Ryan O'Toole

💻 @TeamFreedomVA. Co-Host @CapitolCourage. Organizer, lobbyist, strategist, progressive, optimist. DC ➡️ NYC ➡️ RVA. RTs my own, not endorsements

[Ryan O'Toole @ryanfotoole]

Yesterday I got to marry the love of my life. All weekend, I've been overwhelmed by the immense… https://t.co/WTubcQdhWY

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hayes: If Republicans hold the senate, it seems essentially assured that both men will announce their retirement. Donald Trump will replace them with ideological zealots and Susan Collins will hem and haw about how concerned she is, and then she will vote to confirm them anyway, as she did with Brett Kavanaugh.

[Anthony Emerson❤️🌲🦞🇾🇪🌹 @AnthonyMEmerson]

This is a bigger scandal than anything that’s been reported about Graham Platner btw

[Jay C. Ford @jaycford]

VA House, Senate, & Governor all say they have a compromise to make Data Centers pay & mitigate environmental impacts but…no deal.

This is the time for transparency. Release your respective plans.

3/4 of Virginians want action on data centers. Let the public see the proposals

[Rahma @Rahmazeinegypt]

https://t.co/jBRoGdVAzE

The quote that was conveniently cut by NYT:

"I think he should just keep doing exactly what he's been doing, making sure every Mainer knows who he is and what he stands for" said Amed Khan, who has given the legal maximum to Mr. Platner's campaign. "I know some people think he should fight back, but I don't know what that even means. I think Graham gets more popular in Maine in response to every orchestrated hit by drugged up out of state megadonors like Alex Karp and the national media’s weird obsession with amplifying manufactured smears against him."

[Rob Milton @therobmilton]

- SAY IT AGAIN.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Dems' reactions to Platner making it transparently clear that "Vote Blue No Matter Who" was always just a way to make leftists to shut up and vote for centrists, not an actual principle

[Nathan Bernard @nathanTbernard]

This is the GOP operative who NYT used as their primary Platner source without being able to corroborate her claims.

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

Do y’all get what is happening? If abdul wins this primary, they will work to take him down like they are doing to Graham platner. They hate the left more than they do republicans

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

To my Democratic friends: If you are uncritically swallowing the uncorroborated word of the founder of “Ladies for Kavanaugh” then I’m sorry but you haven’t been paying attention to how the far right has operated over the last 20 years.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

To recap:

- Dem and Rep operatives spend the week setting the narrative that Graham Platner is a predator
- Pro-Israel NYT runs a story on Graham Platner
- Done by a pro-Israel reporter
- No SA allegation
- They talk to 6 exes. 3 say he was fine.
- 2 of the remainder say he drank and womanized
- The last is a Conservative activist who protected Brett Kavanaugh
- She claims Platner trapped her in a room
- The NYT reads her diaries, texts, Google Chats, and Facebook messages. Nothing corroborates her story.
- NYT finds a text from the accuser saying she "Would personally campaign for Susan Collins."

This is the most obvious Zionist smear campaign in history.

[Senator Schuyler VanValkenburg @ScVanValkenburg]

Fairfax has only increased its housing supply 2% in the last five years according to @vpapupdates.

They should build some mixed use developments like @LibbieMillRVA or @ShopWestBroad. More housing to keep people in Fairfax along with more business opportunities. Win win.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Running uncorroborated claims on Platner from an ex-girlfriend who is a professional Republican operative is outrageous from the New York Times. It's consistent with their biased treatment of candidates skeptical of Israel.

[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

Main source is a self described “bitter ex” GOP operative who worked at the Heritage Foundation and said in a group chat, “I will personally go campaign for Collins.”

The piece says the NYT “could not corroborate” her claims.

NYT rarely runs things they can’t double source.

[Speaker Don Scott @SpeakerDonScott]

Rural hospitals are closing across Virginia. Patients are driving hours for emergency care. Communities are losing their only doctors.

And Trump only cares about the size of a decorative pool.

[Ryan O'Toole @ryanfotoole]

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)

[Tyler Englander @TylerEnglander]

New: According to a new draft report from Virginia’s Joint Commission on Health Care, 13 of Virginia’s rural hospitals “are at either immediate risk of closure or at risk of closure.”

Meanwhile, 12 rural hospitals “are at either highest risk or mid-highest risk of experiencing financial distress.”

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Shut them all down, we can live without AI data centers we can’t live without clean water.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Every time the shadow docket has touched a contested map, the outcome favors Republicans.

Texas gerrymander: allowed.

New York Democratic flip: blocked.

Louisiana: VRA gutted.

Virginia Democratic map: refused to save it.

Alabama: a Black district erased.

Same direction every time.