Robert David Sullivan
@robertdsullivan.bsky.social
Production editor for americamagazine.org. BA in poli sci, former editor at Boston Phoenix, Boston Business Journal, CommonWealth mag and the New York Blade (LGBTQ weekly). Decided the "Top 100 Sitcom Episodes of All Time" in 2012. UWS resident.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
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Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
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November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
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NYT: What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
NYT: What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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NYT: What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
NYT: What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
"Many community members are too afraid to come to the church pantry because of ongoing deportation efforts ordered by the Department of Homeland Security."
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Catholic food pantries adjust Thanksgiving deliveries to ICE deportation realities
As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach and ICE deportation efforts continue, Catholic parish food pantries are adapting to make sure immigrant community members have all they need to celebrate the hol...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"Many community members are too afraid to come to the church pantry because of ongoing deportation efforts ordered by the Department of Homeland Security."
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"A longtime ICE official told me Bovino is “out of control,” and warned that his expanding role will lead to the detention of more U.S. citizens and “more hate and more violence.”"
NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com
The Green Machine
Why the Border Patrol–not ICE—is taking over Trump’s mass-deportation campaign
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November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"A longtime ICE official told me Bovino is “out of control,” and warned that his expanding role will lead to the detention of more U.S. citizens and “more hate and more violence.”"
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Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
Senior Editor, Local Reporting Network
Remote, United States
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
"The second phase of New York’s long-overdue Second Avenue Subway may cost $3.7 billion a kilometre... The REM is being built for $140 million a kilometre—an astonishing bargain."
Thanks to @taras-grescoe.com for calling it a “light metro” instead of light rail 👍
“Riding that train made me feel like Canada was finally building transit fit for the 21st century, a worthy counterpart to the systems that are now common in Asian and European cities.”
“Riding that train made me feel like Canada was finally building transit fit for the 21st century, a worthy counterpart to the systems that are now common in Asian and European cities.”
Montreal's New Rail Line Is the Future - Macleans.ca
Canada has forgotten how to build fast, cheap transit. A new megaproject has the fix.
macleans.ca
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"The second phase of New York’s long-overdue Second Avenue Subway may cost $3.7 billion a kilometre... The REM is being built for $140 million a kilometre—an astonishing bargain."
Here you go. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
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November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Here you go. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
"inflict maximum suffering” is our national motto
Solid work by this reporter, but this story was broken by @jessbravin.bsky.social of the WSJ six weeks ago. I hope with this new reporting it will get more attention.
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Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.
Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”
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November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"inflict maximum suffering” is our national motto
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Density without walkability
Highs and lows (but mostly highs) from a weekend in Miami
angieschmitt.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
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November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
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One point to add about fake AI journalists: the people that will suffer most are young newbie journalists.
I’ve been writing for years and have an extensive footprint: no editor is going to think I’m AI.
But someone new, with few published stories, will necessarily look “less real”.
I’ve been writing for years and have an extensive footprint: no editor is going to think I’m AI.
But someone new, with few published stories, will necessarily look “less real”.
Really worrying. I now frequently receive pitches that are clearly written by AI - the worrying part will be when that stops being clear. I'm fairly confident our editorial processes and numerous rounds of edits would eventually unmask an AI writer, but you never know... thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
One point to add about fake AI journalists: the people that will suffer most are young newbie journalists.
I’ve been writing for years and have an extensive footprint: no editor is going to think I’m AI.
But someone new, with few published stories, will necessarily look “less real”.
I’ve been writing for years and have an extensive footprint: no editor is going to think I’m AI.
But someone new, with few published stories, will necessarily look “less real”.
They should open a location at Boston City Hall!
This Mini-Brutalist Building in Osaka - Contrasted by housing a Maid Cafe r/brutalism
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
They should open a location at Boston City Hall!
You guys will believe anything if it’s in a screenshot.
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
You guys will believe anything if it’s in a screenshot.
