In a statement provided to the Guardian, an unnamed DHS official said officers had received a tip from law enforcement partners about their target’s address and had previously spotted two white vans at that property.

"On July 7, officers were almost at the target’s address when they observed a white van with an individual who resembled the target,” the official said.

Because he was Hispanic and drove a work van…

This is the state party…

The DNC is involved in absolutely none of this.

This state party is, unfortunately, run by someone less than a decade out of college who somehow just keeps failing upwards

I have to assume she’s some kind of nepo baby, because it’s wild a state party chair doesn’t have a wikipedia and it takes some oligarch level juice to keep one from being made.

This DNC isn’t going to exert pressure on start parties, which is bad in this case.

Because regardless of how many committees and meetings happen, the Maine Dem chair names whoever they want now

It’s gonna be a shitty pro-Israel neoliberal getting a six year senatorship.

Democratic Party Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson

Great…

The person in charge of it was the chief financial executive of the Florida Dem party in 2020.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/578696-florida-democrats-agree-to-pay-43k-in-settlement-with-fec/

That should make us all super duper confident, and it’s total normal for those Florida Dems to keep failing upwards all over the country.

Edit:

At least she totally took the blame when her Latino outreach program in Florida failed…

Devon Murphy-Anderson, the former finance director for the Florida Democratic Party and cofounder of Mi Vecino, which works to activate Latino voters in Florida, told Newsweek that while Miami-Dade is getting all of the attention, DeSantis’ complete and total win also impressively flipped traditional blue areas like Palm Beach County and Hillsborough County.

“It’s important to know this was a strategy from Florida Republicans, and not to shift the blame to Latino voters,” she argued, seeing the results as “a response to strategic investment by a political party.”

https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-wins-florida-latino-vote-setting-stage-2024-clash-1758404

Totally makes sense after all these collosal recent fuck ups in the less than decade since graduating college means she should run a state fucking party and make these kinds of calls.

I still don’t understand why no one else notices this shit.

My own money is on Troy Jackson, who has already created a committee to explore the possibility.

The guy who lost his own smaller primary, immediately called for Platner to resign, and then in pretty much the same breath “reluctantly” filed the paperwork to take over…

Created a committee to explore who should replace Platner?!

I’m waiting on baited breath to hear who he recommends…

/s

Couldn’t get past the paywall, but a caucus style convention is about the only option now.

Would have been better off if he pledged to step down after beating Collins so there’s be plenty of time for a special election.

But this whole thing was orchestrated to cause a rushed decision and counted on Platner putting the movement over himself.

“For the movement to continue, it can’t be me,” he said. “For that reason, we are suspending campaign operations.”

I>n the video, Platner stood by his assertion that the accusations are “not remotely true,” claiming they are driven by “large forces … working against [him] personally”.

“This is all false,” Platner said of the allegations. “The things that have been claimed did not happen. It’s not real.”

“I learned about this through press inquiries with no time to truly respond, no time for investigations before a corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury and executioner,” he said. “Accusations are supposed to be the beginning of things, not the end.”

Dude got Franklen’d…

Second place in RCV lost by over 40%, and is 69 years old signing up for a fucking 6 year term.

And wants to keep selling weapons to Israel:

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/17/janet-mills-says-she-opposes-attempts-to-stop-funding-israels-defenses/

So it makes no sense to give her the nomination, no time to democratically pick anyone else.

All because this is what it takes to get Israel their representation in the American Senate.

It fucking sucks that if he was half the piece of shit they’re making him out to be, he could have just stayed in the race.

They’ll sell at a loss to get the President to advertise for them on TV

In a week they’ll be the same price, in a month they’ll be higher due to idiot tax.

They want people to make their gas station their personality, and trumpets are dumb enough to do it.

Just the way Jackson took all of two seconds to go from:

He should drop out

To

If no one else will, I can… He should drop out and it should be handed to me!

Makes me think it shouldn’t be him

Dude saw a personal opportunity and lept at it. If he cared he wouldn’t have thrown his own name out after losing his own primary.

He’d promote someone who came in second in the primary.

His concern isn’t a Dem beating Susan Collins, it’s amassing personal power.

