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Steve Collins
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Maine politics columnist, a founder of Youth Journalism International, servant to 2 collies, with a beloved wife & 2 adult children. UVA grad. Red Sox fan. Sifter of quirky old tales & objects. My work: https://www.sunjournal.com/author/steve-collins
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"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”

Bowing down to a bully never works.

And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.
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This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing.

Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
It’s one thing to mourn a young man cut down too soon. It’s quite another to pretend Kirk, a racist who plugged an anti-gay, anti-women agenda, was a model American.
www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/c...
Charlie Kirk was wrong about Maine | Steve Collins
Our state isn't becoming a 'Third World dumping ground,' is it?
www.pressherald.com
"A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.'"

Name one.
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Tired of the constant claims that this war is somehow our fault. Ukraine had only one choice: to defend itself against russia or to succumb and become cannon fodder in russia's future wars of conquest. As anyone with a clear mind can see, neither of these options is peace.
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Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.
Trump: "You know, they love to spit in the face of the police ... They’re standing and they’re screaming at them an inch away from their face, and then they start spitting in their face. And I said, ‘you tell them you spit, and we hit’, and they get hit real hard."
Trump places Washington DC police under federal control and will deploy National Guard – live updates
Trump declares ‘public safety emergency’ despite record crime low; DC mayor says ‘any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false’
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NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.

Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
newrepublic.com
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“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”

-Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Just want to encourage fans who love Van Morrison's old stuff but cringe at some of the crazy crap he's put out in recent years to give his new 'Remembering Now' a listen. It's a surprisingly lovely, hopeful record.
That racism motivates decisions like giving Medgar Evers the heave-ho is obvious.
Trump removed Medgar Evers, a fearless veteran and civil rights leader, from an Arlington Cemetery website commemorating Black soldiers.

Now the Pentagon may strip his name from a naval vessel.

This isn’t about “military preparedness.” This is about erasing history.
Years later, the principal reversed it and changed it to an A.
Take heart, students everywhere: Brian Wilson got an F in music in high school.
Exactly so.
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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🔴 Zelenskyy: "We are not kids with Putin at a playground. He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."
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5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
I remember when presidents went to war against poverty, disease and tyranny.
Now our president thinks the enemy is @harvard.edu and turns a blind eye to suffering around the world as he cozies up to dictators.