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There are so many posts, and often written in that same crude style, that you could single out any number of them to paint whatever picture you wanted. But as a whole, they more or less align with the image Platner's given the public about who he is.
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You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner
We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
There are so many posts, and often written in that same crude style, that you could single out any number of them to paint whatever picture you wanted. But as a whole, they more or less align with the image Platner's given the public about who he is.
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6. Speaking of military service, Platner repeatedly made clear his time fighting US wars had shaped his worldview, and left him disillusioned & cynical about both what he called US "imperial adventures" and the system as a whole.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
6. Speaking of military service, Platner repeatedly made clear his time fighting US wars had shaped his worldview, and left him disillusioned & cynical about both what he called US "imperial adventures" and the system as a whole.
5. A good e.g. of the contradictions of Platner's posts: he could share what most people would consider an offensive story about a military game of gay chicken one moment, and condemn homophobia the next. He used Reddit to give his fellow service members help & advice.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
5. A good e.g. of the contradictions of Platner's posts: he could share what most people would consider an offensive story about a military game of gay chicken one moment, and condemn homophobia the next. He used Reddit to give his fellow service members help & advice.
4. Gun rights aside, Platner, a veteran, shared a host of conventionally progressive views, albeit expressed in the hyper-vulgar style of what he called "our crude and offensive world" of military service.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
4. Gun rights aside, Platner, a veteran, shared a host of conventionally progressive views, albeit expressed in the hyper-vulgar style of what he called "our crude and offensive world" of military service.
3. In spite of the single, unflattering quote about rural voters that has been picked out, most of Platner's posts see him railing against liberals who look down on rural Americans, and insisting they'd be potential progressive allies if Democrats soften on gun control.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
3. In spite of the single, unflattering quote about rural voters that has been picked out, most of Platner's posts see him railing against liberals who look down on rural Americans, and insisting they'd be potential progressive allies if Democrats soften on gun control.
2. Platner often talked about his left-wing views and, even more frequently, angrily railed against fascism and armed far right groups, which he viewed as a growing threat that might require self-defense. He plainly is not a secret far right extremist.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
2. Platner often talked about his left-wing views and, even more frequently, angrily railed against fascism and armed far right groups, which he viewed as a growing threat that might require self-defense. He plainly is not a secret far right extremist.
1. Platner frequently expressed outrage & anger at the US military's mistreatment of Afghan civilians, and often pushed back against other users' racism, or angrily criticized what he viewed as instances of racism in the news.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
1. Platner frequently expressed outrage & anger at the US military's mistreatment of Afghan civilians, and often pushed back against other users' racism, or angrily criticized what he viewed as instances of racism in the news.
Had a look through 100s & 100s of Graham Platner's old Reddit posts. The picture being painted based on a handful of them has little to do with what's in the archive - when it comes to his politics, his views on race, his attitudes to rural voters, and much else. A🧵:
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Had a look through 100s & 100s of Graham Platner's old Reddit posts. The picture being painted based on a handful of them has little to do with what's in the archive - when it comes to his politics, his views on race, his attitudes to rural voters, and much else. A🧵:
It's not just the rate of killing, how indiscriminate it is, the violence toward kids & civilians, the annihilation of its ecosystem, its almost total physical destruction, the famine, or the tonnage of bombs. What's unique about Gaza is it's *all* of it.
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Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever
Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measu...
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August 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's not just the rate of killing, how indiscriminate it is, the violence toward kids & civilians, the annihilation of its ecosystem, its almost total physical destruction, the famine, or the tonnage of bombs. What's unique about Gaza is it's *all* of it.
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4th, the scale & intensity of bombing. The 70k tons of bombs (a lowball) dropped on Gaza are 6x Hiroshima bombs, but on an area 1/2 the size of Hiroshima and with 6x its population. It's worse than any war going back decades. And Israel used the most destructive possible bombs.
