Democrat Running To Defeat Susan Collins Has Nazi Tattoo

Remember all the furor over Pete Hegseth’s Christian tattoos from the US media, how they said it was disqualifying? Weirdly, I’m not seeing any of that with this guy

Sanders-backed Democrat who accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ has Nazi ‘Totenkopf’ tattoo

An oyster farmer and progressive military veteran running an insurgent campaign for Maine’s Democratic Senate nomination admitted this week to having had a Nazi tattoo for nearly two decades.

Graham Platner shared a video of himself shirtless, sporting the tattoo, on a popular progressive podcast. He denied that he himself ever held Nazi views, instead claiming he had gotten the tattoo while “inebriated” as a young adult without knowing what it meant.

Since launching his campaign this summer, the 41-year-old Platner has picked up steam in left-wing circles for his populist positions, including calling Israel’s military campaign in Gaza a genocide.

The political neophyte has won endorsements from progressive leaders, including Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish. Morris Katz, the Jewish campaign strategist behind Zohran Mamdani’s digital ads for New York City mayor, made a campaign launch video for Platner.

As of Sept. 30, according to campaign finance records, Platner led his Democratic rivals in campaign donations with $3.2 million in contributions. At his rallies, the biggest applause comes when he delivers lines like “Our tax dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs that destroy schools and hospitals in Gaza.”

No calls from the NY Times or Washington Post for him to drop out, not even performative ones, because the Democrat base supports the aims of Nazis, as they’ve aligned themselves with the Islamists and Jew haters.

This week, a recent video of a shirtless Platner also surfaced in which he can be seen sporting a chest tattoo of a Totenkopf, a Nazi-era skull-and-crossbones design favored by SS officers. “Totenkopf,” or “Death’s Head,” was also the name of the division of officers who guarded the concentration camps.

He claims he got while drunk as a skunk while on leave in 2007 without knowing the meaning. And that is what he is telling the media in the US, which do not seem very interested

However, quoting an anonymous former acquaintance of his, Jewish Insider reported on Tuesday that Platner had referred to the ink as “my Totenkopf” more than a decade ago and would frequently take his shirt off at the Washington, D.C., bar where he worked at the time. “He said it in a cutesy little way,” the source said. Jewish Insider additionally reported that Platner had met with other men with Nazi links, including one neo-Nazi who is running for a seat on Bangor City Council.

Huh. He claims he is going to have it removed. You know, now that he is busted. But, will he? Will Democrats vote for him? Are we surprised by him being accepted by the Democratic Party?

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Washington Post: Hey, You Need To Stop Eating So Many Burgers

Someone seriously spent time putting this “study” together. Hopefully not with taxpayer money

Your diet’s impact on the planet depends on where you live. Look up your city.

climate cowResearchers have documented for years that eating beef, pork and chicken has a significant environmental impact, especially when it comes to heating the planet.

But it’s far from a uniform impact. What you eat, and where you eat it, can have a big effect on how much you’re contributing to climate change, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

For the first time, researchers calculated the planet-warming pollution emitted from raising the beef, pork and chicken Americans eat — their carbon “hoofprint” — for every town and city in the country.

Across the country, eating beef is the bigger contributor to harmful pollutants. But it’s not as simple as that. Its origins matter. Eating a steak or a burger in Milwaukee, where the meat comes from nearby dairy cows, generates fewer emissions than in Oklahoma City, where beef tends to come from feedlots.

Mind your own business, but, this is interesting

Can you guess the top three emitting cities in this analysis? Hint: They’re where the most mouths to feed are: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. When adjusted for emissions per capita, though, researchers found little connection between how much a town eats and its climate impact.

So, three massive Dem cities full of lots of climate cultists. Weird!

What lowers the hoofprint?
“You don’t have to cut out any single meat to have really significant shifts in your hoofprint,” Goldstein said, adding that just swapping half of the beef you eat for other protein can move the needle. The researchers modeled impacts to emissions from simple lifestyle changes that can add up to a 51 percent drop in one’s hoofprint.

“The average American eats five servings of beef a week,” Goldstein said. “So, all right, you can still have two burgers a week.” Goldstein is not a vegetarian, he said, and has a burger once in a while.

Or, you can mind your own f’ing business, and leave the rest of us alone.

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Met Police Refuse To Allow Anti-Immigration Weekend Protest

The UK is lost

Same police have no problem with anti-Jew and anti-Israel protests. Sure, they might arrest a lot of folks (who mostly are let go without charges), but, do not seem to do much about calls to kill Jews and erase Israel

(BBC) A planned demonstration by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has been banned by the Metropolitan Police from taking place in an area with a large Muslim population.

The force said the move was because the gathering, due to take place in east London on Saturday, bore a “realistic prospect of serious disorder”.

Initially advertised as a march from Whitechapel station and later revised to be an assembly in the same area, it was part of a series of events to “reclaim Whitechapel from the Islamists”, the Met said.

UKIP said the police had “caved into the Islamists and violated our democratic right to peaceful assembly in Whitechapel this Saturday”.

Public Order Act conditions mean UKIP cannot hold its protest in Whitechapel or anywhere else in the borough of Tower Hamlets.

The Elites bring in millions of people incompatible with Britain, people who demand Britain assimilate to them, who allow Sharia law and all the rest, but, if you are a British citizen and do not like what is happening to your country you are banned.

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New Japanese Prime Minister Is A Heavy Metal Drummer

Oh, and conservative

From the link

As a young woman in the late 1970s, Sanae Takaichi commuted six hours a day by bus and train from her parents’ home in western Japan to attend university. She was a fan of heavy metal music and Kawasaki motorcycles who yearned to move out. But her mother insisted at first that she stay home, forbidding her from living in a boardinghouse before marriage.

“I dreamed of having my own castle,” Ms. Takaichi wrote in a 1992 memoir.

On Tuesday, Ms. Takaichi won election as Japan’s prime minister, the first woman to do so in the nation’s history. It was the pinnacle of an improbable rise in politics and a milestone in a country where women have long struggled for influence.

Ms. Takaichi, 64, who grew up near the ancient Japanese capital of Nara, defies easy labels. She once spoke bluntly about the challenges of working in politics as a woman in Japan, yet she is now the leader of the traditionalist, male-dominated Liberal Democratic Party. She has expressed concern about Japan’s reliance on the United States, but has also said she hopes to work closely with President Trump. She is an amateur drummer who idolizes bands like Iron Maiden and Deep Purple, yet she also wears blue suits to pay homage to her other hero, the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

This is awesome. Perfect resume!

Ms. Takaichi, a protégé of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, who was assassinated in 2022, is expected to move Japan farther to the right, responding to a recent populist wave that bears some similarities to Mr. Trump’s MAGA movement. She has embraced hawkish policies on China; pushed the message that “Japan is back”; played down Japan’s atrocities during World War II; and promised to more strictly regulate immigration and tourism.

“She wants to make Japan strong and prosperous for the people of Japan and for the world,” said Yoshiko Sakurai, a prominent journalist and activist who has supported Ms. Takaichi. “She is open to the outside world. But she also understands that we have to be really good Japanese. We have to know our own culture, traditions, philosophy and history.”

Somehow, in NY Times World, this is a Bad Thing, what they paint as conservative and far right. Anyway, the article is actually very good, and shows how hard it is to be a woman in politics in Japan, and how she overcame it all.

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If All You See…

…are trees that will die because of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is MOTUS AD, with a post on protests continuing till morale improves.

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Pro-Hamas Students Sue Over Required Antisemitism Training

Usually colleges require training on how to properly use pronouns, accept males with mental illness in their locker rooms, showers, and on their spots team, bow to minorities, and all sorts of Woke stuff

Pro-Palestine students sue Northwestern University over ‘coercive’ antisemitism training

Pro-Palestine students filed a Title VI lawsuit against Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, over claims that measures to combat antisemitism, including mandatory training, are “coercive and discriminatory.”

The federal class-action lawsuit was filed on October 15 on behalf of Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine (GW4P) and two affected students, named as Ifeayin Eziamaka Ogbuli (a second year doctoral student) and Marwa Tahboub (a fifth-year doctoral candidate).

The lawsuit alleges that the university has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1866 “under the pretense of combating antisemitism.”

The suit lists several examples of measures taken against pro-Palestinian activism by the university which it considers to be oppressive.

The first is the use of campus police to “attack” student participants of a pro-Palestine encampment set up in April 2024. Northwestern University Police Department (NUPD) was instructed to crackdown on the protesters. Northwestern faculty and staff members intervened to protect the student encampment by linking arms around it. According to the suit, “the NUPD responded to the faculty and staff with excessive and unreasonable force and by filing criminal complaints against four of them.”

So, the Islamic extremists are upset over not being allowed to call for killing Jews and erasing Israel from the map? Not allowed to bully Jewish students?

The second example is the university’s alleged “yielding” to “unconstitutional governmental pressure to repress student speech.” This refers to a May 2023 decision by the House of Representatives to investigate Northwestern’s antisemitism, which in turn led Northwestern President Michael Schill to testify that the encampment was “antisemitic” and “pro-terror.”

Following the investigation, and the testimony of Schill, the university enacted policies to combat antisemitism, which the suit refers to as “policies to restrict students from expressions of national origin.”

They’re admitting that they hate Jews because of where the students filing the suit are from, and should be deported back to the Islamic nations. Would it be acceptable if there was a student group professing hatred of Blacks? Or, would the majority of students bully them off campus?

The suit adds that the “conceptualization of the Jewish right to self-determination is discriminatory.” The discussion of the antisemitism module of the mandatory training takes up five pages of the lawsuit, over five times more than any other of the stated examples of Title VI violations.

How about we deport these people? They have no place in a civilized nation.

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Your Fault: Climate Doom Made LA Wildfires Worse

Obviously, it had nothing to do with poor brush management, a failure to make sure water to fight the fires was available, poor communication, poor staffing, lack of pre-positioning, and more

Warming Made L.A. Wildfires 25 Times Larger

Warming made the devastating L.A. wildfires earlier this year twice as likely and 25 times larger, according to a new report on global wildfires.

“Climate change is not only creating more dangerous fire-prone weather conditions, but it is also influencing the rates at which vegetation grows and provides fuel for the fires to spread,” said coauthor Francesca Di Giuseppe of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. In L.A., uncommonly heavy rainfall drove the growth of shrubs, which turned to tinder when the region was hit by an exceptional drought.

The latest State of Wildfires report, which is undertaken yearly by an international team of experts, finds the worsening heat and drought also fueled record fires in the Congo and the Amazon. In the Pantanal-Chiquitano region of South America, fires last summer were 35 times larger as a result of warming.

Also

Arsonists make wildfires worse.

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FAFO: Wackjob Judge Rules ICE Agents Can Be Arrested In Chicago Area Courthouse

I seriously hope any local, county, or state law enforcement officer has read federal code

lest they find themselves being arrested. This judge is giving you Really Bad Advice

Chicago-Area Judge Rules ICE Agents Can Be Arrested at Courthouses

A Chicago-area judge has ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers can be arrested at Cook County courthouses if they violate his orders and arrest a migrant without a warrant.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered that ICE officers are barred from arresting migrants at courthouses if they don’t have a warrant. He also ordered that federal law enforcement can be arrested if they violate his orders.

The judge’s order aimed to prevent what are called “collateral arrests” of people whom ICE officers discover are illegal on the spot. These are migrants that ICE agents come across by happenstance while looking for someone they have a warrant to apprehend.

Cummings stated that courthouses must be places where witnesses and suspects feel safe.

These judges are just making it up as they go along, and, this ruling, like what, 90%? of judges TDS rulings are overturned. ICE has never needed a warrant before, at least when Biden and Obama were in office and arresting illegals in the safe area of courthouses, where most criminal illegals are disarmed.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it intends to “comply with all lawful court orders and is addressing this matter with the court.”

However, DHS also defended its practice of taking “collateral” migrants into custody whenever they find them.

“We aren’t some medieval kingdom; there are no legal sanctuaries where you can hide and avoid the consequences for breaking the law,” DHS said in a statement, according to WBBM-TV. “Nothing in the Constitution prohibits arresting a lawbreaker where you find them.”

DHS should declare the neighborhood where the judge lives as a safe space for illegals, see how he likes it. Anyhow, King Donald and his court go and…..follow “every outrageous injunction issued by hubristic district court judges to stymie his agenda” and appeal, right up till a higher judge goes “yeah, you’re right, the lower court judge is an idiot.”

Trump Wins Again: 9th Circuit Says He Can Send National Guard to Portland

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that President Donald Trump has the authority to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, reversing a decision by a district judge earlier this month.

It was the second time the Ninth Circuit — despite its reputation as a liberal bastion — overruled lower courts and allowed Trump to exercise his constitutional powers as commander-in-chief; the first case was California.

See?

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Raleigh Exhibit Shows How David Thoreau Mapped ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

There’s something seriously missing from this “we’re all doomed piece”

Raleigh Exhibition Shows How Thoreau Helped Map Climate Change

Henry David Thoreau was big on taking walks—or “sauntering,” the word he once used in a lecture on the subject. In that lecture, the writer and philosopher asserted that he couldn’t feel well unless he sauntered for at least four hours a day.

It was on those long walks around Concord, Massachusetts, that Thoreau collected hundreds of botanical specimens, which he then brought home to press, scribbling down notes about where and when each plant was collected. Now, 648 of those preserved specimens are housed and digitized in the Harvard University Herbaria.

But while those specimens from Concord made it to this century in preserved form, many of the actual plants didn’t survive: an estimated 30 percent of the species from Thoreau’s records have gone “locally extinct,” according to the museum, with another 35 percent “close to the same fate.”

In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss, currently on view at NC State University’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design, draws on that digitized collection in a small but expansive-feeling exhibit that contends with the loss of biodiversity. Originally mounted at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the exhibit represents the joint scholarship of Marsha Gordon, Robin Vuchnich, Leah Sobsey, and Emily Meineke, an effort that marries science, art, and the humanities. This iteration of the exhibit, which expands on the original by tying in North Carolina flora and fauna, opened in September and runs through January 31, 2026.

Here’s the thing: times change. Thoreau lived from 1817-1862, so, born in the midst of a Holocene cool period, died as a typical Holocene warm period was starting. Things change.

The story spends a lot of time on the exhibition, interesting to read. Then

Is it depressing to see renderings of species we’ve driven out with deforestation, pollution, pesticide use, and a hundred other facets of modern life? Absolutely. Global insect populations are in a free fall, with a 2019 study determining that 40 percent of insect species are in decline, with the rate of species decline topping out at 2.5 percent a year.

Now, that is real. Mankind have an ecological effect through the aforementioned issues. We can do better, and we do do better now. Not so good hundreds of years ago.

“This came together from four friends, really,” Gordon says. “We were trying to think through something we could do around questions of climate change and the environment—thinking about it in a way that is realistic about what is happening in our country and all over the world, but also not to be so doom and gloom that people shut off.”

So, they took Thoreau’s stuff and put their own little cult spin on it

Thanks to Thoreau and other area naturalists, the ecosystem of Concord—which author Henry James once called “the biggest little place in America,” due to its historical import—has been documented across centuries. That record formed a portrait of the biological impacts of climate change. In Walden Warming, the botanist Richard Primack observes that Thoreau’s archives helped scientists determine that local plants were now flowering weeks earlier than they were 160 years ago.

1860 was right near the start of the warming, so, yeah. And, perhaps if we did better environmentally and didn’t waste time on cult stuff we could do more.

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If All You See…

…are Evil fossil fueled cars, you might just be a Warmist, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gatestone Institute, with a post on the world since on Hamas executing people.

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