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EMILYs List poll: Platner will lose Maine Senate race The Maine Senate race is all but a must-win for Democrats looking to take back the Senate.

A survey, conducted on behalf of the Democratic group EMILYs List and obtained by POLITICO, finds that most voters wouldn’t support Platner over Republican Sen. Susan Collins after learning of his past social media posts

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I see this skeet was liked by a Doctor Who podcast, meaning it could be literally any online Lib Dem

That’s the Christmas presents sorted then

Remember how every so often the prime minister would give a semi coherent speech and say something vaguely right wing and then you’d get a report that some anonymous MP was so impressed they had withdrawn their letter? Those were the days

Working on a theory that the reason Kemi is still in post is that the letters keep going to him by mistake out of habit

If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll admit that was way more fun. Starmer should buy back national goodwill by creating an equivalent committee and chair (for the sole purpose of the letter sending stuff, not the pressure to do mad right wing stuff, they have that covered)

Im just not sure I know how to do a prime ministerial crisis which doesn’t revolve around vaguely ominous reports about the number of letters being sent to Graham Brady

Tbf it is a structural problem to have the British Labour Party as the party entrusted with providing all left of centre prime ministers

Fortunately (?) it’s the rare structural problem this government has actually been working on

I fear for him

Obviously bunting in that situation is insane but at least per MLB ref he only stole 16 bags that whole season so it’s marginally less insane than I first thought or than it would have been in an earlier season of his career

It’s sort of remarkable Coleman played another four years after throwing a firework at children and injuring them

I mean they’re extremely consistent about this. It’s also why “The Deficit” consists entirely of spending on things Republicans dislike.

(Note: just spending, not revenue - spending. Revenue is also bad)

Are we confident he wouldn’t have voted McDonnell

This raises the intriguing question of who the last Labour leader is to be succeeded by their preferred heir

Some people now trying to argue that the original tweet is not saying the ACA subsidies are unimportant, and I'm sorry, but do not piss on my leg and tell me it's raining; anyone with basic reading comprehension knows exactly why he's using deliberately obfuscatory language and scare quotes

The *absolutely unequivocal* implication in the original message is that the ACA subsidies are a dumb stupid technocratic issue, deliberately referred to in obfuscatory language to make them seem insignificant. If you want to deny that, ok, but you're only denying reading comprehension to yourself

I would say it was a pretty common opinion! Definitely not the only one, but 'Some people had a reasonable argument on this issue' does not, IMO, invalidate the fact that other prominent people had a bad one they subsequently flipped on without acknowledgement

Like I am sorry but come the fuck on, there is no human alive who reads that tweet and thinks “wow, seems like he thinks this is important and affects countless people even if he prioritizes something else”

A position so well articulated and reasonable that you had to entirely invent it and project it onto a series of messages which say a completely different thing, indeed

Again, I think this is an incredibly distorted reading of what he says which bends over backwards to not understand him

Please keep your deranged conspiracy ramblings out of this thread, thank you both

I’m sorry, I simply do not believe this is a good faith reading of the tweet where he refers to the subsidies in *deliberately* obfuscatory language and in quotation marks, which is very clearly designed to suggest this is some meaningless bullshit

IMO the way it played out makes healthcare look like absolutely the best choice of issue, since it gave Dems a totally unambiguous polling win and it turned out to be much more salient than detractors expected. But it’s fine if people disagree! It’s the sneering at it as a non-issue that sucks

I’m sure some people did make the argument you are describing! It’s not what Kruse says here though

No, you are describing a different argument from the one screenshotted here, which is very clearly deriding the ACA subsidies as stupid and pointless to fight over.

Fine to wish for a different issue but that’s different to actively sneering at this as a non-issue

People can think whatever about the way this played out but honestly I’m never not going to be mad about the accounts that sneered at the ACA subsidies as a pointless waste of effort because they weren’t relevant to the priorities of BlueSky clout pushers

Weird how at some point the ACA subsidies went from meaningless technocrat babble that it was obviously incredibly stupid for Democrats to try protecting to being incredibly important for helping people avoid suffering.

And Democrats managed to get it wrong both times!! What were the odds?

a person is holding a sword with the words perfectly balanced as all things should be ALT: a person is holding a sword with the words perfectly balanced as all things should be

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