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Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 1h

Agreed. He has had it for almost 20 years. Combine that with his comments about sexual assault and it’s a hard no. I don’t agree with Mills on everything, but the fact that people still support him is mind-blowing.

Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 2h

Bernie Sanders has always thrown women under the bus. Supporting anti-abortion candidates. Dismissing "women's issues" because, according to him, it's about "the economy." Ignoring sexual harassment reports on his campaign.

No surprise he dismissed SA, but a Nazi tattoo was not on my Bingo card.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

Bernie about Platner,

“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"

When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."

Bernie: "Ok"

Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 2h

He has had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years. He is trying to explain it away. It is front-page news in Maine. It is not that hard to find news stories as "receipts."

I supported his campaign.

That support ended because it is a NAZI tattoo.

Graham Platner says he will remove a Nazi-linked tattoo. Bernie is standing by him.

The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate said he didn't know the meaning of the skull tattoo, which he got in 2007 while on leave in Croatia during his time in the Marines.

www.pressherald.com

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Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 2h

I am a life-long progressive, but Sanders lost me years ago for supporting anti-abortion Democrats because "it is about the economy."

Women lost rights to bodily and ECONOMIC autonomy in part because "liberal/progressive" men threw them away.

Now Sanders still supports a man with a Nazi tattoo. 🤬

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h

I am now ready with a take: It is good when negative things about candidates come out before people vote rather than after they vote.

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Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 3h

I am a Maine resident who was supporting Platner because I wish Mills were more progressive.

Mills was one of the first governors to oppose Trump.

We were celebrating her "see you in court" response to Trump, and, now that the white man has a Nazi tattoo, she is "104."

Misogyny at its best.

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Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 3h

As a Maine resident, I was excited about Platner's campaign.

That support has ended, full stop, no questions, no wavering.

People are defending Platner with "Dems have to stop the purity tests - people can change/he didn't know/Mills is an old woman."

Its a NAZI tattoo. JFC, do better Maine.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop.

This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 1d

Sexual abusers are not limited to "the wrong families."

Men with power historically have taken these risks, knowing their power protects them.

I mean, Trump won the first time despite his "grabbing them by their p******" and a second time after being adjudicated responsible for sexual assault.

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Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 1d

"Grabbed her buttocks; reached under her blouse and fondled her breast"

"... told her he “wanted to be touched,” and, upon learning that she planned to get a tattoo, advised her to get it on her buttocks."

"tapped the area” between the employee’s buttocks and thigh ... moved his fingers upward"

Revisiting the Sexual Harassment Complaints Against Cuomo

A look at the allegations that led Andrew Cuomo to resign as governor of New York, where they stand and how his position on them has shifted.

www.nytimes.com

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 3d

This is hardly a new thought, but this morning I’m just thinking about how so many of what we’re taught to consider “mental disorders” are actually quite rational responses to a profoundly f’ed up world

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Ed Fuller @edfuller.bsky.social · 2d

Ive been in educ for 37 yrs.

I've learned new tech initially makes u more efficient & saves u time, but then u r given new tasks & that extra time disappears & u have even less time.

More responsibilities & less time.

No wonder there r so many mental health issues.

#EduSky #AcademicSky

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 4d

For your Saturday
~ Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —
6 Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen.
When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Just a bunch of paid domestic terrorists in Portland, Maine.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d

😂

Zohran Mamdani Trolls Critics Who Say He's Too Young To Be NYC Mayor With Hilarious Announcement

www.comicsands.com

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 5d

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 8d

On Indigenous Peoples Day I always recommend checking out this website/interactive map to understand the non-colonial history of the land you occupy

Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land

Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.

native-land.ca

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8d

Today, Maine observes Indigenous Peoples' Day. We honor the lands and legacies of the Wabanaki Nations — Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki.

I look forward to passing legislation in the Senate to protect tribal sovereignty, which has been trampled for too long.

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💙🇺🇸DWally🇺🇸💙 @dkwally.bsky.social · 8d

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 10d

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 9d

Currently teaching 2 "banned books":

The Handmaid's Tale & Catcher in the Rye. A dystopian Christian Nationalist fascist state and a youthful narrator that calls out the hypocrisy of adults. I wonder why these titles are hit with proposed/actual book bans every year 🤔

#bannedbooksweek

Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 10d

I'm just a girl in the world who loves banned books and won't stop fighting for everyone's right to read freely. #BannedBooksWeek

Reclaiming Letters @reclaimingletters.bsky.social · 9d

It's been aggressively making the Bluesky rounds—it's popped up on my feed eight times so far. "Blue Wave" accounts where casual sexism is still cool, telling me to smile since it's just a joke. I admit I am feeling rage-y about it.

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