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
Category: Politics As Usual
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
The big cheese
Yes, someone gave Andrew Jackson, a 1400 pound block of cheese for Inauguration, which he left in the White House entrance for two years, and then let people come in and eat it, www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/paint….
— Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T03:23:26.285Z
Life is hard
One of my closest friends lived like this. Recently, her son was accepted into a residential care home and she has some degree of freedom for the first time in 25 years. There were many time when I wondered if she’d make it out alive.
The burden is enormous, and they’re given bandaids.
So close
Democrats are taking the House. And in the Senate, Texas, Ohio and Alaska are way too close for Republicans to ignore. If everyone shows up and votes, a blue wave can flip both chambers. That would make President Trump’s final two years a Republican nightmare and leave his agenda dead in the water.
— Ariana Niko (@ariananiko.bsky.social) 2026-08-13T23:24:59.950Z
Well?
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint.Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why.🧵www.theroot.com/opinion-blac…
— RoseMarie (@rosesbloom24.bsky.social) 2026-08-13T18:53:06.770Z
BlackRock and ICE
Flipping blue
Angry young man
Why are they so stupid?
These are the same people who did such a shitty job with Fetterman. No one will give them that kind of money.