This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.
Susan Collins doesn’t care that we’re losing our health care, that ICE is killing people on the streets, and that we’ve been dragged into a pointless war — as long as her donors get their contracts and her coffers get filled.
We deserve answers about every contract and every conversation that Collins and her team facilitated on the backs of taxpayers. The jig is up.
New: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes. propub.li/4yLLwaF
If you want to understand intellectual life on the right these days, it's useful to think of it as a series of memes designed to justify authoritarian and sadistic impulses.
Friend/enemy distinction = Fight the libs without concerns over morality
No enemies to the right = associate with the most hateful people imaginable
Immigration destroying the country = excuses to hurt brown people
Libs are oppressing us = this is what we'd like to do with them
All these arguments are bad and don't stand up to scrutiny. All the data says immigration is good for the country, for example, and that Trump is much more guilty of any offenses you might accuse liberals of.
None of the arguments are convincing to those outside the circle because they're just fig leaves for the underlying instincts, a way to signal they hold chimp morality to one another.
Movements don't just have policy positions, but vibes too. And the way that the modern right approaches cultural and intellectual pluralism and the search for knowledge has more in common with genocidal movements of the past than anything in American politics today.
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Has anyone else made the connection that it was Kennedy’s death that gave LBJ the political capital to get all kinds of civil rights legislation passed and therefore forced the Trump family to rent to people of color and that’s why Trump is destroying the Kennedy Center?
"Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."
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There is very simple math behind the need to tax billionaires. Billionaire wealth is increasing at an accelerating rate vastly outpacing the overall rise in GDP. This means that their wealth is not growing because the whole pie is growing. Their wealth is growing at your expense and the trend is accelerating. If you are not a billionaire and you and your children want to own things, this is your fight.
So, unless there's something else coming, the big NYT exposé is that Platner was a bad boyfriend to some women but also a good boyfriend to other women?
nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/po…