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Jason Burke Murphy

@murfmensch.bsky.social
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I teach philosophy at Elms College in MA. My interests include the debate surrounding Basic Income. I have also written about popular culture, moving pictures, Star Trek, and sport. [Picture: Starbase 80. This is a metaphor.]

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Mayors for a Guaranteed Income @mayorsforagi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"For years, I opposed Universal Basic Income, firmly and reflexively. . . That position no longer survives contact with reality." thehill.com/opinion/finance/5713876…
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The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is no longer a liberal fantasy, but a necessity to prevent social fracture and buy time as AI continues to replace jobs faster than institutions can adapt.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/07/2026
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
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Elon Musk’s tired schtick
Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My three World Cup hot takes: (1) The strongest story in the tournament was a Messi win. (An Mbappé win would have been strong.) (2) Martinez was a wall. Otherwise two more Spain goals. (3) The Muppets were good. Why no Dr. Teeth?
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Don’t give me Muppets and then take the Muppets away.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The match was so different after Gordon’s ENG goal. ARG charge after ARG charge.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Shouting the national anthem: ARG just did that. Dear ENG: Singing “Queen” instead of King is fine by me frankly.
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Cartilage Free Captain @cartilagefree.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For the third straight time, a Tottenham Hotspur player is guaranteed to be a World Cup champion.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Spain just kept getting the ball back all match. Pedro Porro is a jugador. #ESPFRA #FRAESP #PedroPorro
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The crowd at Boston’s wharf is one third Moroccan. People are meeting there and exchanging contact info. Fans make this game good. The France shorts are all Francophiles. One was waving a copy of Camus’ —The Rebel—. Quel fantastique!
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Met Roger Bennett today. He works a crowd. My shirt has Socrates thereon’t. I recommend the philosopher and the midfielder. Great Wikipedia pages, both! Watching France/ Morocco on a screen at the Long Wharf. Boston can deliver the goods, y’all!
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In --Eleven Named People-- find Jason Burke Murphy, "Overturn This" elevennamedpeople.substack.com/p/overturn-t... #BELUSA #USABEL #FIFA #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Balogun #RedCard #Infantino #Trump #Lukaku
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Overturn This
Trump largely ignored the matches in the World Cup, until he did and one intervention undercut U.S. soccer and much of the goodwill its young players had built against "Ugly American" stereotypes.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Amy Olberding has quite brilliantly said something I have tried to say. Students are really missing out when they cheat using AI. open.substack.com/pub/amyolber...
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No One Dies in this Dystopia
I am all done with grading for the semester just past, but the work sticks to me in a way I can’t yet manage to fling off.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
For July Fourth
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 01/07/2026
THERE HE IS
A bad drawing of DR Congo forward Brian Cipenga mid-somersault
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🎃 Dustin Gore-Killer 🔪 @george-miller.org · 01/07/2026
Tired: Dr. Tottenham Wired: Dr. Congo
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
And one more thing: all the cranks demanding third parties should take a look at what Mamdani has done. He won his Democratic primary and then threw his support behind other primary challengers and won those. He's the King of New York, and he did it as a Democrat and with Democrats.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Scotland v Haiti was a good match. There was desire and different strategies. Haiti had the right idea but final passes and shot did not land. Looking forward to Andy Robertson for Tottenham.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
When Ian Darke says “Nica-rah-gue-ah”, I feel like I am Hercules Poirot watching the World Cup with Captain Hastings.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The World Cup pregame ran through a ton of Mexican pop culture. It was goofy, fun, and hit the right note for me.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 29/05/2026
If you agree with those statements, sign the petition:
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Sign the Petition
No AI without UBI - Demand Our Leaders Prioritize People Over AI Corporations
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Proud Lilywhites @proudlilywhites.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Celebrating all the lesbian and queer women in football and globally today and everyday #lesbianvisibilityday 🤍
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
couldn't sleep. my body knows, deep down, that Tottenham Hotspur plays today
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Funny how the American leaders are so interested in Saint Augustine, a philosopher whose work was hugely influenced by the collapse of the Roman Empire around him. Probably nothing.
