06/11/p...
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Graham Platner gets more primary votes than any other Democratic Senate candidate in Maine history
Graham Platner became the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate with the most primary votes in Maine, benefiting from semi-open primaries.
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Tim Kimber @timkimber.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In time-honoured fashion, I've spent the last 7 months putting together this World Cup playlist – one track for every team at the tournament. That's 48 tracks of International grooves – from Persian psych rock to Japanese city pop, Britfunk to Bosnian ska open.spotify.com/playlist/0gM...
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World Cup 2026
Playlist · Tim · 48 items
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 12/06/2026
In first since Oslo, Israel seizing land for army base inside West Bank city The seizure order, near Jenin refugee camp, is the latest move aimed at expanding military and settler presence in the north of the occupied territory. www.972mag.com/oslo-israel-...
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In first since Oslo, Israel seizing land for army base inside West Bank city
The confiscation order, near Jenin refugee camp, is the latest move aimed at expanding military and settler presence in the north of the occupied territory.
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