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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Russia is helping Iran kill Americans in a war that's inflating the price of diesel so high that America is going to buy diesel from Russia, which in turn will help Iran kill more Americans. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms

Trump says U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of US pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A little time with my baby granddaughter in the green room last night—a reminder of who I’m fighting for and best debate prep I’ve ever had. ❤️

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The Trace @thetrace.org · 7h

The Trace has identified 32 incidents in which immigration agents shot at people since President Donald Trump’s operations began last year. Nine people were killed in these incidents. Another 15 people were injured.

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Federal Immigration Agent Shootings Tracker

See how many times ICE and other federal agents have shot someone, held someone at gunpoint or used less-lethal munitions.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 12h

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026

Zelenskyy: While our teams are meeting in Florida, US President is having conversation with Kremlin leader responsible for this war. I believe they are simply using our team as a cover...clearly not acting in good faith as a partner. And this, in my view, is a weak decision from strong partners.

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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm familiar with the situation of angry voters refusing to acknowledge a duly elected leader, as in "He ain't my president." But I think this is the first time an American president has refused to be the leader of half the country.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The reckoning is here…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026

Of all the politicians Navatek’s CEO courted, Susan Collins was its most important patron. The senator’s office steered federal contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping its CEO and his network for donations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins

YouTube video by ProPublica

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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Obviously not scientific, but I live in midcoast Maine and rarely see a Troy Jackson lawn sign. I've seen a few, but they were homemade. Collins signs ("Our Senator") are not exactly ubiquitous, but they're more plentiful.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heck of a picture.

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A picture of Trump's likeness on the Heritage Foundation building (located next to a gas station) in DC in May.
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty)

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 03/10/2026

10/3 Yes, Maine Congressional candidate Paul LePage really did describe Social Security as “welfare, pure and simple" #maine #MEpolitics

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This story illustrates exactly why we should be marching in Washington en masse on No Kings day, where Trump and Congress and SCOTUS can see us and hear us. (Thanks for the access to this piece, btw.)

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

"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

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 🧵

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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The pessimism here from Jeffrey Goldberg is astonishing. Earlier in the interview he asks Pete, "Is the system broken, or are the people broken?" It's the pessimists who are broken.

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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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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ATTN: SCOTUS "The power of this office is crazy."

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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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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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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.

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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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perelaj.bsky.social @perelaj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Also, if you shoot yourself in the foot, you won't be hopping on any trains anytime soon. #mixedmetaphor

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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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