Traci Murphy
@traci-l-murphy.bsky.social
I’m still learning. Founder of @lucidcoco.bsky.social. Saint Paul.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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it’s true that manic consumer culture buying sprees probably point to a gnawing fear of engaging the spirit, whose demands are rigorous and whose rewards would require us to acknowledge our eternal indwelling self-worth, but on the other hand did you see how much cool stuff I have
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
it’s true that manic consumer culture buying sprees probably point to a gnawing fear of engaging the spirit, whose demands are rigorous and whose rewards would require us to acknowledge our eternal indwelling self-worth, but on the other hand did you see how much cool stuff I have
We aren’t meant to know the names of this many people.
January 30, 2026 at 4:18 PM
We aren’t meant to know the names of this many people.
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The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
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January 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
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I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE.
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
There is no such thing as other people’s children
It is intolerable
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January 24, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE.
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
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One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 PM
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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I would like just one big national magazine or newspaper to hire a Minnesota writer instead of sending an out of towner. Or in addition to!
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I would like just one big national magazine or newspaper to hire a Minnesota writer instead of sending an out of towner. Or in addition to!
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bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 AM
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
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UNITE HERE Local 17 represents more than 6,000 workers. The majority of our membership is women, immigrants and people of color.
Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
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Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
UNITE HERE Local 17 represents more than 6,000 workers. The majority of our membership is women, immigrants and people of color.
Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color.
WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.
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(reading my list of things i can control) well that is not very much
January 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
(reading my list of things i can control) well that is not very much
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ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though
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There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
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What grounds me in my community work aside from parenthood:
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality”.
- James Baldwin
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality”.
- James Baldwin
January 4, 2026 at 4:28 PM
What grounds me in my community work aside from parenthood:
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality”.
- James Baldwin
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this
may be incapable of morality”.
- James Baldwin
“All are welcome here” but the jagged icicles above the front door say otherwise
December 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“All are welcome here” but the jagged icicles above the front door say otherwise
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“…at the very least, anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”
I would pay SO MUCH* to a media company that did this!
*of my very little money
I would pay SO MUCH* to a media company that did this!
*of my very little money
In this week's newsletter I wrote about losing a parent (to bad politics) and good tv shows and the billionaires who pretend they're going to leave a city if their taxes go up by an amount that will never make their lives worse.
#158. New York's Billionaires and You
Hi everyone,
We are still firmly in what any calendar would tell us is the middle of November, and yet I feel like the year is basically over. It's not that I'm winding down for the holidays. Quite t...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“…at the very least, anytime a billionaire is asked for public comment on anything, someone with < $1,000 in the bank should get equal time to offer a rebuttal.”
I would pay SO MUCH* to a media company that did this!
*of my very little money
I would pay SO MUCH* to a media company that did this!
*of my very little money
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Alone? With my THOUGHTS?
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Alone? With my THOUGHTS?
Thank you to all my locals who are putting out their Saint Paul endorsements! It’s so helpful!
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thank you to all my locals who are putting out their Saint Paul endorsements! It’s so helpful!
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New career path: Telling everyone that I use generative AI for everything (and then just half-assing it with my own brain) so people I don’t respect throw piles of money at me and are cool with the final product being bad.
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
New career path: Telling everyone that I use generative AI for everything (and then just half-assing it with my own brain) so people I don’t respect throw piles of money at me and are cool with the final product being bad.
@godaddy.com and @microsoft.com are each their own special of hell for customer service but hoo boy when you get them together it’s really a black hole funhouse mirror of fuckery
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@godaddy.com and @microsoft.com are each their own special of hell for customer service but hoo boy when you get them together it’s really a black hole funhouse mirror of fuckery
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Really moving piece on how to celebrate July 4 in times like these from the inimitable @catcardenas.bsky.social for @thebarbedwire.bsky.social
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How Do You Celebrate a Country That Doesn’t Love You Back?
I’ve spent most of my adult life watching Texas lawmakers villainize Latino immigrants like my grandparents.
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July 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Really moving piece on how to celebrate July 4 in times like these from the inimitable @catcardenas.bsky.social for @thebarbedwire.bsky.social
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/04/j...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/04/j...
Please enjoy this excerpt from my 7th-grade diary.
June 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Please enjoy this excerpt from my 7th-grade diary.