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
4th, the scale & intensity of bombing. The 70k tons of bombs (a lowball) dropped on Gaza are 6x Hiroshima bombs, but on an area 1/2 the size of Hiroshima and with 6x its population. It's worse than any war going back decades. And Israel used the most destructive possible bombs.
3rd the physical destruction: most of its homes, roads, hospitals, schools, cultural heritage sites, vital infrastructure, cropland & livestock, fishing sector. Basically everything that makes organised life possible in Gaza has been almost completely destroyed.
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
3rd the physical destruction: most of its homes, roads, hospitals, schools, cultural heritage sites, vital infrastructure, cropland & livestock, fishing sector. Basically everything that makes organised life possible in Gaza has been almost completely destroyed.
2nd, the extraordinary violence toward children, both statistically & anecdotally, and the famine we're now watching:
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
2nd, the extraordinary violence toward children, both statistically & anecdotally, and the famine we're now watching:
I don't know if people really understand how bad what Israel has done to Gaza is. So here's a collection of stats (often conservative undercounts) that make clear how much worse this is than anything we've seen in recent history.🧵
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I don't know if people really understand how bad what Israel has done to Gaza is. So here's a collection of stats (often conservative undercounts) that make clear how much worse this is than anything we've seen in recent history.🧵
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
Comes after Dershowitz claimed federal judges "are protecting people" by sealing material.
Preska's seal orders have been vacated and the material is now set to be reviewed. Will Preska be the one to again decide what does & doesn't go public?
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Preska's seal orders have been vacated and the material is now set to be reviewed. Will Preska be the one to again decide what does & doesn't go public?
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A Judge’s Conflict of Interest Over Jeffrey Epstein Documents
A judge who sealed a slew of Jeffrey Epstein–related documents that could implicate others is the same Chevron-connected judge who threw the book at Steven Donziger. She has another potential conflict...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Comes after Dershowitz claimed federal judges "are protecting people" by sealing material.
Preska's seal orders have been vacated and the material is now set to be reviewed. Will Preska be the one to again decide what does & doesn't go public?
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Preska's seal orders have been vacated and the material is now set to be reviewed. Will Preska be the one to again decide what does & doesn't go public?
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Among other things, the judge, Loretta Preska, bought an $8.7 million Manhattan penthouse on discount from a former exec at Bear Stearns, the firm Epstein was arguably most closely associated with.
This is only the latest conflict-of-interest controversy for Preska:
This is only the latest conflict-of-interest controversy for Preska:
July 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Among other things, the judge, Loretta Preska, bought an $8.7 million Manhattan penthouse on discount from a former exec at Bear Stearns, the firm Epstein was arguably most closely associated with.
This is only the latest conflict-of-interest controversy for Preska:
This is only the latest conflict-of-interest controversy for Preska:
NEW: A federal judge who sealed a slew of Epstein-related docs is also, through her husband's Wall St-representing law firm, connected to financial institutions tied up in the Epstein scandal. She's also the judge who imprisoned Steven Donziger after he beat Chevron.
July 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
NEW: A federal judge who sealed a slew of Epstein-related docs is also, through her husband's Wall St-representing law firm, connected to financial institutions tied up in the Epstein scandal. She's also the judge who imprisoned Steven Donziger after he beat Chevron.
All of this was reported mostly in mainstream outlets from 2019 on. You will hear that Epstein's intel ties & his possible blackmail of the elite is just a crazy conspiracy theory cooked up by MAGA, but that is not true.
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Of Course Trump Doesn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files
Not only was Trump intimately close to Jeffrey Epstein, but there is a wealth of reporting tying the billionaire pedophile to intelligence circles. Trump is once again protecting the elites he claimed...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
All of this was reported mostly in mainstream outlets from 2019 on. You will hear that Epstein's intel ties & his possible blackmail of the elite is just a crazy conspiracy theory cooked up by MAGA, but that is not true.
