Steve Sullivan
@stevejazz.bsky.social
Longtime writer & editor, author of several books including "Va Va Voom" & the four-volume Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. Liberal Democrat, passionately anti-Trump, jazz/pop music fanatic, & baseball fan.
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I grew up in Oklahoma City, and loved it as a kid. Oklahoma politics in recent years has often given me cause to be ashamed of the state. But kudos to the Republican mayor of the city for his excellent NYT article today. Indeed, diversity is one of our strengths. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Opinion | I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I grew up in Oklahoma City, and loved it as a kid. Oklahoma politics in recent years has often given me cause to be ashamed of the state. But kudos to the Republican mayor of the city for his excellent NYT article today. Indeed, diversity is one of our strengths. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
"Blind deference to the government? That is no longer a thing. Trust that has been earned over generations has been lost in weeks." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders
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August 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Blind deference to the government? That is no longer a thing. Trust that has been earned over generations has been lost in weeks." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
'The major tax cuts of 1981, 2001, 2003 and 2017 increased deficits, produced uneven economic results and delivered the largest benefits to wealthy Americans." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
Republicans Say Tax Cuts Will Spur Growth. It Hasn’t Worked in the Past.
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June 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
'The major tax cuts of 1981, 2001, 2003 and 2017 increased deficits, produced uneven economic results and delivered the largest benefits to wealthy Americans." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
Hope in the wake of the wreckage left by Trump is something we all need. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...
Opinion | Hope After Trump
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June 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hope in the wake of the wreckage left by Trump is something we all need. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...
No wonder Trump filed for bankruptcy protection six times. What a disastrous way to run a country. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Gilded Gut Instinct
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June 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
No wonder Trump filed for bankruptcy protection six times. What a disastrous way to run a country. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...
The NY Times has been doing some superb reporting on the devastating effects of Trump's policies. This account shows how DOGE deregulations will cost consumers many millions of dollars, while bailing out banks & other corporations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
How Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Are Increasing Costs on Americans
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June 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The NY Times has been doing some superb reporting on the devastating effects of Trump's policies. This account shows how DOGE deregulations will cost consumers many millions of dollars, while bailing out banks & other corporations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
The impact of Trump's cruel USAID cuts has been devastating: up to 200,000 deaths that would not have occurred if the program had continued. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts
The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The impact of Trump's cruel USAID cuts has been devastating: up to 200,000 deaths that would not have occurred if the program had continued. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Republican bill is a massive transfer of money from people who can't afford food or medical care to people who can afford to fly first class. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Big Budget Bomb
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May 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The Republican bill is a massive transfer of money from people who can't afford food or medical care to people who can afford to fly first class. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Bruce Springsteen, as always, boldly speaks truth to power. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Bruce Springsteen is fighting for the America he sings about
On a new live recording from his Land of Hope and Dreams tour, Springsteen isn’t warning us about authoritarianism: “This is happening now.”
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May 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Bruce Springsteen, as always, boldly speaks truth to power. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Extortion against American entities (like universities, law firms, and media outlets) is unconstitutional. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | No, Trump can’t force his agenda on U.S. entities. They have rights.
The government cannot withhold benefits because it doesn’t like how people exercise their rights.
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May 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Extortion against American entities (like universities, law firms, and media outlets) is unconstitutional. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Trump is at war against science, against the law, and against our finest universities. And, ultimately, he's at war against America.
May 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Trump is at war against science, against the law, and against our finest universities. And, ultimately, he's at war against America.
Ricky Riccardi must be the world's leading authority on Louis Armstrong, and his latest book "Stomp Off, Let's Go" is a major achievement. I've read numerous Armstrong biographies, and this ranks among the best, offering important insights into his early (pre-1930) years. Highly recommended.
May 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ricky Riccardi must be the world's leading authority on Louis Armstrong, and his latest book "Stomp Off, Let's Go" is a major achievement. I've read numerous Armstrong biographies, and this ranks among the best, offering important insights into his early (pre-1930) years. Highly recommended.
Powerful, disturbing investigative piece by the Washington Post. A genuine scandal and abuse of power. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison
The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.
