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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 30m

FIFA have announced that the selection of Nickerson Field was "a huge mistake" and "not really what we had in mind"

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 32m

laying down a marker here: there will be no world cup games in boston

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

"There is little precedent for sports leaders to align themselves as closely with global leaders as Mr. Infantino has" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

No Kings? No! Kings!

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

you've got to remember earlier this year the government was basically in the hands of a 25-year-old who wrote "I was racist before it was cool" and JD Vance was just like "he's a boy!"

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 9h

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own

As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

www.motherjones.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

must have missed a city council vote because there appears to be gambling going on in this establishment www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

(I did not go to the butcher)

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

going to the butcher to get chunks of stew pork is nominally more expensive, but when a butcher actually has to look you in the eye they're gonna give you far fewer pieces that are just inedible hunks of fat

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h

Check out the full feature at the link below:

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h

EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.

@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 12h

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder

Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder

Jared Leto, actor

Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson

Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a secretive firm called First Wap ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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Schuyler Mitchell @schuylermitchell.bsky.social · 12h

A professor had to flee the country last week after receiving death threats for his work on antifa. I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about his experience being targeted by the far-right and what the history of fascism can teach us about this moment.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He studies fascism. Is he now living through it?

After death threats for his work on antifascism, a Rutgers University professor fled the United States. "It's too late for preventative antifascism," he said. "I think we're in a new era."

www.motherjones.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

[chanting] the rent is not high enough! I hate my neighbors!

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

we cannot rest until all one-bedroom apartments rent for $15,000 a month

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

doing that little finger-snapping thing they do at liberal arts colleges

Jake Blumgart @jblumgart.bsky.social · 12h

"New Jersey’s problem isn’t that it’s building too little housing, Ciattarelli says: It’s that it’s building too much." www.governing.com/urban/why-ho...

Why Housing Density Has Become a Key Issue in the New Jersey Governor's Race

A new law in New Jersey requires cities to plan for a share of the state’s housing needs. The Republican candidate for governor is tapping into local frustration about it.

www.governing.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

the buildup to this Jeffries bit in the piece is really well done, and manages to impart real depth to a standard no-comment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

"I never did get to talk with Jeffries about Mamdani. Several phone calls to his team soon turned to voice mail messages that went unanswered. In October I told Jeffries’s staff that I would have to write that he avoided talking about Mamdani for months. There was still no response. Schumer and Gillibrand each declined an interview request."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

checking the billionaires list to find someone i think jeff bezos should sell the Post to, and reluctantly settling on Steve Ballmer. give these great people the journalistic freedom and incredible bathrooms they deserve. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 23h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 15h

When they call it the world’s game they mean American financial institutions buy English clubs which acquire European clubs to hoard players from Africa and South America so the English club can secure a place in a Gulf State-run Super League that will inevitably play in America

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 16h

continental leagues becoming minor leagues... here we go as.com/futbol/prime...

El Fenway Sports Group avanza hacia la compra del Getafe

El grupo estadounidense sigue marcando los pasos para hacerse en propiedad del conjunto azulón.

as.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

feels funny to root against toronto because they've won a world series too recently. it's nothing personal! you're nice people!

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

a dumber movie would just be like "we've got to start shooting!" but it just is a different vibe when people all speak in DOD euphemisms

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

a moment that stuck with me in One Battle After Another, besides the phrase "semen demon," was the troop saying they needed to "go kinetic" during the Baktan Cross scene. just that kind of banal military-speak that permeates spaces that should not have anything to do with military matters.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

"It is *not* obviously in his self-interest to talk about how dangerous his technology is and how carefully he needs to be checked. It’s more subtly in his self-interest to do that." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals

Also crypto liquidations, inverse levered ETFs, stock buybacks and trade secrets.

www.bloomberg.com

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