Yes, exactly. Blackwater went thru a series of ownership transfers and mergers after being sold by Erik Prince in 2011. Platner worked for one of those successor companies in 2018 -- long after all the notorious/despicable behavior which Platner doesn't deny or defend. Listen at 20:08. #MEpolitics

#notalawyer but I think the idea is that e.g. if Hegseth was charged with a crime and argued that the order was legal in because of the OLC memo suggesting the laws of war applied...even if a judge agreed with him about that, he'd still be in trouble.

Why didn't you sign the bill blocking Maine police from cooperating with ICE? #MEpolitics

Thanks.

Does it say who sent it? Is there a return address?

PARABLE OF THE SOWER is a novel.

Other piece of this is that over and over people like Schumer and Gillibrand and Jeffries keep teaching us -- through their poor political judgment -- why it's dangerous to concentrate power in a handful of elites. They frankly haven't earned the right to dictate this stuff to avg folks. #MEpolitics

Yeah I just disagree. Nothing wrong with senators endorsing/helping/etc but the party apparatus shouldn't intervene financially/organizationally in primaries.

DC orgs are too far from the people; have unavoidable conflicts; and it risks making the system feel rigged. Let voters decide. #MEpolitics

Hard to describe to younger folks what a bonkers time that was and how messed up the information environment was. In some respects worse than now. (Though better in other respects.)

And of course the cowed, don't-rock-the-boat, blend-in-to-the-scenery posture of so many Dems. #MEpolitics

The smartest thing they could do if they want Mills to win is stay totally out of it. But they can't resist putting a thumb on the scale. #MEpolitics

There are only two candidates polling over 1% last we checked. #MEpolitics

Also while @billykobin.bsky.social is maybe technically correct to say that Sara Gideon has given "almost all" of her $15M post-2020 campaign war chest away...as of 9/30/25 the account still had $3,285,882.47 in it! That's not nothing! #MEpolitics