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Tim Sullivan

@sullitm.bsky.social
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2nd place - McCarthy, Alaska egg toss (7/4/95); FJV Anchorage ‘93-‘94; Third Amendment supporter

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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JDG @cottonmather.bsky.social · 2h
The reason this reads as so refreshing and even bracing: the publication is privileging truth over lies. The truth is known. The govt. is saying false things. The report *observes this fact and then asks what the implications are*. That is not common industry practice on the politics beat.
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Tim Sullivan @sullitm.bsky.social · 2h
It’s really not very comforting to know that only some of the folks in the audience clapped about Iran killing millions of their fellow citizens
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 3h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Just Me @petermotz60.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They should re-word the question: "Mr President, prices are 30% higher now than they were when Biden was in office. What are you doing about it?"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The thing to remember about Mike Pompeo is that he is an untruthful, fundamentally unserious person, with terrible ideas about foreign policy & everything else, who weakened & embarrassed the State Dept & was the worst Secretary of State in 🇺🇸 history. This is embarrassing & shameful from SIPA.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please show me the statutory or constitutional authority that this man holds to do anything that he is actually doing
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you've ever taken an art history class, you know that professors can spend an entire lecture deconstructing one famous painting. They'll do that someday with this photo. The smug look on Schmitt's face. Kennedy's helpful hand. And best of all, the aide -- face hidden, torso with red tie exposed.
February 3, 2024

J.P. Cooney: Hey man. Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? J.P. Cooney: Damn. Thank you for saving- but we are good. Ask Harbach. Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.

February 2, 2024

Fani Willis acknowledges personal AILA RENA
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every Republican, including Trump, who tries to fall back on “stopping Iran from having a bomb” should be reminded that intelligence assessments, both before and after the war began, were that Iran was "not building a nuclear weapon” and the program had been suspended since 2003. …
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Vance defends Gabbard as 'critical part' of Trump team after president dismissed Iran nuke threat comments
Vice President JD Vance expressed support for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard after President Donald Trump claimed he "didn't care" about her previous Iran comments.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's problem was that he didn't brag enough. That was it
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens… and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is all so stupid www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh my God, this just keeps getting better.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation” 2 year olds In deportation hearings Without lawyers Hillary was right. Trump and his followers-in particular ICE-are truly deplorable
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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drsmutt.bsky.social @drsmutt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is no Republican "split" with Trump. It's catnip for access media, but the desperate ploy to align with the supermajority of voters who can't stand the president is tissue-thin. The same people saying the Iran war needs to end voted yesterday to keep it going. #Realtalk here.
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Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump - The American Prospect
They’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So Trump has decided he can label everything he wants as a national security necessity: his ballroom, his arch, his banning of journalists and a free press. Don't doubt that he will try to undermine or even stop midterm voting as a national security risk. Note: It's all a lie.
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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@zeteo.com and @swin24.bsky.social remind us that:
On this day in 2020, Donald Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he lost that year’s presidential election. He did lose, conclusively, and he didn’t allow a peaceful transition.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 21/09/2026
Here’s the ad Max Miller wants to shut down so bad he got his lawyers involved. He’s trying to silence this 35 year veteran of Ohio law enforcement. Please help make sure people see it. bsky.app/profile/poin...
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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I feel like we are so used to living in a time of madness that we can't grasp just how insane the Kennedy Center dispute is. Trump took something that was running just fine and destroyed it because he couldn't put his name next to the murdered president whose memorial it is. That's completely nuts.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18/09/2026
The US Congress has the power of the purse under our Constitution. Expenditures mandated by law are not up to the whims of the Executive branch, which has no such power. That is our money. Mandated by our laws. Shattering our Constitution harms all Conservative & Liberal Americans.
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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows
An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.
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Tim Sullivan @sullitm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stan The Man Unusual
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Is Oregon also on the way?
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"When Lutnick appeared with Chung 2 days after 9/11, I took everything he said at face value. We were all so traumatized & he seemed so sincere. But now? You’ll excuse me, but I doubt every word that’s ever come out of Lutnick’s mouth—whether last week on Squawk Box or 25 yrs ago on Connie Chung."
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Tear Jerk: The Guy From 9/11
“Who is Howard Lutnick and what is his greater purpose?”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Astonishing! He begins to name the books, to reassure himself that they are all still there, exactly, as he remembers. He’s an Alim, the highest level of Islamic scholar, he has, very likely, memorized *every* word in each text, and knows the order they’re placed. I’m not crying, you’re crying. 😭
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is big deal that the President is this insanely wrong about basic economic reality.
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