Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡
@billmurphyjr.bsky.social
I write! Quite a bit, actually! Contributing Editor at Inc.com, plus find my daily newsletter at Understandably.com.
If you're on a marketplace, check out your 2026 premiums.
Mine in New Jersey:
2025 😢 ➡: $1,203.44
2026 😡⬆: $2,297.80
That's an $13,128 annual increase for a family of 3.
This is a Silver Value plan (high-deductible). The plan itself goes up $300/month, the rest is the loss of the subsidy.
Mine in New Jersey:
2025 😢 ➡: $1,203.44
2026 😡⬆: $2,297.80
That's an $13,128 annual increase for a family of 3.
This is a Silver Value plan (high-deductible). The plan itself goes up $300/month, the rest is the loss of the subsidy.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're on a marketplace, check out your 2026 premiums.
Mine in New Jersey:
2025 😢 ➡: $1,203.44
2026 😡⬆: $2,297.80
That's an $13,128 annual increase for a family of 3.
This is a Silver Value plan (high-deductible). The plan itself goes up $300/month, the rest is the loss of the subsidy.
Mine in New Jersey:
2025 😢 ➡: $1,203.44
2026 😡⬆: $2,297.80
That's an $13,128 annual increase for a family of 3.
This is a Silver Value plan (high-deductible). The plan itself goes up $300/month, the rest is the loss of the subsidy.
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Cities aren’t scary.
You are scared.
There’s a difference
You are scared.
There’s a difference
August 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Cities aren’t scary.
You are scared.
There’s a difference
You are scared.
There’s a difference
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force evacuated three people from a U.S. research base in Antarctica on Wednesday after a medical emergency, conducting a rare and highly dangerous mission through volatile weather and 24-hour darkness to rescue the individuals.
New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue Mission in Antarctica
Three staff members from the National Science Foundation were evacuated from a U.S. research base after a medical emergency. The mission is one of the most challenging for the air force.
nyti.ms
August 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Royal New Zealand Air Force evacuated three people from a U.S. research base in Antarctica on Wednesday after a medical emergency, conducting a rare and highly dangerous mission through volatile weather and 24-hour darkness to rescue the individuals.
Stop and soak that in: The very makers of AI, all of whom concede they don't know with precision how it actually works, see a 1 in 10, maybe 1 in 5, chance it wipes away our species.
Would you get on a plane at those odds?
Would you build a plane and let others on at those odds?
Would you get on a plane at those odds?
Would you build a plane and let others on at those odds?
Behind the Curtain: What if predictions of humanity-destroying AI are right?
Everyone assumes AI optimists and doomers are simply exaggerating. But no one asks: "Well, what if they're right?"
www.axios.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Stop and soak that in: The very makers of AI, all of whom concede they don't know with precision how it actually works, see a 1 in 10, maybe 1 in 5, chance it wipes away our species.
Would you get on a plane at those odds?
Would you build a plane and let others on at those odds?
Would you get on a plane at those odds?
Would you build a plane and let others on at those odds?
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"America First" means paying the people who refuse to do the jobs that need doing to arrest the people who are doing them.
Every ICE Agent and prison guard could be out building houses or harvesting food, but they would rather kidnap and abuse the people doing the honest work they won't do.
Every ICE Agent and prison guard could be out building houses or harvesting food, but they would rather kidnap and abuse the people doing the honest work they won't do.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"America First" means paying the people who refuse to do the jobs that need doing to arrest the people who are doing them.
Every ICE Agent and prison guard could be out building houses or harvesting food, but they would rather kidnap and abuse the people doing the honest work they won't do.
Every ICE Agent and prison guard could be out building houses or harvesting food, but they would rather kidnap and abuse the people doing the honest work they won't do.
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Re-posting this every day now, as I slowly pull my hair out
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
June 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Re-posting this every day now, as I slowly pull my hair out
It's Election Day in NJ (primary for governor and a few others). Get out and vote! More important now than ever!
Also, what better time to reminisce about the time when NJ lost my voter registration, so I went to court & got a judge to sign an emergency order to let me cast my ballot!
Also, what better time to reminisce about the time when NJ lost my voter registration, so I went to court & got a judge to sign an emergency order to let me cast my ballot!
June 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's Election Day in NJ (primary for governor and a few others). Get out and vote! More important now than ever!
Also, what better time to reminisce about the time when NJ lost my voter registration, so I went to court & got a judge to sign an emergency order to let me cast my ballot!
Also, what better time to reminisce about the time when NJ lost my voter registration, so I went to court & got a judge to sign an emergency order to let me cast my ballot!
The sheer number of things that had to happen in 2025 for me ...
a lifelong Boston Bruins fan ...
whose mom grew up in Montreal ...
and who now lives in NJ and takes his daughter to Devs games ...
to wind up rooting HARD for the Toronto Maple Leafs ...
Never say never.
Go Leafs go!
a lifelong Boston Bruins fan ...
whose mom grew up in Montreal ...
and who now lives in NJ and takes his daughter to Devs games ...
to wind up rooting HARD for the Toronto Maple Leafs ...
