Grok reveals more on Graham Platner

I asked Grok, "Did Graham Platner work for Blackwater?" And after 4 whole seconds I received this response: 

Yes, Graham Platner worked for a successor company to Blackwater (now known as Constellis), though he has publicly stated that he "never worked for Blackwater." 

His role: Platner worked as a State Department security contractor (e.g., protecting an ambassador or similar duties) in Afghanistan for about six months around 2018, after his U.S. military service (Marines and Army National Guard, with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan).

Company connection: He was employed by Constellis Holdings, the parent company that absorbed Blackwater (rebranded as Xe Services in 2009 and later merged into Constellis). Blackwater/Constellis provided private security and other services for the U.S. government.

Platner's response: He has denied direct employment with the original Blackwater, calling out the association as inaccurate or a technicality. Critics argue this is splitting hairs since Constellis is the direct successor with the same core business and legacy. ContextThis has become a point of controversy in his 2026 U.S. Senate campaign in Maine (as a Democrat challenging Susan Collins). Opponents and some progressives have highlighted it alongside his veteran background, past social media posts, and a tattoo he later covered up. Supporters note it was short-term government-contracted work and that he became disillusioned with U.S. involvement abroad afterward. Sources include news outlets like Politico, Central Maine, and public discussions on the topic. Wikipedia and his campaign materials focus more on his oyster farming and Marine Corps service but don't contradict the contractor stint.

So Platner said he didn't work for Blackwater and he is technically correct because the company was swallowed up by Constellis. And this is how he gets away with his lie.

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Platner Kept a Profile on a Messaging App That Has Been a Playground for Predators for Years

If there is one thing that Graham Platner's Senate campaign has taught us, it's that every time people think they've hit the bottom of the opposition research barrel, the bottom is deeper still.

Over the course of this campaign, Mainers have learned about Platner's public restroom chicken-choking self-gratification habits, his phone-sex adventures on a network that was compromised by the Taliban, and his apparent emotional investment in a Thailand prostitution tax loophole. Most candidates spend campaign season talking about jobs, inflation, and national security. Platner has spent it providing material that sounds like it was rejected by the writers of a dark cable comedy.

Now comes another revelation.

According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, Platner maintained an account on Kik, the anonymous messaging platform that has spent years battling a reputation as a haven for sexual predators and child exploitation.

The account, operating under the username phustle0331, remains active. The profile picture is a mirror selfie featuring an individual who appears to be wearing nothing more than a bath towel. The tattoos visible in the image reportedly match tattoos Platner displayed during an interview with a local ABC affiliate last October. The username also matches a private Instagram account linked to Platner, as well as the Reddit account that has already generated plenty of unwanted headlines for his campaign.

Platner later acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that the account was his.

The account was created on June 26, 2016. By that point, Kik's reputation wasn't exactly a mystery. The platform had already become notorious for attracting predators looking to exploit children. That same year, a major sting operation led to the arrest of more than 2,600 predators. Concerns about the app became so widespread that the New York Times published an exposé detailing the dangers it posed to minors.

The issue has been especially relevant in Maine, the state Platner hopes to represent in the Senate.

Just last year, one Maine man received a sentence of 30 to 60 years for producing videos depicting the sexual abuse of children for users on the platform. Another case that surfaced in September involved a man who allegedly attended children's sporting events to obtain photographs that he later transformed into sexualized images using artificial intelligence.

Platner's Nazi tattoo

Experts estimate that roughly 70 percent of Kik users are between the ages of 13 and 24. Although the company has updated its rules to prohibit minors from using the app, there is no meaningful age-verification system in place to ensure users are actually adults. As a result, critics continue to describe the platform as a "Predator's Paradise."

Platner's campaign has insisted that he deleted the app from his phone, but apparently neglected to deactivate the account itself. They were apparently more concerned with him being embarrassed if the app was still there, than the idea that he is still on the platform. 

With the primary election only days away, Platner remains the favorite to secure the Democratic nomination, because, of course he is. If he does get the nomination, he is expected to face incumbent [RINO] Republican Senator Susan Collins in November in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.

At this point, every new revelation about Platner feels less like opposition research and more like another installment in a series that nobody asked for, but everyone is reading anyway. He is disgusting, but he's Democrat disgusting and for that Party, it's okay.

