Let’s level set. MICHIGAN is a must-win if we want to flip the Senate. A word caution: This race was tighter than many predicted. El-Sayed needs Stevens supporters in the general, so it’s not smart strategy to keep them angry. Welcome them. Focus on issues. Time is short, so healing must be quick

📌Democratic turnout in the Michigan senatorial primary was OFF THE HOOK. More than 1.5 million votes have been counted. The competitive GOP primary for governor has had but 930,000 votes counted. The Democrats are continuing to prove to be the more motivated party at the polls across America.

📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.

📌I am not kidding when I tell you that I haven't listened to, nor watched, Trump say a combined 27 words in the past 10 years. He comes on, I turn him off. By actions (and words) he is a corrupt, ugly, racist, anti-American moron. I knew that then, and I damn sure know it now.

I’m one of the 20 million Americans Republicans threw under the bus. My family’s health insurance went from $1,700/month to over $3,000/month. REPUBLICANS DID THIS‼️ #RepublicanMedicareCuts

📌Absolutely grotesque that Republicans have voted for the personal lawyer of a convicted felon to be OUR attorney general. One of the darkest, most dangerous days in American history, and proof again of the GOP's sickening and perverted notion of law and order, and so-called love of country.

WE NEED 4 SEATS TO FLIP THE SENATE. JOSH TUREK SHOULD BE ONE OF THEM. I was researching Josh and came across one of his signature issues: Right to Repair. I had no idea how important this was. Most people in big cities probably don’t either. 🧵

Mitch McConnell’s communications director’s silence and smirk speak volumes. If he were fine, or even improving, she’d just say so. There’s no way this man is coming back.

📌I still think Trump lying about everything should be the biggest story of all.

📌"New and creative" idea: Remove the incompetent Commander in Chief from office.

Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Senior US military officials are reportedly crowdsourcing ideas over email on “how to deal with Iran” while admitting they need to “reevaluate their strategy.” If your war plan starts with a brainstorming session, you’ve already lost. This is embarrassing and dangerous.

Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.

REPUBLICANS POKED THE BEAR They used gerrymandering to weaken Black voting power. New data shows they helped drive higher Black voter turnout in parts of the South instead. 📌 Alabama saw one of the biggest increase in Black voter mobilization. That will matter in @dougjones.bsky.social gov race.

Helluva QB, and an even better man.

ACLU@aclu.org · 3d ago

Colin is right: We must exercise our power to change the course of history. For his lifetime achievements advocating for racial justice and empowering youth, we are proud to recognize Colin Kaepernick with our new Ralph Ellison Award for Defenders of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Both Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed have publicly committed to supporting the Democratic nominee. They understand what’s at stake: defeating Mike Rogers in November.

📌I only have two things to say about Republicans Bernie Moreno and Max Miller pissing all over each other in Ohio during this election season: 1) Stay upwind of these lowlifes. 2) Vote.

STAY TUNED ON THIS Republicans may have poked the bear. They used gerrymandering to weaken Black voting power. Instead, new data suggests they helped drive higher Black voter turnout across parts of the South. 1/2

🕊️ This masterpiece was born on this day in 1973 ...

📌Extraordinarily revealing that heading into the midterms Republicans would rather talk about a pandemic that killed millions than the high prices and hurt they have delivered America while holding the Executive, the Senate and the House the past two years ...

This got me choked up. Ohio, thank you for this. 🙏🏽 And God bless Viles Dorsainvil, Exec Director of the Haitian Support Center. Haitians aren’t criminals. They were here legally under TPS until Trump stripped those protections. Yet we’re humiliating them by forcing them to wear ankle monitors.

I love Georgia, I really do. MLK, John Lewis, Jimmy Carter, Ralph Abernathy Jr., Stacey Abrams, their two senators today, Jon Ossoff, and Raphael Warnock ... So much inspiration has been born there. When freedom rings again In November, it will emanate from the Peach State.

Greg Bluestein@bluestein.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Adults in the room.” Georgia Democrats focus messaging on cost-of-living challenges and GOP leadership under President Donald Trump at the party’s annual convention in Savannah today. #gapol www.ajc.com/news/2026/08...

We knew Trump’s Reflecting Pool redo was a disaster from the get-go. But this buffoonery… Yesterday Jeanine Pirro admitted the damage was caused by faulty workmanship. Today, Trump says he disagrees w/his own hand-picked prosecutor & Secretary of the Interior is still insisting it was vandalism.

You might have seen support and endorsements for Abdul El-Sayed from some Black social media influencers. That’s all well and good, but don’t mistake it for support from Black Michiganders on the ground. Just sayin.

📌BREAKING: UEFA, the governing body of European soccer is demanding FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s immediate resignation because of his dirty backroom dealings with the Trump family. Just the latest instance that everything and everybody Trump touches dies ...

📌Instead of draining the swamp the America-attacking, lying Trump drained our Reflecting Pool. A stark metaphor for this incompetent grifter, and regime if there ever was one ...

There are 120K+ DSA members. There are millions of Democrats, so let’s keep this in perspective. The DSA isn’t taking over the party —most progressives aren’t DSA. Here’s the caution: Weak Dems left a vacuum with their post 2024 silence and the DSA is taking the opportunity to fill the void.

📌Trump’s a racist’s racist. A traitor’s traitor. A liar’s liar. Nobody has pushed more dangerous junk into the veins of America than Donald the Dealer. You’d think he’d be easy to quit, but nasty habits are hard to break, and require guts, and decency Trump is betting his users will never acquire.

THE PUSHER

Why Trump's revolting base just can't quit him ...

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Judge Pirro = Jumbo Shrimp

Really, about the 26th, but who's counting ...

A thread on how heroes like Dr. Anthony Fauci make Trump and the Republicans look like criminals by comparison. That's why they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.