Kevin Mandel

USMC 1981-1985 LEO 1987-2011

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Jodi Kantor is going with the "he was just a bad boyfriend, he didn't do anything wrong" defense of Platner.

This is shameless. This woman wrote "She Said" about Harvey Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct. We were supposed to believe women.

Kantor seems willing to burn her own reputation to the ground to defend Graham Platner -- seriously? this guy? -- and to remain in good standing as a Democrat.

Pathetic.

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

Maybe if the guy is gonna claim he’s not part of a terrorist organization, the terrorist organization should wait a few days before being like, “yeah he’s ours.”

[Kira @Kiradavis]

You’re not allowed! Did you hear that? Straight from the mouths of the Democrat Party. Their attitude towards all of America. You’re not allowed unless we say you’re allowed.

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@SenatorDurbin My daughter Katie is in the grave due to policies you supported and defended.

When you had an opportunity to show compassion to our family, there was none.

Your moral compass seems to point in only one direction, toward causes that fit your politics.
This is not principled. No wisdom in what you do.

Is that your definition of compassion

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Heartbreaking. I watched it once. Then I watched it again. And each time, my body hurt and my heart broke.

Four young women in Kabul were run over by Taliban forces after attending an educational seminar.
Nobody knows whether they are alive or not. Just think about that.
These women were were not doing anything wrong. They were learning.

Simple act of seeking education can become a life-threatening risk.

I received this video from a woman of Afghanistan with a simply message: “please use your platform and tell the world that they are killing us here, we are tired of Taliban. please don’t let the world forget Afghan women. we are fed up with Taliban. Enough is enough”.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

THIS IS INSANE. The California Post just exposed how election representatives in Los Angeles went out to Skid Row and PAID homeless people to vote for Karen Bass. They gave these people a couple of bucks, said 'sign here,' and boom, another ballot. One homeless woman said these officials collect votes 3 TIMES A WEEK.

It's infuriating to see how the government is preying on these people, asking homeless addicts to sell their birthright for TWO DOLLARS. Everyone in California should be outraged.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Herzliya is not in Gaza, Judea, or Samaria.

It is a town founded in 1924 that has always been inside of internationally-recognized Israel.

When Arab supremacists say “stolen Palestinian land,” they mean the entirety of Israel.

Palestine is the idea that Arabs have the right to commit actual genocide and then actually steal land.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

It was not an all white jury and their son stabbed a 17yo to death. Take responsibility.

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

This is genuinely jarring to watch.

Jodi Kantor built her entire brand on Me Too coverage - and treated every accusation against Brett Kavanaugh as damning and disqualifying.

This partisan waffling on behalf of someone as terrible as Platner is just insane.

[Adele Scalia @AdeleScalia]

Seinfeld is successful enough to be untouchable so he doesn’t have to play the stupid “Free Palestine” game other people in Hollywood think they have to and I love that for him.

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

The funny thing about Platner is YES he's got a nazi tattoo, a history of abusing women, he's denigrated rural maine, fantasized about rape, active on predator website, sexted a dozen women outside marriage..

but underneath all of that he's also terrible on politics and policy.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

This week I've heard from dozens of women who have been victims of domestic violence.

Many have remarked not just how much they relate to my story overall but how they, too, once qualified their abuse in the same way I did in my interview with the Times: Clarifying that Graham didn't break my arm, didn't ever punch or slap me.

I didn't realize that was what I was doing—I just didn't want to exaggerate. If anything I wanted to downplay his violence and the deep, lasting impact it has had on my life.

I also have felt I need to be clear that I was never, ever antagonistic, never picked a fight, and took great pains to try to keep him from becoming enraged.

My friends have pointed out that that's not normal. I shouldn't feel the need to insist to the public that I didn't do anything to deserve or provoke physical intimidation, control, or abuse. No one does.

I forgave Graham years ago and was glad to see that he had gotten sober and seemingly had gotten help for his mental health issues—I sincerely wished him well but when I realized I was not the only woman he had done this to, that he has a lifelong pattern of deep contempt for women, I realized he had suckered me once again.

And instead of support for coming forward, Jenny and I have been met with horrific smears, told it was “karma,” or that it wasn’t “that bad.”

So... yeah, that is actually pretty classic.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Trump to ban illegals from getting taxpayer-paid housing.

I suspect the average voter was not aware this was even happening.

And I'm certain the average Democrat in Congress was trying to cover it up.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Appalling 🧵

I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

Yep. This is pure comedic gold: Mocking a person who lost everything and tried to do something about a city in dystopian decline for everyone outside of the elite (See: Kimmel, Jimmy). He and his lead writer wife are beyond insufferable. And sick.

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

This is so embarrassing I find it physically difficult to watch.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

The other media strategy behind saying "resembled a Nazi symbol" is purposeful in sewing doubt that hey maybe it wasn't? Despite direct evidence that he knew what it was and he got it covered up.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Reminder that Mary Bruce has never answered how her question ended up in the hands of Joe Biden prior to her asking it in April 2023.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

I grew up in Philadelphia. Everybody knew voter fraud was widespread -- vans passing out cigarettes on skid row, old folk's homes, half-way houses.

Media spending the past six years pretending it's never happened has been... surreal.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

The more Los Angeles citizens discover about what is legal here regarding voting, the less it feels like democracy at all.