Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 17hMore people willfully deliberately knowingly voted for him after he did this, than the first time around. It's like people spent the four years of the Biden presidency really thinking that being nice to shitty people with shitty values is accountability. 010
Reposted by Chris MurphyJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17hWhat 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...joycevance.substack.comFlooding the ZoneJack 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... 651727441
Reposted by Chris MurphyGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Many 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...theunpopulist.netStephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled ImmigrantsA Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees 29592293
Reposted by Chris MurphyBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Because of course. Wonder what the GOP China hawks are doing these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comTrump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador SaysPresident 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. 109735
Reposted by Chris MurphyProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026In 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.propublica.orgProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption ProbeProPublica 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... 10838291748
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 27/09/2026What works in Switzerland will definitely not work here. The Swiss aren't anywhere near as apathetic as Americans. Since it requires 3/4 of state legislatures to ratify such a change in any case, why not scrap the presidency for a parliamentary system? 000
Reposted by Chris MurphySara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He imposed Shania Law 14975231450
Reposted by Chris MurphyArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s 353231534
Reposted by Chris MurphyIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 329184513847
Reposted by Chris MurphyBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’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.thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA 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. 14691381
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 26/09/2026We should have a national law that requires disclosure of the per person cost to the employer, and enforce employees opting out with that cost as untaxable compensation. Give the employee the option to buy their own plan elsewhere. 000
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 26/09/2026It's not even insurance. It's a payment plan to get access to pre-negotiated additional costs for illness, with a very high cost cap. With an enormous bureaucracy and middleman cost. Most plans are employer paid. 110
Reposted by Chris MurphyJosh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026JUST 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...documentcloud.orgCannonTrumpClarify092426 22371127
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 24/09/2026And what do they think of unbridled, pontificating, stupidity? That is definitely not subtle. 000
Reposted by Chris MurphyBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A 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. 771246422
Reposted by Chris MurphyMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 23/09/2026A 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. 27123
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 23/09/2026Russia regularly commits genocide and freely admits it. Including on Ukraine. Proving genocide under the convention has specific requirements. Dolus specialis is hard to prove. It'd be hard to prove with Russia-Ukraine but I think that case should be made. 020
Reposted by Chris MurphyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jacob 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. 961535275
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 23/09/2026? They're not likely dumping fuel for a medical diversion with a normal landing. Most aircraft have no way of dumping fuel. The ones that do only dump fuel to get below max landing weight. Max takeoff weight can sometimes exceed max landing weight, but only soon after takeoff. 000
Reposted by Chris MurphyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT 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.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982223344
Reposted by Chris Murphyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever 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. 884018698
Reposted by Chris MurphyJenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Since 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 oilcfr.orgThe U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone? | Council on Foreign RelationsThe 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... 33330
Reposted by Chris MurphyJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The 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_... 4827851158
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 21/09/2026Let one big one fail then bail out the rest? Ala Bear Stearns? That lesson is apparently still in effect. The problem isn't failing, it's a too big to fail failing first! 000
Reposted by Chris Murphydanielroe @danielroe.dev · 19/09/2026don't be nice.roe.devDon't be niceSometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice. 41734246
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 21/09/2026$10M jet owned by a company (effectively) named: But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever, LLC Tell ya what I trust. That company is owned by one hell of a whackadoodle. 030
Reposted by Chris MurphyRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday 372111242002
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 19/09/2026The rendering of the nearly invisible arms is a deliberate choice. It didn't see shoes magically levitating. The reaction was feet are in those shoes and attached to someone. Is the point to talk about it and thus the brand? Classic negative marketing? 030
Chris Murphy @cmurf.com · 19/09/2026Before my eyes adjusted, I didn't see the arm connected to the shoes, therefore I saw someone hanged. The bright light forming a triangle didn't consciously register until after I read someone else's take, then it seems obvious. Looking at the image in isolation, however brief, was jolting. 130
Reposted by Chris MurphyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Her 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. 8481120
Reposted by Chris MurphyYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This 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 183
Reposted by Chris MurphyYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Saddest 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 14311
Reposted by Chris MurphyJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Let him play in Russia. georgepkent.substack.com/p/alex-ovech...georgepkent.substack.comAlex Ovechkin - “I’m Russian”Moral dilemmas, choices, and consequences 3136064
Reposted by Chris MurphyMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yes. Everything feels like a scam or some extractive scheme, and it's exhausting. 110819
Reposted by Chris MurphyMike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Is the kind of person who would support this policy an oversized cancer cell or a human? Jury's out. 2124
Reposted by Chris MurphyIdiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U...youtu.beThe Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificatorYouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council 052
Reposted by Chris MurphyJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Screw him! www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...espn.comAlex 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. 1712920
Reposted by Chris MurphyJay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is what my cat looked like after she got spayed. 0101
Reposted by Chris MurphyGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 13/09/2026The 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). 197105084