Author: Edward Tomic

In the final installment of a three-part interview series with former Trump lawyer John Eastman, Chairman of the Board of the conservative think tank the Claremont Institute Tom Klingenstein explores the prudence of Eastman’s guidance to former President Trump on the legality of delaying the certification of electors on Jan. 6, 2021. A third indictment against Trump was announced Tuesday by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol protest, which charges the former president with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official…

As illegal crossings over the southern border surge and Maine reckons with a migrant crisis of its own, the U.S. Border Patrol is seeking to hire more agents in Maine as part of a national hiring spree. “We are currently hiring nationwide, to include all of our locations in Maine,” said Mark Phillips, a Special Operations Supervisor at the Houlton headquarters of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “This is an opportunity that has not come along in over a decade. The USBP usually only hires for southern border locations.  Usually, in order to get back to Maine, you have to work…

The ACLU of Maine is calling upon the owners of Cyr Bus Line to end its practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to board buses in order to interrogate customers regarding their immigration status without a warrant. [RELATED: Biden Admin to Maine: Get Ready for Busloads of Migrants] In a Wednesday press release, the Maine ACLU alleged that CBP is taking advantage of a Cyr Bus Line rest stop in Houlton, in order to inspect Cyr buses with drug-alert dogs and conduct blanket interrogations of all customers. In letters to Cyr Bus Lines on June 1…

Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S. debt rating on Tuesday from the highest rating of AAA to AA+, citing “expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years” and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance.” [RELATED: Bidenomics: A Look at Maine Manufacturing by the Numbers] The decision drew criticism from the White House, with both President Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen saying they strongly disagree with the decision. “We strongly disagree with this decision,” Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Tuesday. “The ratings model used by Fitch declined under President Trump and then improved under President…

Maine Sen. Susan Collins was among 15 Republican U.S. Senators who voted in favor of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” (BSCA), a bill signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 which is now being used by the Department of Education to withhold funds from elementary and secondary schools with hunting or archery programs in their curriculum. The Department of Education confirmed to Fox News Digital Monday that the agency is prohibiting funds for schools with shooting sports activities nationwide, funds which were earmarked under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. “This prohibition applies to all…

Ousted Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson released an interview Wednesday with Devon Archer, an ex-business partner of Hunter Biden who testified Monday to the House Oversight Committee. In his testimony, Archer revealed that Hunter Biden had put his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone during business meetings more than 20 times over a ten year period in order to sell the Biden “brand.” [RELATED: Ex-Hunter Biden Partner Devon Archer Testifies Then-VP Joe Biden Put on Phone During Business Meetings 20+ Times to “Sell Brand”] Tucker Carlson began his interview by asking what specific skills Hunter Biden brought to…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called on the Biden Administration to control the border and provide more aid to his city as it struggles to accommodate the arrival of tens of thousands of illegal alien, some of whom have applied for asylum status. Mayor Adams first declared a state of emergency with an Emergency Executive Order in October of last year, a measure which he has since extended and that remains in effect as of July 29. “Eventually this [is] going to come to a neighborhood near you,” Adams said in a press conference Monday. “We need to…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Saturday that he has sent an official criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice after newly surfaced emails from 2020 appear to contradict Dr. Fauci’s claim in a 2021 Congressional hearing that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. [RELATED: House Oversight Report: Top Scientists Suppressed COVID Lab Leak Hypothesis to Protect China] In a July 2021 Congressional hearing, Sen. Paul asked Fauci if he wished to retract his earlier claim that the NIH had never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,…

An insider at MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare organization, is sounding the alarm on the frequency with which transgender children who are taking hormonal pharmaceuticals show up to the hospital’s emergency room undergoing severe mental health crises. The whistleblower’s claims were first reported by Fox News, but the Maine Wire has not been able to independently verify the sources identity or claims. [RELATED: Transgender Youth, Like Any Other American, Deserve the Highest Quality of Care] The source, who is described as being familiar with patient care information at MaineHealth, voiced their concerns to Do No Harm, an organization that seeks…

Hunter Biden’s former best friend and business partner Devon Archer sat down Monday for a closed-door transcribed testimony before the House Oversight Committee. [RELATED: “Can you ring your dad?”: Hunter Biden Put Then-VP Father on Speakerphone With Foreign Business Partners, Ex-Partner to Testify] According to Fox News senior Congressional correspondent Chad Pergram, Archer testified that Hunter Biden put his then-Vice President father Joe Biden on speakerphone during business meetings over 20 times in order to sell “the brand.” https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1686082659850555392?s=20 Archer also testified that Hunter was placed on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma to enhance the “brand,”…

Last week city officials in Sanford suspended a syringe exchange program and cleaned up a homeless encampment at Heritage Crossing near Weaver Drive, which local business owners said was making them feel unsafe and causing their businesses to suffer. The Maine Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (MECDC) partners with several nonprofit organizations that run “Syringe Service Programs” throughout the state, which provide sterile syringes to people in exchange for dirty ones in an effort to reduce disease and encourage the safe disposal of sharps. The nonprofit in charge of the needle exchange program in Sanford is Maine Access Points…

When a flyer produced by the Maine Attorney General’s Office on the state’s abortion laws became politically problematic for Gov. Janet Mills’ push for a late-term abortion bill, the governor’s staff coordinated with top AGO employees to have the guidance deleted from their website, according to internal emails obtained by the Maine Wire. The emails also revealed that AGO employees worked with a Planned Parenthood executive to craft the public guidance on the state’s abortion laws to make sure it wouldn’t deter minors from having abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. After Assistant House Minority…

A plea deal that would have allowed President Joe Biden’s son Hunter to avoid jail time for two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony gun possession charge fell through Wednesday after the presiding federal judge expressed concern over the agreement. Hunter Biden arrived at a federal court in Delaware Wednesday morning where he had been expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for failing to pay more than $100,000 in taxes from over $1.5 million in income from 2017 and 2018. [RELATED: Hunter Biden Strikes Deal on Federal Criminal Tax Charges, Felony Gun Possession Charge] The President’s son had…

