Just was an interview with Platner in nyt magazine. Sloppy questions and no pushback on facts. Let's him claim the working man mantle because he earns $60k/yr but no mention of the other $60k in VA benefits. Given that the median income in Maine is $76k, he's well above 'working man' status.

Can’t wait to watch all the people who criticized the JCPOA and excoriated Obama for “pallets of cash” try to sanewash Trump giving Iran even more cash for a worse deal than the JCPOA.

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell just slammed the Trump slush fund: "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick."

Fitzpatrick is a republican, FYI. Keep calling your reps.

Except the primary hasn't happened yet and Mainers have ranked choice voting. @davidcostello.bsky.social is on the ballot. @janetmillsforme.bsky.social is still on the ballot even if she suspended her campaign. @andrealaflamme.bsky.social is running a write-in campaign.

So once applications open for the $1.7B slush fund, we're all going to apply and break their portal, right?

ANYBODY in this country, you say? because several parts of minnesota have people in this country who’ve been victims of weaponization of the federal government 🤔

It’s not an either/or. Neither was acceptable at the time and all of it continues to be unacceptable. As a Maine voter, I will not even be ranking Platner. He is completely unqualified.

Graham Platner: “Why don’t Black people tip?” Bernie Sanders: “Aren’t most drug dealers Black?” Two of a kind.

OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decency, do not retweet it and accidentally expose more people to it. Fuckface would be devastated.

It’s best to think of Graham Platner the candidate as an entirely fictitious character conceived by a few political consultants, and that trying to reconcile Platner the candidate with the man playing him is like trying reconcile the working class figure of Spider-Man with the very posh Tom Holland

Keeping this false narrative alive is a corruption of public office. Audits and lawsuits have already answered this question.

Nobody sent you to war, dude. There wasn’t a draft. You volunteered multiple times, described it as an excellent experience, and signed up again as a Blackwater mercenary. Take some fucking responsibility for your choices.

“I cannot express to you how dire things are, and the only thing necessary for [MAGA] to be successful is for good people to do nothing.” Rep. @booker.senate.gov w/ @aprildryan.bsky.social outside the All Roads rally in Montgomery, AL

From @steverattner.bsky.social: “This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career.” Gobsmacking corruption no previous president would even try, without getting impeached and removed. 🤯 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A president's trading of securities for his personal account can in no way be argued to constitute activity that falls within the "outer perimeter" of his "official responsibilities." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

One of the Democrats’ biggest shortcomings is their failure to take victory laps. They move on to the next thing before voters understand how the ACA will help or is helping them, understand how the IRA expands prescription drug affordability. Most voters are low info. We need to connect the dots.

Platner is basically two dozen NYC/DC white dude consultants wearing Greg Bovino's trenchcoat

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

normal people mostly quite like Pete Buttigieg and the insane dislike of him by leftists is weird and a mixture of envy and homophobia.

Every American should hear about this story. As millions lose health care, Trump is demanding $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars for Jan. 6 rioters and other allies. The most corrupt president in history, and you’re paying the price.

Rep Sean Casten (D-IL) comes right out and compares the SCOTUS majority to the Klan. 😮😮😮👏👏👏👏

Check out my recent Op Ed regarding my background, experience, and reform agenda in the Portland Press Herald… www.pressherald.com?p=7638009&uu...

Maine - get to know Democratic Candidate for US Senate, David Costello.

Remember when everyone put #GoodTrouble in their bios and posted John Lewis pics/ speeches? Where are they now? The silence is deafening.

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The anger comes out whenever he’s pushed to take responsibility for what he’s said or done that can be perceived negatively.He seems incapable of authentic apology with no excuses.His apologies are tainted by his ego which makes it hard for me to take them seriously.He’s very downeast male.

Mills is on the ballot! Rank Janet Mills. #MEpolitics

Yeah the Platner ad on this one made me really angry.The bill has a long, convoluted history that has been reduced to sound bites.At the end of the day, the legislature didn’t do their job funding it. Janet Mills did and deserves the credit. Platner had nothing to do with it.

Look, Maine Senate candidate David Costello is carrying on with voter town halls since Platner won't debate. ⬇️

Don't blame "Dems" - since Platner has no political record or past policy stance other than a bunch of Reddit posts, what he's saying now is coming from the DSA operatives who scouted him - and did so with the explicit stated goal of undermining the Dem party.

This is not a novel. His dozens of Reddit posts reveal his character.

“Where Platner is being embraced by national Democrats, David Duke garnered no support from major Republicans. Most endorsed his Democratic opponent. When Duke ran for Senate, President George H. W. Bush supported the Democrat…” www.baltimoresun.com/2026/05/07/g...

Democrats could promise every single resentful white working class guy in the country his very own rainbow unicorn & it wouldn't matter because those guys *never hear what Dems say*. They get their information about Dems entirely second had, via sources committed to making them hate Dems.

I love how they act like the only alternative to "establishment Democrats" is "guy w/Nazi tattoo who blamed rape victims, accuses Black people of being cheap & muses about pissing on corpses." Especially when @davidcostello.bsky.social & @andrealaflamme.bsky.social are RIGHT THERE.

I've been voting since 1978. Lesser of 2 evils has been the norm for at least that long. Collins v Platner is a false dilemma. David Costello is on the primary ballot and Andrea LaFlamme is still campaigning to be a write-in. Maine voters have ranked choice primaries. They can do better than this.

The only record we can evaluate is Platner's history of making vile remarks about the LGBTQ community, Black people, the disabled, & survivors of sexual assault, while trying to get a rise out of people by wearing a Constellis (Blackwater) hat in public. How can you be sure of what he believes?

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

Platner isn’t the only Democratic candidate.

Many farms declaring bankruptcy or not planting sucks for the whole country. And it really sucks that many of the people who will be hit hardest by this voted for it.

Parents listening to medical advice from a former heroin addict environmental lawyer who collects penises off roadkill instead of their child’s pediatrician shows how messed up things have gotten. www.propublica.org/article/more...

As I've said before: embracing Oyster Boy with the Nazi tattoo will say more about Maine Democrats than it will about him.

The State Department has officially terminated hundreds of Foreign Service Officers who are qualified, trained, and have years of experience.

Hello from Minneapolis.

The Platner relating to the Bernie->3x Trump voter guy video is really bothering me. You loved Bernie so much you voted for Trump three times? And the presumptive Maine D candidate for senate agrees with you? Enough to post it on his campaign page? None of you are or were ever democrats.

This is a nice way to set it up to fight and say it’s rigged against him if his past comes up quick in the next month before the primary. He’s already preemptively claimed the nomination. Now it’ll be rigged if something bad comes up and pushes him out. Fuck Bernie and Bernie Bros for forever.

God, I already knew Platner was a megadouche but leaning into 2016/2020 primary denial bullshit is ughhhhhh