Jennifer Welch on Graham Platner: “Everyone’s talking about toxic relationships and tattoos and all of this shit. Talk about Susan Collins voting to dismantle protections that keep women safe and keep women free because that is the real story here. She is a MAGA fascist to her core. I don’t give a fuck if somebody had a toxic relationship. I myself have been a toxic girlfriend, I’ve had toxic boyfriends. That’s part of the human experience”
This is the vision of masculinity we need modeled for men across nation. That there is value in working on yourself and self-improvement. That therapy is good and important.
NEW: Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean says Graham Platner "has disqualified himself" from Maine Senate race.
"It's so distressing -- All of the stories that are coming out, and there are more and more, it seems, by the hour."
AIPAC applauds the House Armed Services Committee for including Section 224, the United States‑Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, and other pro‑Israel provisions in its National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2027.
Section 224 helps give America a strategic advantage by expanding our partnership with Israel in key arenas that will define 21st century warfare. This provision helps ensure our military is working together with another innovation and technology leader to give our troops the critical edge they need to keep America safe.
The provision builds on decades of existing U.S.-Israel defense cooperation and on the bipartisan U.S.-Israel FUTURES Act introduced earlier this year by Representatives Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Don Davis (D-NC), making existing cooperation efforts more efficient and effective.
The committee also approved $750 million for U.S.–Israel cooperative programs—a $65 million increase over FY26—including $500 million for missile defense, $100 million for counter-unmanned systems, $100 million for subterranean operations, and $50 million for emerging technologies. The bill also extends the War Reserves Stockpile Authority–Israel.
AIPAC thanks House Armed Services Committee Chairman @RepMikeRogersAL, Ranking Member @RepAdamSmith, and other bipartisan leaders for advancing these important provisions that support American jobs, enhance troop safety, and keep the United States at the forefront of defense innovation by leveraging the enduring special relationship the United States shares with Israel.
We now encourage the full House to maintain these pro-Israel measures as the NDAA moves toward final passage.
Powerful piece, highly recommend reading. Democrats need people like Platner if they are going to come to terms with the true nature of our country, with what we have done to people at home and abroad, and pull together the coalition needed to heal and reshape it.
“A tiny minority of Americans (6%) ever serve in the military. Of these, only 40% of veterans have ever deployed to a combat zone. And of those deployed, only about 10% participated in actual ground combat. I am one of those, and so is Platner. His pathology: a combination of traumatic stress, substance abuse, impulsive decision-making in the past, and deep anger at the moral injury he sustained wearing the cloth of this nation, is something this country ought to consider when it sends its young men and women to war. The question before Maine is not whether Graham Platner is perfect. The question is whether the United States Senate, the state of Maine, and the country as a whole would benefit from having his voice in the room when decisions are made. The answer is yes…”
“A democracy that insists on perfection will eventually find itself represented only by people skilled at hiding their flaws.”