David Grossman

Co-founder @ThisSpaceTV • Multimedia Producer • The @BenjaminPDixon Show • @LikeItOrNotShow • @NomikiKonst & @cliff_notes • activist • he/him

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

@AaronWorthing @AndrewKolvet That’s just not true? As I said earlier today, young progressive voters don’t align with the ritual of in-person voting. Data has proven this over and over again.

[Clarence F @Can_Do_Kid_Kane]

@ryangrim I feel like the bigger story, and that’s saying something, is why is the whole political establishments of both sides bringing everything to bear against Platner?

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Hey media

Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"

[Kai Newkirk for Congress @kai_newkirk]

Not just Democrats, but the majority of Americans agree with us: get big money out of politics, end military aid to Israel, pass Medicare for All, and guarantee Universal Childcare.

If we bring our message to enough people, we will win this race. Sign up to volunteer today!

[Nomiki - @nomiki.bsky.social @NomikiKonst]

I wish the NYT would do deep dives on every single Republican senator.

That’s all.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Remember when Abdul El-Sayed’s scandal was that he has a PhD and MD but hadn’t done his residency yet

[Nomiki - @nomiki.bsky.social @NomikiKonst]

Sorry @KBeds what are you saying? You’re validating a Heritage Foundation staffer’s complaints against Platner? The ONLY person making uncorroborated claims to NYT?

You’re calling for folks to vote for someone not running?

Let me guess, you have no problem with Fetterman.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Democrats are making something clear: if concerns about a candidate are legitimate, they should be addressed. But we are not going to be lectured by the party of Donald Trump, Ken Paxton, or other Republicans who have been accused of things like putting boiling water on their wives during a fight.

Dismissing the allegations against Platner is a mistake. But the NYT left the door wide open to the argument that Platner’s ex girlfriend is politically motivated. Heritage Foundation, Independent Women, Ladies for Kavanaugh.

Ultimately, what we think in NYC and DC doesn’t matter. Maine voters aren’t terminally online. They like his platform - it may be enough!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “All of these Fox News guys are like I can’t believe this is what Graham Platner was doing. Pete Hegseth was literally your co-worker and was a notorious drunk rapist. I feel like I’m losing my mind, the standards are so out of wack. We just never look at Republicans. They can do whatever the fuck they want. They can literally murder, cheat, steal, rape”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Krystal Ball: “There’s things that suggest Susan Collins had an affair in the 70’s. Have we had any reporting about that? No. Graham Platner challenges power, he challenges the oligarchy and he challenges the powers that be on Israel. We know that is a recipe for people coming after you and doing whatever they can to tarnish you and ultimately take you down”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “A republican congressperson from Ohio torched his fucking wife with boiling water. The president is Donald Grab ‘Em By The Pussy Trump. The president has been in a civil trial found liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. Graham Platner is not even up there in terms of what Republican and Democrat congresspersons have done”

[Julie A. Su @JulieSuLabor]

I see @NYCMayor give his all every single day to do what government is supposed to do — make life better for people. It’s worth it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Platner’s team pointing to Zeteo and @andrewperezdc’s latest reporting:

https://t.co/5MNgTPexGP

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Graham Platner: “Susan Collins hasn’t met a war she doesn’t like, and it’s no surprise because she’s married to a lobbyist who represents the defense industry. You don’t see as many articles about that.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

“He’s the best candidate by far. And probing into the minutia of his personal relationships when you don't do that for any other candidate is ridiculous”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: Too often, a working New Yorker is trying to find any extra dollar they can to make ends meet—then they look at city government and they don't see the same application of effort. This is the city charter. This is close to 800 pages. A charter revision commission is a review of the charter. In these 779 pages, I’m sure there are opportunities for government efficiency.

[Forrest Miller 🎥🏆 @AlwaysFlacko]

lol.

[Andy O'Brien @aobrien2010]

Online is not real life. Mainers don’t give a shit about a candidate’s private sex life.