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Yesterday I had the pleasure of addressing the graduates @UMich commencement. I spoke about the long history of student activism, which has moved the University toward justice.
Here is a video. It has caused a furore on social media & in UM admin.
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@mattyglesias You sound like an idiot when you write shit like this. Maybe just admit Platner is a bad person with a very questionable past.
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Another example — I agree that the tattoo situation reflects somewhat poorly on him in a non-specific way, but what is the specific worry a voter is supposed to have about Platner?
Yes, he gets a pass on being a Nazi because progressives think he’s progressive (ie not a Nazi)
Erick Erickson@EWErickson
All those years of lectures by Democrats about character and they embrace a man who got a tattoo of the symbol used by those who executed the Jews in the holocaust. But he says he’s a communist, not a Nazi, so they are okay with it. “But Trump” can excuse anything for the Left.
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What is the upshot of the Platner tattoo discourse?
Let's say I find his story fishy. I'm supposed to worry that this seemingly left-wing guy supported by all the left-wing people is secretly a Nazi just pretending to be a progressive populist?
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@uspolitics1111 Yeah, anything to beat Trump, even supporting a scumbag Nazi.
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No new wars, no more fighting abroad and more investing inside is a hell of a winning message ❤️
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
No one has ever explained to me how what I did in Iraq and Afghanistan made anyone’s lives better in Sullivan, Maine. Our foreign wars are good for a lot of people: defense contractors, draft-dodging politicians who want to feel tough, Benjamin Netanyahu. But not for us.
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@AnthonyMEmerson "ACT BLUE". Yeah, they gonna be out of business and in jail by June.
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He's the number three recipient of donations this week on ActBlue. He has plenty of money and will for this entire campaign.
The Maine Wire@TheMaineWire
Platner is burning through cash at an unsustainable rate, raised largely from out-of-state donors: Topline numbers through Q1 2026: * Total Receipts: $11,956,529.27 * Total Disbursements: $9,225,671.66 * Cash on Hand: $2,730,857.61 * Debts/Loans: $0.00 The money is not coming from Maine. Looking at his itemized (large-dollar) donors, Maine residents account for roughly $919,000. The rest of his itemized cash is entirely nationalized: * California: $647k * New York: $609k * Massachusetts: $399k * Colorado / DC / Florida: ~$350k combined. The Burn Rate is Unsustainable. * Q3 2025: Raised $3.2M / Spent $1.0M * YE 2025: Raised $4.6M / Spent $3.1M * Q1 2026: Raised $4.0M / Spent $5.0M What is he spending the most money on? * LC Media, LLC (PA): ~$2.4+ Million * Helix Campaigns, LLC (DC): ~$631,000+
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@davidsirota @grahamformaine So sad to see so many delusional Mainer's who thinks its ok to vote for a guy who thought having a tattoo worn by concentration camp guards is ok.
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giant overflow crowd on a rainy Sunday evening at a @grahamformaine town hall in Old Town, Maine
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@mlcalderone @aseitzwald Basically Maine progressives have shut off their brains and are willing to back anyone to GET TRUMPF
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I’ve been fascinated by Graham Platner’s campaign and his ability to survive a string of controversies and thrive against the Dem establishment
For this past weekend’s “Media Front” — my last at TheWrap — I talked to @aseitzwald about Platner’s deep engagement with Maine voters and the media, and the politics of posting through it
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@DrNeilStone And not just any tattoo, one the guards who ran the extermination camps wore.
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I'm sorry Democrats but there's just no explaining out of having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years
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@jimgeraghty Spare me the right wing hand wringing over supposed left wing antisemitism. Rs have been harboring antisemites for decades. Whatever reason he has this tat, everyone deserves redemption. Unlike, say, Hegseth, his words do not reflect the hateful ideology behind the tattoo.
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The Absurd Rise of Graham Platner nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo…
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@jefflynch967 @jimgeraghty @davidfrum iTs juST A taTOO. Sure man, its right up there with the tramp stamp my whore girlfriend had in 1996. Its the deaths head, worn by guards in the extermination camps.
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@jimgeraghty @davidfrum I’m not impressed with Platner for sure. But as a member of a generation of people who got & admired lots of body art (tho not my thing) having a tat of Nazi-adjacent symbolism may horrify some, it’s the modern equivalent of having had a tacky rug or a waterbed in college.
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@Johan_Loeder @BAblsage @jimgeraghty @davidfrum Sure thing bub. This extermination camp tattoo wearing scumbag is going down.
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@mal644 @jimgeraghty Guess you like those tats that were worn by guards at the extermination camps.
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@jimgeraghty Checking in with folks at National Review. Well, they still lie, smear and malign. Some things do never change.
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@SenSusanCollins Thanks for this Senator. Sadly, some Mainer's want to support a man who thinks rape victims deserved it. I hope you win.
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First responders in York County now have a world-class training center that is already making a difference. 🚒🚑👮
Roger Hooper and other first responders have worked for this for decades and I secured $3.4M in federal funding to help make their dream become a reality. I was proud to stand with York County firefighters, EMTs, police officers, dispatchers and other county officials to unveil this state-of-the-art facility, which is the largest single investment in first responders in Maine history.
This investment will help ensure that those who risk their lives to keep us safe have the ongoing training needed to protect them too!
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@DatBoy4477 @TheMaineWire Why do I you hate the jews so much you would back a Nazi?
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Graham Platner is running the Beto O'Rourke/Jaime Harrison playbook.
He has tapped into the national progressive fundraising vein, acting as a lightning rod for out-of-state anti-Collins cash.
The Maine Wire@TheMaineWire
Platner is burning through cash at an unsustainable rate, raised largely from out-of-state donors: Topline numbers through Q1 2026: * Total Receipts: $11,956,529.27 * Total Disbursements: $9,225,671.66 * Cash on Hand: $2,730,857.61 * Debts/Loans: $0.00 The money is not coming from Maine. Looking at his itemized (large-dollar) donors, Maine residents account for roughly $919,000. The rest of his itemized cash is entirely nationalized: * California: $647k * New York: $609k * Massachusetts: $399k * Colorado / DC / Florida: ~$350k combined. The Burn Rate is Unsustainable. * Q3 2025: Raised $3.2M / Spent $1.0M * YE 2025: Raised $4.6M / Spent $3.1M * Q1 2026: Raised $4.0M / Spent $5.0M What is he spending the most money on? * LC Media, LLC (PA): ~$2.4+ Million * Helix Campaigns, LLC (DC): ~$631,000+
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@RachelBitecofer Actually his tat is worse than that, it's one worn by the guards at the extermination camps.
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Planter has a tattoo used by Nazis, Collins supports the policies of Nazis.
That’s your choice, Maine.
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Gas in Maine before the war: $2.91
Gas in Maine today: $4.41.
Susan Collins voted for this.
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@pragmatometer And not just any tattoo, one the guards who ran the extermination camps wore.
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The Platner tattoo story isn’t about Platner.
It's about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18 years.
It's a story about how years and years of moral indignation from the Very Serious People™ class proved to be a paper-thin veneer over your team jerseys.
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Perfectly summed up by @philipaklein: "Now we’ll have to listen for months to arguments that it is our moral duty to support the Nazi tattoo guy over the threat posed by centrist Republican Senator Susan Collins, because Trump." nationalreview.com/corner/maine-s…
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@TomCottonAR And not just any tattoo, one the guards who ran the extermination camps wore.
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Dems called Elon Musk a Nazi for waving to a crowd.
But now they're embracing the lying fraud Graham Platner — who is so antisemitic he proudly got a Nazi SS tattoo.
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@davidsirota @grahamformaine @LuluGNavarro So you are fine with platforming the guy that not only had a nazi tat, but one used by the guards at the death camps?
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I just spoke with @GrahamForMaine about Tucker Carlson telling the NY Times' @LuluGNavarro he wants to meet Platner.
I asked Platner if he'd appear on Tucker's show - and how he thinks about engaging with conservative media.
Full interview will be on The Lever's YouTube page.
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Platner has been all across the state addressing this while billionaire-backed super PACs flood our airwaves. Mainers have seen these ads already, and don’t like out-of-state big money telling them what to think when they can hear directly from Platner and decide for themselves.
Hutch@hutchinson
The climate might be so bad for republicans that Platner wins regardless, but the voters of Maine haven’t yet been bombarded with ads highlighting his tattoo + volumes of problematic Reddit posts. GOP is going to pour tens of millions into that race. It is going to be brutal.
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