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Brian Murphy
@burrite.bsky.social
Historian writing about the founding of Paterson, N.J. and the Passaic River. Brennan Center fellow studying state constitutions. Jersey guy, got a scar at Action Park. StateConstitutionsLab.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I finally made a good Neapolitan pizza and these loser fuckers absolutely ruined the mood

Primary every damn one of them into the sun. We’re doomed if they stay in office a minute more.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The casual Islamophobia the NYT has thrown at Mamdani is a disgrace. And rather than try to correct course, two days out the newsroom and editors are still trying to throw punches. Now it’s that his resume is too thin.

A very broken news org.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
October 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
One of my graduate students holding the floor at our constitutional studies “summer camp” mock state ratification convention at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social with @quilldir.bsky.social and cohorts from four American universities

@law.rutgers.edu @sasn.rutgers.edu @rutgersgsn.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Got this from them today
May 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“Explore opportunities in the mining industry”
April 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’ve got this one saved and ready to go for the right moment
April 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Does your work intersect with state constitutions? Join the State Constitutions Lab on Thu April 24 at 2PM to discuss Quinn Yeargain's paper-in-progress "State Legislative Imperialism"

www.stateconstitutionslab.org/events/april...

@yeargain.bsky.social
#stateconstitutions #constitutions
April 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"The attention of the mill owners of [Paterson, NJ] should be called to the orphan female, who had the misfortune to lose a limb one year since. One dollar each would place her in a situation to walk as well... -HUMANITY"
April 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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