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Platner's campaign in trouble: if you thought the Nazi tattoo was bad, check this out

Graham Platner, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Maine who’s come under fire for a Nazi tattoo and apparently masturbating in port-a-potties sent sexually explicit texts to other women while he was married, the Wall Street Journal reported. And let us not forget his brutal comments about a U.S. soldier getting wounded and how he said he should have been killed instead.

But it gets worse.

Platner’s wife informed his campaign about the problem days after he announced he was running, the paper reported.

Platner and Amy Gertner got married in 2024. Within a year of marriage, she found sexually explicit text messages from several women in the spring of 2025, the Journal reported.

On May 30 this year, the Wall Street Journal detailed how his wife discovered those sexually explicit texts he exchanged with other women in 2025, quite early in their marriage. She flagged this to a trusted campaign aide last August, ahead of the comrade Bernie Sanders rally, as she was worried it might have a negative political impact upon decent people who find that kind of behavior repugnant and immoral. [Not that it seemed to be a serious enough problem for her to leave the pig.]

Anyway, the campaign saw it as a private marital issue that should be handled through counseling, and they went ahead with the events. Gertner later said they worked through it and came out of it with a stronger marriage.

Some social media and local reports also reference pre-campaign complaints from Maine women about Platner on dating apps (e.g., Tinder interactions followed by ghosting).

Platner has not publicly detailed any of these situations. Not the crude discussions of prostitution overseas and his defense of married men who have sex with prostitutes.

But despite the immorally bankrupt behavior of Platner and the many who don't see his scumbaggery as an issue, he leads Susan Collins in the polls.

Back in 2019, he made comments about avoiding taxes by "banging hookers in Thailand" instead of dealing with a wife at home.

What is happening to our country? 

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Obama appointed judge fired over sex scandal

FOX Business contributor Katrina Campins broke down the mess of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's personal relationship with Nathan Wade on Jesse Watters Primetime.U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon dropped a motion on Friday to get Atlanta U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross tossed from a major election integrity case. Why? Because Ross admitted she went to a partisan Democrat fundraiser for Fani Willis, which is flat out illegal and screams she is anything but impartial.

But that is just the warm up for Ross's greatest hits album of judicial disgrace. 

Turns out that Ross, who is married, has been carrying on for years banging Atlanta deputy police chief Kelley Collier right there in her chambers during work hours. Staff overheard the sexual noises. When she got caught, she lied about it and then retaliated against the people who reported her.

This is textbook workplace sexual misconduct, lying, and obstruction of justice, folks. 

And what did the federal judiciary do about it? Gave her a freaking private reprimand. Yes, a private reprimand. That is the judicial equivalent of a participation trophy for being a sleazy embarassment. Ross should resign immediately or get impeached by Congress. She should also face federal criminal charges for lying to investigators.

The Atlanta Police Department has tons of cases in front of Ross's court. 

Collier, her regular courthouse hookup, is a nearly thirty year veteran who runs the Community Services Division and, oh yeah, he is also married. 

The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council actually said it was only by pure happenstance that Ross never got assigned any cases from that division while she was banging the deputy chief. Relying on luck to avoid a screaming conflict of interest does not make you ethical. It makes you lucky and gross. Nothing indicates she would have ended the affair if a case had landed on her desk. 

Ross is  married to DeKalb County Circuit Judge Brian Ross. I wonder how he's taking it.

This went on right under the noses of her law clerks, young lawyers who were supposed to look up to her as a role model as opposed to a "Fans Only" woman. One former clerk had to blow the whistle to disciplinary authorities. She turned her fancy judicial chambers into a cheap love shack for several years, from 2023 until 2025. 

When staff pushed back on her illegal behavior, she cursed them out. Retaliating against whistleblowers has zero place in the federal judiciary.

Ross, an Obama appointee, also showed up at the victory party for Fani Willis, the same legal train wreck who brought that ridiculous, politically motivated indictment against President Trump and nearly twenty other defendants in 2023. Courts eventually booted Willis after it came out she was sleeping with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. 

Judges are not supposed to attend these partisan Democrat love clusterfracks. Ethical canons exist for a reason.

Ross showed zero integrity when Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor confronted her. She flat out denied everything and called the allegations outrageous. She knew she was lying through her teeth. If a lawyer pulled that stunt in court, they would be disbarred and possibly prosecuted for contempt. But the Judicial Council went soft on Ross, kept the reprimand private, and refused to name her. That lack of transparency is garbage. The public has every right to know which judge is abusing her office, lying about it, retaliating, and trying to cover it up. 

