Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
It's safe to assume that at least part of all DoD targeting decisions under Hegseth are in order to create content.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
"tattoos or podcasts or whatever"
what kind of tattoos, what kind of podcasts, WHAT KIND OF WHATEVER MY GUY
These two in particular being in the bag for platner is a smoking gun as far as I'm concerned
We're still at $500/1000 raised, please help me share this if you can! I'm trying to do what we can for these families, but the local folks I have helping are spread super thin.
rfk jr is such a profoundly unserious person and it’s political malpractice that democrat messaging does not emphasize this over and over again. throw up a bill that criminalizes eating roadkill and name it after him. doesn’t matter if it won’t pass, do what you can to keep shame in the headline
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
UGH
I don't want to get excited but man oh man I wish they'd hurry up and call this one
Love this thing pundits do where they pretend not to understand why students might protest Israel (a country that their school may actively be funding and therefore the protests are about trying to get their school to take action) and not Iran (a country that their school has nothing to do with).
BREAKING: Trump has nominated Bradford P. Wilson, of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute (and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program) to be Archivist of the United States.
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EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
There just isn't a lot of substance to conservative views at the end of the day? It's an unshakeable belief in hierarchy and authority. You can only dress it up so many ways.
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so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil
I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over
I could really do with never hearing about nazi tattoo guy ever again this is not a ‘don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ situation it’s an ‘at baseline could we not support candidates with nazi/rightwing connections’ situation.
Oh look, the Nazi keeps doing Nazi shit
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
It's superfluous to say it, one feels stupid saying obvious things, but the most-of-the-Democratic-party that said yes to doing a genocide of the Palestinians is saying and will say and has said yes to starting a ludicrous and obscene and criminal and existentially dangerous war with Iran.
Really woke up to this insane man and his administration starting a war. What a fucking terrible time to be alive.
Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.
It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...
Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
💯💯. Kathy Manning was my rep and her views here are 100% about Israel. She is a staunch zionist and absolutely believes all any and all criticism of Israel is antisemitic
Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people.
Me: Ok. May I talk to a person?
Corporation: No. Never again.
