There is real science to do on the moon. Only humans can do that science. Running a manned mission around the moon is a prerequisite to that.

9 total respondents with "other" gender and weird weighting formulas create nonsensical results. Funny ones, but still nonsense

It's frustrating that I can't look at the #maine feed without seeing hundreds of "but is Collins concerned" and "huh buh Nazi platner" posts from people who only ever think about Maine through its Senate seat and lobster.

I will point out another thing working against Mills this cycle: Sara Gideon, who was much younger in 2020, but hardly campaigned besides making like a hundred cringy ads and couldn't spend all of her money before the election. She was crowned by the party before the primary even happened too.

Anti-Semitism provides cover for bad actors like Netanyahu who use global anti-Semitism to justify Israeli aggression.

Anyone who thinks he'll be a fetterman 2.0, in the lead up to 2022, did fetterman: organize to help return a progressive to the local school board after anti-trans carpetbaggers voted him out Organized canvass drives to protect voting rights And march with Somali citizens against ICE?

Short answer: no. Long 1: because of the symbolism attached with Platner's (since covered) tattoo and his past comments on reddit, misinformation about who knew what and what his role was as a security contractor for the ambassador in Afghanistan in 2018 have given people here a twisted perspective

Regardless of what you believe about platner, he is in the race for one reason: he thinks establishment Democrats cannot defeat Susan Collins. Right now, he's the only person who has established more than an outside chance of beating her since she was first elected nearly thirty years ago.

It's really interesting how many of the mills-deadenders forget that she has 100% name-id and still polls behind Collins in an environment literally made for progressives to have every advantage. Like her ceiling appears to be losing to Collins by 2 points, even in a Dem+10 national environment

Tarriffs are a mortgage against your public's consumer power. They work to a point, when your imports help other countries economies chug along. But eventually those bills come due. Then it's our bills that are impacted and if we still need those imports, our leverage disappears

It's notable to me that some of the most aggressive anti-platner voices on here are virulently Zionist, to the point of even supporting the current war in Iran. It's rich of them to accuse someone of being war criminals or nazis while excusing the genocidal actions of an apartheid ethnostate

There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about Platner, but this is completely taking his quote out of context deliberately in bad faith.

Susan Collins spat in the face of her constituents who overwhelmingly rejected a watered-down SAVE Act last year. It's drawing attention to the general neglect of her constituents.

The party organization, especially in Maine, needs to wake up to the reality that it should be helping more unknown candidates get started, even in "pay your dues" positions like the Senate, or we'll be stuck with bad choices between octogenarians over and over again.

2026 is going to be a record setting anti-incumbent/anti-establishment election and in a panic, Democrats decided they can defeat an outsider populist candidate with an incumbent octogenarian and a strategy that now appears to be complaining on Twitter how all the voters are wrong. ‘Kay.

"No community work?" He helped run one of the largest GOTV drives to defend absentee voting. He also was involved in local organizing for the last few years particularly in getting anti-trans carpetbaggers out of school boards

Fortunately, he has a history of direct action and on the ground-organizing in defense of immigrant communities and trans people. He set up an independent canvass brigade for protecting the absentee vote on the ballot last summer/fall before declaring his campaign

Big part of my deal is reminding liberals our media habits are very different from the average non political person. And I don’t mean that in a value judgement way, I watch garbage tv too. But it means people simply aren’t aware of 99.9% of the stuff we think is “everywhere.”

The stupid levels really are just too high. We should do something about that.

Any video ad with significant AI content should require a full 1-second frame to start the ad saying "the following is ai-generated"

You never ever have to "hand it to the Post for calling people antisemitic" 1. They believe that being pro-palestine is antisemitism, like to any degree, even if you're jewish 2. It's an effing Murdoch rag, people.

"We’ll need to pay for culverts one way or another, we may as well spend that money wisely." www.bangordailynews.com/2026/03/09/o...

They were home with covid. Gideon barely campaigned, basically ignored the primary, and had tens of millions in *unspent* out-of-state funding. She did not provide a cohesive message beyond "I'm not Collins" and certain subsets of the electorate stuck with the comfort of a familiar figure

Well Maine is only the land of Quaint Seaside Vacations and nothing else, and its inhabitants are all dumb yokels. So obviously let’s dogpile on the POC offering explanations why people aren’t into Mills.

