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  • He realized it’s easier to take direct bribes them somehow force ships to pay a protection racket…

    Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” Trump said on social media.

    The president said the investments “will be MASSIVE,” though it’s unclear if these would be new commitments relative to what Trump announced after a visit last year to the Middle East.

    We can’t afford another Bitch ass neoliberal like Biden, we need the next president to be one that will finally acknowledge we’re in a class war and have been for generations.

    We need to hold oligarchs responsible, seize their money and throw them in gen pop federal prisons for decades


  • “At the time I had no idea who he was, and I only figured it out because another group or twinks leaked Lady G to the media,” Rose continued. “Some queer tried to grandstand critique this, saying we shouldn’t ‘out’ people. I believe bigots with power deserve no peace or privacy, especially when they hold public office. I’m glad they did it. Icons forever.”

    There’s at least one blahaj account running around trying to defend Graham…

    They really need to read this article and maybe they’d finally figure out not everyone LGBTQ is an ally and not all allies are LGBTQ.

    It’s fucking wild to defend Lady G just because they were closeted LGBTQ.








  • 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.



  • 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.



  • 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





  • 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.