Husband. Black dad. Stutterer. Davidson College Professor of Practice. Harvard Nieman Fellow. CIDP survivor. Epileptic. S.C. native. Free expression dude.

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I’m one of the Black professors on Kirk’s watchlist of professors he smeared and wanted to have fired. How is that doing things exactly the right way? Grieve his death, yes. But don’t whitewash his life.
Ezra got this one exactly right, and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs in the right way" and "his beliefs are correct."
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Fair question.
Graham Platner was accused of committing serious domestic violence. Women who speak out are being harassed. There is an atmosphere of fear that suppresses truth. What is fascism again?
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Y’all know not to trust a thing coming out of Trump’s mouth about his war with Iran, right? He’s told the same lie more than three dozen times. Believe nothing until we see a signed deal. Why Wall Street is so gullible, don’t ask me why.
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This is the first time post-Dobbs her vote is being litigated in Maine. I have no idea what will happen. Ask those there. But it is absolutely a sensible strategy, given Mainers finally get to officially weigh in.
Highlights how weak the book is on Collins. The Kavanaugh confirmation was 8 years ago. Democrats already ran an entire cycle attacking Collins over Kavanaugh 6 years ago - it failed. Now Dems have a candidate LIGHTYEARS worse than Kavanaugh - and this is their best play?
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Matt is supposed to be a journalist. He could have easily fact-checked this before tweeting. For some reason, he chose not to.
I’m a Trumper because I think people should vote in person (or have a reason if they don’t)? This was standard pretty much everywhere in America before Trump
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This is pathetic. Really.
It really is as simple as this for the vast majority of voters. When you say “Nazi tattoo” normal people think swastika. Then people find out it’s this and the Republicans look silly.
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@ijbailey retweeted
Liberal women who criticize Graham Platner are subject to intense harassment campaigns from his supporters that include death threats, rape threats, mental health stigma, and doxxing. It could be a news story, if anyone wishes to cover it. Women: keep your receipts.
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It’s true what Trump openly bragged about doing - casually sexually assaulting women because he was famous - and found liable for - penetrating a woman against her will - let alone rape allegations, is worse and more predatory. But please don’t qualify the Platner allegations. 1/
WATCH: New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor – who wrote many of the #MeToo stories – DEFENDS Graham Platner and DISMISSES the allegations against him by @LyndseyFifield and other ex-girlfriends because they were not “abuse” and women saying they just “did not like what” they saw from him... “Well, let’s talk about what they may or may not be willing to overlook the accusations against Graham Platner are not classic MeToo accusations. They’re not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances. They’re — they were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships. There are these, like, very sensational texts about sex. There are allegations from former girlfriends that are not — the way my colleagues reported them were not like classic abuse allegations. They were mostly like being his boyfriend gave me a view into him and I did not like what I saw. His character was scary. He had this Nazi tattoo. Et cetera.” “There was one allegation of crossing a line physically, but I think that means that these are pretty different accusations than, say, the one that — the ones that President Trump faced. And, of course, in the Access Hollywood tape, President Trump bragged about grabbing women against their will. And so I think it speaks to the kind of confusion of the long post MeToo moment in which, like, gender related accusations get bundled together. But they’re actually very different.”
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Those of us who grew up in households where alcoholism and domestic violence were present know what he was accused of is no small thing - in any way. There’s no confusion. If those allegations don’t fall under the scope of Me,Too, then what the hell are we even doing?
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And let’s be clear. I hope he is a better man today, though all the lies give me pause even about that. But you can forgive a man and still believe his body of work makes him ineligible for the enormous power he’ll have access to as a U.S. senator.
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A reminder that Susan Collins was the critical vote that led to the overturning of abortion rights and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. I’ll never forget that. None of us should, even those of us who don’t believe a man with a Nazi tattoo should be in the Senate.
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I’m supposed to praise her because of one vote she made which every person in Congress should have after Jan. 6, as well as some recent but meaningless votes - knowing her vote wasn’t critical. I won’t. She’s the kind of moderate MLK Jr. warned us about.
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Susan Collins was also instrumental in millions of vulnerable Americans losing access to healthcare and that money instead being funneled to the richest Americans. She’s no moderate. She’s the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Don’t ever forget.
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We solved a parasitic fly problem way back in 1966. So what did the geniuses Elon and Trump do? Cut funding for the program under DOGE. Now the damn things are back and already causing huge damage. Well done gentlemen. Well done.
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Trump says he doesn’t think about people’s financial situation and loves inflation, which is up nearly a point and half since he got back into office. I suspect his supporters will now go around yelling “I love inflation, too! And We must pull ourselves up by our bootstraps!”
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One great thing happened today. Nancy Mace lost, and lost badly. Gotta take the victories where they show up even if the bigger battles remain.
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That maybe true. It’s why I don’t think Platner belongs in the Senate. But I’ll never give staunch Trump supporter Rich Lowry any credit. At all. The hypocrisy is too thick
We've seen a lot of unimpressive Senate candidates, corrupt Senate candidates, and unfaithful Senate candidates over the years, but Platner is something new and different--a shockingly twisted Senate candidate, like something out of Quentin Tarantino movie, truly dark and disturbing x.com/magi_jay/status/206435…
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@ijbailey retweeted
AOC comments on Graham Platner: "Obviously there's a lot in that behavior that's really challenging — it's hard to stomach." "But, at the end of the day ... if the choice on the ballot is between that and a senator who's voted to take healthcare away from millions of Americans, that's the situation that we have to weigh."
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How does a completely devastated and destroyed and demoralized Iranian military keep knocking our sophisticated aircraft out of the air?
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Read the account of what Trump was found liable of doing to Carroll and compare that to the accusations against Platner. Both incidents are terrible. But the Trump crime is much worse. Scott doesn’t care if his guy is penetrating a woman against her will.
Dude is big on locking people in rooms against their will, apparently.
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Does it matter to any of you guys that gender reassignment surgeries for minors was always an extremely rare thing, to be almost nonexistent, despite you guys turning the trans community into bogeymen? Or nah?
This is a 180-degree reversal. The good thing is that it indicates that he might realize his old position was horrendous. But his ease in reversing could mean he reverses again if Dems have the Senate and the White House in 2029.
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