This post is one of the many reasons I haven't written part 2 of my piece on Graham Platner. People are more interested in clinging to their beliefs than listening to someone who isn't a traditional journalist who isn't white but lives in Maine. I'm so tired of people outside of Maine.

I am neither condemning nor defending @grahamformaine.bsky.social here, I am pointing out that some of his centrist and left critics have devolved into absolute full-blown lunacy.

Speaking for myself, it's cause I live in Maine and this is the position we can vote for right now.

I read that report. It's heavy on innuendo / surmise and light on documentation. A lot of "this probably shows this" and "this probably means that". And the whole grandfathering thing is bassackwards. Sleeves were grandfathered as long as he stayed in. But he had left.

There was an exemption to the rule banning forearm tattoos for "currently serving Marines.” But Platner had already left the Marines when he tried to reenlist so the exemption did not apply. This is a baseless smear. 🧵

The report is heavy on surmise & innuendo; light on documentation & fact checking. It's telling that it got its main premise wrong. The sleeve was grandfathered as long as Platner was still in the Marines; however, he had left, so it no longer was grandfathered.

DSCC shoved Sara Gideon down our throat in 2020; over Maine Dem party's objections; we knew she was a weak candidate; that's how Collins won last time. We don't trust them to pick our candidate now. He's only voicing what we Maine Dems already know; oddly he's the only candidate brave enough.

An actual working class fisherman wont run for Senate though, since they have no safety net. Platner's on the water which is a step up from people like Mills or Wood who've had desk jobs their entire lives. His privilege is what lets him go from nobody->organizer->candidate so fast and fight mills

I mean 40-50% of saco's kids go to Biddeford, the neighboring city that has a unified school district. It's a private school that takes people out of the public system. Hotchkiss would've taken the family supplying most of the tuition. He finished HS at one that wouldn't have

A good concrete affordability bill #mepolitics mainemorningstar.com/2026/03/05/m...

I keep hearing 'if [platner]* is the best Dems have to offer, then the party is useless' And these people are getting it completely wrong. The party offered up Mills, who Maine is rejecting (so far), *because* they think the party is useless. Platner is the insurgent candidate.

I cannot imagine how *consolidation* would be 30-70% more expensive per position

Based on the breadth and scope of influence on both ancient and modern history and culture, White Christian Nationalism actually dwarfs Islamic Extremism. In fact, much of the Islamic Extremism that exists today was in-part provoked by (primarily “white”) Christian Extremism over the centuries.

It's really effing weird that every time platner comes up, it's always people with no ties to the state who push the heavy scold campaign and they never have any other Maine posts besides calling us idiots for failing to vote out Collins

I encourage people who have questions about the podcast Graham Platner went on to watch it. It’s very good. They talked about migrant worker rights, Graham defended the Somali community in ME, & they condemn the murders of Pretti and Good. www.youtube.com/live/JLTfYFR...

I just know I'm going to see people freaking out when he wins about The Democrats Are Okay With Nazis Now and that is so not what is happening.

bsky is under the impression they can sink Platner by sharing enough hit pieces on him and it's really weird. the problem is not that people don't know Platner's a weird dumb guy it's that they still like him more than Mills

Israeli in socal calling a trans Jew a Nazi... Likely story

To those criticising the Obama admin in response to those of us denouncing the horrific acts of the Trump regime, I understand and actually agree with a lot of that criticism. But we *can’t* change what the Obama admin did. We *can* change what the Trump regime is doing now. We must stay focused.

Look, apparently even mills' internal polling shows her down to him by like 20 points. I've yet to see a Mills for Senate poster or banner or lawn-sign, while I see platner stuff from kittery to Auburn (I've not had the chance to get up north since the campaign started).

My latest substack on the U.S. Senate race in Maine. substack.com/home/post/p-...

And then they are counting on those explosions to scorch any possible common ground between people who don't want to see their enlisted loved ones die in pointless war, and the movement that opposes pointless war.

trump’s making slaughter houses more cruel for animals and more dangerous for workers, according to an article on Vox.

I mean literally the only hit for calling the podcast guy antisemetic is the article itself.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

I mean he's (Newsome) definitely going to govern as terrible for homeless people, so I wouldn't put being bad on trans rights past him