The Office of the Maine Attorney General announced Wednesday that they have charged a deputy superintendent of two state correctional facilities with theft and bribery. Gerald E. Merrill, Jr., Deputy Superintendent of the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston and the Downeast Correctional Facility in Machiasport, is alleged to have engaged in a long-running scheme using state funds to purchase products from certain vendors in exchange for illegal kickback payments. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) launched an investigation after auditors noticed an “irregular volume of funds being spent on purchase cards under Merrill’s control.” “These allegations that a public official…

An official White House transcript appears to differ with President Joe Biden’s Tuesday remark that his administration had “ended cancer as we know it.” On a video recording of President Biden’s remarks, he appears to say “I said ‘I’d cure cancer.’ And they looked at me like, ‘Why cancer?’ Because no one thinks we can. That’s why. And we can. We ended cancer as we know it.” https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1683923720908201997?s=20 The official White House transcript of Biden’s remarks, however, states that the president said “We can end cancer as we know it.” In February of 2022, the Biden-Harris administration announced an ambitious…

Note: If you’re an employee of the state of Maine who would like to share information with the Maine Wire, you can always drop us an email. The labor union that represents Maine’s state government employees was stunned Tuesday evening when negotiators from the Mills Administration rejected their pay raise proposal and instead counter-offered with an agreement that fell far short of their expectations. The Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA), which is part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and is Maine’s second largest labor union, has been locked in tense negotiations with the Mills Administration all year. The…

In his first visit to Maine as president, Joe Biden is slated to visit the state Friday as part of a tour discussing his economic policies, which he has dubbed “Bidenomics.” “The President will discuss how Bidenomics is driving a manufacturing boom and helping workers and innovators invent and make more in American,” the White House said in a statement Sunday. CBS13 learned Tuesday that President Biden will be visiting Auburn Friday from Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque. Levesque told CBS13 that the White House reached out to him on Monday to inform him of the president’s upcoming visit. The mayor…

Hunter Biden brought in $1.3 million selling his paintings at his September 2021 New York art gallery debut, and one buyer later won a prestigious appointment from President Joe Biden, according to internal documents obtained by Business Insider. [RELATED: “Can you ring your dad?”: Hunter Biden Put Then-VP Father on Speakerphone With Foreign Business Partners, Ex-Partner to Testify] The prices of Hunter Biden’s pieces were priced between $75,000 and $500,000 — the price point sparked ethics concerns which the White House addressed in July of 2021. Sources familiar with the sales arrangement reached between the White House and SoHo New…

In a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Republican Senator from Utah and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney called on GOP donors to team up to force “lost-cause” candidates out of the 2024 Republican primary and to back the candidate with the best chance of beating former President Donald Trump. Sen. Romney is a longtime opponent of Trump — in March of 2016 Romney gave a speech at the University of Utah in which he denounced then-2016 primary front-runner Donald Trump, calling him a “phony” and “con man.” Romney called on voters to support whichever candidate out of Sen. Ted Cruz,…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Biden Monday to counter threats from the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the state over its deployment of a floating buoy barrier system in the Rio Grande. [RELATED: Texas Installs 1,000 ft Buoy Barrier in Rio Grande to Deter Border Crossings] Installation of 1,000 feet of the buoy border barrier began in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 7. The floating barrier, made of four-foot-wide buoys with attached webbing, are meant to deter and impede migrants who attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally by swimming across…

Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California-based conservative think tank the Claremont Institute, has released the second of a three-part interview series with former Trump attorney John Eastman. [RELATED: Claremont Institute’s Tom Klingenstein and John Eastman Discuss 2020 Election Fraud in New Interview] In part one of the interview series, Klingenstein pressed Eastman to give a thorough account of fraud in the 2020 presidential election — which Eastman believes was substantial. Watch part one of Tom Klingenstein’s interview with John Eastman here. Klingenstein moves in this second interview to understand — if the 2020 election really…

A massive joint-agency search for a missing paddle boarder on Edgartown Great Pond near former President Barack Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard mansion concluded Monday morning when the body of the paddle boarder was recovered by Massachusetts State Police Underwater Recovery Unit divers. The search for the paddle boarder began Sunday evening when Martha’s Vineyard police and fire agencies responded to a call for a male paddle boarder who had “gone into the water, appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged and did not resurface.” Another paddle boarder was with the victim at the time, shortly before…

In over a dozen instances, Hunter Biden put his then-Vice President father Joe Biden on speakerphone with his overseas business partners during meetings, according to Biden associate Devon Archer, who is set to testify before Congress this week. [RELATED: Joe ‘Big Guy’ Biden in Room While Hunter Shook Down Chinese Businessman Henry Zhao: Whistleblower] Archer, who was first subpoenaed in June but has canceled his scheduled depositions three times, is expected to testify before the GOP-led House Oversight Committee this week before Congress’ month-long August recess. “We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the…

Fox News, the purported conservative cable news network, matches employee donations to numerous left-wing charities and activist groups, according to a report from Blaze Media. [RELATED: Fox News Encourages Employees to Donate to LGBT Charities, Monitors Them With ‘Woke AI’] While putting on airs of supporting conservative causes, Fox will apparently match employee charitable contributions to the Satanic Temple, the Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), insider sources told Blaze Media. The Trevor Project runs anonymous online forums where children can get advice from adults on their gender and sexuality — in September of last…

The City of Portland is teaming up with the Quality Housing Coalition (QHC) and the Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG) to launch a new program to house asylum seekers in the homes of landlords and homeowners with extra space, according to a Tuesday city press release. [RELATED: Portland Officials Meet With Asylum Seekers for Second Closed-Door Meeting Regarding Post-Expo Housing Arrangements] As almost 300 asylum seekers face being kicked out of temporary housing at the Portland Exposition Building in August, city officials have scrambled to find them accommodations. In late June, Mayor Kate Snyder and City Manager Danielle West…

The FBI had confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop in November 2019, almost a full year before the New York Post article on the laptop was published and censored and painted as Russian disinformation, according to testimony revealed Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee. [RELATED: FBI Told in 2017 That Bidens Allegedly Pressured Burisma to Pay $10 million to Have Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired] Chair of the Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter Thursday to FBI Director Christopher Wray sharing testimony from Laura Dehmlow, Section Chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF). https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1682024280853295105?s=20 In…