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Basic Income Earth Network @basicincomeearth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Scottish Greens have included UBI in their manifesto, alongside free bus travel, as part of a broader vision to tackle inequality and improve access to essential services. As elections approach, basic income is becoming an increasingly popular policy. zurl.co/utQbq
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/04/2026
“I believe it is time to explore concepts like the universal basic income (UBI), also known as ‘the negative income tax’: an unconditional flat payment to all citizens, which could be dispersed through the tax system.” — Pope Francis, in the final section of his book Let Us Dream Happy Easter! 🥚
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Cartilage Free Captain @cartilagefree.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
As expected, Roberto De Zerbi's first comments about his Greenwood defense at Marseille is a total non-apology "apology". cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/tottenham-ho...
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In first Spurs interview, De Zerbi issues non-apology for Greenwood comments
“I’m sorry people were offended, about what I said, but I’m not sorry for what I said”
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drownèd honor by the locks” Harry Hotspur Henry IV, Part 1 Act 1, Scene 3
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
RIP Jesse Jackson. That button translates to “Basic Income Now”. #JesseJackson #NWRO #basicincome
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Tottenham fans often see the Progress flag over the tunnel at home matches. That is the work of this account owner, who has been repping for years. Slavia Praha requested the banner be moved today, citing their supporters. Shame on them.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Massive news!
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Curaçao just qualified for the World Cup. All of these countries are filled with story-tellers. It is their work that makes the World Cup so valuable. Now that prices will climb without limit, purchasers who just want to own a piece of this famous space and famous time will just sit there.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A nice piece. Basic income is good because people won’t have as many problems. We are wrong to worry about people working less or more. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fatal-tr...
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The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into
To win the argument for universal basic income, advocates must confront the myth that less work means less worth.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Unions keep proving to be the answer to climate change and right-wing blowback. I was impressed to read that the North Atlantic has “capacity to build 264 GW of offshore wind that could produce up to 27 percent of the United States’s annual electricity consumption.” jacobin.com/2025/10/afl-...
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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing ho...
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“The headline takeaway from the cost benefit analysis is that society received €1.39 in return for every €1 of public money invested in the pilot.” Ireland’s Basic Income Grant to 2,000 artists may become permanent. #basicincome www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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How Basic Income for the Arts scheme is a win for all
The socioeconomic benefits of supporting artists through this scheme is worth €100 million to Irish society
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Boston Review is so good. They have re-posted Elaine Scarry's essay on Plato and Poetry and it is... so good. www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...
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Plato and the Poets - Boston Review
The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I want to recommend River Solomon's short novel --The Deep-- which is based on a recording by Clipping. Memory, trauma, emotional labor, solidarity. Find it here. The essay by Clipping is also very good. This was about seeing an idea move from one person and from one genre to another.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31/08/2025
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker makes a crucial point here: Members of the National Guard have full-time jobs outside of their service and responsibilities. By frivolously calling them up, Trump is upending their lives just to weaponize them against their own neighbors and fellow Americans. It's appalling.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is bad. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Zohran Mamdani being *more* popular among NYC Jews than among NYC voters as a whole is a wild fact, and completely belies much of the national narrative surrounding his candidacy. The people in the national media who talk a lot about antisemitism are often not listening to actual Jews.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
When I play Wordle, I start with the previous day’s winning word. This is like throwing away half a turn. I am the biggest badass of all time.
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Ann-Katrin Berger just put in one of the best performances I’ve ever seen a keeper do. How she kept her nerve when everything happened… #weuro #FRAGER en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann-Kat...
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Ann-Katrin Berger - Wikipedia
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This FRA v GER W Euro quarterfinal has had everything. Insane early red card. 10 players defending like mad. Blocked pen. A diving own-goal stop! Extra time still to go. Mental.
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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE. Tells me everything I need to know about you.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 09/06/2025
The fact that protestors started destroying driverless cars is a signal, as is all the celebration of this destruction. There is already anger about the jobs and income being displaced by AI before any universal basic income is implemented. A likely rallying cry — no automation without compensation!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Elon out Ange in
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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
One of my youth jobs was engraving trophies and jewelry. I can’t imagine doing it live on TV after a match. But they are spelling Tottenham Hotspur correctly right now. #COYS
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