Funny no one attacks Collins or Mills because they come from wealthy families. The only reason you are attacking Graham for having a lawyer dad & a restaurant owning mom is because he has a class focused message to address our material concerns. He’s a “class traitor.”

Some of the comments about Graham Platner on the right-wing Maine Wire site are really interesting because they show he is expanding his base to independents & even some Republicans by talking working class politics.

From what I’ve gathered, Graham Platner hate on BlueSky is being driven by ✡️ accounts & ☭ accounts.

Tie-dyed communists & Schumer Dems forming a united front against Platnerism.

New Emerson Poll! 🔵 Graham Platner: 55% 🔵 Janet Mills: 28% Head-to-head 🔵 Graham Platner: 48% 🔴 Susan Collins: 41% 🔵 Janet Mills: 46% 🔴 Susan Collins 43%

I don’t know who this account is in my mentions, but I worry for their mental health when Graham crushes it in the primary.

This Maine FB commenter captures why these smears are not working. Graham has been from one end of the state meeting thousands of voters face to face. He’ll answer any questions you have about his past. Mills can’t take a question about her many vetoes without rolling her eyes.

It's seeming more and more that Mills, like Biden, sees this race as something owed to her, that her "bonafides" say that she both should win and is the only one who can win. And like Biden, she seems to be out of touch with realities on the ground that work against her

Janet Mills lashed out at a recent forum when voters confronted her about her negative ad & opposition to tribal sovereignty, labor & gun safety legislation. www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-vid...

For anyone wondering how actual Mainers are reacting to Mills’ negative campaigning it’s worth reading the comments on her Facebook ad. BlueSky & local FB ARE LIKE NIGHT & day. www.facebook.com/share/18aCE6...

The idea that this platform is safer for Black women is laughable. The racist trolls here just have a better vocabulary and are too refined in their minds to actually just use the N words.

Trump is doing more to destroy the fossil fuel industry and smash the sources of wealth that fuel inequality than the wildest socialist eco-terrorist could ever dream of

We have ranked choice voting. Cope.

Your brain is cooked by the algorithms if you think Maine Black leaders & groups like Showing Up for Racial Justice would endorse a Nazi. They don’t just blindly make these endorsements. surj.org/graham-platn...

My friend @nathantbernard.bsky.social & I covered that. The opposition ran the most racist campaign against Safiya that I’ve ever seen in Maine. Even Facebook’s CTO responded to the story & had a notorious Lewiston FB group shut down. thebollard.com/2019/12/01/h...

A lot of people On Here think Platner's a not-so-closeted Nazi and/or the next Fetterman. A stream of progressive electeds, including people of color and people who do all their homework, now endorsing him. I am starting to wonder if he might be a better candidate than I believed.

Safiya Khalid - the first Somali-American & youngest person elected to the Lewiston City Council - speaks in support of Graham Platner at a press conference in Augusta.

On November 4, the Bluesky Army is going to roll their tanks decked out in 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇱 flags up to the Piscataqua River Bridge to demand to talk to Maine's manager. It's going to be like Red Dawn, but set in Maine. We'll run a guerrilla insurgency in the Camden Hills.

Cue BlueSky meltdown in 5, 4, 3, 2…

A Washington DC self-described Zionist believes Maine’s indigenous tribes are going to support Gov Mills after she vetoed their tribal sovereignty bills & was the lead spokesperson against their racino referendum? Sure. 👍

Hey dumbass, this is exactly what I'm talking about. bsky.app/profile/jack...

Another packed Graham Platner rally today. I’ve been told by BlueSky that all of these people must be Nazis.

This is absolutely the truth about Mills and Maine politics. That woman isn't progressive. I'll stand on that. Some of my closest friends worked with her in the legislature, and let's just say, no, she won't have my vote in the primary.

Bluesky is the last gasp of Woke 1.0

The gap between wacko BlueAnon conspiracy theories and what Maine voters know.

