Dan Simonds
Dan Simonds
@djsimonds.bsky.social
Concerned Citizen, Forester, small-time Entrepreneur from a little town in the mountains of Maine (2nd district). I make a living with 3rd party certification standards for sustainable wood products (FSC, SFI, PEFC).
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Middle East dictators created a massive slush fund for Jared Kushner. trib.al/fXvwuJt
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Largest US Corporations Paid Lowest-Ever Tax Rate in 2025 Thanks to Trump and GOP: Study www.commondreams.org/news/itep-co...
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And I am another NIH scientist. RFK Jr is corrupt and destroying NIH.
Adding my name to this, too. I am another NIH scientist stating with my name that RFK Jr. is corrupt and destroying NIH. He is overseeing discriminatory censorship at NIH. He allowed unethical study terminations that put research participants at risk. He has installed political actors.
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This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:
The fact that Susan Collins has bipartisan company in this scandal does not make it better. It makes it WORSE! How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation www.propublica.org/article/nava...
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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
Of course he is
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Summary in the thread. Whole story is long but very convincing. Lots of damning details. In normal times, this would be career ending. In time of Trump, corruption is normalized.
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
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How many innocent children have to die in order to keep Susan Collins in the Senate? Answer: as many as it takes.
NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Within hours of a Feb. 28 missile attack that hit an Iranian school, some Pentagon personnel knew the US was responsible, according to officials involved in an internal investigation of the incident.”
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NEW: Susan Collins casts tie-breaking vote to advance Trump judge nominee who was on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy crisis center (!); and in his confirmation wouldn't say who won the 2020 election or talk about Jan 6. Would be above-the-fold news if Maine media did its job. #MEpolitics
By a vote of 47-46, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Matthew R. Byrne to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio. Party-line vote with Senators Coons, Cramer, Marshall, Murkowski, Risch, Schmitt, and Tillis.
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9/11 gave us the Department of Homeland Security, which gave us ICE. Things got worse after 9/11 and stayed that way
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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"Collins wants us to see her as a savvy power broker, but she comes off as simultaneously naive and Machiavellian, especially since she’s done nothing to actually hold Trump in check." amyfried.substack.com/p/susan-coll...
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It is under-appreciated just how catastrophically bad this number is. Biden bottomed out at 32 among registered voters in 2022 when inflation was 9%. Gallup had Bush at 28% in Sept 2008 wavepolling.com/results/2026...
He’s planning to lose.
Trump Removes Election Commission Members Months Before Midterms President Trump fired two Democratic members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, leaving the federal agency without sitting commissioners before the midterms. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-remo...
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Susan Collins likes to remind everyone about how powerful she is as Senate Appropriations chair. But she hasn’t said a word about where the $ comes from to demolish and replace the East Wing.
President Trump’s vision for a White House ballroom stretches back more than a decade. His argument that it is “vital to our national security,” which culminated Friday in an appeal to the Supreme Court, is far more recent. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4xb84Bw
You might imagine that Susan Collins would have an opinion about this. You’d be wrong. As long as she can be a Senator, she’ll be OK with a stupid navy.
This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.
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This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.
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"Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals." Susan Collins & Congressional Republicans voted to fund all of this.
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