Robert Murphy
@ramhatter.bsky.social
Working on being better as a person.
Burke High: XC/TF Coach, Teen Center
Past: NE Child Welfare, Pastor, Art Director, 🇧🇾🇨🇲🇨🇳🇲🇽🇳🇬🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/ramhatter
Burke High: XC/TF Coach, Teen Center
Past: NE Child Welfare, Pastor, Art Director, 🇧🇾🇨🇲🇨🇳🇲🇽🇳🇬🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/ramhatter
This Gen X'er just learned today about "putting crayons in the freezer" with regard to a possible school cancellation.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
This Gen X'er just learned today about "putting crayons in the freezer" with regard to a possible school cancellation.
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Important perspective from Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Important perspective from Greenland.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
Reading journal entries from 2002 and 2003. I was in a dark place with my “work” at YWAM/Ecclesia College. Lost years. Grateful Jana and I are long gone from those white evangelical ministries.
January 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Reading journal entries from 2002 and 2003. I was in a dark place with my “work” at YWAM/Ecclesia College. Lost years. Grateful Jana and I are long gone from those white evangelical ministries.
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This is also a prime example of how churches don't REALLY aim to optimize their effectiveness in accomplishing their own founder's objective (make real disciples).
Rather, they often exist to carry out the traditional form itself. You're a church if you have a service, making disciples is optional.
Rather, they often exist to carry out the traditional form itself. You're a church if you have a service, making disciples is optional.
A thought I've had for years:
If you'd never been to a church, and you were tasked with designing from scratch how "the church" should influence Christians' lives, based only on what we know about how people learn and grow, you'd pretty much choose the opposite of the weekly large church service.
If you'd never been to a church, and you were tasked with designing from scratch how "the church" should influence Christians' lives, based only on what we know about how people learn and grow, you'd pretty much choose the opposite of the weekly large church service.
January 18, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This is also a prime example of how churches don't REALLY aim to optimize their effectiveness in accomplishing their own founder's objective (make real disciples).
Rather, they often exist to carry out the traditional form itself. You're a church if you have a service, making disciples is optional.
Rather, they often exist to carry out the traditional form itself. You're a church if you have a service, making disciples is optional.
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just incredible to have somebody with this political view quoting Matthew 25, the chapter where Jesus says none shall enter Paradise except those who feed the hungry, welcome the foreigner, took care of those in prison etc
January 18, 2026 at 6:20 AM
just incredible to have somebody with this political view quoting Matthew 25, the chapter where Jesus says none shall enter Paradise except those who feed the hungry, welcome the foreigner, took care of those in prison etc
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Someone should explain to him why there are so few OBGYNs in Alabama.
Dr Oz: "Alabama has no OBGYNs in many of their counties, so they're doing something pretty cool. They're actually having robots do ultrasounds on these pregnant moms."
January 17, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Someone should explain to him why there are so few OBGYNs in Alabama.
Search consultant asks if I know someone for a pastoral staff role at a Minnesota AG church. Website reflects a white evangelical megachurch. Their FB page announces they're launching a podcast called "Boom Shaka Laka" highlighting "holy mic-drop moments". This consultant knows nothing about me.
January 17, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Search consultant asks if I know someone for a pastoral staff role at a Minnesota AG church. Website reflects a white evangelical megachurch. Their FB page announces they're launching a podcast called "Boom Shaka Laka" highlighting "holy mic-drop moments". This consultant knows nothing about me.
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
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So what happened to “we are locked and loaded and ready to go” and we “will come to their rescue?”
How many thousands died because they believed this post by Trump?
How many thousands died because they believed this post by Trump?
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
So what happened to “we are locked and loaded and ready to go” and we “will come to their rescue?”
How many thousands died because they believed this post by Trump?
How many thousands died because they believed this post by Trump?
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in another stupid but much less important reflection of our country's failure to recognize and welcome high-performing immigrant workers:
Alisa Efimova had an American flag on her warmup jacket but not where she needed it most: in her passport.
Skating pair took title at U.S. nationals but can't compete in Olympics after passport delay
Alisa Efimova had an American flag on her warmup jacket but not where she needed it most: in her passport.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 AM
in another stupid but much less important reflection of our country's failure to recognize and welcome high-performing immigrant workers:
Going through my 2016 journal and can only SMH as I read how the church I worked at tried to attract Millennials by performing Coldplay and Katy Perry songs to open worship services. It was a joke back then, and looks even more out of touch today.
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Going through my 2016 journal and can only SMH as I read how the church I worked at tried to attract Millennials by performing Coldplay and Katy Perry songs to open worship services. It was a joke back then, and looks even more out of touch today.
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It's bad enough that Trump is turning the USA into a global pariah, but it's even worse when you remember how he keeps insisting that "world leaders respect us again" now that he's in charge.
