Reposted by Kevin Murphye.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 33m"pete hegseth's idea of a smart guy" is such a brutal own 529546
Reposted by Kevin MurphyAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 35mA Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda. 35918
Reposted by Kevin MurphyDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 22hIt's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes" 461856379
Reposted by Kevin MurphyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026My 6-year-old in Maryland watching Ice Cream Sandwich cartoons on YouTube just got an anti-UN ad from the literal State of Israel?!?!? 1426060
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 27/09/2026Pleased to report Primetime is good fun. Phoebe Bridgers isn't half bad either, already a better actor than Dylan. 130
Reposted by Kevin MurphyCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2675094424
Reposted by Kevin 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. 329184473846
Reposted by Kevin MurphyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nothing could make me cast a vote for Rahm Emanuel. Nothing. 2064580
Reposted by Kevin MurphyEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t. 962096
Reposted by Kevin MurphyHeather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>nytimes.comRahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 PlayThe longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028. 28980197
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 26/09/2026The Gen-Z guy next to me at the brunch bar is telling his friend the movie they're showing, "The Legend of the Headless Horseman," is one of his favorite films. (It's Sleepy Hollow). 010
Reposted by Kevin MurphyPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7978771394
Reposted by Kevin MurphySanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵 5598185
Reposted by Kevin MurphyPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The fact that we've gotten to the point where this man feels comfortable speaking his mind in public is such an indictment of the 21st century as a whole 54942239
Reposted by Kevin MurphyW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rahm Emanuel, who has about a good a chance of being president as I do, has been profiled like 9 times in the last couple months in major newspapers. It really shows you how profoundly out of touch the people are that drive much of our national political discourse. 1252591395
Reposted by Kevin MurphySpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147361724
Reposted by Kevin MurphyBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 26/09/2026Rahm Emanuel's career has been built on the myth that he did a good job with candidate recruitment and campaigning in 2006 at the DCCC. The DCCC actually did a bad job that year in both its primary and general targets. He benefitted from a wave and recruitment by the netroots and groups like LCV. 24112
Reposted by Kevin Murphyslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview 1392845334
Reposted by Kevin MurphyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.cbsnews.comTrump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegalPresident Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa... 721787474
Reposted by Kevin MurphyGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203186815281
Reposted by Kevin MurphyW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why would anyone care if you brought a coffee to a job interview? What in the world are you all on about? 4512
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 25/09/2026That NYT list is bad. Here, try this one. (Runners-Up: Chernobyl, The Americans, Succession, Bojack, Fleabag). 000
Reposted by Kevin Murphyceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2026Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once 913298395
Reposted by Kevin MurphyTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think we are underestimating how much the polls have broken Trump. He's going to Alabama to campaign ffs. Please clap. 1422330
Reposted by Kevin Murphybijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think about this post all the time. you might too 3269221736
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 25/09/2026Milan Panic, whom I ghosted a memoir for, passed yesterday. Very interesting guy. WWII partisan, then Olympian defector to US. Then got rich through his early pharma biz. Then big Dem/CA donor. Then served as Yugoslavia's president and tussled often with Milosevic. Big personality, crazy life. RIP.online-tribute.comMilan Panic | 1929 - 2026 | Online-Tribute.comMMilan Panić, the visionary entrepreneur who founded ICN Pharmaceuticals, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, World War II veteran, champion cyclist, devoted husband, father and generous friend, die… 221
Reposted by Kevin MurphyULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DRAGON'S LAIR (1983) 323858
Reposted by Kevin Murphymaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164861215
Reposted by Kevin MurphyResident Warren G. Harding @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 28/10/2025First day as a vampire hunter: This is easy lol First night as a vampire hunter: oh no 72001538
Reposted by Kevin Murphymale to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The NYT asking a 50 year-old Republican about the trans panic and segregation is just the NYT doing a victory lap. 0203
Reposted by Kevin MurphyTim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That’s not the Mary Peltola I know from my spam folder 1203
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 24/09/2026How could I resist stories of thirty men, plus Kreegyr? 133
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 24/09/2026This is a silly thing to get mad at Trump for. It's plainly obvious that China is the rising power, and we are the declining one. That's what happens when you let Republicans do 50 years of Smash and Grab. 140
Reposted by Kevin MurphyRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know 8931268
Reposted by Kevin MurphyErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is human trafficking on a massive scale. 332304781
Reposted by Kevin MurphyTim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Kao laid out in devastating detail how his operation worked. He gave agents a 50-page document naming dozens of lobbyists, congressional staffers and members of Congress who he said helped him trade cash for contracts.” www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 1319994
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 22/09/2026Day 489: Sully is in another one of his umber phases. (Too much dog park shenanigans.) 030
Reposted by Kevin MurphyMike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There just isn't a legitimate solution to this which doesn't result in thousands of people currently working in the Federal government going to prison for many years 7442152
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 22/09/2026We've already done this a lot but... Twin Peaks The Return Andor Deadwood The Wire The Terror (s1) Better Call Saul Mad Men Station Eleven Interview with the Vampire Atlanta 130
Reposted by Kevin MurphyTyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Besides the fact that not enough people realized that he was directly tracing these things with no real creative additions, the case for Lichtenstein depended on him adding a perceived level of contempt for the source material, which was what supposedly made it 'high art' 413044
Reposted by Kevin MurphyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:deadline.comDone! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. DiscoveryParamount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD. 16835741393
Reposted by Kevin MurphySubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Taylor Lorenz is proof that Elon's ideological project at Twitter is working. Yeah, the lady who spends 18 hours a day online suddenly got more right wing after he took over, that was the point. 153540513
Reposted by Kevin MurphyEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs? 26082461642
Reposted by Kevin MurphyJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 20/09/2026i feel like cookie monster is obsessed with cookies. hell, that’s probably how he got his name 331464174