The thing about Platner and his defenders is even if they think he can survive *this* massive scandal, there will be more. There will be much more and it will only get worse. The smart(and moral) move is to get out now.

the first type of labgrown Democrat is the Newsom type, but with Platner we're seeing a second variety where reactionary centrists will claim him as the antiwoke messiah if he wins and disavow him as too leftist if he loses

“refusing to take the L” remains the surest path online to madness

I'm screenshotting this in case you run for senate

In the world to come we’re going to need reeducation cells that just play the Gen Z boss and a mini video on a loop until it breaks them

if i was a maine resident i wouldn’t vote for platner in the primary and that’s been true since the original tattoo story dropped. i would vote for him in the general and hate myself for it. in any event: glad i haven’t embarrassed myself riding for him in the last few months

bro what the fuck are you doing

It was so, so unbelievably selfish of Graham Platner to run knowing all of this. And I wish Schumer hadn’t scared all all credible opposition so that a 79 year old could run and lose to him

You don’t hear much from Ritchie Torres anymore. I wonder why that could be?

pack the court or lose the republic

This is like fishing with dynamite on Bluesky

Nah sorry guys, it’s not a close call. Platner is 100 times better than Collins. The reason why is that any Democrat will vote for a million little things that no Republican will vote for. Plus, control of the committees, etc., hinge on who controls the chamber.

It erased her memory of Virgil

maine, summarized: 1. graham platner sucks 2. he is going to win the primary 3. he is, still, probably going to win the general 4. he’s going to be better than susan collins, because even joe fucking manchin would be better than susan collins 5. we will need his vote to do reconstruction 2.0

Oh good. more Graham Platner discourse. Just what Bluesky needed.

YOU ARE A UNITED STATES SENATOR NOT SOMEBODY'S RETIRED AUNT

lmao

The main character in Obsession (2026) is such a dead ringer for Charlie Kirk it is causing me to lose focus lol

You’re absolutely right. I sent the plan into an uncontrollable spin and doomed 274 people to a brutal death in the Pacific Ocean. That’s on me, and next time I’ll do better. Would you like me to book a trip to Alpha Centauri?

The ballroom is no mere vanity project. Like the Syracusan tyrants of Classical Sicily, Trump wants his own Ortygia — the fortress from which the tyrants dominated the disgruntled population of Syracuse.

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

I do think the odyssey casting is sort of weird, but I have been negatively polarized by chuds being psychotic about it.

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

underrated noxious aspect of Biden's failure is how it incentivizes Dem partisan hacks to invent excuses why it's Not His Fault and attack any critics bsky.app/profile/dave...

did everyone on here get a memo that Defending Data Centers is A Serious Person’s Duty today? what is the deal?

You wouldn’t take seriously someone who played dumb about what it meant when Russia kidnapped the mayor of Melitopol & you shouldn’t let people play dumb in this instance either

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

Maine poll* Graham Platner 64% Janet Mills 29% *Platner internal

If a conservative racist like Magyar is willing to actually scour the Hungarian government of Orbán acolytes then I don't know how U.S. Democrats could possibly look much worse by comparison. Biden didn't even fire Louis DeJoy.

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?" Post-DS9 prime timeline sequel series to the Dominion War, in which the Romulans take advantage of their fewer losses to wipe out the Klingons and topple the Federation; who have to earn their space communism back, explicitly this time.

I have knocked doors for basically every campaign here in Bergen County NJ since Obama 2008. Knocking doors is probably the most demoralizing thing you can do if you actually care about politics. The public just does not fucking care.

a new form of teen fuck-up emerges

your order has shipped

I think we might be losing

trying to widen the gyre in the next couple hours. we want to make sure the falcon cannot hear the falconer. that’s a good day’s work.

"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance

MOOOOOOOOOM THE ENEMY IS VOTING AGAIN

There are many reasons to impose age (not term!) limits on elected positions. Senility is obv #1. But near the top? Ensure that they will likely live long enough to be forced to see the long-run costs of dumb, dangerous actions. And reduce any panicked desire to secure “a legacy.”

our country is killing people by the dozen and I look around and everything is just…relatively normal. and it makes me feel sick. we’re not doing enough

I know it’s kind of just a subtext, but it should be stated: the Republican Party is one of the most demonic and destructive political formations in this century and arguably in modern human history

Iran: a young, increasingly secular quasi-democracy with a top heavy religious fundamentalist government that is facing increasing pressure for reform Israel: a radicalizing garrison state with no opposition or reformist movement to speak of

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

you know personally i find it's quite funny that this suddenly becomes an acceptable view to hold when the guy doing it is One of Your Own and not a Ukrainian.

Trump is a budding tyrant and threat to democracy at home but all his foreign policy actions are part of a selfless campaign to advance the torch of human liberty

The Big E: My son, you have betrayed me, your brothers, and our people. Horus: Should we really be talking about this? THE DOW IS OVER 50,000.

you can feel the desperation rolling off all these AI Superbowl ads. Like NFTS in 2022

call me "woke" or whatever but I think the Superbowl should have less football and more dancing latinas