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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Haha Gottheimer out with statements condemning Macklemore and supporting the Paramount merger. Please someone primary him so my friends will stop bugging me to.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s just a thing to behold after begging people to read this for most of my adult life

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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How do you work in the White House and “decline” a background check? You can just do that? No SF-86 or anything?

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Wharton School has a lot to answer for

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

University leadership: We stand ready to support our faculty as they confront the disruptions & uncertainty caused by AI. Faculty: Great! We'll need smaller class sizes, especially for incoming students and— University leadership: Lol, no. We meant like subscriptions to Claude.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

She was my colleague at Baruch-CUNY for 8 years and just a completely courageous principled and very kind scholar. What a loss and legacy.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Dinner tonight with the Quill Project summer constitutional studies cohort

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gottheimer screaming into a pillow somewhere

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Big advantage of being in the UK this week is watching returns in the morning

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The person so mad about this lives in Texas, where New Yorkers’ hard earned tax money goes to subsidize everything

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The NYT hating Mamdani and poor people so much that they recruited an opponent from the Manhattan Institute is perfect

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Meanwhile in NJ Markwayne Mullin’s best friend Josh Gottheimer is promoting a book their kids wrote together about how to hate immigrants bipartisanly

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I grew up not far from where I live now in NJ and the number of severe thunderstorms each week is hard to believe vs. what I grew up with. We have 10, 20, 50, 100 year events now routinely.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two Spanish speaking teams in the final and we have this cringe

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Video where my congressman has a meltdown after being asked if he’s voting for more money for Israel. He whips out his phone and asks if they support Hamas and Hezbollah and just repeats it over and over like a threenager throwing a tantrum. Just a few years ago this was plainly unacceptable.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

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Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The day ICE murdered someone in Maine Josh Gottheimer was promoting a Fox segment about the nepo book his & DHS Sec Mullin’s daughters wrote about “bipartisanship” Now he’s attacking Ro Khanna for visiting the West Bank. It’s too late for 2026 but 2028 can be his last election. Enough is enough.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Imagine Tapper's reaction if this had been Biden

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Got to visit Msgr. Hugh O’Flaherty’s gravesite today in Cahersiveen. An incredible man and life.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

GIFT LINK: Faced with federal assault, Minn-St Paul resorted to hyper-local politics, w/ resistance hubs organized largely around neighborhood, school & church. I interviewed dozens of thoughtful activists. Their networks are robust and ready for midterms. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

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Minneapolis Offers a Blueprint for How to Beat MAGA

Faced with an unprecedented federal assault, citizens of the Twin Cities turned to their neighborhoods, churches and schools to defeat MAGA.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Zachary Taylor came to him in a dream to tell him this was a good idea

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

One thing that I’ve learned in my study of backlash politics from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement is that backlashers are a persistent bunch. The undoing of Reconstruction took several decades, and post-WWII backlashers looked back on that patient counterrevolution as a model.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Do they really not realize that losing 5-4 is going to bring these guys back year after year until they flip the holdout and toss the 14th Amendment. They got so close that they can taste it.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“Take that lefties” is the subtext here.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What is the Dem “centrists” case for why they should be trusted to reverse and undo this damage and advance anything remotely positive when they got us to this point

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What **exactly** is moderate about this guy who goes on TV to trash Dems and seems to be one of the most openly and unapologetically racist Democrats in public life right now

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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

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A Founder’s Previously Unknown Attempt to Avert the Revolutionary War

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The weird thing about all of these photos and videos of an empty national mall is DC usually has a bunch of tourists and visitors on any given day no? Did the state fair actively repel them from coming?

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Overcast at the Sandymount strand today

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/06/2026

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Incredible day in Dublin to see the pride parade complete with an Aer Lingus float where the DJ was the captain and finish off with a Belfast Coffee at Bar 1661 with poitin

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

First of all it’s telling that these guys could only round up a handful of sitting members to join this fight against their own voters. Second, they show over and over that they hate and will oppose other Democrats with way more commitment and energy than they ever muster to fight the right.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Real state fairs are fun and an actual national fair where NJ showed off Taylor egg and cheese and White Manna burgers would have been awesome in an alternate timeline. A country so big needs reminding that we’re not alien to one another like Fox would have people believe.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The thing is they are just now making things up and we don’t need to pretend it has some divine power or needs to be respected as a precedent. Gibbons v. Ogden is *the* foundational case in Commerce Clause jurisprudence. In 1824 Chief Justice John Marshall specifically dismissed strict, narrow…

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I have but a few hundred followers after leaving the bad place but I’ll just say there’s nothing moderate about Josh Gottheimer and there’s nothing radical about reining in and modernizing an out of control and corrupt Supreme Court, banning insider trading in DC, and saying Palestinians are human.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Dublin in late June. Lovely but you can see the pollen in those rays of sun.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Enjoy your last term Gottheimer.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's good to see pushback on the gutter racism that my congressman shovels on a daily basis. Our district deserves better and in any just world 2028 is his last primary.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Imagine if Tech or Finance allowed their story to be told in the mainstream press almost exclusively by people who hated them. This is what Education has chosen, in large part because it is saboteurs from Finance and Tech who have been doing the choosing.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is so sad. Gordon Wood was a legendary scholar and historian and very generous to me when I started out. A debt I would never be able to repay. I assigned Creation to my Irish students at UCD this term and they said it was their favorite. www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

That Gottheimer story is everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party and why the US is cooked as a democracy unless we clean house.

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