Hunter Biden and Graham Platner have asked us to weigh the distance they have traveled from their worst moments. Pete Hegseth and Ken Paxton, on the other hand, have never acknowledged ever having a worst moment at all. That contrast says something important about the state of American politics.

Rupture and Repair: When Problematic Figures Ask For Our Support

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This is the truth that so many ppl on this app need to hear:

This kind of leftism is, which discards material good for hypothetical perfection, does nothing but hold back progress. You take what you can get and then you build on it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo ago

***Does not apply if you're trans and under the age of 19.

We’ve received $9.6 million from 265,000 small-dollar donations. Susan Collins received $9.8 million from 79 billionaires.

I’m going to explain what is happening on this app. If you’ve wondered why so many democrats have suddenly forgotten what is at stake in the midterm elections, it is because it is a deliberate sabotage campaign orchestrated by the Zionist republicans and moderate Democrats.

Nobody told me this app is also home to the most feral tenderqueers outside of tumblr damn

What does this make Biden, who did not use his influence to stop it? Biden was a willing participant. There is this liberal lie you have to tell yourself that Israel just gets the right to do whatever they need to do and it’s our duty as Americans to support them no matter what.

MARIE@marie290.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Gag me! Trump supported and continues to support the war criminal Netanyahu. Trump is a war criminal as well. Harris & Biden supported the people rather than the idiot in charge. as is our long standing policy.

Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app why is this post still up?

You might think establishment Dems and GOP make strange bedfellows: pushing for Susan Collins to get reelected?? But add in that corporate media? You get a little ménage à trois that suddenly makes a lot more sen$e. Look at the big picture. It's $$$ afraid of losing their deathgrip on govt.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Enten: "Even without Maine, Democrats have a clear path to a Senate majority. Polling shows them tied or slightly ahead in Ohio & Texas. Odds are in their favor in Alaska & North Carolina (big time). The map is wide thanks to Trump's unpopularity."

I gotta spend some more time on this app. Usually I just get dogpiled but we’ve had some great conversations today. I’ve been on Twitter too much, it’s nice to type in full sentences again.

“We can’t acknowledge the elite pedophiles because the head elite pedophile was Jewish” is the real antisemitism.

You’re saying that I should KMS because I want to prevent republicans from winning? You’re suggesting that more harm will be done under democrats? The plot has full been lost.

It just feels like this primary season has been overly influenced by an unholy alliance of republicans and moderate democrats. Third Way types, people who think The Bulwark is a little spicy. They don’t recognize that we are all in the fight of our lives. That we are on the brink of catastrophe.

I voted for Kamala Harris in spite of her support for the genocide. That was my Vote Blue No Matter Who moment. I don’t wanna hear a damn word about Graham Platner being too much for anybody. We make compromises sometimes. Compromises on very difficult things. This is politics. Grow up.

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It’s been incredible to watch people project things onto what I said.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Perfect little schoolmarms” is a revealing phrase. Remember, receiving a compliment from Liz Cheney is unacceptable but actually killing a bunch of Iraqis and enjoying it is no big deal.

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Good lord people had a strong reaction to the word “schoolmarm”. I chose it because it’s evocative. My issue is with the overly precious wokescolds who are woefully unprepared to deal with the hard work that lies ahead for all anti-fascists. We all desperately need to toughen up.

Military guys who have said problematic things are often good people. I’m so sick of this overly precious idea that the Democratic Party is only for perfect little schoolmarms who use all the right language and never change a fucking thing.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is what Platner said in 2020 - sixteen years after going to Iraq, a year after joining Blackwater, and only six years ago. His repentance rather conveniently synchronized with his senate campaign.

Graham Platner shows us that getting The People involved in the primaries can overcome Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dem establishment. We can get change. Incremental progress is how we progress, folks. Build power locally and within your state. That's where you can do the most good.

Massive update in Maine Senate race.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Guy is out here Palpatinemaxxing

bakoon@bakoon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

looking good sir

I should probably get off my ass and read the will to change in solidarity

Jess House@jesshouse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

I definitely took psychic damage today, gotta figure out a way to refill my blue bar

Mills is so bad that this write-in candidate might have a better shot!

Andrea LaFlamme@andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Collins proved she was afraid of me when I chalked in front of her house back in 2022. It’d be nice to get a little support in my run to unseat her. Maine has RCV and needs options. The front runners in this race are too divisive and won’t beat Collins. I’m your best chance to get the senate back.

Something worth considering with Platner is that some of the “how has he not been discredited” issue is that it’s a “boy who cried wolf” scenario. If these posters will call unproblematic candidates a problem, when can you trust them if they do point to an actual problem?

c.m.byrne🌹@cmbyrne.bsky.social · 7mo ago

you seen the backlash to Talarico? They’re calling the most unproblematic white boy of all time a republican plant!