Tom Sullivan
@tmsullivan.bsky.social
Morning guy at Digby's Hullabaloo since 2014.
Author 'For The Win' guide: http://bit.ly/30oNLBT
Bylines: @crooksandliars @HuffPost @BillMoyers Citizen-Times & more
Trump once threatened to sue me: https://bit.ly/3EHUHhU
Author 'For The Win' guide: http://bit.ly/30oNLBT
Bylines: @crooksandliars @HuffPost @BillMoyers Citizen-Times & more
Trump once threatened to sue me: https://bit.ly/3EHUHhU
Reposted by Tom Sullivan
An Administration Slowly Sinking
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
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“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/a...
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
An Administration Slowly Sinking
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/a...
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/a...
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The Ethnic Cleansing President
Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
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Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/t...
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Ethnic Cleansing President
Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/t...
Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/t...
An Administration Slowly Sinking
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/a...
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/a...
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
An Administration Slowly Sinking
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/a...
“The MAGA crack-up has begun,” declares Michael Tomasky. I’m here for it.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/a...
The Ethnic Cleansing President
Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/t...
Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/t...
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Ethnic Cleansing President
Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/t...
Project 2025’s plans on immigration may be driven by a desire to preserve the power of a shrinking white population. But Trump just reinforced his desire to make the U.S. more ethnically homogeneous by deporting anyone "not a net asset."
digbysblog.net/2025/11/28/t...
Hegseth gave spoken orders "according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. 'The order was to kill everybody,' one of them said." No prisoners.
So two survivors "were blown apart in the water" in a second strike.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
So two survivors "were blown apart in the water" in a second strike.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hegseth gave spoken orders "according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. 'The order was to kill everybody,' one of them said." No prisoners.
So two survivors "were blown apart in the water" in a second strike.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
So two survivors "were blown apart in the water" in a second strike.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It’s not clear which of the denizens of the online fever swamps suffer from a severe lack of reading and listening comprehension and which simply know their mission is to lie anyway. Because lying is company policy.
Today give thanks that you have a soul.
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Today give thanks that you have a soul.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s not clear which of the denizens of the online fever swamps suffer from a severe lack of reading and listening comprehension and which simply know their mission is to lie anyway. Because lying is company policy.
Today give thanks that you have a soul.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/27/t...
Today give thanks that you have a soul.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/27/t...
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The masterminds behind Bush-Cheney extraordinary rendition campaign never stood in the dock in the U.S. or The Netherlands for "outsourcing torture." I despair that those Shanghaiing undocumented immigrants off to African hell-hole prisons won’t either.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The masterminds behind Bush-Cheney extraordinary rendition campaign never stood in the dock in the U.S. or The Netherlands for "outsourcing torture." I despair that those Shanghaiing undocumented immigrants off to African hell-hole prisons won’t either.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/26/w...
digbysblog.net/2025/11/26/w...
The masterminds behind Bush-Cheney extraordinary rendition campaign never stood in the dock in the U.S. or The Netherlands for "outsourcing torture." I despair that those Shanghaiing undocumented immigrants off to African hell-hole prisons won’t either.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/26/w...
digbysblog.net/2025/11/26/w...
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The masterminds behind Bush-Cheney extraordinary rendition campaign never stood in the dock in the U.S. or The Netherlands for "outsourcing torture." I despair that those Shanghaiing undocumented immigrants off to African hell-hole prisons won’t either.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/26/w...
digbysblog.net/2025/11/26/w...
Tokyo Rose Garden won’t bat an eye, but the mother of her nephew is in ICE custody facing deportation.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Tokyo Rose Garden won’t bat an eye, but the mother of her nephew is in ICE custody facing deportation.
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What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself by living in areas less vulnerable to ground or sea attack from our enemies, like say, Colorado, then you should pay less for national defense than people who live in coastal or border areas more likely to need defending.
Markwayne Mullin on healthcare: "What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself -- you don't smoke, you don't dip, you're not drinking, you're not overweight, you're working out -- then you should pay less than the guy that obviously is not taking care of himself."
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself by living in areas less vulnerable to ground or sea attack from our enemies, like say, Colorado, then you should pay less for national defense than people who live in coastal or border areas more likely to need defending.
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The Abyss Stared Back
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Abyss Stared Back
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
The Abyss Stared Back
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Abyss Stared Back
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
Republicans gazed long into the Trumpian abyss and the abyss glared back. The party succumbed to Trumpism because he stripped away its intellectual pretensions. Trumpism revealed the raw thirst for power underneath.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/25/t...
