tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
Author: susie
Medicare for all
wrote with Prof Brandon Marshall about how the best and simplest antidote to chaos in our healthcare system (including these upcoming changes to Medicaid) is Medicare for All. governments job is to make peoples lives easier, not harder. newrepublic.com/article/2141…
— abdullah (@ashihipar.bsky.social) 2026-08-24T12:07:49.740Z
SCOTUS sucks
6-3 ruling through the shadow docket. The conservatives of SCOTUS have once again proven their utter contempt for democracy. This decision opens up the door for further provocations. If an executive order can give him control over mail-in voting, what else can it do? www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/p…
— Michael (@michaelnaphys.bsky.social) 2026-08-24T21:43:26.669Z
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot movesThey simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
— Norm Eisen (@normeisen.bsky.social) 2026-08-24T21:59:31.575Z
Yep
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social."The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures…"
— Guardian US (@us.theguardian.com) 2026-08-24T17:16:43.735Z
Dancing in the moonlight
The game of love
We didn’t need our kids, anyway
"TikTok on Friday reached a $400 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department that accused the company of illegally gathering children’s information." [Gift link]
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) 2026-08-22T02:37:25.487Z
Conservatives are crazy
Under the Behn-Campbell bill, cannabis businesses would be required to obtain state licenses, and a 15% tax would be charged on sales, with the revenue going toward the nearly $60 billion backlog of highway and bridge projects.
— WatchYourRepsTN&SC (@watchyourrepssc.bsky.social) 2026-08-21T14:07:17.263Z
Yep
A mass migration of people away from the coast is getting started: "Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami, face insurance premium jumps ranging from 213 percent to 322 percent in the next three decades—the highest in the U.S.—because of increased sea level rise and storms, according to First Street."
— Dr. Jeff Masters (@drjeffmasters.bsky.social) 2026-08-21T14:58:31.060Z