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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We're fighting them so we don't have to fight them here! (This just in ...)
nytimes.com
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi would not have been able to play in Canada as he is charged with rape in France. A court confirmed there is sufficient evidence to proceed with the trial and the case is currently ongoing. #fifa #worldcup #Canada #Morocco
Hakimi charged with rape
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It's exactly 2 miles from the Capitol to the Lincoln. I ran that route 2-3 times a week from basically 1998 to 2001, and then again from 2004 to 2011 when I lived in DC. So during the Clinton, Bush Jr., and early Obama years. Nobody ever had to fence up jack or tell us not to loiter.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Like gambling companies just shamelessly rebranded themselves as something that sounds like science-based financial management software and reporters just went with it
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I freaking love hockey. It’s like the one constant since I was 6 years old.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Unpopular opinion: Goalies should just take the mask off after games instead of wearing it like a fancy hat at the Kentucky Derby.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Last November I was at Disneyland and talking with some folks from Montreal who said they hadn't followed the NHL in a while, and I told them this season the Canadiens will make it to at least the Eastern Conference finals. Don't make a liar out of me Habs!!!!
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Just realized Philly Flyers has both a BUMP and a BONK on their roster and I have never added a fandom more quickly. www.nhl.com/flyers/roster By the way @flyers that attaches to nothing, you're missing big time by not being here.
nhl.com
Philadelphia Flyers 2025 - 2026 Roster | Philadelphia Flyers
The official 2025 - 2026 roster of the Philadelphia Flyers, including position, height, weight, date of birth, age, and birth place.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 26/04/2026
Room full of journalists and everyone's chasing rumors on bluesky
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
what will the host of The Apprentice and Fox & Friends co-host dream up today
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/01/2026
A new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/3YXeODB
A screenshot from our video analysis of the shooting of Alex Pretti. Headline reads: "New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Alex Pretti."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
But this was okay…
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Small niche win, but I love that in 2026 for like $12/month I can quickly see which NHL games are bangers and tune in when they count. (World's only joint Bruins *and* Habs fan here.) Also 3v3 OT is best thing in @NHL history prove me wrong. HOWEVER: Bummed that @NHL gives me "no result."
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
thedp.com
Year in Review: Four Penn alumni who stepped into the national spotlight in 2025
From the Oval Office to courtrooms, several Penn alumni made national headlines this year — repeatedly tying the University to high-profile controversies.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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.
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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Cities aren’t scary. You are scared. There’s a difference
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/08/2025
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.
nyti.ms
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.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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?
axios.com
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?"
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/07/2025
"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.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Re-posting this every day now, as I slowly pull my hair out
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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!
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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!
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/05/2025
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.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Whoa, I am very very emotional at the idea of an American pope. Praying for him and for all of us.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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!
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Casual after-school break dance battle
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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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Jim Sichko @jimsichko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Fear is contagious…..so is HOPE!
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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.
whitehouse.gov
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
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We've always been at war with Greenland.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“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
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Infuriating
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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.”
theguardian.com
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
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This headline is both sad and hilarious in a “how many divisions has the Pope?” sort of way.
Headline from Washington Post reading “Trump continues attack on federal judge despite stern warning from chief justice”
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In case you don't feel old... The baby from Papa Don't Preach would be celebrating her 38th birthday pretty soon.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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.
wapo.st
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.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Canada has 1/8 the population of the US. Canadians sent 40,000 total troops and had 158 killed in Afghanistan after 9/11. Thanks Canada.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So far, this appears true. With respect to transgender people and Palestinian activists, the Trump administration is testing boundaries by targeting the most vulnerable and least likely to receive political protection. They know all Republicans and most Democrats are too spineless to stop them.
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Honestly I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a political party with a weaker grasp on how to talk to the public in a time of crisis
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You know what I'd do for the State of the Union Response? Take two quick-thinking, young voices in the party -- AOC and Frost? -- and just have them do 10-12 minutes of reaction in Pardon the Interruption format, complete with the screen graphics. Two minutes per topic, six topics, big finish, done.
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Bill Murphy Jr. 🤔🇺🇸🇨🇦⚖️🖊📖🫡 @billmurphyjr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In case you missed it last week, @nytimes.com had a killer article about undocumented migrants from all over who the US sent to Panama. Honestly, this is like the plot to "Life is Beautiful" ... (1/7)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
They arrived at the United States
border from around the world, hoping
to seek asylum. Instead, they were
detained, shackled and flown by the
U.S.military to a faraway country,
Panama


They were stripped of their passports
and most of their cellphones, they said,
and then locked in a hotel, barred from
seeing lawyers and told they would
soon be sent to a makeshift camp near
the Panamanian jungle.


At the hotel, at least one person tried to
commit suicide, according to several
migrants. Another broke his leg trying
to escape. A third sent a plaintive
missive from a hidden cellphone: "Only
a miracle can save us."In one window visible from a sidewalk
below the hotel, a woman clawed at a
latchless glass pane in an attempt to
escape. When she noticed journalists
below, she held up a piece of paper that
read "Afghan.


She made hand motions that indicated
an airplane, then her head falling off.
The message seemed to be clear: A
flight home meant death.
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