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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 6h

I’m not even using analogies or metaphors here. It’s almost just a photograph. People will die. People are dying. If you voted for this you’re partially responsible. Ouch. That must feel awful. Good. The @courierjournal.bsky.social cartoon.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 2d

I drew this when Charles Booker first ran for Senate and it still resonates for me. Politics to him means healing and uniting. I hear Maya Rupert (a national leader in progressive politics and campaigns) is in town taking meetings with him. I hope it’s true. We need his vision now more than ever.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 3d

Authoritarianism is like science. It exists whether you believe it or not. Every elected Republican official who isn’t actively denouncing this administration is supporting it and its dismantling of our Republic. They are traitors. The enemy of democracy. Say it and don’t stop until they’re gone.

New York Attorney General Letitia James charged in fraud case after pressure campaign by Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been charged as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 6d

No.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 6d

It’s like the first time a nuclear physicist saw a quark.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 6d

Amy McGrath is everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party. As a political artist I deal in visual metaphors. As a trial lawyer in verbal metaphors. The nearly physically impossible microscopically exact match of what is wrong with the Democratic Party and what is wrong with her paralyzes me.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 7d

The monsters aren’t under the bed.
#ICE #CHICAGO

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 9d

An awful lot of people who struggle themselves with the English language are complaining loudly and often ungrammatically about Bad Bunny not performing in English at the Super Bowl.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 10d

Oct 7 LBA Bar Center @louisvillelaw LAW STUDENTS: SEE YOU THERE

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 12d

Hi, Pete Hegseth. It’s me. Army veteran, Judge Advocate lawyer, and law professor. Your vain and gross performance to our nation’s military leaders succeeded only in proving your incompetence, dangerousness, and childishness. You’re a petty spoiled 7th grade boy without the sophistication or class.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 12d

Mitch McConnell is singularly responsible for the shape we’re in. I won’t mourn his death when it comes. He used his nearly unprecedented power for his own interests and not the country’s. However, he most assuredly did have that power. The race for his seat, on the other hand, is simply pathetic.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 14d

USA USA USA USA USA

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 15d

UPDATE: I’ll be speaking twice, now. 1:15 at the indoor stage and now 3:15 on the outdoor stage, too. See you there.

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My next appearance: This Sunday at We The People Palooza! Join Indivisible Louisville Kentucky, me, and others to resist and energize.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 16d

My next appearance: This Sunday at We The People Palooza! Join Indivisible Louisville Kentucky, me, and others to resist and energize. Indoor and Outdoor stages, short and sweet speachifying, music, food, beer. What else could you ask for? Oh, yes, a functioning democracy. We’ll discuss . .

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 17d

Former prosecutor here: The Indictment of James Comey is the unethical and unprecedented act of a corrupt, unqualified, and immoral stooge doing the bidding of an authoritarian criminal. Period. Any discussion suggesting there’s “more to this” or “let’s wait and see” is complicity and surrender.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 18d

TFW you wish your congressperson was as brave as basically any scientist or elementary school teacher.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 19d

It’s Deposition Week at UofL Brandeis law. You came to law school to be a trial lawyer young Padawan? This week you’ll start by being a Deposition Lawyer . . .

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 19d

I’ve never wanted you people to get Raptured more in my entire life.
#Rapture

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 24d

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Every Charlie Kirk Vigil Is Violence

And We Know Who Should Be Afraid

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 24d

“Marc, it’s Andy. Anything good going on at the courthouse?”

Andy Wolfson never quit. A pro’s pro. A legend. A journalist.

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 25d

Performative Christian Nationalist White Supremacist bonfires, actually, enabling, intentionally or not, Fascism. Light a candle for yourself while you’re at it. #CharlieKirk

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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 25d

Written and published over a year ago. People ask “what can we do?” Their strategy is to silence us all by demanding the firing of a few. They can’t fire everyone. They won’t fire everyone. It is is the obligation of those who can speak to do so.

Ceaselessly.

I Will Not Tone Down My Rhetoric

Political Art and Commentary

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