DC Cassandra

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I warned you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cursed to (be a) Know-It-All. DMV latchkey kid not obeying in advance. Poor mans wonk, pragmatic idealist. Ripostes, reposts, observation, rumination, (informed) political hot takes, typos + cats.

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DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jul 12

Today I’m remembering South Carolina's Lion of the Senate: the late Ernest Hollings (D-SC). He fought in WWII against fascism, began his career as a segregationist, but by 1988 endorsed Jesse Jackson. He also said things to Republican colleagues like “I’ll take a drug test if you take an IQ test.” 😆

NYT 12/19/2004 clipping on the retirement of late Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) headlined “Free Trade is Like Dry Water, Y’All.” Above is a photo of Hollings at a rally, hands raised, standing in front of a handmade sign reading “Webster county Welcomes Senator Holl(ings).”

Full text by journalist David Rosenbaum below:

Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of SC is retiring, at 82, after 38 years in office. He is the last of a breed once prevalent in Congress: the quick-witted wielder of the folksy metaphor and aphorism. Last week, as it closed up shop, his office issued a collection of his best lines:

On stubbornness: "There's no education in the second kick of a mule.”

To opponents of government regulation: "Letting y'all regulate yourselves is like delivering lettuce by way of a rabbit.”

On his marriage: "People always wonder how Peatsy and I stay to- gether, with so many divorces around us. A friend of ours used to say, 'It's simple. They're both in love with the same fella.'" [During her husband's campaign for his party's presidential nomination in 1984, a reporter called their hotel room and asked to speak to Senator Hollings. Mrs. Hollings held the phone away from her mouth and said,
"Hey, mister, you Hollings?”|

Responding to a GOP challenger who dared him to take a drug test: "Til take a drug test if you take an I.Q. test."

While debating John Glenn, the former astronaut: "But what have you done in this world."

On President Bush's effort to distance himself from the Enron scandal:
"I did not have political relations with that man, Ken Lay."

On former Senator Phil Gramm's habit of hogging the spotlight:
"If you want a lesson in political anonymity, sponsor a bill with Phil Gramm."

On international trade: "We hear those in the national Congress running around and saying, 'Free trade, free trade, I am for free
trade,' when they know free trade is like dry water.T here is no such thing."

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jul 11

I’m not here for my health, you gonna pay attention to me or keep doom-watching cable news? #Caturday

Close up of an all grey cat with yellow eyes and a quizzical, slightly irritated expression, sitting up on hindquarters, front paws down looking directly at the camera, its body blocking the television behind it.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jul 9

copied and cropped image of two women, one with her hand on her face in the facepalm expression and another with a big wide open mouthed smile and raised eyebrows expression of surprise. Above them is red text on yello background that says “and Won’t Someone Think of the Men?"

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jun 28

WANTS 2 BE ALONE! NO KAT PARTY!

All gray cat with bright yellow eyes getting up from a leather brown chair. Hindquarters still ont the chair, paws jutting out and down onto a light wood table and looking irritated at the camera, with one ear cocked sideways, tail down and claws just starting to come out of one paw.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jun 27

Anyone else watch the Gilgo Beach Killer doc and immediately notice that the serial killer has the same dead fish eyes that Miller has taken to covering up with sunglasses these days? Truly the window to the soul…or lack thereof.

Tri-fold picture of serial rapist and murderer Rex Heuermann, better known as the Gilgo Beach Killer who tortured, raped and murdered at least 8 women if not more between the 1990s and his capture in the 2020s. He is wearing a suit looking down in the two left and right pics, with a center pic of his mug shot in the center.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jun 27

I think I just won this game.

Results from the political survey going around shows 80% woke, 20% chud, 34% Techbro and 66% Neo-Luddite, 52% Hopepiled and 48% Doomer and 83 Davos and 17% Dubai for a final result that my closest match is….drumroll please….NYC MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jun 10

From one asshole cat to another...

All gray adult cat sitting on a light greyish couch with a toy on a red pillow with fangs barred and mouth open.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Apr 23

Not to mention our patron saint of resistance, Sandwich Guy

Soviet stylized poster in red and white with light yellow lettering that shows a group of shadowed workers throwing subs, which appear gigantic (in scale) to the people and floating. The background is an orange/red sunburst and the text over it says “Do you see the people yeet yeeting the subs of angry men. It is the sandwich of a people who will not be slaves again."

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Apr 8

First of all this is the best birthday request ever. Second of all, for me it’s Caroline Caldwell’s street art piece from (I believe?) the 90s. This particular shot of it in the NYC metro with the young woman foregrounded is my favorite.

Famous Caroline Caldwell street art piece where she put up signs saying “In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.” This particular location was a poster/ad sign in a train or metro/subway system that is next to a young woman sitting on the train.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Apr 5

Fave Easter hot take, can’t post insta link but you can look this guy up. “Jesus wasn’t just crucified, he was lynched. Let’s have some chai and talk about it.” ❤️😆✊ Happy Easter to the revolutionaries who are, like Jesus was, under attack by a violent regime, here and everywhere.

Screenshot of instagram reel by an influencer with the handle cross culture. The person is looking at the camera in the middle of explaining and the text says “Jesus wasn’t crucified, he was lynched” followed by “A post colonial theology of Good Friday.”

