SL Murphree
@slmurphree.bsky.social
Writer for The Articles of Unreason
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Federal agents arrested 2 journalists for covering a protest. This is not normal. It is a direct attack on press freedom and the First Amendment, and it signals a dangerous escalation in the government’s war on the media.
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When the Government Arrests Journalists, the First Amendment Is Already Dead
Journalists were arrested by federal agents for covering a protest. This is not normal.
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January 30, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Federal agents arrested 2 journalists for covering a protest. This is not normal. It is a direct attack on press freedom and the First Amendment, and it signals a dangerous escalation in the government’s war on the media.
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Jayden Scott threatened a journalist at his own home and recorded it.
That behavior doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
When an administration dehumanizes journalists, it creates permission for intimidation, harassment, and worse.
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That behavior doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
When an administration dehumanizes journalists, it creates permission for intimidation, harassment, and worse.
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Jayden Scott Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere: When You Dehumanize Journalists, Someone Eventually Tests the Boundary
A man with an active warrant threatened a journalist at home on camera. Who Jayden Scott is, what happened, and how political rhetoric that dehumanizes journalists creates the conditions for intimidat...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Jayden Scott threatened a journalist at his own home and recorded it.
That behavior doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
When an administration dehumanizes journalists, it creates permission for intimidation, harassment, and worse.
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That behavior doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
When an administration dehumanizes journalists, it creates permission for intimidation, harassment, and worse.
open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...
TikTok didn’t just change. It has been politically handled. TikTok is now tied to Trump-aligned money. This is why protests, Epstein, and ICE content stopped spreading all without bans, warnings, or any real transparency.
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TikTok Didn’t Change Vibes. It Changed Its Owners, Its Lawyers, and Its Priorities.
It Became Owned by the Same People Funding Trump.
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January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
TikTok didn’t just change. It has been politically handled. TikTok is now tied to Trump-aligned money. This is why protests, Epstein, and ICE content stopped spreading all without bans, warnings, or any real transparency.
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People saw neighbors handing out hand warmers and immediately assumed secret operation.
It turns out the real conspiracy is that some folks have never organized anything.
People helped each other.
This is not “professional logistics.”
It’s a potluck.
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It turns out the real conspiracy is that some folks have never organized anything.
People helped each other.
This is not “professional logistics.”
It’s a potluck.
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The “Who’s Funding This?” Crowd Discovers Community: People Helping Each Other Has Broken Some Brains
The Weirdest Thing About Minneapolis Is How Mad People Are That Neighbors Are Helping Each Other
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January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
People saw neighbors handing out hand warmers and immediately assumed secret operation.
It turns out the real conspiracy is that some folks have never organized anything.
People helped each other.
This is not “professional logistics.”
It’s a potluck.
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It turns out the real conspiracy is that some folks have never organized anything.
People helped each other.
This is not “professional logistics.”
It’s a potluck.
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America’s founders were worried about the same things we are now
The Declaration of Independence is a list of executive abuses.
It wasn’t subtle.
Neither is what’s happening now.
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The Declaration of Independence is a list of executive abuses.
It wasn’t subtle.
Neither is what’s happening now.
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America’s Founders Were Worried About the Same Things We Are Now
The Declaration of Independence Wasn’t About Freedom. It Was About Abuse of Power.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
America’s founders were worried about the same things we are now
The Declaration of Independence is a list of executive abuses.
It wasn’t subtle.
Neither is what’s happening now.
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The Declaration of Independence is a list of executive abuses.
It wasn’t subtle.
Neither is what’s happening now.
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Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, blocked a state investigation, ignored a judge’s warrant, and took control of the evidence.
This moment signals a dangerous collapse of accountability and the rule of law.
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This moment signals a dangerous collapse of accountability and the rule of law.
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The Party of States’ Rights Just Took a State’s Rights Away: Federal Agents Killed a Man, Then Defied a Judge
Because Apparently Federal Power Doesn’t Answer to States Anymore
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January 25, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, blocked a state investigation, ignored a judge’s warrant, and took control of the evidence.
This moment signals a dangerous collapse of accountability and the rule of law.
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This moment signals a dangerous collapse of accountability and the rule of law.
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Another person has died at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti, 37 was a U.S. citizen and a nurse who worked at the VA
Minneapolis has become a test case for federal retaliation, narrative control, and the erosion of civil liberties in real time
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Minneapolis has become a test case for federal retaliation, narrative control, and the erosion of civil liberties in real time
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This Isn’t Law Enforcement: Federal Retaliation and Violence in Minnesota
Three federal shootings. Daily raids. A state under siege. And a White House warning that reads like a threat.
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January 24, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Another person has died at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti, 37 was a U.S. citizen and a nurse who worked at the VA
Minneapolis has become a test case for federal retaliation, narrative control, and the erosion of civil liberties in real time
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Minneapolis has become a test case for federal retaliation, narrative control, and the erosion of civil liberties in real time
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The “Board of Peace” is selling redevelopment as diplomacy.
