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I wanted to comment on a couple of things happening in the world’s worst deliberative body. First, this:
Arizona’s @gallego.senate.gov : "I think ICE needs to be totally torn down… People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Trump."
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)2026-01-18T14:55:39.256Z
If this crypto-curious dude bro who hasn’t ever met a rich donor he didn’t like, who hails from a state on the “front lines” of the immigration “crisis”, can say this about ICE, then the Democrats in a swivet about the right words to use when we talk about the goons who are shooting innocents in the street can just shut their fucking pieholes.
You know that if Gallego had said the opposite — if he said that we shouldn’t talk about abolishing ICE — then all we’d be hearing from every centrist would be that we must respect Gallego’s insights because he has extra special insights because he’s from Arizona.
Moving on to Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician who voted to confirm RFK Jr:
Donald Trump has sought to deliver a staggering blow to the re-election chances of Senator Bill Cassidy – the president’s fellow Republican with whom he has politically feuded – by giving his “complete and total endorsement” to a potential primary opponent.
Trump’s endorsement of US House member Julia Letlow as well as his encouragement for her to run for Cassidy’s Senate seat in Louisiana comes after the senator voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial during Trump’s first presidency.
Cassidy, a medical doctor, had since sought to win back Trump’s favor – including by voting to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr as the US health secretary despite Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism. And Cassidy had since publicly expressed confidence Trump would not make any endorsements as he sought re-election in November’s midterms.
I saw someone on Bluesky advance the thesis that Democrats might be able to peel off Cassidy and have him vote for some legislation now that Trump has betrayed him. I’d argue the opposite: Cassidy will probably turn even further right to prove his MAGA bona fides as he faces a primary challenge from the right. I mean, it might go the other way, but I doubt it. These guys want to hold on to power and they know the path to keeping it is to move even further right.
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