Janet Mills suspended her campaign for Senate on Thursday, as her progressive challenger, oyster farmer Graham Platner, continued to lead in the polls and in fundraising.

It’s a shocking fall off for the incumbent governor

Lol brutal! The current governor and dnc prefered candidate dying in the polls and fundraising (!) to a progressive oyster farmer.

The democratic party is such a stalwart architect of their own failures. I just wish they werent taking the nation down with them.

Mexico is not a client state, yeah for sure. It’s not like belarus or hungary’s relationship with russia.

Not drugs, just weed.

He has very little formal power, just wealth, status, connections, titles, fame, ceremonial power, large property holdings and public funding.

His brother is one of the world’s most famous child rapists, a key player in the trump-epstein trafficking ring and his dad was an outspoken racist.

The optics of dems giving a standing ovation to an unelected monarch while we suffer under authoritarian rule are not good.

Mexico is a US friendly nation though.

Huge sections of USDA, customs and other government departments are based in mexico. They’re our largest trading partner. Many of our largest companies have supply chains deeply integrated into mexico.

Racists are obssessed with the us/mex border but in a lot of important ways we’re barely even seperate countries.

That means at least $50b

Because both the english and korean terms for the dessert are loan words from the same italian word.

Also scientific terms like tyrannasaur are almost always stay the same across cultures and languages.

I have heard local organizers expressing frustration at the firm grip of democratic party insiders on messaging, goals and other decision making.

I kinda think this is a valid point.

Firstly, “No Kings” was always a bit of a piss-weak euphemism. It clearly means No Dictators, but that’s too strong language for dems and casts uncomfortably truthful light on the system they want to be in charge of.

Secondly, don’t give a standing ovation to an unelected monarch. Just don’t. He uttered the words “checks and balances”. So what? We have literal concentration camps and no rule of law. A child rapist and a pack of drunk nazis openly loot the public purse. We’re way past checks and balances.

This is yet another example of the dems failing to understand the political moment.

Good. Impeachment is pointless and accomplishes nothing. Plus trump is a cenile stooge inches from death.

Jailing regime goons for their many open crimes should be the priority.

Why is my coffee shaking? I dont want my coffee shaken!

I think your point about a war going on is spot on, but backwards.

While the project of zionism is engaged in genocide, kill all zionists is pretty clearly a call for resisting and punishing genocide.

Just as during a deeply homophobic regime, be gay do crime is clearly understood as a call to resist our illegitimate system.

That’s the best horse name ever! Definitely not something i expected to see while browsing a three day old non-monogamy shitpost.

I’m sorry that you got nothing but downvotes despite being factually correct.

Boomer can be used to mean a specific age range or just someone old, especially if they’re bad with tech or hold odious views.

The rich talking about democracy is like a catholic bishop talking about god - they know it’s not real, it just helps them distract people from all the child rape.

Lol the gizmodo article about the preview of mythos has this incredible openly line:

If Anthropic is kind of like a kid at a Halloween party with a bowl full of spaghetti, telling its blindfolded friends the spaghetti is brains, European cyber agency leaders are like kids who are mad that they still haven’t gotten to stick their fingers in the brain bowl

Anthropic in particular seems to use “we’re scared of what we can do” as their marketing strategy. So maybe this unauthorized use is real, or maybe it’s just more PR.

If there’s one thing fascism has taught us, the two are hardly mutually exclusive.

died in a vehicular crash in the mountains of the Sierra de Chihuahua following a drug raid, alongside two Mexican officials

Anyone else think the most likely scenario was a cia hothead pumped up after a raid and driving like an idiot?

30% of the adult population voted for trump in 2024.

If we lived in a democracy, that would be a generational level defeat that may spell the end of the party, not deliver full control of both houses and the executive.

It’s just a bit rich blaming voters in an oligarchy with no real representative mechanisms.

Given that bluesky was hit a few days ago, could be a threat actor gauging the defenses/responses of 2nd tier targets. I wouldn’t put it past musk to use ddos to generate bad press for non-x socials either.

Plenty of ways this could be worth someone’s resources even if complete take down isn’t on the table.