January 15, 2026 at 1:27 AM
It's bad enough that Trump is turning the USA into a global pariah, but it's even worse when you remember how he keeps insisting that "world leaders respect us again" now that he's in charge.
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
While he did not support impeachment after January 6, Rep. Bacon now supports it if Trump invades Greenland. Growing that spine now that he is leaving office. omaha.com/news/local/g...
Rep. Don Bacon says House could impeach Trump if U.S. invades Greenland
Rep. Don Bacon tells The World-Herald that there would be GOP support for an impeachment of Donald Trump if the U.S. invaded Greenland.
omaha.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
While he did not support impeachment after January 6, Rep. Bacon now supports it if Trump invades Greenland. Growing that spine now that he is leaving office. omaha.com/news/local/g...
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it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN
!["Sir! This is a warning!" the agent yelled as he punched the man's vehicle window. "Stop f—king following us! You are impeding operations! This is the United States federal government!"
"I live over here," the driver explained. "I got to get to my house."
"This is your warning!" the officer exclaimed.
"I serve the Lord; go to church," the resident replied.
"I will arrest you!" the officer threatened.
"Don't make a bad decision," another agent warned.
"I serve the Lord," the driver repeated. "Not a draft-dodging coward."
"Let these people go to church," the driver added. "Let these people serve the Lord and worship."
"You're not going to like the outcome of this, sir," the first officer said. "I guarantee that... Did you not learn from what just happened [when Renee Good was killed]?"
"Learn what?" the driver asked. "I serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward. I can't believe you'd take orders from a draft dodger."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreibjwvcxk2ptdafgbwfhk4rjalweyoz3d55gl72qhwhiudhu6aywcm@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN
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Estimates for number killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre are greatly debated more than 30 years later. Experts say likely between 1,000-3,500. If CBS News warnings are true for Iran's 12,000-20,000 — we are looking at something 5x to 15x greater. A historic horror.
January 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Estimates for number killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre are greatly debated more than 30 years later. Experts say likely between 1,000-3,500. If CBS News warnings are true for Iran's 12,000-20,000 — we are looking at something 5x to 15x greater. A historic horror.
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This is a jaw-dropping piece about ICE recruitment.
The article appears to be partly paywalled and I would encourage anyone who can afford it to subscribe, Slate's got a hell of a sale going right now and subscriptions are how they can afford to pay freelancers for articles like this one
For my fellow brokies, though:
For my fellow brokies, though:
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
web.archive.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:35 PM
This is a jaw-dropping piece about ICE recruitment.
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It's especially insane if you step back and think about Minnesota, basically a community of cold-hardy mildly lefty nerds with good social services. This makes it sound like an open-air prison
Trump admits that this is nothing but political retribution. Minnesota voted against him three times and now he’s punishing us – putting lives at risk and wasting enormous resources in the process.
January 13, 2026 at 6:38 PM
It's especially insane if you step back and think about Minnesota, basically a community of cold-hardy mildly lefty nerds with good social services. This makes it sound like an open-air prison
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The fact that MAGA-media is so intent on demonizing Renee Good shows that the defense of her killing rests on thin ice. To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors.
Renee Good’s Killing Has Unleashed MAGA’s Misogyny
To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors.
www.thenation.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The fact that MAGA-media is so intent on demonizing Renee Good shows that the defense of her killing rests on thin ice. To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors.
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"One year into his second term, how has Trump performed on the economy? The answer is: not good. Not good at all. Other than the depths of the Great Recession and the covid pandemic, job growth in the first year of Trump’s second term was the worst in *over two decades*" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
One year in, Trump's economy is a mess
He may have won on a promise to fix everything, but he's only made it worse.
www.publicnotice.co
January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"One year into his second term, how has Trump performed on the economy? The answer is: not good. Not good at all. Other than the depths of the Great Recession and the covid pandemic, job growth in the first year of Trump’s second term was the worst in *over two decades*" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Everyone knows the really dangerous criminals like to follow the police right as the criminals are doing their crimes, it's just common sense
HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
January 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Everyone knows the really dangerous criminals like to follow the police right as the criminals are doing their crimes, it's just common sense
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Never demean the occurrences of ordinary human life or see them as interferences in some “big work.” It is in just those ordinary places, far more than the public, lifted-up places, that the life of Christ is to be made manifest.
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Never demean the occurrences of ordinary human life or see them as interferences in some “big work.” It is in just those ordinary places, far more than the public, lifted-up places, that the life of Christ is to be made manifest.
Important work done by so many area after school programs. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
Survey shows demand for Omaha after school programs
A recent survey gathered input from 444 Omaha households to measure the successes and shortcomings of the metro's after school programs.
nebraskapublicmedia.org
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Important work done by so many area after school programs. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...