David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social
Dem voting rights lawyer/organizer; former MA & Cambridge govt, still working for housing, tax, and immigrant justice; striving husband, dad, friend, puppy’s human, boomer, slow runner and cyclist, citizen
I agree with my fellow boomer here! prospect.org/2025/11/11/m...
The Myth of the Democrats’ Gerontocracy Problem - The American Prospect
The Democrats’ problem is not age—it’s corporate and centrist Democrats of all ages. What distinguishes some of the most successful young Democrats is not just their youth but the fact that they are c...
prospect.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I agree with my fellow boomer here! prospect.org/2025/11/11/m...
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Spanberger, Sherrill & Mamdani all saw Trump’s contempt for his own voters.
My column: Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
My column: Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Now We Know Trump’s Kryptonite
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Spanberger, Sherrill & Mamdani all saw Trump’s contempt for his own voters.
My column: Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
My column: Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Rays of Hope -- not only Tuesday's amazing election results, but some genuinely good news in the courts open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
Rays of Hope
The Rule of Law Has Its Best Ten Days Since Trump Returned to Office
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November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Rays of Hope -- not only Tuesday's amazing election results, but some genuinely good news in the courts open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
Heather Cox Richardson: Mamdani in perspective open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 5, 2025
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Heather Cox Richardson: Mamdani in perspective open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Working to protect VA voters and help win this one tomorrow www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
What the Virginia Governor Election Might Portend for Trump
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November 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Working to protect VA voters and help win this one tomorrow www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
A lot I agree with here. Dems need toleration, pluralism, big tent -- esp on social issues. I've donated to @gluesenkampperez.house.gov and @golden.house.gov, though I don't always agree with them, because our House majority depends on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A lot I agree with here. Dems need toleration, pluralism, big tent -- esp on social issues. I've donated to @gluesenkampperez.house.gov and @golden.house.gov, though I don't always agree with them, because our House majority depends on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
It really was a very good episode buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
Alan Pergament: 'Law & Order' episode doesn't 'bend a knee' to Trump administration
The Oct. 23 episode was an example of why “Law & Order” remains one of my favorite broadcast network series, Pergament says.
buffalonews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It really was a very good episode buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
Congresswoman Pressley endorses all 6 ABC incumbents. Please repost and share!. @abciepac.org.
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Congresswoman Pressley endorses all 6 ABC incumbents. Please repost and share!. @abciepac.org.
Bankruptcies and bad loans. "Non-bank banks" exempt from regulation. Starting to sound like 2008 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Opinion | How Bad Is Finance’s Cockroach Problem? We Are About to Find Out.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bankruptcies and bad loans. "Non-bank banks" exempt from regulation. Starting to sound like 2008 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Not often I'll be posting George Will, but he reminds us here that the transformational Erie Canal -- which put my hometown Buffalo on the map -- was a government enterprise, you might even say "socialist" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Erie Canal, here’s to your 200th. Thanks for transforming America.
The canal’s 363 miles, dug by human muscle, aided by improvised cleverness, helped build a nation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Not often I'll be posting George Will, but he reminds us here that the transformational Erie Canal -- which put my hometown Buffalo on the map -- was a government enterprise, you might even say "socialist" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Please ask your state senator and rep to vote for Same Day Registration, a common-sense voting reform that 22 other states have already adopted
Thousands of Massachusetts voters get left behind because of the ten-day registration deadline. That’s why we support An Act Enacting Same Day Voter Registration.
Take Action: act.commoncause.org/letters/its-...
Take Action: act.commoncause.org/letters/its-...
October 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Please ask your state senator and rep to vote for Same Day Registration, a common-sense voting reform that 22 other states have already adopted
Don't blame boomers, blame Republicans (Reagan, Bushes, Trump, et al)
The more focused people are on intergenerational injustice, the more they ignore the underlying issues of class and power. Robert Kuttner responds to The New York Times’ op-ed on the Boomers taking everything:
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No, the Boomers Did Not Take It All - The American Prospect
The more that young people focus on supposed generational injustices rather than the real injustices of class and power, the less likely they are to embrace a politics that might make a real difference.
trib.al
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Don't blame boomers, blame Republicans (Reagan, Bushes, Trump, et al)
Important history lesson for No Kings Day
Trump seized the money Congress earmarked for research to pay troops – it’s “by far the most illegal budgetary action he’s taken as POTUS.” If Trump can spend money however he wants, “the Constitution is null and void.” From @ddayen.bsky.social and Ryan Cooper: trib.al/LNAXlYI
Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money
The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.
trib.al
October 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Important history lesson for No Kings Day
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Compare and contrast the 7th Circuit's approach to whether there is a "rebellion" in Chicago
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A key point:
October 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Compare and contrast the 7th Circuit's approach to whether there is a "rebellion" in Chicago
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The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote? bit.ly/4ngSyyl
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote? bit.ly/4ngSyyl
Proud to have worked hard for the new zoning that enabled this great project, and for the the City Councillors who passed it www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/13/b...
Taller, and made of timber, a new way to build affordable housing could soon rise in Cambridge - The Boston Globe
The proposed 12-story building would be built nearly entirely from laminated wood, a relatively new concept called mass timber that is both more cost effective and energy efficient.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Proud to have worked hard for the new zoning that enabled this great project, and for the the City Councillors who passed it www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/13/b...
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New Column: You know how some historians wonder if people recognize the onslaught in real time? Well, I'm here to tell you that millions of us do. And we're fighting it. newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New Column: You know how some historians wonder if people recognize the onslaught in real time? Well, I'm here to tell you that millions of us do. And we're fighting it. newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com
Yep, @massago.bsky.social is 100% right on this one commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/dizo...
DiZoglio misfires in attack on attorney general - CommonWealth Beacon
MASSACHUSETTS STATE AUDITOR Diana DiZoglio recently called in to Boston Public Radio and accused Attorney General Andrea Campbell of “working with the
commonwealthbeacon.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Yep, @massago.bsky.social is 100% right on this one commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/dizo...
"At times, Christian movements or groups have arisen which show little or no interest in the common good of society and ... the protection and advancement of its most vulnerable and disadvantaged members. Yet religion, especially the Christian religion, cannot be limited to the private sphere"
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV bluntly called out inequality and indifference to the plight of the poor in the first major teaching document of his pontificate.
Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document
"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"At times, Christian movements or groups have arisen which show little or no interest in the common good of society and ... the protection and advancement of its most vulnerable and disadvantaged members. Yet religion, especially the Christian religion, cannot be limited to the private sphere"
Meanwhile, top 1% own 2/3 of all US wealth inequality.org/facts/wealth...
Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
The United States exhibits has more inequality and disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.
inequality.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Meanwhile, top 1% own 2/3 of all US wealth inequality.org/facts/wealth...