[2026-07-09] @DropSiteNews@twitter.com:

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🚨NEW: Drop Site journalist Ryan Grim has authenticated behind-the-scenes messages showing Politico omitted an important detail from its reporting on how the night began that led to the rape allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.

Before publication, a Politico reporter told the Platner campaign that Jenny Racicot, on the night in question, had been “texting [Platner] about needing her glute massaged.” The reporter added, “That detail didn’t make our story.”

Racicot told Jake Tapper during her CNN interview that Platner had “taken something that I said as an invitation” before she subsequently texted him not to come over. Tapper did not follow up to ask what the content of the message was, and did not respond to a request for comment from Drop Site. Politico, in a statement to Drop Site, did not dispute that the outlet was aware of the “glute masssage” text, and said that it would update its reporting if further information arose.

According to a spokesperson: “This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews and reflects our editorial standards. In interviews with us and in accounts she gave to other outlets, Jenny Racicot said that she told Graham Platner not to come to her home and that he nevertheless showed up there uninvited. POLITICO gave Platner and his campaign ample opportunity to respond to our reporting and to provide any information or documentation they believed contradicted it. If presented with information that materially challenges our reporting, we will report it.”

Platner is expected to drop out today.

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  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I don’t think “experienced tankies” are doing much better. I got banned from Hexbear for calling out ChapoTrapHouse supporting Platner, and many people uncritically support influencers from that sphere as well. I’m terminally online enough at this point to know faults in every mainstream influencers. Including all the ones I watch myself.

    videos like this one and this one; coupled w presumed leftist standard bearers with clearly poor understanding of leftism like piker and abughazaleh; as well as taking into account the revelation that the track-aipac founder is a us empire’s idf aligned mercenary makes me wonder about the viability of any socialist movement in the western world considering how easily and trivially it can be co-opted and/or captured by people pretending to be leftists.

    it’s made me stop reading leftist theory since it feels like a collection of loosely idealogically aligned people who work against each other as much as they do w each other.