Dave LaChance

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[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

ALL EYES ON THE VOTING MACHINES. Citizens in Tennessee, Florida, and Texas are reporting that the voting machines are automatically changing their chosen vote to the Republican candidate. This needs more awareness and eyes on it!

[Jordan Wood @JordanWood]

This is the ad that will end Susan Collins’ career:

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them.

When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive?

From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

That’s great, Mr. Trump. I’d like to report a theft.

A man inside our government illegally spent nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars on bogus campaign ads praising himself. He now resides on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Taxpayers want to know when they’ll get their money back.

[Collins Watch @CollinsWatch]

#MEpolitics

[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

I'm not even in the legislature anymore and people are calling me because Senator Collins won't do anything.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I am grateful to all of you who are trying to keep Europe and the United States together.

There are so many people with good hearts in America who sincerely want evil to lose and Ukraine to stand strong. These are the very hearts that helped Europe defend its freedom, and that fought on D-Day, won the Cold War, and want what is best for Europe. Hearts that want to be allies, not to divide or humiliate Europe. I believe most Americans still feel this way. And at the end of the day, the American people will have their say.

Putin will listen to America if America really turns up the heat on him and makes one thing clear – either he chooses peace, or he gets no more money for his war.

From an address to the participants of the European Council meeting. (2/5)

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Zelensky: It's a pity that we are losing a strong partner.

Morgan: You think you're losing America?

Zelensky: Yeah, but not because of us. We can’t be weak. Otherwise, we can’t survive… This is why it’s painful when Trump chooses to be on Russia’s side. This is not the right side of history.

[Collins Watch @CollinsWatch]

Oof. Team Collins putting words in the mouth of a union official but the guy -- president of Teamster Local 237 in New York (!) -- says he's never heard of Jackson and has no idea what they're talking about!

Screenshot from the ad below.

Smacks of desperation. #MEpolitics

[Collins Watch @CollinsWatch]

Might've missed it but "Susan Collins is horrible on shipbuilding" is not the kind of thing we've heard from BIW union officials before.

Maybe sensing she's vulnerable, he figures it's worth the risk to speak up and try to get someone better in office? #MEpolitics

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

May he never be forgiven. Not in life, not by history.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are helping Vladimir Putin kill Ukrainians. Remember that when you vote in November.

[Senate Majority PAC @MajorityPAC]

Troy Jackson drops a NUKE during the debate against Susan Collins:

“In light of the article last week from ProPublica, I’m shocked you’re talking about fraud because there’s only one person up here accused of that.”

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

A. PRIVATE. CITIZEN. THROWING. $276. MILLION. INTO. AN. ELECTION. IS. NOT. DEMOCRACY.

[ProPublica @propublica]

We’ve cataloged all reports we could find of U.S. citizens being held against their will by immigration officers.

So far, we’ve counted more than 500 cases. And it’s still an undercount.
https://t.co/v59HKK2hxq

[ProPublica @propublica]

We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will.

The administration doesn’t track these cases.

So we have.

We’re sharing our database with you.
https://t.co/ljSWPgzySd

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.

Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.

As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.

America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.

Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.

America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

[ProPublica @propublica]

A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding.

He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron.
https://t.co/lNQaJylGaM

[ProPublica @propublica]

Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records.

Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
https://t.co/lNQaJylGaM

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Eight years ago today, Susan Collins cast the deciding vote that put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. That alone should be enough for Maine voters to boot her ass out of the Senate.

And that's before you get to the corruption and the Trump bootlicking.