(1) New icky revelations about Graham Platner to go with the old icky revelations about Graham Platner:

Shortly after Graham Platner launched his bid for a Maine Senate seat last year, his wife Amy Gertner told aides that she had seen sexually explicit texts on his phone, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The disclosure, which occurred in late August, came when aides were conducting opposition research. Gertner said she had told the campaign aide about the texts to several women, to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s campaign, the WSJ reported.

This occurred in 2025, and the couple had been married in 2024. The texts themselves remain uncharacterized except in the very general sense of being “sexually explicit,” but I wonder if they were the sort of thing that got Anthony Weiner in trouble. Then again, the times they have a-changed. But Platner seems like one of the more repulsive candidates around, and that’s saying something.

(2) Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan won’t be running for president in 2028. I doubt she would have been a strong candidate, and she probably read the writing on the wall about that.

(3) Speaking of Michigan and candidates, the frontrunner for the Democrats, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, has this to say: he “struggles” with the question of whether Israel has the right to exist as “a Jewish state.” More here:

Abdul El Sayed, a progressive Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan, told an audience that he “struggles” to answer questions about whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.

My first reaction to people who question whether Israel has “a right to exist” is usually, “Go pound sand.” Israel is a nuclear power with one of the most advanced militaries, economies, and technological infrastructures in the world. And yet, for some reason, and it’s not difficult to guess what that reason is, people are constantly pondering whether a Jewish state should exist. They exist because they fought to exist.
But El Sayed’s reasoning exposes a confused and warped worldview.

“The question becomes,” he goes on, “how do you sustain democracy if you don’t have a Jewish majority? And then to say it’s Jewish by power, are there particular offices that have to be held by Jewish people? If so, what kind of Jewish people?”

First of all, El Sayed has it backward. Israel sustains a democracy because it’s a Jewish state.

I’ll tell you how you don’t “sustain a democracy”: by giving the Palestinians a state or any “right of return” to Israel proper. That would destroy any semblance of “liberal values,” tout de suite.

Ah, so Al-Sayed is a sort of concern troll, worried about the future of Israel as a democracy – the only one in the Middle East, by the way. A Jewish state that has plenty of Muslims and Christians with full rights – unlike all the Muslim states in the area who do not allow Jews in their territory.

More here.

(4) This charming event happened recently, in which an ICE protestor threatened an ICE agent and his family, in no uncertain terms:

ICE Newark rioter: “I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER”

“Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!”

“Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!”

This is the type of TERRORISM Democrats WANT ICE agents to face by de-masking them.

It turns out that free speech has limits, and the protester/threatener was located and arrested by the feds:

The arrest came just hours after Blanche promised the protester, who was captured on video, would be found and arrested.

“That’s a federal crime,” Blanche said on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” on Thursday. “Not only threatening the ICE officer — but think about how disgusting this individual is by threatening his wife and his children with death.

The guy doing the threatening was not wearing a mask, which helped authorities to identify him.

(5) Meanwhile, from New Jersey’s governor:

NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill just caved and is siding with the anti-ICE mob at Delaney Hall. She’s now actively blocking the expansion of ICE operations and setting up a “safe zone” for protesters.

(6) Here’s a courageous woman:

Anila Ali, a Pakistan native turned fearless DC-based civil rights advocate, defiantly told The Post “nothing is deterring me” from marching in the annual event that celebrates the Jewish state – even after a Democratic socialist city councilwoman condemned Ali to hell for showing her support for Jews this week at a rally in front of Gracie Mansion.

The 58-year-old powerhouse founder of the American Muslim & Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council said she plans to march with a few dozen Muslim supporters, including an imam and children, despite a barrage of intimidation tactics from “nefarious forces” for daring to show solidarity with Israel.