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.
High level summary on the differences between Abdul’s & Mallory's campaigns, on the more important issues.
@AbdulElSayed:
- Pro medicare for all (PhD, MD, Rhodes Scholar, worked for DHD & has written a literal book on it)
- Pro abolishing ICE
- Pro Palestine
- Has never taken corporate money
- Has gone on both left & right wing media displaying his ability to fight back against Republicans
- Campaigned with & endorsed by @hasanthehun
- Endorsements: @UAW, @NationalNurses, @WorkingFamilies, @TrackAIPAC,
@BernieSanders, @RoKhanna, @RashidaTlaib, @RepSummerLee, etc.
@MalloryMcMorrow:
- Anti M4A, wants public option, which allows for private healthcare to still exist and take advantage of people
- Anti abolishing ICE, believes they need more identification
- No mention of Israel funding plan on website, but has vocally stated she's "open to funding defensive weapons"
- Has taken corporate money in previous elections
- Has pulled out of multiple interviews after being told there would be a conversation around healthcare & foreign policy (w/ @headintheoffice & @mattxiv - the latter of which she ended up doing... not well)
- Endorsements: @ewarren, @ChrisMurphyCT, @nursesamerica, etc.
Unpopular "centrist" Dems give the right endless ammo to effectively use against them, while leftists are so universally appealing that even FOX is scared to attack them, because they keep converting their own viewers.
As @grahamformaine dominates his primary tonight, a quick throwback to @Mike_from_PA emphasizing Platner's crucial support from "Wine Moms" and why that signaled his strong support.
"The Barbara's and Debra's will lead us to victory... When the Wine Moms are on your side, it means you are WINNING!"
If the governments job isn’t to secure even basic shit like clean drinking water for its citizens, what’s its actual purpose?! THIS IS WHAT WE WANT OUR TAXES PAYING FOR
I will never stop banging the drum that AI plagiarizes by default.
You can literally never be sure it isn't ripping something else off when you generate an image, asset, or video.
This is from Zelda if you didn't know.
I’ll never forget the time an interviewer asked Johnny Knoxville about the homoerotic subtext in Jackass and he got mad at them for calling it subtext.
What has happened at the #2026WorldCup over the last 48 hours:
• Swiss footballer Embolo's visa was put under review and he was only able to join his team days later.
• Iraqi national team player Aymen Hussein was held for questioning for nearly 7 hours upon entering the United States.
• The Iranian national team spent days dealing with visa procedures at the U.S. Consulate in Türkiye. The U.S. only allowed them entry on match days. Fifteen members of the delegation were denied visas.
• Omar Abdulkadir Artan, named CAF's Best African Referee of 2025, was denied a visa. Despite travelling to the U.S. with a diplomatic passport, he was refused entry and sent back. FIFA announced that he will not be able to officiate at the tournament.
• The South African national team arrived in the United States much later than planned because part of the delegation was not granted visas.
• Members of the Senegal national team staff were forced to remove their shoes and subjected to lengthy searches, sparking accusations of racism.
• The Uzbekistan national team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs and the footage went viral in international media.
• Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.
• Many supporters who had already bought tickets and booked accommodation had their visa applications rejected, resulting in financial losses.
One thing I said in the interview that the NYT refuses to air was that the American empire probably won’t last until 2045, making it one of the shortest-lived empires in history, a testament to the extreme and possibly unprecedented avarice and incompetence of our ruling class.