What is the Epstein Class? Jeffrey Epstein and his associates are obviously bad (or much worse depending on their level of involvement), but there doesn't seem to be an obvious grouping of people that could be considered a class.

This is an odd (or dishonest) take. She is citing Eric Swalwell's unknown behavior as reason not to vote for Xavier Becerra because of a known issue with his staff. By the same token, you shouldn't support anybody because they could have unknown behavior like Eric Swallwell.

Nothing says focused on the working class like Zohran Mamdani holding a star-studded fundraiser.

Ridiculous New York Post framing, but Graham Platner spent more time with other elites: "The oyster farmer and self-styled ardent foe of the billionaire class attended the April 23 fundraiser at Bittar’s house to rub elbows with wealthy filmmakers, actors, and other elite New Yorkers last month."

"Asked about Mamdani's $8 promise, most vendors responded with skepticism. Chiefly because solving their demand drought — bringing tourists and office workers back to halal hubs with money to spend — is outside the mayor's purview. So are corporate RTO policies."

George Conway is running for Congress in a Democratic held district. The reason why Congress isn't doing more against Donald Trump is because Republicans are in the majority. His winning wouldn't change that.

Graham Platner's tax plan is really a mishmash of proposals. This is most obvious when it calls for going after major corporations dodging taxes to lower taxes on "small businesses and self-employed individuals," but then later say it would do the same thing to instead pay for other things.

At the end of Graham Platner's tax plan it says that it "make[s] high quality childcare affordable for every family." No where in the plan is anything like that mentioned.

Is this something that actually would resonate with young people?

Billionaires are bad until Bernie Sander's group supports them.

i genuinely think the YIMBYLAND guy is the only prominent YIMBY gullible enough to fall for Spencer pratt’s NIMBY slop

The Sunrise Movement endorsed Analilia Mejia weeks after she was elected to Congress.

Janet Mills was too old, at 78, but a 79-year-old, Ed Markey, and 84-year-old, Bernie Sanders, are not too old. Try to explain that? Bernie Sanders was reelected to the Senate in 2024. So, is this an endorsement for a 2030 re-election or 2028 presidential campaign?

Meanwhile, "environmental group" Sunrise Movement spends most of their time posting about Israel/Palestine, attacking Democrats, and recently endorsed Bernie Sanders for god knows what.

We now have one of the co-founders of @marchforourlives.bsky.social endorsing a guy who loves assault rifles and the DSA endorsing a literal billionaire capitalist.

Actually addressing a problem is now illogical. This unfortunately seems like a good summation of the view of a lot of the Left today.

Graham Platner's position is the kind of position that people like him criticize when it comes to other issues. They wouldn't be okay with saying to focus on a public option instead of Medicare for All right now, for example.

Graham Platner position is that an assault weapons ban is a bad idea and instead other things should be focused on, the likes of safe storage training, and limiting access. Who is out there for an assault weapons ban, but not those other things?

It's almost like these people attach themselves to hot slogans even if they never really agreed with them. And then move away from them when they are no longer useful for them.

If you want to know why some of us lefty Jews were uncomfortable with all the defenses of Graham Platner and his Nazi flirtations, it was never just about Platner himself. It’s because one of the most prominent left-wing Platner defenders has now moved onto defending MTG.

Kat Abughazaleh continues to propose the government spend enormous amounts of money without explaining how to pay for it. (And while avoiding having a job to help fund it.) But don't worry, someone thinks that $30 billion would be a significant down payment on that.

Kat Abughazaleh wants people to give her money to pay for the legal defense for her direct action protesting instead of using her George Washinton University degree in international affairs to get a job. Talk about privilege.

Tom Steyer's California gubernatorial campaign account has only 581 followers (one of which is Kat Abughazaleh's boyfriend). That is probably explained in by its oldest post only being from April 28.

The wealthy often think (or at least claim) they are not wealthy.

It should be easy to criticize Hamas, no? #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2026/05/08/p...