The FBI was informed by a confidential human source (CHS) in 2017 of a possible bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter coercing executives at the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma into paying them to get rid of a prosecutor investigating the company. [RELATED: Grassley Claims Ukrainian Exec Has Audio of Bidens Discussing Bribery Scheme] According to a bombshell FBI document publicly released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the CHS had several meetings with Burisma executives starting in late 2015, during the Obama Administration. The CHS first provided details of those meetings to the FBI…

U.S. Representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district Jared Golden was the only House Democrat to vote in favor of reinstating airline pilots who were fired or forced to resign due to vaccine mandates. [RELATED: Golden Backs “Lukewarm” Debt Ceiling Deal But Criticizes Cuts to IRS] The Wednesday evening vote was on whether to adopt an amendment to H.R. 3935, the “Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act,” that would require airlines to reinstate pilots who lost their jobs because of the vaccine mandates. The bill is meant to address a shortage of pilots that began during the COVID-19…

A transgender former New Hampshire State Representative is now facing federal charges of sexual exploitation of children and aiding and abetting for allegedly using a connection with a daycare worker to collect explicit images of children. [RELATED: Transgender Former NH State Rep Arrested on Child Porn Charges] Stacie Marie Laughton, 39, of Nashua, will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date and if convicted for the sexual exploitation of children will face at least 15 years and up to 30 years in prison, up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000.…

Portland City Manager Danielle West presented new recommendations on Monday that the Portland Police will be taking up in response to an April 1 neo-Nazi rally that led to a physical altercation between cops and counter-protestors. The neo-Nazi group of about 15 to 20 people, the Nationalist Social Club or NSC-131, paraded through Old Port, Monument Square, and outside city hall — where police broke up an altercation and the group dispersed without any charges being filed. None of the NSC-131 members present at the rally have been publicly identified. Although video of the altercation has not surfaced public, video…

Country Music Television (CMT) has stopped airing country music star Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” and its accompanying music video which features footage of left wing rioters, a CMT spokesperson told Axios Tuesday. The single was released in May of 2023, but its music video was not released until July 14. Aldean has been accused by commentators of writing “the modern lynching song,” due to some shots of the music video being shot in front of what appears to be the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. The Maury Courthouse was the site of the 1927…

Two IRS whistleblowers who allege the Justice Department interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes will testify publicly for the first time 1 p.m. Wednesday before the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means Committees. [RELATED: New York Times Confirms Most Explosive Allegation of IRS Whistleblowers Alleging Biden Admin Cover-Up] Republican lawmakers claim that the whistleblowers’ testimony will reveal that the Department of Justice (DOJ) applies the law unequally when it comes to the Biden family. https://twitter.com/RepRussellFry/status/1681637431936794624?s=20 The House Ways and Means Committee originally released testimonies from the two whistleblowers in late June. One of the IRS whistleblowers is…

A Monday evening school board meeting for Maine School Administrative District 51 (MSAD #51) adjourned after a parent raised concerns over pornographic books in the district’s school libraries. [RELATED: Most Maine Voters Want Parent “Opt-Out” Option and Safeguards for X-Rated School Books: MAINE WIRE POLL] Scott Jordan of Cumberland, the parent of a child in MSAD # 51, presented the board with documents showing that Cumberland’s Greely High School contains several obscene and pornographic books. https://rumble.com/v30ryus-school-board-in-maine-runs-away-from-concerned-parent.html According to Follet Learning’s Destiny Library Manager, Greely High School’s library stocks “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, a book which contains graphic…

Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo has become the target of media outlets alleging he commands a sinister network of “dark money” organizations that have shaped the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court and influenced the justices’ rulings. [RELATED: Leonard Leo on the Constitution, Guaranteed Rights, and the Supreme Court: “The Courts Are Not Meant to Make Law”] A June 30 opinion piece in The Guardian called Leo the “king of dark money,” and alleged his operation has been “working to influence some of the supreme court’s most consequential cases.” Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee recently sent a letter…

Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo joined the Maine Wire’s Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson for a wide-ranging interview about the Supreme Court, his judicial activism, and the state of American higher education. If you missed part one, you can find it here. Leo, the longtime head of the Federalist Society, has been involved as an advisor in the nominations of conservative Supreme Court justices from Justice Clarence Thomas to Justice Amy Coney Barrett. In Part 2 of the interview, Leo talks about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to end affirmative action in American colleges and universities. Leo believes that decision was just…

Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show has landed its first advertiser, according to a report Sunday from CNBC. This comes just days after rumors circulated that Carlson was planning to start a new media company with his Daily Caller co-founder Neil Patel. [RELATED: Tucker Carlson Hosts 2024 GOP Presidential Forum, Creating New Media Company: WSJ] Sources familiar with the matter told CNBC that Carlson agreed to a seven-figure advertising deal with Public Square (PublicSq.), a “pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom” shopping app. Michael Seifert, CEO of Public Square, described the app as “the nation’s largest marketplace of businesses that have refused to go…

Al Diamon, a Maine columnist who has had his weekly column “Politics & Other Mistakes” published in numerous news outlets for the past 25 years, such as the Daily Bulldog and the Portland Phoenix, has written a column calling for the resignation of Maine’s House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross. [RELATED: Maine Media Runs Cover For House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross’ State Police Scandal and “Storm the Capitol” Rhetoric] The July 14 column, “Politics & Other Mistakes: Not suitable for work,” responds to an opinion piece written by former Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling for the Maine Beacon, entitled “In praise of…

In an exclusive interview with Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson, conservative legal activist Leonard Leo gave his opinion on how conservatives ought to address corruption in the administrative state, and revelations regarding the politicization of the United States’ intelligence agencies. [LISTEN: Maine Wire Podcast: Conservative Legal Activist Leonard Leo – Part 1] Leo also addressed overreach by federal regulatory agencies that have affected Maine’s lobstermen, social media censorship, and the importance of education on the constitution and the proper role of government. “What do you do to reign in an administrative state, or an intelligence community, that is becoming political…

