Mayor wu decided building the bike infrastructure that she campaigned on was less important than whatever future political plans she has last year and froze all projects, leading key members of her streets cabinet to quit and putting federal funding in danger. Disgraceful

Bade sucks but it is worth reading the list of progressives who lost primaries here, since this website will never talk about them. My normal opinion is different ideologies are welcome in the democratic party so long as you are a team player rachaelbade.substack.com/p/dems-are-f...

This is really easy though, you get those things if you're not running for Senate. Or if you show that you're actually sorry. Pick one!

Shh we don't want Janeese to get well known, it will make her less effective

Turns out, she needn't have been worried about this part

I'm likely on a bunch of lists for not hating Gavin Newsom, so this is funny

Trump behaves like everyone pretends Biden behaved

You can just do the first part on its own or with your local Democratic party is the thing. But people like your mom might be there

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Brandon Johnson continues to have negative juice.

I wish people would just make up their mind on whether they want The Establishment to make sure they don't make bad primary choices or not

Man, I’m sorry, but Kleban was never going to be a real candidate in any universe where the Platner campaign existed. He *did* enter the race, then dropped out and endorsed Mills, and I’m willing to bet most people here had never heard of him until today.

The unpopular and hated Chuck Schumer, whose name is mud in Maine, would have clearly got everyone behind the beer guy (who did actually run anyway) if he had supported him and Mills stayed out. The Platner team and synchopants wouldn't have just aimed their ire at the beer guy instead.

Chuck Schumer is an out of touch old man who should retire and stay out of Maine politics. Here's why if he would have backed another candidate, everyone would have listened to him

We have a lost generation here between COVID, phones-in-class, and AI. Districts are waking up to the obvious problems of having phones in class (and easily solution, just ban them). Hopefully soon they figure out the obvious solution to AI

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Amazing how uncurious this article is. Published on the day he launched his campaign, it is a press release. His military service is mentioned, but nothing about his background otherwise. It says the closest he has come to politics was a brief stint "slinging drinks" at Tune Inn. Journalism?

Very important not to forget this. The key to winning in the general, even in maine, is not anti establishment rhetoric from people who have no experience. It doesn't draw new voters. It's been tried many times since 2015.

Has he really not dropped out yet

If you look at Talarico, Cooper, Brown, seems like the usual "well known incumbent" or "very hated opponent" effect would be like 4-5 points, so it's not like Collins is just that awesome. It's like Platner is getting the bad candidate effect of Paxton PLUS the known incumbent effect of Collins

Here's the definitive numbers take on Graham Platner: He's bad. Specifically, he's running about 10 points behind expectations — and in a race that decides control of the Senate about 10% of the time (the third most likely tipping point). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07...

We can reverse this, but it is extremely shameful, and won't help the people who could have been helped these four years. Many of whom will perish.

This statement is whatever but everyone saying this did ignore credible allegations of domestic violence a month ago. The right thing to say is that you respected the will of primary voters before who wanted to give him another chance, but this is the final straw, or something like that.

lol suck it argentina

A lot of people who should know better are acting like switching the nominee now is going to be a big problem for the new person. It's not. There is plenty of time, just define yourself as a normal Democrat who opposes MAGA.

I do not see an apology here

Platner is the only candidate who could lose to her, even before yesterday. So yes, if he refuses to drop.

Sorry but Chait cooked here:

Last sentence is true but I have yet to see moderate Dems support a completely unknown person with no experience for a high level position like Bernie etc did, especially after red flags come out

Very curious about this too. How does a guy get kicked out of DSA for sexual assault allegations, but then continues on to find a Senate candidate that the most powerful left Senator gets behind immediately? Did the DSA people just not tell their network? Did others not GAF?

This is also how people under 30 experience international affairs. Tiktok obliges by not sending them pictures of wars outside Palestine

If I were the evil dastardly Gavin Newscum, or someone else who was planning to run on the "moderate" lane in 28, I would be attacking him now for this to position myself both against the Bernie left and for women

We have newly discovered deposits of copium in the maine subreddit that could power the earth for millenia

Tim Ream is not good enough

Lol. They should agree to these and then just block his number. What is he going to do about it

Josh Marshall made this proclamation very confidently and called people bitches who got annoyed

You wouldn’t believe it now but “the guy with the Nazi tattoo should drop out of the race” was an extremely controversial, eventually even contrarian position. People got real mad at you for saying it!

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I guess. Of course there were a number of progressive reps who didn't either, basically everyone but Khanna

Remember, the people behind Platner were two Ivy League @sanders.senate.gov supporters. And Sanders has been a huge supporter of Platner. @sanders.senate.gov never pays any reputational cost for all the awful people he’s platformed & promoted.

Just like they would have taken credit if he had barely beaten collins, everyone from random loser sects will try to take credit for this and it's important to know who was against him through the whole thing

Ok there's one

I don't think the Patriots cheated more than any other team really, but I loved every minute of it even if they did Also the formerly suspended dude isn't Tom Brady level anyway

Guy whose one moral lapse in life was getting a Nazi tattoo on his chest as an adult

I think the reddit posts and the tattoo were sort of explicable as dumb edgelord stuff but if you continued to defend GP after the NYT story you definitely deserve to hear some I told you sos today.

Oh well

Maybe I'm ignorant about something but one thing that is odd in the Platner article is calling it sexual assault in the articles when penetration is alleged? maybe a lawyer thing but it blunts the impact if people don't read the description.

Let’s really emphasize this: Two large media orgs—which have lots of lawyers—have run pieces in which they report verified digital communications, that pre-date Platner’s candidacy, that make credible allegations about him being violent toward women & aware it was a Nazi tattoo.

Remember when Joe Biden was hit with a genuinely false accusation of sexual assault and and his campaign responded firmly but respectfully to all victims, and at no point attacked Tara Reade? This is the opposite of that.

Yeah interesting thing here. Maybe your social media strategy of attacking the woman who spoke out for being a Republican rather than believing her corroborated story is toxic and absolutely horrific to victims