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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 7m

Bingo, coming out the other side of a primary HELPS Platner prove himself to the electorate + build name recognition.

And if he can't beat Mills in a primary he's honestly a much weaker general election candidate than you want going against Collins

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 25m

I have really no horse in this race, I think Platner is actually probably pretty strong in Maine, but this idea that everyone should just bow out so the anti-incumbency forces can have a senate seat as a treat is bizarre.

You don't get given power, you take it.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 26m

I think if Platner is capable of beating Collins, he can beat Mills. This idea that "oh our bold progressive ideas can't survive the tribulations of a senate primary" is kind of lame, imho.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30m

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28m

Comforting.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: “If China were to move against Taiwan, it's likely China would force its junior partner in that relationship, being Russia, under Vladimir Putin, to move against NATO to keep us busy.”

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1h

OTOH*

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1h

OTOU if Platner can knock her off in the primary he'll be in an incredibly strong position for the general. Significant opportunity to ramo up his name recognition/fundraising and fine-tune his campaign strategy

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 3h

Janet Mills is 77 and Democrats need to knock it off with the gerontocracy.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 2h

Soooo still enforcing a starvation blockade. Dunno how long this "ceasefire" is gonna hold, especially since bebe needs a continuing conflict to prevent a new round of elections that will remove him from office and likely result in the completion of the corruption prosecutions against him.

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3h

Israel’s defense establishment has recommended not reopening the Rafah crossing and not transferring full aid to Gaza until Hamas returns the bodies it is holding, a violation of the agreement, officials said. -Kan News

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 22h

The timing would be horrible from the GOP perspective, it will look like they caved due to the popular pressure from the No Kings movement

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 23h

@peark.es how freaked out should I be about the possibility of shitty corporate bonds triggering a chain reaction of bank failures?

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

These corporate bond collapses spook the shit out of me. There is so, so, so much bad corporate debt on the books and the possibility of a rapid series of bank and hedge fund collapses is frighteningly plausible.

Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · 1d

From Tricolor to Saks, Bonds Are Now Crashing at Breakneck Speed www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

The messaging from the organizers has been stressing peaceful protest. Maybe the Bessent/Duffy/vizier crowd just see it as an opportune TV hit topic to jockey for position with some virtue signaling towards Trump's grievances/insecurities. He's traveling so he's gonna be watching a lot of Fox.

Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

Duffy screeching about it too. They're spooked.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus wasn’t the hero we all learned about in elementary school.

He enslaved Native people.

He ordered brutal crackdowns on Native people, having them killed + their dismembered bodies paraded through the streets.

He brought diseases to the U.S. that devastated Native communities.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

This is a question for @schnorkles.bsky.social if i've ever seen one

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

CALLING ALL INTELLECTUALS: would Jay Jay the Jet Plane be a drone if you gave him a lobotomy

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

if you gave Jay Jay the Jet Plane a lobotomy, I’m pretty sure that would make him into a drone

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

until we get a good livestock vaccine (i.e. 18 months into next Dem admin minimum) we're going to have big seasonal swings in egg + poultry meat prices as avian flu wipes out flocks late summer during wild fowl migrations.

After a summer respite, bird flu is back

Bird flu is spreading again as water fowl migrate. In poultry, cases are spiking earlier than expected, so some state officials are bracing for a challenging autumn.

www.nbcnews.com

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to intensify and not lessen as we move into winter (post-harvest + seasonal livestock illnesses) w/tariffs still in place. Avian flu levels are spiking unexpectedly hard, we're back at or above the levels we saw during the big outbreak in 2024. Get ready for $8/dozen egg prices again!

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

The inability to model a system in a manner that allows you to predict observed outcomes a priori doesn't negate the empirical evidence that the outcome occurred Will!

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

THEN DON'T ENTER A STAY THAT ALTERS THE STATUS QUO, YOU FUCKING MEDDLER

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

When do we get to reclassify transphobia as moldy brain disease?

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 2d

"According to the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump once joked in a closed-door meeting that 'if it were up to [Stephen] Miller, there’d only be 100 million people in this country, and they’d all look like Miller.'"