Amy Sullivan

One of the many extraordinary aspects of the Epstein scandal is that it has cut across media silos.

It's both heartening to see how powerfully a story can still engage people of all stripes when they all have access to it--and sobering, bc this took right-wingers forcing it on their own silos.

I *am* a constitutional scholar and you are correct.

Jesus said “You will know them by their fruits.”

This is the fruit of white American Christianity’s overwhelming support of Donald Trump.

Democrats should put court reform, not just the Supreme Court, although certainly that, into their campaign thinking. Biden was a traditionalist in a way that did not recognize the true threat here.

It was definitely not sixth-grade material!

Some of you didn’t spend your formative years watching movies like The Day After or being assigned On the Beach in school or generally expecting nuclear annihilation before you reached adulthood—and it shows.

Motion to start calling these empathy-hating ghouls CHINOs—Christians In Name Only

Not only are church endorsements broadly unpopular, but in practice they were never actually banned.

In all of U.S. history, only one church lost its special tax status—and that was after a blatant case of electioneering.

This is a sop without substance.
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/o...

To the extent that modern conservatism has any motivating concept, it is vice-signaling.

Do the libs value it? Then we hate it, mock it, ban it.

What a hollow, sad way to move through life.

Maybe ICE will finally be able to afford badges and uniforms.

A good test for whether your bill is on the right or wrong side of history is if you can explain it to a 10yo without distressing them or feeling what remains of your soul shrivel up inside your husk.

Brian Fitzpatrick votes no. Second GOPer to do so.

Much love to you, @indivisiblebux.bsky.social

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

This may sound old fashioned, but again it’s worth saying. 60 Minutes did nothing wrong. This is a payoff for merger approval.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

When Dems considered an agenda called “Build Back Better,” mainstream news outlets agonized publicly about how they couldn’t use the term, and would instead call it, e.g., “Biden’s spending bill.” With Republicans in charge, calling their agenda One Big Beautiful Bill, that’s all out the window.

Old cartoons of black people being used as alligator bait "Seems like a good time to mention that white supremacists have had a long standing fixation with alligators eating Black and Brown people. This isn't new and it's not about 'illegal immigration.'"

Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT

The lie that immigrants are taking the jobs has been financed & stoked by the same dudes who want to use AI to take all our jobs.

When a regime permits/directs masked, unidentified agents to grab people and force them into unmarked vehicles, it is only a matter of when—not if—vigilantes kill someone under the same indistinguishable guise.

News organizations shouldn't be using the term "regime change" except to quote an official using the term. It's euphemism for "conquer." The debate isn't about whether the U.S. will "pursue regime change in Iran"; it's whether the U.S. will attempt to conquer Iran. 1/

“Vibes not intelligence” sums up the last decade plus.

Apologizing to your kids is a super power.

Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.

Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.

Trump bombing Iran was illegal and unjustified.

I ran for Congress to make sure our leaders consider the true costs of war.

And I will be in the Senate, standing on my titanium legs, demanding answers from Trump.

My statement:

When the Bushies trotted out satellite photos in 2003 w/ WMDs supposedly circled in Sharpie, many of us could tell there was nothing there. But the chattering class is filled with the intellectually insecure.

They would rather pretend the emperor has clothes than say he’s naked and be laughed at.

There is something about foreign policy that makes otherwise smart people lose their ever loving minds and I think it’s that they want more than anything to avoid looking dumb.

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Or—and I know this sounds crazy—we could have just not thrown away the Iran nuclear deal.

And given that a bunch of right-wing militia dudes with tactical cosplay in Michigan plotted to kidnap (and worse) a sitting governor, who’s to say they’re not?

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

New poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban residents Big-city and small-town Americans have vastly different views on issues like immigration and religion, helping to explain President Trump’s election

Remembering this story from 8 years ago, about the differing values of rural & urban people. One reason I remember it is that every single factual assertion made by a rural person in the piece is false.