Kevin Murphy
@kevincmurphy.com
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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And China figured it out before us, while we elected a Racist idiot who wants to make coal great again.
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
And China figured it out before us, while we elected a Racist idiot who wants to make coal great again.
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"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
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Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland
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Wild to see Whelan say this, but to be clear the OLC's immunity powers are fake anyway. The "golden shield" idea was made up to justify rampant criminality in the GWBush years, then adopted by Holder to excuse Obama's inaction. It's not in the Constitution, statute, or precedent. It's not the law.
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wild to see Whelan say this, but to be clear the OLC's immunity powers are fake anyway. The "golden shield" idea was made up to justify rampant criminality in the GWBush years, then adopted by Holder to excuse Obama's inaction. It's not in the Constitution, statute, or precedent. It's not the law.
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Not technically allowed to say what I think should happen to everyone involved in the boat strikes but I think we all know what it is and that it should definitely happen
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Not technically allowed to say what I think should happen to everyone involved in the boat strikes but I think we all know what it is and that it should definitely happen
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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To wit: bsky.app/profile/poll...
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
To wit: bsky.app/profile/poll...
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This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
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'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3
Bullet Train also just hit similarly. Hard to hate a cameo-heavy 90s throwback that's trying so hard to entertain you.
Freaky Tales was more fun than I expected, given the iffy vibes on Metacritic. Glad I didn't know much of anything about it going in.
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Bullet Train also just hit similarly. Hard to hate a cameo-heavy 90s throwback that's trying so hard to entertain you.
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A Tribe Called Quest released "Jazz (We've Got)" as the second single from 'The Low End Theory' 34 years ago on November 27, 1991
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November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
A Tribe Called Quest released "Jazz (We've Got)" as the second single from 'The Low End Theory' 34 years ago on November 27, 1991
album.ink/ATCQlowend
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Me: whats up man ever since you succumbed to the forest youve had this undeescribable vibe
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Me: whats up man ever since you succumbed to the forest youve had this undeescribable vibe
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
My boy Trevor: *the sound of 1000 enraptured wasps vibrating a hive*
Me: yeah i guess
Wait...this isn't right. 1981-1936 = 45 years. 2025-1981 = 44 years.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Wait...this isn't right. 1981-1936 = 45 years. 2025-1981 = 44 years.
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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There should be a special VIP pass you could buy for the big dog show that would let you hug all the dogs
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
There should be a special VIP pass you could buy for the big dog show that would let you hug all the dogs
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Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽 🚭
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽 🚭
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One thing I can say for sure is every fifth car on the highway having the fuckkng sun as their headlights is bad
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
One thing I can say for sure is every fifth car on the highway having the fuckkng sun as their headlights is bad
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
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i know house of cards is gauche now, but one of the first real "oh something is very wrong here" moments I had about the press was when the press was doing 'tee hee how naughty' bits about kate mara's character (the journalist at not-buzzfeed)
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know house of cards is gauche now, but one of the first real "oh something is very wrong here" moments I had about the press was when the press was doing 'tee hee how naughty' bits about kate mara's character (the journalist at not-buzzfeed)
Never Let Me Down Again
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Blue Sky Mine
Tangled Up in Blue
Begin the Begin
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Blue Sky Mine
Tangled Up in Blue
Begin the Begin
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Never Let Me Down Again
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Blue Sky Mine
Tangled Up in Blue
Begin the Begin
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Blue Sky Mine
Tangled Up in Blue
Begin the Begin
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Sorry but it’s fucking nuts that the president just uses the National Guard and ICE/CBP to harass cities he doesn’t like now and we’re all just supposed to swallow that and be like “well what can you do, he’s the forever birthday boy”
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Sorry but it’s fucking nuts that the president just uses the National Guard and ICE/CBP to harass cities he doesn’t like now and we’re all just supposed to swallow that and be like “well what can you do, he’s the forever birthday boy”
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