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
Trumpism’s Primal Scream
Trumpism's effort to undo modernity is as doomed to fail as uninventing the light bulb, the airplane, or the computer. But not before MAGA does consequential damage.
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Trumpism's effort to undo modernity is as doomed to fail as uninventing the light bulb, the airplane, or the computer. But not before MAGA does consequential damage.
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February 8, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Trumpism’s Primal Scream
Trumpism's effort to undo modernity is as doomed to fail as uninventing the light bulb, the airplane, or the computer. But not before MAGA does consequential damage.
digbysblog.net/2026/02/08/t...
Trumpism's effort to undo modernity is as doomed to fail as uninventing the light bulb, the airplane, or the computer. But not before MAGA does consequential damage.
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Post-9/11, the GOP warned bogiemen from somewhere vaguely Middle East were coming to kill us in our beds. Today it's GOP armed thugs tricked out for Fallujah. In 2005, I asked whether Americans were “fighting terrorists, breeding them, or becoming them.” Now we know.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Post-9/11, the GOP warned bogiemen from somewhere vaguely Middle East were coming to kill us in our beds. Today it's GOP armed thugs tricked out for Fallujah. In 2005, I asked whether Americans were “fighting terrorists, breeding them, or becoming them.” Now we know.
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Absurdist theater based on Donald Trump’s presidency presents a problem for the Hamburg State Opera. Reality is overtaking attempts to satirize Trump.
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February 4, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Absurdist theater based on Donald Trump’s presidency presents a problem for the Hamburg State Opera. Reality is overtaking attempts to satirize Trump.
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GOP donors see handsome returns for investments in political donations. They at least adjacent to the "Epstein class," out there where sketchy deals are handshake-informal and, says John Ganz, “often downright criminal.” But then, Donald always wanted to be a gangster
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February 4, 2026 at 1:12 AM
GOP donors see handsome returns for investments in political donations. They at least adjacent to the "Epstein class," out there where sketchy deals are handshake-informal and, says John Ganz, “often downright criminal.” But then, Donald always wanted to be a gangster
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The political divide goes beyond left and right. A less noticed divide is between Americans of principle and those who root their life choices on maximizing principal.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
The political divide goes beyond left and right. A less noticed divide is between Americans of principle and those who root their life choices on maximizing principal.
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Sue them!
Democrats filed 12+ bills this term for removing qualified immunity from federal officials who violate people’s civil rights under color of law. Except Prof Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law believes individual states might empower state victims to sue for damages.
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Democrats filed 12+ bills this term for removing qualified immunity from federal officials who violate people’s civil rights under color of law. Except Prof Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law believes individual states might empower state victims to sue for damages.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Sue them!
Democrats filed 12+ bills this term for removing qualified immunity from federal officials who violate people’s civil rights under color of law. Except Prof Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law believes individual states might empower state victims to sue for damages.
digbysblog.net/2026/02/02/s...
Democrats filed 12+ bills this term for removing qualified immunity from federal officials who violate people’s civil rights under color of law. Except Prof Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law believes individual states might empower state victims to sue for damages.
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"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
— U.S. District Judge Fred Biery
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— U.S. District Judge Fred Biery
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February 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
— U.S. District Judge Fred Biery
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— U.S. District Judge Fred Biery
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Our government is brutalizing Americans
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February 1, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Our government is brutalizing Americans
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AND ... you won't need a law license because you're being hired to ignore the law and the courts. ICE washouts welcome!
Sorry if it doesn't pay as well as brutalizing random civilians.
Sorry if it doesn't pay as well as brutalizing random civilians.
January 31, 2026 at 8:52 PM
AND ... you won't need a law license because you're being hired to ignore the law and the courts. ICE washouts welcome!
Sorry if it doesn't pay as well as brutalizing random civilians.
Sorry if it doesn't pay as well as brutalizing random civilians.
Irv Manders: You men are tresspassin. Show me a warrant or get off my land.
Agent: We don't need a warrant.
Irv Manders: You do unless I woke up in Russia this morning!
"Firestarter" 1984
Agent: We don't need a warrant.
Irv Manders: You do unless I woke up in Russia this morning!
"Firestarter" 1984
January 31, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Irv Manders: You men are tresspassin. Show me a warrant or get off my land.
Agent: We don't need a warrant.
Irv Manders: You do unless I woke up in Russia this morning!
"Firestarter" 1984
Agent: We don't need a warrant.
Irv Manders: You do unless I woke up in Russia this morning!
"Firestarter" 1984
The clock on that is ticking.
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The clock on that is ticking.
I’ve advised celebrating little victories again and again and again. Just not recently.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, advises doing just that: “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, advises doing just that: “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.”
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January 31, 2026 at 2:39 AM
I’ve advised celebrating little victories again and again and again. Just not recently.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, advises doing just that: “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.”
digbysblog.net/2026/01/30/i...
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, advises doing just that: “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.”
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The Border Patrol killing of a licensed gun owner was an attack on a civil liberty that the right thinks of as its own: the 2nd Amendment. Is this attack on rights something the country can withstand for three more years, “or is American democracy truly in peril?”
