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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you, Chicago.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 14h

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

25. It’s so valuable that none of them is blushing with shame after Platner made the Totenkopf seem no more hateful or homicidal than a Jolly Roger. Platner said yesterday:

“Years ago I got a skull and crossbones tattoo with my buddies in the Marine Corps. I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol. I altered it yesterday, into something that isn’t deeply offensive to my core beliefs. I am very sorry to all of you who had to contemplate a symbol of hate over the past 48 hours.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

24. The answer is not that Graham Platner is working class, because he is not. However, he *is* something. He *has* something. It’s so powerful that it can force otherwise intelligent people to see nothing especially wrong with getting the symbol of systematic murder memorialized on one’s body.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

23. Why are some progressives – the kind who listen to The Young Turks and Pod Save America – so willing to deny, overlook or rationalize the fact of it? Even US Senator Bernie Sanders, whose roots are truly working class, said:

“There’s a young man who served his country in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he went through some really difficult experiences seeing friends of his killed or whatever, and in spite of all of that he had the courage to run … I’m going to support him.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

22. Solidarity requires trust, though, which brings me back to the tattoo.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

21. None of this is to say that a decent man of integrity from a respectable bourgeois background cannot be a champion of the masses. Solidarity against the ruling oligarchy does not require warriors for the working class to be of the working class. After all, Franklin Roosevelt wasn’t.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

16. His mom is an entrepreneur. His dad is an attorney. His grandpa was architect & furniture designer Warren Platner, who worked with the firm that, among other things, designed Dulles Airport & a college at Yale. (There are chairs, literal chairs, named after him.)
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Platner Armchair | Knoll

Shop the Platner Armchair and see our wide selection of Dining Chairs at Knoll. In stock, exclusive, and ready to ship – authentic modern furniture from iconic designers.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

15. As far as I can tell, Platner has performed the part of a "working class Mainer" impressively. He has allowed media allies as diverse as TYTs and Pod Save America to believe he is the real deal. And that’s where the problem begins.

He’s not working class.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

14. I don’t know why she’s choosing to indirectly smear working-class folks as ignorant, violent or profane, but let’s focus on that last part, that supporting a working-class candidate will attract more working-class Americans to expand the Democratic Party.

Because it’s funny.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

12. As is it, he’s giving anti-establishment politics a bad name. He’s forcing allies to embrace absurdities. Here’s The Young Turks’ Emma Vigeland:

“Censorious, hall monitor liberalism that refuses to accept growth in people — unless you’re a corporate centrist and all is forgiven, just ask Cuomo supporters — is far more of a threat to the Democratic Party’s chances in the future than anything dug up on Graham Platner.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

7. Platner said it looked like a Nazi tattoo (no, it is a Nazi tattoo), but instead of accepting responsibility, he offered excuses – that was young & drunk & full of piss when he got it, that he was cleared by security protocols that ban the symbols of hate, that no one (!) had ever mentioned it.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

5. No one told him *about that*? He never bothered to find out for himself *about that*? He claims to be a student of history, tearing through one book after another as a boy. He was a Marine! Yet the symbol of mass death escaped him. And if it didn’t, why did he wait until now to cover it up?

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

2. While he looks good in broad strokes, the details are now in view. He said questionable things abt Black people, gay people, & women years ago. Those could have been overcome, but they don’t matter now, as news abt his Nazi tattoo has pushed them aside. Here’s the AP:

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“He got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007, when he was in his 20s and in the Marine Corps. It happened during a night of drinking while he was on leave in Croatia, he said, adding he was unaware until recently that the image has been associated with Nazi police.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

1. Graham Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who’s running for the United States Senate in Maine. He’s trying to knock off Susan Collins. He’s presented himself as a common-man candidate who stands against oligarchy, genocide and the oppression of the little guy.

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Kyrie Page @kyrie.scanlinemedia.com · 1d

if I ever hold a panel on audio editing you know this image is gonna be part of the slideshow

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

Abolish ICE.

Shame them wherever you see them.

They will never see Jesus.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 10h

Asking Republicans to choose between you and Reagan... when your entire political career has rested upon the pipe dream of returning them to the Reagan Years...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Seems like an important detail

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13h

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14h

You know what is a weird thing I miss about regular TV seasons?

Obligatory seasonal holiday episodes.

Like, no one dropping 8 episodes in July is going to give you an unhinged Halloween ep, a totally inappropriate murder on Christmas ep, and probably some weird Valentine's Day nonsense.

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Dan Fox @foxdaniel.bsky.social · 12h

Americans need to reconcile that this is pretty much what the Obama-era drone strikes were. Any time a prior administration abused its power and it was greeted by a shrug because “we’re the good guys” - this is why you shouldn’t do that.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

At least 46 people have been killed in the attacks.

Six Dead After U.S. Military Conducts 10th Strike On Suspected Drug Cartels

At least 46 people have been killed in the attacks.

www.forbes.com

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Kaze @kazephantom.bsky.social · 11h

I'm all for versions of Venom, Ock, and Goblin existing at the same time in Ultimate & Insomniac. Since through astronomical coincidences all three haven't been active as villains in the 616 at the same time, so all 3 never teamed up.