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lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Jul 29

Nikita Gill

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hi from Vermont but also as a lover of Florida, and i can't believe this has to be said, but no civilized society puts human beings in the Everglades and guards them with alligators
#aligatoralcatraz

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lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 8

Air by way of city

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 8

Spring in Washington Square Park

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 7

The combo of fall/winter/spring is always Vermont in April. Supposed to snow tomorrow

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 6

And even timothée chalomet

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 6

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 2

And thank you to the people of Wisconsin!
With Cory Booker, and this, the glimmer of hope that we so desperately needed.

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lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 1

Way to go and thank you, Cory Booker! Obviously my new crush~
May more follow his lead.

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lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Apr 1

You can read the full story at the newsletter, but here's the quick rundown of what's coming from the Trump admin on Title X tomorrow.

What a nightmare:

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lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Apr 1

dinner party

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 31

Zadie Smith said dry martini with a lemon twist

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 30

Palate cleanse

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 25

It's all incredibly hard to stomach, heartbreaking, terrifying heartbreaking maddening, heartbreaking, shaking my head. I'm coloring w/ markers & picking out stickers 4 E's bday. Letting this consume me as if im Helen Frankenthaler. & that quote, take yr broken heart & put it into art over and over

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 22

Bernie's mall talks of the eighties

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 22

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

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lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 22

One of my favorites

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 20

When I was 20, I went to a film & photography school in Maine. Mary Ellen Mark was a guest artist. Her photography moved me then & now. On what would have been her 80th bday

lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 20

It was late was worried it wouldn't bloom this year
Anyway cheers to the blooms that give us joy, the trees that stand through the storms and the weathered kids who bring us hope so much more than they realize we need
(and depend on)

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Mar 17

A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

BREAKING: Texas Midwife Arrested on Felony Abortion Charges

This is Texas’ first post-Dobbs criminal abortion case

jessica.substack.com

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

www.nytimes.com

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lissamurphy.bsky.social @lissamurphy.bsky.social · Mar 15

Silk lapel tux for the win, $37
Indulge as secondhand treasures are possibly my easiest joy,
that and the moon
But this was unexpected & even the pant with the perfect pleat
With pockets still stitched shut
Little wins are important
these days

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 14

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 14

these people are literally trying to destroy america’s future

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Mar 14

Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.

Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.

On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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