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In this week’s Stiles Section, @AndrewStilesUSA gives us the authoritative take on Graham Platner: Platner made history on Tuesday as the first former Hotchkiss attendee with a Nazi tattoo to win a major party’s U.S. Senate nomination while facing credible allegations of domestic abuse. He is also, presumably, the first U.S. Senate nominee who has fantasized about raping burglars and reminisced about masturbating in porta potties.
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There’s no telling what else we might learn or (God help us) see in the months ahead, but let’s not encourage him.
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Read more at this week’s Stiles Section: freebeacon.substack.com/p/wh…

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One of the eight anti-Israel activists charged with orchestrating a criminal plot to “terrorize government officials, businesses, and the Jewish Federation” of Detroit, 24-year-old Mariam Odeh of Dearborn, worked on left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign, the Detroit News first reported. Odeh was paid $154 on March 3 and $593 on March 13. The payments were categorized as salary disbursements.
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For award-winning composer Kevin Lynch to secure an apprenticeship on the hit Broadway musical Wicked, he would have to do more than defy gravity. That’s because Lynch is a white man—and the program was restricted to minorities and “female and nonbinary musicians,” according to a complaint Lynch filed against Wicked.
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Lynch told the Free Beacon he has faced professional blowback for speaking out against such initiatives but argued his efforts were “necessary.” “My focus has never been on politics,” he said. “My focus has been on fairness, the profession I love, and vindicating my rights.”
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The Zohran Mamdani-backed socialist challenging incumbent Democratic congressman Adriano Espaillat in New York City “co-created a bizarre, DEI-crazed college course that advocated for abolishing schools, which it accused of fueling ‘genocide,’ ‘white supremacy,’ and ‘settler colonialism’ among other ills,” @LevineJonathan reports.
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“Chevalier is one of three Mamdani-backed Democratic Socialists challenging Democratic incumbents in New York City congressional primaries this year,” Levine writes. Mamdani backed Chevalier late in the campaign—breaking a reported handshake promise to Espaillat that the mayor would either endorse him or stay neutral.
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