Gaza is being framed as a logistics and real estate opportunity, not a homeland.
This is disaster capitalism made to look like ‘help’.
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Gaza is being framed as a logistics and real estate opportunity, not a homeland.
This is disaster capitalism made to look like ‘help’.
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Peace, Inc.: Gaza and the Billion-Dollar Real Estate Deal Masquerading as Diplomacy
How a post-war “peace plan” turns Gaza into a logistics asset
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January 23, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The “Board of Peace” is selling redevelopment as diplomacy.
Gaza is being framed as a logistics and real estate opportunity, not a homeland.
This is disaster capitalism made to look like ‘help’.
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Gaza is being framed as a logistics and real estate opportunity, not a homeland.
This is disaster capitalism made to look like ‘help’.
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Donald Trump went to Davos, floated an annexation fantasy involving Greenland and got shut down immediately. His strongman bluff collapsed the moment everyone said no.
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The Greenland Annexation That Died of Secondhand Embarrassment: Trump’s Arctic Speedrun to Humiliation
How the Strongman Act Collapsed in Front of a Live Audience
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January 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Donald Trump went to Davos, floated an annexation fantasy involving Greenland and got shut down immediately. His strongman bluff collapsed the moment everyone said no.
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ICE is accessing Medicaid healthcare data while being pushed to meet arrest quotas.
When you reward volume-based arrests and hand enforcement agencies a detailed map of households, you don’t get “targeted enforcement.” You get a dragnet.
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When you reward volume-based arrests and hand enforcement agencies a detailed map of households, you don’t get “targeted enforcement.” You get a dragnet.
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ICE Is Using Medicaid Data Because Kicking in Doors Wasn’t Efficient Enough
The Government Took Healthcare Data and Gave It to ICE. What Could Go Wrong?
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January 21, 2026 at 6:43 PM
ICE is accessing Medicaid healthcare data while being pushed to meet arrest quotas.
When you reward volume-based arrests and hand enforcement agencies a detailed map of households, you don’t get “targeted enforcement.” You get a dragnet.
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When you reward volume-based arrests and hand enforcement agencies a detailed map of households, you don’t get “targeted enforcement.” You get a dragnet.
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From trickle down economics to trickle down dinner.
How Reagan-era economic policies paved the way for the modern American oligarchy.
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How Reagan-era economic policies paved the way for the modern American oligarchy.
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Let Them Eat One Piece of Chicken, One Broccoli, and one Corn Tortilla: From Reaganomics to American Oligarchs
How the U.S. Went From We the People to They the Wealthy
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January 20, 2026 at 7:56 PM
From trickle down economics to trickle down dinner.
How Reagan-era economic policies paved the way for the modern American oligarchy.
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How Reagan-era economic policies paved the way for the modern American oligarchy.
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Donald Trump has publicly linked U.S. foreign policy and NATO pressure over Greenland to a personal Nobel Peace Prize grievance. Apparently, global stability now depends on whether he feels appreciated.
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Trump Is Threatening NATO Allies Over a Nobel Snub: Personal Grievance Is Driving U.S. Policy
Apparently global stability now depends on whether he feels appreciated
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January 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Donald Trump has publicly linked U.S. foreign policy and NATO pressure over Greenland to a personal Nobel Peace Prize grievance. Apparently, global stability now depends on whether he feels appreciated.
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ICE, compliance culture, and how ordinary people are conditioned to carry out harm without ever feeling responsible for it. What the Milgram experiment proved about obedience, authority, and the enduring lie of “just following orders.”
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ICE Is Just Following Orders: What a Post–World War II Experiment Already Proved
This is what “just doing your job” looks like when nobody wants to own the outcome
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January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
ICE, compliance culture, and how ordinary people are conditioned to carry out harm without ever feeling responsible for it. What the Milgram experiment proved about obedience, authority, and the enduring lie of “just following orders.”
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Jake Lang, a pardoned January 6 agitator attempted to stage a hate rally in Minneapolis and was met with overwhelming community resistance, public humiliation, and zero tolerance.
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A Pardoned Jan 6 Agitator Tried Minneapolis and Got Humiliated.
Four followers, zero audience, and a very long walk back to the hotel.
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January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Jake Lang, a pardoned January 6 agitator attempted to stage a hate rally in Minneapolis and was met with overwhelming community resistance, public humiliation, and zero tolerance.
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After Renée Good was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, what happened next exposed a pattern of indifference, delay, and denial of aid that undermines the official narrative.
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What Happened After Renee Good Was Shot Shows Us How Little Her Life Actually Mattered to I.C.E.
A timeline of contempt, delay, and silence
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January 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
After Renée Good was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, what happened next exposed a pattern of indifference, delay, and denial of aid that undermines the official narrative.
