It’s not an exaggeration to say that Platner’s victory in Maine may be one of the most impressive primary victories in Senate History.
An unknown oyster fisherman with no political experience just crushed the sitting governor and a coordinated bipartisan national smear campaign.
highly recommend owning a cat because it makes dealing with every negative emotion a little bit easier. it's difficult to feel the full weight of crushing reality when a little freak is doing olympic laps around your home after taking a loud shit
nyt can you please have some decency about a decorated war veteran combat surgeon who saved tammy duckworth's life, who treated 9/11 first responders and was in gaza during the genocide. i get that he's muslim and antizionist but this is a shameful and racist subheader!
@MegaphonixMusic I heard poll site turnout was super low but hopefully that just means most people got their mail-in ballots send out early. There was only 2 people at my poll site when I went at 4pm. Need huge turnout to get our boys over the finish line
@MegaphonixMusic@tonyta Agreed but it’s honestly really crazy that them being ultra rich somehow helps their ability to not need to be funded by AIPAC or other special interests like Becerra and Weiner/Chan (even if they wouldn’t accept the money anyways)
@CantEverDie@KaoticLeftist He was very progressive leaning in his earlier years, actually had good policies then went full blown corpo shit. After the Biden HHS appointment, basically went full centrist lib and abandoned anything good. CA has always had bad options but he’s worse than Newson
reminder to watch Hasan's Cuba documentary where he spoke with doctors, scientists, and civilians about the US oil blockade and embargo they've had to suffer through for 64 years before the US government forces him to take it down
and download it to show everyone else