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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 18

periodic reminder you can send me tips securely on signal: timothypmurphy.41 or proton mail: [email protected]

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

the Nobel should do what the Pulitzers do and just not award an econ prize some year. "Nothing really rose to the level."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

happy garibaldi day to all who celebrate

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

isn't he supposed to be building a nuclear reactor on the moon

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

they're gonna be pushing to ban these in like a week. Spirit halloween is gonna get hit with a material support charge.

amanda moore 🐢 @handle.invalid · 22h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 16h

coaches are going for it on fourth down more and more. kickers are hitting field goals from further and further. the punt game must innovate or die.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

in 2025 the cultural zeitgeist is embodied by one man, and his name is Jim Downey

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

"One Battle After Another" just hits different as a dad

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Vought summoning HR back to the office to fire the wrong people and then having to walk back those firings the next day certainly sends *a* message, but I'm not sure it's the one they intended www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

The car is a gateway to fascism everywhere, not just in America

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

reading about the motorist rights party that just won a load of seats in Czechia

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Anthony J. Rivera @anthonyjrivera.bsky.social · 1d

Some messages are printed on 18-by-24-inch yard signs or smaller placards; others are drawn ornately by hand on paper or written in chalk. The few who will talk about the signs they created say the urgency of the moment compelled them to act.

(🎁link below)

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Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

amazed at how it's caught on. it's like a reverse Miranda Right

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

honestly i hope zohran goes nuclear on busways and then saves his political capital for childcare, but "wealthy new yorkers who take the bus" is such a great line. what even

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 2d

I actually thought this was satire. There are good, real grounded arguments against free busses.

Cuomo has picked (easily) the most nonsensical one.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 3d

We have reclaimed the humble frog from the right

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3d

...he named it after the Torment Nexus?

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

"Musk decided to name the data center Colossus—a reference to a popular trilogy of sci-fi novels from the 1960s by D.F. Jones, in which scientists built a supercomputer named Colossus that gained autonomy and plunged the world into war and chaos."

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

"He is contributing to the new group with his wife, Anna Brockman, whom he married at the OpenAI offices on a workday" www.wsj.com/politics/sil...

Exclusive | Silicon Valley Launches Pro-AI PACs to Defend Industry in Midterm Elections

Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among those helping launch and fund Leading the Future.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than when someone starts talking about "transplants" in a discussion of urban politics. sorry that people move here!

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

would cops be chiller if they didn't commute by car every day? it's worth a shot

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

a few times a year i have to actually drive into new york, and i don't know how people don't just go insane. (they do.)

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

lol man you're not supposed to just say that

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

these are, unfortunately, probably the two jobs absolutely no one wants to give him right now. has he considered getting into data centers?

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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ceej @ceej.online · 4d

bad bunny should not play the super bowl half time show because he is not a good role model for children. they should get good bunny

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