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson sat down with conservative legal activist and Co-Chairman of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo to discuss the recent Supreme Court rulings, liberal smear campaigns, and why he’s decided to become a Mainer. Listen to Part 1 of the interview here. Part 2 will publish Tuesday morning. In addition to his work with the Federalist Society, Leo advised President Donald Trump on the selection and confirmation processes of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Leo is a longtime friend of Justice Clarence Thomas, aiding in Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings, as…

On Friday, former Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson hosted a forum event for five 2024 Republican primary candidates for president in 2024, in which he grilled the candidates on the Ukraine war, COVID-19, border policy and immigration, and “gender-affirming” treatments for minors. [RELATED: Tucker Carlson Hosts 2024 GOP Presidential Forum, Creating New Media Company: WSJ] The event, hosted by conservative media outlet the Blaze and called “The Summit”, featured Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. The…

An attorney for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has sent a cease-and-desist letter to former President Donald Trump, alleging Trump’s frequent comments on social media and rallies about him “could lead to [Hunter Biden’s] or his family’s injury.” [RELATED: White House Refuses to Acknowledge Hunter Biden’s Daughter] Abbe David Lowell, who represents Hunter Biden as part of Winston & Strawn LLP, authored the letter — sent Thursday to four Trump attorneys. “I am sending this letter to make a demand that your client, former President Donald Trump, cease and desist from making public statements about my client which are both…

An executive order signed Thursday by President Joe Biden will allow the the Pentagon to send up to 3,000 individual reservists to active duty in Europe in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. [RELATED: ‘This is about justice’: Zelensky Defends Use of Cluster Bombs in War Against Russia] Biden states in the order that “it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.” The order authorizes the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Homeland Security to order to active…

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is working with former White House advisor and co-founder of the Daily Caller Neil Patel to start a new media company, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. [RELATED: Fox News Viewership Falls Behind MSNBC After Dropping Tucker Carlson] Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that Carlson and Patel are seeking to raise more than $100 million to start a new company that could potentially be built on Twitter. A subscription-based model would drive traffic from Twitter to the company, where subscribers would be able to watch interviews and episodes…

An Ohio plastic surgeon known as “Dr. Roxy” who livestreamed her procedures on TikTok has been permanently banned from practicing medicine after the state’s medical board found she injured patients in front of hundreds of thousands of live viewers. [RELATED: Legislature Unanimously Approves TikTok Ban on Government-Issued Devices] On Wednesday the State Medical Board of Ohio voted to permanently revoke Dr. Katharine Roxanne Grawe’s (@doctorrroxy on TikTok) based on her failure to meet standards of care. The board had originally decided to suspend Grawe’s license in November on claims that she neglected her patients as she live-streamed their procedures, spoke…

Department of Justice (DOJ) grant programs fund sanctuary states and localities that undermine immigration law and protect illegal aliens from federal authorities, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Center for Immigration Studies. [RELATED: Bad Food, No Showers: Migrants Protest Outside Portland Expo Over “Awful Conditions,” Uncertain Future Benefits] The report focuses on three federal funding programs— the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants (JAG), and the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. More than 40 percent of the available funds across these three programs were awarded to sanctuary cities, despite having adopted…

Portland Mayor Kate Snyder joined WGAN Morning News Host and CEO of the Maine Policy Institute Matt Gagnon Thursday to discuss the city’s response to its ongoing migrant and housing crises. Mayor Snyder revealed that Governor Janet Mills had not yet responded to the city officials’ most recent letter to the Governor asking for her support on a proposal to shelter asylum seekers at Unity Environmental University. The letter, sent June 29, also asked the Governor to use the National Guard to set up an emergency shelter if the Unity campus cannot be used for transitional housing. [RELATED: Unity College…

The U.S. Secret Service announced it has concluded its investigation into cocaine found at the White House without being able to identify a suspect, according to an official statement released Thursday. [RELATED: Texas Congressman: Secret Service May Have Already Identified White House Cocaine Suspect] The cocaine was found on July 2 in a cubby area in the West Wing entry area where visitors and tourists store electronics and personal devices prior to entry. Preliminary testing by EMS responders concluded the substance was cocaine, and it was then sent to the FBI crime laboratory and tested for advanced fingerprint and DNA…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the decision by the United States to send them cluster munitions to aid in their war effort against Russia, speaking Wednesday at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. “Russia constantly uses cluster munitions on our territory. It wages war exclusively on our land. It kills our people,” Zelensky said Wednesday. “This is about justice,” Zelensky added. “We defend ourselves, without using [these] weapons on the territory of other states.” Zelensky said that all cluster munitions supplied to Ukraine would be used “purely for military purposes” in the Russian-occupied southern and eastern regions of the country.…

FBI Director Christopher Wray denied that the agency is protecting President Joe Biden or his family during a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee hearing. The hearing marks the first time the FBI Director has testified before the Judiciary Committee since the Republicans won their majority in the 2022 midterm elections. House Republicans have been eager to investigate the politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency under Director Wray and the weaponization of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.) pressed Wray to respond to a WhatsApp text from Hunter Biden to a Chinese businessman…

After a town hall event in Nashua, New Hampshire Tuesday evening, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took questions from the media about the migrant crisis, free trade, NATO expansion and how he sees the current state of the 2024 primary race. In Maine, we have a severe migrant crisis, thousands of migrants have come to very small towns who don’t have the resources to take them in, while U.S. citizens are on the street. What specific steps would you take as president to address not only the border crisis, but the people that are already here? “So my view is,…

A report released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee on the suppression of the hypothesis that the COVID-19 virus was leaked from a virology lab found that Dr. Anthony Fauci employed “fatally flawed science” to avoid blaming China for the pandemic. Since April 2020, the GOP-led Oversight Committee has been investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their report focuses on the handling of a 2020 study entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin), which has been accessed 5.8 million times since it was published in the journal Nature Medicine, receiving the fifth most attention of any paper ever…

