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David E. Sullivan

@dsulliva2.bsky.social

Dem voting rights lawyer/organizer; former MA & Cambridge govt, still working for housing, tax, and immigrant justice; striving husband, dad, friend, puppy’s human, boomer, slow runner and cyclist, citizen

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Cambridge City Council Strengthens Sanctuary City Ordinance | News | The Harvard Crimson The Council voted unanimously to tighten the city’s Welcoming Community Ordinance, a 40-year-old policy limiting cooperation between the Cambridge Police Department and federal law enforcement on immi...

Proud of our City Council for closing a loophole at this critical moment www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

05.08.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Taps George Santos to Head Dept. Of Labor Statistics Beltway insiders are calling it one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history.

www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-taps...

04.08.2025 12:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question #ELB The Supreme Court just issued this order: Louisiana had to create that second majority-minority district in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, as it had been found to face Section 2 VRA liabi...

****Breaking:**** Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question electionlawblog.org?p=151301

01.08.2025 21:29 — 👍 364    🔁 191    💬 26    📌 48
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John Sullivan - HOME

Proud of my son John, an outstanding musician (not an inherited trait). Here's new website. Piano or voice lessons, anyone? johnsullivan53111.wixsite.com/home

01.08.2025 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Fierce competition' in Somerville's cat mayoral race now includes other animals The electoral field for "bike path mayor" in Somerville, Massachusetts, which started with just two cat-idates, has grown, as has public interest in the race.

I'm a bit suspicious of that mail ballot from Philly, where Trump alleged "massive cheating" just last year www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

31.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tenant's Rights Regarding Broker Fees Starting August 1, 2025, a new law makes clear that landlords cannot require tenants to pay broker fees in Massachusetts.

www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/...

30.07.2025 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If the Supreme Court allows this ghastly plan to go forward, a birth certificate will not prove citizenship for voter registration -- for anyone! -- under the state laws already in effect in AZ, NH, WY. What will?

30.07.2025 22:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hope to see you there!

29.07.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never mind the sentiments of the Declaration, says JD Vance. Our nation should be built on "Blut und Boden."

28.07.2025 23:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Rising Democratic Star Just Became a New Anti–Death Penalty Hero Gov. Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

22.07.2025 22:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honored to participate in this “good government” event today

22.07.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Pope Demands 'Immediate Halt to the Barbarity' of Israel's War on Gaza | Common Dreams Pope Leo XIV said the Israeli military's deadly attack on Gaza's sole Catholic Church was "just one of the continuous military attacks against the civilian population and places of worship" in the Pal...

www.commondreams.org/news/pope-le...

20.07.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The wait is over! Our segment on Empowered hosted by Meg Ryan is now airing nationally. We couldn’t be more excited to share the news with you today! Watch now: buff.ly/MjPAdMp
@pbsnews.org @wgbh.org #documentary #SocialChange #MassachusettsBudget #OpportunityForAll #PromotingEquity

16.07.2025 18:42 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The #PlatformForPeoplePower calls for:
📋Same Day Voter Registration
💻Guaranteed Hybrid Public Meeting Access
🔎Stronger Transparency Around Funding For Ballot Questions

www.commoncause.org/massachusett...

16.07.2025 00:04 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue It’s about elite impunity, the defining issue in America for more than two decades.

Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue - The American Prospect prospect.org/justice/2025...

15.07.2025 23:03 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Donald Trump's bill makes your life more expensive this year, next year, the year after that, and the year after that.

14.07.2025 21:59 — 👍 1612    🔁 755    💬 64    📌 54

Nothing conservative or moderate about building more homes for people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

14.07.2025 22:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a sign that says vote for affordable housing is above a house Alt: a sign that says vote for affordable housing is above a house

What has the #CambMA @abciepac.org‬ Pro-Housing City Councilors Accomplished?

Check it out www.abciepac.org/aho-accompli...
and while you are at it, please consider donating to and/or volunteering for ABC IEPAC so we can ensure our progress is not rolled back.

13.07.2025 23:09 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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‘The Living Vein of Compassion’ Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso reflects on the Church's prophetic role during an era of anti-immigrant scapegoating.

And here is Bishop Sitz's wonderful essay, to which the Greenhouse column refers: www.commonwealmagazine.org/living-vein-...

14.07.2025 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty

Let's look out for "the other" -- before it becomes all of us www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

14.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Firing everyone who could tell you what you're doing is unethical or illegal does not make what you're doing ethical or legal.

14.07.2025 12:39 — 👍 16029    🔁 5131    💬 810    📌 268
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Opinion | The Christian Backlash Taking Hold

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

12.07.2025 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is the ultimate betrayal of his base | Sidney Blumenthal The measure exposes the most elaborate charade in recent US political history. But betrayal is Trump’s operating principle

Yes, Trump betrays everyone (even Roy Cohn) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

12.07.2025 00:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Supreme Court Justice Wrote the Greatest “No Kings” Essay in History This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.

Justice Robert Jackson is one of my favorites (raised in western NY like me) slate.com/news-and-pol...

10.07.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | This ‘Trial of the Century’ Is 100. Its Lessons Could Save the Democrats.

To win, Dems need to focus on economic justice, accommodate diverse social views that might annoy us www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

10.07.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: · John Lewis Actions Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...

I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON:” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

10.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | What a $178 billion gift means for the immigration police state Funding for ICE is about to skyrocket under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

Of all the horrible things in Trump's Big Bad Bill, this might be the worst wapo.st/3U4Lc4s

09.07.2025 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DOJ Finds Man in Photo with Epstein was Actually Biden Trump said that the Epstein photo proved “Joe Biden’s crimes are even worse than Hunter’s.”

www.borowitzreport.com/p/doj-finds-...

08.07.2025 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller

He's a worse hater than Trump, and he might have more power. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

07.07.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Reconciliation Recommendations of the House Committee on the Judiciary As ordered reported on April 30, 2025

Judiciary Committee. www.cbo.gov/publication/... Reconciliation Recommendations of the House Committee on the Judiciary | Congressional Budget Office

07.07.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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