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Tim Murphy
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National correspondent at Mother Jones. tmurphy@motherjones.com.

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alright, we made it to the weekend, one last post
"In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round"
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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whisper it quietly but Hearts have just been a different team since Roman Roy took over
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc
"In the same way that the federal government has been weaponized against immigrants, the New York City government should be weaponized against the federal government’s presence in the city. Building inspectors, yes. And safety inspectors. Is the water in the ICE office clean? Cut it off, to test it. Fire drills. Tickets on their parked cars. Brake light violations. Health inspections. Sidewalk construction. Street closures. More fire drills. More fire drills! You can never have too much fire safety. ICE agents, who are some of America’s most pitiful cowards, keep their faces covered. Should the new mayor publish photos of ICE agents’ faces, for the sake of public safety? Yes he should. Should the city print up as many of these photos as possible and print them in a pamphlet and distribute this pamphlet to hospitals and public libraries and city offices? Sure. We have reached the point when the city government, under assault from real live fascist secret police, must look down into its inadequate toolbox and get creative. Within the bounds of the law, nothing should be off the table."
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"“To compare Indivisible to antifa is going to make antifa just laugh their bellies off,” he said. “We have people in our group who don’t want to use offensive wording on our signage.” Broyles is a 63-year-old former Marine and a semi-retired real-estate investor. And a disproportionate number of his group’s members are older residents like him. “To say that there’s some sort of conspiracy of left-wing groups is absurd—it just means you haven’t operated in a left-wing space'"
October 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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the buildup to this Jeffries bit in the piece is really well done, and manages to impart real depth to a standard no-comment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...
"I never did get to talk with Jeffries about Mamdani. Several phone calls to his team soon turned to voice mail messages that went unanswered. In October I told Jeffries’s staff that I would have to write that he avoided talking about Mamdani for months. There was still no response. Schumer and Gillibrand each declined an interview request."
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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checking in on Fix the City PAC
an pro-Cuomo ad featuring Zohran Mamdani in a still from an old musical video next to the text "Has never run a large agency or business"
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...
"Musk decided to name the data center Colossus—a reference to a popular trilogy of sci-fi novels from the 1960s by D.F. Jones, in which scientists built a supercomputer named Colossus that gained autonomy and plunged the world into war and chaos."
October 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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just an all-timer of a dek here, protect magazines
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Brash and imperious, he runs his ventures like a tin-pot dictator from Tropico, one of his favorite computer games, according to lawsuits from former employees. Two of them claimed he either punched or slapped an underling, and one said Sun repeatedly texted the employee “f--- your mother.” (Sun denied all this in court filings.) He also had them call him “His Excellency,” a title he acquired in 2021 after being appointed an ambassador to the World Trade Organization by Grenada. At the time, the island nation was selling diplomatic posts for $150,000. (A lawyer for Sun denies any impropriety.) “There was massive, blatant, no-hesitation ass-kissing for the guy,” says Cody Snider, a former engineer for one of Sun’s companies. “It was like he was a king or a god.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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my Secretary of War
Henry Fucking Knox
September 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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come on you can't leave this world leader as a blind item www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
"At one recent lecture, an audience member asked Thiel if a certain world leader was the Antichrist. Thiel said the leader wasn’t “charismatic enough,” according to Nestor Tkachenko, a startup CEO who is attending the lectures. In the past, Thiel has named certain left-leaning political figures as analogues for what the Antichrist could be."
September 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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come on www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
"One of them, Elkhonon Goldberg, a renowned neuropsychologist then at New York University, laid out a plan in a February 2008 email. “We are quite confident that with your support our Brain can become an exceptional scientific endeavor and we will be proud to name it ‘The Epstein Brain,’” Goldberg wrote, adding a smiley face. "
September 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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"Juan Manuel Benítez You were repeatedly humiliated by Governor Cuomo, not only during the pandemic but even before that. How are you experiencing right now, his campaign for mayor? Bill de Blasio It’s a horrible campaign. First, easy analytical point: he’s run a horrible primary campaign and a horrible general election campaign. And I think it’s about essence. Howard Glaser used to work for him, who I worked with very closely, and he had some great tweets about this. Like the guy’s running for an office he doesn’t want, he maligned, he thought was second class—not just an attack on me, just his general view of the mayoralty. And his only goal in life is to be president of the United States and be quote-unquote better than his father, which is insane and an insane way to look at life. But that’s how he lives his life. And I think the fact that he doesn’t even respect the job and in many ways doesn’t even respect New York City — and that’s how he comported himself as governor — the chickens are coming home to roost, right? This is just, this is very karmic. So that’s what I’m seeing. Look, it was painful dealing with him, but even when I was in office, I think more and more people were seeing through it. I’m glad it is being seen even more clearly now, but this is not the first time I think that people started to realize what was really going on with this guy."
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Of course Casar fears the immediate effects of race-based redistricting. But I thought this was an interesting point about how it could change the Democratic party long-term too. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"“We’re already losing ground with working-­class Latino and Black men,” he said. “I’m afraid that there could be a lot of things that go wrong with the Democratic Party, but frankly, if we lose the power of ensuring that districts don’t cut up Black and brown communities, then we could wind up with a system of authoritarian Republicans and then very milquetoast, technocratic, incoherent sets of Democrats.” We were supposed to be making small talk between calls. “I didn’t think this was what we would talk about,” he said, almost apologetically. “That’s just what I’m thinking about today. I just don’t think we’ve thought about the further-reaching implications of what that could mean.”"
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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we've just got to find a way to get people to make real sentences again nymag.com/intelligence...
"Noem declined a request for an interview. In response to a list of questions about Noem, DHS said, “This NYMag hit piece reads like a preteen rage-scrolling, then prompting ChatGPT for a screed on misogyny — complete with zero substance and maximum bullshit.”"
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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yeltsin on a tank after the hardliner coup failed
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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extremely "emil bove impeachment proceedings" voice www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
"Emil Bove III, a former senior Justice Department official and onetime personal attorney for Mr. Trump who is now a federal appeals court judge, expressed skepticism about the case as early as February"
September 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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still three stars, tho
three star review: "The views and trail were great seen a millipede, rattlesnake, and other insects! We had to park at the entrance due to getting there after 4. But on our way back to the vehicles around 8:30pm, about half a mile away to the south of the trail some people in a white vehicle started shooting at us. We were a group of 14 and a there was other people behind us a lady with her pup and a couple! We ran and heard the bullets flying by us all! I was terrified because I had my 9 month old with me! Won’t be returning but just as a warning not sure if it’s a common occurrence out there. Difficulty Moderate"
September 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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this should be an ad www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
"In messages investigators uncovered between two TD employees, one asked, “why [do] all the really awful ones bank here?” “Because … ,” the other responded, “we are convenient.”"
September 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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and it begins: Data for Progress has a poll out on a hypothetical Goldman vs. Lander primary in which the incumbent trails by double digits demandprogress.org/wp-content/u...
Brad Lander leading Dan Goldman by 19 points in a head-to-head matchup
September 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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recall that the decision to go all in on this got a bit of resistance within the caucus! www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...
""Such bulls**t": Not every Democrat wants to talk about Epstein"
September 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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a remarkable story. this line is a bit compulsory, but I think I can go some way toward answering it, based on my own overview of decades of public statements, writings, and news accounts: He thought it sounded cool. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
"It is unclear what factors Mr. Trump weighed when approving the SEAL mission."
September 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The only photo of this event, unfortunately. Everyone will have to use this one.
The only photo of the bernie and zohran town hall
September 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM