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Vice President Harris, I agree with you on this.
You can support constitutional procedure and still believe overturning the expressed will of millions of voters after ballots were already cast is a dangerous road for public trust and democratic legitimacy.
This is bigger than Democrats versus Republicans.
If Americans are encouraged to participate in democracy, vote in good faith, follow the process, and make their voices heard…but the result can later be invalidated after the election over procedural disputes… people are going to start questioning whether their vote truly matters at all.
And once enough people lose faith in elections, courts, Congress, media, and institutions altogether, the damage spreads far beyond one state or one party.
Democracy cannot survive long-term if public participation starts feeling conditional, reversible, or politically negotiable after the fact.
The people spoke in Virginia. That should matter.
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Last month in Virginia, the people made their voices heard at the ballot box and voted for new Congressional maps.
Today, the Virginia Supreme Court ignored the will of the people and overturned those democratically chosen maps.
This ruling gives a boost to Donald Trump's effort to rig the 2026 elections and the Republicans' long game to attack voting rights.
We are rightfully outraged, but we will not give up. We must continue our fight to restore the power of the people.
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@TheRogue_Elf @mattyglesias Why are Dems the only side that has to follow procedure?
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Don't know what the mechanisms are but these Virginia judges need to go.
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@mattyglesias I mean, you could try not breaking the law…
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The last thing you see before being cannibalized
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@katieporterca lol, you tweeted a clip of you getting dunked on, you insane bitch.
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Chad Bianco, what mothers need is respect and support, not your advice.
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@Slayer_Tip @MattWalshBlog From a country that has produced nothing. Your people are beyond worthless.
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I don’t think this hantavirus thing is anything to worry about. The pandemic risk is extremely low. But the problem is that our “public health authorities” permanently destroyed their credibility with covid, so if there ever is an apocalyptic pandemic nobody will believe them.
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'Marshals' star Arielle Kebbel saddles up in style with a vintage Cartier watch and a denim jacket trib.al/6S3EwZg
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My record speaks for itself - whether on reproductive care, protecting immigrant rights, or defending our environmental law, I’ve never been afraid to go toe to toe with Donald Trump.
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@libsoftiktok You’re giving him what he wants, attention and free advertising.
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The Minocqua brewing company now appears to be hoping Rudy Giuliani dies and promise buy 1 get 1 free if he does
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@JonathanWiltsh7 @MHTruthUltra This is absolute bullshit.
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What people don't realise is that wealth hoarding isn’t even in our “human nature." It’s a relatively new concept.
For most of human history, we lived in small hunter-gatherer groups where survival depended on sharing.
If someone tried to hoard or act above others, the group shut it down through ridicule, exclusion, or death.
Equality wasn’t ideology, it was survival.
That's a lesson we should learn from.
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If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it.
When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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@hungus14 @DerekPederson3 This test is nonsense. It’s a test of cognitive flexibility at best, not a measure of bias.
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@DerekPederson3 Exactly.
Take the race test, then post your results.
implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takea…
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I don't think online liberals are aware of the extent to which huge elements of the Democratic Party have never admitted that they were completely wrong about Michael Brown. This is the person Biden appointed as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Tom Cotton is unhappy about comments Kristen Clarke has made suggesting that cops who shoot Black people should be prosecuted
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@nypost This is on Bernie Sanders. His rhetoric leads to violence. He’s a traitor.
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Alleged Palisades arsonist became 'fixated' with Luigi Mangione, started blaze 'out of resentment of the rich': prosecutors trib.al/nLHwEsr
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@jemelehill Every time I think you couldn’t get dumber, you go and prove yourself again.
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Let me make sure I have my ID on me when I go to pick up this Chipotle.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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@ryandangeremma @BurtMaclin_FBI There’s nothing wrong with his tattoos you fucking retard.
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@BurtMaclin_FBI It's largely because Peter's politics and ideology also match his tattoos and he has not apologized for them nor covered them.
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I remember not long ago that Pete Hegseth’s tattoo was deemed disqualifying by the people now saying having a Totenkoof tattoo is no big deal.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
I don’t know, you strike me as someone smart enough to know that a good test as to whether someone is sympathetic to Nazis is if they’ve ever said a single word in their entire life that could be construed as sympathetic to Nazis. But I guess the story you’d have us believe is this: a group of American marines, who risked their lives for this country, decided to get skull and crossbones tattoos together in their 20s that they all knew were Nazi symbols. Then they all kept their actual Nazi sympathies hidden for the next decade, a time when Platner frequently took his shirt off in front of his Jewish family, who I suppose either didn’t care about his Nazi sympathies or didn’t recognize the symbol you claim is extremely obvious. And then Platner, who was clearly not shy about expressing all kinds of views on Reddit, especially all the offensive shit he now regrets, somehow managed to keep his Nazi sympathies hidden from the world, as did his Nazi-sympathizing Marine friends who got the same tattoo. Yes, this makes sense. You cracked it for sure. Bravo. Congrats on being smarter than all those rubes in Maine who’ve fallen for the secret Nazi’s cover story.
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I don’t know, you strike me as someone smart enough to know that a good test as to whether someone is sympathetic to Nazis is if they’ve ever said a single word in their entire life that could be construed as sympathetic to Nazis.
But I guess the story you’d have us believe is this: a group of American marines, who risked their lives for this country, decided to get skull and crossbones tattoos together in their 20s that they all knew were Nazi symbols. Then they all kept their actual Nazi sympathies hidden for the next decade, a time when Platner frequently took his shirt off in front of his Jewish family, who I suppose either didn’t care about his Nazi sympathies or didn’t recognize the symbol you claim is extremely obvious. And then Platner, who was clearly not shy about expressing all kinds of views on Reddit, especially all the offensive shit he now regrets, somehow managed to keep his Nazi sympathies hidden from the world, as did his Nazi-sympathizing Marine friends who got the same tattoo.
Yes, this makes sense. You cracked it for sure. Bravo. Congrats on being smarter than all those rubes in Maine who’ve fallen for the secret Nazi’s cover story.
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I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate and someone noticed. It’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence to suggest otherwise. Sorry, his Medicare thoughts from last week are not permanent body art or absolution.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
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!
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@jonfavs @EmmaVigeland @mkhammer EXCELLENT TAKEDOWN.
I’m bookmarking this for the future. It’s an excellent response to the extremely tiring tattoo accusation.
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@jonfavs Jon, I have literal people in my life that insist Mr. Platner is a Nazi. I have met him personally and I agree with you that he is not. But the way the reactionary media has washed people's minds of sanity is wild!
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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!
Pro-America | Politics & Markets@Pro__Trading
Why did you delete this @jonfavs?
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Susan Collins is on the side of the billionaire class.
I’m on the side of the rest of us who built this country.
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@pynkchola @mattyglesias Even if that argument is moot, there is the fact that Platner doesn’t say Nazi shit. Hegseth is a white nationalist.
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@mattyglesias Left wingers are the Nazis, you disingenuous piece of shit. All authoritarianism is left wing by definition.
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