nthmurphy

nthmurphy

@nthmurphy.bsky.social

Left coast transplant, jewelry designing, animal & science loving, music junkie, hobbit, and nerdy democracy devotee.

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🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comGavin Newsom wants to make seizing ballots a felonyThe California governor plans to introduce new legislation targeting "federal interference" in elections.

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Condolences to those I know who were fans of Buffy and/or Ted Lasso and/or the other work Anthony Head did.

Abigail Nussbaum@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This is Peaches. She was found as a stray with a broken femur, fractured pelvis, and severe emaciation. X-rays also showed pebbles in her stomach from eating whatever she could find to survive. She needs surgery for the chance to walk again. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/peaches-bsd

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I for one heartily endorse shipping every billionaire to a lifeless rock millions of miles away where they will struggle to live and will have to work every single day of their existence in order to survive

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com

SpaceX Taps Crypto Billionaire to Lead First Crewed Mission to Mars https://gizmodo.com/spacex-taps-crypto-billionaire-to-lead-first-crewed-mission-to-mars-2000762451

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For those who enjoyed the Red-Winged Blackbird photo from yesterday, here's a slow motion video that gives you another perspective. #wildlife #birds (No sound as it was captured at 120fps).

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I'm on parental leave this week and next, so of course Callais came down today. Just a few top-line thoughts: 1. Don't believe Alito's claim that the majority is merely tinkering with precedent. In effect, this decision pretty much eliminates what remained of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

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The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

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Not enough people are talking about this. Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.

ms.nowOpinion | New Hungarian PM says government was funding CPAC but won’t anymore“I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place,” Péter Magyar said this week. “It was a crime.”

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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

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This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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Japanese officials warn a second tsunami may be on the way after an earthquake struck off the country's north-east coast, now officially revised to 7.7 magnitude, at a depth of 19km (11.8 miles). That's a pretty big quake.

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This is Ricky. He was a runner-up in a pet photographer's "My Fabulous Weirdo" competition. Unfortunately when you are this fabulous, it can be very hard for the weird to shine through. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: portraitsofdogs)

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New post from Pope Leo: "God's heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice and lies. But our Father's heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud. God's heart is with the little ones and the humble."