Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
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We've got it wrapped up!
Uh, except for who owns the territory Russia has invaded and how Ukraine is to protect itself.
Uh, except for who owns the territory Russia has invaded and how Ukraine is to protect itself.
Scoop @financialtimes.com: Under the US-Ukraine deal, Kyiv agreed to cap the size of its army at 800,000, according to senior officials who say they're pleased with the plan. Points left are territorial matters and security guarantees, which are TBD by Zelensky and Trump. www.ft.com/content/b0d9...
Russia signals it could reject modified US peace plan for Ukraine
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov suggests Moscow would walk away from proposal that differs substantially from Alaska talks
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We've got it wrapped up!
Uh, except for who owns the territory Russia has invaded and how Ukraine is to protect itself.
Uh, except for who owns the territory Russia has invaded and how Ukraine is to protect itself.
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victims of the october 7th attack are suing binance, whose ceo was just pardoned by trump after inking a $2B deal with the company, for allegedly facilitating crypto transactions for hamas
Binance Faces Lawsuit by Hamas Victims Under Anti-Terrorism Law
Binance Holdings Ltd. faces a lawsuit claiming the cryptocurrency platform “knowingly facilitated” crypto transactions by Hamas before the group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people a...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
victims of the october 7th attack are suing binance, whose ceo was just pardoned by trump after inking a $2B deal with the company, for allegedly facilitating crypto transactions for hamas
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Really something to think that one man--Donald Trump--is letting his minions freelance the fate of not one but two countries' citizens (Ukraine and Venezuela), and those minions don't agree on much but most want to sell out one and bomb the other, and the world is reduced to tantrum management.
One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
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www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Really something to think that one man--Donald Trump--is letting his minions freelance the fate of not one but two countries' citizens (Ukraine and Venezuela), and those minions don't agree on much but most want to sell out one and bomb the other, and the world is reduced to tantrum management.
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"For all their utopian dreams, the megaprojects championed by MBS don’t signal the future, but the trap represented by Saudi Arabia’s political economy."
Megaproject fiascos, an overdrawn sovereign wealth fund and speculative, crony real estate schemes won’t create MBS's “thriving economy.”
Megaproject fiascos, an overdrawn sovereign wealth fund and speculative, crony real estate schemes won’t create MBS's “thriving economy.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"For all their utopian dreams, the megaprojects championed by MBS don’t signal the future, but the trap represented by Saudi Arabia’s political economy."
Megaproject fiascos, an overdrawn sovereign wealth fund and speculative, crony real estate schemes won’t create MBS's “thriving economy.”
Megaproject fiascos, an overdrawn sovereign wealth fund and speculative, crony real estate schemes won’t create MBS's “thriving economy.”
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"Rather than delivering a development dream, MBS may be overseeing the biggest waste of a state’s resources in decades."
My new column on MBS, Trump and the trouble with promising $1 trillion in US investments as billions are wasted on vanity projects at home (sorry, "giga-projects"). Gift link:
My new column on MBS, Trump and the trouble with promising $1 trillion in US investments as billions are wasted on vanity projects at home (sorry, "giga-projects"). Gift link:
MBS’ Vanity Projects Are Bleeding Saudi Arabia Dry
Saudi Arabia can’t even afford Mohammed bin Salman’s follies, let alone the investment into the U.S. he promised Donald Trump.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Rather than delivering a development dream, MBS may be overseeing the biggest waste of a state’s resources in decades."
My new column on MBS, Trump and the trouble with promising $1 trillion in US investments as billions are wasted on vanity projects at home (sorry, "giga-projects"). Gift link:
My new column on MBS, Trump and the trouble with promising $1 trillion in US investments as billions are wasted on vanity projects at home (sorry, "giga-projects"). Gift link:
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So many fun circumlocutions for "it's fascism 101” here
"unusual new strategy"
"Incredibly rare"
"More aggressive and opportunistic"
"Potential for favoritism, corruption, and market distortions"
"Contradicts traditional Republican thinking"
"unusual new strategy"
"Incredibly rare"
"More aggressive and opportunistic"
"Potential for favoritism, corruption, and market distortions"
"Contradicts traditional Republican thinking"
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So many fun circumlocutions for "it's fascism 101” here
"unusual new strategy"
"Incredibly rare"
"More aggressive and opportunistic"
"Potential for favoritism, corruption, and market distortions"
"Contradicts traditional Republican thinking"
"unusual new strategy"
"Incredibly rare"
"More aggressive and opportunistic"
"Potential for favoritism, corruption, and market distortions"
"Contradicts traditional Republican thinking"
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Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
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NEW: Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson, the company's ad data reveals. www.theredoubt.net/meta-has-bee...
Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson
The parent company of Facebook is helping a right-wing influencer promote conspiracy theories about 9/11.
www.theredoubt.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW: Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson, the company's ad data reveals. www.theredoubt.net/meta-has-bee...
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still a cherry dude, you only got 5 training jumps in. The 1st Sgt had sauntered over, a Vietnam veteran ex-Ranger to listen to the welcome speech and both TC and I hear him mutter 'motherfucker" at the hardcore comment. Hegseth, anecdotally, is that 2nd Lt.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
still a cherry dude, you only got 5 training jumps in. The 1st Sgt had sauntered over, a Vietnam veteran ex-Ranger to listen to the welcome speech and both TC and I hear him mutter 'motherfucker" at the hardcore comment. Hegseth, anecdotally, is that 2nd Lt.
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When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Jam bands 1979-2002. bsky.app/profile/samu...
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Jam bands 1979-2002. bsky.app/profile/samu...
We won. I'm delighted. The tabloid coverage of the Gana/Keane training ground relationship is going to be epic.
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
We won. I'm delighted. The tabloid coverage of the Gana/Keane training ground relationship is going to be epic.
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I think this was his first (local hit). 1962. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXa...
Jimmy Cliff - Miss Jamaica
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I think this was his first (local hit). 1962. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXa...
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This is the last of the "assaults" from September 27 that NDIL dismissed, a day where Greg Bovino was deliberately promising a "shitshow."
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is the last of the "assaults" from September 27 that NDIL dismissed, a day where Greg Bovino was deliberately promising a "shitshow."
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
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Devastating—all the more so for being an entirely avoidable act of willful self-harm
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Devastating—all the more so for being an entirely avoidable act of willful self-harm
Trump and Israeli-run Gaza group which used feeding centers to lure Palestinians into kill zones declares "mission accomplished," according to Fox.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Trump and Israeli-run Gaza group which used feeding centers to lure Palestinians into kill zones declares "mission accomplished," according to Fox.
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