Never say never.
Go Leafs go!
May 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The sheer number of things that had to happen in 2025 for me ...
a lifelong Boston Bruins fan ...
whose mom grew up in Montreal ...
and who now lives in NJ and takes his daughter to Devs games ...
to wind up rooting HARD for the Toronto Maple Leafs ...
Never say never.
Go Leafs go!
a lifelong Boston Bruins fan ...
whose mom grew up in Montreal ...
and who now lives in NJ and takes his daughter to Devs games ...
to wind up rooting HARD for the Toronto Maple Leafs ...
Never say never.
Go Leafs go!
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Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
Whoa, I am very very emotional at the idea of an American pope. Praying for him and for all of us.
May 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Whoa, I am very very emotional at the idea of an American pope. Praying for him and for all of us.
Me just now watching Winnipeg Jets:
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
May 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Me just now watching Winnipeg Jets:
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
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Casual after-school break dance battle
April 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Casual after-school break dance battle
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
If the backlash does this to Tesla car sales.. imagine what might happen if Musk actually managed to unleash "a legion" (that might be 10,000) of humanoid Optimus robots on society later this year?
April 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If the backlash does this to Tesla car sales.. imagine what might happen if Musk actually managed to unleash "a legion" (that might be 10,000) of humanoid Optimus robots on society later this year?
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Fear is contagious…..so is HOPE!
March 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Fear is contagious…..so is HOPE!
This order requiring would *instantly* disenfranchise 119 million eligible U.S. voters. Why?
It lists 3 possible IDs:
1. Driver license & military IDs don't list citizenship.
2. Passports do obvs, but 46% of over-18 Americans don't have one.
3. Getting one takes 6+ weeks and costs $165.
Boom.
It lists 3 possible IDs:
1. Driver license & military IDs don't list citizenship.
2. Passports do obvs, but 46% of over-18 Americans don't have one.
3. Getting one takes 6+ weeks and costs $165.
Boom.
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
March 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This order requiring would *instantly* disenfranchise 119 million eligible U.S. voters. Why?
It lists 3 possible IDs:
1. Driver license & military IDs don't list citizenship.
2. Passports do obvs, but 46% of over-18 Americans don't have one.
3. Getting one takes 6+ weeks and costs $165.
Boom.
It lists 3 possible IDs:
1. Driver license & military IDs don't list citizenship.
2. Passports do obvs, but 46% of over-18 Americans don't have one.
3. Getting one takes 6+ weeks and costs $165.
Boom.
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We've always been at war with Greenland.
March 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
We've always been at war with Greenland.
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“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
New column drops today
New column drops today
March 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
New column drops today
New column drops today
Infuriating
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Infuriating
I was told to shower, given a jail uniform.
“How long will I be here?”
“You need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”
I felt like I was going to throw up.
The nurse grabbed my hand: “God brought you here for a reason. ... Through this, I think you are going to find a way to help others.”
“How long will I be here?”
“You need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”
I felt like I was going to throw up.
The nurse grabbed my hand: “God brought you here for a reason. ... Through this, I think you are going to find a way to help others.”
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I was told to shower, given a jail uniform.
“How long will I be here?”
“You need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”
I felt like I was going to throw up.
The nurse grabbed my hand: “God brought you here for a reason. ... Through this, I think you are going to find a way to help others.”
“How long will I be here?”
“You need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”
I felt like I was going to throw up.
The nurse grabbed my hand: “God brought you here for a reason. ... Through this, I think you are going to find a way to help others.”
This headline is both sad and hilarious in a “how many divisions has the Pope?” sort of way.
March 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This headline is both sad and hilarious in a “how many divisions has the Pope?” sort of way.
In case you don't feel old...
The baby from Papa Don't Preach would be celebrating her 38th birthday pretty soon.
The baby from Papa Don't Preach would be celebrating her 38th birthday pretty soon.
March 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
In case you don't feel old...
The baby from Papa Don't Preach would be celebrating her 38th birthday pretty soon.
The baby from Papa Don't Preach would be celebrating her 38th birthday pretty soon.
This is why I pay for @washingtonpost.com
Tell me what other news orgs are going to be able to pay to do this kind of reporting over and over.
Same thing for @nytimes.com.
Good work on this @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social.
Gift link below.
Tell me what other news orgs are going to be able to pay to do this kind of reporting over and over.
Same thing for @nytimes.com.
Good work on this @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social.
Gift link below.
For four Venezuelan friends, Alien Enemies Act cuts short an American dream
President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members. Relatives of men sent to El Salvador deny the allegation.
wapo.st
March 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is why I pay for @washingtonpost.com
Tell me what other news orgs are going to be able to pay to do this kind of reporting over and over.
Same thing for @nytimes.com.
Good work on this @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social.
Gift link below.
Tell me what other news orgs are going to be able to pay to do this kind of reporting over and over.
Same thing for @nytimes.com.
Good work on this @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social.
Gift link below.
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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.