This post is one of the many reasons I haven't written part 2 of my piece on Graham Platner. People are more interested in clinging to their beliefs than listening to someone who isn't a traditional journalist who isn't white but lives in Maine. I'm so tired of people outside of Maine.

Omg you have no idea how the military works. Stop embarrassing yourself.

I used to naively think that what differentiated the right from the left is that people on the left know how to think critically. Then I joined BlueSky. 🤯

One of the reasons I feel communities of color in Maine haven't given up on Platner is that he shows up in a way that's rare for white folks. Much less a political type. When the ICE surge started here, he reached out directly to me and others to see how he could assist.

There was an exemption to the rule banning forearm tattoos for "currently serving Marines.” But Platner had already left the Marines when he tried to reenlist so the exemption did not apply. This is a baseless smear. 🧵

Solidarity with Holy Donut workers!

This is the final installment in my series about Jim Matthews who fled a life of constant torture in slavery by stowing away aboard ship bound for Boston. He spent the rest of his life as a laborer in Hallowell, Maine, but the trauma he experienced scarred him for life.

Sorry but this is the wrong message. Yes, Susan Collins lacks courage. But she's also an awful person who wants things Mainers don't want! Don't absolve her by implying she means well deep down but is caving to MAGA. It's loser framing and it gives her more credit than she deserves! #MEpolitics

Here’s one of Graham Platner’s anonymous Reddit posts from 2011 celebrating the executions of Nazis. Yeah this guy totally must be a secret Nazi! 🙄

Why didn’t Graham Platner recognize this symbol from a 2009 video game when he got a tattoo in Croatia in 2007? Check mate, libs.

Have read all of his deleted reddit posts/comments that he thought would remain anonymous when he made them on the wayback machine. If he's a nazi, he was hiding it there for years as well. Because there, for all his faults, he was astoundingly antifascist.

Well said. Such an important point that we are MUCH closer to our candidates than most states. I trust myself and I trust my neighbors to judge the character of our candidates. Who in Maine wasnt themselves or have a good friend who was a complete tool when they were younger! 😆

Bluesky’s mantra is that bad people cannot do good things, good people cannot do bad things, and anyone who thinks otherwise is actually a bad person and also probably involved in some sort of secret worldwide campaign to make good people bad.

In Maine we can know our candidates. We meet them multiple times, we know people who went to school with them, who know their family, who went to their wedding and so on. We can evaluate them just like any other person one meets. It is clear that Platner has grown and is exactly who he says he is.

Jfc... bsky.app/profile/aobr...

The thing is, he's actually out here, on the streets, talking to people. We've met him, know his family. He's addressed all of his past statements. Repeatedly. He's got kickass ideas. We're basing our opinions off of the totality of our experience with the man, not off of a few internet soundbites.

Bluesky libs & hammer & sickle accounts think anyone who questions their narrative is a Nazi.

I love being a Bluesky heel. Graham Platner 2026!

An anonymous person claims he said that in a bar 14 years ago, years before Graham even worked there. Politico wouldn’t even pursue that story because the it was full of holes. Just bc it’s CNN doesn’t mean it’s true.

As Graham has explained over & over, he picked the design off a wall of a tattoo parlor in Croatia where that symbol is common. He didn’t know its symbolism & got it covered up. I didn’t know it was an SS symbol either.

Worst Nazi ever.

I’ve spent much of my career exposing Nazis & far-right extremists. I hate Nazis & everything they stand for. I’ve had death threats for doing this work. But because I don’t go along with the Bsky group think that Graham Platner is a Nazi, I must be a Nazi. longreads.com/2024/10/31/h...

I give up. I can’t debate a Chuck Schumer partisan. But know this, no one cares about this in Maine. And I don’t know anyone who is a fan of Schumer here.

It’s now antisemitic to say that Chuck Schumer is trying to defeat Platner. He literally set up a joint fundraising PAC with the Janet Mills campaign.