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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1h

As I had to point out many times during post #metoo years, no one is owed a big Hollywood contract. No one owed a comedy special. Now: No one is owed a Senate seat. This dude was not murdered & he’s not in jail. He made poor decisions & his actions now are sus & so he doesn’t get the job. The end!

investigationcone.bsky.social @investigationcone.bsky.social · 53m

..you don't- you don't get Nazi tattoos again.

investigationcone.bsky.social @investigationcone.bsky.social · 55m

We're probably going to find he has M.I.L.H. tattooed on his back with an image of a little toothbrush mustache.

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Goose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 2h

breaking: Graham Platner got his Nazi tattoo covered up, appears to have 2nd Nazi tattoo ???

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h

“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino

Thinking like a dissident movement.

www.thebulwark.com

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 4h

As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema.

Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.

Liar.

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Partyglouberman @partyglouberman.bsky.social · 4h

Next step is dropping out of the senate race @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 5h

The Democratic Party has very little to say for itself at the moment *except* for the fact that it’s the one national party that’s not chock full of people with Nazi group chats, secret Nazi social media accounts, Nazi friends, or Nazi tattoos.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

Let’s keep this simple. This is not about whether Platner is an irredeemable person, or whether he can be forgiven. This is not about whether people were wrong to find him an intruging candidate in his initial appearances — I agree that he was. It’s about who will be the Democratic candidate in a critical Senate in Maine, and “got a Nazi tattoo and still has it” is transparently disqualifying. You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent who has consistently punched above her party’s weight in the state. His allies are not doing him any favors if they allow him to believe otherwise, and if you don’t like Mills you need to find someone else to challenge her.

investigationcone.bsky.social @investigationcone.bsky.social · 10h

We were not supposed to find out about the tattoo until he was elected and could start Fetterman-ing us.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

I am going to leave the Platner thing alone soon I swear, once I'm done being disappointed at people for whom "no literal Nazi tattoos" is a bridge too far, but I want to point out something is off here about his statements and I think this might be another lie. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The US military already has a policy that checks for extremist, racist and sexist tattoos, and Platner added that the Nazi connection never came up during security screenings, including when he joined the army national guard after his marine service and later for the state department when he worked as security detail for the US ambassador to Afghanistan.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

You have to parse his Wikipedia article carefully, because implies he was in service for 8 continuous years with no problem, but that's not actually true. He enlisted in the Marines in 2003 and served for four years before separating in 2007 and going to George Washington University.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

While there, he joined the Maryland Army National Guard and served another four years (for 8 total). Now, four years is a standard Marine active duty length for some MOSes (not all; there are a few who have longer commitments) after which you can serve out the rest of your 8 years in the reserves.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

But he claims to have gotten the tattoo in 2007. Most if not all Marine MOSes, and especially active combat ones, were under stop-loss orders in 2007. It was a whole Thing!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Stop-loss orders mean that you can be involuntarily required to serve out your entire contractual obligation of 8 years in the branch you enlisted in rather than doing 4 years in the branch and then finishing out in the reserves.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

The Marines were just straight up not letting most people finish out the last 4 years of their 8 years in the reserves in 2007. It was a massive national controversy in 2007-2008!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

So that timing and trajectory is *highly* suspicious, because to me, that absolutely looks like he got the second most widely known Nazi insignia tattooed on him and *extremely* shortly thereafter, left the Marines and served out in the reserves at a time when almost NO ONE was allowed to.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sorry, but that practically screams "at his annual physical, the examiner identified the SS totenkopf tattoo as an extremist symbol" (and it was and still is in the big book of no-no tattoos) "and got him out of the Marines in order to make him Someone Else's PR Problem".

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Also, the idea that fucking Blackwater (which is what he extremely disingenuously calls "working for the state department" here) screens out candidates with extremist tattoos is fucking hilarious. They do not!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Again, it would depend on what his actual MOS was, because there *were* a few MOSes that weren't subject to at least a 12-month stop-loss at minimum in 2007, and some enterprising reporter would really have to dig into timing and details here.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

But the idea that literally no one he encountered in his military service spotted the problem is fucking laughable even *if* we didn't have reports from people who knew him that he was already referring to the tattoo as the SS totenkopf as early as 2011-2012.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

I knew something was bothering me about the dates, dammit! I'm bad at linear time but I *absolutely* remember the controversy over the aggressive use of the stop-loss policy circa 2004-2010.

investigationcone.bsky.social @investigationcone.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting op patch.

Operation patch for the Chicago campaign "Operation At Large". Details are blurry, but looks like a skull with a thin Blue line American flag bandana over the mouth and a hat.

investigationcone.bsky.social @investigationcone.bsky.social · 23h

The good news is a lot of people who are totally cool with Nazis are showing their whole ass today.

investigationcone.bsky.social @investigationcone.bsky.social · 23h

I do believe that getting a permanent symbol of concentration camp guards tattooed on your chest absolutely disqualifies you.

I further believe that defending someone with a concentration camp guard tattoo on their chest is disqualifying. We already have a fascist party. Join them and GTFO.