Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Dems follow the rules (consider the end of Al Franken’s political career), and rethugs. do not. The current crop of Dems are craven. I’m really sick of them, and have no respect for them. I will work to move them aside, but tantruming ain’t the way to do it 000
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I can feel Josef Nyomarky (taught me about Russian communism at Uni) and Prof Wills (co-taught, with Chinese version. Pretty sure I passed it. Lol yourself 000
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I’m good on the history of my people, thanks (e.g. Moody & Martin-The Course of Irish History). I’ve observed the outcome of Chinese & Russian communism on their citizens & this country would not be better. That’s my caution. Now, socialism; I could get behind. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Sure. Let’s go back a couple of centuries and see how that worked for the non-rich. Now that I think on it, I wouldn’t be in this grand country without the potato famine. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025And I am begging us to hold our hands out to centerists instead of spitting at them 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025“Your worry is not grounded in …or study on the matter” = “Your fears are based on ignorance and you obviously have not studied the matter” 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I am a lawyer. Words have meaning. We need the US Constitution to be modified, so individual states cannot ignore fundamental rights. “Codify” is a method of putting existing laws into a system. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Wow. Calling me uneducated now. I am done with you. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I’ve been lectured the same way about womens rights, abortion , and lesbian rights. I get it-we’re tired of being told to wait. 200
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Criticism is going both ways; that’s why I am asking my own side to chill. You have taken my request to make it more likely for us to win by essentially calling me a quisling. I have been voting, marching, phonebanking, precinct walking & voting for 40 years, even tho I hate my party. We need them. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I worry that simply taxing the rich out of existence might reduce motivation to excel. What do you mean by “codify”? 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Actually, the initial claim was that we should consider not saying “fuck you” to centrists. I never stated that progressive takeover of the Democratic Party would do that. I did state that those who want to focus on class issues, tend to devalue work on racism, sexism, LGBTQIA rights. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This discussion has several branches. You can find it, or you can insist on a purity test. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025We don’t get to dictate to anyone either. I think the system of the center/left of center/left (and I won’t go further left because then we’re in a circle w/the right), have a shitty system that needs to be overhauled. What’s your idea? I think first, Citizens United must be reversed. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I don’t live in a glass house. Throw rocks all you want. I’m happy that you think that the things I stated are important, however. I’m sorry you think I was smug-that is not a great message! I include trans rights in the term LGBTQIA 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025How have AOC and Bernie made it, then kept going, then? The DNC is money, not votes. Does the DNC come to the polling place and stop people from voting? Throw out ballots? It’s lazy voters (oh, I mean “unmotivated by perceived poor choices voters”) who are to blame. 200
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025There are state and federal races where rethuglicans run unopposed. Blessings from the DNC are not required to run. Chicago. Your vote absolutely matters to local races-springboard for bigger things If everybody turns down their thermostat (or up in summer), more NRG for the poor. It all matters 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I don’t hit back at personal trashing. It says more about you than me. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I am ecstatic about Mondami, but he hasn’t thrown centerist under the bus. I note that AOC works with many of her centerist colleagues. She began as a “fuck the centerist” person, but you don’t hear that much any more, and you can see how much more power she has when she works with those she can. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This thread began as a response to the “fuck centerists” messages out there. “The left” has become “the communists”? That ism hasn’t worked out so well for its people, so I wouldn’t try to morph “leftist” to include communism (at least how it has been applied so far). Dissent demonized. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I’ll take connected, but it always seems like classism gets precedence. It’s an easy way to not deal with racism, sexism, LGBTQIA loss of rights, abortion. Hot-eyed white men claim that black women’s issues should “wait” to be addressed because “classism is the thread in all isms.” Spare me.🙄 210
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025So let’s stay home and not vote when it’s a centerist versus a rethuglican? Is that what we should do in our purist world? Consider reply to centrist who calls you socialist: “You say that like it’s a bad thing”. “Socialist” now is like “liberal” in the 80’s. If not proud of ourselves, we lose. 000
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025And, if I had to choose between a centerist or a Republican, I would choose the centerist. I don’t recommend staying home if you don’t get the perfect non-Republican in a race. That’s why we are where we are. Field more candidates, then let’s talk. 200
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I agree-the left is not the problem. The way left might be, if it would rather shit on centrists than educate them,and gently replace the dinosaurs in power. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Agree. Classism doesn’t trump racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or planet-killing. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Enjoy your time on your own private island where only folks you think are perfect can stay. Meanwhile, I’ll be tryin’ to educate and build coalitions with my big, fat, pro choice, anti-racism, Lesbo self. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I’m talking to the person whose response to a call to not demonize centrists was to say: “well, THEY’re doing it”. 100
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025What is this? Tit-for-tat? “I’m gonna point my finger because they pointed their finger?” Be the change you want to see. Focus on the true enemy, not our less-than-perfect allies. 110
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I sense political purity tests coming. How about we embrace our diversity instead? 3160
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Come to the left coast, where the winter is in the summer! 010
Reposted by Shannon SullivanJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.” 14014451110044
Reposted by Shannon Sullivanpoorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 03/05/2025cats when you give them a bath 1138293991
Reposted by Shannon SullivanAlt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 22/04/2025This pairs up with my previous post. Someone is helping to track any terminations… 14614
Reposted by Shannon SullivanMegan Griffiths @thecinechick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Proud of this little act of resistance inspired by #seattletroublemakers and made with care in Seattle by an all-volunteer cast & crew. Big thanks to @alexwinter.com for the most excellent narration! And @laceyleavittgray.bsky.social for asking me to direct! 🙏 #teslaregretsyndrome #crewtopia 40983350
Reposted by Shannon SullivanAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/04/2025“are you wearing the—?” “the habeas boots? the boots in which I carry all my habeas petitions just in case I get disappeared to the gulag in el salvador? yeah, yeah I am.”media.tenor.coma woman in a black jacket is walking down a hallway in a room .Alt: a woman in a black jacket is walking down a hallway in a room, wearing a chic outfit, including a pair of thigh high Chanel boots. Two women — one with red hair and one with blonde hair — stare at her in surprise. It’s a scene from the movie “the devil wears Prada,” in which Andie gets a makeover and wears “the Chanel boots” for the first time 775604881
Reposted by Shannon Sullivandave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me 528388385924
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025“Examples of trolling include posting offensive comments on other peoples’ posts on social media.” That message to you fits the bill all right. 000
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Our citizen involvement is a weakness, so I think that “the revolution will be televised” is the wrong message. Gil Scott Heron’s lyrics were: The revolution will not be televised Will not be televised Will not be televised The revolution will be no re-run, brothers The revolution will be live 010
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I’ve read a bunch of “how to identify trolls” missives, but I have to say, I struggle to identify them. 000
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 06/04/20251) Liberals are the left also 2) To me, Bernie is the college professor who pokes his finger at me and is too impatient to deal w/my ‘stupid’ questions 3) The only time I have been called a stupid cunt was by a self-identified Bernie supporter. 4) Bernie is not AOC (who I would happily support) 110
