Kathleen M. Sullivan

Kathleen Sullivan

@kathlsullivan.bsky.social

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Political science prof at Ohio University. I write about garbage collection, sailors boardinghouses, and coverture. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766985/the-politics-of-trash/

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Kathleen Marie Sullivan is an American lawyer and senior counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a global, litigation-only law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Based in the firm's New York City office, Sullivan chairs its national appellate practice group. She was the first and only female name partner at an Am Law 100 law firm. Previously, Sullivan served as dean of Stanford Law School, where she was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law. .. more

Environmental science 47%

Political science 14%

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 12

I learned so much about the internecine meme wars from this book www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars...

Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Wonderful news, @jamellebouie.net. Congratulations!

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𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ @allmylovesteph.bsky.social · Feb 20

"We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to Whites, because their immune system is better than ours." -RFK Jr

No, people should not have different vaxx schedule based on their race.

He now is investigating childhood vaccine schedules.

Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Jun 29

This one starts out strong, and then keeps going. Love this!

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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · Jun 25

🎧🎧🎧 UAR Remixed is BACK! Tune in to hear Part 1 of our miniseries with the authors of the new symposium on the Local Politics of Public Health, streaming on all major platforms!
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The Local Politics of Public Health — Urban Affairs Review

A podcast miniseries featuring the authors of the UAR symposium on the relationship between local politics and public health.

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · May 30

I can't stop thinking about this article @marissaesque.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Saying Goodbye Until the Fall

and one more poem It’s time to close my computer, to end my search for words and sentences that construct meaning on the page. As many of you who have read these essays over the years know, when the light returns in spring, I am called to arrange not words but cone flowers and bee balm, to dig, to plant, to listen to the phoebe’s calls, to watch the red buds stippling t…

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Something's Happening Here

the spring equinox: a time for reflection Spring slow-walks itself to Maine. For most people, it’s the first daffodil that signals her arrival, but here at the end of the road in the middle of the woods the daffodils dawdle and shilly shally, so I’ve come to rely on the tiny coltsfoot flower to flash its yellow head at me from the weeds at the edge of the dirt road to finally feel confident of …

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · Apr 14

I posted this last night, actually, on this very thing. It's the difference between democratic "rule of law" and autocratic "rule by law": jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/autocrats-...

Autocrats like Trump "rule by law"

There's an important difference between the "rule of law" and "rule by law"

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How will we respond to this regime's cruelty?

Will the suffering of so many awaken us to a new consciousness? As day after day, I am brought to tears by reading about the terrible suffering this administration is inflicting on people in our community and in communities all over the world, I have come to believe that the most crucial question facing us at this moment is the question of how we relate to this pain. Will this moment of Great Shattering affect the w…

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Let America Be America Again

Reflections on a week of tragedy and resistance Reflections on a week of tragedy and resistance

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Mar 31

This is the sort of thing that South Carolina did after the Civil War. To boost its white population, SC recruited immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.000...

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One Morning in Maine

snowfall, art, Salvador Dali's quiche, a broken shoelace and a frightened little girl It is early morning in Maine. Yesterday, three inches of snowman-rolling snow erased the tiny signs of spring a few warm sunny days had birthed. I am sitting on my green couch purchased years ago when I rested comfortably and innocently in all my assumptions about “my” life, experiencing this morning what millions of people have experienced before me: t…

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Mar 27

This here's a seminal meme

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Out of disorder, a poem emerges

finding consolation in poetry finding consolation in poetry

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Is it Possible to Hold Not One But Two Existential Crises?

How? A girl is sitting on the bare ground. She’s twelve years old. She has long brown braids she hasn’t yet scissored in her wish to appear more grown-up. Her face is buried in her hands. The sound of her weeping is low like the sighing of the ocean on a hot day. Behind her lie the ruins of a house shattered, splintered, unrecognizable, a once grand house wi…

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On Rabbit Holes and Safe Landings

Do cats eat bats, do bats eat cats? Remember Alice? Sitting with her sister beside the river, a little bored, hot, sleepy, when suddenly a white rabbit appears, a stopwatch in his hand. Running through the field, he mutters Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' Curious, Alice runs after him and watches as he falls into a hole and disappears. Then, to her dismay, she too finds herself fallin…

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Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · Mar 3

The history of garbage pickup in big cities suggests that corruption actually has some utility. Dumpster dive with us: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/les...

Vital City | Dirtier Politics, Cleaner Streets?

Lessons about corruption from the history of garbage

www.vitalcitynyc.org

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What will abide and what will be left behind?

"to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Tennyson A few days ago I drove into town early one morning to meet a friend for coffee at a local coffee shop a half block away from LLBean’s flagship store. When my car approached the intersection of Maine Street this image confronted me:

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 23

A CRS report offers a handy primer if you don't want to dust off your Antifederalist Papers crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 23

Remember when the Antifederalists expressed fears that a standing army would turn against the people? The Federalists assured them not to worry because the "whole power of raising armies was lodged in the Legislature." avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

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Finding Solace and Grounding Amid the Destruction

Week 4 ends, week 5 begins In her poem, Diving into the Wreck, Adrienne Rich suggests that even in the face of destruction, there are treasurers that prevail:

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 21

"ours"(!)

𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ @allmylovesteph.bsky.social · Feb 20

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Post Valentine Thoughts on Breaking Up with Trump

Feb 16th, week 4 of The Great Shattering There is a question that bedevils me this morning. Why is it that millions of people who snuggled up next to Trump last November and drew a heart next to his name in the voting booth haven’t reacted to the lawless havoc he’s strewn across the country and the world in the last month and thrown his MAGA hat on the ground and broken up with him? His appr…

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 11

Jerold Auerbach, "Progressives at Sea," in a 1961 issue of Labor History should address this. I've got an article about this in the next issue of Federal History Journal

Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 11

Florence Kelley, of the Consumers League, was quite active in promoting safety at sea in support of this bill. She writes about it in an essay, "Women and Social Legislation"

Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 11

Hi Tully, based on my study of U.S. sailor mobilization: The Titanic disaster was invoked to support efforts toward "safety at sea," included in La Follette's bill that became the labor-friendly Seamen's Act of 1915.

Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 11

I've got something! I'll reply to Tully

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Week 3: Traumatized?

Some thoughts on reclaiming your mind. You may have noted, reader, that my Substack has a new name: Code Red: Process Notes of a Coup. My swerve from writing about the climate crisis to writing about the, say the word coup, in no way reflects any diminishment in my alarm about the health of the planet. Instead, I am, like many of us, so affected by the Great Shattering that I am unable to fo…

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The Cruelest Week

Care as an act of resistance Language fails me. I wish I had more than these feathery words, wish I could instead compose a piece of music that conveys this moment in all its painful moods: chaos, dread, uncertainty, silence, confusion, betrayal, and above all, cruelty.

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