Justin McCarthy

Philly sports fan, avid runner, dog lover, proud beer snob, and nine time Boston Marathon runner.

[Philip Klein @philipaklein]

Then release the text! This game is embarrassing.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Fool me 39 times, shame on you, fool me 40 times...

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Evil is the right word for this; taking people who are safe in the United States, who have proven to a judge they would be persecuted in their home country, and dumping them in a random country in the middle of a civil war.

Is it legal? Sadly, probably yes. Is it evil? Also yes.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

It's good that @KristiNoem got bounced, but her replacement @SecMullinDHS seems to have an equally shaky understanding of basic American law. Short of true threats, 'verbally assaulting'--shouting at or protesting--federal agents IS free speech. https://t.co/PsFCF4rlxn

[🇺🇸 David J. Urban 🇺🇸 @DavidJUrban]

I've been diagnosed with PTSD myself, so I don't say this lightly. Graham Platner using his diagnosis to excuse the things he's done is an insult to every veteran who carries the same weight and never used it as cover. I don't know one veteran who has acted the way he has.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

RACIAL PROFILING. A Hispanic man with an accent was randomly approached by ICE. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. Instead of treating him with respect, they hancuffed him, took him to a different location, and questioned him for two hours before releasing him — with no apology.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Federal officials don’t get to outsource censorship by bullying private platforms into doing their dirty work.

Sens. Cruz and Wyden’s JAWBONE Act would help stop that coercion and give victims a way to fight back. Passing it would be a win across party lines.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

You can tell someone has zero affirmative defenses for their behavior if their reaction is "everyone mad it me is just as big of a hypocrite as I am." Extremely convenient way to avoid self-reflection.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

“The most free speech administration in history” considering seeking the deportation of yet another person because they don’t like his speech.

[BT @back_ttys]

Everyone needs to relax. New England would never send a man with an alcohol problem and a history of abusing women to the United States Senate.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

(looks cautiously over shoulder) The left-wing response of basically ignoring Platner's scandals is extremely understandable and, although I don't agree with it, it's hard to condemn without implicating Trump supporters as similarly morally ambivalent

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Trump is pretty open-minded, but the one thing he won't abide are men who cheat on their wives and are accused of sexual assault.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

If you’re claiming to fight fascism, you probably shouldn’t get a Nazi tattoo and threaten to jail your political opponents.

[HowardKurtz @HowardKurtz]

If you flip the script, if Graham Platner was a Republican, Dems would be denouncing him as unfit.
If Ken Paxton was a Democrat, GOPers would totally trash him. It's all about winning, and control, at any cost https://t.co/ZccgCGjsGP

[Caroline McCaughey @TheCarolineMc]

At a Graham Platner rally in Portland.

“Would an Israeli flag tattoo be a deal breaker?”

“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump is exactly what we knew he was. The harshest questions and criticisms of journalism today and history tomorrow are about how a generation of Republican politicians, partisan media, and US voters willingly chose to ignore it for power.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

The thing about Donald Trump—the most consistent thing—is that he is the whiniest bitch on the planet.

[Will Truman @trumwill]

Unpopular view incoming: Republican fraud claims are untrue and it is what defenders say it is but that if the Democrats saw a red state regularly take forever to count and watched their margins diminish day after day they'd develop theories, too, even if explanations existed.

[Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes]

I don't speak for all media, of course, but I don't think the answer is very complicated and I don't think it's sudden pro-GOP media bias.

I think it's mostly because Platner is relatively new on the scene and there are fresh revelations about his misogyny and mendacity nearly every day. His primary is on June 9.

Paxton has been around for decades (first elected in 2002) and his many scandals have been widely and exhaustively reported for years. His primary/runoff has already happened and he next faces voters in November.

I suspect we'll see abundant coverage of Paxton's scandals (which I find disqualifying) in the months ahead.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

Why are Democrats acting like it’s two weeks to November and there’s no alternative to Graham Platner? There are many other Democrats in Maine.