This is what I wrote about Platner back in October of 2025, and I think it holds up okay. The popular movement that grew around him in Maine is real and inspiring, the guy himself was always fugazy at best. At this point I just hope the former outlasts the latter. defector.com/what-job-is-...

Please forgive my pointing out the obvious inanity that perhaps Trump’s most important foreign policy, um, principle and ambition is that the US not be “laughed at.”

One reason why working class voters were not supporting Platner? They saw him as lacking “character” and “moral values.”

God forbid the party should act like a fucking party www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

We all deserve better, all the time, than to have one of the biggest jackasses to ever walk this earth currently in office as the President of the United States.

This means choose a candidate whose Schnauzer or Terrier has that moustache look. In all seriousness, though, you can’t make any more demands, dude, drop out.

Trump should endorse Platner so we can really wrap this up and put it aside.

Platner is quickly losing key endorsements in the Maine Senate race

A President is given credit when things go well and assigned blame when they go poorly. There’s no reason to suspend that iron law of American political life now.

We’ve got a lot of work to do. And a certain kind of money - entitled, branded, “exclusive,” hard to access, dispersed too widely and too small when found - is the enemy of that work.

He did it the right way. Trump detonated the team and their chances anyway.

The Telemundo announcers are discussing how, "through no fault of their own," the US players have now earned "the antipathy" of "the entire footballing world." They're also openly speculating about whether the political controversy distracted the players.

Relevant.

All true.

Heads up!

Clairvoyant vibe decoding.

Yep.

The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them

Agreed. Collins was going to beat Platner without this. If he drops out and can be replaced, her entire campaign strategy goes out the window and she could very easily find herself in trouble.

If Platner does not drop out and democrats don’t revoke their endorsements, this will absolutely impact other races.

If Platner were to drop out by July 13, the Maine Democratic Party would be able to replace him on the ballot.

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Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Platner should drop out, and before July 13th. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

like, this isn't some little thing to shrug off, the guy she invited to the wedding runs and profits from concentration camps which very likely have held and even killed some taylor swift fans

They could do it. Poch could simply not play him in the next match. It’s that simple.

Reupping this: I am serious. Use Trump's tampering to make a problem for him on inauguration. Find a way to force Markwayne to answer questions about birthrate citizenship. Rile Mike Davis up. Plant someone to ask Stephen if he's resigning.

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The heat wave may have broken, but New Yorkers aren't in the clear just yet. Rain and storms will begin this evening and intensify overnight. Heavy downpours may bring flash flooding to streets and basements, with flood risks peaking during the morning commute.

He might. Pochettino clearly likes to make up his own mind about things. They would have been preparing to play without Balogun. If Poch starts Pepi or Wright, does not play Balogun, and the USMNT wins, then everybody wins, right? Except Belgium.

There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.

It is really best for everyone that we NOT allow Trump to take credit for anything or in any way become a protagonist of this World Cup.

Elon Musk, the literal richest man on the planet–the world’s first TRILLIONAIRE–is paying the SAME amount in Social Security taxes as an electrician who makes $185,000 a year.   That's outrageous.    We need to scrap the cap so the richest people in the world pay their fair share.

To Senator McMorrow, her family, her staff, and her supporters: thank you for the work you did for democracy. The same party insiders she had the courage to challenge have been bullying anyone who opposes their chosen candidate.

Election Day wasn't the end of our work. Instead of packing up our campaign office, we turned it into a mutual aid hub. Political organizing shouldn't stop after Election Day, and neither should showing up for your community.

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Oh my god, it just hit me He was staring at the screen because he was waiting to see his own face He was waiting for his own reflection to turn around My God

MAGA is running on fumes. We all can see the evidence all around us. They will still hurt many people, while they hold offices and power. If you helped elect, by volunteering or voting, progressive fighters over the last few years, thank you!…

There was no need. Also, DC statehood now.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold/And it's overturned the order of the soul

Heavens.

Plume evolution shows the toxic core over DC's Ward 8 and PG County in Maryland, the part of the region with the highest Black population

ICE flights. Saturday, July 4, 2026. At least 85 flights on 28 planes. At least 12 removal flights, 6 to Mexico alone. One year ago today, ICE sent 8 men to South Sudan. Only 3 have been released. Still jailed: Enrique Arias-Hierro, Kyaw Mya, Nyo Myint, Thongxay Nilakout & José Rodriguez-Quiñones.

statehood for DC imo

USMNT captain Tim Ream: "We've said this as a group with all our different backgrounds, where we all have grown up, it's a true representation of what America is." www.espn.com/soccer/story...

seeing more of a particular brand of aggro post lately ("if you weren't a coward you'd be doing xyz thing that would have you dead or in jail" from posters who appear to themselves neither be dead or in jail). could just be feds/bots/trolls trying to entrap people on here but a PSA just in case

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"