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A brief compilation of the reporting & evidence we have of not just Trump's relationship with Epstein, but Epstein's intel ties - including a CBS News producer told by Maxwell that Epstein had tapes of both Trump & Clinton.
July 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A brief compilation of the reporting & evidence we have of not just Trump's relationship with Epstein, but Epstein's intel ties - including a CBS News producer told by Maxwell that Epstein had tapes of both Trump & Clinton.
In general, when you look at everything Trump & the GOP did to get their BBB over the line, you can't help but suspect they simply cared more about the agenda it contained than Biden & the Dems did about theirs.
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A Tale of Two BBBs
The enactment of Donald Trump’s horrendous Big Beautiful Bill is an indictment of the Democrats’ decision to split their agenda into two separate bills in 2021. It’s a reminder that Build Back Better’...
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July 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In general, when you look at everything Trump & the GOP did to get their BBB over the line, you can't help but suspect they simply cared more about the agenda it contained than Biden & the Dems did about theirs.
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Yet again making the point that Biden's decision to split the centerpiece of his presidency into two bills (the BBB & the infrastructure bill) was why it failed in 2021 - and we can see this by the fact that Trump just succeeded where he failed by doing the opposite.
July 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Yet again making the point that Biden's decision to split the centerpiece of his presidency into two bills (the BBB & the infrastructure bill) was why it failed in 2021 - and we can see this by the fact that Trump just succeeded where he failed by doing the opposite.
For the press, Musk was good for clicks. For Trump critics, he was the ideal political foil. But he was never really driving the Trump cuts, and now he's officially gone anyway.
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Ignore Elon Musk. Pay Attention to Russell Vought.
Elon Musk has been shown the door in the Trump White House. His erratic behavior and cringe antics made him an easy target for the media. But Musk was always carrying out Project 2025 author Russell V...
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June 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For the press, Musk was good for clicks. For Trump critics, he was the ideal political foil. But he was never really driving the Trump cuts, and now he's officially gone anyway.
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Anyone who wants to apply proper scrutiny to the Trump admin should shift away from the outrageous, attention-seeking Musk, and focus their attention on Russell Vought - esp. since he's the one who's actually been running the show the past five months.
June 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Anyone who wants to apply proper scrutiny to the Trump admin should shift away from the outrageous, attention-seeking Musk, and focus their attention on Russell Vought - esp. since he's the one who's actually been running the show the past five months.
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Every shitlib & Dem insider that kept telling us to ignore the evidence of our eyes and ears as the party's final and most essential command... you owe all of us an apology and do not deserve positions or trust or office again. Thx @bmarchetich.bsky.social savageminds.substack.com/p/will-democ...
Will Democrats Learn From the Biden Disaster?
Probably Not
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May 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Every shitlib & Dem insider that kept telling us to ignore the evidence of our eyes and ears as the party's final and most essential command... you owe all of us an apology and do not deserve positions or trust or office again. Thx @bmarchetich.bsky.social savageminds.substack.com/p/will-democ...
The NYC city council elections also solidify an emerging national trend: there is a united front being formed between corporate interests & what we might call the Israel First lobby, who see the Left as a common enemy. Read and share here:
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Corporate Money Is Flooding NYC Council Elections
The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups teaming up to try to crush left-wing congressional candidates and challengers. Now that same strategy is rearing its head way dow...
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June 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The NYC city council elections also solidify an emerging national trend: there is a united front being formed between corporate interests & what we might call the Israel First lobby, who see the Left as a common enemy. Read and share here:
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The avalanche of corporate spending to unseat two socialist New York City council members is coming from groups & companies that have clashed directly with them over their votes & legislation - e.g. strengthening worker & tenant protections or banning biometric data gathering:
June 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The avalanche of corporate spending to unseat two socialist New York City council members is coming from groups & companies that have clashed directly with them over their votes & legislation - e.g. strengthening worker & tenant protections or banning biometric data gathering: