Nathan Bernard
@nathanTbernard
Free speech activist. Independent journalist. Work in @DropSiteNews, @TheIntercept, @mebeacon, @MainerNewsCoop, @MaineMorninStar
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A new Maine Senate poll released today, the first survey covering dates after ProPublica’s Susan Collins corruption story was published, shows Troy Jackson leading Collins by less than a point.
🟦 Jackson: 46.4%
🟥 Collins: 45.6%
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The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA and its members. They're trying to present this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely cynical and disgusting.
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AIPAC and other big money operations combined to spend roughly $100 million to elect Haley Stevens, Angie Craig, and Janet Mills.
Instead, they’re getting Abdul El-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan, and Troy Jackson.
Which is also 3 more votes for Chris Van Hollen, whom AIPAC is openly warring with.
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Maine Democrats announce over 1,000 volunteers signed up to canvass this weekend with Troy Jackson in the first major organizing action since Platner was replaced as nominee.
News - Conservative groups launching ad deluge in Maine. Senate Leadership Fund up with first ad hitting Jackson as part of $42 million ad campaign -- they'll be up through election day
Sister group One Nation is now up to $30 million in the state, up from $25 million -- new ad praising Collins
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The LAPD declined to renew its Flock contract after an internal audit found 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — a 32.3% false-positive rate.
Right-wing host John Fredericks: So Collins knew—no, her team knew. She’s got a very savvy team. They know that even without her, Blanche has the votes to get confirmed. So this was a vote to help her get elected, to help her with Maine voters, but it does nothing to hurt Todd Blanche because he’s already got the votes.
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The largest hospital system in Maine and northern New England is demanding answers on one of their nurses reportedly detained by ICE.
Holy shit... Wired reports that back in May, the U.S. Military was testing an experimental GPS jammer and and caused a civilian plane to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.
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My response to Elon Musk.
We dropped a 2,000 lb bomb on someone’s house on Qeshm Island.
Susan Collins: Elon Musk's choice for Senate
Elon Musk PAC announces plans to spend over $100 million attacking Troy Jackson, paying canvassers to knock doors for Susan Collins, and boosting MAGA midterm candidates.
EXCLUSIVE: @TroyJackson207 responds to CNN reporting that he ran an anonymous account online to troll Republicans.
His response: I guess so :)
19-year-old Brandon Young from 6 Mile says he’s voting for Abdul El-Sayed because Haley Stevens is pro-Israel. “She’s too much of a corporate, Israel shill,” Young says.
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While Troy Jackson was anonymously trolling Paul LePage online, here's what Paul LePage would say *to the media* about Troy Jackson
Sen. John Fetterman loses it on me after finding out I work for Drop Site News:
Israel is paying @parscale millions to teach AI chatbots how to talk about Gaza.
And it’s working.
His firm built websites pushing Israeli narratives that are now successfully showing up in the training data behind chatbots like Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
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NEW: Susan Collins was close enough with Tom Daffron nine years before they married that she took him as her date to a black tie White House gala -- at a time when he was a registered lobbyist and still married to his former wife.
Link to our story in the next post. #MEpolitics#
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An archived memo reveals Susan Collins secretly dated her lobbyist husband Tom Daffron while he was still married, bringing him as her plus-one to a George W. Bush Presidential Library soirée in 2003.
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NEW: Susan Collins was close enough with Tom Daffron nine years before they married that she took him as her date to a black tie White House gala -- at a time when he was a registered lobbyist and still married to his former wife.
Link to our story in the next post. #MEpolitics#
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