Tim Murphy
I write about national politics and sinkholes for @motherjones. 508.308.4715. [email protected]
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It's time to hand-deliver your ballot.
At this point, neither Brett Kavanaugh nor the Postal Service can be trusted.
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PSA
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How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine
Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire.
What If Trump Is All Too Eager to Give up Power?
The president may simply check out if he loses, leaving critical challenges, like the need for more COVID-19 relief, to fester.
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Tim Murphy
this is a pretty good question! One of several reasons it sort of feels like late 2008
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Superspreader in Chief: The ultimate timeline of Trump's deadly coronavirus denial
Nine months of failure, magical thinking, self-congratulation, and golf
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there's sort of an oversaturation of every kind of news recently but it's worth just sitting down with this for 10 minutes and letting it all sink in
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There’s a Way to Avert the Looming Coronavirus Crisis in Hasidic Brooklyn. But the City Needs to Choose It Right Now.
Religious Jews are about to celebrate Simchat Torah, one of the calendar’s most joyous holidays, typically filled with singing and dancing. It’s a virus spike waiting to happen, unless the city reconsiders its broken approach and charts a new course...
The Proud Boys loved Trump's debate response telling them to "stand by"
The neo-fascist group's leadership has said the president's words were an invitation to commit violence.
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"'They begged him to stab us in the back and he didn’t,' another wrote in a different channel."
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It’s the insulin, stupid: 2020 Democrats zero in on insulin costs
With the Iowa caucuses less than a week away, the Democratic presidential candidates can’t stop talking about the price of insulin.
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We heard a ton about this during the Democratic primary, because it matters to people. statnews.com/2020/01/28/ins… And lying about it—unlike some of the more abstract fights—is challenging people's lived experience. They're either dirt cheap (free!) or they're not.
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Dan Crenshaw’s Coronavirus Rhetoric Has Put His Seat at Risk
Sima Ladjevardian, Crenshaw’s Democratic opponent, is going after the representative’s downplaying of the coronavirus pandemic in Texas.
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
The Senate Majority Leader’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.
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mcconnell going around the country gleefully predicting to donors that RBG's death would be his "October Surprise" is really the perfect encapsulation of mcconnell and everything he represents newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… pic.twitter.com/FK1iImfICI
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Biden volunteers are encountering a shocking number of voters pushing an unhinged smear
“I send out 500 texts in a pop and maybe it’ll come up five to seven times.”
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my mom was shocked at how many people she encountered while text-banking would respond by calling Biden a "pedophile." I poked around and volunteers are just being inundated with this stuff—a smear now embraced by Trump himself.
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Jim Carrey to Play Joe Biden on SNL Season 46
Lorne Michaels revealed the news in an interview with Vulture.”
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Tim Murphy
all of their politics stuff is bad because they use stale impressions as a crutch rather than creating characters, so this is really a natural fit
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Bay Ridge Couple Forced Off NYC Ferry In Handcuffs Over Refusal To Wear Masks
"Take them off the boat, we got to go home!"
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"David's wife said they were currently suing the MTA after receiving a similarly hostile reception while riding maskless on an express bus."
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“The post office has always been political”
Fights over the mail aren’t new—but there’s never been one quite like this.
A GOP lawmaker received "sensitive documents" from Russian officials in 2016
Former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with Russian involved in "targeting elections," a Senate committee finds.
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Rohrabacher sounds like the kind of guy who would say "you haven't seen the last of Rohrabacher!" and apparently we haven't
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Exclusive: Kanye West Indicates That His Spoiler Campaign Is Indeed Designed To Hurt Biden
In an exclusive interview, the billionaire rapper says he’s “walking for president,” as GOP operatives work to get him onto state ballots.
Herman Cain's death is political. All coronavirus deaths are.
It's too late for conservatives to claim the tragic outcomes from COVID-19 should be apolitical.
Federal agents invade Portland, citing Trump's executive order protecting statues
The Border Patrol says it has authority to "conduct arrests" in Portland.
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"The Border Patrol says it has authority to 'conduct arrests' in Portland." Maybe that should wake some folks up.
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Throw the Bums Out
We are in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?
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just wild to see NY getting framed by some (such as its governor) as a lesson on how to respond to coronavirus, instead of a tragic lesson on how not to.
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He was praised on the Senate floor as a model DACA recipient. Now he's in detention—with COVID-19.
"I've given so much to this country that still doesn't want me here."