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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they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole
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NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
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“There is no doubt that the regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country.
The Prospect launched this tracker to do our part to stop them from getting away with it.”
The Prospect launched this tracker to do our part to stop them from getting away with it.”
As Trump's DHS leaders cry to Congress this morning about how deadly Minnesota is for immigration agents, we updated our tally of people ICE and CBP agents have killed since last January. It's up to 25.
A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
prospect.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
“There is no doubt that the regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country.
The Prospect launched this tracker to do our part to stop them from getting away with it.”
The Prospect launched this tracker to do our part to stop them from getting away with it.”
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NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
The editors of America: "These activists and fellow neighbors are doing the daily anonymous work of ensuring the dignity and safety of migrants who fear for their lives and their livelihoods in this dark time..."
www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...
www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...
The Moral Resistance to Trump’s Politics of Rage
As the Trump administration demeans American life and liberty, immigration and pro-life activists provide a light in the darkness.
www.americamagazine.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The editors of America: "These activists and fellow neighbors are doing the daily anonymous work of ensuring the dignity and safety of migrants who fear for their lives and their livelihoods in this dark time..."
www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...
www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...
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Any Irish politician going to the US for Paddy’s Day after this should be put on a rocket straight into the sun. Failing that they should be shamed out of public life.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Any Irish politician going to the US for Paddy’s Day after this should be put on a rocket straight into the sun. Failing that they should be shamed out of public life.
A problem for the Democrats nationwide: Even if they could win, who the heck would want the headaches of being a Democratic senator in a red state?
My latest: Sharice Davids might take on Roger Marshall for Senate. Democrats would love it. But would they love it if she won? #ksleg www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
If Davids won, she would become the Democrat that Democrats love to hate | Opinion
Moderate Rep. Sharice Davids versus MAGA Sen. Roger Marshall: Could she win or risk alienating Kansas progressives? | Opinion
www.kansascity.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
A problem for the Democrats nationwide: Even if they could win, who the heck would want the headaches of being a Democratic senator in a red state?
I'm too angry to panic
February 9, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I'm too angry to panic
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Any crackpot in a storm
Author of the "research" that was reportedly the basis of the Fulton County election raid:
"In 2004, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom."
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
"In 2004, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom."
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Any crackpot in a storm
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Since 1987, the entire construct of the U.S. mandatory sentencing code is that convicted defendants can only receive reductions in sentences for displaying remorse and fully cooperating with prosecutors. The perversity of Trump and his guilt is that for a pardon, Maxwell must display the opposite.
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Since 1987, the entire construct of the U.S. mandatory sentencing code is that convicted defendants can only receive reductions in sentences for displaying remorse and fully cooperating with prosecutors. The perversity of Trump and his guilt is that for a pardon, Maxwell must display the opposite.
Calling ICE on my mom because she listens to Edith Piaf
February 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Calling ICE on my mom because she listens to Edith Piaf
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By the time Mr. Musk’s wood chipper had ceased spinning, Fe y Alegría El Salvador had been forced to close most of its educational programs. Before Mr. Musk’s rampage, it served more than 11,000 young people. That number is now below 1,000.
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
Jesuits struggle with fallout from Trump policies on aid, immigration and deportation
Trump administration policies on humanitarian aid, immigration and mass deportation “have human afterlives, and they end up affecting communities; they end up affecting lives,” says Marco Gómez, S.J.,...
www.americamagazine.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
By the time Mr. Musk’s wood chipper had ceased spinning, Fe y Alegría El Salvador had been forced to close most of its educational programs. Before Mr. Musk’s rampage, it served more than 11,000 young people. That number is now below 1,000.
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
More problems with the government outsourcing things.
“How a prominent white supremacist leader came to work for a federal security contractor is unclear.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
US federal contractor hired white supremacist leader for wildfire relief
Ian Michael Elliott of neofascist Patriot Front worked ‘crisis relief missions’ funded by Department of Agriculture
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
More problems with the government outsourcing things.
