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Chris Murphy

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Pilot. Political affiliation: Pro-Constitution of the U.S. Despise illiberalism, Putanism, & Trumpism.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14h
What emerges when you take a deep breath is a picture of what we all know by now to be true. This is not a president who is committed to governing, to public service. This is a smash and grab, and we are the victims. joycevance.substack.com/p/flooding-t...
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Flooding the Zone
Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because of course. Wonder what the GOP China hawks are doing these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: 5 million years ago - a bunch of bedbugs lounge around in a living room, looking totally bored. Panel 2: another bedbug excitedly bursts through the front door and exclaims, “someone invented beds!” Panel 3: one of the bedbugs looks over their shoulder at the other and says, “you’re joking”
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: Former FBI agents & analysts ask Judge Aileen Cannon to clarify whether her gag order related to Trump classified docs probe bars their testimony in 'grand conspiracy' probe. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A reminder that Putin is wanted for war crimes by the ICC in connection with Russia's mass abduction of Ukrainian children. The Trump administration is of course trying to destroy the ICC.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 23/09/2026
A free press is a central pillar of democracy, as the Framers profoundly understood. This highlights the nature and effects of current attacks on our free press.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
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The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Since June they have been hiding billions of dollars of Venezuelan oil revenue the U.S. is siphoning off 4 months without any accountability... not even disclosing how much Venezuelan oil its sold, how much revenue its collected, or how its used the money since seizing control of the country’s oil
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The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone? | Council on Foreign Relations
The American and Venezuelan people remain in the dark about how the Trump administration is controlling billions of dollars of Venezuelan oil revenue. Without accountability mechanisms or a clear demo...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 19/09/2026
don't be nice.
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Don't be nice
Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 19/09/2026
Never lose your keys again
A buttplug that can hold keys
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Her family also raised a shit ton of money to create America First Legal to sue others. Her husband has helped weaponize the DOJ to sue others. Using the legal system to intimidate and threaten people or force them to adopt MAGA views is a core tactic of these people.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This includes undocumented people in the US. It includes newly arrived immigrant teens. It includes poor women and men in abusive relationships. Not having legal immigration status makes such people practically vulnerable to traffickers who use the threat of calling ICE to keep them enslaved
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saddest part about this is that trafficking is intimately related to migration — but mostly because restrictions on migration spur cartels and trafficking networks to get into the migrant smuggling business. Everybody knows this as well. Lack of legal pathways makes a market for migrant trafficking
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
oh...this is bad
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Let him play in Russia. georgepkent.substack.com/p/alex-ovech...
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Alex Ovechkin - “I’m Russian”
Moral dilemmas, choices, and consequences
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes. Everything feels like a scam or some extractive scheme, and it's exhausting.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is the kind of person who would support this policy an oversized cancer cell or a human? Jury's out.
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Idiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U...
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Screw him! www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...
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Alex Ovechkin says he supports Russia but is 'not pro-war'
Alex Ovechkin is drawing criticism after appearing in a TV ad for Vladimir Putin's political party, but the NHL's career goal-scoring leader says he only "supports what's happening in Russia" and hopes the war with Ukraine will end soon.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is what my cat looked like after she got spayed.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13/09/2026
The position “I would mass murder [any group] for any improvement of [other group]” is indistinguishable from Nazism. This is one of the most disgusting political opinions I’ve ever seen posted on this site (though of course the only person who needs to answer for it is the poster themself).
Liquid Coyotes OV @liquidlatrans.bsky.social
Just to make our position clear and obvious for all the bigots who are going to be seeking clarity and what is surely ambiguous messaging to them: I would happily grind every cishet centrist liberal into catfood if doing so made one working class trans life better.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You know who really did show up? Canadian police officers, firefighters, and medical personnel came to NYC, on and off duty, traveling independently or in groups to stand with Americans and help shoulder the enormous burden of recovery and cleanup at Ground Zero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Austin Swafford @swaffordaustin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Imagine a career patriot like Dan Driscoll being driven to just say “we’re fucked, I’m done”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/09/2026
I learned from Tal Lavin's "Wild Faith" that the Christian right doesn't think they have to follow Jesus's commands, or any other biblical rules for believers, in the "fight" to take over America. It's why hypocrisy arguments don't work on them, and why they're fine w Trump cheating on his wives etc
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Zach was my teaching partner at the Naval War College. He's an all-around great guy with a strong sense of honor and professionalism. He's speaking out against a deep stain on our country: the betrayal of Afghans and others put their lives at risk to work with us.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anyone with awareness of Canadian history would know that fear of becoming overly dependent on the US has been a core theme of Canada's political discourse since its emergence as a distinct society in the 1780s Trump has only confirmed fears of American arrogance that were around for two centuries
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Tim Bevilacqua @bevilacqua-t.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just a reminder, the skeet that got her fired, "“Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence,”
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Matt Wells @mjwells.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
She's right, I've personally controlled 5 cities in Arizona for the last 10 years, we all just take turns over here until we're bored.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thank you. Had a typo- here it is again:
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of midterms.
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Supreme Court clears the way for Trump mail voting order in advance of midterms
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead on his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the fast-approaching midterm elections.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.
A screenshot of a White House tweet styled after The Magic School Bus cartoon but this one says “The Magic Deportation Bus” and shows shackled brown men in the back. The White House account says “Please let this be a normal field trip…” One put gray text over the whole thing that says “FASCIST PROPAGANDA.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford: "The red states we're gonna hit hard ... you think an insult from him [Trump] hurts me? Bring it on, buddy. You're a loser."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The only country that has threatened to invade Canada is us, & it should have immediately ended this presidency. Also, stop lying. It's not a Freudian slip. Grow up & act like the Vice President of the United States. Or even better, resign.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 24/08/2026
Zelensky: 35 years ago, Ukraine restored its independence. “Happy holiday to the great people of a great country. Happy Independence Day of Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!” #Ukraine
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