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@MarcoFoster_ @EmmaVigeland He doesn’t believe Israel should exist. Anything he says is null.

Abdul El-Sayed: “AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism and the Jewish people. I love Judaism and I love the Jewish people. The single most dangerous thing they’ve tried to tell us is somehow they can extend the definition of antisemitism to include a foreign government and its leaders. I call bullshit”

@Noahgilberto19 AEW doesn’t have a TV deal in 12 months and there are no obvious buyers lmao

Hot Take: If WWE and AEW continue on the paths they are on, AEW will be the number 1 wrestling promotion in the world in the 2030's

@AbdulElSayed Is the Qu’ran the perfect word of god?

Gimme three months and his golf buddies in Florida wouldn’t even vote for him. I’ll smoke him by 7. Bet on it.

@jonfavs It’s not *just* the Nazi tattoo that’s 20 years old without removal, it’s the Reddit posts from a few years ago praising it that alarms people! I would ask how could you be this daft, then I remember you were a 1st boot on survivor. Not the best adjusted person lmao

As the community note makes clear, I didn't delete it because I stand by it. But if MAGA world has decided their best play is to insult Mainers' intelligence by trying to fool them into thinking Platner's old tattoo makes him a Nazi sympathizer, best of luck in November!

@LouAnonAnon @krubner Lou, according to his Reddit account from his recent his three years ago, he was proud of it being Nazi tattoo. He only expressed regret over it when he started running for public office and somebody leaked it.

I guess I don’t think a stupid tattoo that someone regrets and apologizes for and got over a decade ago while on a combat tour necessarily makes them a nazi. I do think not covering it before running for office makes him kind of an idiot which is not a great quality in a Senator. I think he’d be better off in the house personally, but that’s not the situation we’re in and I choose to live in reality.

If Platner was actually a Nazi, the GOP is right there, he could have easily run as a Republican and they’d happily accept him. The idea that he chose to run as a progressive democrat, so that he could get in there and start acting on some secretly held Nazi ideology is not plausible to me. Idk what to believe about the tattoo, but I do believe that he regrets it and that the values he espouses now show that regret to be genuine. Is Platner my preferred genre of candidate? Absolutely not. Does it piss me off that white men are offered significantly more grace than women and POC candidates would ever be? Absolutely yes. But the fact remains that Maine Democrats chose him to represent their interests in Washington and that means the party should support him.

@NavyCaptRet63XX @A_Revelator @ElectionTime_ You’re right, somebody named Abdul believes the Quran is Word for Word perfect and therefore tells us how to organize human society is just as good for America as a conservative who believes in the constitution.

@A_Revelator @ElectionTime_ You’re just not very bright, looking at a name and assuming they’re not American. But you’re not alone, its a lot of ignorant and uninformed people who think the same way in this country.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans' odds to flipping the Michigan US Senate seat JUMP OVERNIGHT. Michigan - 2026 US Senate 🟥Mike Rogers 44.3% (+3.7) 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 40.6% Polling average via Pollsmax.com. Abdul El-Sayed has become the Democratic frontrunner, and compared to his primary opponents—Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens—he performs by far the worst against Mike Rogers. If El-Sayed ends up being the nominee, Republicans will be the heavy favorites to flip Michigan's US Senate seat later this year.

@RachelBitecofer @Rusting_Iron How ghoulish and evil to describe a moderate republican in favor of border control a Nazi, while giving an actual trust-fund Nazi a free pass because he gives lip service to policies. I mean this genuinely, this should be a moment where you step away and think.

@Rusting_Iron I’d say putting people into concentration camps and shooting them for protesting is more Nazi than a tattoo

Planter has a tattoo used by Nazis, Collins supports the policies of Nazis. That’s your choice, Maine.

@Lucas_Shaw It’s not a great movie either! Really a mess. Hathaway’s character is all over the place, and her love interest casting is the worst. I’ve seen in the history of cinema. Expecting word-of-mouth to drop this hard.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to take in $234M worldwide this weekend, the second-biggest opening of the year. It should eclispe the entire gross of the first movie within its first 10 days.

@JamesSurowiecki @DavidBahnsen They would have combined gates, routes, and reduce SOME redundant staff costs by 20%. Would have saved both companies.

@DavidBahnsen JetBlue's CEO has said JB as is may be headed for bankruptcy. If the company had spent $3.8 billion in cash to acquire an operation losing hundreds of millions a year, it would be in worse shape now, even given whatever supposed "synergies" it created.

James - No sir, there is a near zero chance. The cost synergies, greater use of and capacity for fuel hedges, increased access to capital markets, lower cost of capital, plane resources, parts sourcing, labor structure, gate access, and management talent would have all created a fundamentally different airline. All there would be is a company whose employees were not out of a job, vendors who would be getting paid, and creditors not losing billions. This is a catastrophic failure of excessive state intervention and no spin will change that.

@HoveringGold @TheHistoryOfTh2 No, if Tennessee was a blue state and Memphis was red, there would be tendrils of districts diluting Memphis like Dems had already done in Illinois. California’s map is INSANE as well.

@TheHistoryOfTh2 Republicans seriously need a course of voter density.

