Kevin Murphy
@kevincmurphy.com
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Speechwriter, historian, cinephile, old-school blogger. Formerly academia, Congress, politics, preservation. Nowadays in Philly. He/him/his. http://kevincmurphy.com/biography.html
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Happy birthday to my firstborn! Please tell your brother he’s being extra today and we’re not here for it
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A very happy 17th Murfday to you and yours, and know that an occasionally ornery blind bichon is watching over you. Somehow.
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Today, the little guy would've turned 16, first bday in absentia. Happy birthday, Murfdog, wherever you are.
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“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”
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Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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That screenshot isn't the OG game tho. It was an Infocom text adventure.
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A very happy 17th Murfday to you and yours, and know that an occasionally ornery blind bichon is watching over you. Somehow.
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Today, the little guy would've turned 16, first bday in absentia. Happy birthday, Murfdog, wherever you are.
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Alas, the end came faster than expected. Tonight, we said goodbye to Murf. A fearless short king to the end. Went blind at 6 and had a great life til almost 16. See you on the other side, little buddy.
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I’d rather live in peace than rest in peace
Proof that a federal ban on assault weapons work
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Today's Atlantic in a nutshell.
Dril, 3/10/18: go ahead keep screaming "Shut the Fuck Up" ar me. It only makes my opinions Worse.
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"Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up... the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on ...[the spending of the] top 10 per cent" #AI #irrationalexuberance www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
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Our brunch place is showing antifa propaganda smh.
Restaurant TV showing Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indy and Sallah in the "bad dates" scene.)
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Young men: don't be this dude from the latest Love is Blind season.
Guy on Love is Blind having a hissy fit because his fiancee doesn't want to bone immediately: I'm just toooooo nice!!!
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Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.
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"So...I read it."
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.
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The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.
Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold
Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."
www.newsweek.com
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At least in the historical record of the 21st century (or post 9/11), the Democratic Party’s main objection *has* been the tone/tenor of immigration enforcement. Obama was the Deporter in Chief until the second Trump administration, the numbers don’t lie.
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what is the official Democratic Party response to the violent detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants. what is it. what do we find officially objectionable about what is going on - that they're being too mean about it, that they're being sloppy?
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as an elected Democrat im urging all my constituents to call me and beg me to do the right thing
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I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.
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Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh
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the book Doctor Sleep is total dogshit but the movie is great, Rebecca Ferguson eats her part like a prix fixe tasting menu and she plays an eldritch horror who looks incredible in a top hat
a woman in a top hat sits on a wooden platform
Alt: rebecca ferguson shimmying in a dress and top hat looking amazing
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A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke
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ughhhhhhhhhhhh. gotta say i’m pretty fucking tired of cool people dying too young while every demon lives to 150. rip
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Breaking News: Diane Keaton, who played some 100 movie and TV roles and won the best-actress Oscar for “Annie Hall,” has died at 79. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m...
Diane Keaton is smiling and looking to her right. She is wearing a black jacket, a white blouse, a black hat and glasses. A headline reads: "1946-2025: Diane Keaton." Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images
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Here’s the other two films plus her director title card for episode 22 of TWIN PEAKS
Heaven Unstrung Heroes Directed by DIANE KEATON
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Exactly.
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Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
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Jessica Harper in "Suspiria" - BOTD