She is a caught liar with no business on the federal bench. This fiasco is exactly why Congress needs to pass Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley's bill for an independent inspector general over the federal judiciary. These judges cannot police themselves, and for one in particular, don't even mention the word 'police,' it gets her all steamy hot.

Her eventual confession changes nothing. 

The council made her skip being chief judge of the Northern District and say sorry to the staff she screwed over. Big whoop. These are pathetic slaps on the wrist. As it stands, Ross keeps collecting that sweet lifetime federal paycheck and benefits. Other judges with half a spine have resigned over less. She should do the same. The Justice Department needs to prosecute her, and the House should impeach her.

Funny how Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff has been completely MIA on this. 

Ross sits on the bench in his home state. Her antics have humiliated the Northern District of Georgia, the whole state, and the federal judiciary. Ossoff, a full-blown coward, has not called for her resignation, has not demanded transparency, and has not said a single public word about why they shielded her from accountability. That silence is deliberate, and Georgians should remember it come election time. 

Ross is a complete disgrace to the judiciary. She should slink away with whatever dignity she has left and be replaced by someone who understands that judicial chambers are not a Motel 6 for afternoon delights that the whole staff has to hear. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ossoff ought to be leading the charge instead of playing hide and seek, should demand answers on why her name stayed secret. Most important, the Justice Department needs to open a criminal investigation into the false statements she made to Pryor and her obstruction of justice. The judiciary and the country deserve way better than Eleanor Ross.

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California Shocked To Learn Mississippi And Texas Didn't Read Their Own Stereotypes

SACRAMENTO, CA — California officials were reportedly stunned Friday after comedian Bill Maher revealed that two states routinely portrayed by coastal elites as giant truck stops with livestock are somehow beating California at the very things California never stops bragging about.

Appearing on Real Time, Maher delivered what witnesses described as "an unauthorized performance review" of California's governing class.

"Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment," Maher said. "And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states."

The remarks sent thousands of California bureaucrats scrambling to verify whether Mississippi still existed before being informed that it does, and that its students can apparently read.

Maher highlighted education results showing Mississippi outperforming California, causing several education consultants earning six-figure salaries to immediately schedule emergency meetings to discuss the importance of not measuring educational outcomes.

"Did you know that a Black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California?" Maher said. "Mississippi is kicking our ass in education and for way less money. We’re 37th in fourth-grade reading. They’re ninth."

California officials responded by announcing a new task force to investigate whether reading scores are racist. 

The situation became even more uncomfortable when Maher turned to renewable energy, one of California's favorite topics after reminding everyone how much they care about renewable energy.

"Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes to wind and energy storage," Maher said. "How does a state with no pro-climate policies produce better climate results than a state where here, even though we have so much better bumper stickers on our Priuses?"

Experts say Texas achieved the feat by committing the radical act of allowing things to be built.

"I’ll tell you why," Maher said. "Because you’re allowed to build there. Because every third person in Texas isn’t someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done."

The comment reportedly caused widespread panic among California permit reviewers, environmental impact consultants, deputy assistant regulators, associate compliance officers, and members of the State Commission for Reviewing Applications to Review Applications.

Maher later pointed to the political machine he believes is slowing the state down.

"That would be the unions, the bureaucrats, the lawyers, the consultants, the regulators and all the special interest friends who make living in this state such a frustrating, maddening experience," Maher said. "It’s why the railroads don’t get built, the potholes don’t get filled, the homeless don’t get housed, the kids don’t learn."

State officials rejected the criticism and announced plans to spend another $4 billion studying why projects never get completed.

Maher also took aim at Republican lawmakers suddenly discovering concerns about President Trump after deciding not to seek reelection.

"Recently, the press has gotten very excited about some Republican senators who've had just about enough of Trump's shenanigans. Yeah, ‘cuz they're retiring."

He later referenced Sen. Mitch McConnell's occasional criticisms of Trump, adding, "I just wish he talked that way when he was alive."

At press time, California had unveiled a new $12 million awareness campaign reminding residents that while Mississippi may have better reading scores and Texas may generate more renewable energy, neither state has nearly as many lawn signs informing neighbors of the correct opinions to hold.

