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A group of demonstrators could be seen banging on the glass front doors and inside the entrance of the Republican senator’s office before local police officers arrived on the scene. Collins’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the incident at her Biddeford office.

Collins, who is up for reelection this year, called for “a full and impartial investigation of what happened” with the shooting in a short statement posted to X.

Collins voted to adopt a budget plan that allocated nearly $70 billion for ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security. DHS was shut down for 76 days as Democrats attempted to force changes in immigration enforcement policies following other ICE-involved shootings, a closure that ended with a Republican-backed bill to fund immigration enforcement without conditions Democrats had sought.

“It’s not fair to the Department of Homeland Security’s employees to have this cloud of uncertainty over whether or not they are going to be able to be paid,” Collins told reporters in April. “They are keeping us safe.”

Collins is seeking a sixth term in the Senate.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260713212505/https://www.notus.org/2026-election/susan-collins-protesters-maine-office-ice-out

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She will do as the AIPAC Uniparty commands

[–] sunnie@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago

What!? Does she actually wear a necklace that looks like a giant chain?

This timeline is nuts!

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

Collins is a murderer.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

In my world a homicidal clown would've crept out of the woods and taken care of those ICE holes.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 65 points 2 days ago (4 children)

At what point does it become reasonable to just start running bad politicians out of town?

Follow up question, was that point even this century?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You want to bring back tar & feathering, and ride him out of town on a rail?

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

Is that a big ask?

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We shoulda been in the streets months ago

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Buddy, I fled the country in '21. Everything happening now was obvious to me then, and it's not about to get any easier. And although my stock picks are toilet, I'm usually right about bad news.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like 15 years ago give or take

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You gotta pump those numbers up.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, we could draw like 50 lines going back the John Birch society and the business plot, but the tea party and gamergate were very big defining points in a significant mainstreaming and escalation

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fair but this particular rot idolizes Reagan. I'd go at least that far. I don't think anyone is idolizing Nixon or most before then. I'd say Reagan was the origin story of maga.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think you are correct, but the timeline really split with the assassination of RFK. Had he lived, he would have been elected in 1968 instead of Nixon, Vietnam would have ended years earlier, and this nation would have gone in an entirely different direction.

Instead, we got Nixon, who steered us down the Dark Conservative path that we are still on. Reagan just made that path seem optimistic and respectable, instead of predatory and parasitic.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Nixon is literally why the undead turtle is such a salty sassy corpse

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed, that’s probably the overall strongest line of demarcation for the start, but not the turning point

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's hard to go back further without leaning on trends and forces, but I find it hard not to look at J6 and see the ghost of failed reconstruction. Unhung traitors kill republics sooner or later, the wound was allowed to fester.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

There are a lot of through lines that converged and wove together in culmination in the story of how we got here. That’s certainly one as is the colonial (and therefore exploitative white supremacist capitalism) origin of the country

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

1917 was a good time for that.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 63 points 2 days ago

"ICE involved".

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 38 points 1 day ago

If ONLY there was SOMETHING these Mainers could Do to show Susan Collins they DONT Support her using Taxpayer Dollars to MURDER Taxpayers in America! OH WELL!

-People who will PROBABLY Reelect her?

[–] Wakmrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

How was ice involved

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

But she's very concerned and finds the incident troubling!

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If we're lucky, this old bitch will be joining Mitch and Lady Lindsay pretty soon.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

They die in threes. I'm hoping for Schmuck Schumer myself, his death would be a great advantage to the Democrats.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca -3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Mitch is alive and apparently mostly well.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sez who? MAGA? I need more than that.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah maga hates Mitch and thinks the GOP is lying about him too.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Sez who? MAGA? You're gonna have to do better than that.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They made him too well in their AI photos.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Tango@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Proof means more than a 10 year old photograph, unless it's got today's newspaper in it. Let's see video, with audio, and even then I'm inclined to not believe it until he's walking around Capitol Hill.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, he never looked that alive when he was alive, even ten years ago. Doubt

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've seen people suddenly look younger before, namely an elderly man that was my neighbor when I was young. It was never explained to me, but I'm pretty sure something like dementia or a stroke caused it. He looked at me, curious and delighted like a small child - and I could've sworn his eyes were never that blue before. It really freaked me out, but I guess it just means the expression we wear does a lot for how old we're perceived as.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That, it's AI generated, or he drank the blood of a small child.

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, Snopes said it's not AI (credit to Tango above) and I don't believe in the power of blood drinking, so I'm sticking with my theory for now.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm staying skeptical for now. Mainly because I hope he's becoming Satan's new roommate.

[–] Tango@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My general policy is to always be wary of lending too much credence to something I want to be true. You have to be aware of your own biases.

Yes, but even as a man: a girl can dream.

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

"I saw a picture!" 🙄

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago

These clown-suits are so pathetic:

Storm a capitol building and it's somehow "heroic". Protestors storm a fascist local stooge's mansion and they're probably like

"Go away that's mean I'm just doing my job. :("

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 2 days ago

“ICE is keeping us safe from landscapers & house cleaners” -Senator Suzie Collins (R) of Maine

[–] Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 4 points 2 days ago

Seems a new plumbing job has come available.

[–] Gust@piefed.social -4 points 1 day ago

But hey, at least nobody is making almost completely unsubstantiated rape accusations against her. Supporting the fucking gestapo is much better, right?