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[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@mehdirhasan @patrickbetdavid After an hour. And this is a performance. Big difference from genuine snowflakes who hide their homophobic and antisemitic videos from the their past

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

I lived in New York City longer than the current Mayor has been a naturalized citizen.

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@JAMIEMICAH3 @walterkirn It’s not stealing. It’s manufactured democracy. Build a predictive outcome that retains power to the powerful.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

A lot of people don't want to confront the implications of what they just saw happen in LA, even those who are appalled by it. They want an out, just so they can go on, not be terrified, feel a tiny tiny bit in control still. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@walterkirn You let them keep your kids masked on a beach and skatepark while kept out of school for YEARS, then watched as they let entire communities burn to the ground, now they openly manufacture an election outcome to retain power and somehow, someway, you’ll say nothing. Madness

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@spencerpratt @legitbrittFLA Apparently the late vote loves higher taxes too..LA is a disaster

[Susan Shelley @Susan_Shelley]

Late-arriving ballots in Los Angeles County are overwhelmingly and consistently in favor of raising the sales tax from 9.75% to 10.25%. (Many cities are already higher; Lancaster and Palmdale would go to 11.75% with the passage of this measure.) Update on June 7:

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@DavidAFrench So you’re telling me you’ve just now seen this act? It’s been 12 years of the same show. Buddy you’re the one cashing in on these nonsense reruns

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@yashar Or reality. Or the idiocy of doubling down on what’s bright LA to this point

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@bdomenech @MarkHalperin “The guy ONE DAY on the Job was not competent enough for my liking”
Find a more delusional asshole

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@brianstelter @LuluGNavarro “The person ONE DAY on the job was not competent enough . “
Remind me who’s the asshole in this situation??

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@ZacharyDonnini @yashar If this was Mississippi they’d be calling it backwards redneck corruption. But LA elites find this totally kosher

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@adamwren @MarkHalperin @RahmEmanuel Guessing Mark is predicting her as the Platner replacement???

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@EarthFirstVoter @nytimes @Weasel9100 @nytopinion Where have we heard that before???

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@ggreenwald This is an absurd take. If your abuser is trying to hold a public position of power the game changes as a victim. You feel an obligation to save future victims

[AdamG @AdamGUNC]

@JoeA_NFL @stoolpresidente @BizNasty2point0 Hate when you’re correct bc you’re such an idiot on football but this is correct

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

This guy just lies and lies and lies in ways such that it’s obvious he’s lying… but we’re supposed to then believe his denial on the physical abuse?

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.

I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.

I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[Maya Luna (NYC arc ✈️) @envisionedluna]

At this point the only thing that could hurt Platner with progressives is if it came out that he has a Star of David tattoo

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

As the Times forced Lyndsey to jump through these hoops, they simultaneously published non-credible and non-verified accounts of rape by Israeli dogs in their pages.

[Reuben Rodriguez @ReubenR80027912]

The correct way for assessing “is Platner a bad guy?” Is simply asking:

“If my daughter called me and told me this, what would my reaction be?”