Neal Urwitz @reader24601

@jasnotron @kitten_beloved @EWErickson Happens all the time between first and second - look at MI, PA, and GA in 2020. And, in a runoff election with an unpopular incumbent in a liberal city, makes total sense. There’s a big constituency for “Dem who isn’t Bass” and a big constituency for the incumbent

A single native oak tree supports 550+ species of caterpillars. A Bradford pear supports about one. Caterpillars are how songbirds feed their young. Almost all of them. A pair of chickadees needs between 6,000 and 9,000 caterpillars to raise one brood of chicks. Bluebirds, warblers, vireos, wrens: same story. Adults might eat seeds, but the babies eat caterpillars. Researchers at the University of Delaware found that yards dominated by non-native plants produce 75% less caterpillar biomass than native-dominated yards. Chickadees in those yards were 60% less likely to even attempt to nest. Most caterpillars can't eat non-native plants. They didn't evolve with them. The leaves are chemically wrong. So when we landscape with crepe myrtle, Bradford pear, ginkgo, Japanese maple, Pieris, we're building a yard that looks alive and is functionally a desert. The food web starts in your front bed. It's the highest-leverage thing you can do. It's also the thing nobody tells you when you buy a house.

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“Even voters backing . . . expect the scandals to keep coming.” That’s a ringing endorsement of @grahamformaine. He’s not a good candidate because he’s not a good person

Selina Wang @selinawangtv

4 hours ago

Graham Platner was supposed to be Democrats' best shot at flipping the Senate. Days before Maine's primary, I criss-crossed the state. Even voters backing him told me they expect the scandals to keep coming, but they see no other choice so are supporting him anyways @ABC

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@WalshFreedom If he’s alleging fraud, he’s looney tunes. But it is worth pointing out that California is absurdly slow about counting votes

@keleigh1959 @robbystarbuck This was simply false

CA’s slow vote count is embarrassing, but this is pretty easy to understand. Republicans overwhelmingly vote in person, and far more Dems vote by mail or early. In states that don’t allow pre-counting early ballots, Rs race out to an early lead, then Ds catch up and surpass them once they start counting early votes. Not fraud, just a slow system

The progressive case that they’ll bring this whole group of new voters to the polls in general elections has just never happened. But @grahamformaine is driving away the swing voters who we know will show up, particularly in purple state like Maine. He’s gonna get smoked

It's politics @uspolitics1111

6 hours ago

Yeah famously Sara Gideon and Amy Mcgrath are great senators now. How the fuck is this idiot not ashamed of herself now ?

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Republicans once sacrificed a Senate seat on the strategic calculation that they were better off without a disreputable colleague—a choice that Democrats now face, @davidfrum argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/…

How is Platner ‘working class’? He comes from a distinguished and affluent family. He went to a prestigious boarding school, Hotchkiss. His family bought his home. He has a vanity business. Prior to Maine he sloshed around in DC with political elites and activists. Dysfunctional, downwardly mobile leftists always try to pass off their destination as their origin story, but if you pay attention at all it’s not convincing.

John F. Morton @musepwt

a day ago

If you don't know at least a handful of guys like Graham, you've never done a day of physical labor in your life and you should really think long and hard about your own class position and why Platner is winning Maine so handily...

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@JoeyMannarino Hey, be kind to Ashley. She wasn’t lucky enough to be born a TRUE Black American woman.

There are more Arabs serving in the IDF, than Jews livings in Arab countries

quote @itsmubashi

2 months ago

Hit me with the harshest reality truth.

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People used to say Donald Trump was a poor person’s idea of a rich person. Graham Platner is a rich person’s idea of a poor person.

@jkirchick @JonahDispatch Also, he’s not poor. He has daddy’s money

@2020_Vision_ @ClayTravis Sooooo, do you want fast counts or not? You see the problem of both fast and slow counts are evidence of fraud?

“Screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump” - Agri Pulse, March 2025

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@ClayTravis How did Florida fix it? Heavy mail-in votes that are counted before Election Day and extensive early voting (that are also tabulated before Election Day). All states should adopt such policies then, right? ballotpedia.org/Factors_affect…

People who continue to blame New World Screwworm crisis on the Biden Administration need to stop The Secretary has had 15 months to prepare a competent response, and despite what some are saying, the response has been lackluster and unserious Let’s go over some facts: In order to eradicate the NWS, we need somewhere between 500M-600M sterile flies produced WEEKLY, and we currently produce 100M weekly There are current mechanisms and technologies that could be deployed IMMEDIATELY in order to produce those numbers that have been ignored by the USDA for the past 6 months The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) which oversees the NWS response is a disaster. There were some competent veterinarians interviewed during the transition willing to serve and reform the bureau who were blocked by the Secretary and her team. Instead they decided to retain the same director from the Biden Administration (ironic) who botched the response to the Avian flu The tick rider program (people on horseback looking at wildlife and livestock in desolate areas) is completely disorganized, so the “surveillance” mechanisms that continue to be touted are not sufficient enough to detect these infestations in extremely rural areas in the timely manner required to combat this On top of all this, producers in Texas are being pressured NOT TO REPORT potential cases, and if it wasn’t for some brave people reporting on this current case in LaPryor, it’s possible it would have been covered up NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION NOW

Man, @RoKhanna - this is an awful thing to say. Don’t throw all veterans under the bus because you’re trying to protect one guy who, let’s face it, is a serial liar and has highly dubious character

David Weigel @daveweigel

2 days ago

Khanna says that Democrats should respect the women who came forward to talk about Platner while understanding that he changed and that veterans were “broken” in stupid wars.

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.@petridishes imagines a very not-panicked note from the Graham Platner campaign: theatln.tc/ixK1zU71 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Joe Raedle / Getty.