Bill Sullivan
@wcspac.bsky.social
Professor. Practices and teaches medicine. Loves philosophy. Torn between Carnap, Quine, Sellars, and Rorty depending on the day. Wine and beer aficionado.
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People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?
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Yep. If a single member of the Senate Democratic caucus votes to find ICE this week - sensible thing to do will be to burn down the existing email/text fundraising industrial complex and start over again. Not a single penny for this useless party unless it stands up this week.
we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Yep. If a single member of the Senate Democratic caucus votes to find ICE this week - sensible thing to do will be to burn down the existing email/text fundraising industrial complex and start over again. Not a single penny for this useless party unless it stands up this week.
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This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
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November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." (Shakespeare)
"Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it." (Faust)
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore." (Futurama)
"Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it." (Faust)
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore." (Futurama)
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." (Shakespeare)
"Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it." (Faust)
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore." (Futurama)
"Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it." (Faust)
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore." (Futurama)
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/13 Post-No-Kings-Protest conversations with my wife:
—How do we reconcile free will and democratic freedom with the impulse towards totalitarianism?
[Margaritas]
—-Is a slutty gnome Halloween costume inherently slut-shaming gnomes?
—How do we reconcile free will and democratic freedom with the impulse towards totalitarianism?
[Margaritas]
—-Is a slutty gnome Halloween costume inherently slut-shaming gnomes?
October 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
/13 Post-No-Kings-Protest conversations with my wife:
—How do we reconcile free will and democratic freedom with the impulse towards totalitarianism?
[Margaritas]
—-Is a slutty gnome Halloween costume inherently slut-shaming gnomes?
—How do we reconcile free will and democratic freedom with the impulse towards totalitarianism?
[Margaritas]
—-Is a slutty gnome Halloween costume inherently slut-shaming gnomes?
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Wittgenstein was so real for this
October 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Wittgenstein was so real for this
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
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FUCK ICE FOREVER
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
FUCK ICE FOREVER
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Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**
reason.com/2025/10/10/t...
reason.com/2025/10/10/t...
Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme
Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.
reason.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**
reason.com/2025/10/10/t...
reason.com/2025/10/10/t...
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
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Whenever asked what my motivation is for reviewing Shapiro etc I usually paraphrase Hitchens:
There is something really cute, almost adorable, about a bunch of very rich, very vain men thinking the biggest problem in society is they aren't quite rich and revered enough
There is something really cute, almost adorable, about a bunch of very rich, very vain men thinking the biggest problem in society is they aren't quite rich and revered enough
September 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Whenever asked what my motivation is for reviewing Shapiro etc I usually paraphrase Hitchens:
There is something really cute, almost adorable, about a bunch of very rich, very vain men thinking the biggest problem in society is they aren't quite rich and revered enough
There is something really cute, almost adorable, about a bunch of very rich, very vain men thinking the biggest problem in society is they aren't quite rich and revered enough
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Viciously subtweeting Rawls here. More and more I wonder about the liberal version of the just-world illusion.
So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like
September 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Viciously subtweeting Rawls here. More and more I wonder about the liberal version of the just-world illusion.
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"I did not draw my principles from my prejudices but from the nature of things"
- So says Montesquieu and may I just say I absolutely aspire to the confidence of an early modern philosopher's preface. Just straight up being like "Btw I only said true things" Like, oh, word? Dope. Let's go!
- So says Montesquieu and may I just say I absolutely aspire to the confidence of an early modern philosopher's preface. Just straight up being like "Btw I only said true things" Like, oh, word? Dope. Let's go!
September 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"I did not draw my principles from my prejudices but from the nature of things"
- So says Montesquieu and may I just say I absolutely aspire to the confidence of an early modern philosopher's preface. Just straight up being like "Btw I only said true things" Like, oh, word? Dope. Let's go!
- So says Montesquieu and may I just say I absolutely aspire to the confidence of an early modern philosopher's preface. Just straight up being like "Btw I only said true things" Like, oh, word? Dope. Let's go!
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Police brutality is bad; systematic racial profiling and illegal deportations are bad; abortion clinic bombings are bad; mass graves are worse. You know what a child's skull looks like after multiple blunt-force traumas? That's the floor. Keeping everyone out of mass graves is the fundamental goal.
September 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Police brutality is bad; systematic racial profiling and illegal deportations are bad; abortion clinic bombings are bad; mass graves are worse. You know what a child's skull looks like after multiple blunt-force traumas? That's the floor. Keeping everyone out of mass graves is the fundamental goal.
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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My concerns as well.
One thing I'd like to know is are there any examples of a political party coming back from the kinda gangster cult of the personality thing the GOP now has going on without either societal collapse or losing a big war?
One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
July 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My concerns as well.
Disturbed that my university has cancelled Pride Month on the grounds that they do not want to “exclude anyone unintentionally” and will no longer recognize “themed months outside of our academic mission.” We literally are a health sciences university. #KGI #ClaremontColleges #PhysicianAssistant
June 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Disturbed that my university has cancelled Pride Month on the grounds that they do not want to “exclude anyone unintentionally” and will no longer recognize “themed months outside of our academic mission.” We literally are a health sciences university. #KGI #ClaremontColleges #PhysicianAssistant
Recognizing our limitations is foundational to solidarity.
June 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Recognizing our limitations is foundational to solidarity.
I am just… sad. The world is suffering needlessly because of beliefs that are entirely untethered to the sum of human experience. Beliefs that are ideological and supported by divergent epistemological criteria are ruining lives on a mass scale.
June 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I am just… sad. The world is suffering needlessly because of beliefs that are entirely untethered to the sum of human experience. Beliefs that are ideological and supported by divergent epistemological criteria are ruining lives on a mass scale.
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These testimonies reinforce exactly what I'm hearing as I go present at schools and universities about how to adapt to teaching writing in an AI world.
1. Schools and institutions embracing the technology while also requiring instructors to police academic integrity is a disaster. (cont.)
1. Schools and institutions embracing the technology while also requiring instructors to police academic integrity is a disaster. (cont.)
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
These testimonies reinforce exactly what I'm hearing as I go present at schools and universities about how to adapt to teaching writing in an AI world.
1. Schools and institutions embracing the technology while also requiring instructors to police academic integrity is a disaster. (cont.)
1. Schools and institutions embracing the technology while also requiring instructors to police academic integrity is a disaster. (cont.)