Brian Murphy

“Do you use Ai?” Excuse me if I did do you think it would be ten years since my first book? Gtfo.

This has been the playbook for my entire life and is why the firing of the director of the White House travel office in 1993 got wall to wall coverage while astounding crimes get a shrug from the beltway media today

In this explosive follow up to the story about the American Historical Association's use of DC lobbyists to silence AHA member Palestine advocacy, we have this: AHA is conducting a witchhunt of its Council. Loyalty oaths. Lawyers. Threats. Authoritarian behavior. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

New History Job Posted Today: Amherst College Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought | Amherst College

Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services with pastoral responsibility for US soldiers issues statement saying Catholic military personnel are morally obligated to refuse to participate in a potential livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan. www.milarch.org/archbishop-b...

"The city lies, sliced in half by the Passaic River, like a piece of old toast."

Oh yeah Gottheimer 1000% loved what they’re doing to Ilhan Omar.

Can we be sure Markwayne didn't do this at Josh Gottheimer's request?

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

Box of matchbooks that’s like a time machine

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.

Haha Gottheimer out with statements condemning Macklemore and supporting the Paramount merger. Please someone primary him so my friends will stop bugging me to.

It’s just a thing to behold after begging people to read this for most of my adult life

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

How do you work in the White House and “decline” a background check? You can just do that? No SF-86 or anything?

The Wharton School has a lot to answer for

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.

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.

Dinner tonight with the Quill Project summer constitutional studies cohort

Gottheimer screaming into a pillow somewhere

Big advantage of being in the UK this week is watching returns in the morning

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

The NYT hating Mamdani and poor people so much that they recruited an opponent from the Manhattan Institute is perfect

Meanwhile in NJ Markwayne Mullin’s best friend Josh Gottheimer is promoting a book their kids wrote together about how to hate immigrants bipartisanly

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.

Two Spanish speaking teams in the final and we have this cringe

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...

Imagine Tapper's reaction if this had been Biden

Got to visit Msgr. Hugh O’Flaherty’s gravesite today in Cahersiveen. An incredible man and life.

GIFT LINK: Faced with federal assault, Minn-St Paul resorted to hyper-local politics, w/ resistance hubs organized largely around neighborhood, school & church. I interviewed dozens of thoughtful activists. Their networks are robust and ready for midterms. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

The Supreme Court is wrong about what the Constitution means. THREAD www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Zachary Taylor came to him in a dream to tell him this was a good idea

This opening

One thing that I’ve learned in my study of backlash politics from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement is that backlashers are a persistent bunch. The undoing of Reconstruction took several decades, and post-WWII backlashers looked back on that patient counterrevolution as a model.

“Take that lefties” is the subtext here.

What is the Dem “centrists” case for why they should be trusted to reverse and undo this damage and advance anything remotely positive when they got us to this point

What **exactly** is moderate about this guy who goes on TV to trash Dems and seems to be one of the most openly and unapologetically racist Democrats in public life right now

One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...