Academic achievement levels stalled and fell short of pre-pandemic trends for most K-12 students, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA). [RELATED: U.S. Student Testing Shows Another Drop for 13-Year-Olds in Math and Reading: NAEP] The research organization, which has been assessing Pre-K-12 students for 40 years, tracked the academic progress of 6.7 million U.S. public school students in grades 3-8. The study examined the achievement gap between students in the 2022-23 school year relative to pre-pandemic years, and compared the COVID year student group to pre-pandemic students. According to the NWEA report, the…

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on Monday that the Secret Service may have already identified the suspect who left a bag of cocaine at the White House last week. [RELATED: Mystery Surrounds Discovery of Cocaine at Biden White House] On Sunday, July 2, a small baggy of a white powder, later identified as cocaine, was found in a cubby in the West Wing entry area accessible to visitors and tourists. The discovery led to widespread speculation about who the Schedule II substance might have belonged to and how it may have found its way into…

Ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Lithuania, President Joe Biden told CNN over the weekend that the Russia-Ukraine war must end before the alliance can consider NATO membership for Ukraine. Biden told CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria that he considers it premature to add Ukraine to the alliance, and that there is disagreement on the issue among the other NATO member countries. “I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war,” Biden said in the CNN interview. “For example, if…

LGBTQ+ student self-identification at Brown University has reached 38 percent of the student body, according to polling data collected by school’s student newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald. The Herald first collected data on Brown University students’ sexual orientation in 2010, when it found that around 14 percent of respondents said they were not straight, a proportion which has now more than doubled. Brown University’s percentage of LGBTQ+ identifying students is more than five times the national rate, according to a 2022 Gallup survey which found 7.1 percent of U.S. adults, and 19.7 percent of those aged 18 to 25, identify…

Installation of the buoy border wall ordered by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbot began Friday on the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas. [RELATED: Border Agents Accidentally Let A Migrant On The Terror Watchlist Enter The US] Once finished, the floating barrier and its attached webbing will cover 1,000 feet in the middle of the Rio Grande. https://twitter.com/TxDPS/status/1677402476880842753?s=20 The floating barrier system, made of four-foot-wide-buoys which can be quickly installed and moved, is meant to deter and impede migrants who attempt to cross into the U.S. by swimming across the Rio Grande, a treacherous way to pass into the country…

Appearing in his first interview since leaving Fox News, on Friday Tucker Carlson joined comedian and actor Russel Brand on his podcast “Stay Free with Russel Brand,” discussing Big Pharma, the Russia-Ukraine war, immigration, censorship, January 6 and Donald Trump. The interview, which can be watched in full below, streamed live on Rumble to over 130,000 viewers. When speaking about former President Donald Trump, Carlson said that he thinks Trump’s emergence is the “most significant thing that happened in American politics in 100 years, because he reoriented the Republican Party against the wishes of Republican leaders.” “I’m struck by his…

On Friday Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s Congressional Delegation made a joint announcement that President Joe Biden has approved the a request for a “Major Disaster Declaration” for Maine counties impacted by a severe spring storm. The storm, which occurred April 30 and May 1, brought flooding, swelling rivers, power outages, tree damage, and more than $2 million in infrastructure damage to eight Maine counties. In June Gov. Mills requested that President Biden issue the Disaster Declaration for Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc, and Waldo Counties. “We are grateful that President Biden has approved Maine’s request for a Major…

The historic Waldo Theatre in Waldoboro, Maine, will be hosting the Portland-based drag show “Curbside Queens” for a performance on Saturday, July 29. The event offers general admission tickets to people aged 16 and up. “The Waldo Theatre welcomes Portland-based Curbside Queens as they spread the joy and celebration of the Queer experience and the art of Drag with the people of Maine,” the event page reads. “Creative dress is encouraged!!!” The event page says. The Curbside Queens are a traveling troupe of drag performers that use a pink shuttle bus named “Peg” to do shows in driveways, parking lots…

On Thursday Democrats in Maine’s House of Representatives reaffirmed their support for a bill that would extend taxpayer-funded MaineCare benefits to illegal aliens and other non-citizens with qualifying low incomes, but made a series of concessions in decreasing the scope and fiscal impact of the bill. [RELATED: Maine House Approves Taxpayer-Funded MaineCare Coverage for Illegal Aliens] The bill, LD 199, was sponsored by the House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), and as initially proposed would have made all noncitizens over 21 with qualifying low incomes living in Maine eligible to receive MaineCare benefits, regardless of their immigration status. A fiscal…

On Wednesday, July 5 at around 10:30 p.m., Portland Police responded to reports of a large group setting off fireworks and targeting passing motor vehicles with roman candles and other projectiles in the city’s East Bayside neighborhood. According to a Thursday press release, when patrol officers arrived on the scene Wednesday night, the group discharged fireworks at the officers. “I am proud of the work done by our officers. They have been subjected to attacks like these over the past few years during the Fourth of July celebrations and it is unacceptable,” said Portland’s Interim Police Chief Bob Martin. “These…

Multiple informational pages on the official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website give guidance on “chestfeeding,” a term used to describe transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals feeding an infant from their chest. Several doctors have accused the national public health agency of not taking into account the possible health risks that could result from children drinking “milk” that has been produced by pharmaceutical intervention and gender-reassignment hormonal treatments, according to the Daily Mail. The CDC guidance received renewed scrutiny this week after a transgender woman posted a photo of herself purporting to chestfeed an infant. After the tweet went…

The National Education Association, the largest labor union in the United States, published a list Wednesday of “Great Summer Reads for Educators!” which included the controversial sexually explicit book “Gender Queer.” [RELATED: Orono Democrat Compares Maine Republicans to Nazis for Wanting Porn Books Out of Schools] Under the heading “Banned Books: Celebrate the Freedom to Read,” the teachers’ union showcased Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, a graphic memoir marketed towards teens that has received pushback on being included in school libraries due to its illustrations of oral sex and masturbation. Gender Queer also contains cartoon depictions of minors performing sex…