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May 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Powerful, disturbing investigative piece by the Washington Post. A genuine scandal and abuse of power. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
"From Antarctic research stations to telescopes high in the Andres to research submarines below the waves--and in laboratories & classrooms across the United States--the fingerprint of the NSF is vast and consequential." Until Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis
The $9 billion agency, which exists solely to fund researchers, projects and facilities outside its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters, is hitting reverse on its mission.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"From Antarctic research stations to telescopes high in the Andres to research submarines below the waves--and in laboratories & classrooms across the United States--the fingerprint of the NSF is vast and consequential." Until Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
One hundred days of Trump's relentless stream of lies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | One hundred days of Trump 2.0: Falsehood after falsehood, again and again
The president’s Time magazine interview features 32 false or misleading claims.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One hundred days of Trump's relentless stream of lies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Excellent column by Bret Stephens summarizing the many ways that the absence of adult supervision in the Trump White House has produced one disaster after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Opinion | The Face-Plant President
There’s no better opponent than one who repeatedly trips over his shoelaces.
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April 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Excellent column by Bret Stephens summarizing the many ways that the absence of adult supervision in the Trump White House has produced one disaster after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
Powerful lead editorial in today's NY Times by Thomas Friedman. "This whole Trump II administration is a cruel farce. Trump ran for another term...in order to stay out of jail and to get revenge on those who, with real evidence, had tried to hold him accountable to the law."
April 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Powerful lead editorial in today's NY Times by Thomas Friedman. "This whole Trump II administration is a cruel farce. Trump ran for another term...in order to stay out of jail and to get revenge on those who, with real evidence, had tried to hold him accountable to the law."
Trump is proposing to eliminate the scientific research division of NOAA, which would hobble early warning systems for natural disasters, scientific education for students, and the study of the Arctic. One more sign that we are dealing with a dangerously insane administration.
April 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trump is proposing to eliminate the scientific research division of NOAA, which would hobble early warning systems for natural disasters, scientific education for students, and the study of the Arctic. One more sign that we are dealing with a dangerously insane administration.
David Brooks (NY Times) on Trump's tariff policy: "I have never seen a policy as stupid as this one. It is based on false assumptions. It rests on no coherent argument in its favor. It relies on no empirical evidence...It is jumble-headedness exemplified," & has led to "predictable mayhem."
April 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
David Brooks (NY Times) on Trump's tariff policy: "I have never seen a policy as stupid as this one. It is based on false assumptions. It rests on no coherent argument in its favor. It relies on no empirical evidence...It is jumble-headedness exemplified," & has led to "predictable mayhem."
Just one day in the hideous Trump presidency: RFK's FDA layoffs will raise the nation's drug costs and erode food safety. That includes reduced inspections for deadly bacteria in food. CDC cutbacks further threaten public health, w/ fewer resources re: disease prevention. Deadly and evil.
April 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just one day in the hideous Trump presidency: RFK's FDA layoffs will raise the nation's drug costs and erode food safety. That includes reduced inspections for deadly bacteria in food. CDC cutbacks further threaten public health, w/ fewer resources re: disease prevention. Deadly and evil.
David Brooks: "If America is still America, those tariffs will represent the turning point of the Trump presidency. People will be outraged by the useless economic pain they are causing; and, more subtly, revolted by the cowardly values they represent."
April 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
David Brooks: "If America is still America, those tariffs will represent the turning point of the Trump presidency. People will be outraged by the useless economic pain they are causing; and, more subtly, revolted by the cowardly values they represent."
Every law firm that actually cares about the rule of law should stand up to support the firms opposing Trump's illegal efforts at intimidation and extortion. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
Opinion | Our Law Firm Won’t Cave to Trump. Who Will Join Us?
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Every law firm that actually cares about the rule of law should stand up to support the firms opposing Trump's illegal efforts at intimidation and extortion. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
With this ludicrous, self-humiliating Cabinet, it's just one fiasco after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Crackerjack Cabinet Is a Fiasco Foretold
Pete Hegseth & Co. weren’t chosen for their competence.
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March 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
With this ludicrous, self-humiliating Cabinet, it's just one fiasco after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...