Max Miller & Graham Platner are edgelords, writes @queenmab.bsky.social -- and the Dems don't need to echo the GOP's embrace of toxic masculinity. After all, the left has its own election-winning brand of masculinity: the "Mamdani man." Another 🔥 take on the dumpster fire that is modern politics

What Is 'Edgelord' Politics—and Why Are Democrats Flirting With It Before the Midterms?

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the rise of edgelord politics on the left. Democrats don't need toxic men to win young male voters. Here's why.

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New domestic violence accusations against Rep. Max Miller come just weeks after the scandal that ended Graham Platner's Senate race. As more young men run for office, @queenmab.bsky.social explains why we need to talk about "edgelord" politics, and how Dems keep flirting with it.

What Is 'Edgelord' Politics—and Why Are Democrats Flirting With It Before the Midterms?

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the rise of edgelord politics on the left. Democrats don't need toxic men to win young male voters. Here's why.

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Max Miller & Graham Platner are examples of men who perform masculinity in ways that men drool over even if it harms women. Democrats don’t need to follow the republican masculinity playbook to win men. My latest for @rewirenewsgroup.com rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/08/04/e...

What Is 'Edgelord' Politics—and Why Are Democrats Flirting With It Before the Midterms?

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the rise of edgelord politics on the left. Democrats don't need toxic men to win young male voters. Here's why.

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From Andrea Yates to Lindsay Clancy society refuses to help mothers which causes these tragedies. Instead our forced birth culture relies on dismissing the difficulties and telling women pregnancy & motherhood is easy and natural. My latest substack open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

I can’t believe we’re reliving Andrea Yates. Lindsay Clancy begged for help. She didn’t want to kill her children. And everyday I swear people questioning if this can really be blamed on post partum psychosis. The response to this tragedy is connected to our forced birth culture

My classics major filmmaker brother wrote about Emily Wilson’s translation and #TheOdyssey open.substack.com/pub/davidbre...

A Complicated Question

An Educated Amateur Looks at The Odyssey

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Any editors want to hire me to write about the cast of #TheUltimatum being more MAGA and Christian and reliant on ChatGPT is a sign of societal regression

for over 5 years, I, @adrierising.bsky.social, @roslyn.bsky.social, & others, primarily women of color, have been relentlessly stalked by caitdissociates @moderation.bsky.app has punished me & adrie for talking about our own harassment bc our stalker is successfully abusing the reporting system

Out here microwaving cherry tomatoes so I can keep making tomato spritzes

ICE is just going to keep murdering people with impunity and no oversight. How can anyone say the call to abolish ICE is extreme. It’s the bare minimum

Last night, Maine Democratic nominee Graham Platner suspended his campaign for Senate following sexual assault allegations. Back in May, @queenmab.bsky.social wrote about how women’s safety has routinely been sacrificed to protect the political careers of powerful men.

Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis – Rewire News Group

Cesar Chavez, Eric Swalwell, Justin Fairfax, and the gender politics of keeping their dirty secrets.

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Democrat Graham Platner has pulled out of Maine's Senate race after allegations of sexual assault and rape. This latest scandal comes after Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress and his California governor bid earlier this year. Mia Brett writes on why women keep secrets and when they come forward.

Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis – Rewire News Group

Cesar Chavez, Eric Swalwell, Justin Fairfax, and the gender politics of keeping their dirty secrets.

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Women often downplay sexual violations when we’re assaulted by men we know. We say it was a bad hookup, an uncomfortable sexual experience, it was our fault. That we do this doesn’t mean we weren’t assaulted. It means it’s difficult to admit a man we trusted did this

I never claimed to help victims in court. I have helped many victims access legal help & resources. I’ve interviewed & advocated for victims. I’ve written countless articles on sexual abuse. And I’ve experienced sexual abuse

Sharon Smith@opalsandrubies.bsky.social · 4w ago

So this nasty MAGA brain is a local "legal" historian of some bull shit with a substack and still has NOT ANSWERED HOW MANY VICTIMS SHE HAS ASSISTED ON COURT. Like me.

I couldn’t care less if you kiss my ass. I care a lot that you’re claiming a woman wasn’t raped because she didn’t call the police in a timely manner & chose to date an alcoholic

Sharon Smith@opalsandrubies.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is MAGA brain baby that attacks people because they do not kiss her ass. Misquoting and not giving the full story. Curious, how many times have you appeared in court for victims? AND when a rape like that occurs, I treat BOTH sides, as often the abuser is a family member with addiction.