"Platner was subject to one of the most intense smear campaigns in the history of modern electoral politics." That "smear" being that Graham Platner is a Nazi because he had a Nazi tattoo. Actual smear campaigns have more intense than a WW2 buff claiming he didn't realize he had a Nazi tattoo.

‪George Conway is doing the bridge to a new generation thing in this video. It's a weird thing to bring back.

I'm old enough to remember when @davidhogg.bsky.social trashed @marypeltola.com for being "weak on gun control."

Is there a good defense of Kat Abughazaleh running a vanity charity over supporting existing charities in Chicago?

Is a "fearless Democrat" a euphemism for someone who became a Democrat in 2025 and starts running in a safe Democratic district several states away from where they were living?

"A new campaign ad from Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is raising concerns from some Jewish Mainers who believe one phrase could be seen as an antisemitic dog whistle." Does someone really believe "Esptein class" is an antisemitic dog whistle?

Isn't the whole Bernie Bro scene a cult? They are on the other side of the horseshoe from MAGA, after all.

@jvl.bsky.social "I do not like the Platner stans because what I see from them like that freaks me the fuck out. That looks cultish."

When your defense of Graham Platner's tattoo involves having to pretend that he isn't from an elite background, you have a problem. Are the right going to ignore this or are they going to run ads on the real Graham Platner?

Donald Trump supporters like him because he is honest, despite constantly lying. Graham Platner supporters like him because he is honest, despite already racking up plenty of caught lies and falsehoods. What's the difference?

The video doesn't present the claimed energy. It comes across more like this.

Someone who was an intern for a US Senator when she was in college and was the youngest woman elected to Congress claims she doesn't have further political office ambitions. This is something that someone is supposed to believe?

This quote from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is so crazy. How is she not an elite? She went to an expensive private university, while there she interned for Sen. Ted Kennedy, she has been a member of Congress since 2019, she is a leader of a large political movement.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: "My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, Senate, House seats, elected officials, come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever." Single-payer healthcare could be undone. And she isn't even willing to address the tax increase needed to pay for it now.

We are already at the stage where Graham Platner is seeming to suggest ignoring court rulings: "“I’m old enough to remember when Republicans in Ohio just ignored court rulings repeatedly and did it anyway,” Platner wrote on the social platform X." Does this remind anyone of a certain President?

Zohran Mamdani's supposed $6 billion mistake is that an office building, 350 Park Avenue, isn't going to be built. Except that building is probably going to be built.

"The peer workforce initiative is part of a broader effort that began under former Mayor Eric Adams, which aims to ramp up the city’s spending of its opioid settlement dollars to help drive down overdose deaths."

It seems rather telling about the Bernie Bro project that they want to greatly increase government spending, but at least some of them treat it like a racial slur if someone says they should be taxed.

The original poster here, doesn't even seem to understand why candidates are winning elections. Zohran Mamdani winning for example wasn't caused by Donald Trump. The Democratic primary had a large incredibly weak field, and he was talking about being focused on doing the actual job of mayor.

Graham Platner has come out for getting rid the federal gas tax, claiming that it gets in the way of decreasing fossil fuel usage. This is like saying that taxes on cigarettes get in the way of decreasing cigarette smoking. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

If you want a laugh, Graham Planter stans are spending part of today defending him protesting the Iraq War and then joining the military to fight in it. Here was someone on Reddit creating an alternate reality where Graham Platner joined the military before the war. www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...

Graham Platner's campaign is spending thousands of dollars on CALLTIME.AI, which "offers improved political fundraising through automation and artificial intelligence." Are the anti-AI Bernie Bros going to criticize him over that or just ignore it?

Graham Platner has boosted the salary he is paying his wife from the campaign. Up from about $1,799 every two week to about $2,647.

It wasn't a Nazi tattoo; it was a pirate tattoo. You can't make up more ridiculous excuses than the real ones.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani allies want him to make sure the NYPD doesn't appear to do something: "The rules, they wrote, should dictate when “disengagement” and “refusal of assistance” to ICE is appropriate so NYPD officers “do not aid, facilitate, or appear to facilitate civil immigration enforcement.”"