Profile avatar
rmurphey.bsky.social
93 posts 464 followers 199 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 23 Comments 27

This is textbook (competitive) authoritarianism

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Did you vote for this?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Dems: Polling shows only *generalized* approval of Trump on immigration, but broad opposition to the lawless specifics. If you don't engage on Abrego Garcia and other illegal kidnappings, you only *help* Trump subsume all that under "keeping out illegals." newrepublic.com/article/1941...

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Right because they are not running for re-election. I don’t know how else to say this. They. Aren’t. Running. For. Reelection.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 7 days ago • 339 comments

THEYRE NOT EVEN SAVING MONEY THE DEFICIT IS GOING UP EVEN FASTER NOW AND WILL INCREASE WITH ANOTHER BATSHIT ROUND OF TAX CUTS LIKE WE DID BEFORE AND DIDNT WORK THEYRE JUST FIRING PEOPLE TO DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT THATS THE ENTIRE REASON TO KILL YOUR GOVERNMENT AND REGRESS US. AMERICANS YOU DUMBASSES

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

submitted 38 days ago • 911 comments

One of the most bizarre and extraordinary examples of American cultural extremism is that being a member of institutions which regularly create large-scale supply chains for child sexual abuse is routinely used as a credential for how credible and trustworthy public figures are alleged to be.

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

rmurphey.medium.com/i-spend-my-a...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

submitted 53 days ago • 552 comments

I hear news that Rs are afraid to speak up because they fear that violence will be directed at them. George Washington might like a few words ...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

so when did germans stop being welcome in the rest of the free world, asking for a friend

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

It sure would be a shame if they only got input from Republicans.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

leopards are coming for so many faces

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Aaron Petersen is the Dean of Men at Hillsdale College. His email is not hard to find. I just sent him this.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

just ventured into X for a bit and no joke after about 2.5h of interacting I'm on the phone with a police officer to make sure there's a note about my address in case I get SWAT'd

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

With so many contracts being ignored, when does this start to affect the faith & credit in USD? Oh, that's the point isn't it.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This is a reluctant ruling that provides a roadmap.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

It brings no immediate relief but it’s worth reading Judge Chutkan’s TRO decision storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 65 days ago • 12 comments

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social have you considered doing any protest art that I might print on a yard sign or a postcard?

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

tfw you realize scientists and educators suddenly need to be a "suspect" class for the sake of interpreting the equal protection clause.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments