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From each bird according to their wing-strength, to each bird according to their nest. Smash the Pig Regime of Production.

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@fdr_dem I was naive to never believe in " scratch a Liberal and a Fascist bleeds!"

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@WalshFreedom Dude, you support a genocide. Even if we assume that everything reported so far is true, he is standing on the Mount Everest of moral high ground compared to you.

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@Wilson__Valdez @RoKhanna Can't wait to see y'all crash out in few days when he wins the Primary against a sitting Centrist Governor!

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@NeilHyder_ @hutchinson Again, Mills a sitting Governor dropped out to save herself from humiliation of a loss. They other guy will barely pass double digits. We can wait a few days for the Establishment Dems to crash out!

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@demsocsean It’s all going to be “election fraud” cope and nonsense.

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@SireRottweiler If they had ties to war crimes, I'd be equally offended.

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@hutchinson And this is the justification for being Anti-Democratic?

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@mistergeezy lol, he will win this by more than 5. Plenty of time between now and November.

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@PollTracker2024 Yes, I might just drop by there to show solidarity!

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@TerryWatkinsJr1 Sexting with consenting adult is not SA.

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@ChrisCillizza @nytimes It's will of the voters and the party needs to get behind the idea of Democracy.

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The only thing @grahamformaine is guilty of is dating a Right-Wing Wackoo!

[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:

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Thank you @DeliaRamirezIL

[Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @repdeliaramirez]

A year ago, 21 members of Congress joined me to introduce the Block the Bombs Act to withhold weapons from Israel that were being used to violate U.S. and international law.

Today, we are proud to have 73 bipartisan cosponsors.
We must demand an end to U.S. complicity in destruction, displacement, and death in Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon.

It's time to Block the Bombs!

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@EmmaVigeland To be fair to her, Left Wing enlightenment is traumatic to Right-Wing Reactionaries. The only thing negative about Platner in this story is dating a Right Wing Wackoo.

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@davidsirota They couldn't even let you enjoy your time off!

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@bhaviklathia Wait, 2020 wasn't a wave year?

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All the Brain Damage voters should unite behind Janet Mills so we can serve Israel - John Fetterman.

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John Fetterman tells CNN that it’s time for Maine Democrats to back Janet Mills over Platner

Fetterman to CNN: “I think what's time is is for Maine voters to take a look at the sitting governor, an honorable woman, and that is a committed Democrat that's already won statewide”

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If I was running for office, I'm sure someone can pay my ex to make a statement that I'm an Anti-Christ.

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New NYT article reports Graham Platner, Maine senate candidate, used to keep an AR-15 lying around his apartment and would sharpen an axe while watching TV

According to an ex he often said, "If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them" "not in sexual way, not in a gay way.”

“He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant" she said, describing him as having a “warrior ethos”