As we await Senate action on the remaining spending bills, remember that Susan Collins could make a difference by stripping out DHS from the rest of the government funding bills. But she won't because she is just as MAGA as the rest of them.

Hey restaurant staff in Minnesota and Maine, I’m sure you’ve thought of this, but maybe you’re too polite & decent to do it. I’m not. Next time ICE stops in for a meal and to arrest you, please spit in their food. Twice. For me. Thank you for your service.

Good trouble in Boston. 🇺🇸

My latest Substack. Time to make good trouble, America.

HEY MAINE! Somebody needs to PRIMARY SUSAN COLLINS.

open.substack.com/pub/wswinslo...

Boston’s joint Pride and No Kings parade went on for miles and was mobbed. No guns, no tanks, no soldiers, goons or stooges. The only heavy equipment was festooned with rainbows and disco balls. Wouldn’t you rather be there than at an ugly hate orgy for a mad king?
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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.
 
If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

“I don't think politics as theater is what our job is here,” Jared Golden told @axios.com
And I don’t think your masquerade as a Democrat when you are in fact a MAGA toady is what the people of Maine elected you to do. I’m not the only Mainer who thinks so.

Rep. Jared Golden breaks w/ his fellow Democrats on the McIver and Padilla incidents.

“I don't think politics as theater is what our job is here,” he told @axios.com

“Where I come from, if you shove a police officer, you're probably getting arrested."
www.axios.com/2025/06/12/a...

A few thoughts on the self-serving hypocrisy of my Senator. wswinslow.substack.com/p/garbage-time

Texas tourists on public transport in Boston. Some kids were making too much noise, so the woman screamed at them in a way she’d never have done to a white person or anyone over 14. My message to them: when you visit & bring your ugly white supremacy along, you will be tolerated but not welcome.

Trump’s SS.

A word about libraries. They are under fire, under-funded and underpaid. And yet they persist in fanning the flame of knowledge. My fellow writers, please step up. If any library, asks you to speak, and you can do it, please DECLINE THE HONORARIUM. Speak for free so others may read freely.

Trying this Bluesky thing now that I’ve figured out the Substack thing. Time to get our hands dirty, folks. open.substack.com/pub/wswinslo...

Last week my husband returned his diplomas to Columbia with a letter saying he no longer wished to be associated with his alma mater and was ashamed of their cowardice. No one can fix everything, but everyone can do something. Do not bend the knee. There is no king here.