That Lupita Nyong’o’s looks have made some of the most powerful men go completely insane and fight over her inclusion in this movie only goes to prove that Nolan casting her was absolutely correct bsky.app/profile/dail...

I will never forget how a victim of sexual assault was forced to retraumatize herself in front of the entire nation because people waved away red flag after red flag - the Nazi tattoo, the appearance on a neo-Nazi podcast, the domestic violence - so they could have a manly, unfeminized left.

They’re claiming all men rape women in a bid to normalize rape even more than it already has been.

Not lost on me that the high profile "they were right, and i fucked up" apologies have come from women (goldberg, klein) and not from the podbros who are arguably more responsible for this bugfuck mess than anyone else other than the candidate himself.

*angrily, bitterly*: "you can't even be a rapist anymore, because of woke"

jacobin being incredibly racist as usual

Jacobin headline(s) about a Nazi Blackwater mercenary vs Jacobin headline about a Black labor organizer recently tortured by Israel 🤔🤔🤔

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

also i feel like if youre a man doubling down on platner or trying to defend your previous support of him after all this nonsense started coming out.... your psychosexual insecurities are showing

I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.

i believe whatever woman has something to say about ken klippenstein.

breaking my attempt at concentration to share a tidbit about Klippenstein, which is that he was a key vector of harassment 6 years ago when the internet decided to come after me for a bad Washington Post article. I haven't forgotten, or forgiven anyone

Since folks are bringing up their "Klip is an asshole" story, here's mine. Four years ago he co-authored an Intercept story that was just... wrong. On almost every level. And helped kick off the MAGA obsession that the Biden admin colluded with social media to "censor conservatives." I called it out

you know i had a generally positive view of kenny k before the whole smoothgroin thing and now he is showing his whole entire ass, like just wow.

this is jd vance's fault

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

it immediately made me think about Cesar Chavez's long history of sexual abuse, & Dolores Huerta's statement that she kept her experience secret for 60 years bc she believed the truth would hurt the movement she spent her life fighting for www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u... medium.com/@dolores_hue...

White folks, y’all have some soul searching to do on why you could be cool with an obvious Nazi & not think it’s a contradiction with what you’re about. Because it very much should be. But when you uphold & support a Nazi it’s not really.

'She should have come forward sooner' is always the first response like no she was waiting to see if maybe society would do better and she wouldn't have to join the ranks of women who ruined their lives in the hope that their assailants wouldn't gain even more power.

Platner is what happens when self-hating liberals buy into the conservative critique that Democrats are too woke, elite, educated, white collar, feminized, multi-racial, LGBTG, and/or “soft.” It’s an implicit and self-hating rejection of the belief that inclusive diversity matters and has value.

People talk smack about echo chambers and whatnot but I look around the relatively small amount of people I’m following and y’all were right about this <again> and I’m convinced refining the company you keep is good actually. Big followings and big accounts continue to get wrecked.

if you didn’t dump his ass over the nazi tattoo congratulations you are dumber than a high school junior at a hardcore show. a child with moshpit CTE is dogwalking you morally

everybody who looked the other way on dealbreaker after dealbreaker because they were so stoked on their great white populist hope deserves the humiliation she’s going to be forced to bear instead. yall made her into a sin eater because you wanted a slur-saying left so badly

This might be hopelessly naive of me, but I don’t think the combined influence of all the biggest fashion houses on the planet could convince ordinary people that fancy perv glasses are somehow not perv glasses. The ick operates on a different level.

Platner is a product of white people who are desperate for addressing classism but refuse to acknowledge that misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and racism are components of classism that need to be exorcised for the socialism they want. They want reprieve with no deconstruction of their bigotry.

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

I don’t feel like its fair to say that Bluesky users are the problem for recognizing Platner was a bad guy before other people but I do feel like it’s fair to call us hogs so kind of a mixed bag

i literally did not even know about this because for me the nazi tattoo was enough to say fuck this guy... but yeah all the people who defended him are extra creepy given this...

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

>Everybody use AI or you're fired >Wait stop it's too expensive >Don't use it for menial tasks >Only use it for important work stuff >If you're going to use it for important stuff make sure it's correct >Let me know if you have any questions!

Oh, I didn’t even have to wait years…except in how long it has felt

People love a champion of the working class who just so happens to hate women and black people

White cis hetero non-disabled men can have life experience. Everyone else has personal bias that makes their lived experience a liability.

So if you were around when I first criticized Platner you might remember me and a few other female vets talking about this being a likely reveal. At the time one of his earliest defenders insisted it was our bias. No, it was our experience www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/g...

can't even say "let this be the end of the dirtbag left" because I don't really believe in the dirtbag left. it was just a way for some guys who wrote about Dem politics to describe some guys on some podcasts while ignoring the anarchists and socialists and feminists who made the left relevant again

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

I do not want to be talking about Platner! I hate this fucking conversation! But he’s the perfect microcosm of everything that’s wrong! This guy has it all! He’s an example of all the things not to do and all the ways those things get ignored! If we don’t talk about him we don’t solve anything!

He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent

Look I'm sorry and I might be hated for this but it actually doesn't surprise me that Nazi tattoo guy who became a mercenary and said awful racist and sexist things online also has been credibly accused of sexual assault.

There’s a reason racism is a great predictor for abusive tendencies and maybe MAYBE RIGHT THE FUCK NOW WE CAN HAVE A REAL CONVO ABOUT IT

One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious

see but those people were often women and racial minorities and thus do not count as people who should be listened to in the eyes of the white men who went all in on platner

Those of us who raised concerns from the beginning were dismissed as wokescolds, moralists, purity testers, Zionists, and more. And now an important, winnable Senate seat may be lost because, in point of fact, we were right about what the Nazi tattoo pointed to.

Ken Klippenstein should never live this down.

the appearance of solidarity among these lib/left men thru an admiration for this kind of masculinity too is on my mind

just did a search on x.com the everything app of "bluesky platner" and lol

Graham Platner is symptomatic of a deeper disease amongst liberals and the Democratic Establishment in the Trump era. And just last WEEK white people were on here blaming the 7 Black people in the state of Maine for his lag in the polls.