Sean Sullivan

The Iranian nuclear Deal Wasn’t Perfect But it had major advantages that are clearer today The Iran nuclear deal was not perfect. But it was a sophisticated piece of diplomacy, one that meaningfully rolled back Iran’s nuclear program and strengthened elements within the Iranian regime that favored deeper engagement with the West. At that singular moment in time, the conditions aligned. On one side, there was a U.S. administration that recognized there was no viable substitute for diplomacy. On the other, an Iranian leadership, led by a president with the political skill to navigate internal resistance and was willing, and able, to move the system toward an agreement, even against significant domestic opposition. That window did not stay open. The decision to withdraw from the deal without a coherent alternative strategy is what led us to today’s reality: An Iran with unprecedented levels of uranium enrichment, and the growing technical capacity to establish small, hardened enrichment facilities using advanced centrifuges, capabilities that could significantly shorten its breakout time and increase the availability of fissile material for a weapon. The debate should not revolve around whether the original deal was flawless, it wasn’t. The real question is whether abandoning it without a viable replacement made the problem better or worse. The answer is increasingly clear today. #IranWar‌

They changed the headlines—not the policy. ICE isn’t in the spotlight anymore… but the raids, detentions, and family separations never stopped. I break down what’s really happening

Russian Foreign Ministry has officially stated that Trump/USA has invited Putin to go to the G20 summit. The US is working overtime to rehabilitate the Russian dictator and European states need to take this into consideration. kyivindependent.com/russia-claims-…

You don’t need to go very far to see that the Para-Bros merger will mean censorship, reprisals, punishment and exclusion. They are already at it. Trust them when they tell you they will use the power and this consolidation of media for political reasons. avclub.com/hollywood-blac…

By the DOJ's own account, the SPLC's informant program was cheap and effective. For a fraction of a *percentage* of their annual budget, SPLC penetrated the nation's worst hate groups and published their secrets with info from their turncoats. The DOJ's case assumes donors felt defrauded by this. buff.ly/cwTnYg6

FBI was not simply investigating a reporter, it was investigating a journalist whose work reflected poorly on the the director of the FBI

Truly a must read story. What they did to journalist Amal Khalil, with the world watching and praying for her, is unspeakable. dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-jour…

Acting CDC head cancels publication of a study showing Covid vaccine sharply cut odds of hospitalization and ER visits. Agency veterans say they've never seen an article pulled after being cleared by scientists and scheduled for publication. @apoorva_nyc nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…

New in PN: Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC "But now, as part of the project to undo Reconstruction, the Department of Justice hopes to take out the SPLC using the very tools that group used to defeat the KKK. And along the way, they can exculpate every violent bigot who ever swung a tiki torch with murder in his eyes. *Those boys weren’t bad, they were just stirred up by outside agitators from the SPLC!*" publicnotice.co/p/trump-doj-wi…

So, basically, the FBI appears to have started an investigation into a reporter who wrote a story the FBI Director and his girlfriend didn’t like.

@JamesSurowiecki @atrupar That dude behind him is all of us.

"Ending subsidies for energy production reduces energy prices for consumers" is a perfect expression of the economic dunciad that is the Trump administration.

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. propublica.org/article/andrew…

There is a principle upheld by every liberal democracy known as the presumption of innocence. The Trump DOJ doesn’t believe in it, routinely violates it, and poisons the jury pool to mask a lack of evidence. This happens so routinely now that few people remark upon it.

@lrozen @Delavegalaw Just to be clear, Phelan is not a military officer. He is/was a civilian - and was unqualified to be secretary anyway. Hegseth’s motives are no doubt corrupt but this is not a loss.

Beyond the allegations of what this woman was doing, which in & of itself is a major counterintelligence risk, we need to start asking hard questions about the lack of qualifications for people who are occupying top postings in our nation's counterterrorism apparatus.

NEW and BREAKING: The FBI began investigating New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson earlier this year after she published a story about how Kash Patel was using FBI personnel to provide his girlfriend with govt security and transportation. FBI agents interviewed Patel's girlfriend about Williamson, queried databases for info on the reporter and recommended moving forward to determine whether the reporter broke federal stalking laws. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…

"At his confirmation hearing, Roberts famously promised, 'to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat." The memos show something different: a justice with a rooting interest, and a strike zone that shifts depending on who's up." bit.ly/4vQWP0W

@atrupar C’mon.

NEWSMAX: If this goes on for weeks, the US military is probably going to have to go into Iran and finish the job. Am I reading that right? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: Yeah, I think that's right. And previous presidents have had the same issues. Think about President Truman's decision on dropping the bomb and D-Day for President Eisenhower

Use our database to explore the financial disclosures of President Donald Trump and more than 1,600 of his appointees. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-fin…

The flu shot was invented in the early 1940s by Thomas Francis & Jonas Salk at Univ of Michigan w/ the support of the U.S. Army, in response to the number of U.S. service members who died during WWI from influenza. It was approved for military use in ‘45 and civilian use in ‘46.