Holy crap that’s a lot. About to go tell my husband I’ve got over $1000 of tomato plants upstairs… 🌱 🍅 💰

A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

it’s going to be fun, as the Platner oppo does drop, finding out where individual people’s lines actually *are* and who doesn’t have any and never did

Yes please don't forget y'all, it may not be in headlines, but DC is still occupied by federal forces. They're all around us patrolling. They haven't left, they've become normalized. And before you accuse us of being lazy chumps, we're resisting constantly.

Even these turbulent dipshits know they don't got Virginia anymore lol

Doing that the week the Confederate court announced further erosion of the VRA it's been extra heartening to see so many people tell us we need to "move on" from reservations about those with Nazi iconography on their bodies. Again, super allies.

I really don't think they understand how insane it looks to tell POC this guy is going to help fight white nationalists in this moment. I really don't think they understand how foolish and untrustworthy anyone who claims to be anti racist is trying to spin this great white hope.

All of us

Graham Platner's perspective on our military came from him hanging out with people who thought it was cool to get Nazi tattoos. My perspective was different from when I served our country, but that's the difference between the liberal perspective versus wherever the fuck his perspective comes from.

I deleted my posts on certain things re: Platner. Like I said: I'm ethically pretty conflicted here. My advice is, as it has always been: Get ahead of the GOP.

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They’re trying to get him to do it

Secret Service knew the day before he was there , at the Hilton, what he was telling his family. That he had guns. This was allowed to happen. This all theater on Trump’s part.

The news be like: 6 DEMOCRATS HELPED REPUBLICANS PASS BILL THAT WOULD KILL BABIES WHO COUGH. *Looks inside* 6 democrats just signed a bill with 3,000,000 republicans that states babies should be killed if they cough. The addition was added 20 mins before closing without democrat knowledge.

Now, people could argue that Platner could so seriously damage the entire Democratic Party that the consequences of that are worth weighing against the judiciary. I think Platner is a serious enough problem that--unlike Manchin or Fetterman--I do take this problem seriously.

The next time I eat Chinese food cold in front of the fridge in the middle of the night I'll be thinking "there's a bunch of people in my phone who understand. I am not alone"

Any one with these many problem should disqualify them from running for Congress especially in the Democratic party, not to long ago just one of these issues would have been a disqualifier. #GrahamPlatner

Bear in mind David Hogg endorsed this man early on, just to show you what a fraud David Hogg is.

Oh, and my ex contemplated doing the same shit and going army after getting out of the marines, which would have been possible with the lack of paperwork on *why* he got out.

Greasy spoon Chinese food? Chicken fried rice, egg roll, and chicken with broccoli; rice and chicken with broccoli for leftovers. Tropical Chinese in Miami? Preferably on someone else’s card? Peking duck, salt & pepper prawns, dry sauté string beans, and Singapore noodles. Miami’s only draw for me.

If winning Congress comes at the cost of throwing Black voters & Jewish voters under the bus, the party does not deserve to control Congress. If a singular Senate seat comes through excuse-making for rape apologia & Nazi apologia, that’s not fighting facism, that’s saying you want it from the left.

Telling Jewish donors that make up roughly 40-50% of DNC donations to support a wehraboo-at-best is offensive. Telling Black voters to eat shit & like it as people are still fucking doing online re Texas as opposed to outreach & listening is not the behavior of people that care about harm reduction.

That “vote blue no matter who” line applies to Democrats. That’s not what he claims to be. He is a self-proclaimed progressive who declared himself rabidly anti-Hillary DURING 2016, a self-proclaimed multiple time Collins voter himself, & someone who we DON’T KNOW the presidential voting record of.

Arbitrary purity tests.

Florida made its bed.

I have 7 or 8 fans running on the indoor plants throughout the day, so there’s no need to manually jostle them around every time I’m in there, but I love leaving there with hands that smell like tomato or basil or rosemary, so I can’t help myself.

My little conjoined tomato plant(s). I’m good about separating them when they go into the bigger blocks if I happen to have two sprout (and with the 3/4” blocks, I usually only drop one seed anyway), but these guys came up fully joined. It’ll be interesting to watch when they move outside. 🌱

This painting will be in the Festival of Cats over the weekend in Margate www.festivalofcats.com

Repost to make it die faster

Well, I know how my day is going now.

Here are the top 5 dogs of April!

Funny how Mr. "anti-establishment" only needed a phone call from Chuck Schumer to change his tune.

We’re not supposed to coronate candidates until the primary is over. I swear the people pushing Platner believed that until a week ago.

There are three people that Mainers can vote for in the upcoming democratic primary and to ignore my very existence and viability as a candidate, (especially when I’m polling in second place), does a disservice to Maine voters and is a complete disregard for our democracy. 2/2

“In addition to his work stateside, Costello spent time abroad with U.S. AID, an international program recently subjected to deep cuts by the Trump administration.” I know I grabbed onto Costello as a last-ditch effort to beat Platner but he sounds like a genuinely good guy in his own right.

I finally visited the Alex Pretti memorial. Damn, Minneapolis, we've been through a lot. A lot of things touched me, but this kid's letter broke open a bunch of things I've been keeping in tidy boxes to deal with later. We need to win, for them.

These fake ass leftists think ableism is winning. Their Nazi hero is still using the r slur in 2026 & they think people who have a problem are "schizos." You gotta be packing more than hate to defend your candidate's hate.

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

Thinking dudes with Nazi tattoos are actual Nazis who knew what they were doing when they got them & kept them their whole lives is bluesky groupthink apparently. Sure boss but you don’t think it’s groupthink to tie yourself in knots justifying Nazism? You give a Nazi an inch, they take a mile.

This is why it’s impossible to tell what’s real

People keep saying that everyone is judging Platner based on what he did at 22, but no, the issue is that he didn't get rid of the tattoo until this year. He spent years making a whole lot of people feel unsafe whenever he took off his shirt and we're supposed to treat him like a smol bean.

committing the cardinal sin of clearly thinking you're being funny when you're not

He actually spoke with their leader, Tim Iran

The worst mistake society ever made was inventing phones and computers with cameras because I'm sick of seeing yall sitting in your cars and passionately literally talking about nothing.

Track AIPAC’s case collapses before you even finish reading the graphic. The folks pushing this graphic weren’t out there with Ala Stanford when she was delivering COVID tests and vaccines in Philly. They weren’t building the Black Doctors Consortium. She was. There’s more… 🧵

Still trying to figure out exactly how to ethically communicate about it, but my current calculation comes down to this: -There's Oppo. A lot of it. The GOP has it -The GOP is planning how to dump it. -Tying the party to the man before the dump is inadvisable The Fall Surprise encompasses everyone

Pay attention to Tim Scott's verbiage, here. "He has to be exposed." Then, there is the rumor mill. Quarantine the race. Let Maine be Maine.

Never mind. Platner stans are the funniest motherfuckers on the planet. This is hilarious.

This is what Platner said in 2020 - sixteen years after going to Iraq, a year after joining Blackwater, and only six years ago. His repentance rather conveniently synchronized with his senate campaign.