Michael Sullivan

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani's triumph holds lessons for Democrats The New York mayor-elect married socioeconomic policies and message discipline to moral clarity. Democrats should apply the same principles going forward.

I think this might have been the real reason so many Democrats (nationally) tried to undermine Mamdani's credibility as a candidate: fear that the party itself is about to experience a sea change.

But we want things to change, right? I mean, the old way got us Trump in the Oval Office twice....

Opinion | Nancy Pelosi Is an American Political Giant

Congratulations. Now do Schumer and Jeffries and anybody else in Democratic leadership who dragged their feet to support the Democratic primary winner for NYC governor.

The Trump administration has failed to explain why the US Coast Guard isn't simply interdicting these vessels and arresting people.

Murder isn't permitted as the opening move in law enforcement.

Trump administration announces 16th deadly strike on an alleged drug boat Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean

Why does the news waffle on facts? These aren't "deadly strikes," they're unambiguous acts of war that are also war crimes. They violate both international and US laws on the subject.

This is why DoD lawyers did not testify before Congress when requested.

The GOP Civil War Over Nick Fuentes Has Just Begun Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party.

Republicans who insist the GOP is not fundamentally racist should stand up and kick these figures to the curb.

Instead, they're mainstreaming White nationalism in the party's political discourse.

Take note, America.

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls out Johnson over House not meeting during shutdown The outspoken Georgia Republican called it an "embarrassment" on ABC's "The View."

A truth so obvious even MTG has to acknowledge it: House Republicans are refusing to work because doing so would mean releasing the Epstein files and Trump doesn't want that.

Live Updates: Election Day 2025 Voters on Tuesday will be casting ballots in U.S. state and local elections with an injection of presidential-level politics.

Senator Schumer refused to say which candidate got his vote for mayor of NYC. That's functionally an admission from the leading Democrat in the Senate that he did NOT vote for the Democratic party nominee for mayor.

Schumer has to go, New York. He's no longer respecting the voices of NY voters.

Finally, I'd like to see experts chart out for the public what a "normal" timeline looks like for people after they have obtained a diagnosis of dementia. While it is measured in years, they're single digits, folks. The mind crumbles quickly once disintegration begins.

It would also be good for experts to chime in on how worried they are to have someone with Trump's symptoms holding the power to order summary executions at sea or to start land wars in Venezuela and Nigeria - both of which Trump has threatened to invade.

We need some neurologists and/or psychologists to help the public understand the risks if Trump is experiencing actual dementia.

He's behaving the way my dad did at stage 4 of dementia and the progressive loss of cognitive function from here on out is dangerous.

And that doesn't even get to the real absurdity: these aren't obscure figures in the Jewish community; they have been elevated to the peak of societal power in Israel.

The mind boggles.

Miller, Noem, Rubio moving into housing reserved for military officers Noem was previously ‘living for free’, Washington Post reported, as top Trump advisers scooped up homes meant for military commanders, citing security concerns

Fascists gonna fash. They know their policies are causing great harm to Americans and they keep escalating every disagreement into open conflict. No wonder they are kicking military officers out of homes and quartering themselves there instead.

Bullies are fragile like that.

Meanwhile, his baseline argument is that the President of the United States has no obligation to actually protect the interests of Americans broadly, only those who continue to support him personally. Every other American is, to him, an enemy of the state and therefore a target to attack.

President Trump shows off White House's Lincoln Bathroom renovated entirely in marble On Friday, he showed off an entirely renovated Lincoln Bathroom on his social media platform.

Our status as a banana republic just went up another point.

Trump is intentionally blocking food aid to 42 million hungry Americans, setting the stage for some to die of starvation. His focus, however, is on his latest ego-driven bathroom remodel.

Moreover, what's the point of talking about Reagan in 2025 anyway? Reagan existed in an era of functioning checks and balances. That America is already gone. We need to get real about the threats we face today.

Even Bill Kristol Says He Would Vote for Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor The neocon says it would be “pathetic” for New York to go back to Andrew Cuomo.

Bill Kristol endorses a socialist because he's the only candidate in that race who isn't brazenly corrupt.

We should all take this lens and apply it to our own ballots. Do not support any candidate known to be corrupt, because they will bend the knee to fascism every time.

Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard is being readied for civil unrest missions in U.S. cities.

Unsurprisingly, the Pentagon is restructuring the National Guard to be a domestic suppression brute squad.

Part of their Make Americans Grovel Again grand plan, I suppose.

Tesla 'Robotaxis' keep crashing despite 'safety monitors' Based on the latest NHTSA report, Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ keep crashing in Austin, Texas, despite ‘safety monitors’ preventing an unknown number...

Current data indicates that Tesla is far behind Waymo in terms of self-driving safety, yet another metric suggesting Tesla has a challenging future ahead of it as a business.

Do you mean smart as in "that smarts!" to describe something sharply painful?

That reference is a deep cut. Bill Bixby would be proud.

Unless the teacher indicated that murder was good or that the victim deserved what happened, it is difficult for me to find justification for firing.

Perhaps this was part of a longer conflict between the district and this teacher?

We cannot control what students blurt out in class. We can only control how we respond to it. Kirk made a career convincing young White conservatives that it is okay to bully and insult everyone else in America. Letting a student praise the guy in class is dangerous.

Bayfield teacher fired following his comments on Charlie Kirk A former Bayfield High School math teacher says he was fired in mid-September for a social media post and comments he made following the death of political activist Charlie Kirk. Chris Ricci said he p...

As an educator, part of the job is correcting a student who introduces distortion into the classroom. My guess is that this article doesn't contain the evidence on which the firing was adjudicated; as stated in the article, he was just doing his job.

The fact that they ordered a follow-up dementia screener when a cardiac issue forced him into Walter Reed suggests that Trump's inner circle doesn't think he'll actually last long enough for elections to matter for him any more.

Food insecurity is extortion as federal policy, all the more so when there *are* funds to keep SNAP going but the administration is actively blocking SNAP access to funds that were reserved specifically to ensure programs like SNAP would not stop during government stoppages.

That's so gross that he's polling at almost 50-50 on immigration despite restructuring ICE into a brute squad of armed White nationalists.

Our society is ill.

House Report Details Biden’s Decline, Claiming He Was Impaired as President

Meanwhile, Trump's staff is so alarmed by his own decline that they keep making him take dementia assessments. Trump so badly misunderstands them that he boasts about how well he thinks he does despite finding the tests hard.

They're not hard unless you have dementia. #25thAmendmentNow

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

We should stop calling it patriotism (love of one's nation). It is nationalism (belief in the superiority & entitlement of one's nation).

There's a difference that any modern German can explain to you in stark terms if needed.

Trump is ensuring that after he's gone, America is going to have to rebuild democracy from literal rubble and ashes.

What a dick.

In addition to No Kings, we need No Oligarchs.

Trump is mimicking Putin's power structure in America.

The only way to end this madness is to actually restore power to the People (and the rule of law), right?