Can we all agree he almost certainly knew about the tattoo now? Can we be grown adults again?

Well, Platner’s suspending his campaign, but making his closing message that a nefarious “they” are taking his victory away and that the accusations are a tool of the “political establishment” feels like he’s poisoning the well for whoever replaces him.

JUST POSTED: Security Precaution Led Trump to Use Old Air Force One in Leaving Turkey The Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions about the retrofitting of the new plane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

what a surprise. again, he reacted like this when the Nazi tattoo was revealed! he wasn't contrite, there was no actual acceptance or suggestion of change, it was pure entitlement and anger. All of this should have been obvious.

graham just say jews this is taking forever

And, to be clear, nothing will happen to Platner. His consequence is not incarceration but just not getting to be a senator. Jail would be good. Instead of being a template for masculinist Dem candidates, he'd be a warning for anyone with a history of sexual violence to stay out of politics.

This is so on-brand for this campaign that has been so relentlessly boosted by guys getting their brains rotted over on Twitter

I wish the media had the same urgency about the state of Mitch McConnell as they did for Kamala's W-2 from McDonald's in the 80s.

Apparently apologizing for nothing and strongly hinting that there is a conspiracy to knock him out of the race. In case you were wondering about his commitment to fighting both antisemitism and misogyny.

The thing is, Chicago also downzoned in the 60s-early 2000s--in fact, a huge chunk of Humboldt Park was downzoned. You will be shocked to hear that this has not prevented gentrification, and that in fact downzoned areas are associated with disproportionate growth of white residents.

I wish everyone could get the same number of eighth chances as a 41 year old sex pest with a Nazi tattoo

#BREAKING #Maine

My UAA/ISER colleague Brock Wilson breaks down federal employment losses in Alaska. Really cool data he’s put together for this project.

Breaking: Judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered the release of $5 million+ in damages owed to E. Jean Carroll by Donald Trump. Trump failed to convince the judge to delay the payment. This comes more than three years after he was found liable for sexual assault.

If Peggy Flanagan & Abdul El-Sayed have any integrity they should replace the consultants they share with Graham Platner or give them public ultimatums if he refuses to drop out this week.

Bluesky is both the sports app and the Catholic schism app, everything you’d need in one place

If anyone has any leads about a senior dev or related position for an engineer with 10+ years of experience including most languages, excellent soft skills, and willingness to be in-office/relocate for the right position, hmu. I have an amazing candidate for you.

From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.

One of my favorite Bluesky genres is “look at my homemade pizza.” Y’all are heroes of the timeline.

I knew shortly after Trump won in 2016 that it would be up to the various interest groups on the left to resist a hideous left-aligned chimera that emerged in response to Trump but out of the cultural moment he created. Platner is exactly that thing. I’d give us a D+ in dealing with it.

American women won the World Cup 4 times....

Boomeranging between being very together and being on the edge of collapse but I'm more together than I was before. Still unpacking.

I enjoy The Third Man, its one of my favorite films, and looking at modern Austria you see how things can get better and how also they can get so much worse.

One week into SB 79 taking effect, and there are already over 200 new homes proposed in Palo Alto across 5 buildings. The last year in which Palo Alto permitted more than 200 new apartments was 2007. www.paloaltoonline.com/palo-alto/20...

With this design - open-ended, qualitative with "tens of thousands of" survey-takers - it's basically guaranteed that they'll run the responses through AI and get some garbage IF they consider the responses at all. What utter nonsense!

Once again, as we’ve been discussing all day here, the problem is that American political parties are too weak:

How hard is it *exactly*, to do the right thing?

Revisiting the horrible Platner story but you simply can't trust a "progressive outsider" if they're not part of an org. People are asking why this psycho wasnt vetted, I guarantee an org would've sussed it out immediately. Here in NYC DSA the vetting process for an endorsement is notoriously strict

Pretty clear to me that Platner's demands in a new candidate are "don't call me a rapist" and not any sort of aesthetic (much less policy lol) alignment

“Geiger defended Platner as he faced a variety of controversies, writing in a 2025 op-ed he "deserves grace." Geiger, along with former state Senate President Troy Jackson, are reportedly Platner's preferred picks to replace him on the ballot as he considers exiting the race. Of course they are.

Rape apologist endorsed by rapist she apologized for, film at 11

Getting some *extremely* weird Platner defenses in my mentions now.

may all the so called journalists trying to poke holes in racicot's story and coming up with stuff like "her door was unlocked" never ever live this down

Preaching to the choir I know but housing and transportation are the same conversation (problems with the former manifest as problems with the latter)

Trump spends your taxpayer money and gives you back high prices

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

seattle downzoned in the 50s - 80s and those neighborhoods are now some of the most expensive in the city - even after sizeable upzones oops

Its been US policy since like Albright to prevent europe from having its own defense base and this has been remarkably consistent!

I think maybe the people doing the Platner fallout media debriefs should be those of us who were skeptical of him all along and not the people who were calling the NYT story a hit job a week ago.

Susprising absolutely nobody, there will be no formal postmortem report on DOGE, because no report could credibly claim the whole fiasco saved any money. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...

How come it took an entire year for me to find out Mamrie Hart wrote a cookbook???

Yes, but also, these two things are linked. You won’t find anyone who blames voters for their own decisions more than me. But it’s impossible not to also recognize how toxic the information environment they live in is.

You're being put in danger thanks to Trump and Vance's cuts to the NWS and NOAA. Scientists warned that missing data and staff would leave emergency officials defenseless for severe weather — and they didn’t listen. Now, our nation is flying blind without the expertise.

Herbert List was a gay Jewish photographer born in Germany in 1903. This photo, Sunglasses, Lake Lucerne 1940, is a beautifully tender representation of same sex love decades before Stonewall. It is my favorite photograph of all time.

My rabbi and my synagogue! forward.com/news/833489/...