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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"By any and every measure, Trump is the most corrupt person ever to sit in the Oval Office." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

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Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On

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heepst @heepst.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The verdict is in: It's a Russian peace plan. No one thinks it's weird that Russia dictates US foreign policy now.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I grew up in Oklahoma City, and loved it as a kid. Oklahoma politics in recent years has often given me cause to be ashamed of the state. But kudos to the Republican mayor of the city for his excellent NYT article today. Indeed, diversity is one of our strengths. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

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Opinion | I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"Blind deference to the government? That is no longer a thing. Trust that has been earned over generations has been lost in weeks." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

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Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

'The major tax cuts of 1981, 2001, 2003 and 2017 increased deficits, produced uneven economic results and delivered the largest benefits to wealthy Americans." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

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Republicans Say Tax Cuts Will Spur Growth. It Hasn’t Worked in the Past.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hope in the wake of the wreckage left by Trump is something we all need. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

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Opinion | Hope After Trump

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

No wonder Trump filed for bankruptcy protection six times. What a disastrous way to run a country. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The NY Times has been doing some superb reporting on the devastating effects of Trump's policies. This account shows how DOGE deregulations will cost consumers many millions of dollars, while bailing out banks & other corporations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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How Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Are Increasing Costs on Americans

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The impact of Trump's cruel USAID cuts has been devastating: up to 200,000 deaths that would not have occurred if the program had continued. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts

The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The Republican bill is a massive transfer of money from people who can't afford food or medical care to people who can afford to fly first class. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Big Budget Bomb

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Trump is at war against science, against the law, and against our finest universities. And, ultimately, he's at war against America.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Ricky Riccardi must be the world's leading authority on Louis Armstrong, and his latest book "Stomp Off, Let's Go" is a major achievement. I've read numerous Armstrong biographies, and this ranks among the best, offering important insights into his early (pre-1930) years. Highly recommended.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"From Antarctic research stations to telescopes high in the Andres to research submarines below the waves--and in laboratories & classrooms across the United States--the fingerprint of the NSF is vast and consequential." Until Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis

The $9 billion agency, which exists solely to fund researchers, projects and facilities outside its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters, is hitting reverse on its mission.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Excellent column by Bret Stephens summarizing the many ways that the absence of adult supervision in the Trump White House has produced one disaster after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

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Opinion | The Face-Plant President

There’s no better opponent than one who repeatedly trips over his shoelaces.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Powerful lead editorial in today's NY Times by Thomas Friedman. "This whole Trump II administration is a cruel farce. Trump ran for another term...in order to stay out of jail and to get revenge on those who, with real evidence, had tried to hold him accountable to the law."

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Trump is proposing to eliminate the scientific research division of NOAA, which would hobble early warning systems for natural disasters, scientific education for students, and the study of the Arctic. One more sign that we are dealing with a dangerously insane administration.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

David Brooks (NY Times) on Trump's tariff policy: "I have never seen a policy as stupid as this one. It is based on false assumptions. It rests on no coherent argument in its favor. It relies on no empirical evidence...It is jumble-headedness exemplified," & has led to "predictable mayhem."

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Just one day in the hideous Trump presidency: RFK's FDA layoffs will raise the nation's drug costs and erode food safety. That includes reduced inspections for deadly bacteria in food. CDC cutbacks further threaten public health, w/ fewer resources re: disease prevention. Deadly and evil.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

David Brooks: "If America is still America, those tariffs will represent the turning point of the Trump presidency. People will be outraged by the useless economic pain they are causing; and, more subtly, revolted by the cowardly values they represent."

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Every law firm that actually cares about the rule of law should stand up to support the firms opposing Trump's illegal efforts at intimidation and extortion. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

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Opinion | Our Law Firm Won’t Cave to Trump. Who Will Join Us?