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On how Catholic leaders and communities around the world have confronted autocratic regimes and defended democratic freedoms, with lessons for faithful action in the US today. @horizonsprjt.bsky.social bit.ly/4hSOqDk
U.S. Catholics are facing an authoritarian threat. The church has been here before.
The Catholic Church in the United States today is facing a crucial test. Will Catholic leadership accommodate and adapt itself to authoritarian power? Or will it offer leadership to give hope, oppose authoritarian abuses and defend human freedom?
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November 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
On how Catholic leaders and communities around the world have confronted autocratic regimes and defended democratic freedoms, with lessons for faithful action in the US today. @horizonsprjt.bsky.social bit.ly/4hSOqDk
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This is a really good piece on the quite frankly shocking (to some) developing Catholic (and other denominations) opposition to fascism. More Romero than Franco.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church | Simon Tisdall
Inequality, immigration and civil rights are the battlegrounds on which the church, and some other Christian denominations, are fighting, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is a really good piece on the quite frankly shocking (to some) developing Catholic (and other denominations) opposition to fascism. More Romero than Franco.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Canada and the U.S. better get cracking on high-speed rail before population declines make transit improvements fiscally unfeasible.
Canada to accelerate high-speed rail project connecting Quebec City and Toronto
“Canada’s largest infrastructure project ever will connect nearly 20 million Canadians between Quebec City and Toronto with 300km/hour high-speed rail.”
“Canada’s largest infrastructure project ever will connect nearly 20 million Canadians between Quebec City and Toronto with 300km/hour high-speed rail.”
Canada to accelerate high-speed rail project connecting Quebec City and Toronto
With the passing of the budget, the Government of Canada will fast-track the Alto high-speed rail project to connect Quebec City and Toronto.
cultmtl.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Canada and the U.S. better get cracking on high-speed rail before population declines make transit improvements fiscally unfeasible.
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I think we have a winner
Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I think we have a winner
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lol watching the NWSL final, which is taking place in San Jose, and Washington Spirit fans started shouting the now customary "Free DC!" chant at the 51st minute.
An announcer just calmly comments fans are "raising their voices," leaving unsaid at least 2 layers of pretty intense political subtext.
An announcer just calmly comments fans are "raising their voices," leaving unsaid at least 2 layers of pretty intense political subtext.
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
lol watching the NWSL final, which is taking place in San Jose, and Washington Spirit fans started shouting the now customary "Free DC!" chant at the 51st minute.
An announcer just calmly comments fans are "raising their voices," leaving unsaid at least 2 layers of pretty intense political subtext.
An announcer just calmly comments fans are "raising their voices," leaving unsaid at least 2 layers of pretty intense political subtext.
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving These New Yorkers Behind
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November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Abbott, lawmaker comments helped doom Texas’ new voting map www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/t...
Abbott, lawmaker comments helped doom Texas’ new voting map
Judge Jeffrey Brown pointed to comments from the governor and GOP legislators as the basis for his ruling that the new map can’t be used in 2026.
www.texastribune.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Abbott, lawmaker comments helped doom Texas’ new voting map www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/t...
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The Coast Guard reversed its 'swastikas aren't all that bad' policy just hours after the Washpost broke the story.
It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
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It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The Coast Guard reversed its 'swastikas aren't all that bad' policy just hours after the Washpost broke the story.
It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"pregnant women in jail often face another obstacle: They say they are presumed to be unfit mothers. That bias can lead correctional workers to dismiss their medical complaints and regard them with doubt or contempt."
Big, yearlong investigation from @NBCNews.com landed today:
"Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors."
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"Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors."
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'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"pregnant women in jail often face another obstacle: They say they are presumed to be unfit mothers. That bias can lead correctional workers to dismiss their medical complaints and regard them with doubt or contempt."
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Foundations should stop funding groups that advance harmful housing policies.
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Foundations should stop funding groups that advance harmful housing policies.
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...