Amy Sullivan

Welcome, new followers! Please note that while I write critically about Christian nationalism (among other topics), this account is not anti-religion. Honest disagreement is encouraged. But if you come here with "spaghetti monster" snark & "religion is for dupes" flippery, I will hit "block" like

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

None of us has a responsibility to be a hero, but each of us has a moral imperative in this moment to respond with empathy and do what we can to stand up for our neighbors.

Still absolutely galling that nobody ever says "you can't fucking talk to her like that" when he does this stuff.

Petition to replace the word “donor” with something else for people who funnel *millions*—not to mention $250 million—into campaigns. That’s not a donor—that’s a buyer.

Imagine!

This is bananas as a closing argument in the midterms. It’s the ultimate narcissistic thought. Everything always works out for him—legally or illegally, in reality or in his head. Does it all work out for other people? Who cares.

So, the United States is now TAKING shackled human beings to west Africa? The route may be reversed but the racism and white supremacy are just the same.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Yes, train to become a poll chaplain! And non-clergy, plenty of places still need election judges. It’s not hard (they put me in charge of my precinct on my second go) but it is super important. Contact your county clerk or sign up at vote411.org

Not for nothing, but Abu Ghraib was a breaking point for a lot of conservative Christians who decided the answer to WWJD? was not “torture his enemies.” They left the church & the GOP. I’m sure a few live-streamed executions will bring them right back.

Of course Hegseth wants a public execution. That's something people in his denomination (Doug Wilson's Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches) have been pushing for, as I wrote about last year: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/literally-...

The fact that Hegseth isn’t struck by lightning every time he preens about God and faith is really shaking my faith in the divine.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

I grew up learning that God mourns every death but Christian Nationalists gonna Christian Nationalist

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Want something new to worry about? Happy to oblige. For some people, COVID reactivates the Epstein-Barr Virus, known for triggering such hits as MS, lupus & mono. So if you had mono as a kid & then got COVID decades later, you might end up w/ mono that lasts 4yrs & counting. Ask me how I know.

Just some light heresy for your Wednesday afternoon. Isaiah would never.

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Ordered a big batch of old TIME issues off eBay so I could read my own work again. The digital age is something. Everything lives forever on the internet but also :: Error—no records found ::

And for those who were Platner boosters until very recently, I would love to hear what you’ve learned and how it will change your approach to candidates in the future. Because until that shifts, it’s all just words.

There’s no shame in having backed Platner in the beginning. Or even waiting to hear his response to early allegations. But if you were still backing him a few days ago, you need more progressive women in your circle. He set off our ick meter a while ago. Oh, and we believe women.

This is ridiculous for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that I would be shocked if JD here could recite the Nicene Creed.

Listening to so much coverage of negotiations with Iran and obviously it’s a very serious matter. But I cannot be the only one who thinks of this every single time I hear “unfrozen Iranian assets.”

Every part of this headline horrifies me in a different way

Barack doesn’t need Keenan-Michael Key anymore. Michelle is the anger translator. I’m sorry she had to spend so many years biting her tongue.

Going to make my children sit down with me and watch both Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches. Hope is not the same thing as delusion. Rebuke is not whining. We’re in the midst of a long haul. Enjoy the palate cleansers when you can.

Absolutely no one does petty like the Irish. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Sure, I may be a no-good liberal Christian social justice warrior, but do *you* own a copy of BAPTIST DOCTRINES from 1884?

Yes, yes, the encyclical is fascinating and there’s much to discuss. But I’m still stuck on the part where the actual Pope reads his encyclical and he sounds like the guys scalping tickets outside Wrigley.

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

Now that he’s retired, Cardinal Dolan’s mask can come all the way off

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

As I told some people on the Hill recently, Trump is writing the Dems’ ads for them. He’s at -50 on handling prices, and 50% of persuadable voters say the economy/prices is their top issue, and they trust Dems by 10 on it (will likely increase with new data). This is a huge easy W for Dems

Dems are still favored to win the House. But we can't ignore or downplay how Republicans essentially won 10 seats IN A WEEK through gerrymandering, lawsuits, and judicial rulings. This isn't the kind of democracy we should be comfortable with. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Anyone else have a child who goes into an anxiety spiral every time something like hantavirus is in the news because the COVID experience looms over his childhood so much that now he’s terrified another global pandemic will crop up every 5 or 6 years? No? Just me? Cool, cool, cool.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

They’re not even trying to be Christian any more…

All I’m saying is that if you make Mother’s Day breakfast-in-bed but then leave her cast-iron griddle soaking in soapy water, you owe that woman a dozen presents. In addition to a new cast-iron griddle.

We are super post-racial. bsky.app/profile/alex...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

God this chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.