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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

And the Squad and Mamdani

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h

(sigh)

And that's that, I'd say.

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“It was not until I started hearing from reporters and DC insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol,” he said. “I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that — and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I am already planning to get this removed.”

Platner’s former political director, Genevieve McDonald, who resigned from his campaign last week over her objection to his recently unearthed incendiary Reddit comments, said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that “Graham has an antisemitic tattoo on his chest.”

“He’s not an idiot, he’s a military history buff,” McDonald wrote in the post, which was reviewed by JI. “Maybe he didn’t know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means.”

McDonald said that Platner’s campaign “released it themselves to some podcast bros, along with a video of him shirtless and drunk at a wedding to try to get ahead of it.”

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Nightmarica @n1ghtmarica.bsky.social · 4h

NOTE: There are ostensibly online leftist fanatics who are power-hungry saboteurs. This is evident.

They work to discredit Democrats, spread disinformation, sow discord, and undermine the war against Fascism. They have been open about their agenda.

Be aware they exist.

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Only Justice Dems/DSA that work to destroy the Party

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 4h

An "authentic" "working-class" party. Wow. Wow wow wow. "Shut up you stupid Jews and your petty concerns about Nazi symbols" is what I hear.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

Putting the national in to socialism.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.

Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

www.propublica.org

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Says a lot that this is less desirable to “leftists” than the Nazi tattooed racism apologist

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jayseph b @jbckwthjr.bsky.social · 7h

If he continues his campaign, he will in fact be a spoiler. Anyone with a brain knows he can't win, but he will get a significant amount of votes. Most of those votes will pull away from Mills' total, and let Collins win.

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Midnight Tree Bandit @midnitreebandit.bsky.social · 7h

So were five other people months before him, a couple just as progressive as he allegedly is (without the racist/misgynist comments and Nazi tattoos), but no one outside of Maine knows about them because they didn't get groomed and boosted by the JDs and DSAs.

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not a game a tag. Being the first to run has zero relevance

Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Nope. We need to cull the DSA antisemitic ageists and racism/misogyny apologists out of the Democratic Party now. They are absolutely destroying it. As they said they would.

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 7h

Maine Candidate Graham Platner needs to end his campaign..

His racist, sexist, and Nazi tattoo are disqualifying and the people backing him like DNC’s Ken Martin, Bernard, Ro Khanna, & all the podcast bros should be ignored

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

I WILL!!!

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Disco Brian Davis @discobriandavis.bsky.social · 4h

I called & asked @repcasar.bsky.social’s office — he’s CHAIR OF @usprogressives.bsky.social — this VERY QUESTION today. And @pocan.house.gov, longtime member of CPC.

The staffs were both aware of the tattoo & appreciated my call, demanding PUBLIC DISTANCING of @sanders.senate.gov.

Please CALL THEM

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Wish I never heard of him

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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 5h

Reality: We learned about Platner’s Nazi tattoo when he talked about it with pod bro Tommy Vietor and they showed the video of Platner, drunk and shirtless and talked about the tattoo.

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Christine @chermitup.bsky.social · 6h

People are blaming a Jewish man for another dude having an SS tattoo? Ok cool cool.

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

🤣🤣🤣😂😂

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h

Schumer forced him to get a large Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest, leave it there for 18 years and then lie about not knowing its significance?

That's pretty impressive.

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Do you walk into walls a lot?

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 6h

Kamala held him down while Biden did the tattoo with autopen

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 9h

Oof.

"The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance.

He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.

Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance."

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Boo-wiegrrl👻 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 4h

Stop letting antisemitic “leftists” run as @democrats.org ! THEY DO NOT REPRESENT US!!! I Remember when Biden RAN AND WON because of the rise of antisemitism in America!

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Wonder Woman Demands Justice 🐝🎗 @alsowonderwoman.bsky.social · 9h

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 9h

Hoo boy.

Wonder Woman Demands Justice 🐝🎗 @alsowonderwoman.bsky.social · 9h

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