The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Signal scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. As detailed by Noah Shachtman, China is trying to recruit recently fired U.S. workers. Trump shut down a seven-agency effort to counter Russian sabotage and cyberattacks. These idiots' incompetence is making it easy for our enemies.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

As today's NY Times editorial declares, America's great universities have the resources to stand up for academic freedom in the face of Trump's assault. The question is, do they have the courage to do what is right? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

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Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump

Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

One of the key elements in American greatness has been our leadership in scientific research. Trump and DOGE are attempting to destroy that. It's as if they want the U.S. to just give up, and let China assume dominance. This is simply nuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

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‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science

Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The Republicans' latest outrageous scam, which would completely pervert the process of budget-making. "It's like getting an F on an assignment, but then the teacher applies a curve" so your paper says you passed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Budget Trick the G.O.P. Might Use to Make a $4 Trillion Tax Cut Look Free

A maneuver so wonky that it might be best explained with sports cars and anime streaming.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

DOGE's cuts to the NOAA are among its most insane. Even climate change deniers still want the government to carefully track wildfire, flood, wind and other risks, and Trump's reckless cuts risk losing that life-saving ability. Result: more people will die. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

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Opinion | DOGE Could Jeopardize the Ability to Track Extreme Weather

We’re unplugging the monitors of the Earth’s vital signs.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The local weather predictions that we check daily are heavily dependent on the Ntl. Weather Service. But the Trump-Musk cutbacks have left the service with fewer than 4,000 employees, the lowest staff level in modern history. How is it "efficient" to cripple our ability to predict extreme weather?

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Today's NY Times editorial underlines Musk's reckless failure to understand (or deliberate refusal to accept) the stark difference between businesses and government. "If Twitter stops working, people can't tweet. When government services break down, people die."

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Medicaid covers 72 million Americans, about one-fifth of the population. It pays for about half of all nursing care in the United States, and 40% of all births. Yet the Republicans want to slash $880 million from the program over the next decade. This insanity has to be stopped.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Splendid column by David French in today's NY Times. He notes that Trump "is doing damage to America that it could take a generation or more to repair." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix

The president’s about-face on Ukraine has taught our allies a lesson they won’t be unlearning anytime soon.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

When I first heard about this James Carville column, I was skeptical. But after reading it, his proposed strategy kind of makes sense. Let Trump & the Republicans self-destruct over the next 30 days or so. Allow the MAGAs to commit political suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

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Opinion | James Carville: It’s Time for a Daring Political Maneuver, Democrats

There’s nothing Democrats can legitimately do to stop Trump, so we need a tactical pause in our fight to plan for the future.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

No American president or VP has ever disgraced our country the way Trump & Vance did today. There is no longer the slightest doubt that Trump is Putin's loyal poodle, and that our European allies will have to lead the cause of freedom. The United States is now on the side of evil.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Having sold his soul to Trump, Jeff Bezos is now trying to destroy one of America's great newspapers. He's betrayed the trust of readers and many talented employees. I've been a Post subscriber for over 55 years, but that has now ended. I've canceled my print subscription, in deep anger and sorrow.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Medicaid covers more than 70 million Americans. The program now funds almost half of all U.S. births, and represents more than half of spending on long-term care. More than 70% of Americans say they want Medicaid to stay as it is. But the Republican budget would eviscerate the program.

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is beyond outrageous. I've been a Washington Post subscriber for decades, but if this holds up, I won't be anymore. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/heart-brea...

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(Heart) Breaking News

From Update (1:37 p.m.)

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Who could possibly be against life-saving medical research? Trump & his band of idiots, of course. Benjamin Mueller (NY Times) writes that they've "brought biomedical research to the brink of crisis by holding up much of the $47 billion the United States spends on the field every year."

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Steve Sullivan @stevejazz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The stupidity of DOGE revealed yet again. Firing 6,700 IRS employees means your tax refunds will be delayed, the federal debt will explode due to shrunken tax receipts, the U.S. economy will take a giant hit, and the only people who benefit will be millionaires. Inefficient and just plain dumb.

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