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Bruce Bourgoine
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''True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.'' Martin Luther King Jr. Maine - https://linktr.ee/brucebourgoine
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · Apr 5
I took this photo at the JFK Library in Boston a week ago.

I needed to connect to a time of aspirations. Yes they were politicians; yes they were wealthy, yes they were ambitious; yet genuine caring about their fellow human beings and country shaped their public service.

#VoteBlue #mepolitics
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d
#resist #VoteBlue
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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 1d
Shutdown day 10.
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d
Essentially, historically bad employer Trump sees this as a craven opportunity, though likely illegal and certainly unethical, to further demoralize our dedicated Federal public servants.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue #GOPShutdown
Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown
White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d
Translation: US citizens without representation would actually get some, a SCOTUS reflecting where the country is as a whole would be making reasoned decisions not knee jerk moving us ever closer to strongman dictatorship, and women would control their bodies.

But I digress.

#resist #VoteBlue
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d
More blame the Dems for the #GOPShutdown by guess who - Jared Golden, who has once again determined that he is the only wise Democrat in Congress and the rest of us are conniving opportunists who don’t care about people and Fed workers. NOT TRUE!

#ME02 vote MATT DUNLAP!

#mepolitics #VoteTrueBlue
It’s time to end the shutdown
Ten days in, both sides are blaming the other, trying to “win” the government shutdown even as millions of federal workers and service members lose pay and Americans suffer with federal agencies strip...
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d
And here I thought those old timey TV evangelists were the high water point of hypocrisy...

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 3d
Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d
The #GOP knowingly funded the apparatus for a police state.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.
www.motherjones.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d
"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!" - Fascist Führer Donald Trump

“This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested.” - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor
www.nytimes.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d
Now passing Hegseth and Noem for most vile...

"Bondi’s contemptuousness before the Senate Judiciary Committee was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us."

She needs to be impeached.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Bondi to Congress: 🖕
The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.
www.thebulwark.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d
Travesty.

#resist #VoteBlue #AZ07
Column | Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces
Democratic Rep. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her into office.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d
The #GOP knowingly funded the apparatus for a police state.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.
www.motherjones.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d
Travesty.

#resist #VoteBlue #AZ07
Column | Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces
Democratic Rep. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her into office.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d
And here I thought those old timey TV evangelists were the high water point of hypocrisy...

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 3d
Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d
Abso-impeach-lutely!
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d
Now passing Hegseth and Noem for most vile...

"Bondi’s contemptuousness before the Senate Judiciary Committee was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us."

She needs to be impeached.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Bondi to Congress: 🖕
The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.
www.thebulwark.com
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d
In a few days, you may be notified that your health insurance premiums will double, because of Republican cuts to health care. Democrats are fighting to change that before it's too late.
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, he took the lead on that.
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d
Joseph Goebbels says what?

#resist #VoteBlue
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 5d
Stephen Miller leads GOP charge equating Democrats to 'domestic terrorists'
Trump advisors amp up extreme rhetoric against Democrats during government shutdown, immigration raids
Miller's rhetoric comes amid a federal crackdown on Portland, Ore., where he says the president has unchecked authority to protect federal lives and property.
www.latimes.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d
We no longer have an Attorney General protecting the. people
of the Inited States of America, instead we have an extreme partisan personal unethical lawyer of Trump’s shielding him and administration wrongdoers plus creating diversions.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d
"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!" - Fascist Führer Donald Trump

“This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested.” - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor
www.nytimes.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d
The excerpts I saw involved Dems pushing back.
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d
We no longer have an Attorney General protecting the. people
of the Inited States of America, instead we have an extreme partisan personal unethical lawyer of Trump’s shielding him and administration wrongdoers plus creating diversions.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d
I will be voting for Matt Dunlap to be my #ME02 Representative in Congress. We need a fighter for our values, not someone posturing, fence-sitting, and outright ignoring the constituents who elected him. Plus we need to beat Paul LePage, not play political games.

#resist #VoteBlue #mepolitics
State Auditor Dunlap launches bid to unseat Golden in Maine’s 2nd District • Maine Morning Star
Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap on Monday officially announced his run as a Democrat for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which will bring him head to head with incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in ...
mainemorningstar.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d
#mepolitics #ME02
Send me your ‘Golden breaking point.’
#DunlapForCongress #VoteTrueBlue
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 4d
The breaking point for me was Golden lying about the SAVE Act and name calling voting rights groups that corrected him. He was so dismissive and incorrect that the League of Women Voters of Maine issued a statement. www.lwvme.org/node/3443
Fact Check on the SAVE Act | League of Women Voters
www.lwvme.org
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d
Prepare to hear a lot of this sort of out-of-state baseless analysis drivel by pundits who fail to see doggedly working and fighting for #Maine people to improve their lives can defeat both a posture playactor and a past poor performance occasional resident.

WE DECIDE!

#mepolitics #VoteBlue #ME02
Messy Dem Primary Spells Good News For Republican Efforts To Flip House Seat
'Setting the stage for a bitter primary fight'
dailycaller.com
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d
Please do; but fortunate me, I can do both. I’ve been highly dissatisfied & quite frankly offended by Jared Golden’s off hand, oft insulting dismissal of Dem core activists & progressives who put him in office ever since I was redistricted into #ME02 as well as his town hall refusals.

#mepolitics
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W.M. @minuteman04.bsky.social · 4d
Can't vote for Dunlap, but I can donate.
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