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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 2h

how does she have her hands behind her back and also still be holding a microphone in front of her

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 2h

…also why is Gary Vaynerchunk in the movie on the board of an arms dealer ?

Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 3h

having just watched Tron: Ares, I think Jared Leto was perfectly cast. if there was ever a guy who I’m supposed to believe is a computer program that now wants to live in the real world, it’s absolutely him

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 9h

here for the frogsistance
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDJVsQx/

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility. Read more of our protest coverage at the link in our bio

TikTok video by The Oregonian

www.tiktok.com

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 12h

oof glad I didn’t stop reading after the word “mainland”

NPR @npr.org · 12h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh the Dodgers

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 1d

beyond insane that in America that this is something a judge needed to rule on, in the country’s second city

Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/09/j...

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

"no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

It's mind boggling than in 2025 a federal judge in Chicago just uttered these words in court case between against the President of the United States. My god.

Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 1d

lol what

johnny cash rules. Johnny Cash gave the middle finger at San Quentin in 1969 to photographer Jim Marshall when Marshall asked Cash to share his feelings on the prison authorities, saying to Cash, "John, let's do a shot for the warden"

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 1d

this does not seem great for future US elections
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 1d

I think I hate this more than those Friend ads

some tech bro founder probably thought he killed with this. comparing his SaaS product to Monet’s brilliance

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

it's almost as if the extraction class has hijacked the press to help them use race and gender as wedge issues to distract the plebs from the fact they're destroying consumer protection, corporate oversight, democracy, and labor rights while selling the country for scrap off the back loading dock

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 1d

makes them sound like Vader accusing Leia of being part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 1d

not great that the country's paper of record has credulously decided that a nonexistent group exists, people can be a part of it, and it has its own experts

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 1d

this kid sounds like the anti- @edzitron.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/l...

How former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsize influence from Silicon Valley to D.C. | Fortune

Aschenbrenner is a Wall Street novice. So why have some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names trusted him to manage billions?

fortune.com

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 2d

we're so done. no one is going to be able to tell if any video they watch moving forward is real or not if it requires them to have critical thinking

can't wait to see how this is weaponized

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

How to tell a video is AI

www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell
www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 4d

just insane www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

www.nytimes.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 5d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 5d

haven't seen this posted anywhere other than Reddit, but it seems like G&L Instruments, the last company set up by Leo Fender, the inventor of some of the most famous electric guitars and basses of all time, shut down this week

anyone know more ?
www.reddit.com/r/Bass/comme...

From the Bass community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Bass community

www.reddit.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

nope

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 7d

The sight of opposition politicians being arrested is becoming more and more common in America.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Mike Murphy @mcwm.bsky.social · 7d

The post-9/11 militarization of police forces remains one of the worst reallocations of material in US history. It will be the tool with which fascism likely spreads unopposed until it chokes our country. There are no well-regulated militias out there to stop these Desert Storm wannabes

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.

A DHS leader confers with a state of IL cop at a protest.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 7d

I do love that the people who built bluesky learned nothing about running a social network beforehand and are thus committed to making all the same social network mistakes as everyone who came before them, from first principles

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