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David E. Sullivan

@dsulliva2.bsky.social
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Dem voting rights lawyer/organizer; former MA & Cambridge govt, still working for housing, tax, and immigrant justice; striving husband, dad, grandpa, friend, doggy’s human, Catholic social democrat, boomer, slow runner and cyclist, citizen

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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NO on 3: Powerful, convincing argument by @senatorledwards.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jJ...
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Why We're Voting NO! ... on Mass Ballot Question 3 with Senator Lydia Edwards
YouTube video by Java With Jimmy
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | These Elections Could Decide 2028. No One Is Watching Them. (Gift Article)
Four swing states will soon elect the official who will run the 2028 presidential election. The candidates are alarming.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oij...
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'Career of CORRUPTION': James Talarico CALLS OUT Ken Paxton for avoiding debates
YouTube video by MS NOW
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Which side are you on? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
nytimes.com
The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate (Gift Article)
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com!
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I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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How the Midterms Could Shrink Red-State America—and Why It Matters
Right now, there are 23 GOP “trifecta” states, and only 16 Democratic ones. That may change big-time—and the ramifications are huge.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court
If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Watch this amazing political talent, and see why Trump's corrupt FCC kept the interview off broadcast TV. Then give here: jamestalarico.com
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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'O Canada' is a fixture at Sabres games. Now, it's coming to Highmark Stadium
The Buffalo Bills announced Wednesday that, for the first time, the Canadian national anthem will be performed at the home season opener this year.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Sickness Worse Than Wokeness (Gift Article)
The anti-woke movement’s “cure” was more intolerance and more repression.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One of the best political ads ever!
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Proportional representation is the best answer now. I'm biased, because a version of it elected me 5 times to the Cambridge City Council. But I can attest that it works!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Senate Republicans failed to pass a truncated version of the SAVE America Act before going into recess early Saturday morning. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Voters spared as Senate recesses without passing SAVE America Act’s voter ID measure
The failed bill, which required a narrow set of photo IDs for voter eligibility, could have prevented millions of people from voting in November’s midterms.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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No on 3 @voterrightsma.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Question 3 wants to turn our primary elections into a contest over who has the biggest bankroll, not the most grassroots support. Voting NO will protect the first-time, working-class, and candidates of color that are more likely to get locked out due to fear of being a spoiler.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
prospect.org/2026/08/06/a...
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Dorothy Day: Saint Radical - The American Prospect
The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.ncronline.org/news/catholi...
ncronline.org
Catholic leaders say Missouri amendment to end income tax would hurt the poor
The state's four bishops, in a July 17 statement issued by the Missouri Catholic Conference, urged voters to consider "the moral principles that should guide us in pondering any tax proposal."
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Get excited, but not complacent -- we can do this if we keep working hard!
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's a tough contest, but this anti-democratic decision may be the worst of the SCOTUS term newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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The Supreme Court’s Most Brazen Attack on Congress Yet
The high court’s decision in Landor v. Louisiana Dept. of Corrections and Public Safety could incapacitate the legislative branch’s policymaking powers.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Massive economic inequality is a policy choice — we need to make better choices www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Problem America Refuses to Address
In the age of the trillionaire, inequality remains a defining challenge.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Saying the quiet part out loud!
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Proud to be a citizen, lawyer, and former legislative officer of the Commonwealth with this great heritage of freedom and justice -- and much farther to go www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself (Gift Article)
For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Social democracy and social norms www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What We Should Learn From Nordic Happiness
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Words to live by www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Pope praises US history of welcoming immigrants in implicit rebuke to Trump
Pope Leo urges Americans to live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence in his first major address to the US
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Eloquent! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxR...
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Mayor Mamdani Delivers Address Marking America’s 250th Birthday
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Read this to celebrate the 250th properly! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Five Words That Changed America
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This great, important decision today stops (unless an appeal succeeds) Trump's awful inaccurate national database, which many red states use to purge their voter rolls of alleged non-citizens. Good news for voting rights!
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Celebrating #juneteenth by reveling in the (wonderful) winners and (awful) losers from yesterday's great court decision kicking the dangerous and regressive income tax off the #MApoli ballot www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/19/n...
bostonglobe.com
‘I’m a loser.’ Who won, who lost, in SJC’s stunning income tax decision. - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Judicial Court's decision to reject an income tax cut heading for November's ballot will please progressive groups and state lawmakers, frustrate some business groups.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
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Opinion | The Real Reason Trump Never Stops Talking About Voter Fraud
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is important, and amazing: www.jurist.org/news/2026/06...
jurist.org
Federal court blocks Texas AG lawsuit against Democratic fundraising platform
The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively blocking Paxton from pursuing a lawsuit against the Demo...
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...
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Opinion | Republicans Thought They Owned ‘Values.’ Not Anymore.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/paxton-...
commondreams.org
Texas Lawyer Who Defended Paxton Against Impeachment Endorses Talarico for US Senate | Common Dreams
“Republicans have had control of Texas for 30 years,” said lawyer Dan Cogdell. "We are last in the country in healthcare, bottom for education, first in school shootings, first in most uninsured.”
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Really ugly racism
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
More *truth* from my dear sister open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
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We need truth more than ever. How to find it amid political lies and AI slop
On that Texas senate race, a weird encounter over an AI-ridden book, and the 'murdering' of CBS's 60 Minutes
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...
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Opinion | The Law They Hate Was a High Point of Our History
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2100...
newrepublic.com
Less Noted, Just as Radical: The High Court’s Rightward Economic Shift
The Supreme Court and other federal courts have moved dramatically to the right on economic policy as well as social and democracy policy. It’s time to take on that fight too.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A new paragon of free speech and civic discourse emerges
A post from SteveBikes on Twitter that shows David, the Marblehead Town Meeting guy speaking in the style of Norman Rockwell's free speech painting
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"We're preserving the character of Marblehead...it's a bad thing. We're being selfish. We're not doing any housing."
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Amazing memoir by a US AID whistleblower who witnessed Elon Musk's evil destruction of the agency from the inside last year. Will probably kill tens of millions of people worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...
nytimes.com
What It Was Like Inside U.S.A.I.D. Before He Blew the Whistle
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Best answer to Voting Rights Act demise: proportional representation in multi-member districts (full disclosure: it elected me 5 times to the #cambMA city council) leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
leedrutman.substack.com
The Supreme Court killed voting rights and escalated the gerrymandering wars. Here’s what Congress needs to do in response
The racial gerrymandering free-for-all is now on. The only real solution is proportional representation.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Just say no to “deal” on tax cuts for rich people and big corporations #mapoli
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Gotta listen to my hometown crowd, just loving its neighbors youtu.be/mMbsvYDlQIY
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Buffalo Sabres Crowd Sings "O Canada" After Mic Issue
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
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Slate @slate.com · 29/04/2026
Wednesday’s 6-3 party line decision in Louisiana v. Callais will go down in history as one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century. slate.trib.al/0ZJZ2el
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century
This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Destroying US AID, which may cause deaths in the tens of millions, is probably Trump's worst action (I know that's hard to decide) slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
I Watched the Worst of Trump’s Attempt to Destroy the Government. I Have One Requirement for All 2028 Democrats.
Millions of lives are at stake.
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
They were protesting a tax break for a monopoly www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/19/o...
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Everything you know about the Boston Tea Party is wrong - The Boston Globe
Americans then and now have very different attitudes about taxes than you might imagine. The implications are profound.
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