So satisfying to watch $60M of dark money go up in flames.

You don’t need a control case to see that halting shipments of bombs and weapons to a nation commiting genocide would have saved thousands of innocent lives.

Given all the evidence by this point, Occam’s Razor would suggest he is dead. Or comatose, at the very least.

Ah, so the election would be bipartisan? That makes sense for the Republicans but doesn’t then explain why the Democrats aren’t demanding the election go ahead in his absence. The fucker is obviously dead.

I mean, I know the Dems often act as controlled opposition, but this is just embarrassing.

What I’m not altogether clear on is how keeping his seat empty benefits Republicans. Doesn’t this mean that they are short one vote in the Senate?

In the US, the market has soured on EVs and the federal tax credits have gone away.

Outside the US, China is eating their lunch.

Oh, you know – the usual shower of Twitter chuds saw the racially diverse cast and took the film as a cultural assault on Western civilization.

They dismissed it as wokeslop before they had even seen it, and now that the movie is out and a critical success, they’re beside themselves.

He also appears to be in suspiciously ruddy health for an 84-year-old man who’s allegedly been at death’s door for weeks. I don’t buy it.

A few years ago, I would have dismissed this type of thing as tinfoilhattery, but hear me out.

Don’t you think the way the newspaper is incorporated into the shot is odd? The positioning is strange – like it doesn’t quite belong with its surroundings.

Well, what if someone took an old photo and used AI to add today’s newspaper in at the bottom of the frame? When you zoom in on the newspaper headline, it looks like gibberish.

Could it be compression artifacts? Maybe. But even then, the shape of the letters looks very odd. Doesn’t even look like English.

If no stronger evidence materializes, I reckon this is a fake intended to buy some time.

That third Belgian goal was pure comedy. The 4th was just the icing on the cake 🤌 A well deserved drubbing, all round.

One of his aides told the NYT:

“If he was to step down it would only be with a guarantee of being replaced by a candidate who he believes is true to the values and vision and policy agenda of the campaign that Maine voted for."

Fortunately, there is such a candidate - Troy Jackson. Despite being sidelined by the media during the primary, he’s working class, a union guy, and a progressive. He has even been endorsed by the Maine chapter of the DSA:

The obvious move, then, would be for Platner to stand down and make way for Jackson to take up the cause.

Nah, it’s curtains this time. Just watch.

I’m not talking about the establishment: Hasan Piker. Emma Vigeland. Krystal Ball. Wajahat Ali. Ro Khanna. Abdul El-Sayed.

They’ve all publicly come out and said these allegations seem credible and that Platner must concede.

No but they are a strong indicator of the way the wind is blowing. The Maine Democrats organization has just also called for him to stand down and the pressure is quickly mounting.

Soon the pressure to drop out will be so strong, his base will splinter and he won’t have a choice but to concede. It’s looking pretty much inevitable at this point.

Nah, he’s cooked this time. Many of his high profile supporters who stuck with him through the previous allegations are currently retracting their endorsements on Twitter. He’s done.

Can’t wait for the new DSA firebrand replacing him to implement the billionaire wealth tax and M4A, once and for all!

Oh, wait … Fuck.

That didn’t happen, so that would be a ‘no’.

Both of these possibilities could be true, of course.

The latter theory also is how I believe Trump was persuaded to start military action against Iran. But I think it is also highly likely that the Israelis have dirt on Trump via Epstein, who had ties with Mossad and frequently fraternized with top-ranking Israeli officials.

However, to leak this information publicly could cause some major blowback, given how unpredictable a cornered Trump would be. It’s easy to imagine him going on a live newsfeed and start throwing all kinds of people under the bus if he thought he had nothing left to lose.

“If the Palestinians and the Lebanese would just hand over their homeland to the brutal foreign invader, all of this unpleasantness would end” is certainly a hot take.

Spare us the hasbara, please. It’s insulting. They have not just been conducting targeted strikes against Hezbollah.

Since invading Southern Lebanon, Israel military have conducted airstrikes on schools, hospitals, and residential areas. They have razed entire cities to the ground.

They have been using the Gaza playbook of making entire areas uninhabitable in order to ethnically cleanse and expand into new territory, while killing any civilians who get in their way.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

You don’t get to use retaliatory attacks by the people you’re invading as an excuse to continue to commit war crimes during a ceasefire.