Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man.
I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2618578...
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.
It says a lot about the state of things in the US that I saw this and for a split second got really hopeful it was my country's Secretary of Defense and not Healey.
And then I remembered Kegsbreath is probably too drunk to resign on his own.
There will be more stuff to come out about my dude Graham over the next 6 months. But Maine has made its choice and we *have to* fire Susan Collins.
But the folks that love this guy are deluding themselves if they think all of the attacks are coming from cOrPoRaTe DeMz and the right. 👢 🥾 👟 🫳
the other thing i'll note is that it is the district courts, and not SCOTUS, that have been far more effective and reliable in challenging the administration's power-grabs, and with few exceptions, SCOTUS has largely validated all but the most egregious ones.
Some people might be upset about this, but at least the acolyte didn't get a second season bsky.app/profile/benz...