And tons more LGBTQ+QRST#$* flags than ole Miss.

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Texas Democrat Who Called to Imprison ‘Zionist Jews’ Loses House Runoff by Nearly 30 Points

There was a time, not even that long ago, when anti-Semitism was the one form of bigotry that united both parties in absolute condemnation. No serious candidate would dare peddle conspiracy theories about Jewish control of banks, media, or government. That was a given. Apparently, it is not anymore.

Something ugly has taken root on the progressive left. What began as campus “anti-Zionism” in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre has crept into mainstream Democratic politics, wearing the language of activism like a disguise. Yet this week in Texas, voters delivered a verdict that should give every American a small but meaningful reason for hope. 

Sometimes the system actually works.

Texas Democratic congressional candidate Johnny Garcia defeated the far-left activist Maureen Galindo in Tuesday night’s runoff election for the state’s 35th Congressional District, thereby ending a campaign marked by her repeated anti-Semitic social media posts. Galindo lost to Garcia by nearly 30 points.

Garcia, a former hostage negotiator and public information officer for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, had faced mounting attacks from Galindo throughout the campaign. These included accusations that he supported putting “Jews and Mexicans in warehouses” because of his support for immigration enforcement. Galindo, by contrast, seemed rather more taken with the idea of putting Jews in warehouses.

Good riddance.

Maureen Galindo did not merely lose an election on Tuesday night. She was annihilated, decisively, publicly, and by members of her own party. Every single point of that 30-point demolition was earned.

The things she actually said:

Let us not sanitize this. Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist, proposed on Instagram turning an ICE detention center into “a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” That alone would have been vile enough. But she kept going.

It would also serve as “a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,” she wrote. Read that again. A candidate for the United States Congress wrote that and still there are a boat load of secular Jews who, for some inexplicable reason, vote Democratic religiously.

On Texas Public Radio, she declared that “Zionist Jews own our media, our banks, and all of our politicians,” classic antisemitic tropes, lifted straight out of a 1930s propaganda pamphlet. But do not worry, she assured everyone she was not anti-Semitic. “I’m against Zionist Jews,” she clarified. As if that distinction could fool anyone.

She peddled conspiracy theories linking Israel to Jeffrey Epstein. She claimed Israel controlled ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. She called Zionists “genocidal European colonizer freaks” and said they were not “real Jews.”

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Texas Dem Senate Candidate James Talarico Proudly Rebrands As "Talafreako," Launches Official Freak Merch Line

AUSTIN, TX—In a bold strategic masterstroke that political experts are calling "the most normal thing a Democrat has done all week," Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico has fully embraced his new nickname "Talafreako," graciously bestowed upon him by Republican opponent Ken Paxton.

Why did Paxton do so? Because Talarico freaking is.

The progressive leftist is now selling "I'm a Talafreako" T-shirts on his campaign website, proving once and for all that nothing says "serious Senate contender" like turning an insult into your entire brand identity, and while one can claim to be a socialist, it's capitalism that paved the way.

While speaking at a general election kickoff event in Houston this week, Talarico encouraged supporters to purchase a T-shirt, saying, "I also saw that Ken Paxton started calling me ‘Talafreako,’ and I am proud to announce that we have ‘I'm a Talafreako’ T-shirts on our website. So, when you go home tonight, make sure you grab one." 

After Talarico exited the stage, the crowd at the Houston rally began chanting "Talafreako" repeatedly, in what observers described as either unbridled enthusiasm or the auditory equivalent of a cry for help.

Despite the bravado, some believe that, with Talarico already having to deal with a series of highly controversial resurfaced comments, the move will backfire with moderate Texas voters. Talarico’s prior comments include saying that "God is nonbinary," that there are six genders and that the Bible supports abortion.

He offered no examples, no proof of his blasphemous and biological claims. For example, he said in 2021 during a Texas House debate on a bill restricting transgender athletes, that there are six biological sexes. “Modern science recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes — in fact, there are six.” This cretin was referring to chromosomal variations (e.g., XX, XY, XXY, XYY, XXX, XYY). Critics called it unscientific or an overreach to argue sex is a spectrum; he has since clarified there are two sexes (men and women) while noting rare chromosomal conditions deserve dignity.

In 2021 he said "God is nonbinary." In the same or related transgender policy debate, he stated: “God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.” He later explained it as intentionally provocative to mean God transcends human categories, citing Galatians (“in Christ there is neither male nor female”). 