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Apr 4

Everything old is new again

70s/80s era poster of kids climbing on a globe shaped jungle gym in a park with the words “it will e a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Mar 29

Me after walking eleventy billion miles today at DC #NK3 #NoKings Happy Caturday, we all deserve it. 😽

Extraordinarily adorable all gray cat sleeping all circled up on a white couch with tail wrapped around body and eyes closed.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Mar 29

Spotted by a friend in Bmore

No Kings 3 Baltimore Maryland protest sign with colorful plastic tenis sized balls glued all over a horizontal white poster board. The top of the sign reads “FREE BALLS!!!” And below it the phrase “For members of a Congress who have lost theirs.”

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Mar 28

Best DC “sign” lol

Photo of the No Kings 3 protest in DC on the National Mall. The Washington monument in the background. Foregrounded is a large paper mache penis on a stock with trumps head and signature orange hair as the head. A sign nearby says “you can’t bomb your way out of the Epstein files”

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Mar 28

Simple and to the point I say. See you there!!!

Protest sign that says
X Kings
x Dictators
x Nazis
X Fascists

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Mar 19

Fine, here is my well overdue cat tax. Don’t expect either of us to be happy about it.

All grey yellow eyed American shorthair cat facing and staring into the camera looking annoyed. The cat is sitting on a blue/ white patterned throw with paws out front resting on a fuzzy grey blanket.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Mar 18

Sorry, American pogrom, I stand corrected.

Text from March 2, 2026 that says “Netanyahu is gonna start an American pogrom. Like wtaf. He really hates Jews, Bibi does. Clearly he wants us all dead.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Mar 11

I truly don’t think my heart will be able to take it if they invade Cuba. OTOH, I believe in Cuba’s proven ability to topple U.S.-backed dictators...

painting of Fidel and other leaders of the Cuban revolution in their classic green combat uniforms entering Havana with a crowd cheering him on. On person has a sign with a newspaper headline from the Prensa Libre that says “Huye Batista” (Batista Flees).

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Feb 18

Seems like a good time to remind everyone of this (from May 2025)

Text from an article about the Trump cabinet that includes the following quote which is circled in red market with exclamation points
“Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, wears a gold lapel pin in the shape of Trump’s head"

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Feb 15

In other words.

A young woman in a black and white 1970s protest picture holds a sign on a city street that says “Gay Power, Black Power, Women Power, Student Power, All Power to the People"

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jan 27

I found her!

Picture of American First Lady during WWII Eleanor Roosevelt

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jan 20

On the bright side, maybe this means a future of collective cow organizing?

Cover of the children’s book “Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type” by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin. It tells the story of a group of cows that get together to collectively go on strike until their demands are met by the farmer in a tale of barnyard union organizing and solidarity.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jan 11

OMG NYT article on anti-ICE protests (in comments) includes this photo by Jordan Gale of the PDX protests and my riot grrl ❤️ LEAPED out of my chest b/c I *believe* this is THE Kaia Wilson of @teamdresch.bsky.social! I wore out their Personal Best AND her solo album in college.

Photo of Kaia Wilson of the queercore riot grrl band Team Dresch at a protest against ICE in Portland, Oregon. Taken by Jordan Gale for The New York Times as part of a spread of photos of nationwide protests of the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday January 7, 2026.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Jan 7

Ironic that during Y1 of American Authoritarianism I’ve been reading T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King,” which imagines an Arthur obsessed with ending the age of “might is right” and instead ushering in an enlightened and peaceful period based on rule of law and justice. #Booksky

Quote from T.H. White, The Once and Future King novel, published in the post WW2 period “Might does not make right! Right makes right!"

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Dec 28

I take your Afghan Wigs and raise you a different genre lol. I basically wore both Exile and Guyville and this in the 90s.

Cover of the 1998 album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” by Lauryn Hill (of the Fugees). Cover shows a picture of her face and hair in the center, looking almost “sun-like” in the middle of an old school wood school desk. There is a pencil at the top and it looks like the album title is carved into the desk. The image is filtered with an warm organey/red tone.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Dec 28

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains. Are you kidding? I could post at least 20. But let’s start here:

Liz Phair “Exile in Guyville” cover. Phair is shown in black and white, from the chest up, wearing a dark hoodie (or cloak) covering her eyes. The straight on shot is centered is her open mouth. Her neck and part of her chest is bare, she’s wearing long and choker chunky chain necklaces and dangly earrings. Her hair is flowing out on her shoulders as if wind is blowing it back. Her name and the album title is in purple, running just across her neck in the photo the length of the cover.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Dec 17

My cat: “Stupidest human ever still believes she is in charge!"

All gray American shorthair cat with yellow eyes on a light couch with red rug in background, laying on side with belly exposed looking at camera.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Nov 26

Aren’t they all about “traditional marriage”? This is another DEEPLY unpopular thing to do. Pew polling back in March says of the 51% of Americans that support deporting “some” immigrants, only 5% would include those with U.S. citizen spouses. My guess is the numbers are even lower now.

Bar chart visualizing Pew Research Center polling data from March of 2025. It first shows that in overall 51% of Americans support deporting “some” undocumented immigrants (at that time 32% supported deporting all and 16 supported deporting none). Of that middle 51%, 97% supported deportation of ppl who had committed violent crimes, 52% for non-violent crimes and 44% for those who had arrived in the last 4 years.

When immigrants are rooted in their communities, the numbers go WAY down. Only 15% support deportation for those who have a job, only 14% for parents with children born in the U.S., 9% for undocumented people who came as children and only 5% of those who support deporting “some” undocumented immigrants would support deportation of someone married to a U.S. citizen.

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Oct 18

Chevy Chase circle on the MD/DC line welcoming everyone to #NoKings in the occupied capital of our nation ✊🚫👑

DC Cassandra@dccassandra· Oct 10

Great minds….this was mine from the first #FreeDC rally :-)