He’s term limited from his old spot and lost at Governor, he’s just out job hunting. And that’s not what we need in politicians these days

The highlight for me was his wife immediately hoping on a jet to Bejing to meet with Chinese officials days after he had to be revived with CPR in their home.

Married for 30+ years and she immediately went as far away as she could without leaving the fucking planet.

Barrasso spokesperson Kate Noyes said the two discussed a number of topics, including recent sexual assault allegations against Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner (allegations Platner has denied) and national defense spending, during a 20-minute phone conversation on Tuesday afternoon.

Billionaires that own American media really want the anti-genocide progressive to drop out…

They’re shoehorning it into everything these days, and apparently even McConnell is focused on stopping Platner.

Falling for propaganda doesn’t make someone stupid. That’s the entire point of propaganda…

And describing early European conquest as motivated by ‘Christian religious fervor’ frames Christian evangelism and Christians’ flight from religious persecution in Europe as an intent to subjugate the New World, rather than flee life-threatening persecution, spread the good news of the Gospel, and share the love of Jesus Christ with those in this new land.”

A lot of people still believe that shit.

The “persecution” that pilgrims faced in Europe was that they were a small extremist minority and didn’t have the numbers to make everyone follow their rules.

When they’d try to use violence to make the masses follow their rules was the only time they faced any kind of punishment for their religious beliefs.

So they went to “the colonies” where they believed they could be the majority if they had enough kids, which meant coming down hard on women’s rights.

I mean…

It’s always been pretty obvious they wanted to “investigate” fraud so they could figure out how to get away with it.

Like cheesey heist movies where the robber pretends to work for the alarm.company to case the joint.

She thought neoliberals would accept her, that she was Biden’s VP pick because she was being groomed to be a leader.

She wasn’t, she was just there to make the Biden ticket not a blank piece of copy paper. She was never intended to get the last nomination, but by a fluke she got it handed to her.

The neoliberals will (already have really) pivot to Newsom, so she’s trying desperately to rebrand herself as progressive after actually saying:

You asked me what is the difference between Joe Biden and me — that will be one of the differences. I’m going to have a Republican in my Cabinet,

Like, she tried to move the window right from Biden…

She sure as shit ain’t peogressive

As much as it sucks, yeah, that was implied.

Even just for minor drug deals, Undercovers target children with learning disabilities because they’re often the most trusting.

Once they have them for a minor buy, they’ll send them straight to real dealers wearing a wire.

Like you said, status quo

Lol, like the WKUK civil war episodes where they keep showing up late after battles

This is 100% going to be one of those things where undercovers bullied someone into going along with a plan or even just being reasonably aware of a plan but not snitching.

It’s just way more likely they invented a threat than they stopped a legitimate one.

Yeah, but they said 1909 people didn’t have national TV news…

Not to mention the Internet only tells you someone noticed something, another way to look at that is they had more critical thinking than we do today, because they had to fill in the blanks themselves.

It’s insane how many times I’ve out time into a comment pulling form multiple different areas, and someone’s just says “source” without any context. And a single link that looks like it backs one thing up, is taken as proof for everything.

Just the concept that someone is putting things together is inconceivable to people, that expect one single article that “proves” everything.

It’s really fucking dangerous when a society blindly accepts authority like that, even without a demented fascist running the show.

Buddy…

People back in 1969 didn’t put it together either.

It’s worse, this is Nixon and the EPA all over again.

Or Obamacare even.

They know it’s unavoidable, and if they don’t act something effective might finally happen.

So the oligarchs will pass something that says “tax billionaires” but absolutely no one will fall under it. When a progressive runs on “tax billionaires” everyone will point to this do nothing bill and say it’s already done.

Taking the wind out of the movements sails…

I’d like to say this shit should be obvious, but it’s clearly not for most people.

what an empty shell of a person he was.

That’s his purpose…

He was handpicked by Pelosi, and a biased DNC threatened to bankrupt any state party who’s reps didn’t vote for him.

The current DNC has been dumping that money back on state parties for almost two years now. Even if someone thought they might pull the same shit, they won’t have the funds to do it by then, and the state parties are already funded.

The “victory fund” was the stick neoliberals used, and Martin broke it into pieces and passed it around. It the bottom up structure the Dem party was always meant to have.