The suspect arrested in relation to a Monday night mass shooting in Philadelphia that left five people dead and two wounded has been identified as a Black Lives Matter supporter and a man who wears women’s clothes. The suspected gunman, 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker, faces more than 30 counts, including murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, and carrying a firearm without a permit. Multiple children were wounded in Tuesday’s shooting, including a 2-year-old who was shot four times in the legs. One of the five deceased victims was 15-year-old Daujan Brown. Carriker has a criminal record, having been charged with possession of…

A spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that there has been contact between the U.S. and Russia regarding a potential prisoner exchange involving Wall Street Journal reporter and Bowdoin graduate Evan Gershkovich. [RELATED: Bowdoin Grad, Wall Street Journal Reporter Arrested in Russia for “Espionage”] Gershkovich, who graduated Bowdoin College in 2014, was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on espionage charges in March of this year — the first time an American journalist has been arrested on spying charges since the Cold War. On Tuesday top Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the U.S. Ambassador…

The president of Unity College has responded to a proposal by Portland city officials to house asylum seeking migrants at the college, saying that currently there is no comprehensive plan in place for the Waldo County campus to operate as transitional housing for asylees. On June 29, Portland Mayor Kate Snyder and City Manager Danielle West sent a letter to Gov. Janet Mills asking for help in moving around 300 people from the Portland Exposition Building into alternative transitional housing arrangements before August 16, when the Expo will cease its operation as an emergency shelter for asylum seekers. Last Wednesday,…

A bill recently passed by Michigan’s House of Representatives would make causing someone to feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened based on their “gender identity or expression” a hate crime. In Michigan, a hate crime is a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to two years or a fine up to $5,000, or both. Instead of or in addition to imprisonment and fines for hurting someone’s feelings, if the defendant consents, a court could require the offender to complete a period of community service “intended to enhance the offender’s understanding of the impact of the offense upon the victim and the…

After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in a ruling Thursday, and on Friday declared President Biden’s student loan forgiveness unconstitutional as well as denying that anti-discrimination laws can compel speech, prominent Maine Democrats are decrying what they see as the politicization of the Court. [RELATED: SCOTUS Torches Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Promise] U.S. Congresswoman from Maine’s First District Chellie Pingree tweeted a quote of President Biden’s comment on the Court’s Thursday decision to prohibit race-based college admissions. “This is not a normal court,” Biden said in a Thursday press briefing, quoted by Pingree in her tweet. She shared…

On Thursday City Councilor Mark Dion announced his bid to become Portland’s next Mayor. Portland’s current Mayor Kate Snyder said in September of last year that she won’t be seeking reelection this November. Dion, who runs a private law practice, has served as a City Councilor for Portland’s Fifth District for three years, after winning a four-way race in 2020 with 39 percent of the vote. He previously served as the Sheriff of Cumberland Country from 1999 to 2010, when he then won a seat as a Democrat in the Maine House of Representatives, where he was named Chair of…

Chairman of the Board of the California-based conservative think tank the Claremont Institute Tom Klingenstein has released the first of a three-part interview series with former Trump lawyer John Eastman discussing voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. https://youtu.be/8rARmn9Dafs In the interview, Eastman, who served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and is the founding director of the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, gives an account of his work for the Trump White House. Eastman gained notoriety following the 2020 presidential election when he advanced the argument to President Trump that then-Vice President Mike Pence…

Portland City officials held a press briefing inside of the Portland Exposition Building after a protest Wednesday morning by migrants over the city’s lack of housing options and the shelter’s poor conditions blocked traffic briefly on Park Avenue. [RELATED: Bad Food, No Showers: Migrants Protest Outside Portland Expo Over “Awful Conditions,” Uncertain Future Benefits] Portland City Manager Danielle West, Mayor Kate Snyder and Portland Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director Kristen Dow met with the Expo residents following the protest to hear their concerns and then took questions from the media. According to WGME, the meeting was part…

During a special public meeting Tuesday, the South Portland City Council approved an agreement to extend the temporary transitional housing of migrants at the Howard Johnson Hotel for an additional 12 months. Hotels were being used as temporary housing for the city’s homeless population since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the pandemic came to a close, federal and state funding dried up. At its peak, over 1,000 homeless migrants and some Mainers were being sheltered in hotels off the Maine Mall Road in South Portland. As of June 21, 2023, six hotels were still renting 128 rooms…

Roughly 100 migrants protested outside of the Portland Exposition Building Wednesday morning, briefly blocking traffic along a busy Park Ave, to raise alarm about the “awful conditions” inside the shelter, with one man telling the Maine Wire that there was not enough food and limited ability to shower. The migrants also complained about the uncertain future they face when taxpayer-funded benefits paying for their accommodations run out later this year. “We have children here, but the life is not very good,” said Reagan Mayemba, a migrant staying at the Portland Expo. Mayemba said that they will be “kicked out” in…

An armed employee at Turnberry Towers in Las Vegas stopped an active shooter who attempted to enter the building’s lobby with an AR-15 rifle last Friday, according to a building resident. https://twitter.com/DonutNewsNetwrk/status/1673550534165385222?s=20 The gunman, who was wearing a tactical helmet and was armed with multiple weapons, attempted to enter the lobby after shooting at the front desk through the lobby’s glass doors. Upon crossing through the threshold of the door into the lobby, it was an armed employee of the luxury condominium building who shot the gunman, according to a statement from a resident given to KTNV Las Vegas. The…

A combination of negligence, misconduct and “outright job performance failures” created an environment which allowed notorious child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to commit suicide in his New York prison cell in 2019, a report released Tuesday by the Department of Justice claimed. [RELATED: JPMorgan Chase Settles Lawsuit Over Alleged Role in Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking Ring] The report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) details the results of the investigation into the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ custody, care, and supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City. Epstein was arrested in…

A bill motivated by the discovery of a $1.5 billion lithium deposit in Newry, Maine, thought to be the world’s largest, passed the Maine Senate Tuesday with overwhelming bipartisan support. The estimated 11 million ton deposit was discovered in 2021, but the owners of the land Mary and Gary Freeman have been unable to begin extracting the lithium due to restrictions on open-pit mining in Maine’s Metallic Mineral Mining Act. The bill, LD 1363, would allow open-pit mining under certain conditions while retaining many of the environmental protections currently provided in state law. If signed into law by Gov. Janet…

