Watching people whine about Maine's turnout last night before election volunteers and town clerks had a chance to tally them burned me up. Voting in much of the state is as analog as it comes: paper, pencil, and 150 year-old ballot boxes. Add RCV math & it's going to take a minute. #MainePolitics

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Why Graham Platner Had to Return to Maine Quickly Last Night

Graham Platner looked as if he was about to walk into a scene from Intervention, as new scandals emerge about the Maine Democrat who is trying to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Instead, we heard the tired ‘we’re going to win Maine’ pep rally lines from Senate Democrats in Washington after they met with Platner. He did not take questions.  Advertisement Platner, an oyster farmer who mostly earns his income from disability benefits and sports SS tattoos, was supposed to stay in the […]

https://drinkofjesus.com/2026/06/03/why-graham-platner-had-to-return-to-maine-quickly-last-night/

Trump tells ‘Pod Force One’ Graham Platner is a ‘major sleaze bag,’ but James Talarico is worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLnB5l1PxCY President Trump blasted the Democrats’ scandal-plagued Senate candidate Graham Platner as a “major sleaze bag” in an interview with The Post’s “Pod Force One,” but said Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is worse.  The president gave a blunt assessment of the Democrats’ top Senate contenders in an interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine in the latest episode, which is out Wednesday. “They don’t appeal to anybody,” he […]

https://drinkofjesus.com/2026/06/03/trump-tells-pod-force-one-graham-platner-is-a-major-sleaze-bag-but-james-talarico-is-worse/

Dems cut ties with scandal-plagued Graham Platner, warn of ‘civil war’ in party

Top Democratic officials and lawmakers are breaking with Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner as his past blunders and online history stack up.  Platner’s ascendency to the top of the ticket in Vacationland broke with the Democratic establishment in Washington, D.C., and since Maine Gov. Janet Mills exited from the race, questions about whether he is the right choice to take on Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, have exploded.  Much of that is fueled by scandals that have cropped […]

https://drinkofjesus.com/2026/05/28/dems-cut-ties-with-scandal-plagued-graham-platner-warn-of-civil-war-in-party/

Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign, citing a lack of funds.
That makes this more than a Maine political update it is also a story about how money and momentum now shape even high-profile races.
#JanetMills #MainePolitics #SenateRace

#MainePolitics #Background #GrahamPlatner #GovMills

Like the high school version of himself vowing that administrators couldn’t suspend everyone, Graham Platner — veteran, oyster farmer, a nonpolitician with the Reddit posts and questionable tattoo decisions to prove it — is telling today’s Democrats that the way out of the current era isn’t to simply keep fighting Trump; it’s for a mass movement of regular people to organize and challenge the entire system. If he flips a Senate seat, it just might mean that the post-Trump Democratic Party has finally begun.

https://www.notus.org/perspectives/im-a-maine-reporter-who-went-to-high-school-with-graham-platner-heres-what-explains-his-success

I’m a Maine Reporter Who Went to High School With Graham Platner. Here’s What Explains His Success.

In 2002, my classmate Graham Platner ran for student-body president of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. I remember watching him in our auditorium debate his fellow candidates. He was the radical, wearing a revolutionary proletarian costume: overalls and a red armband. (When I asked…

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Chuck Schumer is spending corporate money to override his own party's voters in Maine — where the grassroots frontrunner leads by 38 points.

When did the Democratic establishment start crushing its own primaries?

#JimHightower #MainePolitics #Populism

https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-should-chuck-schumer-choose-maines

Why Should Chuck Schumer Choose Maine’s US Senator?

Trying to stop a real democrat from being the party’s nominee, Schumer recruited Maine’s lame-duck, milquetoast governor to run against Platner, knowing she would not challenge the corporate order. He raised truckloads of corporate cash for her, hoping to suffocate the oysterman’s populist uprising.

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Well, that didn’t take long. Just got a fundraising text message from #JanetMills. considering the fact that I’d rather vote for a raging rattlesnake, I don’t think I’ll be giving her any money. her consistent blocking of anything brought to her by Maine's #Wabanaki People as well as blocking studies to determine the feasibility of bringing #Amtrak northward are disqualifying. Plus, she'd be the oldest freshman Senator ever sworn in in the history of the United States. Absolutely not. #USPol #MainePolitics

@indivisibleteam "Just one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against the measure. And just one Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, voted for it."

All right Mainers, if Jared Golden is your rep, let him know that you think he's a traitor.

#MainePolitics #MainePol #JaredGolden #Fascist

For the past few years, I've had to dedicate time to fight STUPID SHIT here in #Maine. Two years ago, #PolandSpring / #BlueTriton / WhateverTheFuckThey'reCalledNow tried to double water extraction during a #Drought. Last year, #MaineTurnpikeAuthority wanted to put a highway through one of the last working farms in #GreaterPortlandMaine (#SmilingHillFarm). Now this year, #MDOT wants to build a replacement bridge over the #SacoRiver with NO PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALK! In an area with a library, an ice cream parlor, and hiking trails on both sides of the river! WTF is wrong with people! Well, #CorporateGreed is a big part of the problem. I'm sure MTA had the contractors salivating over the contracts they hoped to milk out of them!
#MainePolitics