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Brian Murphy

@burrite.bsky.social

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Historian writing about the founding of Paterson, N.J. and the Passaic River. Brennan Center fellow studying state constitutions. Jersey guy, got a scar at Action Park. StateConstitutionsLab.org

Arthur Burgess Murphy, often known as Brian Murphy, was an Irish scholar of Russian literature and Professor Emeritus of the University of Ulster.

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 1d

wtf

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 1d

Wait what is this real?

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 1d

How about EU compensation rules for canceled flights instead of this bs

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 1d

Yup it sure does

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 1d

Scout camp leader mugs are “the worst coffee you ever had during one of the best weeks ever”

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent mug.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 3d

Madness reigns lol

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 3d

Trader Joe’s parking lots are up there

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 4d

They’re all in good standing! No big hand wringing conversations about who should be denied communion.

These are violent assaults an incarcerations of the faithful by the state & denial of access to sacraments. Arguably the most violent state assault on the RC Church in the modern US.

Crickets.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a tremendous failure of leadership that US bishops openly talk about withholding the sacrament from Democratic elected officials for their abortion stances while JD Vance embraces Nazis and a significant chunk of the flock smash like buttons on ICE’s snuff content and there’s not a word spoken

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 4d

I would love to see Leo visit Chicago and insist on visiting this facility and see MAGA Catholics lose their minds

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 4d

Someone’s done the Wrath of Khan Starfleet Field Coat as a unisex cardigan.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Nicolas Véron, Lesley Bartlett , and 6 more Tom Clark, Nicolas Véron, Lesley Bartlett, Michael D. McDonald, Dean Eckles, Brian Murphy, Aviel Roshwald, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Peter Bergman

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 5d

Holy cow that’s what he looks like now

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 5d

What even is that original post?

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 5d

I’m still dialing in the timing, grind settings, etc. There’s an app called Aeromatic that’s been useful.

I took it camping on a canoe trip with some scouts this summer where we were off grid and I just didn’t want to rely on instant (which tbh has gotten pretty great).

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 5d

I travel with this now and my own grinder and it’s totally worth the space and weight

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 5d

Jazz OTD: Miles Davis and Gil Evans's reimagining of the first movement of Joaquín Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" is an iconic moment in 20th-century music, stretching the boundaries of jazz contributions. They recorded it on November 20, 1959 for the landmark album "Sketches of Spain." #jazzsky

Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio

YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic

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Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 7d

It’s Tuesday

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 7d

Mark Sanford was running for president?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 7d

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’

After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign

www.theguardian.com

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 9d

Oh wow the signature policy doctrine. What Federalist Paper will Alito discover this in.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Nicholas A. Christakis, Brendan Nyhan , and 3 more Anna O. Law, Nicholas A. Christakis, Brendan Nyhan, Andrew L. Whitehead, Brian Murphy, Nicole Guenther Discenza

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 9d

The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.

Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10d

Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

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Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses.
About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals.
Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.

The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too.
"Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him."
Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 10d

You literally voted to confirm her as Agriculture Secretary

Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 10d

After using hungry Americans as pawns, this will only make it more difficult for families in need to put food on the table.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 10d

After using hungry Americans as pawns, this will only make it more difficult for families in need to put food on the table.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 10d

David Russell uses the same track in the opening sequence of American Hustle too. It’s such a great (lesser known?) one

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 10d

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social: I take a look at the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the little it accomplished- especially on the central governmental crisis we face- the constitutional crisis over impoundment.

www.crisesnotes.com/the-longest-...

The Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History Ends Without Ameliorating Our Constitutional Crisis

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10d

They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 11d

He made a promise about Zohran’s election that was a verbal contract

Brian Murphy @burrite.bsky.social · 11d

Waiting for Trump and RFK to give us guidance on whether this is an inject bleach into your heart kind of outbreak or a shine a UV light up your ass outbreak.