A woman who apparently counsels rape victims is saying that if you date an alcoholic it’s your fault if your boyfriend rapes you

Sharon Smith@opalsandrubies.bsky.social · 4w ago

Then as a rape victim, YOU should realize how her story does not actually address HER supposed trauma, but his actions as AN ALCOHOLIC. She was choosing to date and enable an alcoholic. Very few alcoholics are passive, meek have great memories after their drunken state. Did she suggest he go to AA?

It’s misogyny to erase the multiple examples I’ve given of the work I do, presume you know better, and suggest women are only caring about democrats committing sexual assault out of political bias. Calling out your misogyny isn’t name calling.

Bill Mitchell@modalbluesky.bsky.social · 4w ago

It is not misogyny but instead pointing out a bias that is do very clear in an election year where the Republicans will do anything to win. Do you really want to stoop to calling names? Be better…

I’ve listed multiple things I’ve done to stand against sexual abusers across political parties but this man presumes to lecture women that were not doing anything. Abusers being in power is not the fault of women who are doing everything we can. This is pure misogyny

Bill Mitchell@modalbluesky.bsky.social · 4w ago

So you even admit it then that you are doing nothing? No calls to restore the media? No protests? Just roll op and play dead? Wake the F up!

I already told you why the Republican men are still in office. Because Republicans don’t care about sexual assault

Bill Mitchell@modalbluesky.bsky.social · 4w ago

And yet all but one of the men I mentioned are still in office and the response is crickets… Why is that?

I ran a political advocacy group from 2017-2020 that was involved in supporting Christine Blasey Ford and educating people about sexual abusers in office. I’ve written articles, called reps, protested

Bill Mitchell@modalbluesky.bsky.social · 4w ago

So what actually have you done to help any of the men I mentioned see the justice they deserved? I have made calls to representatives and the media, protested… I could go on!

Ah yes I’m either biased or a coward because despite my standing against all sexual abusers regardless of party affiliation I can’t get republicans to care no matter how much we scream

Bill Mitchell@modalbluesky.bsky.social · 4w ago

You are either biased or a coward… If you make enough noise they will go, but the response to them has been crickets hasn’t it?

What would you like us to do? We supported Christine Blasey Ford, E Jean Carroll. We can’t make the Republican Party care.

Bill Mitchell@modalbluesky.bsky.social · 4w ago

My question is why the same women that are going after Swalwell and Platner are just standing by doing nothing while Trump, Hegseth, Lutnick, Gonzales, Cory Mills, and Max Miller are still in office...

I will keep writing about patriarchy and sexual abuse until we end it. I don’t care how many people have talked about it before or how tired you are of hearing it. Voting is wholly insufficient in addressing these problems. If you don’t want to hear about it don’t listen

memedavis.bsky.social@memedavis.bsky.social · 4w ago

No, but I don’t know why you’d be writing shit about this. Everybody’s known this for hundreds and hundreds of years dummy we don’t need books about it. We need to change the way it is happening. VOTE

This story on the dirty secrets of powerful men almost didn’t get done bc the list kept getting longer. The list grows again now.

Mia Brett@queenmab.bsky.social · 4w ago

In May I wrote for @rewirenewsgroup.com abt the sacrifices women make in politics. We’re expected to stay silent abt sexism & assault. Many of us knew who Platner was & were told to be quiet to beat Collins. Jenny Racicot’s story shows we were right rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/05/12/e...

In May I wrote for @rewirenewsgroup.com abt the sacrifices women make in politics. We’re expected to stay silent abt sexism & assault. Many of us knew who Platner was & were told to be quiet to beat Collins. Jenny Racicot’s story shows we were right rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/05/12/e...

Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis

Cesar Chavez, Eric Swalwell, Justin Fairfax, and the gender politics of keeping their dirty secrets.

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It has not been 250 years of freedom. It has been 400 years of colonialism and racism. There have been moments of the possibility of something better. Small promises of improvement. But the current moment is showing the worst of our legacy

Hey y’all my brother wrote a review of Supergirl that doesn’t sound like an incel! Check it out open.substack.com/pub/davidbre...

Going Somewhere with Supergirl

Supergirl is enjoyable but disappointing.

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Too hot to do anything but make gazpacho and tomato spritzes

I just breathed the biggest sigh of relief. Birthright Citizenship is safe

As in the Supreme Court's opinion in the TPS cases, this is just a wild, wilful mischaracterization of the racism against Haitians fomented by the powerful ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak

No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.

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Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last mo.

Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all. Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it. It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die.