Portland Press Herald headline: Susan Collins is voting to undermine secure elections | Opinion The senator seems willing to risk Maine voting rights in exchange for the support of conservative PACs in an election year.

Agreed on the main point but the subhead has it sort of backwards:

Billionaires are throwing big $$$ behind Susan Collins because she's happy to throw Mainers and voting rights under the bus.

But it's not like they bribed her to change positions. This is who she is and has been. #MEpolitics

So hypocritical

We need to play "hardball" against unelected scumbags destroying this country.

Only if it's at the bottom of a composting toilet

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying. 22 Points · A Tolkien-Themed Surveillance Empire · A Chairman Who Loved Epstein · A Philosopher-King Blogger On Speed-Dial · And The IBM-Nazi Template Nobody Wants To Name

Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying.

Dean Blundell--

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just as soon as we see people named Trump, Thiel, Bezos etc complete theirs. Or do they just mean regular people?

Cartoonist: Marian Kamensky

Some things can never be forgiven

How old is that picture of her they're recycling?

Probably where the cabal will move to once we throw his ass out.

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

On the dark online world there is an academy that is teaching men how to drug, incapacitate, and sexually assault their wives and partners, while evading detection. It reached 62M men in February (though the number is being disputed). This is absolutely vile and section 230 shouldn’t protect them!

Susan Collins just reported taking $340,250 from AIPAC this year.

And yesterday she voted for the war in Iran. Again.

A clear case of “pay to play.”

Any Questions?!

How Dear Leader actually works;
1. make what looks to all an absurd "deal" like $20B in assets to Iran.
2. Iran then gives Kushner $5B of the $20B
3. The tRump cabal is another $5B richer (not including betting windfall)
4. Fuck the rest of us

The definition of IRONY.....

“People knew it was planned” isn’t a substitute for approvals or transparency.

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United.

Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%.

Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit.

But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

PATHETIC CRIMINALS

Epstein Was Never Properly Investigated in New Mexico Despite Reports to FBI. Follow the Money Far Enough and It Leads to Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, DJT, and a Trillion-Dollar Nuclear Deal. The Epstein-connected company that paid lawmakers in New Mexico to look the other way employed Ivanka Trump, bailed out Jared Kushner, and is now DJT's partner in a billion-dollar nuclear deal.

Epstein Was Never Properly Investigated in New Mexico Despite Reports to FBI. Follow the Money Far Enough and It Leads to Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, DJT, and a Trillion-Dollar Nuclear Deal.
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Ima just gonna drop this here...

The Lone Democrat: Follow the Money Behind Jared Golden’s 2026 Vote For Trump's Iran War On April 16, 2026, Rep. Jared Golden was the only Democrat to vote against withdrawing military forces from Iran. Is this about "negotiating strength" or donor influence? Follow the money with our gui...

As usual, follow the money.
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Yah and he's running for Golden's seat! Unfortunate;y in CD2 he actually has a pretty good shot at it....

Remember this fuck when his name comes on the ballot.

Fucking Jared Golden. Again.

Not sure how to rectify the competing math, but here is another one.

Hypocrisy, thy name be GOP.