Republicans and critics viewed it as insulting to Christianity or Jesus and even to God the Father.

In 2020 our genius lefty claimed that racism is a "virus." After Ahmaud Arbery’s killing. He posted on X equating racism to a virus and wrote: “White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.” 

He called for diagnosing it within ourselves and supporting #BlackLivesMatter. 

When restrictions on transgender participation was proposed regarding men in women's sports, this idiot called parental concerns a "far-right conspiracy."

He criticized Christian nationalism, and supported progressive policies on abortion and immigration.

A strategist familiar with the Senate race remarked to Fox News Digital that "Talarico can’t run from his record of supporting every freaky left-wing policy under the sun."

"Selling merch that says ‘Talafreako’ on it is just going to remind people that he is on the wrong side of every 80/20 issue," the strategist said, adding, "It’s so weird."

The thing is, the dude really is a freak and if Texas votes him in, they will learn their mistake the hard way.

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Conservatives erupt after DNC attacks top White House Official with vulgarity in personal attack

The official Democratic National Committee X account decided Wednesday afternoon that the best way to win back the normies was to channel their inner unhinged TikTok teenager. They dropped this gem in response to Stephen Miller needling a Democratic Senate candidate in Texas:

"Shut up, you ugly f--k" @TheDemocrats wrote. 

How mature. The kind of sophisticated discourse that makes you wonder if the DNC's social media intern is still grounded for talking back to Mom.

For context, Miller had been having a grand old time on The Will Cain Show pointing out that Democrats in Texas had just made history by nominating their first transgender Senate candidate, or at least that's what it looked like based on the visuals. 

Miller's crime? Mocking the absurdity. The DNC's response? Immediate nuclear-level personal insult, because policy debates are for chumps. But the truth is, when you're personally attacked with name-calling, you won the fight.

Katie Miller, who clearly doesn't get paid enough to deal with this circus, didn't miss a beat. She went full scorched earth on the account's operator: "Paulina Mangubat is who runs the Democrats’ account. She’s 30, unmarried with no kids. Put your name on it next time," Miller said. "This is what a sad, unhappy female liberal looks like. It’s why Pew reports 50% of them have been diagnosed with a mental condition."

Wow, that's a full psychological profile with receipts. Somewhere in a D.C. apartment filled with empty wine bottles and therapy workbooks, Paulina is refreshing her mentions and wondering where it all went wrong.

This is the party that spent years lecturing America about civility, unity and healing. The party that cried when Trump was ‘mean’ on Twitter. This is who they really are. And they wonder why they keep losing," Benny Johnson said.

"The official Democratic Party," the Libs of TikTok wrote in its own post, highlighting the spat."I'm sure this will get the votes you need," conservative radio host Dana Loesch posted on X."Hilarious these are the same people that complain about Trump being mean," conservative influencer Caleb Hull posted on X.

"This is where the median Democratic staffer's comms instincts are," Manhattan Institute VP Jesse Arm posted on X.

The greatest hits just kept coming. It's like the entire conservative internet showed up with popcorn to watch the Democrats live-tweet their nervous breakdown.

The target of the original Miller needle, James Talarico's campaign, responded by diagnosing everyone with "Talarico Derangement Syndrome." Cute. Almost as original as their entire platform.

Even some Democrats couldn't stomach the slop. Lifelong Dem strategist Jack Appleby clutched his pearls harder than a vegan at a steakhouse:

"As a lifelong Dem who’s donated free consulting to House Dem staffers, I find this so, so embarrassing for us. We complain about the right’s behavior, and now we’re doing stuff like this? Come on, Democrats. Do better."

Bless his heart. Someone get Jack a safe space and a participation trophy before the rest of the party excommunicates him for noticing.

This isn't an isolated brain fart—it's the new DNC brand strategy. Gov. Gavin Newsom's rapid response account has been telling critics to "f--- off" with the frequency of a sailor on shore leave. Apparently "aggressive and edgy" is what the kids are calling "completely unhinged and politically suicidal" these days.

The party that once clutched pearls over mean tweets has now devolved into the political equivalent of a drunk aunt screaming at the Thanksgiving table. And they're somehow shocked that normal Americans keep looking at this mess and saying, "Yeah, we're good, thanks."

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