I thought redistricting discourse couldn't get dumber, and I was wrong.

@DisinfoIsBad It factually made healthcare much more expensive and bloated the entire system.

Obama had a supermajority for 70 days filled with red state Democrats and he used it to give 20 million people healthcare.

@mcohen2 @smartelek @hutchinson Yes, yes, run the Nazi. It's good for the party, and therefore the country. And you guys wonder how Trump keeps winning.

@smartelek @hutchinson It's not opinion. He was polling better vs Collins in every poll.

I’m maximally blue no matter who so this doesn’t apply to me, but let’s say a bunch of Maine dem voters decide they’re not comfortable voting for Platner. Platner loses and dems miss a senate majority by one seat. Are you guys going to blame Platner in that spot? 😃

@magi_jay "People are under the impression Democrats are running a Nazi in Maine." He only got a death camp guard symbol tattoo'd on his chest, wrote about it being a death camp symbol, and never got it removed. Why would the average vote think he's a Nazi?

The tattoo is a bigger problem than people realize, on an electoral level. It's the first thing major news networks are running with, now that this is a national race. People are under the impression Democrats are running a Nazi in Maine.

@JamesSurowiecki @dilanesper The gains to the consumers would have been small in James' unprofessional opinion, so losing 13k jobs is better. James, you would be more moral, and smarter, to just admit that Warren got this one wrong.

@dilanesper JetBlue was planning to raise Spirit's fares by 40%. So the fares would have been meaningfully higher for two years than they were in reality. Even if JB had stayed out of bankruptcy while operating Spirit for another year, aggregate gains to consumers would have been small.

The thing that annoys me about the Spirit-JetBlue discourse is even if the combined airline ultimately failed, it obviously could have hung on for longer and a lot of people would have paid cheaper airfares during that period.

@JamesSurowiecki @EWErickson James is right. Because a few workers would’ve lost their jobs with a merger, everybody has to lose their jobs. That is progressive economic justice. Everyone on the same level. Equality!

@EWErickson Many thousands of those Americans would have already lost their jobs if the JB acquisition had gone through. The deal would not have turned Spirit into a viable business without a radical overhaul of its cost structure and pricing.

Today, 14,000 Americans are waking up unemployed because Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Lina Khan, and the Biden Administration insisted they were smarter and more knowledgeable about the airline industry than the airline industry itself. Technocrats kill jobs.

@KnowingBetterYT Heh you should read his points. Anti-immigration, anti-laziness, anti-corporate greed (in the H1B1 sense and too big to fail), pro American power, pro-family, etc.

Literal founder of the Progressive Party.

@WalshFreedom @CaptainGusMcRae It’s amazing that you can have so-called moral issues with the Republicans, then admit Democrats only care about power. Shameless.

@CaptainGusMcRae Still my favorite tweet of all time.

On a show earlier, I was asked whether I’d support Graham Platner. I said No. Not that I matter, but when I became a Democrat 11 months ago, I said the Dem tent must be big enough for Zohran Mamdani & Joe Walsh. And I still believe that. But there’s no tent big enough for me & Graham Platner. And I say that knowing most Dem voters disagree with me. But for me, Platner is a dishonest antisemite who’s lied about, and who’s never owned up to, not just his Nazi tattoo, but all the horrible things he’s said about Jews, Cops, rural whites, women, blacks, rape victims, gays, and so many more people & groups of people. Everyone (except Trump) is capable of changing, but Platner gives zero indication he has changed. I get that for most Dems it’s all about winning. I agree winning is important, but we all have our own personal red lines as well. If I lived in Maine, of course I wouldn’t vote for Susan Collins. But I wouldn’t vote for Platner either.

@wideofthepost @ryangrim This heartwarming story makes the giant Nazi death camp guard tattoo okay!

The story of Platner being rich is that he was actually *too poor* in his early 30s to qualify for a VA loan to buy a modest $164k house, so his small town attorney dad fronted him a *loan,* after not having had to help him pay for college because of combat tours and the GI bill.

@tommysantos14 Their business made a plan to survive and government vetoed it

Can you imagine being this fucking clueless? The party of personal responsibility wants to go back years, to the nearest Democrat president, to blame them for the fucked up management of an airline by its leadership. Trump literally, in the present moment, DIDN’T HELP THEM EITHER. No, it is not Biden’s fault. It’s the fault of the company’s management. A third grader could have arrived at that basic conclusion. Who takes this shit seriously?

@davemeltzerWON He thinks Egypt knows the Von Erich’s and São Paulo will talk about Ted Boy? Lmao. It’s the Rock for all of these. Even Japan and Mexico.

1. Tokyo (Inoki most likely today because Rikdidozan was so long ago, maybe Baba); 2. Delhi (Great Khali or Dara Singh); 3. Shanghai (Rock); 4. Dhaka - I have no idea; 5. Cairo- I have no idea, would have been Von Erichs but now maybe Cena or Rock; 6. Sao Paulo (Ted Boy); 7. Mexico City (Santo); 8. Beijing (Rock); 9. Mumbai (Khali or Singh); 10. Osaka (Inoki most likely).