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Robert David Sullivan@robertdsullivan.bsky.social |
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Production editor for americamagazine.org. Former editor at Boston Phoenix, Boston Business Journal, Commonwealth mag and the New York Blade (LGBT weekly). I block people for uncivil comments, doesn't matter who they are directed toward.
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ProPublica
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Judge Denies Texas Attorney General’s Efforts to Use Consumer Protection Law to Shut Down a Migrant Shelter Annunciation House is one of more than a dozen organizations Ken Paxton has investigated using the state’s powerful consumer protection laws.
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Robert David Sullivan
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Comparing the U.S. president to a college president is too cringingly on-brand for Democrats.
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Robert David Sullivan
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This seems like the usual mentions of vice-presidential possibilities to stroke egos, not in real seriousness.
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Dan Kennedy
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The Boston Globe calls on President Biden to end his campaign.
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Robert David Sullivan
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Harris can make a strong case for her nomination, but she needs to tell her allies to cool it with the "It's her time" and "She's earned it" talk, which will alienate voters who think the Ds aren't taking this challenge seriously. open.substack.com/pub/josephkl...
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Robert David Sullivan
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How could this be about "replacing" Biden when he hasn't been nominated yet? (But if the stakes weren't so high, I'd chuckle at the Democrats getting hurt by the laws they've supported to keep third parties off the ballot.)
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The Washington Post
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About a dozen people showed up for the impromptu cat tour, led by John Edwards, who organizes the yearly event, seven years ago. Over a two-mile walk, the group stopped to see some 20 cats peeking through their windows. Now, hundreds of people attend.
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Robert David Sullivan
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"If any of them retain their positions or end up with cushy private sector gigs, you’ll know what you need to know about the regime’s retention of power." So... we can expect turbo-charged cancel culture.
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Robert David Sullivan
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I think the NYT op-ed columnists' social media comments definitely prove that they are edited in print.
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Robert David Sullivan
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I fear that this "moment of peril" is permanent. If Trump loses, the 2028 election immediately becomes the next emergency, and the media will be called upon to watch what they say about the president.
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ad-mastro.bsky.social
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In my piece in favor of congestion pricing, I ended with this more general bit, but in some ways this is the crux of it for me: how the let-down of things never just getting *done* leads to a sort of malaise, a national can't-do spirit. www.discoursemagazine.com/p/decongest-...
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Robert David Sullivan
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Stories like this reinforce the idea that the Democratic Party's top concern is the feelings of its leaders. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Robert David Sullivan
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How has the media in swing states been covering the news of the past week? Wait, is anyone on Bluesky in a swing state?
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John Pfaff
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New post up, on how there was never an actual bipartisan push for decarceration. It's true that red and blue states alike saw prison populations decline. But within those red states, the work was done by the blue counties. The politics of punishment are local, not state, not federal.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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I'm watching #sharp2024 presentations on ISOTYPE, a sort of century-ago combination of what we would think of today as infographics and emoji. Fascinating.
www.openculture.com/2018/12/isot...
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Robert David Sullivan
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I don’t know how exactly Trump could kill the congestion fee, but I guess however he does it, the Supreme Court will say it’s OK.
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Robert David Sullivan
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Nothing anger-inducing about this analysis (I didn't really see that intro at first). But any discussion about replacing Biden with someone other than Harris will go nowhere fast.
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Will McKinley
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Farewell to screenwriter Robert Towne (1934-2024) — Oscar winner for CHINATOWN and nominee for THE LAST DETAIL, SHAMPOO, and GREYSTOKE.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/m...
#RIPRobertTowne #FilmSky
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Robert David Sullivan
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I meant to say that I don't know if Harris feels this way herself, but a presidential coterie is bigger than the person in the middle.
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Robert David Sullivan
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The hangers-on around any presidential contender. Biden has them too.
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Robert David Sullivan
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Fixed. I mean the staff and inner circle around every presidential possibility
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Robert David Sullivan
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But will they go for Kamala the Cop?
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Joshua J. Friedman
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I genuinely love this slip (re: NYT)
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Robert David Sullivan
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People on here keep telling me Trump got in because of a delayed backlash to Obama.
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Robert David Sullivan
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He’s pre-emptively stamping out any consideration of someone other than Harris, which is more newsworthy than the expected public support for Biden.
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Robert David Sullivan
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I would think so, but then could the president keep going until he finds someone who will do it (like Nixon in the Saturday Night Massacre)?
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Robert David Sullivan
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I don’t think the court wants the president to be able to assassinate political opponents. Being able to shoot protesters outside the home of a Supreme Court justice, on the other hand…
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Robert David Sullivan
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That is the question. But if not, could the president simply pardon them?
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Robert David Sullivan
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Yep, the whole reason to have an early debate was for Biden to finally establish a lead.
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Robert David Sullivan
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This is such a great quote (assuming it’s true) in that it’s equally damning of its target and of the person who said it: “they will come back with their DNC convention lanyards in their hands, begging for Christmas party invitations and then for a plus-one.“
www.axios.com/2024/07/02/b...
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Robert David Sullivan
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Was the court majority saying that Woodrow Wilson could have/should have had Eugene Debs killed for urging people not to register for the draft in World War I?
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Robert David Sullivan
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This is the goal of so many media critics: "... trying from the top to shape opinion to get pre-formed outcomes, rather than empowering the people to see the truth and then decide as they will."
wisdomofcrowds.live/p/just-dont-...
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Robert David Sullivan
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"two very concrete things... Getting rid of the filibuster, which allows a minority to thwart the will of the majority in the Senate; and either expanding the Supreme Court (best) or putting term limits on the Supreme Court (not as good, but better than nothing).
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Phil Lewis
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A prosecutor reviewed Marcellus Williams's case and found “clear and convincing evidence” of his innocence. The Missouri Supreme Court still set an execution date. Today, the circuit court will decide if it'll hold a hearing and consider that evidence
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Dan Kennedy
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New at Media Nation: We need term limits for SCOTUS as well as some constraints on its powers.
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Robert David Sullivan
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Robert David Sullivan
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You shared one of the latter, which will be interpreted by the analytics as "this is what people want to see."
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Robert David Sullivan
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This is the best argument for keeping Biden: Democrats may disregard electability in picking a replacement--kind of like picking Sanders in 2020 and thinking he might be able to sneak in because Trump is so bad. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Bill Corbett
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I actually have nothing against Canada except jealousy of their healthcare. But I’m proud to have written this sketch and song. Eh.
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Robert David Sullivan
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They’ll be fine, the 6 conservatives have already been replaced by AI
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Robert David Sullivan
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This is a game of Russian roulette that I don’t want to play.
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Robert David Sullivan
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Fascists are taking advantage of real divisions between urban and rural, educated and less educated citizens. The idea that the media has manufactured these divisions only absolves the liberal parties from addressing the divisions, and this neglect further fuels fascism.