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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." JFK

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3h
ICYMI - why John Roberts deserved to protested, mocked, and ridiculed (peacefully and legally) for rest of his life. Read @elienyc.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...
"You know what I don’t do? Make it my life’s work to take away political power from Black people. I haven’t been on a decades-long crusade to reduce women to second-class status. I don’t deny water to people standing in line to vote or police where trans kids can go to the bathroom. I don’t send immigrants back to be tortured, and I sure as hell don’t condemn rape victims to death.

John Roberts and his court are not my legal and political opponents; they are my moral enemies. They threaten my life and the lives of every person I care about. They have mugged my political and civil rights."
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5h
Every single reporter working in Maine should be asking Susan Collins whether she will commit to voting against any Trump picked nominee to #SCOTUS if Alito retires during lame duck.
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 4h
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Never Never Land / My Ship
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Front page one week ago. Susan Collins and her team haven't been able to get their story straight on some of the allegations (tinyurl.com/2pja4fhj). Meanwhile, they haven't even been questioned about other explosive, documented revelations (tinyurl.com/2as93ztk). #MEpolitics
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
In case you missed it, read our original investigation:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
A check for $150,000 to 1820 PAC, a pro-Collins super PAC, from the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 19/09/2026
9/19 U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine: When Democrats retake House, "we are going to sue the shit out of" the Trump Administration #maine #MEpolitics
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People should talk about this race more
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the workers who cleans the 9/11 Memorial pool shares his story. He cleans the pool with another worker five nights a week, from midnight to 8 AM.
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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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La Valse des lilas
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 31/08/2026
"Wherever Russian troops arrive, Ukrainians cease to exist." At an official event in Moscow, Russian Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Selivanov openly admitted their true goal is the total erasure of Ukrainian identity.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Why We’re Dismantling the ICC
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
core memory unlocked
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Inspectors General were created as part a wave of post-Nixon reforms to improve accountability by placing internal watchdogs in the executive branch. Now, a former IG says: “All the adults have left the room. All these new IGs are lining up behind political leadership as if they’re lapdogs.”
A staffer at the Department of Education Office of Inspector General said: “nobody wants to speak up about anything.” After an acting IG raised concerns about a lack of co-operation with the Secretary of Education, a pattern of stonewalling that has become common across agencies, she was replaced. Another staffer said: “There is fear that writing something that is contrary to what the IG wants to put out there will lead to negative consequences…Preventing that is exactly why the IGs were created.”
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/08/2026
There will be a lot of well meaning people who will tell you to temper your hate in the coming years
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPzY...
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Branford Marsalis Quartet, Dianne Reeves - They Say It’s Wonderful (Visualizer)
YouTube video by BranfordMarsalisVEVO
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Help us defeat Susan Collins: secure.actblue.com/donate/tj-so...
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Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate in Maine
We can defeat Susan Collins.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Those in power are scared of the movement we’re building — and these numbers show that they should be. A fourth poll shows us in the lead against Susan Collins.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder: progressive is mainstream
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bankeizen @nonny.org · 07/08/2026
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 04/08/2026
Head Start has served 30+ million kids, including tens of thousands in Maine. It’s had bipartisan support. The Admin wants to kill it. After failing to freeze funding, their new plan is to lower standards for curricula, medical screenings, and more—so fewer kids get the care + education they need.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/08/2026
“Democratic firms would give workers far more of a say in how the workplace is run. Management and administrative structures would be chosen directly by employees through democratic processes, making both responsive to workers’ interests.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...
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Democratic Socialism Gets Serious
"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Trump regime keeps covering up his ex-friend’s sexual trafficking of children.
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DoJ appears to ignore New Mexico deadline for key Epstein ranch files
State attorney general set 31 July deadline for documents relating to abuse of girls at Epstein-owned Zorro ranch
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We all know Susan Collins promised to serve no more than two terms during her first ME-SEN campaign in 1996. But when exactly did she admit she was going to try to break that pledge? Sometime after September 2002, it would appear, if this letter sent to us last week is to be believed. #MEpolitics
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WHEN DID SUSAN COLLINS STOP SAYING SHE WOULD RETIRE AFTER TWO TERMS?
A correspondent sends us a 2002 letter suggesting Collins stuck with the pledge for years
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My response to Elon Musk.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/07/2026
If you're wondering what party will help you keep your Social Security benefits and which one is trying to take them away, this is a Republican on the Senate floor TODAY:
A man in a suit is standing at a podium next to a sign that reads "SOCIAL SECURITY IS A SCAM".
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Elon Musk is suing to block my law that bans nudificafion technology. It’s time to Rein in Big Tech. secure.actblue.com/donate/rein-... #ReinInBigTech #nudification #mnleg
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good, harsh @mjtoma.bsky.social takedown of Ken Martin fiasco: "A party chair, when his party doesn’t control the WH, has two jobs. Raise money is far and away job one. But job two is...to be a very public attack dog. Martin seems to have failed operatically at both" newrepublic.com/article/2135...
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Is This Guy the Worst Party Chair in the History of the United States?
Ken Martin once seemed like a promising leader of the DNC. But his reign has been disastrous—and the time has come to turn to the man he defeated.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 20/07/2026
@annabower.bsky.social, @juliacurlee.bsky.social, @noupside.bsky.social, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social & @lorenvoss.bsky.social go through each allegation President Trump made in his speech last Thursday on the 2020 election and analyze what the documents really show.
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Everything Trump’s Election Speech Did Not Prove
After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the White House still hasn’t found it.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📍 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄: An investigation found the ICE agent who fatally shot Johan Sebastián had a documented history of alleged violent behavior and serious mental health struggles. The revelations have prompted lawmakers to demand answers about ICE's vetting, hiring, and training practices. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
People may roll their eyes at our fixation on this...but identifying Susan Collins cronies by their affiliations in LTEs is the least @pressherald.com can do. The refusal to do it -- out of laziness or indifference or complicity -- is a betrayal. A giant middle finger to its readers. #MEpolitics
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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cix2...
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A Lazy Afternoon
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2026
POCAN: Do you know how much we've spent on the war on Iran so far? VOUGHT: We've spent about 30,000,000,000 P: People are saying it's more like $100b V: I'm just telling you what I heard from the Dept of War P: I'm just going to remember June 30, 2026, you're saying $30b is what we spent
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey there's that sign again! From the protest: "Just over a week ago, Senator [Susan] Collins said that she had no regrets about her vote for Brett Kavanaugh. Well, Senator Collins, a lot of Maine women regret their vote for you." #MEpolitics
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