Tim Murphy

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National correspondent at Mother Jones. tmurphy@motherjones.com. Signal: timothypmurphy.41 Proton Mail: timothypmurphy@proton.me

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Tim Murphy·Apr 18

periodic reminder you can send me tips securely on signal: timothypmurphy.41 or proton mail: timothypmurphy@proton.me

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Tim Murphy·Sep 2

stephen miller targeting mexican independence day celebrations, anything you want to say about this man is correct

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Tim Murphy·Sep 9

"What is it? Is it like they’re afraid? I mean, I guess they’re afraid, but my God!" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Tim Murphy·Sep 9

NYDN reporting that Cuomo allies in NY have offered to pay eric adams (via a "lucrative private-sector job") to drop out www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/09/n...

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fetterman thing is great. it's so cool that we get to redo "he's with us on everything except the war" every 20 years

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Andy Beshear's greatest legacy is probably that this is what's happened to Matt Bevin www.courier-journal.com/story/news/p...

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Tim Murphy·13h

very boring to say this but the most likely "AI kills all humans" scenario is just the one in which AI execs, out of a mix of zealotry and short-termism, install as president a visibly decaying fascist who starts weird wars he can't end

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the question we're left with here: is a "deputy director of White House operations" named "Chamberlain Harris" nominative determinism? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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"If we wanna win big with teens, we must bring them in as tweens" is a bit tom wambsgans nymag.com/intelligence...

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"She first saw the property in 1979, when her future husband, Michael Smith (who is now interred on-site), asked her during a date, 'How would you like to see my cemetery?'" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/r...

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i like the idea of college football players just kind of staying on campus and getting more and more advanced degrees so they can keep playing, like some dilettante WASP heir

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always kind of stunning to see just how little money was given for post 9/11 health consequences, and how hard it was to do even that

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yaakov roth saying the government could just destroy the statue of liberty is really the "john yoo says no treaty can stop the president from crushing the testicles of a person's child" for our current era nymag.com/intelligence...

"If the government decided to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, Millett asked, and if they moved quickly, could nothing be done about that? “I think that’s right, yes,” Yaakov Roth, a Justice Department lawyer, replied. "
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look i'm not telling you what to do but if you're a non-profit civic art society that endorsed an executive order from this guy because you thought it would advance classical architecture you *could* simply disband and liquidate all your assets and retreat to the wilderness nymag.com/intelligence...

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