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collinswatch.bsky.social
Portland Press Herald can't get enough of the Mills/Platner race...as long as the story has absolutely nothing to do with public policy.

Mainers deserve better. So embarrassing. #MEpolitics
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
"there's a new serif in town"
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17d
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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collinswatch.bsky.social
Still unclear if Susan Collins'll vote for or against extending ACA tax credits -- something she said she backed. @mainepublic.org implies she's a 'no' vote but the article was a bit fuzzy.

In a healthy media ecosystem, this kinda nonsense would get scrutiny. #MEpolitics @stevemistler.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
ojibwe218.bsky.social
Homelessness is not a part of Native heritage minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/20/h...
Homelessness is not a part of Native heritage • Minnesota Reformer
These findings do not exist in a vacuum. They are the result of complex intergenerational and epigenetic trauma.
minnesotareformer.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk was an extreme racist, a misogynist, and a homophobe. He actively spread this hate to others.

Let facts be submitted to a candid world.
September 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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collinswatch.bsky.social
The man has no business anywhere near the health apparatus of a modern country. You know it, we know it and Susan Collins knew it. But she gave him the keys anyway. #MEpolitics
September 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ojibwe218.bsky.social
From bee yard to table: How a Minnesota beekeeper makes State Fair ribbon-winning honey www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
From bee yard to table: How a Minnesota beekeeper makes State Fair ribbon-winning honey
Andrea Setsvold of Afton, Minn., has been beekeeping since 2016. She loves the hobby, and now, she has another reason to love it: entering the work of her and her honeybees into the Minnesota State Fa...
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August 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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collinswatch.bsky.social
Susan Collins frames herself as a big med research funding fan -- to telegraph she's a different kind of Republican. She's even convinced medical interest groups to validate that frame.

But it's a posture and a sham as @johnschaberg.bsky.social exposes below.

GOP always comes first. #MEpolitics
June 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
ojibwe218.bsky.social
This Israeli Government Is a Danger to Jews Everywhere www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
Opinion | This Israeli Government Is a Danger to Jews Everywhere
The price will be high if people don’t resist Netanyahu’s ugly, nihilistic Gaza policy.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
ojibwe218.bsky.social
Call your Sen/Rep.Legis. could stop/delay actions taken by Prez, Cong. doesn’t act.Have a list of points,dont rant.Do you oppose abolishing Headstart?Medicaid? Vaccines?Peace Corps?Public radio? Public television?Our attention is being diverted by drama that turns head from what is really happening.
May 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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booksondesign.bsky.social Edward Johnson @booksondesign.bsky.social · Apr 4
THIS IS A MUST READ explaining the real purpose behind the tarrifs by Senator Chris Murphy. It is very sinister. "They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool" Read the photo or click link to original post. bsky.app/profile/chri...
April 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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collinswatch.bsky.social
Reminder that Elon Musk -- who today suggested five Jews were behind the anti-Tesla protests (tinyurl.com/373y3paj) -- had a well-documented history of antisemitism before he did Nazi salutes in public and before Susan Collins hosted him and talked about how impressed she was with him. #MEpolitics
March 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
ojibwe218.bsky.social
It's the oligarchy, stupid.
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It's the oligarchy, stupid.
Friends,
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February 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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A historic Black church in D.C. that was vandalized by members of the extremist Proud Boys in 2020 has secured the group’s naming rights, allowing the institution to seek proceeds from sales of the organization’s merchandise and membership dues.
Black D.C. church vandalized by Proud Boys awarded control of group’s name
The ruling effectively prohibits Proud Boys chapters from legally using their own name or typical symbols without the permission of the Metropolitan AME Church.
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February 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM