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He's going to rescue american masculinity by swaying to "Memories" in the presidential ballroom

🧵Since Dems aren't educating people on what's really going on with the $40 billion bribe for Argentina, here are the facts:

1. This is not a gift. It is a Mafia-like policy used as leverage, both financially & politically.

A comic by me. In panel 1: a politician - clean-cut white guy, tie, goatee, microphone in hand, speaking at a rally - says: "By now, I’m sure many of you have seen the news about my back tattoo". We see he has a back tattoo that just says ADOLF HITLER. Panel 2: Our politician continues his speech. The crowd in the background is cheering and waving flags. "What the media won’t tell you is that I was planning on adding the words “Is Bad” at the bottom. But like many Americans forced to buy tattoos in installments, I had to deal with the realities of the economy under this administration"

I feel kind of bad that I’m just hearing about it now.

He’s a military history enthusiast. Of course he knew what it was. The fact that he won’t own up to it is as disqualifying as the tattoo itself.

It's a big tent party guys. Sometimes a blackwater mercenary with Nazi tats wants to damage the entire attack line on the GOP by muddying the controversy of actual Nazis in the GOP, and you have to vote for them

My "I got my Nazi tattoo covered up when it became national news" shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt.

Trump’s Unprecedented Actions Deepen Asymmetric Divides The 16th annual PRRI American Values Survey examines Americans’ opinions on how democracy is working, what it means to be “truly American,” concerns about the economy, and belief in the American Dream...

“A majority of Americans agree ‘President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy’ (56%) …”

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

It Sure Sounds Like Graham Platner Knew He’d Gotten a Nazi Tattoo The Maine Senate candidate claimed he had no clue what his tattoo symbolized.

Even if the claim is false that Platner referred to it as “my totenkopf”, his statement about “already planning to get it removed” in conjunction with his claim he only learned the meaning from media attention, is incredible.

Besides the fact that it’s widely used, only by racists, in Nazi contexts

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Trump is generously willing to settle his lawsuit against the government to allow taxpayers to pay him $230 million. The negotiators on behalf of the taxpayers representing DOJ are his former lawyers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

like, if he regrets it or was confused, that's good and all, but...the Ds shouldn't nominate some guy with a nazi tattoo. he should seek redemption in some way other than running for senate.

Here's where "he'a a dictator" and "Trump's shutdown is about health care + kitchen table" go hand in hand. He's trying to steal $230M in taxpayer money to line his pockets, because dictators are corrupt and line their pockets, while taking away your health care and trashing the economy.

YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

Platner's tattoo is literally the specific piece of Nazi iconography from the "Are we the baddies?" sketch.

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

He’s a big military history guy, too.

Ok, but what if you were super drunk and in Croatia?

So what do we think will happen to the $3 million his campaign raised?

It only looks bad if you include the context!

First thing I thought of.

Personally, I would have chosen not to demolish the White House if I was worried about how the public would respond to my demolishing of the White House.

I would rather be disappointed than lose a senate seat.

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

Everything’s a cover up

‘Who cares?’ About 7 million people, that’s who Media coverage of Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests included the New York Times’s shrug

"A more soporific set of headlines would be hard to write.”

That's what I told @sulliview.bsky.social about 2 stories that NYT put atop its Sunday front page, while it reduced No Kings coverage to 2 tiny photos below the fold and a story on Page 23. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/who-cares-...

A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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In the "before times" category: Tabloid news made it a several-day item when young J Carter WH staffers called in for a late-night weekend shift (incl me), showed up at the office w blue jeans. Always wore a jacket and tie, even on all-nighters, after that.

Now: POTUS diarrhea from a plane.

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

When our kid caught on to spelling (things like i c e c r e a m), my wife and I switched to the NATO alphabet. We're now into tween years and they still haven't caught on.