Josh 🌹

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[Jack 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @jclib1990]

You defended the murder of a young mother and a nurse in your country.

We shall take no lectures from you.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

If you still support Platner that's your right but I think you should be at least conscientious about the way you talk about abuse. This is a serious issue that goes beyond electoral politics and some of y'all are telling on yourselves

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The second Makerfield by-election poll

🔴 LAB - 49% (+6)
➡️ REF - 39% (-1)
🟣 RES - 8% (+1)
🟢 GRN - 2% (-1)
🟠 LD - 1% (-3)
🔵 CON - 1% (-1)
⚪ OTHER - 1% (=)

Via Survation, 518 sample, 26 May - 1 June

[Dicky J. McGeezak @DMcgeezak]

As far as last second Platner replacements are concerned, Janet Mills should be off the table.

David Costello or a losing gubernatorial primary candidate other than Angus King iii should be the only options considered if there are credible SA allegations against Platner.

[Josh 🌹 @nutfield001]

Substantive point re airtime devoted to scandals may be true but this response to potential SA allegations being reported on is tone-deaf to the extreme. Literally a man telling potential victims that their voices shouldn't be heard

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Senator Bernie Sanders was noncommittal when asked by a Washington Examiner reporter if there’s a concern sexual assault allegations could come out against Graham Platner.

Bernie Sanders: “Why don't we examine income and wealth inequality?”

[Sean @demsocsean]

It doesn't matter if these are ironclad allegations or not, if you have sexual assault allegations published in places like NYT/WaPo he's not going to survive it on top of everything else.

[Debbie Dingell Stan🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧🇬🇪 @AustinHoney30]

So Shirley Weber sees how every 2 years everybody, from the left to the right, shits on how slow California counts and she somehow decides that they don't need to count quicker or fix their methods

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[Dimenpsyonal2 @dimenpsyonal2]

Shirley Weber deserves to lose for this; there's zero acceptable reasons for an economy as large as California's to be counting votes this slowly

[Josh 🌹 @nutfield001]

I wish there was a world where Weber's joke of an op-ed led to her receiving a prominent primary challenge this cycle.

You cannot defend taking up to a month to certify vote counts & several days to count just >80% of votes. Literal gold for the election denialism movement

[California Secretary of State @CASOSVote]

Counting votes is about accuracy, not speed.

🔗Read more: https://t.co/6QeVqov3ud

[James🗳 @_fat_ugly_rat_]

Texas senate race 2026:

- Guy who cheated on his wife who is a state senator and used his position as Attorney General to cover up an affair

- Regular guy with regular girlfriend

[Labour YIMBY @yimbylabour]

This is what happens when you don't have Labour running local authorities.

@mhclg should take Crews Hill out of Enfield’s hands, designate it as a Development Corporation, and get on with building the homes London desperately needs.

[Russell Curtis @russellcurtis]

It's now time for government to step in and announce Crews Hill as a Development Corporation, using CPO powers to secure the land at existing use value and set up a planning authority to take on responsibility for masterplanning and determining applications as they come forward.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. 

He embodies the broken system we’re running against.

It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

[Jonathan Brash MP @JonathanBrash]

“The next Conservative government will reverse the aircon ban created by… the last Conservative government”

[David @davidslosttt]

Here's what the redistricting war might end up looking like if we get a true race to the bottom

We need a national gerrymandering ban

[Union Jacked 🇬🇧 💪 🌹 @UnionJacked__]

Lovely to see. But we need more deportation flights for murderers and child rapists.

Send them all back. Every single one 🌹

[Josh 🌹 @nutfield001]

@UnionJacked__ The stakes are higher too given Labour is in government. I really don't believe (outside of a handful of MPs) they want a messy and wide open contest filled with contenders without actual PLP support. Opposition is the place for that

[Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott]

Welcome to Britain, where we build a massively successful infrastructure project then don't even try to replicate it. London's Crossrail 2 plans are mothballed, and hopes of crossrails in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow exist only as twinkles in railway geeks' eyes.

[Ben Glover @bengglover]

What unites Blue Labour and the soft left?

What unites the old right and the Socialist Campaign Group?

I've written for @NewStatesman on how reindustrialisation can unite Labour - and what that means for 'Manchesterism'.

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