Bruce Bourgoine
@brucebourgoine
''True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.'' Martin Luther King Jr. Maine
As I pulled into Irving, a truck with this sticker (stock photo) was pulling away. This is the GOP propaganda poison that tolerates or revels in street murder in Maine. Every Republican running for office is connected to this by their continuing affiliation to that party. Clean house. #mepolitics
He means the “TRAFFIC SHOT” and he’s the top person ‘loving’ it. Remember on November 3 that every single Republican running for office in this state is aligned with him and any bit of squirming here or there is so much cheap theater. #resist #ICE #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Of interest, here is the delegate allocation by county from Exhibit A from the Convention rules. #mepolitics #MESen #VoteBlue
Ride, ride my see-saw, Take this place On this trip Just for me. It’s never going to end with this war criminal with a taste for extortion in charge. #TrumpsWar #mepolitics #VoteBlue
If this occurred in any Latin American country we would be calling #ICE a DEATH SQUAD. We must demand an immediate nationwide suspension of all their Susan Collins funded actions. Our streets are just too unsafe with these trigger happy executioners on them. #resist #mepolitics #MESen #VoteBlue
Collins put out a statement saying the Biddeford #ICE fatal shooting “requires a full and impartial investigation of what happened...and the FBI is investigating.” This is something Collins helped fund and she has the gall to tell us a politicized FBI will resolve it! #mepolitics #VoteBlue #MESen
Be nice if I could say this just once to self appointed social media scolds and to some in the MEDem party I belong to as a long time supporter: No good comes out of belittling, marginalizing, blaming, or dissing any Platner primary voter unless you’re Susan Collins. #MESen #mepolitics #VoteBlue
As a Delegate to the 2026 Maine State Democratic Convention and a municipality Caucus Convener in prior years, I am ready to be recalled into service for the most open process manageable and reasonably expedient to renominate a US Senate candidate to unseat Susan Collins. #MESen #mepolitics
Platner’s campaign is over; it can end in “told you so recrimination” or in transition to championing the values expressed in the primary forward. On personal reflection, I do accept flawed human beings evolving into redemption but also there are inexcusable disqualifying actions. #mepolitics #MESen
“Careful kid, I’ve seen these nasty reflective pods in the Trumpshite Sector before.” #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Today, #July4th2026, true patriotic Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s independence! Republicans already celebrated their #January6th 5th anniversary of trying to destroy it earlier this year. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue (Photo at JFK Library, Boston)
Comparing George III and Donald I on the #250Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” #resist #mepolitics #July4th #NoKings
Last week I was in Edinburgh at the same time as King Charles. This #4thOfJuly is the 250th anniversary of declaring independence from his kingdom. Yet presently the King of England has greater understanding of democracy and climate peril than our President lusting for a throne. #resist #mepolitics
So these so-called “concerned Ds” are going to hang around #mepolitics all summer to spill bile on loyal primary voters’ intelligence & grace us with cherrypicked nominee slams in order to max their assistance to Collin’s continued service to Trump & billionaire theft of our futures. Got it. #MESen
If Susan Collins’ moderate myth and Rick Bennett’s sudden independence had a love child, they’d call it Maine Press. #MESen #MEGov #mepolitics #VoteBlue
So the combined Republican vote is down 6 points. Both the ‘wing nut wing’ and the ‘enable the wing nuts wing’ cannot easily compete with common sense governing. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue #MEGov
The powerful chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee did nothing to stop this guy either by taking fierce substantive action or by voicing loudly a courageous declaration of conscious. But she snipped a few ribbons. #mepolitics #VoteBlue #MESen Vote @grahamformaine.bsky.social
Just read my ‘Maine Susan Telegram,’ and the thing most striking to me about the ‘brings home bacon’ glorification is the exposure of a system based on inequality between elected representatives in lieu of building a nation of equality in resources and services for all. #mepolitics #VoteBlue #MESen
Dublin, #Ireland Wall Tag “Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clan” #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Obama pillared for $1.7 billion from the right while Trump dishes out $300 BILLION! This is an ‘art of a deal?’ Trump is by far the worst deal maker in history. He’s gonna need a lot of pallets! This would be hilarious if weren’t us who ultimately gonna get fleeced. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Taking a wee break on the M7 driving to Dublin. From every pub conversation thus far I’ve learned O’Bama owns Trump in every possible way. #mepolitics #VoteBlue
I am currently in Kinsale, Ireland where people with a history of suppression and occupation get it.
Trump praises fellow sphere of influence dictators with low bar shout out: “The leaders, he said, had aided the Americans in sealing the deal with the Iranians, or at least had helped set the conditions by not sending oil and gas tankers…through the Strait of Hormuz…” #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
I am so sick of the word “DEAL” as if it’s representative of something uplifting to humankind or even honorable service in the name of policy. This “deal” was achieved by the bombing and murder of thousands of innocents in search of a reason to stroke one man’s ego. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
And so Trump’s long “TWIST IN THE WIND” of egomaniac boisterous deal declarations of shaky cease fires, no nuke arrangement, and another chapter in Mideast violence, innocent slaughter, and creating another generation of radicalized terror stumbles stupidly forward. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
Unretouched color in photo snapped at Mizen Head in Ireland today.
Minutes into Dems getting power we absolutely need to do something about this or these titans will impoverish us all, make us subservient to their AI economy, and rip democracy away from us forever. We should not revere or laud this as positive, it endangers humanity. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue