In an online café just the other side of the border, she was a-sitting there a-givin’ me tabs that made my mouth water …
💥NEW: CNN’s Michael Smerconish *SLAMS* Graham Platner over Nazi tattoo💥
“He didn’t cover it until October of 2025 — 18 years after getting it — and only when it became a political problem.”
“Think about that for a moment. 18 years of getting out of the shower, 18 years of… pic.twitter.com/lc1WQVKcmM
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) May 30, 2026
“Think about that for a moment. 18 years of getting out of the shower, 18 years of looking into the mirror — and seeing the Totenkopf.”
“That’s not a drunken mistake in Croatia — that’s a daily choice sustained for nearly two decades.”
Ed: Interesting to see this common-sense lecture on CNN. Smerconish hits the nail on the head. The fact that Platner got the Totenkopf tattoo in Croatia makes it even more significant, since the Croats collaborated with the Nazis in WWII. The Ustaše regime took part in the Holocaust as well, partnering with the SS, which used the Totemkopf as its symbol, opening several concentration camps for Jews (and Roma and Serbs). There is no way that Platner could have missed the symbology of the tattoo he got, and then wore for 18 years before deciding to enter politics.
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WSJ: Days after Graham Platner announced his Maine Senate bid, his wife informed the campaign about a potential political problem she had previously discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone: sexually explicit texts with several women, according to people familiar with the matter.
Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2024, told the campaign about messages she had found early in their marriage in the spring of 2025. In late August, as some aides were conducting opposition research on their own candidate, Gertner disclosed the texts to a campaign aide to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s nascent campaign, those people said. The campaign had been preparing for a major rally over Labor Day weekend last year with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was set to officially endorse Platner at the event. …
Platner has recently faced disclosures about controversial posts from his now deleted Reddit account. They have included comments from his account downplaying sexual assault and crude posts about sex workers and masturbation. Platner has already admitted to having covered up a Nazi-linked tattoo.
Ed: Does Platner also have a #MeToo problem? Or is this just a Bill Clinton-ish problem? Either way, it’s a problem, and it’s coming to light at a bad time for Team Platner. John has more on this, but also, be wary about some supposed quotes from these messages that are floating around on X/Twitter. I’ve seen them set up as screenshots from the WSJ article, but the article doesn’t contain the quotes. They appear to be made up, and the Nazi references in them are just a little too convenient.
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So Graham Platner had a Nazi chest tattoo for 20 years, rooted for military members to get killed, lied about being poor — he went to a rich boarding school and he was ending nudes to multiple women and his wife caught him and told the campaign per @wsj. https://t.co/FUunZzlTGZ
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 30, 2026
Ed: He’s certainly hitting a lot of different check boxes. Is it too late for Dems to get Janet Mills to restart her campaign?
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Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics: Yet Becerra has been far more reticent about how he would treat illegal immigrants with serious criminal records. The question is a pressing one for all California Democrats after Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, wife of state Attorney General Rob Bonta, sponsored a bill that would require the state to pay for an attorney for every illegal immigrant. She has declined to say whether the bill would bar people with violent felony convictions from accessing taxpayer-funded legal aid to fight deportation.
A recent investigation by the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal found that California Democrats have steered at least $1 billion in taxpayer-funded grants and contracts to more than 80 nonprofits that provide myriad services to illegal immigrants during Gavin Newsom’s time as governor.
Some of those funds underwrite basics: food, clothing, water, and shelter for migrants crossing from Mexico. But a substantial portion – at least $100 million – went to legal aid organizations whose explicit purpose is to keep undocumented immigrants, whatever their criminal history, from being deported.
Many of those organizations operate under what they call a “merits-blind” policy. They do not screen clients by the severity of their crimes. They take the cases California law says should result in deportation – serious felonies, violent offenses – and they litigate them anyway. The work unfolds largely out of public view, shielded by a state law that bars courts from disclosing a defendant’s immigration status without judicial permission.
Ed: That may or may not be a popular position in California. Becerra now appears to be the frontrunner among Dems vying for the gubernatorial election in November, so this may be a problem for him if it’s not as popular with voters as it is with the progressive establishment. It may also explain why California has shifted to net-negative population growth for the first time in a century.
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This ain’t normal, especially in Texas. Abortion clinics in Federal buildings in Texas, staffed by abortion doctors on the Federal payroll. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/jvYUfauM9a
— ATX_ACE (@ace_mrm) May 30, 2026
Ed: I’d bet this would be popular among California Dems too. However, Texans will see this as a betrayal of its state legislature, as I noted in March. Texans won’t cotton to a state legislator who begged Biden to override the state ban on abortion via an exercise of federal power, but somehow doesn’t see immigration enforcement as legitimate. “Talarico is a disloyal extremist who will not hesitate to sell out Texas again if elected to the US Senate,” I concluded at that time. “That should be in every GOP ad this year, even during the Cornyn-Paxton runoff, to remind Texas voters what is at stake in November.”
