Protesters of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins disrupted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday morning for the completion of a years-long road renovation in downtown Searsport.
They yelled over speeches by Collins, Maine’s Republican senator, and other officials and forced organizers to relocate the outdoor event to the inside of Town Hall. Collins eventually made some remarks celebrating the project and the federal funds that made it possible. She briefly acknowledged the protesters during her remarks — without responding to their specific attacks — and individually spoke to some of them afterward.
They argued that she was complicit in Israel’s war against Gaza and had given support to the recent Republican megabill that, among other things, cut Medicaid — although Collins voted against it.
The hijacking of the local event was an example of growing frustration with the Trump administration’s actions and with Collins, who has bucked the president on some occasions.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/...l-support/
They yelled over speeches by Collins, Maine’s Republican senator, and other officials and forced organizers to relocate the outdoor event to the inside of Town Hall. Collins eventually made some remarks celebrating the project and the federal funds that made it possible. She briefly acknowledged the protesters during her remarks — without responding to their specific attacks — and individually spoke to some of them afterward.
They argued that she was complicit in Israel’s war against Gaza and had given support to the recent Republican megabill that, among other things, cut Medicaid — although Collins voted against it.
The hijacking of the local event was an example of growing frustration with the Trump administration’s actions and with Collins, who has bucked the president on some occasions.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/...l-support/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
