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Graham Platner, the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee from Sullivan, wrote about his involvement with the Socialist Rifle Association using the Reddit handle P-Hustle. MANY PICTURES AT LINK............... Last October, The Robinson Report broke the story that Graham Platner — the disabled Sullivan veteran with an oyster hobby who is now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate — had personally instructed members of the Socialist Rifle Association in firearms training in Maine. Now, two additional accounts — both from self-described left-wingers — have surfaced that confirm Platner’s top role in the Maine chapter of firearms and political activism org. The reporting...

For Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky, a person with a Nazi tattoo on their chest should be disqualified as a candidate for political office. But that tattoo, along with a series of other controversies that have dogged Senate candidate Graham Platner, has not been enough to dissuade most Democratic voters in Maine from supporting him. On Tuesday, Platner, a 41-year-old oyster farmer and military veteran, won a decisive victory in the Maine Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. He will now face longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in this November's midterm elections. For many Democrats, the removal of Collins is the central...

Another ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, is shedding light on his private behavior and disputing his claim that he didn’t know that the tattoo of a skull on his chest was a Nazi Totenkopf. Platner’s ex told The New York Post about the conversation she had with him about the tattoo. “As a person who is a leftist, I immediately looked at him and asked him, ‘Is that a Totenkopf?’ and he told me a whole, ‘he will hold this weight forever’ bravado sob story about how it was, but he decided to keep...

Sen. John Fetterman and his possible future U.S. Senate colleague Graham Platner are both Democrats, but that’s not keeping them from trading profanity-laced barbs. During a town hall on Sunday, Platner — the frontrunner in Maine’s Democratic primary on Tuesday — was asked about forming relationships in the Senate if he were eventually elected. Platner chose to compare himself to Fetterman, who has frustrated Democrats with his constant criticism of the party, frequently on Fox News, and his support for President Donald Trump’s nominees and policies, such as the Iran war. “As you can all probably tell, I got a...

Jim Messina on Graham Platner: ‘You’re Seeing a Star Is Born’ Pam Key9 Jun 20263 1:24 Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Democratic strategist and campaign manager for Obama’s 2012 reelection, Jim Messina, said we were seeing a star being born in Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D). Messina said, “Well, first of all, I thought that was a master class. I don’t know if he wrote that or who wrote that, but that was generally good. And the fact that he one year ago wasn’t a politician, and then he delivers that in front of the basically the...

Neo-Nazi Links with Arab Palestinian Extremist OrganizationsFrançois Genoud: Financier Linking Nazi and Palestinian Militant NetworksFrançois Genoud (1915–1996) was a Swiss Nazi sympathizer, financier, and political activist who served as an important intermediary between former Nazis, European far-right networks, and Palestinian militant organizations during the Cold War. Rather than acting as a militant himself, Genoud used financial, legal, and political connections to support causes he viewed as aligned with his anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli worldview (Aarons & Loftus, 1991; Lee, 1998). Early Connections to Arab Nationalist and Pro-Nazi Networks Genoud's involvement with Arab nationalist causes predated the emergence of modern Palestinian militant...

Whenever he gets in trouble — which is pretty often — Graham Platner has a ready response: It’s the Jews! OK, he mostly just says “AIPAC,” and waves at Benjamin Netanyahu ultimately calling the shots, but he’s still making it sound like an international Jewish conspiracy. The Democratic candidate for a Maine US Senate seat has been hit by reports he has a history of abusing women, revelations that he long (and until last month) maintained an active profile on the “Kik” predator app, plus his own admissions to sexting multiple women since his 2023 wedding. All of it after...

I think it's safe to say that the shelf life on the Democrats' shameful "Believe All Women" tactic has expired, considering their near-unified reaction to the latest allegations against Graham Platner ahead of the June 9th Maine primary. Platner is the presumptive Senate nominee for the party, which was rocked by a New York Times report on Thursday, where three former girlfriends recounted what they said was a pattern of controlling, domineering, and allegedly abusive behavior. One who dated him from around 2015 to 2016 alleged a pattern of physical abuse that allegedly involved wrist-jerking, arm-twisting, confinement, shoulder-grabbing to the...

Graham Platner thought it would be smart to snap at Sen. John Fetterman, claiming the Pennsylvania Democrat’s tanking approval ratings have nothing to do with the whole hoodie-and-cargo-shorts vibe and everything to do with his support for Israel and the occasional vote that doesn’t toe the progressive line. This may well be the first time we've seen the unhinged, bigoted, sexist, Nazi deviant actually lash out at criticism on X. Granted, we imagine his handlers were ok with them going after Fetterman because he supports Israel. Platner tried so hard here. Man, we sincerely hope someone else wrote this because...

Most people don't know this, but the rise of Graham Platner wasn't remotely organic, and there is almost nothing real about his origin story or his campaign. Jim Geraghty did a superb job explaining the process by which a wealthy, mentally unstable guy who was kicked out of an exclusive private school and who bragged about how he went off to war because he wanted to kill people was transformed into a working-class everyman oyster farmer. Platner was handpicked, groomed, artificially constructed, promoted through a sophisticated public relations campaign, and elevated to superstar status. The phrase “it’s an op” –...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman ramped up criticism of embattled Senate candidate Graham Platner on Wednesday, calling out the Maine progressive over his history of inflammatory remarks while challenging him to release messages linked to a Kik account that has become a flashpoint in his campaign. “This is a guy that had a problem with me, how I dress, but he seemed to have no problem posing in a towel at a disgusting website that consistently had serious problems about that kinds of depravity,” Fetterman told Fox News host Sean Hannity. The Democrat later challenged Platner to make public messages he...

If Maine Democrats were already nervous, they should be in full panic mode now. Just days after Graham Platner sat down with Senate Democrats and told them straight to their faces that nothing new would come out about him, the New York Times dropped an investigative report that should be the end of his candidacy.The Times relied on more than two dozen sources, including six of Platner’s former romantic partners, whose stories are backed up by texts, social media messages, and diary entries. The picture that emerged was rather ugly: heavy drinking, serial infidelity, emotional abuse, and physical intimidation. Platner...

The party that spent a decade casting itself as democracy’s last line of defense has a candidate problem in Maine, and its solution is to make sure the candidate its own voters chose never reaches the November ballot. When the chips are down, these civilized people... they'll eat each other.Pulling a Biden on Platner... pic.twitter.com/0eWc0TT29d— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) May 31, 2026Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran who buried the establishment’s preferred choice by nearly thirty points, is suddenly the target of a coordinated effort to shame him out of a race he is about to win. The mechanism...

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is leading Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in the race for her seat by 7 points, according to a new poll. In the Pan Atlantic Research poll, 48 percent of likely voters said they back Platner in a hypothetical matchup, while 41 percent said they support Collins. Eleven percent were undecided. When broken down by gender, 53 percent of women respondents backed Platner and 34 percent supported Collins. Men surveyed, meanwhile, said they support Collins over Platner, with 47 percent backing the incumbent and 44 percent supporting her potential challenger. The Democratic Party establishment was...

Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, already embroiled in a row with Donald Trump over the Iran war, has said he would not advise his children to study or work in the US in the current climate. Speaking to a conference of young Catholics in Würzburg, the conservative leader, viewed by many as a transatlanticist, said he no longer saw the US as the land of opportunity. “I am a great admirer of America. At the moment my admiration is not growing,” he said during a podium discussion, citing the quickly changing “social climate” in the deeply polarised country. “I would...

The headmaster of Chicago’s tony Latin School will resign less than two weeks after it was revealed that students were rehearsing Nazi marching themes for the second year in a row. Dr. Thomas Hagerman revealed his plans to leave his job in a Jan. 14 email to the Latin School community which cited health issues as the reason for his exit. “This decision comes after a great deal of thoughtful deliberation. I have been repeatedly reminded about the importance of attending more intentionally to my health and overall sustainability,” Hagerman wrote*** The surprise resignation comes two weeks after middle schoolers...

The principles of ‌international ​law apply to ‌everyone, including the United States, German Finance Minister ​and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said on Sunday, in reference to ‍President Donald Trump's threats ​to seize Greenland. "It is solely up to Denmark and ​Greenland ⁠to decide about Greenland's future. Territorial sovereignty and integrity must be respected," Klingbeil said ahead of his departure to Washington for a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven ‌advanced economies.

House raids over speech violations are becoming commonplace across Germany, even as violent crime explodes... On Wednesday morning at 6 a.m., a large-scale police operation was launched across Germany, targeting hundreds of individuals suspected of insulting politicians or spreading “hate and incitement” online. The massive crackdown saw police launch morning raids against 170 individuals, which saw police seize computers, cell phones, and tablets, and conduct searches in multiple locations across the country. The action, which was conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), uses the new Criminal Code Paragraph 188 to target individuals accused of racism and hate speech....

At around 6 a.m. this morning, hundreds of people across Germany awoke to police officers at their door. Their only ‘crime’ is to have openly made critical or offensive comments on the internet, many about specific politicians. German police raiding right-wing Compact Magazine’s editor-in-chief’s home, Twitter This is not a scene from the Third Reich or the German Democratic Republic, but from the Federal Republic in the 21st Century. Officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) intend to make approximately 170 house visits today, to investigate ‘hateful’ or insulting comments made online. Suspects have had their tablets, laptops, and...