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The Babylon Bee: Senatorial candidate James Talarico is taking the world by storm thanks to his no-nonsense approach to compromising on Christianity. Now, with the new James Talarico Bible translation, you can wield the Word of God with just as much inaccuracy.
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Genesis 18:20 — “And then God covered Sodom and Gomorrah with CONFETTI. Woo, everyone, let’s party and doeth gay stuff!”
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Proverbs 3:5 — “Trust in yourself with all your heart and lean on your own understanding.”
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Exodus 20:13 — “Killing is bad, unless it’s a baby. No one said anything about babies.”
Ed: Isn’t this the same as the Unitarian translation?
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Gov. Josh Shapiro said he can’t recall the last time he saw Fetterman at an event in Pennsylvania, sidestepping questions about whether the senator could complicate Dems’ plans in 2028.
“I haven’t seen him, and I’m at most things,” he told @jmart.
🔗 https://t.co/8DVIBk6uTV pic.twitter.com/hw24Lm2slC
— POLITICO (@politico) May 30, 2026
Ed: As I quipped on Xwitter, maybe Fetterman’s in Washington working at his current job. Shouldn’t Shapiro be doing the same thing? Fetterman’s not prepping a presidential run either, plus nearly all of Pennsylvania’s Democrats are running under the DSA/Squad banner these days. Maybe Fetterman might show up to a few more Democrat events if they went back to being Democrats.
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NY/CA Post: A bombshell California Post poll conducted with McLaughlin & Associates shows the reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate has surged to a statistical tie with the incumbent mayor.
And voters blame homelessness, affordability and the direction of Los Angeles as the reason for turning on Bass.
Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week’s primary.
Socialist councilwoman Nithya Raman sits in third place at 23.4%.
Ed: It’s still daunting odds for Pratt, since Raman’s share here would almost certainly go to Bass in a runoff. But this is the first solid indicator that Pratt can compete in the primary and gain a place on the November ballot. And five months of general-election campaigning might convince even the liberal Angelenos to try a change of direction for the next four years, especially if Bass is the runoff opponent.
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.@latimes endorsed Bass over Rick Caruso four years ago in large measure because “Caruso doesn’t have a climate plan.”
This is morbidly funny if you consider that the worst conflagration in the city’s history, caused by her incompetence, released 1.5 million tons of carbon. https://t.co/QNIcaAQejm
— Joel Engel (@joelengel) May 29, 2026
Ed: What role would a mayor have in climate-change policy? Maybe it’s not zero, but it’s not going to be significant. That kind of regulation would come from the state government, especially its overly powerful environmental regulatory boards, which right now are big reasons why Pratt and others can’t rebuild their burnt-out homes. Kimmel keeps on demonstrating his ignorance in the meantime.
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ABC News: Pratt said he would work with anyone, including a new governor and president, “who wants to make L.A. the No. 1 city in the world.”
Asked if he would work with ICE in his role of mayor, Pratt said the mayor would not be able to due to California’s sanctuary law status, adding, “I’m going to make the streets so safe the federal government is not going to need to come to L.A., because they’re going to be like ‘Wow this mayor has these streets safe and clean.'”
He listed the CDC and DEA as federal agencies he would work with to achieve his goal, adding, “I want all communities to feel safe in Los Angeles. I am the mayor that’s gonna be the safety mayor.”
Ed: Bass, Raman, and the media are going to underestimate the power of that message. Bass and Raman (as a council member) have had their chance to make Los Angeles safe, and it has only gotten worse under their control. Safety matters a lot more to voters than gauzy concepts like “climate change.” The latter is a luxury policy; safety is a core policy for the government, and Bass keeps failing at it.
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As a liberal who was unpersoned during peak woke for dissenting from the orthodoxy on things like cultural appropriation, my measured opinion is that the people who perpetuated that culture simply should never have power again; they clearly can’t be trusted with it https://t.co/qJtSk9mvpv
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) May 30, 2026
Ed: I say nuke it from space … it’s the only way to be sure.
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The College Fix: Someone complained that either a graduate student or a professor used biologically correct language when referring to women, according to a bias report obtained by The College Fix.
Among the more than 100 Bias Response and Referral Network reports filed between July 2024 and March 2026, were three that addressed the same controversy.
A graduate student reported someone for complaining about “having to change grant proposal language from ‘mothers’ to ‘lactating individuals,’” according to the October 2025 report. The spreadsheet only labels the alleged offender as a “respondent.”
Ed: Not “neighbors with previously occupied uteruses”? Apparently, one has to be very stupid these days to attend or work at the University of Minnesota. This is why Academia needs to be fully defunded and forced to live on its own value … or lack thereof.
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Because, unlike Dart, he would kick their ass.
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) May 30, 2026
Ed: Fact check … true.
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Last night’s lyric: “He’ll Have to Go” by Jim Reeves.
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