CNN received a leak from an undisclosed source of an audio recording of a July 2021 interview former President Donald Trump gave at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, in which he discusses a “highly confidential” Department of Defense document. [RELATED: The Special Counsel’s Misinformation in the Trump Indictment] The two-minute recording is of an interview Trump gave to a writer, a publisher, and two of his staff members working on the memoir of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. It is a central piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump on federal charges…

On Monday Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law that will partially decriminalize prostitution in Maine. The law, LD 1435, will go into effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns. LD 1435 eliminates the Class E misdemeanor crime of “engaging in prostitution” — however, the purchasers will still be able to be charged. The law also elevates the crime of solicitation of a child for commercial sexual exploitation from a Class D crime to a Class C felony, punishable buy up to five years incarceration and a $5,000 fine. Language in state law related to the crime of “patronizing…

On Monday Maine’s House of Representatives passed a bill sponsored by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) that would extend taxpayer-funded MaineCare benefits to all residents of Maine regardless of immigration status, including illegal aliens. [RELATED: Maine House Speaker Proposes Amnesty for Homeless People Who Criminally Trespass on Private Property] Federal rules prohibit illegal aliens from receiving Medicaid benefits. As a result, no federal money can be used to pay for enrolling residents in MaineCare if they are present in the state illegally. That means the money to fund newly eligible enrollees will come from Maine’s General Fund. The bill…

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday that the House of Representatives will launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden’s Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland by July 6. [RELATED: Joe ‘Big Guy’ Biden in Room While Hunter Shook Down Chinese Businessman Henry Zhao: Whistleblower] The impeachment inquiry against Garland will be launched in relation to allegations from IRS whistleblowers that the Biden Justice Department stymied an investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax violations. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1673328331884843010?s=20 On Sunday the House Speaker tweeted that David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney in charge of prosecuting Hunter Biden in Delaware, “must provide answers to the House…

After a ride-along tour of the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday night, Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis announced his plan to strengthen border security at a campaign event Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas. Monday’s announcement marks the first major policy platform DeSantis has revealed since the start of his bid for the 2024 Republican nomination. “I have listened to people to in D.C. for years and years, going back decades, Republican and Democrats, always chirping about this and yet never actually bringing the issue to a conclusion, never actually getting the job done,” Gov. DeSantis said Monday. “What we’re…

After the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee released IRS whistleblower testimonies Thursday alleging political interference by the Justice Department in their investigation into Hunter Biden, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer questions related to the President’s son in a press briefing Friday. [RELATED: Whistleblowers Allege IRS, DOJ Corruption, Tie President Biden to Hunter Biden’s Business Deals [DOCUMENTS]] Just days after it was announced that Hunter Biden would be pleading guilty to two felony charges for failure to pay federal taxes, U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) of the Ways and Means Committee released testimony from two IRS…

Stacie Marie Laughton, the first openly transgender woman to win election to a state office in New Hampshire, has been arrested on child pornography charges, the Union Leader reported Thursday. [RELATED: Multiple Kids Found with Corpse, Drugs, and Sex Toys at Boston Public Housing Complex] The former Democratic New Hampshire State Rep. from Nashua was arrested on Thursday on four felony counts of distribution of child sexual abuse images. Laughton was previously arrested for stalking a woman in Hudson, New Hampshire in 2022, after which Laughton resigned from the public office, just 15 days after assuming the position won in…

After Democrats in Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly passed Governor Janet Mills’ controversial late-term abortion bill in the early hours of Friday morning, the Maine Democratic Party took to Twitter to applaud the Governor for signing a bill banning small lead weights to protect loons. [RELATED: Maine House Votes to Approve Gov. Janet Mills’ Controversial Late-Term Abortion Bill in Major Victory for Planned Parenthood] Hours of prolonged debate and procedural maneuvering culminated in a 74-72 vote to pass LD 1619, which if passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Mills would eliminate the state’s current viability restriction on abortion.…

Following an “extensive search and review process,” Portland City Manager Danielle West has selected Mark Dubois to be the city’s next permanent Police Chief, the city announced in a press release Friday. The City Council will vote on the appointment of Dubois during its Monday, June 26 meeting. If appointed, Dubois will start his service on July 31, 2023, and earn an annual salary of $165,000. This news comes just a day after the city announced the appointment of a new Interim Chief to replace the retiring Portland Police Department Interim Chief F. Heath Gorham, who will leave the position…

During her testimony Thursday in opposition to Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill, LD 1619, a top Republican alleged that Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office changed language in a publicly available guidance document on the legality of abortion in Maine. Those changes amounted to a legal shift with significant political relevance to the debate over whether Maine needed to adopt LD 1619 in order to allow women, like Dana Pierce, to legally obtain abortions in cases of late-term fatal fetal abnormalities. Assistant House Minority Leader Amy Arata (R-New Gloucester) disclosed the changes made to the guidance as an indication that…

Portland’s Corporation Counsel’s Office is conducting “legal research” into whether City Councilor At-Large Pious Ali violated a state law against electioneering near polling places by recording himself telling someone how to vote outside City Hall on June 13’s Election Day. On Wednesday, the Maine Wire obtained an email sent by Paul Riley, Elections Administrator for Portland, in which he says he has forwarded Ali’s video to the city’s attorneys for review due to an ethics complaint. “We have forwarded [the video] to the Corporation Counsel’s office for review about what can be done under City authority,” Riley wrote. According to…

At a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday entitled “Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” a queer activist witness refused to acknowledge any difference between biological men and women. President of the Human Rights Campaign Kelley Robinson, who describes herself as “the first Black, Queer woman to lead the organization,” claimed in Wednesday’s hearing that female tennis legend Serena Williams could beat men at the sport, in efforts to deny that men had any advantage over women in athletic competitions. Robinson was cross examined by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on her beliefs regarding the parity of the…

