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  • GOP’s Susan Collins to back Tulsi Gabbard confirmation

    02/03/2025 5:03:02 PM PST · by RandFan · 14 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02/03/25 5:08 PM ET | by Al Weaver
    Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Monday that she will support Tulsi Gabbard to become director of national intelligence (DNI), giving her a key boost in her confirmation push. Collins was considered a crucial swing vote on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is set to meet Tuesday afternoon to potentially advance Gabbard toward a floor vote. Last month, Collins had expressed reservations about Gabbard. But in a statement on Monday, she pointed to Gabbard’s support for reducing the size and scale of the DNI position and said the former Democratic congresswoman had assuaged her concerns about her stance on Edward Snowden....
  • Faulty Electric Buses Cause Massive Headaches for Multiple School Districts

    02/01/2025 7:46:23 PM PST · by george76 · 24 replies
    Wall Street Journal, ^ | February 1, 2025 | Ben Zeisloft
    Joe Biden tried to bankroll the use of electric school buses at government schools across the country. But as the electric buses continue to have massive reliability issues, some schools regret taking the federal handouts and now want help from the Environmental Protection Agency to get themselves out of the program. ... There are at least six districts reporting massive problems with Lion Electric school buses they bought through the federal program. ... The two electric buses received by Yarmouth Schools have been with the district for a year and a half, but they have only been used a few...
  • Per multiple law enforcement sources, within the last hour, Border Patrol agents near Fronton, TX were fired upon

    01/27/2025 1:32:55 PM PST · by george76 · 99 replies
    X ^ | Jan 27, 2025 | Bill Melugin
    Per multiple law enforcement sources, within the last hour, Border Patrol agents near Fronton, TX were fired upon from MX by suspected cartel gunmen as a group of illegal aliens were being brought across the river. I’m told BP returned fire, nobody hit on either side, and that the illegal aliens did not make it across. ... Texas DPS @LtChrisOlivarez tells me DPS is now patrolling the area and has a drone in the air and can see Mexi ... Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion: This action reinforces the federal government’s commitment to safeguarding states from external threats, ensuring...
  • Gabbard’s path through Intelligence Committee narrows ahead of key hearing

    01/27/2025 3:16:10 AM PST · by RandFan · 48 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/27/25 6:00 AM ET | by Al Weaver
    Republicans are cautioning that Tulsi Gabbard’s path to confirmation to lead the U.S. Intelligence apparatus is narrowing as she seemingly has trouble winning over key GOP senators. Gabbard, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel, are set for their high-stakes confirmation hearings this week as senators face some of President Trump’s most controversial nominees. But it’s Gabbard who appears to have the most tenuous path to confirmation as she struggles to assuage Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will determine her fate, ahead of Thursday’s hearing. “I think it remains to be seen,” said Sen. John Cornyn...
  • Maine Law Firm Tells Public Schools to Resist ICE Enforcement by Destroying Immigration Records

    01/26/2025 11:52:05 PM PST · by TigerClaws · 84 replies
    A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration enforcement actions that may involve the families of minors who attend government-run schools, including by destroying evidence of potential immigration crimes. The advice may place school officials in the legal crosshairs of the Trump Administration under a new policy advisory distributed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which warns state and local officials not to interfere with federal law enforcement activities. “[S]chool officials should generate a plan for what to do if immigration officials seek to conduct activities at school,...
  • Hegseth confirmed 51-50.

    01/24/2025 6:35:18 PM PST · by SarahPalin2012 · 255 replies
    Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski voted no. All Dems voted no.
  • Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have no excuse to oppose Pete Hegseth for SecDef after they confirmed Lloyd Austin during the Biden administration.

