Tim Murphy
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Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Six vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike
Minneapolis organizers weigh in on how to make the movement go national.
www.motherjones.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Britt is a useful character to understand in that she's the kind of senator who'd be just as comfortable in 2015 as today (like Shelby)—as opposed to her colleague from Alabama—but the sum of all her actions in this piece amounts to something less than nothing: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Britt is a useful character to understand in that she's the kind of senator who'd be just as comfortable in 2015 as today (like Shelby)—as opposed to her colleague from Alabama—but the sum of all her actions in this piece amounts to something less than nothing: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
encountered some James Otises in my day too
One thing that the Founding Fathers all shared in common - Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Paine, Madison, Henry - is that they would have loved posting
February 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
encountered some James Otises in my day too
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Marimar Martinez, if you are reading this, you have a legendary opportunity to deploy this meme.
February 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Marimar Martinez, if you are reading this, you have a legendary opportunity to deploy this meme.
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Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law
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While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Gallego getting Bessent to just say that taxpayers will pay Trump $10 billion if he wins is why most Trump officials who testify just berate the senators instead.
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Gallego getting Bessent to just say that taxpayers will pay Trump $10 billion if he wins is why most Trump officials who testify just berate the senators instead.
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Adobe Acrobat I do not want to know What’s New. I do not want to turn my PDF into a podcast with my team. I want to look at the PDF. Please stop
February 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Adobe Acrobat I do not want to know What’s New. I do not want to turn my PDF into a podcast with my team. I want to look at the PDF. Please stop
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Investigative sports reporting may be a shell of its former self, but Pablo Torre is here to change that.
The host of @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social joins us to talk about his work reporting on the intersection of sports, culture, money, and American life.
The host of @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social joins us to talk about his work reporting on the intersection of sports, culture, money, and American life.
Bad Bunny, billionaires, and the business of sports
Sports journalist Pablo Torre, host of the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” talks about the impact of money and politics on sports in America.
revealnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Investigative sports reporting may be a shell of its former self, but Pablo Torre is here to change that.
The host of @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social joins us to talk about his work reporting on the intersection of sports, culture, money, and American life.
The host of @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social joins us to talk about his work reporting on the intersection of sports, culture, money, and American life.
bitcoin has crashed a bunch of times in my adult life and every time, i've thought to myself "maybe i should buy bitcoin now." it's so annoying that if I'd just done it in 2011 i'd be rich. like i'm paying a tax for being sound of mind in a world run by scams.
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
bitcoin has crashed a bunch of times in my adult life and every time, i've thought to myself "maybe i should buy bitcoin now." it's so annoying that if I'd just done it in 2011 i'd be rich. like i'm paying a tax for being sound of mind in a world run by scams.
Chris Rock famously said, of Michael Richards, "I mean, what do you got to do, shoot Medgar Evers to be a racist?”
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Chris Rock famously said, of Michael Richards, "I mean, what do you got to do, shoot Medgar Evers to be a racist?”
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We gotta get this in the Olympics now
During part of this we discussed Alpine Luge, which is an amazing sliding sport that sadly is not in the Olympics.
Anyway, here's what that looks like, with one of the greatest to ever doing it giving the demonstration down the track in Deutschnofen
Anyway, here's what that looks like, with one of the greatest to ever doing it giving the demonstration down the track in Deutschnofen
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
We gotta get this in the Olympics now
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I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people.
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman"
May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.
www.motherjones.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people.
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
i am going to release a where's waldo book but with gianni infantino
Three Trump Administration members and two GOP senators also among the speakers.
worldlibertyforum.com/speakers
worldlibertyforum.com/speakers
February 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM
i am going to release a where's waldo book but with gianni infantino
went over to X to look something up—Sam Altman and Elon Musk arguing about whose technology had killed more people—and the level of anti-semitism is really just stunning if you haven't been there in a while. trash people on a trash site.
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
went over to X to look something up—Sam Altman and Elon Musk arguing about whose technology had killed more people—and the level of anti-semitism is really just stunning if you haven't been there in a while. trash people on a trash site.
a good way of putting it because a nice dinner with the whole family is a thing that Musk's money can never buy him.
Last year, @andrewperez.bsky.social crunched the numbers and to give people an idea of what that humongous sum was worth to him, the amount of cash Elon threw down for the 2024 election is the financial equivalent for an average family of the amount spent on a nice but not extravagant dinner…
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
a good way of putting it because a nice dinner with the whole family is a thing that Musk's money can never buy him.
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In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors
This is what one afternoon drop looks like for one (1) Minneapolis mutual aid distributor (read: random mom who wants to help families at her kids’ schools)
February 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors
stephen miller looking good here
Trump wants to control the country’s future by rewriting its past.
For the latest issue of our magazine, @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social explain how the president is weaponizing history to wage his never-ending cultural and legal battles.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/32n7948b
For the latest issue of our magazine, @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social explain how the president is weaponizing history to wage his never-ending cultural and legal battles.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/32n7948b
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
stephen miller looking good here
going through some old stuff. Mike Johnson literally said the words "Yield, man! let the troops come into your city!" what a time.
February 4, 2026 at 5:59 PM
going through some old stuff. Mike Johnson literally said the words "Yield, man! let the troops come into your city!" what a time.
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Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
Speaking to WaPo employees, editor Matt Murray says cuts are about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
“They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us.” –Kristi Noem
February 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
“They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us.” –Kristi Noem
always wild to see some official talking about, like, "President Trump’s goal of ending mother-to-child transmission by the time that he leaves office." buddy he's never heard of that and doesn't know what it means
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
always wild to see some official talking about, like, "President Trump’s goal of ending mother-to-child transmission by the time that he leaves office." buddy he's never heard of that and doesn't know what it means
wild to both buy a paper to grow your influence and then destroy the same paper, to also grow your influence
February 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
wild to both buy a paper to grow your influence and then destroy the same paper, to also grow your influence
i do not want to go back to the time when rich guys all wanted to own newspapers and refer to themselves as "colonel," but maybe the time when their grandkids owned the newspapers
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
i do not want to go back to the time when rich guys all wanted to own newspapers and refer to themselves as "colonel," but maybe the time when their grandkids owned the newspapers