Following the retirement announcement of current Portland Police Department Interim Chief F. Heath Gorham, the city stated Thursday that Interim Assistant Chief Robert Martin will take over Gorham’s position as of June 1, 2023. Since he took the role of Interim Chief in November of 2021, Gorham has had to face several challenges, including a rise in violent crime, drug overdoses, homelessness and the COVID-19 pandemic. “My time as interim chief was not without challenges,” said Chief Gorham in the city’s Thursday press release. “I am grateful for the dedication and professionalism of the Portland Police Department staff.” After a…

A new policy directive from Maine Information Technology (MaineIT) has put a six-month moratorium on the adoption and use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology within all State of Maine agencies due to “significant” cybersecurity risks. The prohibition on AI will include large language models that generate text such as ChatGPT, as well as software that generates images, music, computer code, voice simulation, and art. It’s unclear whether and to what extent state employees have been relying on emerging AI tools as part of their jobs. Maine may be the first state in the U.S. to impose such a moratorium.…

An employee of the world’s largest asset management company, BlackRock, describes how the company attempts to stay out of the media spotlight while buying politicians and profiting off of war, according to undercover footage obtained by the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG). [RELATED: Flashback: BlackRock CEO Says Investment Firm Forces Companies to Change Behavior on Diversity with Threats of Impacts to Compensation] https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1671262303319392259?s=20 In footage secretly recorded by undercover journalists in New York, a BlackRock recruiter named Serge Varlay explains how the investment company is able to “run the world.” “They [BlackRock] don’t want to be in the news. They don’t…

After rejecting an effort to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) last week over his role in the debunked Trump-Russia collusion investigation, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that a new iteration of the censure resolution has the votes to pass Wednesday evening. The bill sets up the first official punishment Rep. Schiff will face for dozens of baseless claims the Intelligence Committee member made about Russian activities surrounding the 2016 presidential election and former Republican President Donald Trump. https://twitter.com/realannapaulina/status/1671308899884974084?s=20 Rep. Paulina Luna said that this second attempt to censure Schiff removes the possibility of a $16 million fine,…

An “accounting error” resulted in the Department of Defense sending an extra $6.2 billion in aid to Ukraine, a Pentagon spokesperson said on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1671264693951008768?s=20 The overestimation of the value of the aid sent to Ukraine was originally reported by the Pentagon in May to be $3 billion. Following a more thorough investigation, Pentagon officials revised the total value of the accounting error was $6.2 billion — $3.6 billion for fiscal year 2023 and $2.6 billion for fiscal year 2022. The accounting error was due to using the replacement cost rather than the net value of equipment sent to Ukraine,…

In the latest episode of Tucker Carlson’s massively popular new show “Tucker on Twitter” released Tuesday, Carlson roasts fellow Maine resident Stephen King for writing a glowing review of Hunter Biden’s memoir. Carlson’s newest episode centers around President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, and how he has used his last name to peddle his uninspired art and writing in exchange for money, and made foreign business deals while allegedly kicking money back to his father. [RELATED: Hunter Biden Strikes Deal on Federal Criminal Tax Charges, Felony Gun Possession Charge] Hunter Biden was approached by publisher Simon & Schuster in 2021 –…

The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is a failing institution that is based on white supremacy, according to comments Speaker of the House Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) made Monday at a Juneteenth event at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. Calling MDOE part of an “oppressive” and “supremacist” system and ideology, Speaker Talbot Ross then twice called on listeners to storm the Capitol. Talbot Ross said that MDOE is complicit in making sure African-American history and culture are not taught in Maine schools as she delivered unprompted remarks at the Juneteenth “State of Black Maine Symposium” in Portland. “The…

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has struck a deal with the U.S. Attorney of Delaware in which he is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for failing to pay federal income tax, according to a court document filed Tuesday. [RELATED: Grassley Claims Ukrainian Exec Has Audio of Bidens Discussing Bribery Scheme] Hunter Biden also faces a felony charge for the illegal possession of a firearm while being addicted to controlled substances, which will be subject to the conditions of a separate pretrial deal. The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney of Delaware David Weiss, author of the letter outlining the…

Democrats in the House of Representatives on Friday rejected a floor amendment that would have required MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program, to cover the expenses of transgender individuals who elect to reverse their sex-change procedures. The amendment to provide funding for so-called “detransition” procedures would also have required coverage for any complications arising from what the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) calls “gender-affirming care.” As a result, it remains uncertain whether MaineCare would cover the healthcare costs for a transgender individual facing complications caused by hormone therapy or who wants to detransition. The 54,000-member American College of Cardiology has…

Portland City Councilor At-Large Pious Ali went live on Facebook outside Portland City Hall on Election Day, and may have inadvertently broadcast himself violating state laws against electioneering near a polling location. As Councilor Ali walked outside of a side entrance to City Hall, an off-camera man asks him what he is doing, and Ali tells the man that he is telling people how to vote on that day’s ballot questions. In the video, Ali appeared to be instructing voters at City Hall how to vote on two ballot questions, even seeming to acknowledge during the stream that campaigning close…

Maine’s Republican lawmakers scored a victory on Thursday by rejecting a bill that would have added a three-day waiting period on receiving a legally purchased firearm. “Year after year, we’ve seen extreme gun control policies pushed by out-of-state organizations that seek to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding Mainers,” said Senate Republican Leader Trey Stewart (R-Aroostook) in a GOP statement Thursday. “Today, Maine Senate Republicans stood firm and led the effort to defeat these extreme proposals,” Stewart said. [RELATED: Maine Democrat Wants Gun Control for “Abnormally Dangerous Assault Style Weapons” But She Doesn’t Know What That Means] LD 60, “An…

On Thursday the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a follow-up work session on House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross’ (D-Portland) bill, LD 1613, which aims to strengthen Maine’s laws against racial profiling in policing. In a June 7 work session before the Judiciary on LD 1613, Speaker Talbot Ross misrepresented the position of the Maine State Police (MSP), according to an email from an MSP Lieutenant Colonel to committee staff obtained by the Maine Wire. Talbot Ross claimed that the MSP supported an amended version of the bill that included a definition of “profiling” provided by the ACLU of Maine, but…