    01/24/2025 2:47:43 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    The Federalist ^ | January 24, 2025 | Jordan Boyd
    Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine are hinging their opposition to the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, on their alleged concern that he is not fit to handle the pressures of the Pentagon job.Their paragraphs-long attempts to justify why they are going against the will of their GOP voters, however, pale in the face of their voting records for a cabinet member who abandoned his post twice without notifying Congress.Murkowski announced Thursday on X that she “cannot in good conscience support [Hegseth’s] nomination for Secretary of Defense” because...
  • Maine Democrats, Illegal Voting, Runaway Health Care Costs Ruining Vacationland

    01/16/2025 6:22:36 PM PST · by Tudorfly · 23 replies
    The Maine Wire ^ | 12/31/2024 | Steve Robinson
    Illegal Aliens and Resident Aliens are voting in Maine and also costing Maine a small fortune in health care expenses, all encouraged and brought to Maine by Democrats.
  • Mexican Human Smuggler Made Half-Million Bringing Migrants Across Canadian Border to U.S.

    01/15/2025 3:33:57 PM PST · by george76 · 10 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | 14 Jan 2025 | Bob Price
    A federal judge in the District of Vermont sentenced a Mexican national to prison following his conviction for smuggling nearly 100 migrants across the Canadian border into the U.S. The Mexican national received approximately $500,000 in smuggling fees during a five-month period. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New York announced that District Court Judge Mary Kay Lantheir sentenced Luis Fernando Barragan-Palacios, 29, of Queens, New York, to federal prison for a term of 18 months. Barragan-Palacios, originally of Oaxaca, Mexico, is expected to be deported upon the completion of his sentence. ... According to prosecutors, Barragan-Palacios failed...
  • Maine’s voter ID effort includes limits on ballot drop boxes

    01/10/2025 11:37:45 AM PST · by sturmde · 7 replies
    Bangor Daily News ^ | 1/10/2025 | Billy Kobin
    The conservative proponents of a November referendum on requiring photo identification to vote in Maine tucked in absentee voting limits that would hit two of the state’s liberal bastions hardest. The “Voter ID for ME” initiative would bar municipalities from having more than one absentee ballot drop box, a provision that would only affect Portland and Orono, the home of the University of Maine. The initiative would require a “bipartisan team of election officials” — rather than the local clerk or their designees — to retrieve ballots from the boxes...
  • ICE nabs illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes in blue city, after release from jail

    01/06/2025 3:27:35 PM PST · by george76 · 20 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 6, 2025 | Adam Shaw
    The Trump transition team is promising a broad deportation operation.. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a Dominican illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes and kidnapping in Boston, after he was released from local custody despite a request by the agency to hand him over. In a statement, ICE said it had arrested Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla, a 46-year-old, who is charged with assault to rape, kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older, and intimidation of an official, witness, or juror, was arrested Dec. 17 in Boston. Pena-Casilla entered the U.S. illegally near...
  • GOP Senators Who Could Block Tulsi Gabbard’s Confirmation Took Huge Checks From Defense Industry

    12/06/2024 11:58:53 AM PST · by CFW · 29 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 12/5/24 | Adam Pack
    Senate GOP hawks who receive large sums from the defense industry could be mobilizing to tank one of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security nominees. Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, nominated by Trump to helm the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, could face opposition from Senate Republicans with hawkish views on national security over her beliefs on Ukraine and government surveillance powers. Though a considerable number of Trump-aligned senators have endorsed Gabbard, citing her decades-long military service and commitment to reforming the country’s intelligence agencies that have been frequently weaponized against the president-elect, GOP senators whose national security...
  • Trump adviser hounded by angry neighbors after he bought home on liberal island off Maine coast

    11/27/2024 12:36:59 PM PST · by knighthawk · 52 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | November 27 2024 | ASSOCIATED PRESS
    A former Trump adviser has been hounded by neighbors after moving to a liberal island off Maine. Leonard Leo, a conservative lawyer, has been credited with helping to reshape the U.S. courts and Republican politics. His efforts culminated in Trump's first term with the appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices, and the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
  • ‘They Hate You’: RINO Susan Collins Poised to Assume Powerful Senate Role

