Susie Crimmins

“with Gov. Mills, we have secured authority under the Violence Against Women Act, the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. We have negotiated important changes to tax laws that benefit tribal citizens & we have worked together successfully on a host of other issues. …

There’s a lot to investigate and report on from today’s stunning deposition of Les Wexner. But here’s something I can’t get over.

I asked Mr. Wexner if the DOJ or FBI ever contacted him to ask him about Epstein and his crimes. He said NO. That’s outrageous and unforgivable.

Project Home Emergency Housing Fund All donations support households unable to cover housing costs due to loss of income from ICE enforcement and fear of detention Families in our community are facing an immediate housing crisis. When p...

If you can help, here’s the link to the donation page. Also please share with anyone you think might want to help all these families too afraid to go out to work because of ICE activity.

projecthomemaine.networkforgood.com/projects/294...

A lot of people did. My parents were terrified that their children would die of infections both of them having been raised and lost siblings to infection before antibiotics were readily available. They thought of penicillin as the magic cure for anything and everything.

He’s creepy in every way you can imagine

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

If you can help, please do and please share the donation page for Maine’s housing emergency fund, which helps victims of the ICE surge who no longer feel they can safely go to work and earn money for rent.

projecthomemaine.networkforgood.com/projects/294...

A Portland nonprofit says it helped dozens of immigrant families avoid eviction. Hundreds more are at risk. Project Home says nearly 700 households have applied for rent or mortgage assistance after a sudden loss of income caused by the recent ICE surge. Some advocates have called for a statewide moratorium...

The impact of the ICE surge is still here and growing more devastating every day.

If you can, give to the emergency fund.

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Even if service wasn’t terrific I almost never downgrade because often circumstances beyond that worker’s control caused the ‘mishap’.I also try to always tip generously regardless of level of my satisfaction knowing it’s only tips which make this kind of gig work pay anything more than bare minimum

Abuse isn’t enough, they have to silence kids too:

“They threw away all my drawings,” said 15-year-old Cariexis Quintero… . Her mother, displaying a pile of colorful paper scraps, detailed how the guards “stormed into her room looking for drawings and letters” & then “destroyed what they found”

Looks like any ICE thug to me.

Pope Leo Rejects Trump’s Gaza “Peace Board” Invitation After his top Middle East envoy denounced the plan as a “colonialist operation,” the Vatican formally declined to participate in Trump’s pay-to-play Gaza “Peace Board.”

NEW: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, a Catholic, criticized Pope Leo XIV’s decision to decline President Trump’s invitation to join the proposed Gaza “Board of Peace.”

The pope’s top Middle East envoy condemned the initiative as a pay-to-play “colonialist operation.”

Closed door deposition. What a sweet deal for a potential coconspirator

Last year in the White House, when Trump tried to intimidate Maine into following his executive order, I fought back, took him to court, and won.

Anyone can talk tough — but I get things done. Watch my new ad:

In real life, I bet very few of them are trying to be tall. I think most of the patients are just trying to be average height.

Mainers be aware ICE is still active in the area. Keep your eyes open and alert. Keep watching out for and helping your neighbors.

Back in the 80s I saw Rev Jackson speak to a group of women who were nursing home caregivers seeking union representation. Mostly older and white, they weren’t then generally known as sympathetic to civil rights efforts. He absolutely enthralled them as he clearly understood their struggles.

RIP

Well, if you eat a lot of vegetables, the chances are good that you’ll occasionally eat a few “bugs”.

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Susan Collins for Maine | Donate today! Trusted. Principled. Bipartisan.

Via @dabbs346.bsky.social Susan Collins is back to using a pre-checked recurring donation box on her fundraising solicitations. (She stopped for a while after it got attn.)

FEC has called on Congress to ban this scammy, predatory practice known for exploiting unsuspecting seniors. #MEpolitics

I saw the same dynamic at work among nursing home workers in Connecticut around the same time. He was a force of nature.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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Of course he did.

Back in the 80s I saw Rev Jackson speak to a group of women who were nursing home caregivers seeking union representation. Mostly older and white, they weren’t then generally known as sympathetic to civil rights efforts. He absolutely enthralled them as he clearly understood their struggles.

RIP

Ouch

Although not listed here, the saddest statistic of all would be how many infants and get measles over the next year infants who are not yet able to get fully vaccinated. All the unvaccinated people are just kicking those babies in the head.

I will immediately rate an Instacart shopper or a DoorDash or Uber driver because it can affect their livelihood but all the other ratings requests I get, nope won’t do it.

My godmother was from Spain. Her family would have qualified as white nationalist, and neo-fascists having been big supporters of Franco. I’m not sure how she did it emotionally, but she clearly differentiated herself from North and Latin and South American Hispanics.

If the GOP continues to hold too many seats in state houses and in the Congress, everyone needs to start worrying about their grandchildren, their tomboy who isn’t feminine enough or the artistic boy who’s not masculine enough because they will be harassed unmercifully by the adults in charge.

Maine congressional offices are fighting ICE to get immigrants’ documents back Immigrants are seeking help retrieving personal documents, like work permits and passports, that weren't returned when they were released.

"They are chaotic and undisciplined and they operate in an incredibly incompetent way," said U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree.