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Millions of dollars given by AIPAC PAC to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) this cycle comes 99.9% from out-of-state donors, according to our analysis of FEC data.

The majority are based in Florida, California, and New York; only two donations came from Maine donors. #MESen

https://readsludge.com/2026/08/22/here-is-how-much-aipac-has-given-to-every-member-of-congress-this-cycle/

Bill Madden: "Once assured that Todd Blanche (the most corrupt attorney-general nominee in U.S. history) would be confirmed anyway, Sen. Susan Collins asked Trump if she could vote against him. She noted that Maine voters are easily fooled; Trump approved."
#MEsen #politics #ethics

fwiw;

#MISen: Lean D
#IASen: Lean R
#TXSen: Lean D
#MESen: Lean D
#NCSen: Safe D
#OHSen: Lean R
#FLSen: Likely R
#MSSen: Safe R
#AKSen: Lean D
#MNSen: Safe D
#GASen: Safe D
#NESen Likely R
#KSSen Likely R

We rarely agree with Jon Husted, but he's right. Susan Collins has been in the Senate far too long, and her tenure needs to end.

As does his. #MESen #OHSen

"5 Things to Know About the Maine Senate Candidate Troy Jackson":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/troy-jackson-maine-senate.html #politics #MEsen

Michael Shepherd: "Troy Jackson closes in on Maine’s Democratic Senate nod after a dominant caucus day. He has at least 289 of the 301 delegates needed to lock down the nomination."
#MEsen #politics

Graham Platner: "Maine deserves a Senator who knows that answering to constituents is a privilege, not a burden. We've held 86 town halls to date, and we're going to keep having them through this election and beyond."
#politics #MEsen #caring

Graham Platner: "Sen. Susan Collins got incredibly wealthy, funneling taxpayer money to her husband and profiting off stock trading while in office (violating the STOCK Act 25 times). In a reasonable society, that would be criminal. Unfortunately, corrupt politicians like her still write our laws."
#ethics #values #greed #MEsen #politics

Setting aside the absurd premise of this op-ed, I love that the writer felt the need to hedge with "not that has been reported"

"No one's reported that one of the most famous popstars in the world dated a man who at the time was a random oyster farmer from Maine, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE"

#USpol #MESen #WSJ

"A pivotal vote by longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine pushed Kavanaugh over the finish line in 2018 after she famously said he considered Roe v. Wade 'settled law' — a comment that turned out to be wrong":
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaugh-maine-senate-race-susan-collins-rcna349070
#SupremeCourt #extremism due to #SusanCollins ending #AbortionRights.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #MEsen

Jesse Lee: "The three people on Earth who are the most responsible for overturning Roe and stripping women of the choice to control their owns bodies are:
Sen. Mitch McConnell,
Pres. Donald Trump, and
Sen. Susan Collins."
#MEsen #AbortionRights #affordability #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #politics

So, #MESEN question: now that the primaries are over, is it going to be just Platner and Collins on the ballot in November, or will there be any third party candidates or independents? Asking for #RCV purposes

Jesse Lee: "Sen. Susan Collins will have to answer for 6 years of being the 'deciding vote' and 'moderate rationalization' for Trump, and for overturning Roe."
#politics #AbortionRights #MEsen #OftenAVoteForTrump #ControlOfTheSenate

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116725729588150490

Graham Platner won 75% of the vote because the smartest people in #Maine did not believe the lies that were told against him. He had a controversial tattoo, but he did not behave like a political extremist. Voters understood this. A woman accusing him worked for the extremist Heritage Foundation which was a source of #Project2025. Her claim was unbelievable. With Platner we have a great candidate who will be a great Senator!
#MEsen #GoodNews copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Norm Ornstein: "The intense media focus on Graham Platner is understandable. He is an unknown in a crucial Senate race with a lot of baggage. Less understandable is the lack of coverage of Ken Paxton, whose sins are far worse. That it is 'old news' is no excuse. Most voters have no clue."
#MEsen #TXSen #politics

Tim Miller: "Most people voting in Maine on Tuesday aren't part of the discourse, and don't feel the need to defend everything Platner has done. They are just voting for the person that reflects their worldview*. It's ok to lament this reality - or be concerned that there will be more general election Maine voters who see Collins that way."
#MEsen #politics #VoteBlueNoMatterWho
* Anti-Trump and winning a Democratic Party majority in the Senate. We will need this majority if Trump is impeached.