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand the duty to disobey illegal orders"
... as do the six Democrats under MAGA fire and death threats for saying so.
theconversation.com/4-out-of-5-u...
... as do the six Democrats under MAGA fire and death threats for saying so.
theconversation.com/4-out-of-5-u...
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand the duty to disobey illegal orders"
... as do the six Democrats under MAGA fire and death threats for saying so.
theconversation.com/4-out-of-5-u...
... as do the six Democrats under MAGA fire and death threats for saying so.
theconversation.com/4-out-of-5-u...
U.S. AG Pam Bondi says DOJ will pursue immediate appeal to a judge’s rulings dismissing the criminal cases against fmr FBI Dir James Comey and NY AG Letitia James.
Having lost with an improperly installed prosecutor, Bondi's hot to lose next on vindictive prosecution.
apnews.com/live/trump-n...
Having lost with an improperly installed prosecutor, Bondi's hot to lose next on vindictive prosecution.
apnews.com/live/trump-n...
Live updates: Judge dismisses cases against Comey and James, says prosecutor was illegally appointed
Cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were dismissed. The judge said prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
U.S. AG Pam Bondi says DOJ will pursue immediate appeal to a judge’s rulings dismissing the criminal cases against fmr FBI Dir James Comey and NY AG Letitia James.
Having lost with an improperly installed prosecutor, Bondi's hot to lose next on vindictive prosecution.
apnews.com/live/trump-n...
Having lost with an improperly installed prosecutor, Bondi's hot to lose next on vindictive prosecution.
apnews.com/live/trump-n...
What you get with an administration staffed with crooks and incompetents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Judge Dismisses Cases Against Comey and James, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
What you get with an administration staffed with crooks and incompetents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
A phrase comes to mind this morning in the context of the madness of the Donald Trump elite as well as that of MAGA footsoldiers.
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As Above, So Below - Digby's Hullabaloo
The madness of the MAGA elite and footsoldiers “That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above.”— Hermes Trismegistus, The Emerald Tablet As a bemused observer of the New Age movement in the 1990s, the mystics' phrase "As above, so below" became familiar. It originates with…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
A phrase comes to mind this morning in the context of the madness of the Donald Trump elite as well as that of MAGA footsoldiers.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/24/a...
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Preverse Moral Arithmetic
The "he who smelt it, dealt it" asymmetry of MAGA bothsidesism is “not merely false but fantastical.” The junior partners in Trump's weaponized DOJ justify exacting revenge on his enemies with all the schoolyard authority of “He started it!”
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The "he who smelt it, dealt it" asymmetry of MAGA bothsidesism is “not merely false but fantastical.” The junior partners in Trump's weaponized DOJ justify exacting revenge on his enemies with all the schoolyard authority of “He started it!”
digbysblog.net/2025/11/24/p...
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Preverse Moral Arithmetic
The "he who smelt it, dealt it" asymmetry of MAGA bothsidesism is “not merely false but fantastical.” The junior partners in Trump's weaponized DOJ justify exacting revenge on his enemies with all the schoolyard authority of “He started it!”
digbysblog.net/2025/11/24/p...
The "he who smelt it, dealt it" asymmetry of MAGA bothsidesism is “not merely false but fantastical.” The junior partners in Trump's weaponized DOJ justify exacting revenge on his enemies with all the schoolyard authority of “He started it!”
digbysblog.net/2025/11/24/p...
Reposted by Tom Sullivan
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
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Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.
Headlines You Never Expected To See (a la Mad magazine):
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
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"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
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November 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Headlines You Never Expected To See (a la Mad magazine):
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that President Trump does not want to execute members of Congress."
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Masked CBP agents, you keep threatening protesters with 18 USC 111. Have you seen "The Princess Bride"? I do not think it means what you think it means.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Masked CBP agents, you keep threatening protesters with 18 USC 111. Have you seen "The Princess Bride"? I do not think it means what you think it means.
David Bier (of Cato) tweeted that CBP apparently instructed agents to threaten witnesses with arrest for recording arrests. Now it's blowing whistles and horns. "There are a number of nearly identical instances of this exact threat.” It continues in North Carolina.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
David Bier (of Cato) tweeted that CBP apparently instructed agents to threaten witnesses with arrest for recording arrests. Now it's blowing whistles and horns. "There are a number of nearly identical instances of this exact threat.” It continues in North Carolina.
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Hysterical. www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...
Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song
A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hysterical. www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...