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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 3h

If there's one thing you can count on for Susan Collins, it's that she's rolling in that corporate PAC dough as she sells out Mainers to the highest bidder. #mesen #mepolitics

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 3h

From Susan Collins' California fundraising trip. Bougie.

#mesen #mepolitics

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 7h

Other Senate Republicans immediately undermine Susan Collins' claims.

Classic.

#mesen #mepolitics

www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 1d

Vought said he was gonna do this sorta stuff during his confirmation.

Susan Collins said some of what he was pledging to do was illegal but it'd be settled in court. Then she voted to confirm him anyway!

Does she think there's no record of this stuff? It was only several months ago. #MEpolitics

danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 1d

Susan Collins thinks everyone is dumb

#mesen #mepolitics

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 1d

Susan Collins thinks everyone is dumb

#mesen #mepolitics

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 14d

I wonder if Susan voted to confirm Vought!

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Kelsie Taggart @kelsietaggart.bsky.social · 14d

WATCH: Susan Collins just voted to raise health care prices on Mainers and shut down the government.

Over 50,000 Mainers benefit from ACA tax credits, and she just voted against each and every one of them. #MESen

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 15d

Great point here. #mesen #mepolitics

danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 15d

senator who voted to confirm russell vought despite him saying he would do impoundments.

#mesen #mepolitics

danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 16d

Susan Collins sent this solicitation about "flooding Maine with outside money from liberal elites in New York and California" as she was *literally* on her way back from a big Hollywood (California) fundraiser.

You simply can't make this shit up.

#mesen #mepolitics

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 19d

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 21d

Trump Administration keeps screwing over Maine:

*stopping funding for anti-human trafficking services

*cancelled grants for veterans, low-income & first-generation high schoolers to get help with college

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 21d

Susan Collins *again* doubles down on her crucial vote to confirm RFK Jr., despite literally everything that has happened.

Vote. Her. Out.

#mesen #mepolitics

www.bangordailynews.com/2025/09/24/p...

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 22d

sure

bangordailynews.com/2025/09/22/p...

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 27d

NEW: After being quoted earlier today suggesting that Trump nominees would benefit from more vetting (tinyurl.com/49mvhk4r) Susan Collins takes the unprecedented step of voting to confirm FORTY-EIGHT of his picks in a single vote.

No individual scrutiny. No individual advice/consent. #MEpolitics

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 27d

On a party line tally of 51-47 the Senate confirmed the 48 nominations included in S.Res.377. Senators Banks and Lee did not vote. Further votes are possible this evening.

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 26d

New CAP Scorecard: Susan Collins has voted with Trump 96% of the time.

This should be what papers insert instead of fake "centrist" and "breaks with Trump" bullshit

www.americanprogressaction.org/article/the-...

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 26d

November 2024: Susan Collins says we need “extensive” vetting of Trump nominees

September 2025: Collins says “more vetting needs to done.”

Also, Sept 2025: Collins supports nuclear option to install 48 Trump nominees.

Fraud needs to be voted out. #mesen #mepolitics

danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 27d

screaming

danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 27d

Susan Collins buries her head in the sand yet again.

#mesen #mepolitics

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 27d

Hard to even feign surprise any more, but fake institutionalist Susan Collins says the nuclear option does not weaken the filibuster.

#mesen #mepolitics

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 28d

Susan Collins votes to override the chair so that Trump can push through blocks of nominations on a single vote.

She's giving away more of her own (i.e. Maine's) power here. Because that's what MAGA wants. #MEpolitics

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 28d

By a vote of 47-52, the decision of the Chair is not sustained that the threshold for cloture on en bloc nominations requires 60-votes.

It was a party line vote with Senator Lee not voting.

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 28d

Susan Collins quadruples down on her crucial vote to confirm RFK Jr. #mesen #mepolitics

danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 28d

Amazing.

Susan Collins and Bill Cassidy create a totally foreseeable and avoidable problem by confirming RFK Jr., and are now clamoring for credit because they're doing nothing more than a show hearing.

#mesen #mepolitics

www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 28d

hard to be more swampy than susan collins.

#mesen #mepolitics

rollcall.com/2025/09/16/h...

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