Graham Platner's campaign: "Susan Collins's latest financial report just came out. A staggering one-third of her money raised this quarter came directly from AIPAC. Sen. Collins is bought and paid for by Benjamin Netanyahu, and she votes accordingly."
#Israel #WarCrimes #politics #MEsen

NEW: A dark money network activated in #MESen race to attack Graham Platner. The web of nonprofits belong to a former RSLC staffer, @sludge
reports, and has funneled millions to AIPAC, including one of its super PAC fronts this cycle.

https://readsludge.com/2026/06/01/the-dark-money-network-attacking-graham-platner/

Sen. Susan Collins sometimes votes against Trump, but only when it does not count. When her vote is the deciding vote, for example whether Kavanaugh gets elevated to the Supreme Court, then she votes with Trump. When Republicans have the votes to pass something, she can vote no.
#politics #SenSusanCollins #TrumpApologist #MEsen

Sen. Chris Murphy said Graham Platner "lived a life of service to the United States, but also made mistakes and he has admitted that. I think this is going to be a pretty clear contrast in Maine between somebody who has spent his life protecting us, versus somebody who seems to be protecting Donald Trump's corruption.”
#politics #SenSusanCollins #TrumpApologist #MEsen

I made a test ROM for the Oeka Kids drawing tablet for Famicom based on the description at NESdev Wiki. I had someone with a tablet try it.

It didn't work.

The tablet's slow microcontroller requires a lot of waiting in the read routine. The MCU turned out to be so slow that reading a pen position took 67 scanlines, or one-fourth of an NTSC frame. Neither Mesen nor FCEUX modeled this slowness.

It took three revisions before I had a read routine I was happy with. All for a silly little Anpanman licensed game.
https://github.com/pinobatch/little-things-nes/tree/master/oekakids

#NESdev #GraphicsTablet #OekaKids #Anpanman #Famicom #Emulation #Mesen #FCEUX

Conservative dark money, Republican financier megadonors, and Leonard Leo's network... all piling millions into the super PAC attacking Graham Platner in #MESen race.

New from @sludge co-founder Donald Shaw at The Nation:

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/graham-platner-super-pac-dark-money-susan-collins-maine-senate-race/

Hasan Piker and Ryan Grim are now openly encouraging #MESEN presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner, who was Grim's bartender at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill and had a Totenkopf tattoo until last year, to meet with Tucker Carlson, who has platformed numerous Nazi apologists over his career

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eernnjdfxx77jg5atshgmfga/post/3mkyd5bx5ws2a

My work's been done with #Ghidra, and I've written custom #Python tools to do it. Including a custom exporter for an annotated HTML disassembly (https://chipx86.com/faxanadu/), #Mesen labels files, and source code that can be compiled with the ca65 compiler.

I've open sourced all that today:

https://github.com/chipx86/retro-tinkertoys

#projects #retro

Despite Sen. Chuck Schumer's support of Janet Mills, polls show Graham Platner defeating her by between 25 and 40 points in the Democratic Party primary, depending on the poll:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schumer-appears-to-have-miscalculated-in-maine/ar-AA20AiFC
The winner will run against Sen. Susan Collins in the general election. #politics #MEsen

Trump said on #FoxNews: “I hope she, Sen. Susan Collins, wins because we have to keep the majority in the Senate, otherwise all of the things that we’ve done are gonna go down the tubes.”

A primary election will decide if Graham Platner or Janet Mills will be her opponent.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #MEsen

"Graham Platner has a wide lead over Gov. Janet Mills in the Maine Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate, according to a new poll ...

Platner has a 27-point lead over Mills among likely Democratic primary voters, with 54.7% of respondents indicating they would vote for Platner and 28% indicating they would vote for Mills":
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/26/platner-mills-collins-new-maine-senate-poll/89333196007/?tbref=hp
#GoodNews #polling #winning #MEsen copy: @renewedresistance #politics