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Congress ordered transparency in the Epstein case. The DOJ missed deadlines, withheld records, and the media backed off forcing the Sasha Riley case into public view.
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The DOJ Ignored the Law and Forced the Sasha Riley Situation Into Public View Meanwhile Mainstream Media is Ignoring It
The DOJ broke a transparency mandate, forced a public spectacle, and watched as the press ignored it and treated it like radioactive waste.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Congress ordered transparency in the Epstein case. The DOJ missed deadlines, withheld records, and the media backed off forcing the Sasha Riley case into public view.
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Congress filed a bill to acquire Greenland and rename it “Red, White, and Blueland.” As NATO countries send troops, the absurd rhetoric has turned into real geopolitical risk.
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Congress Filed a Bill to Acquire Greenland and Call It “Red, White, and Blueland
And Now NATO Countries Are Sending Troops
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January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Congress filed a bill to acquire Greenland and rename it “Red, White, and Blueland.” As NATO countries send troops, the absurd rhetoric has turned into real geopolitical risk.
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Guess CBS had a good run.
Hope every journalist jumps ship immediately.
Hope every journalist jumps ship immediately.
January 14, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Guess CBS had a good run.
Hope every journalist jumps ship immediately.
Hope every journalist jumps ship immediately.
DHS and ICE are using far-right coded music, language, and aesthetics on official government accounts.
This isn’t branding. It’s signaling.
And it’s happening while enforcement power is expanding.
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This isn’t branding. It’s signaling.
And it’s happening while enforcement power is expanding.
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Just the Federal Government Doing Weird Fascist Shit Online, Again
A walkthrough of DHS social media posts, white nationalist aesthetics, and the very real problem of state power flirting with far-right ideology
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January 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
DHS and ICE are using far-right coded music, language, and aesthetics on official government accounts.
This isn’t branding. It’s signaling.
And it’s happening while enforcement power is expanding.
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This isn’t branding. It’s signaling.
And it’s happening while enforcement power is expanding.
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After an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minnesota, the response wasn’t transparency. It was narrative control, an investigation pivot, and senior DOJ civil rights officials walking out. This is an institution closing ranks in public.
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An ICE Killing, a DOJ Revolt, and a White House Meltdown
A Case Study in Institutional Self-Preservation
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January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
After an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minnesota, the response wasn’t transparency. It was narrative control, an investigation pivot, and senior DOJ civil rights officials walking out. This is an institution closing ranks in public.
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ICE is conducting door to door raids without judicial warrants, treating neighborhoods like enforcement zones and calling it law enforcement.
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ICE Looked at the Constitution, Shrugged, and Kicked the Door In Anyway
ICE Is Treating the Fourth Amendment Like a Terms of Service Nobody Read
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January 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
ICE is conducting door to door raids without judicial warrants, treating neighborhoods like enforcement zones and calling it law enforcement.
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ICE is conducting door to door raids without judicial warrants, treating neighborhoods like war zones and calling it law enforcement. Administrative warrants are being used to bypass courts, normalize forced entry, and shift the US from rule of law to rule by law.
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ICE Looked at the Constitution, Shrugged, and Kicked the Door In Anyway
ICE Is Treating the Fourth Amendment Like a Terms of Service Nobody Read
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January 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
ICE is conducting door to door raids without judicial warrants, treating neighborhoods like war zones and calling it law enforcement. Administrative warrants are being used to bypass courts, normalize forced entry, and shift the US from rule of law to rule by law.
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Trump’s latest executive order claims control over Venezuelan oil money by freezing it in U.S. accounts. It shuts down legal challenges, tells the courts not to interfere, and hands full control of those funds to the executive branch.
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Trump’s Executive Order Uses Emergency Powers to Put Venezuelan Oil Money Under Executive Control
Unilateral power, foreign money, and a lot of audacity
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January 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Trump’s latest executive order claims control over Venezuelan oil money by freezing it in U.S. accounts. It shuts down legal challenges, tells the courts not to interfere, and hands full control of those funds to the executive branch.
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The Trump administration is using food assistance as leverage against Minnesota over a five-year-old fraud case that never involved SNAP recipients. It involved nonprofit organizations. This is how pressure politics works.
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The Trump Administration Is Using Food Assistance as Leverage Against Minnesota
Over a Five-Year-Old Fraud Case That Never Involved SNAP Recipients
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January 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The Trump administration is using food assistance as leverage against Minnesota over a five-year-old fraud case that never involved SNAP recipients. It involved nonprofit organizations. This is how pressure politics works.
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This stopped being about immigration long ago. It’s about how power is exercised inside the country.
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From Enforcement to Occupation: ICE, Border Patrol, and the Militarization of U.S. Cities
When Immigration Enforcement Starts Treating Cities Like Hostile Terrain
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January 10, 2026 at 1:50 AM
This stopped being about immigration long ago. It’s about how power is exercised inside the country.
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