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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 8h

I grew up learning that God mourns every death but Christian Nationalists gonna Christian Nationalist

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 12h

Want something new to worry about? Happy to oblige. For some people, COVID reactivates the Epstein-Barr Virus, known for triggering such hits as MS, lupus & mono. So if you had mono as a kid & then got COVID decades later, you might end up w/ mono that lasts 4yrs & counting. Ask me how I know.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 15h

Just some light heresy for your Wednesday afternoon. Isaiah would never.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ordered a big batch of old TIME issues off eBay so I could read my own work again. The digital age is something. Everything lives forever on the internet but also :: Error—no records found ::

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And for those who were Platner boosters until very recently, I would love to hear what you’ve learned and how it will change your approach to candidates in the future. Because until that shifts, it’s all just words.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There’s no shame in having backed Platner in the beginning. Or even waiting to hear his response to early allegations. But if you were still backing him a few days ago, you need more progressive women in your circle. He set off our ick meter a while ago. Oh, and we believe women.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is ridiculous for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that I would be shocked if JD here could recite the Nicene Creed.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Listening to so much coverage of negotiations with Iran and obviously it’s a very serious matter. But I cannot be the only one who thinks of this every single time I hear “unfrozen Iranian assets.”

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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer: I Don't Know!

ALT: Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer: I Don't Know!

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reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Every part of this headline horrifies me in a different way

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Barack doesn’t need Keenan-Michael Key anymore. Michelle is the anger translator. I’m sorry she had to spend so many years biting her tongue.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Going to make my children sit down with me and watch both Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches. Hope is not the same thing as delusion. Rebuke is not whining. We’re in the midst of a long haul. Enjoy the palate cleansers when you can.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Sure, I may be a no-good liberal Christian social justice warrior, but do *you* own a copy of BAPTIST DOCTRINES from 1884?

Spine of 1884 edition of Baptist Doctrines, edited by C.A. Jenkens

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yes, yes, the encyclical is fascinating and there’s much to discuss. But I’m still stuck on the part where the actual Pope reads his encyclical and he sounds like the guys scalping tickets outside Wrigley.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Now that he’s retired, Cardinal Dolan’s mask can come all the way off

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12/05/2026

As I told some people on the Hill recently, Trump is writing the Dems’ ads for them. He’s at -50 on handling prices, and 50% of persuadable voters say the economy/prices is their top issue, and they trust Dems by 10 on it (will likely increase with new data). This is a huge easy W for Dems

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Dems are still favored to win the House. But we can't ignore or downplay how Republicans essentially won 10 seats IN A WEEK through gerrymandering, lawsuits, and judicial rulings. This isn't the kind of democracy we should be comfortable with. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

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The Week Where Republicans May Have Stolen the Midterms

In five days last week, Republicans gained maybe 10 seats in Congress. And not a single citizen voted.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Anyone else have a child who goes into an anxiety spiral every time something like hantavirus is in the news because the COVID experience looms over his childhood so much that now he’s terrified another global pandemic will crop up every 5 or 6 years? No? Just me? Cool, cool, cool.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

They’re not even trying to be Christian any more…

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

All I’m saying is that if you make Mother’s Day breakfast-in-bed but then leave her cast-iron griddle soaking in soapy water, you owe that woman a dozen presents. In addition to a new cast-iron griddle.

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We are super post-racial. bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In a complete coincidence, this group matches the same 6 justices who just weakened the Voting Rights Act

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Supreme Court's Republican supermajority, afraid of the blowback from declaring what remains of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, instead says only they know the one true way the Voting Rights Act can be constitutional, and nothing will ever meet their new standard.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Welp. Hello, permanent minority rule.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This’ll totally help with the Pope

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I’m obviously not the conflicted voter target for this, but imo this pitch is pretty damn good

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

100%. They thought being anti-abortion gave them a free pass to do whatever they wanted on literally any other issue. And to be fair, the hierarchy let them get away with it for decades.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just learned Vance didn’t go through RCIA—the Catholic Church’s program of study for adult converts—which…tracks. Instead, he found a like-minded Dominican fresh from ordination to tutor him. Either Vance retained nothing or they didn’t linger on just war theory or subsidiarity or the Gospel itself

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

For all the bombastic God talk, the religious illiteracy of this administration is staggering.

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a response to Vance (and you, too, Mike Johnson, swerving way out of your lane). “When Pope Leo XIV speaks…he is not merely offering opinions on theology…” 🔥 www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

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U.S. Bishops’ Chairman on Doctrine Issues Clarification on Just War Theory

“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercis...

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just a few of the times U.S. Catholic leaders have singled out/threatened Catholic Democrats for taking public stances in conflict with Church teachings (usually abortion or LGBTQ issues), arguing that Catholic office holders have a particular responsibility to represent the faith accurately: 🧵

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Amy Sullivan @amysullivan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Another way of putting this is that the effort to reduce teen pregnancies is one of the most successful domestic policies in history, certainly of the last 30 years.

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