Tom Sullivan
@tmsullivan.bsky.social
Morning guy at Digby's Hullabaloo since 2014.
Author 'For The Win' guide: http://bit.ly/30oNLBT
Bylines: @crooksandliars @HuffPost @BillMoyers Citizen-Times & more
Trump once threatened to sue me: https://bit.ly/3EHUHhU
Author 'For The Win' guide: http://bit.ly/30oNLBT
Bylines: @crooksandliars @HuffPost @BillMoyers Citizen-Times & more
Trump once threatened to sue me: https://bit.ly/3EHUHhU
Is someone experimenting with using bullshit as a source of alternative energy? I'd like to invest.
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
January 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Is someone experimenting with using bullshit as a source of alternative energy? I'd like to invest.
"[W]e’re dealing with people who have absolutely no sense of legality, propriety, or decency." -- MN state AG Keith Ellison on CBP/ICE
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He’s One of the Few People With the Power to Stand Up to ICE. Here’s What He’s Doing With It.
“Nobody really could prepare us for what we’ve seen,” says Minnesota AG Keith Ellison.
slate.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"[W]e’re dealing with people who have absolutely no sense of legality, propriety, or decency." -- MN state AG Keith Ellison on CBP/ICE
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
During Trump 2 .0, the population of migrants held at ICE facilities has exploded—from below 40,000 in January 2025 to over 73,000 today. Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population. And yet....
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
www.motherjones.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:29 AM
During Trump 2 .0, the population of migrants held at ICE facilities has exploded—from below 40,000 in January 2025 to over 73,000 today. Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population. And yet....
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
David Cochrane of CBC News Network’s “Power & Politics”: “America isn’t the way it is because he's president. He’s president because America is the way it is.”
Many of us were carefully taught to hate all the people our relatives hate. Trumpism will survive Trump.
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Many of us were carefully taught to hate all the people our relatives hate. Trumpism will survive Trump.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/20/c...
January 21, 2026 at 2:20 AM
David Cochrane of CBC News Network’s “Power & Politics”: “America isn’t the way it is because he's president. He’s president because America is the way it is.”
Many of us were carefully taught to hate all the people our relatives hate. Trumpism will survive Trump.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/20/c...
Many of us were carefully taught to hate all the people our relatives hate. Trumpism will survive Trump.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/20/c...
Dept. of Homeland Security/CBP/ICE Oath of Office
January 21, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Dept. of Homeland Security/CBP/ICE Oath of Office
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I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Our deer-in-the-headlights Congress bears responsibility for Trump’s body remaining in office while his brain checks out for fantasies of destroying NATO and becoming emperor of the Western Hemisphere.
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digbysblog.net
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Our deer-in-the-headlights Congress bears responsibility for Trump’s body remaining in office while his brain checks out for fantasies of destroying NATO and becoming emperor of the Western Hemisphere.
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*DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES
January 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM
*DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES
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Them: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
Welker: " If the United States were to take Greenland by force, how would that be different than Russia's annexation of Crimea?"
Bessent: "I believe that the Europeans will understand that this is best for Greenland, best for Europe, and best for the United States."
Bessent: "I believe that the Europeans will understand that this is best for Greenland, best for Europe, and best for the United States."
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Them: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
A group of artists, preservationists, and activists is sounding the alarm against...demolition of a prominent federal office building next to the National Mall ... including several New Deal-era murals that speak to the value of Social Security in the United States.
hyperallergic.com/activists-fi...
hyperallergic.com/activists-fi...
Activists Fight to Salvage the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art”
President Trump's plans to sell a federal building housing works of art about Social Security is an attempt to erase the country’s history, a new petition argues.
hyperallergic.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 AM
A group of artists, preservationists, and activists is sounding the alarm against...demolition of a prominent federal office building next to the National Mall ... including several New Deal-era murals that speak to the value of Social Security in the United States.
hyperallergic.com/activists-fi...
hyperallergic.com/activists-fi...
Do something before Trump starts babbling about fluoride
The Mad King & Shadow President Stephen Miller mean to work their will before Americans rise up and resist their ethnic cleansing program, and before NATO can deter Trump from taking the world’s biggest island.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/19/d...
The Mad King & Shadow President Stephen Miller mean to work their will before Americans rise up and resist their ethnic cleansing program, and before NATO can deter Trump from taking the world’s biggest island.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/19/d...
January 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Do something before Trump starts babbling about fluoride
The Mad King & Shadow President Stephen Miller mean to work their will before Americans rise up and resist their ethnic cleansing program, and before NATO can deter Trump from taking the world’s biggest island.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/19/d...
The Mad King & Shadow President Stephen Miller mean to work their will before Americans rise up and resist their ethnic cleansing program, and before NATO can deter Trump from taking the world’s biggest island.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/19/d...
"Democracy, multilateralism and accountability once defined the postwar order," says Alain Berset. Trump is not interested in living in that world. Americans had best decide if that’s a U. S. we will accept before Trump has a chance to consolidate totalitarian control. digbysblog.net/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 1:05 AM
"Democracy, multilateralism and accountability once defined the postwar order," says Alain Berset. Trump is not interested in living in that world. Americans had best decide if that’s a U. S. we will accept before Trump has a chance to consolidate totalitarian control. digbysblog.net/2026/01/19/a...
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National media covering MAGA event: "Look at this normal person who is mad" (10 seconds of googling shows they're chair of the local GOP)
National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"
National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"
January 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM
National media covering MAGA event: "Look at this normal person who is mad" (10 seconds of googling shows they're chair of the local GOP)
National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"
National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"
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Why does @StephenM give a damn how a 60-yr-old fictional universe he'd refuse to live in is peopled? He finds repugnant the concept of a bright, human future that has outgrown bigotry and is a cooperative melting pot of species and cultures.
January 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Why does @StephenM give a damn how a 60-yr-old fictional universe he'd refuse to live in is peopled? He finds repugnant the concept of a bright, human future that has outgrown bigotry and is a cooperative melting pot of species and cultures.
Why does @StephenM give a damn how a 60-yr-old fictional universe he'd refuse to live in is peopled? He finds repugnant the concept of a bright, human future that has outgrown bigotry and is a cooperative melting pot of species and cultures.
January 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Why does @StephenM give a damn how a 60-yr-old fictional universe he'd refuse to live in is peopled? He finds repugnant the concept of a bright, human future that has outgrown bigotry and is a cooperative melting pot of species and cultures.
Rep. Don Bacon last Wed "ratcheted up his criticism" of Trump @WhiteHouse approach to Greenland, saying Trump's comments represent "utter buffoonery" and that invading Greenland would be a "disastrous idea" that could lead to Trump's impeachment.
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Rep. Don Bacon says House could impeach Trump if U.S. invades Greenland
Rep. Don Bacon tells The World-Herald that there would be GOP support for an impeachment of Donald Trump if the U.S. invaded Greenland.
omaha.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Rep. Don Bacon last Wed "ratcheted up his criticism" of Trump @WhiteHouse approach to Greenland, saying Trump's comments represent "utter buffoonery" and that invading Greenland would be a "disastrous idea" that could lead to Trump's impeachment.
omaha.com/news/local/g...
omaha.com/news/local/g...
"We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
"We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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He's seeding the idea of the government takeover of the media.
January 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM
He's seeding the idea of the government takeover of the media.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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"Graham, a 34-year old Greensboro, North Carolina police officer, is the seventh instance ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman in a state that significantly restricted abortion died after she was unable to access standard care..."
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
www.propublica.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"Graham, a 34-year old Greensboro, North Carolina police officer, is the seventh instance ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman in a state that significantly restricted abortion died after she was unable to access standard care..."
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
Them: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
Welker: " If the United States were to take Greenland by force, how would that be different than Russia's annexation of Crimea?"
Bessent: "I believe that the Europeans will understand that this is best for Greenland, best for Europe, and best for the United States."
Bessent: "I believe that the Europeans will understand that this is best for Greenland, best for Europe, and best for the United States."
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Them: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
Me: If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?
Looking at you, Bessent.
January 18, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Here's a provision we should rename for Donald Trump.
January 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Here's a provision we should rename for Donald Trump.
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Average Sunday show interview:
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
January 18, 2026 at 4:31 PM