    11/24/2024 3:38:26 PM PST · by Kazan · 62 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Nov. 24, 2024 | by Jim Hᴏft
    In yet another display of how establishment Republicans prioritize power and politics over their own base, RINO Susan Collins (R-ME) is set to take the reins of one of the most influential committees in Congress.Reports confirm Collins is poised to become Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a role that wields unparalleled control over discretionary federal spending.This news comes on the heels of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he will relinquish the chairmanship, paving the way for Collins, who currently serves as vice chair, to step into the position.The Appropriations Committee oversees billions of taxpayer dollars, deciding how...
  • Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins plans to run for sixth term

    11/16/2024 3:47:26 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 58 replies
    Just The News ^ | 11/15/24 | Nicholas Ballasy
    Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., a moderate, is planning to run for a sixth term in the 2026 midterm election. Collins, a moderate lawmaker, last won re-election in 2020 despite President Biden, a Democrat, winning Maine. “I’m focused on the appropriations process, not elections right now, but my intention is to run,” Collins said, according to the Washington Examiner.
  • Maine CD-2: It’s a Ranked Choice Voting Disaster of Democrats’ Own Making

    11/09/2024 6:14:08 PM PST · by Steven Scharf · 26 replies
    The Maine Wire ^ | November 8, 2024 | Steve Robinson
    Maine CD-2: It’s a Ranked Choice Voting Disaster of Democrats’ Own Making Ranked Choice Voting is causing chaos in northern Maine and Democratic strategizing in Augusta Steve Robinson November 8, 2024 Ranked Choice Voting was sold to Maine voters as a silver bullet that would clean up Maine politics, eliminate spoiler candidates, discourage negative campaigning, and have all kinds of other wonderful benefits. Instead, the reality has been increased confusion, electoral chaos, and diminished trust in the electoral process. As evidence, look no further than the drama currently on display in Maine’s Second Congressional District. The guys at the Maine...
  • Nebraska and Maine split their electoral votes. Here’s how it worked

    11/06/2024 1:29:23 AM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 10 replies
    AP ^ | 11/5/2024 | Robert Yoon
    Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide. Then there’s Nebraska and Maine. Both states split their electoral votes between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election using rules that set them apart from the rest of the country. The two states each award two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide vote, as well as one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district. Nebraska has three congressional districts and five total electoral votes, while Maine has two congressional districts...
  • In mock election, Maine students pick Donald Trump over Kamala Harris

    11/03/2024 1:56:07 PM PST · by Bulwinkle · 81 replies
    Maine Public [PBS] ^ | By Kevin Miller
    Trump easily defeated his Democratic rival, winning 52% versus 41% for Harris. About 6% of the vote was split among three other candidates on the ballot. Maine's student mock election has accurately forecast the national winner of every presidential election since 2008,
  • Top Maine Democrats Decline to Investigate Full Scope of Legal and Illegal Aliens Voting in Maine’s Elections

    10/31/2024 6:00:05 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 38 replies
    Maine’s top Democratic officials are declining to make any new efforts to secure Maine’s elections against non-citizen voting in the wake of an exclusive report from the Maine Wire showing that non-citizens are registered to vote in Maine. The Maine Wire’s Oct. 10 report used leaked data from Medicaid, known in Maine as MaineCare, that showed the alien status of 18 individuals living in southern Maine and compared that data to voter registration information from the Maine Secretary of State’s office. Medicaid documents list the alien status of all patients according to three options: 1-U.S. Citizens, 2-Legal Alien, or 3-Other....
  • 16 pet cats have suddenly disappeared in Bangor, Maine. No remains were found. | Experts don't believe an animal did this. | Bangor just had an influx of Haitians.

    09/24/2024 11:13:09 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 73 replies
    X.com ^ | 11:38 AM · Sep 23, 2024 | End Wokeness @EndWokeness
    16 pet cats have suddenly disappeared in Bangor, Maine. No remains were found. Experts don't believe an animal did this. Bangor just had an influx of Haitians.