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.
ICE does not like the 1st Amendment: "The Department of Homeland Security [is] targeting online critics of ICE by trying to force them to sign a heretofore unheard of “Warning Notice” admitting that their criticisms were unlawful." morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/revealed-t...
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics
INSIDE: Markwayne Mullin ... Todd Blanche ... Jeanine Pirro
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god i love local news
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d agoin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Bluesky isn't really a bubble if you block all the right people.
But I'm one of the poor unfortunates who doesn't own a motor vehicle
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you live in the US, you want to know about this website.
“I don’t take joy in doing that; it’s a weighty thing,” DeSantis said. The governor explained to the sheriffs that the Covid-19 years had thrown the state “off its schedule.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
Archbishop Wenski condemns Catholic governor Ron DeSantis’s execution rampage
“I can’t explain the thinking other than that wants to come across as a tough guy,” the Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said.
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On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
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We need a term for this growing phenomenon of elected officials trying to explain Catholic theology to the Catholic hierarchy.
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily
WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...
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Reached by phone, Ms. Boeke asked, “How did you find out?” before declining to give further comment.
Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · 6d agoUPDATE: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
"When some donors have been put on the phone with Trump after giving millions, they expected to receive thank yous, but instead were asked for more money." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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Of all the features of contemporary American life I'm ready to see the end of, the valorization of "people who aren't afraid to piss everyone off" is high on the list.
"Future plots to imprison a critic of the MAGA movement might not be undermined by a loudmouth president who can’t help but give away the scheme." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
America Isn’t Supposed to Have Political Prosecutions
The investigation of James Comey is vindictive and meritless—and unashamedly so.
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Trump doesn't really "have a point" here, but routinely beginning events with “land acknowledgments” is such an unforced error on the left. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump Has a Point About the Smithsonian
Its American history museum has become an instrument of left-wing culture warriors.
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Active modes are quiet modes. Car dependency is loud. David Rojas-Rueda: “Transportation noise causes a quantifiable and unevenly distributed health burden in the United States that remains invisible to federal health surveillance.”
New at America magazine: "Instead of punitive tariffs, the immediate response to the smoke from Canada, at the very least, should be a stronger North American compact for wildfire management." www.americamagazine.org/news-analysi...
The smoke from Canada shows the dangers of short-term economic thinking
The smoke from Canada makes the idea of a common home strikingly literal.
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Vatican II has finally gone too far www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/07...
Pope Leo to young Catholics: Jesus doesn't want you to be couch potatoes
The church “needs your holy rebelliousness, your pure energy, and your desire to transform situations of suffering into spaces of hope,” the pope said to youth in a video message.
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Just wait until they get Pope Leo in front of a Senate committee
Every so often, Paul has to remind us that his first name is Rand.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.In a combative session, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who spent nearly four decades as the government’s top infectious disease expert, refused on Wednesday to answer any questions from a Senate committee investigating the origins of Covid-19. nyti.ms/3RjryEr
“ICE officer Jonathan Ross didn’t kill Renee Good; she was murdered by every Hollywood action hero who celebrates offing the bad guy by dropping a quippy laughline.” My Substack newsletter today reflects on #Trump and anti-liberal resentment. marcroscoeloustau.substack.com/p/de-radical...
GOP Gov. DeWine on ICE operations in Ohio: "It's a mistake. It's not good for the United States, and it's not good for the state of Ohio…These are people who have opened restaurants, they've opened other businesses, they've rehabbed houses, they've created jobs, as well as filled [essential] jobs."
“Constructing the Inner Belt would mean razing scores of homes and neighborhoods. Opposition built up gradually, beginning in the 1950s and early 1960s. A group of activists—largely led by women and stay-at-home mothers—saw how communities of color in Boston were dealing with similar issues.“
What's with the ghost ramp on I-93 in Somerville?
The unfinished ramp has been hanging over I-93 for decades, a relic of a highway project that never happened.
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Archdiocese of Washington will be holding a mass of solidarity tomorrow at 6:00 pm at Our Lady of Sorrows in Takoma Park, MD. This Mass is being offered for the Haitian community and those impacted by changes to immigration policy.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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NEW: The government's own witness in the felony Reflecting Pool case couldn't represent that the damage cost $1K+, the core element of the crime.
Witness in Reflecting Pool case conceded damage before canoeist touched water
The only grand jury witness in David “Davey” Hearn’s case said the area was already damaged and could not represent that his alleged actions cost more than $1,000, his attorneys said.
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I took a ride on #Paris's Ligne C1, Europe’s newest, and longest, urban cable car line. I was impressed! I write about the downsides and (multiple) upsides of aerial tramways as public transport in this week's HIGH SPEED dispatch #transit #france🇫🇷 www.highspeed.blog/up-where-the...
