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Brian Murphy

@burrite.bsky.social
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Historian @ Rutgers & Fulbright prof in Ireland writing about the founding of Paterson, NJ. Brennan Center fellow studying state constitutions. Jersey guy. Eagle Scout. Got a scar at Action Park. Bergen Co. NJ-5 LD-39. StateConstitutionsLab.org

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s really incredible. I once pitched a story about a program I run at my public uni on teaching the Constitution and didn’t even get a reply. And before you say it….I’ve been published everywhere. I know how to write a pitch. This is a right wing rag.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Little did they know that the United States Government is a Delaware LLC run out of a Mailboxes Etc. in Rehoboth Beach.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s loathed
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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 · 15/09/2026
But they actually do get mad. Genuinely mad. They get mad when Muslims run in primaries or people talk about Gaza.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Of all the corners of society and institutions that could be held accountable or expected to reflect on their actions… it is always Bernie supporters in 2016. Why not just say Chapo caused the Iran war.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You know your energy writing is so thoughtful and you just seem like an unserious troll by saying trash like this. As if leftists uniquely are to blame for where we are. That’s insane.
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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 · 20/08/2026
Oh tugging on this thread is gonna reveal some top tier bullshit
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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 · 16/08/2026
Totally underrated. Back on the re-read stack.
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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 · 12/08/2026
Right? As soon as I left the math track that need disappeared
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How did a guy who won a math prize in freshman year and was taking abstract algebra wind up as a history major? I think 1/3 of us were also taking beta blockers to deal with the stress and it was just way too much.
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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
New Yorkers paid for a highway in Texas they’ll never drive on
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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 · 01/08/2026
He needs love as much as he needs salt Jeb.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
They found a candidate that lets them pretend they’re not insanely Islamophobic and aligns with their class interests
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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 · 24/07/2026
Nauseating that their whole schtick is they can come together to hate people of color across party lines
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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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
Please someone run in 2028 so friends stop nudging me to.
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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...
Photo via Wayne Wastaken

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
He’s always ready to take a swing at a Democrat on Fox or CNN but won’t use his bromance with Markwayne to help people trapped inside an ICE camp in his own state.
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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 · 12/07/2026
It looks like Axios actually cropped it in the most current version of their story. The image for social is the prior version.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Why did you crop out the newspaper in the story
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
As with Bob Ross or Rick Steves (or Fred Rogers) there is something about someone who can teach you something with kindness and sincerity. I used to watch this with my dad and learned a ton from it.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cool then if they’re the same at the end of the day she should have no objections to AES
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So let’s say you and Peter are George and Paul and TJ is John (weird I know)…we all know who Yoko is
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“Only the poors and working stiffs should feel consequences - we have to defend the owners who bankroll our opposition” is like 70% of the caucuses.
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Practicing with a wet dish towel does help. Or at least it was useful for me. YMMV. I really like the videos posted by this Spanish guy Marcpizza
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Do you know the story of the Michigan in 1827?
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If (when) he’s proven to be lying about this and nevertheless keeps his CNN gig…
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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 · 08/07/2026
This is actually more of a comment than a question
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is at TNA? Does the Worm Man know you can just go do actual research there?
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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You love to see it
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