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January 30, 2026 at 2:56 AM
The Border Patrol killing of a licensed gun owner was an attack on a civil liberty that the right thinks of as its own: the 2nd Amendment. Is this attack on rights something the country can withstand for three more years, “or is American democracy truly in peril?”
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What’s left of Donald Trump’s “very good brain” won't last another 3 years. Trump is surrounded by aides who sound like “brainwashed soldiers in ‘The Manchurian Candidate.’” The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists worries we are the closest we’ve ever been to catastrophe.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:14 AM
What’s left of Donald Trump’s “very good brain” won't last another 3 years. Trump is surrounded by aides who sound like “brainwashed soldiers in ‘The Manchurian Candidate.’” The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists worries we are the closest we’ve ever been to catastrophe.
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Charles Duhigg contrasts political efforts based on mobilizing and on organizing. A paramilitary invasion in Minneapolis gave the less-engaged “permission” to join get off their couches and join the fight. Is that what it’s going to take everywhere?
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January 29, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Charles Duhigg contrasts political efforts based on mobilizing and on organizing. A paramilitary invasion in Minneapolis gave the less-engaged “permission” to join get off their couches and join the fight. Is that what it’s going to take everywhere?
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A Stanford Prison Experiment for U.S. streets
DHS agents are guards. We are the prisoners. Comply or die.
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DHS agents are guards. We are the prisoners. Comply or die.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:55 AM
A Stanford Prison Experiment for U.S. streets
DHS agents are guards. We are the prisoners. Comply or die.
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DHS agents are guards. We are the prisoners. Comply or die.
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How dumb can you be and still get hired by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem?
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January 29, 2026 at 12:14 AM
How dumb can you be and still get hired by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem?
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Radley Balko finds parallels btw Minneapolis and the Boston Massacre. JD Last sees them in Gettysburg. The national backlash to Renee Good's and Alex Pretti’s murders brushed aside Trump admin propaganda the way Union fire stopped Pickett’s attack on Cemetery Ridge.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Radley Balko finds parallels btw Minneapolis and the Boston Massacre. JD Last sees them in Gettysburg. The national backlash to Renee Good's and Alex Pretti’s murders brushed aside Trump admin propaganda the way Union fire stopped Pickett’s attack on Cemetery Ridge.
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Remember in the aftermath of the Minneapolis killings of Good and Pretti, it's men like this that CBP hires and lets loose on American citizens.
DHS must think Bull Connor was an amateur.
This video is from Chicago in October.
DHS must think Bull Connor was an amateur.
This video is from Chicago in October.
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Remember in the aftermath of the Minneapolis killings of Good and Pretti, it's men like this that CBP hires and lets loose on American citizens.
DHS must think Bull Connor was an amateur.
This video is from Chicago in October.
DHS must think Bull Connor was an amateur.
This video is from Chicago in October.
"If You See Something, Say Something®" is a national campaign by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) encouraging the public to report suspicious, terrorism-related activities.
Citizens of Minneapolis saw DHS. They said something.
Citizens of Minneapolis saw DHS. They said something.
January 27, 2026 at 2:33 AM
"If You See Something, Say Something®" is a national campaign by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) encouraging the public to report suspicious, terrorism-related activities.
Citizens of Minneapolis saw DHS. They said something.
Citizens of Minneapolis saw DHS. They said something.
Stepping In It
Conservatives are by-God absolutist about the 2nd Amendment so long as it only protects them. CBP's killing of Alex Pretti, a licensed concealed-carry gun owner, has the Trump 2.0 in trouble w/the NRA & spiraling out of control in damage-control mode.
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Conservatives are by-God absolutist about the 2nd Amendment so long as it only protects them. CBP's killing of Alex Pretti, a licensed concealed-carry gun owner, has the Trump 2.0 in trouble w/the NRA & spiraling out of control in damage-control mode.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Stepping In It
Conservatives are by-God absolutist about the 2nd Amendment so long as it only protects them. CBP's killing of Alex Pretti, a licensed concealed-carry gun owner, has the Trump 2.0 in trouble w/the NRA & spiraling out of control in damage-control mode.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/26/s...
Conservatives are by-God absolutist about the 2nd Amendment so long as it only protects them. CBP's killing of Alex Pretti, a licensed concealed-carry gun owner, has the Trump 2.0 in trouble w/the NRA & spiraling out of control in damage-control mode.
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The Party of Trump is as predictable as it is unprincipled. They reflexively double down in response to failures.
In the wake of public outrage over a CBP agent shooting and killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, government agents are sticking to their guns. Literally.
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In the wake of public outrage over a CBP agent shooting and killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, government agents are sticking to their guns. Literally.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:48 PM
The Party of Trump is as predictable as it is unprincipled. They reflexively double down in response to failures.
In the wake of public outrage over a CBP agent shooting and killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, government agents are sticking to their guns. Literally.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/26/t...
In the wake of public outrage over a CBP agent shooting and killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, government agents are sticking to their guns. Literally.
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