LE Murphy
@lemurphy.bsky.social
GenX. with many disabilities.
Single Mom of 2 LGBTQ+ Adults.
#Progressive
Living in the Puget Sound Region. Trying to avoid being Homeless.
#DoNOTComplyInAdvance!
Single Mom of 2 LGBTQ+ Adults.
#Progressive
Living in the Puget Sound Region. Trying to avoid being Homeless.
#DoNOTComplyInAdvance!
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LE Murphy
@lemurphy.bsky.social
· Nov 14
A Dangerous New Approach to Homelessness
www.counterpunch.org
A Dangerous New Approach to Homelessness
twp.ai
This is horrific. People like my family can afford rent, but are unable to get rentals because of student loans damaging credit scores & the high credit score requirement set by landlords in our area. We're forced into homelessness, too.
Criminalize homelessness helps no one.
Criminalize homelessness helps no one.
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LEFT: Liam Ramos, imprisoned for being a child.
RIGHT: Donald Trump, *not* imprisoned for raping children.
RIGHT: Donald Trump, *not* imprisoned for raping children.
February 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
LEFT: Liam Ramos, imprisoned for being a child.
RIGHT: Donald Trump, *not* imprisoned for raping children.
RIGHT: Donald Trump, *not* imprisoned for raping children.
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Yes, this is entirely in keeping with GOP thinking.
Republicans don't see children as human. They are objects, playthings, places for men to vent their lust and rage.
Republicans don't see children as human. They are objects, playthings, places for men to vent their lust and rage.
LEFT: Liam Ramos, imprisoned for being a child.
RIGHT: Donald Trump, *not* imprisoned for raping children.
RIGHT: Donald Trump, *not* imprisoned for raping children.
February 18, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Yes, this is entirely in keeping with GOP thinking.
Republicans don't see children as human. They are objects, playthings, places for men to vent their lust and rage.
Republicans don't see children as human. They are objects, playthings, places for men to vent their lust and rage.
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Unintended ... unless the intention was to destroy the US economy.
Don't let Trump's stupidity overshadow his malevolence. They are both always operating.
Don't let Trump's stupidity overshadow his malevolence. They are both always operating.
"Chinese automakers BYD, Geely are bidding on Mexico’s shuttered Aguascalientes Nissan plant" mexiconewsdaily.com/business/shu...
Unintended consequences of US tariffs?
Unintended consequences of US tariffs?
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Unintended ... unless the intention was to destroy the US economy.
Don't let Trump's stupidity overshadow his malevolence. They are both always operating.
Don't let Trump's stupidity overshadow his malevolence. They are both always operating.
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Your tax dollars paid for another Trump golf trip this morning. Trump left Mar-a-Lago (Spanish name by the way) at 9:07 AM and arrived at his nearby golf club at 9:14 AM.
He doesn’t allow press access, so we have no official transparency into who Trump is meeting with and why.
He doesn’t allow press access, so we have no official transparency into who Trump is meeting with and why.
February 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Your tax dollars paid for another Trump golf trip this morning. Trump left Mar-a-Lago (Spanish name by the way) at 9:07 AM and arrived at his nearby golf club at 9:14 AM.
He doesn’t allow press access, so we have no official transparency into who Trump is meeting with and why.
He doesn’t allow press access, so we have no official transparency into who Trump is meeting with and why.
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Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
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Trump staff supplied applause during 'overtly political' speech to silent service members
www.rawstory.com
Trump staff supplied applause during 'overtly political' speech to silent service members
twp.ai
February 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Trump staff supplied applause during 'overtly political' speech to silent service members
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Massie says Republicans who downplay Epstein files should be 'purged from our party'
www.alternet.org
Massie says Republicans who downplay Epstein files should be 'purged from our party'
twp.ai
February 14, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Massie says Republicans who downplay Epstein files should be 'purged from our party'
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The kids are alright
February 14, 2026 at 1:53 AM
The kids are alright
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We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.
February 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.
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Frost: When the people can't trust their government, that is the sign of a backsliding democracy. And it's part of the reason why people like Kristi Noem should not be in these positions anymore.
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Frost: When the people can't trust their government, that is the sign of a backsliding democracy. And it's part of the reason why people like Kristi Noem should not be in these positions anymore.
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Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.
In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.
In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
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Host: So when Donald Trump walked in, there were women in there who weren't fully clothed.
Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in.
Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15?
Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.
Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in.
Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15?
Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.
February 14, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Host: So when Donald Trump walked in, there were women in there who weren't fully clothed.
Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in.
Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15?
Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.
Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in.
Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15?
Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.
