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Jason Burke Murphy

@murfmensch.bsky.social

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I teach philosophy at Elms College in MA. My interests include the debate surrounding Basic Income. I have also written about popular culture, moving pictures, Star Trek, and sport. [Picture: Starbase 80. This is a metaphor.]

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 2d

Boston Review is so good. They have re-posted Elaine Scarry's essay on Plato and Poetry and it is... so good.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...

Plato and the Poets - Boston Review

The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.

www.bostonreview.net

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 12d

I want to recommend River Solomon's short novel --The Deep-- which is based on a recording by Clipping.

Memory, trauma, emotional labor, solidarity. Find it here. The essay by Clipping is also very good. This was about seeing an idea move from one person and from one genre to another.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Aug 31

Iowa is not part of the right-wing’s image of dangerous cities that merit an invasion.

Trump is now developing the “right” to send ICE and the Guard anywhere.

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Aug 31

Japp has the most range, I think.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker makes a crucial point here: Members of the National Guard have full-time jobs outside of their service and responsibilities. By frivolously calling them up, Trump is upending their lives just to weaponize them against their own neighbors and fellow Americans. It's appalling.

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Aug 13

I love Kudus

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Aug 10

This is bad.

www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Jul 29

Zohran Mamdani being *more* popular among NYC Jews than among NYC voters as a whole is a wild fact, and completely belies much of the national narrative surrounding his candidacy.

The people in the national media who talk a lot about antisemitism are often not listening to actual Jews.

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jul 24

In Arkansas, CB is among the more diversity-easy places to go. No lie.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jul 20

When I play Wordle, I start with the previous day’s winning word. This is like throwing away half a turn. I am the biggest badass of all time.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jul 19

Ann-Katrin Berger just put in one of the best performances I’ve ever seen a keeper do.

How she kept her nerve when everything happened…

#weuro #FRAGER

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Ann-Katrin Berger - Wikipedia

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jul 19

This FRA v GER W Euro quarterfinal has had everything. Insane early red card. 10 players defending like mad. Blocked pen. A diving own-goal stop! Extra time still to go. Mental.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jul 10

Kudus had a track recorded for his sign-up video?

I like it!

youtube.com/shorts/BlOxl...

He only wanted Spurs. Welcome to North London, Mohammed Kudus.

YouTube video by Tottenham Hotspur

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jul 10

And now we have hired a player who commissions music for his sign-up video!

It kicks ass!

youtube.com/shorts/BlOxl...

He only wanted Spurs. Welcome to North London, Mohammed Kudus.

YouTube video by Tottenham Hotspur

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jun 20

Poch will put out some more bowls of lemons and read more auras.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jun 17

I can’t find a clip but I remember, during a kick-about between Women’s World Cup matches, Ariane Hingst thunking Lalas in the cojones. Joyful.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jun 15

“There is only one king.

Elvis.”

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · Jun 12

I cannot tell the extent of the improvement from this article. But it seems like a good idea.

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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · Jun 10

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE.
Tells me everything I need to know about you.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Jun 9

The fact that protestors started destroying driverless cars is a signal, as is all the celebration of this destruction. There is already anger about the jobs and income being displaced by AI before any universal basic income is implemented. A likely rallying cry — no automation without compensation!

DNC polling expert 🔻 @bigamishdoinks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Lmao

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · May 29

There is a Massachusetts version of this that plays in Worcester.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · May 29

A titan.

Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · May 29

AI is certainly awful right now.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Mar 12

Elon out Ange in

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