Michael Sullivan
@thesullivan.bsky.social
Former cognitive anthropologist, former US tank gunner, former US bureaucrat, current IT teacher. ND AF, but mask on the daily to 'people' better.
I nerd out over whiskey, politics, technology, and the human condition.
I nerd out over whiskey, politics, technology, and the human condition.
Any reporter talking to Blanche or Bondi should fixate on: "Your redactions indicate that there were crimes and victims. How many predators have you positively identified from the documents and what is the state of the resulting investigations? When can the victims expect to see prosecutions?"
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Any reporter talking to Blanche or Bondi should fixate on: "Your redactions indicate that there were crimes and victims. How many predators have you positively identified from the documents and what is the state of the resulting investigations? When can the victims expect to see prosecutions?"
Congress should demand a comprehensive list of every DOJ employee who worked on the redactions, put them under oath, and get their testimony on their guidelines for redaction. Then they should authorize an independent counsel to go through the unredacted files.
December 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Congress should demand a comprehensive list of every DOJ employee who worked on the redactions, put them under oath, and get their testimony on their guidelines for redaction. Then they should authorize an independent counsel to go through the unredacted files.
Susan Collins is a full-time fig leaf for fascism.
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Susan Collins is a full-time fig leaf for fascism.
You are inventing conflict where there is none.
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You are inventing conflict where there is none.
I don't get why MAGA is so motivated to piss on Reiner's grave. I get that he was a public figure who critiqued them, but he didn't make a living from it nor did he harass them.
Addiction messes people up.
Addiction messes people up.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I don't get why MAGA is so motivated to piss on Reiner's grave. I get that he was a public figure who critiqued them, but he didn't make a living from it nor did he harass them.
Addiction messes people up.
Addiction messes people up.
Didn't mean to imply otherwise. I'm just at that age where my body does not do well with sufganiyot and fried oils, and I bet I'm not alone, so I avoid them. I still celebrate, just in a modified way.
December 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Didn't mean to imply otherwise. I'm just at that age where my body does not do well with sufganiyot and fried oils, and I bet I'm not alone, so I avoid them. I still celebrate, just in a modified way.
Inclusion of oil doesn't have to mean deep-fried. We like to mix it up - largely because we don't like how the house smells after cooking a dinner's worth of latkes.
We like a quinoa salad with a healthy amount of olive oil (and red wine vinegar) in it. Oily but healthy, yeah? Hag sameach hanukah!
We like a quinoa salad with a healthy amount of olive oil (and red wine vinegar) in it. Oily but healthy, yeah? Hag sameach hanukah!
December 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Inclusion of oil doesn't have to mean deep-fried. We like to mix it up - largely because we don't like how the house smells after cooking a dinner's worth of latkes.
We like a quinoa salad with a healthy amount of olive oil (and red wine vinegar) in it. Oily but healthy, yeah? Hag sameach hanukah!
We like a quinoa salad with a healthy amount of olive oil (and red wine vinegar) in it. Oily but healthy, yeah? Hag sameach hanukah!
CBS is now the American cheese of news.
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
CBS is now the American cheese of news.
They went right past FoxNews and straight to their own flavor of OAN. That's a choice, for sure.
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
They went right past FoxNews and straight to their own flavor of OAN. That's a choice, for sure.
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table."
Our country is being run by a troop of howler monkeys flinging feces at everything they don't like.
Our country is being run by a troop of howler monkeys flinging feces at everything they don't like.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table."
Our country is being run by a troop of howler monkeys flinging feces at everything they don't like.
Our country is being run by a troop of howler monkeys flinging feces at everything they don't like.
Looks like they ran out of bronzer and had him plunge his face in a cavernous bowl of Cheeto dust.
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Looks like they ran out of bronzer and had him plunge his face in a cavernous bowl of Cheeto dust.
People used to dress up to fly back when airplane seats were generously-spaced and you didn't donate an hour of your life to a security line treating you like a terrorist.
Also, people used to dress up to fly back when only rich people could afford to fly.
Also, people used to dress up to fly back when only rich people could afford to fly.
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
People used to dress up to fly back when airplane seats were generously-spaced and you didn't donate an hour of your life to a security line treating you like a terrorist.
Also, people used to dress up to fly back when only rich people could afford to fly.
Also, people used to dress up to fly back when only rich people could afford to fly.
In all fairness, Trump is using the fog of dementia to commit any number of similar crimes, so Pete's move is not without precedent in this administration.
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In all fairness, Trump is using the fog of dementia to commit any number of similar crimes, so Pete's move is not without precedent in this administration.