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“Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States … police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user”
Icing on the cake is that hyper-pro police surveillance founder Jamie Siminoff, who recently returned to the CEO roll and dismantled years of privacy reforms appeared in the commercial.
Read more:
Read more:
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
“Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States … police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user”
You’re testing our gullibility with this one
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
You’re testing our gullibility with this one
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And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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“Black” is being flagged as a potentially prohibited word violating anti-DEI law at multiple Florida Universities. My interview this week with @grundrza.bsky.social documents his event being flagged because the flyer said “Black.”
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
“Black” is being flagged as a potentially prohibited word violating anti-DEI law at multiple Florida Universities. My interview this week with @grundrza.bsky.social documents his event being flagged because the flyer said “Black.”
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.
“They’re expected to assimilate. We haven’t had a lot of that going on." Complete rubbish. Unless the definition of “assimilate” means “change one’s skin color.” www.foxnews.com/media/speake...
Speaker Johnson uses Bible to justify secured borders after being asked about Pope’s rhetoric on migrants
Mike Johnson argues biblical passages support border security and immigration enforcement, saying Scripture gives civil authorities a mandate to maintain law and order in society.
www.foxnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
“They’re expected to assimilate. We haven’t had a lot of that going on." Complete rubbish. Unless the definition of “assimilate” means “change one’s skin color.” www.foxnews.com/media/speake...
Source? Link? www.aol.com/news/sen-joh...
Sen. John Fetterman reveals truth about party-switch rumors
‘I would make a pretty bad Republican’, Fetterman disclosed in an interview
www.aol.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Source? Link? www.aol.com/news/sen-joh...
Where has this been reported? www.aol.com/news/sen-joh...
Sen. John Fetterman reveals truth about party-switch rumors
‘I would make a pretty bad Republican’, Fetterman disclosed in an interview
www.aol.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Where has this been reported? www.aol.com/news/sen-joh...
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ICE thinks we're mean and unreasonable to call them out on kicking a dog.
"The dog is tiny, harmless, and really not doing anything to stop the agents from doing their jobs. Nevertheless, the U.S. Marshals played the victim."
Everything bad is someone else's fault.
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"The dog is tiny, harmless, and really not doing anything to stop the agents from doing their jobs. Nevertheless, the U.S. Marshals played the victim."
Everything bad is someone else's fault.
newrepublic.com/post/206282/...
U.S. Marshals Defend Viral Video of Agent Kicking a Dog
The agent was part of President Trump’s “Memphis Safe Task Force.”
newrepublic.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:13 AM
ICE thinks we're mean and unreasonable to call them out on kicking a dog.
"The dog is tiny, harmless, and really not doing anything to stop the agents from doing their jobs. Nevertheless, the U.S. Marshals played the victim."
Everything bad is someone else's fault.
newrepublic.com/post/206282/...
"The dog is tiny, harmless, and really not doing anything to stop the agents from doing their jobs. Nevertheless, the U.S. Marshals played the victim."
Everything bad is someone else's fault.
newrepublic.com/post/206282/...
"Court filings describe meals that are greasy, heavily seasoned or inappropriate for preschoolers and infants. Several parents said they found worms or mold. Some children survive largely on crackers and juice." This will reach more people coming from NBC News rather than ProPublica or Rolling Stone
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
"Court filings describe meals that are greasy, heavily seasoned or inappropriate for preschoolers and infants. Several parents said they found worms or mold. Some children survive largely on crackers and juice." This will reach more people coming from NBC News rather than ProPublica or Rolling Stone
And the pseudo-intellectual framework for racism was still being rebuilt after losing popularity in the previous decade.
February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
And the pseudo-intellectual framework for racism was still being rebuilt after losing popularity in the previous decade.
Jimmy Carter did win voters of both races in the South, so there was a flicker of hope then, before Reagan came along.
February 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Jimmy Carter did win voters of both races in the South, so there was a flicker of hope then, before Reagan came along.