Jaclyn Murphy
@jmurph337.bsky.social
Part-time Chicagoan, full-time Illinoisan. Way too invested in political shenanigans, television shows I've already seen multiple times, and which chain restaurant I'm going to eat at for my once-weekly designated lunch out.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A Wrinkle in Time. My 4th grade teacher read it aloud to us and it was the first time I remember encountering a female protagonist who was stubborn and imperfect and weird, and all those things ended up being strengths in the end.
“Stay angry, little Meg. You will need all your anger now.”
“Stay angry, little Meg. You will need all your anger now.”
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
A Wrinkle in Time. My 4th grade teacher read it aloud to us and it was the first time I remember encountering a female protagonist who was stubborn and imperfect and weird, and all those things ended up being strengths in the end.
“Stay angry, little Meg. You will need all your anger now.”
“Stay angry, little Meg. You will need all your anger now.”
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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👇 THIS has totally backfired. I'm not sure which Senator did what now, but it makes me want to see the entire Dem caucus primary'd. I don't trust a single damned one of them
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
👇 THIS has totally backfired. I'm not sure which Senator did what now, but it makes me want to see the entire Dem caucus primary'd. I don't trust a single damned one of them
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This is unironically my mom.
how is this real
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is unironically my mom.
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ICE is here in Chicago, clearly going after the worst of the worse, or as they apparently call it, "Adorable families with small children attempting to enjoy an early fall day at a park."
May shame follow those participating in this cruelty for the rest of their lives.
May shame follow those participating in this cruelty for the rest of their lives.
8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...
September 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
ICE is here in Chicago, clearly going after the worst of the worse, or as they apparently call it, "Adorable families with small children attempting to enjoy an early fall day at a park."
May shame follow those participating in this cruelty for the rest of their lives.
May shame follow those participating in this cruelty for the rest of their lives.
Really loved this at the end, too, just to add insult to injury.
![Screenshot from the footer of an email stating, “This email was sent to [redacted] by the Social Security Administration, and was produced and disseminated at U.S. taxpayer expense.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:emeoqemoak5jobqr6jmnsdhg/bafkreifutjl5agwu2xmwxu264enfvtgvzt5pl32mfsr5pulaytpettocem@jpeg)
July 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Really loved this at the end, too, just to add insult to injury.
The Trump tariffs have hit Hallmark ornaments. Mark my words, this will be what radicalizes my 89-year-old grandmother.
June 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Trump tariffs have hit Hallmark ornaments. Mark my words, this will be what radicalizes my 89-year-old grandmother.
I never thought I’d hate a Joni Ernst video more than her 2014 ad about castrating hogs, which seemed to play on constant loop when I was living in western Illinois at the time (the perils of the tristate media market), but as always, 2025 proves me wrong.
May 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I never thought I’d hate a Joni Ernst video more than her 2014 ad about castrating hogs, which seemed to play on constant loop when I was living in western Illinois at the time (the perils of the tristate media market), but as always, 2025 proves me wrong.
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Fashion needs better plus-size adjectives. Why would I want to be "curvy" when I could be a "portly gentlewoman of leisure"
April 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Fashion needs better plus-size adjectives. Why would I want to be "curvy" when I could be a "portly gentlewoman of leisure"
Buying this for my black cat to wear
Your go to Spring Break tank top.
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buff.ly/2Du2ZmY
April 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Buying this for my black cat to wear
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if i was an bears lions or vikings fan i think i would post this photo literally one million times
April 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
if i was an bears lions or vikings fan i think i would post this photo literally one million times
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Me, watching White Lotus s3e1: “Yes!! Jaclyn representation on television! And she’s a gorgeous celebrity!”
Me, watching literally every other episode of the season: “Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no”
Me, watching literally every other episode of the season: “Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no”
March 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Me, watching White Lotus s3e1: “Yes!! Jaclyn representation on television! And she’s a gorgeous celebrity!”
Me, watching literally every other episode of the season: “Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no”
Me, watching literally every other episode of the season: “Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no”
Incredible timing to receive this email on the same day I see this bs. Yes, please let's talk about institutional values, and let's start by the university using its voice publicly to condemn the harassment of university faculty and employees.
March 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Incredible timing to receive this email on the same day I see this bs. Yes, please let's talk about institutional values, and let's start by the university using its voice publicly to condemn the harassment of university faculty and employees.
Happy Birthday Chicago!
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Happy Birthday Chicago!
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Democrats are out with messaging that the Republicans didn’t play fair, which, first of all, grow the fuck up, and, second of all, Republicans just voted to kill Americans by stripping them of healthcare and food. Maybe talk about that. People will die because of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
February 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Democrats are out with messaging that the Republicans didn’t play fair, which, first of all, grow the fuck up, and, second of all, Republicans just voted to kill Americans by stripping them of healthcare and food. Maybe talk about that. People will die because of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening.
People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book.
Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"
People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book.
Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"
February 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening.
People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book.
Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"
People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book.
Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"
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took me a minute but i found it
February 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
took me a minute but i found it
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It's almost like Americans think putting effort into political life is cringe.
February 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It's almost like Americans think putting effort into political life is cringe.
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The Oregon Trail generation speaks
I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.
February 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Oregon Trail generation speaks
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Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros
February 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros
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The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
NEW - Ottawa Senators fans booed the American national anthem at the beginning of tonight’s hockey game.
February 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.