Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy

@kevincmurphy.com

Speechwriter, historian, cinephile, old-school blogger. Formerly academia, Congress, politics, preservation. Nowadays in Philly. He/him/his. http://kevincmurphy.com/biography.html

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As always, all the talk about "Democrats harboring foreign criminals" is projection

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S ALLIES SAY HE HAS GONE TO THE US - REPORTS

Kevin Murphy reposted

I'll travel well out of my way for a California Pizza Kitchen. Thai chicken pizza and szechuan chicken dumplings any day and twice on Sunday.

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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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cursed era

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

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the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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"She's not really a STAR TREK fan," I told Walter Koenig (1936-2026) when my then-girlfriend and I met him at an autograph show in 2009. "Good for her," he said dryly, as he collected my fee for his signature. "She has better things to do." Farewell to a real one. #RIPWalterKoenig #StarTrek #TVSky

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imagine if a democratic candidate anywhere said something like this about a jewish candidate, would be a ten-alarm fire in every media outlet for days. but the literal president promoting this sort of insane bigotry against a muslim won't even merit a story

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Trump: “Abdul El-Sayed is a jihadist. He should not be allowed to serve in our Senate.”

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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I don't know what H3 is but this is essentially true of all podcasts. Terrible media format, it's just jibjabbering narcissists all the way down.

Hbomberguy@hbomberguy.bsky.social

I don't understand why people ever watched the H3 podcast. Like none of these people are funny or likeable, and they don't even seem to like each other. Someone is going to have to explain what made any of this compelling

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The election results in Brazil and Serbia suggest the polling error at the moment understates the anti-authoritarian sentiment around the globe.

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Yup. Look: We don't know. It's possible that there's polling error that will turn a Dem landslide into a mild Dem win. But people have been underrating the downside risks for Republicans all cycle, and are still doing so.

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Kevin Murphy reposted

josh turek sucks, there is no reason whatsoever to be doing this other than a truly unacceptable level of personal bigotry

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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This is straight Klan stuff. He's talking like a badly xeroxed neo-Nazi flyer someone stuffed in your mailbox back in 1975.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

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That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.