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Servicemembers thrown into chaos as Hegseth blacklists colleges they can attend
www.rawstory.com
Servicemembers thrown into chaos as Hegseth blacklists colleges they can attend
twp.ai
February 14, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Servicemembers thrown into chaos as Hegseth blacklists colleges they can attend
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Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit"
(note the total silence from the crowd)
(note the total silence from the crowd)
February 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit"
(note the total silence from the crowd)
(note the total silence from the crowd)
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Trump: "This year we're investing $1 trillion in our armed forces. The most we've ever spent. And next year it's being raised. In fact, we're gonna be building a number of battleships."
February 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Trump: "This year we're investing $1 trillion in our armed forces. The most we've ever spent. And next year it's being raised. In fact, we're gonna be building a number of battleships."
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This tracks
Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security
Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security
The Project 2025 guy reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect Vought through 2026, according to Reuters.
www.motherjones.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This tracks
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First Thing: Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
www.theguardian.com
First Thing: Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
twp.ai
February 13, 2026 at 12:27 PM
First Thing: Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
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Every single person or institution that has knuckled under to Trump has been humiliated.
Every single person or institution that has stood up will be honored, and most have prevailed in the here-and-now.
Even the Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace knows this. (See photo from yesterday in DC.)
Every single person or institution that has stood up will be honored, and most have prevailed in the here-and-now.
Even the Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace knows this. (See photo from yesterday in DC.)
February 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Every single person or institution that has knuckled under to Trump has been humiliated.
Every single person or institution that has stood up will be honored, and most have prevailed in the here-and-now.
Even the Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace knows this. (See photo from yesterday in DC.)
Every single person or institution that has stood up will be honored, and most have prevailed in the here-and-now.
Even the Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace knows this. (See photo from yesterday in DC.)
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📌Our DOJ is going after patriots like Mark Kelly and protecting pedophiles and pedophile-adjacent sickos like Trump and seemingly half his cabinet.
THAT'S what law and order looks like under Republicans in America.
THAT'S what law and order looks like under Republicans in America.
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 AM
📌Our DOJ is going after patriots like Mark Kelly and protecting pedophiles and pedophile-adjacent sickos like Trump and seemingly half his cabinet.
THAT'S what law and order looks like under Republicans in America.
THAT'S what law and order looks like under Republicans in America.
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There’s a term for this experience (which I imagine many of us are having):
Moral injury.
Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.
Moral injury.
Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.
A sense of betrayal is a very tricky kind of grief to manage, because you're grieving someone who never really existed.
I've always held a pretty dim view of the US establishment & its institutions. After Trump's reelection and the Epstein files, though... I realize that even so, I feel betrayed.
I've always held a pretty dim view of the US establishment & its institutions. After Trump's reelection and the Epstein files, though... I realize that even so, I feel betrayed.
February 11, 2026 at 2:14 AM
There’s a term for this experience (which I imagine many of us are having):
Moral injury.
Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.
Moral injury.
Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.
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"I'm in fear for my life. People have been killed by the staff here."
Seamus Culleton, an Irishman with a valid US work permit, has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it “a modern day concentration camp.”
Seamus Culleton, an Irishman with a valid US work permit, has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it “a modern day concentration camp.”
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 AM
"I'm in fear for my life. People have been killed by the staff here."
Seamus Culleton, an Irishman with a valid US work permit, has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it “a modern day concentration camp.”
Seamus Culleton, an Irishman with a valid US work permit, has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it “a modern day concentration camp.”
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Right now, as millions of pages filled with the most despicable, depraved atrocities human beings are capable of, cover every square inch of America’s collective consciousness, the pro-life Christians are nowhere to be found...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-pro-lif...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-pro-lif...
To "Pro-Life" Christians, The Epstein Victims Were Sacred in the Womb, But Worthless Outside of It.
You hear it, don’t you?
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Right now, as millions of pages filled with the most despicable, depraved atrocities human beings are capable of, cover every square inch of America’s collective consciousness, the pro-life Christians are nowhere to be found...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-pro-lif...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-pro-lif...
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For Whom the Bridge Tolls
Detroit billionaire, Matthew Moroun, met with Commerce Secretary Lutnick, “hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada…” The new bridge “would take away toll revenue from Mr. Moroun’s crossing...” Gift Link
Detroit billionaire, Matthew Moroun, met with Commerce Secretary Lutnick, “hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada…” The new bridge “would take away toll revenue from Mr. Moroun’s crossing...” Gift Link
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:42 AM
For Whom the Bridge Tolls
Detroit billionaire, Matthew Moroun, met with Commerce Secretary Lutnick, “hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada…” The new bridge “would take away toll revenue from Mr. Moroun’s crossing...” Gift Link
Detroit billionaire, Matthew Moroun, met with Commerce Secretary Lutnick, “hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada…” The new bridge “would take away toll revenue from Mr. Moroun’s crossing...” Gift Link
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Interesting. So Trump knew about Epstein's crimes since 2006... but at the same time he doesn't know anything.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’
The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.
www.miamiherald.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Interesting. So Trump knew about Epstein's crimes since 2006... but at the same time he doesn't know anything.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...