Netflix is struggling with keeping viewers "hooked" because it keeps canceling shows after 1 season so no one trusts a Netflix show to last. Its that simple, regardless of whatever their bullshit internal analytics are informing them.

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

Maybe they should change the name to Horseshoe Media.

It is impossible to know whether Mr Platner Who I Did Not Support would have won the election he was already in a dead heat in before it came out that he was a rapist. All we can do is wonder

Incredible. "July 24, Trump is expected to sit among journalists at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. At the same time, his Justice Department is pursuing one of the most aggressive efforts in recent memory to force reporters to testify..." www.status.news/p/new-york-t...

Look at @jaketapper.bsky.social having his “Reek” moment. What a little bitch.

Private citizens and voters are free to think and say whatever they want. But what Palmer states is what it means to be a professional and serious politician. Morris Katz and his clique were unprofessional and unserious and look what happened.

Blocked for calling out blatant racism. OK.

Of course people who performatively attack univerisities are actually very aware of their value

I'm proud to have worked under President Obama to help protect Michigan's auto industry.

Nowhere in this tweet is "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"

Chris, bluntly, if you'd have done your job as a journalist the Platner flameout might have been several weeks ago, but you chose instead to lob him softballs after he was accused of domestic violence.

Imagine just outright admitting in no uncertain terms that you would vote for a man who committed rape and tattooed the symbol worn by Auschwitz guards on his body before you'd ever align yourself with liberals because you think they're buzzkills.

‘Stanning rape to own the libtards.’ Far-left or Republican?

That the pods and influencers elevated this is a kind of gaslighting. Scandals are scandals not marks of authenticity.

Probably the most distilled possible essence of this whole discourse that I've seen so far.

The Babylon Bee smoking the Onion

It's hilariously predictable that Warren endorsed Platner as part of her eternal quest to be accepted as one of the cool progressives and now she's the only person being held morally at fault by the cool progressives for having supported him.

Oh wow I can't believe it

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see these cultists put out a headline reading, "Mamdani creates 11,000 member department tasked with extinguishing fires around NYC."

Another rich trust fund failson who is cosplaying as “working class”? Whodathunkit

this giggling motherfucker who gave us the working class hero in Maine is the heir to the toys r us fortune, so he doesn't need a job.

Hit dogs hollering everywhere

It's kinda wild watching leftist/DSA folks discuss *in public* just how desperately they want to control the Senate/throw out Schumer. Just rapidly shuffling through candidates and kingmaking in their heads for fun. All so they can fantasize about removing Schumer. Not fighting Republicans.

Just slightly, slightly, ever so slight, difference in the tone of economic reporting around grocery prices since Biden left office.

I’ve heard it all now. Ken Klippenstein is a centrist!

So 'actually both side supported Platner' is just one of those things every acount with 10,000+ followers has to pretend to believe now like how previous Based Stronk Man Fetterman only turned into a reactionary chud because he got bonked on the head by a bowling ball.

So you guys are pretty mad about your candidate having to drop out huh

I actually would think that, Graham

My god, the fucking hubris of these folks! How is a state party nominating convention the same as the “DC establishment” making the choice. This mess wouldn’t even exist if these clowns hadn’t boosted a rapist with a Nazi tattoo.

responding to a bad poll (which wasn't even that bad!) by immediately lying to claim that it was sponsored by AIPAC should be a pretty enormous alarm bell in the current climate tbh

There is a bait and switch part here which is quite important IMO: Israel matters basically not at all to voters, even Dem primary voters, but it is the obsessive focus of some activists and elites, who want to present wins on other issues as validations of their Israel obsession

That story about Daniel Moraff and Morris Katz trying to groom Oyster Boy for a 2028 presidential run instead of AOC is just a reminder how the left is a toxic old boy network that will never support a woman's presidential bid.

Meet the team who vetted Graham Platner. Their reaction after the interviewer asks about the Nazi tattoo speaks volumes.

“Liberals are a kind of conservative” is just an incomprehensible dumb thing to believe, like “dogs are a type of cats.” Leftists, on the other hand, might be a type of conservative. They keep trying to help fascists win more power. Liberals try very hard to prevent that.

not Abdul leading the uncommitted movement

A DfP issue poll this morning that validates the prejudices of highly engaged leftmost quintile political-anxieties? a Throwback Thursday I see

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

I would appreciate it if the @nytimes.com treated this deeply hateful and profoundly unwell ideologue with about one-tenth of as much scrutiny and skepticism as they do any random trans person on Bluesky.

Like most such people in this sub-tendency, Platner himself is downwardly mobile from an upper middle class family and seeks a variety of conspiracies and groups to blame for it, despite his failures being very obviously his own doing.

Many people thoroughly embarrassed themselves over this, but there’s a special place of ignominy for Jon Favreau, Character Witness

I don’t care what swing voters claim to want. Swing voters have heads filled with cotton and bugs’ legs. I’ve met 3 year olds with more brain function.

Promising big policy changes a minority party will not be able to deliver is a great way to erode trust in politics even more.

“Ah well, nevertheless…”

Feels notable that Platner was presented as the archetypal “FIGHT!” guy and his campaign was run by “Fight Agency” and now at the critical moment, the only thing they’re fighting for is their own cash flow and reputation. When the chips are down, they simply don’t care about actually fighting Trump

All the big protests over Israel and Palestine stopped as soon as Trump got in office, nothing he's done has gotten a fraction as much viral outrage as was directed toward Holocaust Harris, and you're still using it as prop for why people who supported the nazi tattoo rapist are morally superior.

One (hopefully) last thing on Platner: The reason I never really bought in to the "he's obviously not a Nazi, he's an ideologically incoherent chud" explanation is that Nazism was never a movement known for it's ideological coherence or lack of chudery. It was a pretty core aspect of it in fact!

You should have LESS certainty now about his true beliefs, now that you know he's effortlessly lied to your faces about being a fucking rapist and domestic abuser. The only reason to keep ruling it out is because you don't want to admit the nazi tattoo SHOULD have been your red line, but wasn't.

I still can't quite grok the confidence with which people continue to say "even now I don't think Graham Platner is a secret nazi" Setting aside the conspiracy theories he cried out in his farewell video, what the fuck gives anyone that confidence? After everything you've SEEN him lie about!