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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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Purchase of Kennebec dams is worth celebrating | Douglas Rooks In ways, the fate of salmon restoration may mirror our own.

Purchase of Kennebec dams is worth celebrating | Douglas Rooks www.pressherald.com/2025/09/25/p...

25.09.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

24.09.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21918    πŸ” 6246    πŸ’¬ 1511    πŸ“Œ 488
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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.

23.09.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10311    πŸ” 3306    πŸ’¬ 1635    πŸ“Œ 619
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Susan Collins says shutdown can be averted. Now to prove it. | Steve Collins Democrats have no good reason to force this issue.

Susan Collins says shutdown can be averted. Now to prove it. | Steve Collins www.pressherald.com/2025/09/23/s...

23.09.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

21.09.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 59195    πŸ” 16372    πŸ’¬ 1354    πŸ“Œ 635
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Charlie Kirk was wrong about Maine | Steve Collins Our state isn't becoming a 'Third World dumping ground,' is it?

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...

16.09.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's truth in that!

09.09.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"A lot of people are saying, β€˜Maybe we like a dictator.'"

Name one.

25.08.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3
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Support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News Under nonprofit ownership, the Maine Trust for Local News is building a business model that could be a roadmap to sustainability for local news organizations across the country. We are here because we...

Help my colleagues join the union at the Maine Trust for Local News. Please sign this petition to management.
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25.08.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

11.08.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to β€œkill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and β€œthe Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

11.08.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1788    πŸ” 807    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 30
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Not great

11.08.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursueβ€”if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.

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...

23.07.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3696    πŸ” 1297    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 110

β€œWhen 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

15.07.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 24685    πŸ” 7756    πŸ’¬ 396    πŸ“Œ 254

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.

16.07.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of β€˜Targeted Political Violence’

Extremely upsetting: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of β€˜Targeted Political Violence’ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

14.06.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That racism motivates decisions like giving Medgar Evers the heave-ho is obvious.

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Years later, the principal reversed it and changed it to an A.

11.06.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Take heart, students everywhere: Brian Wilson got an F in music in high school.

11.06.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have no idea.

11.06.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly so.

11.06.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”΄ Zelenskyy: "We are not kids with Putin at a playground. He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."

07.06.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2185    πŸ” 759    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 41
NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

5 years ago: β€œAn incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

25.05.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 10703    πŸ” 4166    πŸ’¬ 260    πŸ“Œ 209

It might!

23.05.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

23.05.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Long before the House Freedom Caucus arose, the always-perceptive Mark Twain said that legislators possess "the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."

23.05.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe move Story to first for a start? I know it's a big mess. And I don't know any of these guys enough to say who can switch where. Just agree that it's time to make changes. If we must stumble through, let's give the young guys a chance to start promising careers now rather than later.

20.05.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's time to bring up a couple of our potential superstars. But let's leave Devers alone. He's in a groove.

20.05.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Your flag flyin' over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone.
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't"

20.05.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Of they'd just won half their one-run games, the Sox would be in first place.

18.05.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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